Cloud architecture, remote access and cross-border computing can turn a familiar business request into a difficult export-control analysis. If your organization is:

• Moving development, engineering or customer environments to the cloud
• Giving employees, contractors, vendors or administrators remote access to technology or technical data
• Using AI services, advanced-computing resources or connected hardware across jurisdictions

You need a reliable method for determining what Trade must review, which facts control the answer and how the resulting legal advice should be implemented.

During this masterclass, you’ll learn from experienced practitioners & legal experts how to separate technical facts from legal conclusions and convert complex cloud and access scenarios into clear compliance guidance for your organization.

Examine cloud service models, technology releases, foreign-person access, encryption, administrator privileges, operational controls, AI environments and advanced-computing arrangements through a single, practical decision framework.

Learn which facts to obtain, which legal questions require separate analysis and how to translate your conclusions into practical guidance for your organization.

Created & led by working trade compliance professionals and legal experts, the prerecorded modules bring the relevant legal, technical and operational issues together in a tightly organized resource that you can return to when you need to review a deployment, access request, vendor arrangement or systems integration.

During the webcast, instructors will post survey questions and be available to attendees through chat. Once the webcast has concluded, they will go live to answer your questions. Please Note: this segment is not recorded and is organized under Chatham House Rule.

After the masterclass, you’ll receive:

• The prerecorded learning modules and chatlog from the webcast
• Expert-crafted instructional materials and analytical tools, including decision frameworks, intake questionnaires, access checklists and review matrices

Organized by subject, the materials make it easy to locate the relevant guidance when a new question arises!

Masterclass Curriculum

Module 1. Cloud Architecture, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS & Managed Services: Understand enough cloud architecture to ask the right questions without becoming a cloud engineer. Distinguish hosted functionality from software delivery, identify what the provider is actually supplying, map who can access customer information, and build a fact pattern before giving advice. Learn how to break a single cloud deployment into the separate legal and operational decisions that Trade must review.

Module 2. Technology Releases, Technical Data, Foreign-Person Access & Deemed Exports: Determine what information actually requires protection and when access itself may constitute an export or release. Evaluate remote viewing, repository access, technical discussions, foreign-person participation, encrypted environments, administrator access and access credentials while developing practical approaches to authorization and restrictions.

Module 3. Access Controls, Segmentation, Identity Management & Data Governance: Translate legal conclusions into controls that IT and Cybersecurity can implement. Connect approved users and activities to permissions, segmentation, privileged access, monitoring, logging and documentation requirements. Assess unexpected access events, determine what evidence matters and identify when a change should trigger renewed Trade review.

Module 4. AI Training, Advanced Compute & Connected Technologies: Evaluate AI training, inference and compute-access arrangements by examining the information involved, the users, the workload, the beneficiary and the supporting infrastructure. Distinguish compute-access issues from technology-access, end-use and authorization questions, and assess how remote support, software updates and feature activation can create separate compliance considerations.

Module 5. Vendors, Acquisitions & Multi-Jurisdictional Risk: Test vendor, outsourcing and acquisition assumptions before access expands. Review inherited permissions, foreign support personnel, outsourced development arrangements and third-party providers that may introduce new access paths or jurisdictional concerns. Learn when the EAR analysis is only part of the answer and when sanctions, data-security and foreign-jurisdiction obligations require separate review.

The Masterclass Series also prepares attendees to get more value from the in-person Forum by establishing a common baseline for the Forum’s deeper discussions of cloud access, AI compute, digital services, technology collaboration and access governance.

Join us the evening of the 16th (before the Forum) for “Office Hours” at an intimate location near the Forum venue. Meet and greet masterclass instructors and build connections with fellow attendees before the conference begins!