American Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands

Location: AmCham Office - Schiphol Boulevard 171 - Schiphol Airport

Registration: 15:30 hrs.

Speaker: Merel Ritsma, Managing Director of Six Sigma & Lean MERITS

Price: complementary

Description: Extraordinary times call for an extraordinary response: during this interactive session, we will demonstrate how companies like General Electric, Starbucks and ING are using Lean Six Sigma improvements to beat the recession and increase customer value.

Learning objectives of the session are:
• Explain what Lean Six Sigma is and what it can and cannot do for you.
• Clarify how Lean Six Sigma can accelerate your strategy implementation.
• List its project management approach and toolbox.
• Identify your company’s improvement potential by using one straightforward Lean Six Sigma performance metric.

Target audience consists of Management Team members, their direct reports and leaders in the area of Business Excellence/Performance Improvement.

Location: AmCham Office - Schiphol Boulevard 171 - Amsterdam

Registration: 16:00 hrs.

Speaker: Carl Messemaeckers, Managing Director of Protiviti Netherlands

Price: complementary

Description: “Ideas for managing the paradox between control and entrepreneurship”

For any organizations it is a continuous quest for how much to invest in control; in systems, in processes, in people and in procedures. What is the right level so that control doesn’t hinder the business? How can you manage to comply with all kind of external regulations such as SOx, HACCP, Reach, etc. without smothering the business? In this workshop Protiviti will share her experiences, ideas and insight with you as well as try to answer specific questions you have on this topic. This topic is specifically. Protiviti is a US listed company with over 3000 employees in 60 offices in 16 countries which purely focuses on business and risk consulting in finance, risk management and internal audit.

Location: Hilton Hotel - Apollolaan 138 - Amsterdam

Registration: 16:00 hrs.

Speaker: David Ereira – London Banking partner at Linklaters LLP, acting for PwC as the Administrators of Lehman Brothers International Europe

Price: complementary

Description: Please register via: rsvpamsterdam@linklaters.com

Location: AmCham Office - Schiphol Boulevard 171 - Schiphol Airport

Registration: 16:00 hrs.

Speaker:

Price: complementary

Description: Taxpat will hold their session on wage and individual income tax issues in a Netherlands / U.S. cross-border employment environment.

The session will deal with everyday issues, such as wage tax filing obligations for corporations and personal income tax filing obligations for expatriates. These issues will be discussed against a background of legal requirements and treaty considerations as well as the cultural differences with respect to meeting compliance requirements in both tax jurisdictions.

Specific topics that will be covered are:

Tax residency from a Dutch and U.S. perspective
Taxability
Corporate considerations for wage tax purposes
Individual income tax considerations
Cultural differences with respect to the tax systems in the Netherlands and the U.S.

Location: Aon - Paalbergweg 2-4 - Amsterdam

Registration: 18:00hrs

Description: We are delighted to announce an exciting evening hosted by Aon, in collaboration with dance4life. Lex Geerdes of Aon will describe for us the inner workings of one of the world's largest insurers, including Aon's focus on community involvement and strong dedication to outstanding corporate citizenship. Following his remarks, Lex will turn the stage over to dance4life for us to experience dance4life and to learn about how we can get involved with this extraordinary organization.

Location: AmCham Office - Schiphol Boulevard 171 - Schiphol Airport

Registration: 16:00 hrs.

Speakers: Henk van Embden and Jeroen Koopmans AAG MSc, both partner at Lane Clark & Peacock Netherlands B.V.

Price: complementary

Description: All you need to know about US GAAP for pension plans

In this workshop LCP will introduce you to the methodology of international accounting for Dutch employee benefit and pension plans under US GAAP.

• Understanding the ideas behind US GAAP
• How to read a valuation report
• Difference between international accounting and (local) cash accounting
• Understanding actuarial gains and losses
• Impact of the assumptions used:
- discount rate
- expected rate of return on plan assets
- inflation
- general salary increases and merit increases
- cost of living adjustments

After this workshop you will be better equipped with the annual valuation process and the discussions with the actuary, the auditor and head office about assumptions, results and expectations for next year. It also gives you more understanding of the possible impact on the figures of changes in pension plans.

Location: Webster University - World Trade Center Zuidas - Amsterdam (South)

Registration: 9:00 hrs.

Price: 450 euro

Description: This new initiative offers members practical, relevant and highly focused education, tailored to the needs of the International business community in the Netherlands. The AmCham Academy offers seminars every 4-6 weeks on multiple topics, and each functional topic is discussed with the added perspective of cultural differences in managing and implementing the subject, e.g.:
• Inspiring international teams
• Negotiating and conflict solving
• Performance appraisal,
• Chairing international meetings.

Location: ING House - Amsterdam

Registration: 12:00 hrs.

A selection of Members will be invited personally

Description: A luncheon with former Minister Sybilla Dekker, Chairman of the Talent to the Top Foundation.

A luncheon organized by the AmCham Diversity Committee. This event is by invitation only.

Location: McKinsey & Company - Amstel 344 - Amsterdam

Registration: 18:00hrs

Location: tbd

Registration: 10:45 hrs. for AGM / 12:15 hrs. for Luncheon

Keynote Speaker: The Hon. Hans Hoogervorst, Chairman of The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM)

Price: tbc

Location: Faculty Club - RSM, Rotterdam School of Management - Rotterdam

Registration: tbc

Speaker: tbc

Description: More info to follow.

Location: Golfbaan Het Rijk van Nunspeet - Plesmanlaan 30 - Nunspeet

Registration: 12:00 hrs.

This event is generously sponsored by AT&T.

Price: tbd

Description: More info will follow in due course.

Location: - The Hague Area

Registration: t.b.c.

Description: An evening with Minister of Economic Affairs Maria van der Hoeven

Location: tbd

Registration: 18:00 hrs.

By invitation only.

Price: complementary