American Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands

Location: Sheraton Hotel - Schiphol Boulevard 101 - Schiphol Airport

Registration: 18:30 hrs.

All incoming registrations will be waitlisted!

Price: complementary

Description: A special dinner hosted by the Minister for Foreign Trade; H.E. Frank Heemskerk with keynote speaker and guest of honor: Dick Sluimers, Chairman of the Executive Board of APG Groep.

Location: Clingendael Institute - The Hague

Registration: 12:00 hrs.

Organized by the AmCham Pharmaceutical Committee.

Price: complementary

Description: More info: http://www.amcham.nl/clingendael-health-forum

AMCHAM OFFERS LIVE VIDEOSTREAM ON ITS WEBSITE - follow the symposium live! Or visit our website on or after February 10 to view the recordings.

Location: AmCham Office - Schiphol Boulevard 171 - Schiphol Airport

Registration: 16:00 hrs.

Speakers: Dennis Veldhuizen, Shareholder & Patrick Rietbroek, Of Counsel

Price: complementary

Description: Your employees want to work past the age of 65 but you’re not quite sure whether this is in your company’s best interests. How would this be effectuated in their employment contract? Are you familiar with the implications of the most recent changes in employee benefits legislation? Can you identify your organization’s potential vulnerabilities in the areas of employee taxation and employee evaluation?

Greenberg Traurig’s Employee Benefits team offers you an effective insight into the solutions of the above mentioned predicaments:

- employment conditions, regular employment contracts
- pension, bonus and other arrangements
- code of conduct; and
- your company’s compliance with collective labor agreements and the Works Council Act

Location: AmCham Office - Schiphol Boulevard 171 - Schiphol Airport

Registration: 16:00 hrs.

Speaker: Julie Johnson, Director of Johnson Consulting

Price: complementary

Description: This workshop is intended for executives, managers, professionals, and anyone who would like to improve their ability to conduct successful conversations where feedback is openly exchanged in a way that is seen as honest, non-judgemental, and helpful.

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

Location: AmCham Office - Schiphol Boulevard 171 - Schiphol Airport

Registration: 16:00 hrs.

Speaker:

Price: complementary

Description: More info will follow a.s.a.p.

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: 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: tbd

Registration: 18:00 hrs.

By invitation only.

Price: complementary