21st Parliamentary Intelligence- Security Forum, Guatemala, March 7-8, 2022

Opening Ceremony

• Alejo Campos - Regional Director of Crime Stoppers
• Robert Pittenger - Chairman, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum
• Shirley Rivera - President of the Guatemala Congress
• Alejandro Giammattei - President of Guatemala

10:00 am Opening Remarks

• John Katko - U.S. Congress, Ranking Member, Homeland Security

10:15 am Corruption and Transnational Organized Crime

• Kayra Harding - VP of Panama National Congress
• Silvia Giacoppo - Senator of Argentina
• Celina Realuyo - Professor of Practice, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University
• Jonathan Riggs - General Secretary, Minister National Security of Panama

11:15 am Regional Security and North Border

• Manuel Eduardo Conde Orellana - President of the International Affairs Commission, Congress of Guatemala

11:35 am Abusive practices in global economic expansion

• Michael Chen - President Colon Chamber of Commerce, Panama
• Emily de La Bruyère - Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies (virtual)
• Milos Ivkovic - MA, LLM, International Arbitrator / Advisor to Governments
• Joseph Humire - Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society

12:35 pm Illicit trade, trade-based money laundering, adversarial foreign investments, adversarial threats

• Andreas Frank - AML/CFT advisor for the Bundestag, Council Europe and the European Parliament
• Celina Realuyo - Professor of Practice, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University
• Manuel Levario - Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Attaché – U.S. Embassy Guatemala

2:35 pm Human Trafficking and Illicit Finance

• Sandy Recinos - Executive Secretary of the Secretariat against Sexual Violence, Exploitation and Trafficking in Persons (SVET)
• Anne Basham - Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Ascending Consulting
• Rosi Orozco - former Member of Parliament (Mexico)
• William Viteri - Homeland Security Investigation (HSI)

3:35 pm Illicit Finance

• John Walsh - President, and CEO of SightSpan Inc.
• Sarah Paquet - FINTRAC CEO and Director
• Hamad Alhelal - Director of Financial Crime Intelligence, Sigma Ratings
• Silvia Matus de la Cruz - President, Junta del Capítulo de México ACFCS
• Philip Lovegreen - Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of Treasury, US Embassy Mexico

4:45 pm Cyber Threat Landscape: Criminal Organizations & Motivations, Current Threat Vectors and Government Regulations

• Gregory Sim - Founder, 2020Partners
• Aristedes Mahairas - Former Special Agent in Charge, Counterintelligence / Cyber, U.S. Department of Justice
• Art Cummings - Former Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations
• Mirel Sehic - Global Director Cyber Security, Honeywell
• Joshua Jaffe - Vice President, Business Unit Security Officer, Dell Technologies
• Jeremy Meyers - PhD, President of NAIS

5:55 pm Closing Remarks

• Robert Pittenger - Chairman, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum

8:00 am Opening Remarks

• Robert Pittenger - Chairman, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum
• Bill Cassidy - U.S. Senator

8:20 am Intelligence assessment, regional threats

• José Luis Navas - General Director of Civil Intelligence, Ministry of Interior – Guatemala

8:40 am Cybersecurity Supply Chain (Solar Winds, Colonial Pipeline, Operational Technology and Internet of Things, Ransomware, Resilience (Zero Trust)

• Gregory Sim - Founder, 2020Partners
• Mirel Sehic - Global Director Cyber Security, Honeywell
• Aristedes Mahairas - Former Special Agent in Charge, Counterintelligence / Cyber, U.S. Department of Justice
• Jeremy Meyers - PhD, President of NAIS
• Art Cummings - Former Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations
• Joshua Jaffe - Vice President, Business Unit Security Officer, Dell Technologies
• Mark Green - U.S. Congressman

9:50 am Cryptocurrency, Stablecoins and CBDCs

• J.C. Boggs - Partner and Co-lead, Fintech, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Practice, King & Spalding
• Jessica Renier - Managing Director, Digital Finance at the Institute of International Finance; former Senior Counselor, U.S. Department of Treasury
• Erik Bethel - Distinguished Fellow, Chamber of Digital Commerce; former U.S. Representative to the World Bank
• Combiz Abdolrahimi - Esq., Global Emerging Technology & Innovation Leader, Deloitte

11:00 am Remarks

• Gregory Steube - 11:00 am Remarks

11:00 am Religious Freedom

• Sean Woo - Executive Director of U.S. National Committee for Religious Freedom
• John Strand - CEO, Strand Consult
• Sohan Dasgupta - Former Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

12:00 am Closing Remarks

• Robert Pittenger - Chairman, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum