Agenda
Pre-Forum Masterclass Series
Virtual Masterclass 1
March 8, 2027 • 9:00 am–1:00 pm PT
U.S. Encryption (ENC) Export Controls: A Foundational Resource for Trade Compliance Professionals in the AI & Advanced Technology Sectors
Virtual Masterclass 2
March 9, 2027 • 9:00 am–1:00 pm PT
A Complete Guide for Understanding Export Controls for Cloud, Remote Access, and Cross-Border Compute Controls
Virtual Masterclass 3
March 10, 2027 • 9:00 am–1:00 pm PT
New Frontiers in Advanced Technology Transactions: U.S. Outbound Investment Controls, COINS & the Export-Control Intersection
Day 1 — Main Conference
March 17, 2027
7:45 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45 am
9:00 am
- Hear directly from U.S. enforcement officials about the latest export control enforcement priorities and how regulators are ramping up investigations involving advanced technologies, sensitive supply chains, diversion, and illicit procurement networks.
- This panel will examine where BIS, DOJ, and HSI are focusing their resources, how agencies are working together to identify and build cases, and what companies should understand about the conduct, transactions, and compliance failures most likely to attract scrutiny.
9:45 am
Keynote Panel
Preparing for the Next AI Control Perimeter: What Emerging Rules Could Mean for Frontier Models, Model Outputs, Open Weights, Compute, Cloud Access and Investment
Camille RouxAmericas Export Compliance ManagerDassault Systems
Alex RosenbaumSenior Regulatory CounselNebius
- Make confident business decisions when the next perimeter of AI trade controls remains uncertain.
- Identify where emerging restrictions could create the greatest exposure across frontier models, model outputs, open weights, compute, cloud access, end uses, and investment.
- Discover how trade leaders can translate competing policy signals into practical guidance for leadership, product, and compliance teams.
- Learn about policy developments that could reshape AI development, deployment, dissemination, and access.
- Anticipate potential implications for AI developers, cloud providers, infrastructure operators, and downstream users.
- Assess how open-weight models may affect compliance, innovation, and international collaboration.
- Evaluate how AI governance, compute access, investment restrictions, and national-security priorities may converge.
- Identify exposure areas that could influence advanced-technology operations before new rules take effect.
- Strengthen forward-looking compliance planning amid continued regulatory uncertainty.
10:45 am
Morning Networking Break
11:00 am
AI Compute / Diversion Risk
Beyond the Immediate Customer: Managing End-Use and Diversion Risk Across the AI Compute Chain: Mitigating Trade Risk from SME to Chips, Servers, Networks, GPU, Cloud, and Data Centers
Lillian NorwoodHead, Amazon Web Services Global Export ComplianceAmazon
Laura KlickAssociate General CounselCloudflare
- Pinpoint where visibility into customers, ultimate uses, and access to computing capability breaks down across the AI compute chain.
- Learn how to assess downstream exposure when an immediate customer is only one part of a wider network of business relationships.
- Determine what equipment suppliers, chip developers, infrastructure operators, and AI service providers can establish, and which unanswered questions warrant further inquiry.
- Compare how participants at different points in the chain identify customer, end-use, and diversion risks.
- Evaluate the information and assurances that help connect diligence across suppliers, intermediaries, customers, and service providers.
- Strengthen the ability to interpret regulatory expectations, prioritize verification, and recognize changes that require renewed assessment.
11:45 am
Digital Services Compliance
Controlling High-Volume Digital Services Without Blocking Growth: Scalable OFAC, KYC, and Export Controls for AI, SaaS, Hosting, Domains, APIs, and Cloud Access
Albert NewellDirector, Senior CounselGoDaddy
Aiysha HussainPartnerMayer Brown
- Learn how digital service providers satisfy OFAC, export control, and customer verification requirements without creating unnecessary friction.
- Find out what leading organizations are doing to manage sanctions, KYC, and access governance risks at scale.
- Discover how to reduce regulatory exposure while preserving growth, customer experience, and operational efficiency.
- Gain insight into how OFAC requirements, export controls, and customer-access governance overlap in digital-service environments.
- Build a more scalable approach to customer diligence across AI, SaaS, cloud, hosting, domain, and API-driven businesses.
