The Best Practices Conference Series will be held in four cities across the United States: Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Dallas. At each location, top finance executives from some of the most well known companies in the world will discuss real-time and relevant solutions for managing in the New Economy.

San Francisco speakers(prior conference): Larry Carter, CFO, Cisco Systems; Michael Lehman, CFO, Sun Microsystems; Jeffrey Allen, CFO, Network Appliance; Susan Decker, CFO, Yahoo!; Walter Skowronski, Vice President, Finance & Treasurer, The Boeing Co.; Lowell Robinson, CFO, HotJobs.com ... more

Dallas speakers: Gary Kelly, CFO, Southwest Airlines; Lynn Atchison, CFO, Hoovers Inc.; Renee Hornbaker, CFO, Flowserve; David M. Miller, CFO & Senior Vice President, Dr. Pepper/Seven-UP, Inc.; Vic Mahadevan, CEO & Chairman of the Board, iVita Corporation; Simon Lorne, former General Counsel of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ... more

Chicago speakers (prior conference): Richard Timmins, VP Finance, Cisco Systems; Paul Liska, CFO, The St. Paul Companies; Frank Gatti, CFO, Educational Testing Service; Steven Preston, CFO, ServiceMaster; Alex Estevez, CFO, Datastream; Renee Hornbaker, CFO, Flowserve; Gary Gatchell, CFO, Voyant Technologies ... more

Boston speakers (prior conference): Steven Shindler, CFO, Nextel Communications; Joseph Martin, CFO, Fairchild Semiconductor; David Willey, SVP Corporate Financial Management, Capital One; Thomas Cowan, CFO, Vcommerce ... more