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20th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum Washington, D.C., December 6, 2021

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Agenda

December 5, 2021

MAYFLOWER HOTEL (Covid issues prevent the reception at the Ecuador Embassy) (1127 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036)

WINE RECEPTION/REGISTRATION (6:00pm-7:00pm)

December 6, 2021

NATIONAL ARCHIVES BUILDING (700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC)

Reception (6:00pm-7:30pm)

REGISTRATION 8am-9am. COFFEE AND DANISH

Opening Remarks (9:00am-9:15)

Panel 1 – Digital Assets: Cryptocurrencies, Stablecoins and CBDCs (9:15am 10:15am)

  • J.C. Boggs - Partner and Co-lead, Fintech, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Practice
  • Brian Quintenz - former Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • Andreas Jahn - Bundestag Foreign Policy Senior Advisor
  • T.J. Donovan - Vermont Attorney General

Panel 2. - Neurocognitive Warfare - includes psychological and biological weapons (including Havana syndrome) / Dual use of AI/5G/cybersecurity security threats (10:15am – 11:00am)

  • Steve Bennett - Ph.D., Director Global Public Sector at SAS; former Director of the National Biosurveillance Integration Center, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • Robert McCreight - Adjunct Professor, George Mason University, Lecturer, National Defense University
  • John Strand - CEO, Strand Consulting, Denmark

Panel 3. - Human Trafficking/Illicit Finance (11:00am-12:00pm)

  • Anne Basham - Chief Executive Officer at Anti-Trafficking International (ATI)
  • Karen Bradley - Member of UK Parliament and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery (United Kingdom)
  • Joseph Humire - Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society
  • John Cotton Richmond - U.S. Ambassador at Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Person

Special Remarks (12:00pm-12:15pm)

LUNCH (12:15pm -12:45pm)

“Religious Freedom for All or Genocide” (12:45pm-1:05pm)

  • Sam Brownback - Former Ambassador for International Religious Freedom

Panel 4. - Abusive practices in global economic expansion (1:05pm-2:05pm)

Panel 5. - Illicit finance, financial integrity software solutions, biological warfare (2:05pm-3:05pm)

  • John Walsh - President and CEO of SightSpan Inc.
  • Mariano Federici - Managing Director at K2 Integrity, Former Chair, Egmont Group
  • Craig Timm - Managing Director, Financial Crimes Compliance Executive at Bank of America
  • Steve Bennett - Dr. Steve Bennett, Ph.D., Director Global Public Sector at SAS; former Director of the National Biosurveillance Integration Center, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Remarks (3:05pm-3:15pm)

Panel 6. – Illicit trade, trade-based money laundering, adversarial foreign investments, adversarial threats (3:15pm-4:30pm)

  • John Katko - Ranking Member, Homeland Security Committee
  • Alejo Campos - Regional Director – CEO, Caribbean, Bermuda and Latin America Crime Stoppers
  • Celina Realuyo - Professor of Practice, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University
  • Mario Mauro - Former Italian Minister of Defense, Expert in defense and security, and former VP of the European Parliament
  • Emanuele Ottolenghi - PhD, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Panel 7. – Enhancing cooperation of Parliaments, Best Practices (4:30pm 5:30pm)

Remarks (5:30pm-5:45pm)

OPEN DISCUSSION (5:45pm-6:00pm)

RECEPTION – NATIONAL ARCHIVES GALLERY (6:00pm-7:30pm)

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