19th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security forum, Budapest, Hungary, September 6 – 7, 2021

18:00 Garden Reception at the Residence of the Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the United States

19:15 Departure to the Marriott Hotel

09:00 Opening of the Conference

• László Kövér - Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly
• Robert Pittenger - Chairman, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum –‘5 (United States)
• Marc Dillard - Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., U.S. Embassy in Budapest (Hungary)
• Joni Ernst - United States Senate (United States)
• Péter Szijjártó - Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade – ’10 (Hungary)

09:25-09:45 Keynote speech

• David Amess - MP, United Kingdom, Member of the Panel of Chairs - ’20 (United Kingdom)

09:45-10:45 Panel 1. – Risks of cryptocurrencies, regulatory challenges

• J.C. Boggs - Partner and Co-lead, FinTech, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency practice, King & Spalding (United States)
• Erik Bethel - Distinguished Fellow at Chamber of Digital Commerce (United States)
• Jim Shinn - (United States)
• Theodore S. Boone - Of Counsel, Dentons Budapest, Member of the Faculty, Corvinus University of Budapest School of Business and former President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary (Hungary)

10:45-11:30 Panel 2. - Quantum Computing

• Scott Taylor - Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Navy Seal in Iraq, Afghanistan, Latin America (United States)
• Denver Riggleman - former Member of the United States House of Representatives, US Air Force Intelligence Officer (United States)

11:30-12:20 Panel 3. – Enhancing cooperation of Parliaments, Best Practices

• Pavel Popescu - Member of Parliament (Romania)
• Marco Zanni - Italian MEP (Italy)
• István Simicskó - Member of the Hungarian National Assembly, former Minister of Defense
• Kamal Jafarov - Member of Azerbaijani Parliament, Head of Azerbaijani Delegation to GRECO

12:20 – 12:40 Panel 4. - Assessing the risks of biological weapons use: the dual-use dilemma and challenges for arms control

• Steve Bennett - Ph.D., Director Global Public Sector at SAS; former Director of the National Biosurveillance Integration Center, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

12:40 – 12:45 Family photo

12:45 – 13:30 Buffet lunch

13:30-14:45 Panel 5 – Illicit trade, trade-based money laundering, adversarial foreign investments, adversarial threats

• Alejo Campos - Regional Director – CEO, CBLA Crime Stoppers (Panama)
• Sohan Dasgupta - Former Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (United States)
• Matt Pottinger - Former Deputy National Security Advisor (United States)
• Andreas Jahn - Bundestag Foreign Policy Senior Advisor (Germany)

14:45-16:00 Panel 6. - The dual use of AI – possibilities and risks, legal regulation, cybersecurity, 5G

• Surjeet Mahant - Managing Director at K2 Integrity and head of Cyber Risk Management Services (United States)
• John Strand - CEO, Strand Consult (Denmark)
• Pavel Popescu - Member of Parliament (Romania)
• Éva Ambrus - Researcher from the National University of Public Service (Hungary)
• Jacob Norwood - Cybersecurity Executive, Booz Allen Hamilton (United States)

16:00-17:15 Panel 7. - Illicit finance, financial integrity software solutions, biological warfare

• Gábor Simonka - Head of HFIU (Hungary)
• Andreas Frank - AML/CFT advisor for the Bundestag, Council of Europe and the European Parliament (Germany)
• Joseph Humire - Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society (United States)

17:15-17:45 Panel 8. - Human Trafficking/Illicit Finance

• Anne Basham - Chief Executive Officer at ATI (United States)
• Barbara Comstock - Former Member of Congress (United States)

17:45-18:00 Closing of the Conference

• Robert Pittenger - Chairman, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum (United States)
• István Simicskó - Member of the Hungarian National Assembly, former Minister of Defense

18:00 Reception

18:45 Guided tour of the Parliament building (optional)