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23rd Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum, Washington D.C., USA, December 6-7, 2022

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Agenda

December 6, 2022

106 Dirksen Building – United States Senate - Washington, D.C.

Ominous Security Challenges from Adversarial Nation States (9:00 – 9:30)

War in Ukraine (9:30 - 10:45)

Illicit Finance (10:45 – 12:00)

  • Larry Pressler - Former United States Senator
  • Jerome Beaumont - Executive Secretary, Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence
  • 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
  • Mariano Federici - Senior Managing Director, K2 Integrity

Cybersecurity (12:00 – 1:15)

  • Thom Tillis - United States Senator
  • - Founder & Chief Analyst, Gray Zone Research & Intelligence China Series
  • Christopher Porter - Head of Threat Intelligence, Google Cloud
  • Baroness Neville-Jones - DCMG, Member, House of Lords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern

Global Supply Chain (2:00 – 3:15)

  • Carl Delfeld - Hay Seward Economic Security Council- Managing Director, Blackthread, LLC
  • David Rouzer - nited States House of Representatives
  • Derek Scissors - Senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Energy Security (3:15 – 4:30)

  • Victoria Coates - Senior Research Fellow, International Affairs and National Security, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, The Heritage Foundation
  • Cristian Buçoi - Chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy at the European Parliament
  • Carla Sands - Vice Chair, Center for Energy and Environment, America First Policy Institute - US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark (ret.)
  • Paul N. Watkins - JD, Fusion Law, Former Director of Innovation, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Human Trafficking (4:30 – 5:45)

  • Burgess Owens - United States Representative
  • Anne Basham - CEO of Ascend Consulting, Chair of PI-SF Taskforce on Human Trafficking
  • Tanya Gould - Vice President of the US Advisory Council
  • Arnold Viersen - Arnold Viersen, Member of Parliament, Canada
  • Sonia Krimi - Former Member of Parliament, France

Trade-Based Money Laundering (9:00-10:15)

Cryptocurrency, Stablecoins and CBDCs (10:15-11:30)

  • J.C. Boggs - Partner, King & Spalding LLP
  • Tommy Tuberville - nited States Senator
  • Hester Peirce - Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Peter St Onge - Research Fellow, Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation
  • Chris Land - General Counsel, U.S. Senator Cynthia M. Lummis

Adversarial Foreign Investments (11:30-12:45)

  • Cordell Hull - ormer Undersecretary of Commerce
  • Mario Mauro - Former Italian Minister of Defence
  • Joseph Humire - Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society
  • Pavel Popescu - Chairman of the Committee on Defence, Public Order and National Security, Romania

Greetings (12:45-12:50)

Space Force (1:30-2:30)

  • J.P. Parker - Former Intelligence Community Space Executive and Special Advisor to the Vice President of the U.S. for Space
  • Stephen L. Kitay - Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy; Senior Director, Azure Space Microsoft
  • Kiron Skinner - Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University. (AUSENTE)
  • Scott Pace - Director, Space Policy Institute - Professor of Practice of International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs

Rare Earth Minerals (2:30-3:45)

5G, AI and Quantum Computing (3:45-5:00)

  • John Strand - CEO, Strand Consult
  • Sohan Dasgupta - Partner, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP; Former Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • Curt Levey - President, The Committee for Justice
  • John Walsh - CEO, Sightspan

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