- Evaluate practical methods for managing beneficial-ownership reviews, reseller relationships, and customer-risk assessments.
- Address compliance risks associated with remote access, cloud-hosted services, and global user populations.
- Leverage automation, technology, and risk-based frameworks to improve compliance outcomes.
- Benchmark approaches for balancing compliance, trust, scalability, and customer experience.
12:30 pm
Networking Luncheon
1:30 pm
Government Panel
Treasury’s National Security Priorities for AI & Advanced Technology—Outbound Investment Controls, Sanctions and Compliance Expectations
- Treasury’s national-security authorities can reach AI and advanced-technology companies through investments, joint ventures, customers, counterparties, and cross-border services.
- This government panel will examine Treasury’s priorities through the Office of Global Transactions and the Office of Foreign Assets Control, including how companies should identify outbound-investment and sanctions risks, conduct appropriate diligence, and recognize where these authorities may overlap.
- Officials will also discuss Treasury’s compliance expectations and what companies should be watching as these national-security authorities continue to develop.
2:15 pm
Transactions / Investment Controls
Closing AI, Semiconductor and Quantum Deals Without Missing Trade Risk: Coordinating Outbound Investment, Sanctions, M&A Diligence and Technical-Data Access
Laurence HullSenior Counsel, Global TradeUber
Chelsea ClappAssociate General Counsel, Global Trade ComplianceMeta
- Identify trade and national-security risks before a transaction becomes difficult to unwind.
- Discover what safeguards are needed when diligence, technical-data access, and investor participation intersect.
- Analyze how trade compliance can support deal execution without becoming a bottleneck to growth.
- Learn how to integrate outbound investment, sanctions, and export control reviews into transaction planning and diligence.
- Evaluate foreign ownership, investor participation, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships that may create regulatory exposure.
- Strengthen controls around technical-data access, diligence materials, and sensitive technology during negotiations.
- Improve coordination among legal, compliance, investment, government-affairs, and business-development teams.
- Anticipate post-acquisition and post-investment risks involving governance, integration, and access controls.
- Build a transaction-review framework that supports commercial objectives while reducing regulatory and enforcement risk.
3:00 pm
Global Trade Controls
Compliant in One Jurisdiction, Exposed in Another: Resolving Conflicting U.S., EU, and China Controls Across AI, Semiconductor, Cloud, and Quantum Operations
Eugene LimFounding PrincipalTaxise Asia LLC
- Learn how to operate globally when compliance with one jurisdiction’s requirements creates risk in another.
- Identify which trade control conflicts create the greatest challenges for AI, semiconductor, cloud, and quantum businesses.
- Discover how to make consistent decisions amid divergent national-security and economic-security priorities.
- Gain insight into how the United States, European Union, and China approach export controls, sanctions, technology protection, and economic security.
- Identify situations where competing requirements can create legal, operational, and commercial challenges.
- Strengthen decision-making for cross-border technology transfers, customer relationships, supply chains, and strategic transactions.
- Evaluate extraterritorial and regulatory-fragmentation risks affecting global operations.
- Develop escalation frameworks that help regional and functional teams resolve jurisdictional conflicts.
- Build more resilient compliance programs that preserve market access, business continuity, and strategic flexibility.
3:45 pm
Afternoon Networking Break
4:00 pm
Interactive Role-Playing Game: Can You Ship It? An Executive Role-Playing Exercise on AI Technology Diversion
Heather SrokaSenior Director, Global Trade ComplianceSuperMicro
Andy WallTrade Compliance DirectorTenstorrent
Kristine E. PirniaPartnerKelley Drye & Warren LLP
- A customer has answered questions. The required checks are complete, and an important order needs a decision. Has the diversion concern actually been resolved, or has someone merely supplied a reassuring explanation?
- This 90-minute role-playing exercise puts attendees inside a fictional technology company’s leadership team, where commercial, operational, legal, and compliance perspectives must come together to answer, “Can you ship it?” Across three executive meetings, participants receive different information according to their assigned roles, challenge assumptions, and advise their table’s CEO as new facts change the assessment.
- Determine whether a customer’s answers resolve a diversion concern or only offer a reassuring explanation.
- Decide what to do when critical facts remain uncertain and commercial pressure builds.
- Make and defend difficult export decisions alongside legal, compliance, supply chain, and business colleagues.
