26th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum, Washington D.C., USA, December 7-8, 2023
Summary Report
Agenda
December 6, 2023
1700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW - Suite 900 -Washington, D.C. (Spectacular view of White House and Capitol)
WELCOME RECEPTION (6-8 pm)
December 7, 2023
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Committee Hearing Room 106
DANISH AND COFFEE (8:00 am)
PRAYER BREAKFAST FOR WAR IN ISRAEL (8:45 am – 9:00 am)
OPENING REMARKS (9:00 am - 10:45 am)
- Robert Pittenger - Chairman, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum
- James Lankford - United States Senator
- Thom Tillis - United States Senator
- Roger Marshall - United States Senator
- Matt Pottinger - Former Deputy National Security Advisor
- Jonathan Ward - hD, President, Atlas Organization and Author, “The Decisive Decade and China’s Vision of Victory”
COUNTERING TRANSNATIONAL THREATS AND BORDER INSECURITY (10:45 am – 11:15 am)
- Celina Realuyo - Professor of Practice, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University, United States
- Joseph Humire - Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society
ADVERSARIAL FOREIGN INVESTMENTS AND REVERSE CFIUS (11:15 am – 12:00 pm)
- Andy Barr - U.S. House of Representatives
- Sohan Dasgupta - Partner, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP - Former Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- John Strand - CEO of Strand Consult
REMARKS (12:00 pm to 12:15 pm)
- Marco Rubio - United States Senator
LUNCH BREAK (12:15 pm to 1:00 pm)
GLOBAL SECURITY CHALLENGES (1:00 pm – 1:45 pm)
- Burgess Owens - United States House of Representatives
- John Sitilides - Geopolitical Strategist, Trilogy Advisors LLC, and Senior Fellow (National Security Program), Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Carla Sands - Vice Chair, Center for Energy and Environment, America First Policy Institute; former US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark
QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES: PROMOTING INNOVATION AND PROTECTING NATIONAL SECURITY (1:45 pm – 3:15 pm)
- Jay Obernolte - (R-CA), Member, U.S. House of Representatives
- Jaak Madison - Member of the European Parliament, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia
- Ryan McKenney - General Counsel of Compliance & Director of Government Relations, Quantinuum
- Jonah Force Hill - Head of U.S. Federal Business Development & Government Affairs at Xanadu Quantum Technologies
- Allison Schwartz - Global Government Relations and Public Affairs Leader at D-Wave Quantum Inc.
COFFEE BREAK (3:15 pm – 3:45 pm)
DIGITAL ASSETS AND THE FUTURE OF MONEY (3:45 – 4:45 pm)
- Heath Tarbert - Chief Legal Officer & Head of Corporate Affairs for Circle; former 14th Chairman & Chief Executive of the CFTC and U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets
- Brian Quintenz - Head of Policy for a16z crypto, Andreessen Horowitz; former Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Ji Kim - Head of Global Policy, Digital Assets, & General Counsel at Crypto Council for Innovation
- J.C. Boggs - Esq., Partner, King & Spalding LLP
CYBERSECURITY (4:45 pm – 6:00 pm)
- N. MacDonnell Ulsch - Founder & Chief Analyst, Gray Zone Research & Intelligence--China Series / SkyTop Media Group and 2020Partner Network Alliance
- J.P. Parker - former Special Advisor to the Vice President for Cyber
- Brian Cavanaugh - Visiting Fellow for Cybersecurity and Intelligence, The Heritage Foundation
- Emily Goldman - Cyber Strategist, US Cyber Command
- Carole N House - Executive in Residence | Terranet Ventures, Inc - Former National Security Council Director for Cyber and Secure Digital Innovation
6PM Reception-Senate Hart Building 900
December 8, 2023
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Committee Hearing Room 106
DANISH AND COFFEE (8:00 am)
PRAYER BREAKFAST FOR WAR IN UKRAINE (8:45 am – 9:00 am)
CRYPTOCURRENCY SUPERVISION AND REGULATION (9:00 am – 9:45 am)
- Yaya J. Fanusie - Director of Policy for AML & Cyber Risk, Crypto Council for Innovation
- Lilita Infante - Chief Executive Officer, CAT Labs, Former U.S. Department of Justice Special Agent
- Kristopher Klaich - Deputy Diretor, Policy - Chamber of Digital Commerce
TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL CONVERGENCY (9:45 am – 10:30 am)
- Alejo Campos - Regional Director, Crime Stoppers, Americas and Caribbean
- John Walsh - President and Chief Executive Officer, SightSpan Inc. Washington D.C
- Michael Braun - President, SAVA Workforce Solutions - Former Chief of Operations, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCY (10:30 am – 11:30 am)
- Cristian Bacanu - Member of Parliament, Chamber of Deputies of Romania
- John Strand - CEO of Strand Consult
- François Baird - Chairman and Founder, Baird’s US LLC/Baird’s CMC Limited/Calbridge (Pty) Ltd/FairPlay, United States
- Ryan McKenney - General Counsel of Compliance and Director of Government Relations at Quantinuum
ILLICIT FINANCE (11:30 am – 12:45 pm)
- John Cassara - Board Member, Global Financial Integrity
- Tom Cardamone - Director of Global Financial Integrity (GFI)
- Jerome Beaumont - Executive Secretary, Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence
- Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz - Head of the International Cooperation Unit within the Department of Financial Information of the Polish Ministry of Finance - Interim Chair, Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence
- Mariano Federici - Senior Managing Director, K2 Integrity, and Frmr. Chair of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units
DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS/TRAFFICKING AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (12:45 pm – 1:45 pm)
- Bob Fu - Chairman, China Aid
- Felipe Alexandre - Founding Attorney, Alexandre Law Firm
- Alexandru Nazare - Member of Parliament, Romania
- Mary Vigil - Subcommittee Staff Director, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, Chairman Michael McCaul
- Achyuta Samanta - Member of Parliament, India
AFRICA PERSPECTIVE (1:45 pm – 1:50 pm)
- Bol Gai Deng - President Republic of South Sudan Government in Exile
CLOSING RECEPTION/LUNCH (2:00 pm)
