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Preliminary Program Agenda

Monday, November 3, 2025

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Board of Directors’ Meeting

 

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Leadership Reception for Board of Directors 

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Registration opens

 

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Breakfast

 

9:30 AM – 10:15 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM

OPENING KEYNOTE SESSION

Gene Dodaro

Comptroller General of the United States

10:45 – 11:00

Break

 

11:00 AM – 12:00 AM

GENERAL SESSION

 

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch

 

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Achieving PFM Effectiveness Part 1
Doug Webster, Senior Advisor and ERM Practice Lead, TFC Consulting
Chris Mihm, Adjunct Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Dan Chenok, Executive Director, the IBM Center for The Business of Government 
State and Local Panel [Federation of Tax Administrators] Session 
Scott Pattison, Director, Research and Tax Policy, Federation of Tax Administrators 

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Break

 

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Achieving PFM Effectiveness Part 2
Breakout Session to Be Announced

 

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

WRAP-UP GENERAL SESSION

 

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

NETWORKING RECEPTION

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Breakfast

 

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Welcome

 

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

GENERAL SESSION

Ms. T.C.A. Kalyani, Principal Chief Controller of Accounts, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India

Government Asset Management and Accounting in India

 

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Break

 

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Infrastructure - Maximizing Performance and Sustainability in Fragile Environments

Faisal Ghafar, CEO, FGi Global Solutions

Breakout Session to Be Announced
 

 

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch

 

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
From State Assets to Strategic Investments: Ethiopia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund in Action
Kalkidan Tadesse, ACCA Ambassador for Ethiopia, Ministry of Finance, Ethiopia
Sovereign, Finite and Exhaustible Natural Resources: Facilitating Win - Win Solutions for Host States and Investors

David Hesse, Partner, Hunton, Andrews and Kurth, United Kingdom

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Break

 

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
How Weak Public Financial Management Fails the State — A Study of Afghanistan Public Financial Management
Fazal Mumtaz, Chief Development Officer, Mission Quest, Washington, DC
Amit Mukherjee, President, Green2Moro, Washington, DC
Breakout Session to Be Announced 
 

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

WRAP-UP GENERAL SESSION 

Thursday, November 6, 2025

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Breakfast

 

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Welcome

 

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

GENERAL SESSION

Eric Ueland, Deputy Secretary for Management, U. S. Office of Management and Budget [Invited]

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Break

 

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
State-Owned Enterprises In Times of Turmoil: Addressing Challenges and Information Needs To Provide Sustainability and Resilience
Tetiana Iefymenko, President, Academy of Financial Management, Ministry of Finance, Ukraine
Breakout Session to Be Announced

 

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

Lunch

 

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Analytics as an Asset: Maximizing Public Value through Strategic Use of Data in Oversight
Andrew Kurtzman, Assistant Director (Data Science), Innovation Lab, U.S. General Accountability Office, Washington, DC
Breakout Session to Be Announced 

 

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Break

 

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS TO BE ANNOUNCED

 

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

WRAP-UP GENERAL SESSION

Friday, November 7, 2025

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Breakfast

 

9:30 AM – 9:45 AM

Welcome

 

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM

GENERAL SESSION
Speakers to be announced

 

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Break

 

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Breakout Sessions to Be Announced

 

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

LUNCH AND CLOSING
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