- Gain hands-on experience evaluating incomplete information, conflicting priorities, and evolving facts.
- Test whether existing diligence establishes the facts needed to approve a high-risk transaction.
- Develop workable conditions, safeguards, and verification requirements before releasing an order.
- Improve coordination among legal, compliance, supply-chain, operations, and business stakeholders during escalation events.
- Practice defending decisions when several outcomes remain possible.
- Benchmark your approach against peers and expert facilitators managing similar diversion challenges.
5:30 pm
Cocktail Reception
6:30 pm
Day One of Forum Concludes
Day 2 — Main Conference
March 18, 2027
7:30 am
Registration & Breakfast
8:55 am
9:00 am
Government Panel
Inside Europe’s Evolving Ecosystem of Advanced & Emerging Technology Trade Controls
Bert GeversPartnerLoyens & Loeff (Belgium)
- Hear directly from European government officials on trade-control priorities for AI, semiconductors, and quantum.
- This panel will examine how EU-wide initiatives, national requirements, and broader economic-security measures fit together, and what developments could mean for cross-border research, technology transfers, and market access.
9:30 am
Hardware Lifecycle / Supply Chain
From Components to Reexports: Coordinating Import, Export, and Product Requirements Across the AI & Advanced Tech Hardware Lifecycle
Ishan NagpalSenior Legal CounselArista Networks
- Learn how to establish a reliable picture of a product’s components, origin, production history, and movements, and use that information across import, export, and product reviews.
- Pinpoint where compliance gaps arise when customs, export controls, and product teams work from incomplete or inconsistent information about the same equipment.
- Discover how supply chain transparency can support coordinated decisions throughout sourcing, manufacturing, deployment, and post-sale service.
- Identify the product and supplier information needed to support classification, origin, semiconductor-content, and other regulatory assessments.
- Recognize when component substitutions, manufacturing changes, or new destinations require teams to revisit earlier determinations.
- Strengthen coordination for repairs, returns, servicing, and reexports, including responsibility for resolving information gaps and maintaining supporting records.
10:15 am
Networking Break
10:30 am
Physical AI
Getting Physical AI to Market Checklist: Applying Existing EAR, ITAR, DDTC, FCC, ICTS, and Blue UAS Rules to General-Purpose Models Embedded in Controlled Systems
Karen RobertsonHead of Trade ComplianceArcher Aviation
- Pinpoint where the most significant compliance obligations arise when AI is embedded in robots, drones, autonomous vehicles, and connected hardware.
- Learn how to evaluate overlapping EAR, ITAR, DDTC, FCC, ICTS, and Blue UAS requirements for systems that incorporate AI.
- Identify practical steps to reduce commercialization, deployment, and sourcing risks for physical AI products.
- Gain insight into how obligations can attach to the broader platform, system, or application rather than the AI model itself.
- Identify classification, procurement, sourcing, and deployment risks affecting physical AI products.
- Evaluate the interaction of export controls and national-security requirements across robotics, drones, and autonomous vehicles.
- Strengthen approaches for managing foreign components, global supply chains, software updates, and remote access.
- Prepare commercialization, engineering, compliance, and legal teams for increased scrutiny of AI-enabled hardware.
- Benchmark governance, product-development, testing, deployment, and lifecycle-management practices.
11:15 am
Fundraising / Investment Risk
Mitigating Complex Geopolitical and Trade Risk in AI & Advanced Technology Fundraising
- Determine who can invest in the business and which risks to evaluate before accepting capital.
- Identify what information prospective investors can access without creating unintended technology-transfer or compliance risks.
- Learn how to pursue growth, fundraising, and international expansion while navigating trade, national-security, and investment controls.
- Discover how trade compliance can support fundraising, innovation, and growth rather than becoming a late-stage obstacle.
- Evaluate prospective investors, ownership structures, governance rights, and strategic relationships beyond the financing itself.
- Prepare stronger responses to investor diligence involving technology, international activities, and compliance capabilities.
- Strengthen controls around technical disclosures, model access, source code, information rights, and proposed collaboration.
- Improve coordination among company leadership, legal, trade compliance, finance, engineering, and outside specialists.
- Build a fundraising-readiness framework that helps lean teams anticipate risks before investor diligence begins.
