EuSpRIG 2010 Thought Leaders in Spreadsheet Governance Meet in London

LONDON, July 6, 2010 - Experts from the UK, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Canada,
United States and Australia meet to discuss 'Practical steps to protect
organisations from out-of-control spreadsheets'.

The European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (EuSpRIG) is
holding its 2010 conference on the theme of "Practical steps to protect
organisations from out-of-control spreadsheets" on the 15th - 16th July 2010
at the University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom. The line up of 20
speakers includes Dean Buckner of the UK FSA, leading researcher Prof. Ray
Panko of the University of Hawaii, financial modeller Morten Siersted of
F1F9, actuary Mary Pat Campbell, and developer Simon Murphy.

"EuSpRIG once again brings together the cream of the crop of
expertise, research excellence, and heavyweight industry figures to present
the latest views on spreadsheet risk", said Patrick O'Beirne, Chair 2010 of
EuSpRIG. "More and more organizations are accepting the need to manage data
and spreadsheet-based processes to achieve control and good governance", he
added.

The FSA paper on 'Spreadsheets and Solvency' II will be keenly
awaited by delegates from the insurance industry. Financial modellers will be
keen to debate 'Spreadsheet Engineering of Large Financial Planning Models',
'Evaluating Financial Model Performance', and 'Best Practice Modelling
Standards'. Risk management features in seven other papers, and approaches to
training and curriculum development in four more. Alternative technologies to
spreadsheets are explored in 'Transforming Critical Spreadsheets into Web
Applications at Zurich Finance' and 'Smarter Spreadsheets'.

About EuSpRIG

EuSpRIG (www.eusprig.org) offers Risk Managers the
world's only independent, authoritative & comprehensive web based information
describing the current state of the art in Spreadsheet Risk Management.
EuSpRIG provides speakers and content for professional societies,
associations, conferences and journals. EuSpRIG is a not-for-profit
organisation governed by an elected committee operating under the terms of a
written constitution. Committee members include senior managers and directors
of leading accounting firms and senior academics from European Universities.

EuSpRIG 2010 Conference Co-Sponsors

The following organizations are pleased to support the EuSpRIG
2010 Conference: Cimcon, Protiviti, Baker Tilly, Spreadsheet Engineering Ltd,
Systems Modelling, Information Systems Audit and Control Association -
Northern England Chapter, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, University
of Greenwich and STEF ENS Cachan.

    EuSpRIG Contacts

    Patrick O'Beirne
    EuSpRIG Chair
    Systems Modelling Ltd
    +353-5394-22294
    Patrick@eusprig.org

    Simon Thorne
    EuSpRIG Programme Chair, UWIC
    Cardiff
    +44-2920-416398
    SThorne@uwic.ac.uk

    Website: www.eusprig.org/annual-conference.htm

Patrick O'Beirne, EuSpRIG Chair, Systems Modelling Ltd, +353-5394-22294, Patrick at eusprig.org; Simon Thorne, EuSpRIG Programme Chair, UWIC, Cardiff, +44-2920-416398, SThorne at uwic.ac.uk