International High Technology U.S. Tax Current Developments

• Jim Fuller (Partner, Fenwick & West)

Contract Manufacturing and The Branch Rule

• Michael A. Difronzo (IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel - International-Technical, Office of the Chief Counsel)
• David Gill (Partner, Ernst & Young)
• John Peterson (Partner, Baker & Mckenzie)

Permanent Establishment

• Gary Sprague (Partner, Baker & Mckenzie)
• Ron Saake (International Tax Partner, Deloitte)

Hidden and Possible Future State Tax Liabilities

• Rocky Cummings (Partner, BDO Seidman)
• Ferdinand Hogroian (Director, PwC)

Research Credit Ongoing Challenges

• Jim Eberle (Managing Director - National Practice Leader - Federal, Alvarez & Marsal Tax)
• Michael Goldbas (Principal - R&D Tax Services, Deloitte)

Doing Business in China

• Jon Eichelberger (Partner, Baker & Mckenzie)
• Jeff Olin (National Managing Partner - International Tax, Grant Thornton)
• Stephen P. Sedler (Senior Vice President of Taxes & International Trade Administration, Seagate Technology)

Tax Reform — High Tech Friend or Foe?

• Bill Barrett (Vice President - Tax & Trade, Applied Materials)
• Annette Nellen (Tax Professor, San José State University)

Federal Tax Controversy

• Maria Hwang (Director Field Operations, Communications, Technology & Media Industry, IRS)
• Larry R. Langdon (Partner, Mayer Brown)
• Barbara Leonard (Area Counsel - Communications, Technology & Media, IRS)
• Barry B. Shott (LMSB Deputy Commissioner - International, IRS)

New Software Business Models and their Tax Issues

• Jon Iverson (Oracle)
• Jeff Levenstam (Principal - International Tax Services, Ernst & Young)
• Paul Sallomi (US Tax Industry Leader - Technology, Deloitte)
• Rusty Thomas (Tax Sector Leader - Electronics and Software, KPMG)

Foreign Affairs

• Peter D. Skewes-Cox (Partner, PwC)
• Kent Wisner (Principal - International Corporate Services Group and M&A Group, KPMG)

FAS 141R

• Andrew Cordonnier (Partner - National Tax, Grant Thornton)
• Greg Huffaker (Senior Director M&A, Oracle)
• Michael Reichert (Global Managing Tax Partner - High Technology, Deloitte Tax)

Federal Domestic Tax Update

• Ivan Humphreys (Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati)
• Buff Miller (Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish)
• Annette Nellen (Tax Professor, San José State University)

IFRS and GAAP Convergence

• Eric L. Johnson (Tax Accounting and Compliance Director, Intel)
• Wendy Perez (Tax Partner, Ernst & Young)
• Neil Traubenberg (VP Corporate Tax, Sun Microsystems)

High Tech Accounting

• David Forst (Partner, Fenwick & West)
• Dean Kamahele (Principal, KMPG)
• Scott Jaconetty (Tax Partner, BDO Seidman)