Aging Workforce Summit Speakers Announced: Experts on Finance, Retirement Funding, Healthcare and Employment to Speak

HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Aging Workforce Summit, October 26 & 27, 2006 at the Mid-America Club, Chicago, today announced its speaker lineup of leading experts on the issues of retirement funding, healthcare, accessible technology, and the retention of institutional intelligence.

Presented by Prudential Financial, and sponsored by Aetna and Microsoft, AGW is the only conference on obtaining solutions for dealing with the bottom-line financial and personnel pressures of our nation's aging workforce for financial, retirement benefits and human resources decision-makers.

"This conference brings together some of the best thought leaders in the aging workforce arena," said James Weil, one of the nation's foremost authorities on issues of business and aging, and a member of the AGW Conference Committee. "They have the insight and solutions to help senior HR, finance and benefits professionals understand and solve their organization's age-driven challenges, and their combined impact on their company's bottom line."

The AGW program features keynotes, general sessions, panels, case-studies, and in-depth discussion groups. Highlights include workshops and how-to sessions on topics such as employment law and age discrimination, accessible technology and retaining, retraining and retiring employees.

Speakers include: Deanna Garen, SVP, Strategic Planning & Development, Prudential Financial; Scott Sleyster, EVP, Prudential Retirement; Dr. Gene Cohen, Director, Center on Aging, Health & Humanities, George Washington University and author of "The Mature Mind"; Charlie Klippel, SVP & General Counsel, Aetna; Jack VanDerhei, Fellow, Employee Benefit Research Institute; Robert Sinclair, Director -- Accessible Technology Group, Microsoft; Christopher Matz, National Director, Long-term Care Insurance, Aetna; Ed Vitalos, Associate Partner -- Maturing Workforce, IBM Global Business Services; Rick Cobb, EVP, Challenger, Gray & Christmas; John Swen, Executive Director Science Policy, Pfizer; Bill Arnone, Employee Financial Services, Ernst & Young; Jon Coppelman, VP, Lynch Ryan; Joel Rice, Of Counsel, Fisher & Phillips; Brad Lawson, Co-founder & President/CEO, Your Encore Inc.; Steve Sass, Associate Director for Research, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College; Dave Corbett, CEO, New Directions; Ken Cool, President, Emeriti Retirement Health Solutions; Christine Durst, CEO, Staffcentrix LLC; and Claudio Giugliemma, CEO, Qualilife SA.

AGW is produced by PME Enterprises, Hartford, CT. Please visit http://www.agwsummit.com/ for more details or to register for AGW.

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