Emerging Technology Meets National Security 2019 | NVCA | 7 November 2019 | 1616 Rhode Island Ave NW, 1616 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA

NVCA’s Emerging Technology Meets National Security conference will facilitate dialogue between emerging technology investors, companies, and Washington security agencies and professionals. The event will enable venture capital firms and technology companies to better understand the interests of U.S. national security agencies, particularly as they relate to foreign investment, technology transfer, and misappropriation.

It will help firms and companies better understand national security legal and policy issues that will impact their strategic decision-making, including CFIUS, cybersecurity, export controls, sanctions, and anti-money laundering (AML). The conference will allow national security officials to better understand emerging technology interests and operating realities by explaining how young companies innovate, their need for capital to grow, and the role of venture capital.

Who should attend?
Washington’s national security establishment is impacting the venture capital and startup ecosystem in new and different ways. VCs and companies in emerging technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, cybersecurity, blockchain) as well as executive branch and Capitol Hill officials in national security areas are encouraged to attend.

2019 Speakers

Bobby Franklin
President & CEO, National Venture Capital Association

Dawn Meyerriecks
Deputy Director, Science and Technology Directorate, CIA

George Hoyem
Managing Partner, In-Q-Tel (IQT)

Matthew S. Borman
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Heidi Grant
Director, Defense Technology Security Administration

Elizabeth Cannon
Deputy Chief for Export Control and Sanctions, U.S. Department of Justice

Melissa B. Mannino
Attorney, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati

Manny Stockman
Principal, Osage University Partners

William Alan Reinsch
Senior Adviser, Scholl Chair in International Business, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Josephine Aiello LeBeau
Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Tom Feddo
Assistant Secretary for Investment Security (Tentative) and Stephen Heifetz, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

David Stapleton
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy, U.S. Department of Defense

Emily Kilcrease
Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Investment, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Sanchi Jayaram
Chief, Foreign Investment Review Section

Christa Brzozowski
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Foreign Investment & Trade Policy

Joshua Gruenspecht
Of Counsel in the Washington, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Alicia Novak
Director of Compliance and Risk, F-Prime Capital Partners at Fidelity Investments

Catherine Passmore Jones
Senior Legal Counsel, Eight Roads

Thilo Hanemann
Partner, Rhodium Group

Jeff Farrah
General Counsel, NVCA

John Demers
Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, Department of Justice

Peter Barris
Managing General Partner, New Enterprise Associates

Michèle Flournoy
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors

Tom Foldesi
Director of Commercial, Defense Unit Innovation

Ellison Anne Williams
CEO, Founder, Enveil

Susan Celis
Small Business Program Director, DARPA

Don Dixon
Co-Founder, Managing Director, ForgePoint Capital

2019 Sponsor

• Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati