27th Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum, Washington, D.C., December 4 – 5, 2024

6 PM - SPECIAL OPENING RECEPTION AT THE EMBASSY OF THE PHILIPPINES

• Jose Manuel G. Romualdez - Ambassador

REGISTRATION - COFFEE AND DANISH (8:00 - 9:00 am)

OPENING REMARKS (9:00 - 10:00 am)

• Robert Pittenger - Chairman, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum
• Matt Pottinger - Former Deputy National Security Advisor for President Trump
• Jonathan Ward - PhD, Senior fellow at Hudson Institute, Author, THE DECISIVE DECADE

REMARKS (10:00 - 10:15 am)

• Stacey E. Plaskett - Member, United States House of Representatives.

WEAPONIZED MIGRATION: A GLOBAL CHALLENGE. (INCLUDES Q&A) (10:15 - 10:45 am)

• Milos Ivkovic - MA, LLM, LLM - International Arbitrator/Advisor to Governments; Washington University School of Law
• Joseph Humire - Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society

LINKING INDO-PACIFIC TO EURO/ATLANTIC (INCLUDES Q&A) (10:45 - 11:15 am)

• Cristian Bacanu - Member of Parliament, Chamber of Deputies of Romania
• John Sitilides - Geopolitical Strategist, Trilogy Advisors LLC, and Senior Fellow (National Security Program), Foreign Policy Research Institute

ISRAEL'S 8 FRONTS OF WAR SINCE OCT. 7TH (11:15 - 11:30 am)

• Eliav Benjamin - Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Israel to the United States

CHINA’S IRREGULAR WARFARE PLANS. (INCLUDES Q&A) (11:30 am- 11:45 am)

• Erik Bethel - Distinguished Fellow, Chamber of Digital Commerce; former U.S. Representative to the World Bank

ILLICIT FINANCE (INCLUDES Q&A) (11:45 am - 12:30 pm)

• John Cassara - Author, Anti-Money Laundering, former CIA field agent for 30 years
• John Walsh - President and Chief Executive Officer, SightSpan Inc. Washington D.C.
• Jerome Beaumont - Executive Secretary, Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence, Ottawa

LUNCH BREAK (12:30 - 1:30 pm)

FIGHTING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY THREATS - CRYPTO, AI AND QUANTUM (INCLUDES Q&A) (1:30 - 2:00 pm)

• Lilita Infante - Chief Executive Officer, CAT Labs, Former U.S. Department of Justice Special Agent
• Cosmin Vasile - , International Arbitrator, Managing Partner Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile&Partners, Bucharest

IMPLICATIONS OF BLOCKCHAIN FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: CBDCS, DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS AND MACROECONOMIC COMPETITION (INCLUDES Q&A) (2:00 - 2:45 pm)

• Morgan Murphy - U.S Navy, Former National Security Advisor, United States Senate, Former Pentagon Press Secretary
• Carole N House - Special Advisor for Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Policy | White House National Security Counci
• Kristopher Klaich - Director of National Security Policy, Digital Chamber

CYBERSECURITY: THE HUMAN ELEMENT (INCLUDES Q&A) (2:45 - 3:15 pm)

• J.P. Parker - Former Special Advisor to the Vice President of the U.S. for Cyber, Intelligence, and Space
• Paul J. Maurer - President of Montreat College, a recipient of the NSA National Center of Academic Excellence for their cybersecurity programs

IMPACT ON GLOBAL SECURITY FOLLOWING THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE. (INCLUDES Q&A) (3:15 - 3:30 pm)

• Jaak Madison - Member of the European Parliament, Estonia - Member of the Estonian Center Party

COUNTERING HYBRID THREATS FROM CHINA AND RUSSIA IN THE AMERICAS. (INCLUDES Q&A) (3:30 - 4:00 pm)

• Celina Realuyo - Professor of Practice, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University, United States
• Carla Sands - Vice Chair, Center for Energy and Environment, America First Policy Institute; former US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark

THREATS TO US NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE (INCLUDES Q&A) (4:00 - 4:30 pm)

• Mariano Federici - Senior Managing Director, K2 Integrity, former President of FIU-Argentina and Chairman of Egmont Group
• Juan Guaidó - Former Interim President of Venezuela

