25th Parliamentary Intelligence- Security Forum, London, UK, August 31- September 1, 2023

6:30-8:30 pm OPENING RECEPTION

• Fahad Bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah - Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the UK

OPENING REMARKS (09:00 – 10:00)

• Alicia Kearns - MP, Chair of the UK Foreign Affairs Committee
• Bob Stewart - Member of Parliament, United Kingdom
• Robert Pittenger - Chairman, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum
• French Hill - Member of U.S. Congress and Member of the Intelligence, Financial Services and Foreign Affairs Committee

OMINOUS SECURITY CHALLENGES FROM ADVERSARIAL NATION STATES (10:00 – 10:50)

• You Si-Kun - President of Legislative Yuan, Republic of China
• Tshua Sik-lng - Member of the Taiwan Legislative Yuan
• Matt Pottinger - Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
• Theresa Villiers - MP, United Kingdom

ILLICIT FINANCE (10:50-12:00)

• David Lewis - Managing Director, Kroll and former Financial Action Task Force Executive Secretary
• John Walsh - President and Chief Executive Officer, SightSpan Inc. Washington D.C.
• Tom Keatinge - Director for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI.
• Michael Greenwald - Amazon Web Services Senior Executive and Global Lead for Digital Assets and Financial Innovation - Former United States Treasury Attaché to Qatar and Kuwait
• Lilita Infante - Chief Executive Officer, CAT Labs, Former U.S. Department of Justice Special Agent

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN (12:00-12:55)

• John Spellar - Member of Parliament, United Kingdom
• Anthony Kim - Research Fellow in Economic Freedom, Editor of the Index of Economic Freedom, and Manager of Global Engagement, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation
• Diana Furchtgott-Roth - Director, Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment and The Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy, The Heritage Foundation, United States
• Charles Parton - Adviser, House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee; Associate Fellow RUSI; Expert in Chinese politics

LUNCH BREAK (12:55-13:45) (Lunch provided by 2020 Partners and Dell)

GLOBAL IMPORTANCE OF TAIWAN STRAIT (13:45-14:00)

• Olivier Cadic - Member of the French Senate / Vice President of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

CYBERSECURITY: THE CASE FOR ZERO TRUST, RESILIENCE AND REGULATION (14:00-15:00)

• Cyrus Vance - Partner, Baker McKenzie’s North America Litigation and Government Enforcement Practice and Global Investigation, Former Manhattan District Attorney
• Herb Kelsey - Dell Industry Chief Technology Officer - Government, Project Fort Zero - Team Lead
• Simon Hodgkinson - Former Group Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Global Infrastructure and Operation, BP
• Steve Hill - Deputy Group CISO at Credit Suisse and Former UK National Security Secretariat in the Cabinet Office

STRATEGIC MINERALS (15:00-16:00)

• Eric Swalwell - Member, United States House of Representatives and author of “The Rare Earth Magnet Manufacturing Production Tax Credit Act”
• Milos Ivkovic - MA, LLM, LLM, International Arbitrator/Advisor to Governments, Austria
• James Black - Assistant Director, Defence and Security; European Lead, RAND Space Enterprise Initiative
• Morgan Murphy - U.S.N., Former National Security Advisor, United States Senate, Former Pentagon Press Secretary.

THE BUSINESS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING: PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM GLOBAL CRIMINAL NETWORKS (16:00-17:15)

• Karen Bradley - Co-Chair of the APPG on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, United Kingdom
• Linda Reynolds - CSC, Australia
• Arnold Viersen - MP, Canada
• Anne Basham - Chair of the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking and CEO of Ascend Consulting, United States
• Tanya Gould - OSCE International Survivor of Trafficking Advisory Council member and Anti-Human Trafficking Director for the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States
• John Cotton Richmond - former Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and President of the Libertas Council, United States

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (17:15-17:30)

