20th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum Washington, D.C., December 6, 2021
Summary Report
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)
- Robert Pittenger - Chairman, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum
- Bill Cassidy - U.S. Senator
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)
- David Rouzer - House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
- Milos Ivkovic - MA, LLM, LLM, International Arbitrator / Advisor to Governments
- Roslyn Layton - Founder ChinaTech Threat
- Matt Pottinger - Former Deputy National Security Advisor
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)
- French Hill - House Financial Services Committee
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)
- Pavel Popescu - Member of Parliament, Romania
- Marco Zanni - Italian MEP
- Karen Bradley - MP, United Kingdom
- Denis Zvizdić - Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Remarks (5:30pm-5:45pm)
- Alejandro Giammattei - President of Guatemala
OPEN DISCUSSION (5:45pm-6:00pm)
RECEPTION – NATIONAL ARCHIVES GALLERY (6:00pm-7:30pm)