THE GLOBAL NEW CRIMINAL ORDER AND ITS LINKS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. (INCLUDES Q&A) (4:30 - 4:45 pm)

• Alejo Campos - Regional Director, Crime Stoppers, Americas and Caribbean

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND ITS ROLE IN SPONSORING TERRORISM (INCLUDES Q&A) (4:45 - 5:15 pm)

• Anne Basham - Chief Executive Officer at Ascend Consulting and Chair of the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking
• Tanya Gould - OSCE International Survivor of Trafficking Advisory Council member and Anti-Human Trafficking Director for the Commonwealth of Virginia

A GLOBAL SECURITY AGENDA FOR AFRICA (INCLUDES Q&A) (5:15 - 5:45 pm)

• François Baird - Chairman and Founder, Baird’s US LLC/Baird’s CMC Limited/Calbridge (Pty) Ltd/FairPlay, United States
• Bol Gai Deng - Candidate for President, Republic of South Sudan

OPEN FLOOR / Q&A / CLOSING REMARKS (5:45 - 6:00 pm)

RECEPTION (6 - 8 pm)

REGISTRATION - COFFEE AND DANISH (8:00 – 9:00 am)

PRAYER BREAKFAST (8:45 – 9:00 am)

KEYNOTE REMARKS (9:00 – 9:50 am)

• J.C. Boggs - Esq., Partner, King & Spalding; Board Member, Parliamentary Intelligence Security Forum (Welcome/Introduction)
• Bill Hagerty - (R-TN), former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Ranking Member, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations, United States Senate
• David Malpass - former President, The World Bank Group; former Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for International Affairs

NATIONAL/REGIONAL SECURITY (9:50 - 11:00 am)

• Mark A. Melson - Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific; Commander, Task Force SEVEN THREE; Founder/CEO, Melson Maritime Group
• Wes Spurlock - (USAF, retired), former Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Strategic Capital, Department of Defense
• Reed Werner - former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and SE Asia
• David Feith - Adjunct Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
• Takehiro Shimada - Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan in the U.S.

THE PHILIPPINES (11:00– 11:15 am)

• Jose Manuel G. Romualdez - Ambassador of the Republic of the Philippines to the U.S.

RESPONDING TO EMERGING TRENDS IN FINANCIAL CRIME (11:15 - 11:30 am)

• Brent McIntosh - former Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs

ECONOMIC SECURITY/TRADE (11:30 am - 12:30 pm)

• Gilbert Kaplan - former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; Senior Fellow, Manufacturing Policy Initiative
• Diana Furchtgott-Roth - Director, Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment; The Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy, The Heritage Foundation
• Nels Nordquist - Staff Director, House Financial Services Committee National Security, Illicit Finance and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee
• Jake Parker - Professional Staff Member, House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party

LUNCH BREAK (12:30 – 1:00 pm)

KEYNOTE REMARKS (1:00- 1:15 pm)

• Young Kim - Chair, Subcommittee on Indo-Pacific, House Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. House of Representatives

THE KOREAN PENINSULA (1:15 – 2:00 pm)

• Jae H. Ku - Senior Fellow, U.S.-Korea Relations, Center for the National Interest
• Sydney Seiler - Senior Advisor, Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Rachel Minyoung Lee - Senior Fellow for the Stimson Center’s Korea Program and 38 North

CRITICAL MINERALS/GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN (2:00 pm – 3:00 pm)

• Robert Cresanti - former Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology
• Milos Ivkovic - MA, LLM, LLM - International Arbitrator/Advisor to Governments; Washington University School of Law
• Jamil Jaffer - Founder and Executive Director of the National Security Institute at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
• Dave McMurtry - CEO, The McMurtry Group, Investor and Advisor in the Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain Industry

CHINA COMPETITION (3:00 – 4:00 pm)

• Piero Tozzi - Staff Director, Congressional-Executive Commission on China
• Bonny Lin - Director of the China Power Project and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Robert Daly - Director of the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
• John Strand - CEO of Strand Consult, Denmark; Board Member, Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum

LINKING INDO-PACIFIC TO EURO/ATLANTIC (INCLUDES Q&A) (4:00 - 4:15 pm)

• Kaush Arha - Senior Fellow, Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue & Atlantic Council.

CLOSING REMARKS (4:15 pm)