• Bob Fu - Chairman, China Aid

TRADE-BASED MONEY LAUNDERING (17:30-17:55)

• Marco Campomenosi - Member of the European Parliament, Italy
• Ben M. Phiri - Malawi Parliament, Vice Chairperson of the Public Appointments Committee of Parliament

Reception (18:00 hours)

COFFEE AND DANISH (8:15-8:45)

PRAYER BREAKFAST (8:45)

OPENING REMARKS (Second Day) (9:00-9:30)

• Michael Chertoff - former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Co-founder and Executive Chairman at the Chertoff Group
• Fahad Bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah - Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the United Kingdom

CRYPTOCURRENCY AND DIGITAL ASSETS (9:30-10:30)

• J.C. Boggs - Esq., Partner, King & Spalding LLP
• Oonagh McDonald - CBE, former Member of British Parliament; author and international financial regulatory expert
• Combiz Abdolrahimi - Esq., Global Emerging Technology & Innovation Leader, Deloitte
• Michael Greenwald - Amazon Web Services Senior Executive and Global Lead for Digital Assets and Financial Innovation - Former United States Treasury Attaché to Qatar and Kuwait
• Brian Quintenz - Former Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Head of Policy for a16z crypto, Andreessen Horowitz

ADVERSARIAL FOREIGN INVESTMENTS (10:30-11:30)

• Marco Zanni - Member of the European Parliament, Italy
• Roslyn Layton - Visiting Fellow, Aalborg University. Founder, ChinaTechThreat
• Andreas Jahn - Bundestag Foreign Policy Senior Advisor
• Sohan Dasgupta - Partner, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP - Former Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

SPACE FORCE (11:30-11:45

• Jaak Madison - Member of the European Parliament, Estonia, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia Parliament

TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION: 5G, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND QUANTUM COMPUTING (11:45-12:45)

• Cristian Bacanu - Member of Parliament, Chamber of Deputies of Romania
• John Strand - CEO of Strand Consult
• Markus Pflitsch - Chairman and CEO, Terra Quantum AG
• J.C. Boggs - Esq., Partner, King & Spalding LLP

LUNCH BREAK (12:45-13:25) (Lunch provided by 2020 Partners and Dell)

THE DECISIVE DECADE (13:25-13:40)

• Jonathan Ward - Author, The Decisive Decade and China’s Vision of Victory– PhD, Oxford University - President, Atlas Organization

NATION STATE RISK AND THE FUTURE INFLUENCE IN SECURITY FROM CHINA, RUSSIA AND NORTH KOREA (13:40-14:40)

• Baroness Neville-Jones - House of Lords, United Kingdom, former Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee
• Toby Haris - Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom and Chair of the UK Cyber Preparedness Commission
• Ravi Batra - Esq., Chairman, National Advisory Council South Asian Affairs, USA
• Nathan Sales - Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights (acting); Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council.

ENERGY SECURITY (14:40-15:40)

• Helene Conway Mouret - Member of Senate, France
• Carla Sands - Vice Chair, Center for Energy and Environment, America First Policy Institute; former US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark
• Lucian Pugliaresi - President, Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc.
• François Baird - Chairman and Founder, Baird’s US LLC/Baird’s CMC Limited/Calbridge (Pty) Ltd/FairPlay, United States

CYBERSECURITY: THE CASE FOR ACCURATE INTELLIGENCE AND DATA (15:40-16:10)

• Brian Cavanaugh - Visiting Fellow for Cybersecurity and Intelligence, The Heritage Foundation
• Zakir Durumeric - Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Co-Founder of Censys

AFRICA PERSPECTIVE (16:10-16:50)

• Dansa Kourouma - President of the National Transitional Council, Guinea
• Sahr Charles - Member of Parliament, Sierra Leone
• Bol Gai Deng - President Republic of South Sudan Government in Exile
• Ambe Valentine - Economic and political consultant, Ambassador for U.S.- Global African Leadership