12:00 pm
Networking Luncheon
1:00 pm
AI Collaboration / Deemed Exports
Controlling Collaboration and Deemed Export Risk for Innovation, Research, and Commercialization Strategies Involving Open Weight AI Models
Jesse HornGlobal Trade CounselReflection AI
Bryan WarshawskyDirector, Export Control ComplianceCowboy Space
- Learn how to support open-weight AI innovation without creating unnecessary trade compliance risk.
- Distinguish model availability and access from controlled technical collaboration.
- Assess engineer interactions, foreign-national participation, and technical exchanges for compliance risks in open-weight AI environments.
- Identify trade and collaboration risks associated with open-weight AI development, research, and commercialization.
- Understand where hosting, access, and model availability may evolve into controlled technical collaboration.
- Evaluate the compliance implications of technical feedback, benchmarking support, bug fixes, and collaborative development activities.
- Strengthen governance around source-code sharing, model-weight access, and technical-data transfers.
- Improve approaches for managing engineer communications, foreign-national access, and cross-border research collaboration.
- Prepare legal, compliance, engineering, and research teams for a regulatory environment increasingly focused on AI collaboration and technology-access governance.
2:00 pm
Enforcement Readiness
Building a Defensible Record Before Regulators Call: Red-Flag Escalation, Reasonable Care, Diligent Inquiry, Internal Investigations and Voluntary Disclosures
Dan ClutchSenior Director, Global TradeCaterpillar
Jessica LathamPrincipal Counsel, Sanctions & Trade ComplianceNetflix
Rebecca YeagerSenior Manager, Global Trade ComplianceCapital One
- Learn how to demonstrate reasonable care and diligent inquiry when regulations, guidance, and enforcement expectations remain uncertain.
- Identify what should trigger escalation, investigation, or additional review before a potential compliance issue becomes an enforcement matter.
- Prepare for regulatory scrutiny before an inquiry, subpoena, or information request arrives.
- Learn about regulator expectations for documentation, escalation, governance, and decision-making in advanced-technology trade policy.
- Evaluate how evolving export controls and investment restrictions may affect commercialization, research, and long-term growth strategies.
- Anticipate policy developments that could influence AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and other strategically sensitive technologies.
- Improve decision-making around research collaborations, international partnerships, and technology-investment planning.
- Benchmark organizational preparedness against emerging trade-policy trends affecting next-generation technologies.
3:00 pm
Afternoon Networking Break
3:15 pm
Government Panel / Quantum
Quantum Export Controls: A Test Case for the Future of Advanced Technology Trade Policy
Ryan McKenneyDirector of Government Relations and General Counsel of ComplianceQuantinuum
Nate MoultonGovernment AffairsIQM Quantum Computers
- How early should governments restrict emerging technology, and how can they preserve innovation and international collaboration?
- Drawing on congressional and quantum-industry perspectives, this panel will examine what quantum export and investment controls may signal for AI and other advanced technologies, and which policy developments should prompt companies to reassess research partnerships, investment plans, and market strategies.
4:05 pm
Quantum Commercialization
Moving Quantum from Research to Commercial Scale: Resolving ECCNs, Performance Thresholds, “Specially Designed,” Deemed Exports, Global R&D and Investment Risk
- Learn how to move forward when classification, licensing, or authorization questions remain unresolved.
- Determine what information, software, equipment, and technology you can share with overseas customers, research partners, employees, and contractors.
- Identify the export control, deemed export, and investment risks that arise as quantum technologies move from research to commercial deployment.
- Discover how leading quantum companies assess trade risk before approving customer deployments, partnerships, and technology-access arrangements.
- Evaluate approaches for addressing ECCNs, performance thresholds, “specially designed” provisions, and other classification challenges.
- Strengthen decision-making around customer deployments, licensing dependencies, software updates, training, and ongoing support activities.
- Improve approaches for managing global R&D, foreign-national access, research collaborations, and deemed-export considerations.
- Assess investment, joint-venture, and strategic-partnership risks involving foreign participation, technology sharing, and outbound-investment controls.
- Build practical frameworks for defining approval conditions, monitoring compliance obligations, and reassessing activities as technologies, customers, and partnerships evolve.
4:45 pm
Co-Chairs’ Closing Remarks
5:00 pm