Default dilemma - is there life beyond lifestyling? With over 90% of people settling for the default option, its design is critical. What is the right default fund design? How do we move beyond lifestyling to provide members with a more efficient risk-reward trade off?
James Churcher, Telegraph Media Group

Emma Douglas, BlackRock
Chaired by: Arno Kitts, Chairman, NAPF Investment Council

Workplace advice - how much can you safely say?
Employers often feel they have a responsibility to inform their employees about saving for retirement but are worried about what they can say whilst remaining on the right side of the law. This session explores the Regulator's latest guidance and looks at what is happening in practice.
Robert Branagh, Xafinity Paymaster

Jim Dredge, FSA
Chaired by: Michael Goy, rpmi

The long and the short of longevity
As the TPR plans to promote the use of more conservative longevity assumptions by schemes, this session looks at how schemes should determine their longevity assumptions and how TPR is approaching the issue.
Logan Anderson, The Pensions Trust

Steve Robinson, HSBC Actuaries and Consultants
Chaired by: Joy Moore, RWE Npower

Governance - how do you know if your administrator is doing the right thing?
The Pensions Regulator is looking closely at scheme administration and best practice. What governance arrangements should you have in place to monitor your schemes administration and what should your administrator be telling you?
Lesley Alexander, EMI
Sue Applegarth, MNPA

Chaired by: Martin Mannion, GSK

De-risking - are buy-outs the only game in town? Creating Stability : Reducing Risk
Buy-outs may not always be the right or most cost-effective solution. Knowing and understanding risks more fully can help scheme sponsors decide on which risks to keep and which to remove and, crucially, when to make the choice. This session examines the critical steps on the "Path to Solution".
Richard Farr, Swiss Re

Chris Massey, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Chaired by: Sally Percy, Editor, Accountancy Magazine

Flexible retirement - How is it working out in practice?
Over 1 million people are working beyond normal pension age. This session explores the legal issues, how these are being applied in practice and how to avoid falling foul of age discrimination legislation
Jay Doraisamy, Hammonds
Tim Sands, NHS

Chaired by: Michelle Lewis, Senior Policy Advisor, NAPF

Annuities, drawdown - what's right for scheme members?
How should members be helped to make the right choices? What is the role of trustees and employers?
Philip Audaer, Kerr Henderson Hewitt

Paul Sturgess, Capita Hartshead

Pam Taylor, BASF

Conflicts - real or imagined?
20% of schemes have director trustee vacancies and conflicts of interest are often cited as the cause. What are the conflicts? Are they manageable? Can FDs still serve as trustees?
Tim Cox, Linklaters

Allan Johnston, Corus
Chaired by: Sue Timbrell, Law Debenture

Payback or Payload - the place of pensions in today's benefits package
Where do pensions rank in today's reward packages? How does this compare with 10 years' ago? What should the role of pensions be? Our panel of experts debate.
Michael Aldred, Global Compensation & Benefits Director, Barclays Bank

Neil Carberry, CBI

Chaired by: Nigel Peaple, Director of Policy, NAPF

How new LDI techniques fit within a pensions risk management framework
This session looks at what exactly is LDI, how can it benefit both the trustee and the sponsor, how has the scheme's approach to LDI evolved over time, and what are the key learnings in terms of implementation?

Brian Harrison, Friends Provident

Peter Routledge, Towers Perrin

Are Group SIPPS the DC pension of the future?
A number of companies have introduced Group SIPPS. Will these be the next big thing? What are the pros and cons?
Noel Birchall, HSBC

John Lawson, Standard Life

Chaired by: Padraig Floyd, Editor in Chief, UK Pensions & Investment Group

Board wars!
Providing a pension can create tensions between the short-term capital and finance needs of the company and its longer term personnel management. This session examines the evidence on where tensions have arisen and how they can be resolved.
Speakers tbc

Chaired by: David Birtwistle, GKN

Creating diversification when it counts
This session looks at finding managers who really do do different things; the deselection decision: when and why to sell a manager; and multi-manager in a multi asset world.
Joanna Munro, CEO, HSBC Multi-Manager and Guest (tbc)

Chaired by: Arno Kitts, Chairman, NAPF Investment Council

Catering for a diversified workforce - Blue sky thinking
Setting DC in an overall savings context
Simon Baynes, Logica

Steve Rumbles, BlackRock

Chaired by: MIchael Goy, rpmi

Pensions and its impact on corporate activity
Private equity, take overs, mergers and acquisitions - pensions are playing an increasingly important role in corporate transactions. But when do pensions become deal breakers and not deal makers? Through a series of case studies, we explore the possible impact
Steven Dicker, Watson Wyatt
Peter Thompson, BESTrustees

Chaired by: Jane Samsworth, Lovells

Pensions Administration - the good, the bad and the ugly
HR specialists have enough to do without worrying about pensions administration. But with the Pensions Regulator highlighting good administration as a key risk to pension schemes, can you afford to ignore it? This session looks at what happens when the standard of pensions administration falls below the ideal and goes on to outline best practice for both in-house and outsourced administration.
Lesley Carline,

Xafinity Paymaster

Chaired by: Nigel Peaple, Director of Policy, NAPF

Negotiating with employers and trustees
This session explores the keys to successful negotiations with scheme sponsors.
Philippa Connaughton, Linklaters

Roger Maynard, Chairman of Trustees, British Airways

Chaired by: Joy Moore, RWE Npower