SIA will be hosting a full-day conference at our offices at 1101 K Street NW, B1 Conference Suite, Washington, DC 20005 on June 7. This event is for SIA members only.
SIA will be hosting a full-day conference at our offices at 1101 K Street NW, B1 Conference Suite, Washington, DC 20005 on June 7. This event is for SIA members only.
5:30 – 7:30pm: Reception and Happy Hour
8:00 – 8:30am: Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00am: Agenda Overview and Introductions
9:00 – 10:00am: U.S. – China Technology Tensions
10:00 – 10:45am: The View from the Administration
10:45 – 11:00am: Networking Break
11:00 – 12:00pm: Combatting Illicit Diversion (Disruptive Technology Strike Force)
12:00 – 12:45pm: The View from Capitol Hill
12:45 – 1:00pm: Lunch Break (boxed)
1:00 – 2:00pm: SIA Best Practices on Due Diligence
2:00 – 3:00pm: SIA Internal Membership Briefing and Discussion on Export Control Developments
3:00 – 3:30pm: Wrap-up Session
Gregory Allen
Director, Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies; Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Gregory C. Allen is the director of the Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies and a senior fellow in the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS, he was the director of strategy and policy at the Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, where he oversaw development and implementation of the DOD’s AI Strategy, drove policy and human capital reforms to accelerate the DOD’s adoption of AI, developed mechanisms for AI governance and ethics, and led frequent diplomatic engagements with governments and militaries in Europe and the Indo-Pacific regions, including China. Mr. Allen’s expertise and professional experience spans AI, robotics, semiconductors, space technology, and national security. Prior to working at the DOD, he was the head of market analysis and competitive strategy at Blue Origin, a space technology manufacturer and space launch services provider.
Emily Kilcrease
Senior Fellow and Director, Energy, Economics, and Security Program
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
Emily Kilcrease is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at CNAS. Her research focuses on the U.S.-China economic relationship; alignment of national security objectives and economic policy; and geoeconomic statecraft.
Kilcrease previously served as a deputy assistant U.S. trade representative (USTR), overseeing the development, negotiation, and coordination of U.S. foreign investment policy. She served as the senior career staffer leading USTR’s work on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and coordinated USTR’s policy engagement on related national security and economic tools, including export controls and supply chain risk management. Kilcrease also previously served on the National Security Council (NSC) as a director for international trade, investment, and development.
James Mulvenon
Analysis Director
Peraton Labs
James Mulvenon is an analysis director for Peraton Labs, a communications and information research and engineering company. Previously, he was Director of Intelligence Integration at SOSi, where he recruited and trained a team of nearly forty Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Pashto, Urdu, Russian, and Korean linguist-analysts performing cutting-edge research and analysis for both public and private sector clients on cyber and technology topics.
A Chinese linguist and a specialist on the Chinese military, he is a leading international expert on Chinese cyber and espionage issues, conducting pioneering work on Chinese hackers in the mid-1990s and publishing the first technical and policy analysis of Chinese Internet censorship in 2002. In 2013, he co-authored Chinese Industrial Espionage, which is the first full account of the complete range of China’s efforts to illicitly acquire foreign technology, including cyber espionage.
Eric Sayers
Managing Director
Beacon Global Strategies
Eric Sayers joined BGS in January 2018. Concurrently, Mr. Sayers is a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on Asia-Pacific defense policy and strategy and US-China technology policy. Prior to joining BGS, Mr. Sayers was a consultant to the Commander’s Action Group at U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) where he served as Special Assistant to the Commander. In this capacity, he advised Admiral Harry Harris on strategic engagements and special initiatives in the Indo-Pacific theater and Washington D.C.
Alan Estevez
Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, Bureau of Industry and Security
U.S. Department of Commerce
Alan F. Estevez serves as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security. As Under Secretary, Mr. Estevez leads the Bureau of Industry and Security, which advances U.S. national security, foreign policy, and economic objectives by ensuring an effective export control and treaty compliance system and promoting U.S. strategic technology leadership.
Mr. Estevez arrived at BIS following an accomplished 36-year career at the Department of Defense, including in two Senate-confirmed leadership positions. His last position at the Department of Defense was Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics), where he was responsible for developing, implementing, and managing acquisition, contracting, installation, and logistics programs and policies that increased combat effectiveness, as well as the department’s efficiency and buying power.
Jimmy Goodrich
Vice President, Global Policy
Semiconductor Industry Association
Jimmy Goodrich joined SIA in 2015 and is vice president for global policy. In this role, Jimmy leads SIA’s global policy team and directs SIA’s international competitiveness, trade, export control, supply chain, global market research, and China policy agenda.
Jimmy has a diverse background in international technology trade, supply-chain, and security issues spanning a wide range of geographies. Previously he was director of China policy at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) in Washington D.C. Before moving to Washington D.C. in 2012, Jimmy spent a total of seven years working in the tech sector in China, including for Cisco Systems, APCO Worldwide, and USITO.
Dan Clutch
Deputy Director
Office of Export Enforcement, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce
Dan Clutch is the Deputy Director for the Office of Export Enforcement (OEE) in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). A career member of the Senior Executive Service, Mr. Clutch oversees the day-to-day management of OEE headquarters and field operations in 30 locations across the United States. Mr. Clutch and his team protect and promote U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives by investigating illegal exports of sensitive goods and technologies that can be put to malign purposes like weapons of mass destruction proliferation, military and military-intelligence applications, terrorism, and human rights abuses.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Clutch served as the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the OEE Chicago Field Office. As SAC, Mr. Clutch oversaw criminal and administrative investigations of export violations in 11 Midwestern states and collaborated with the exporting community to prevent violations through outreach to industry and academia. Before joining OEE, he served with the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service. Mr. Clutch began his law enforcement career with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG). Mr. Clutch is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Georgetown University-International Security Management Association’s Leadership Program.
David Lim
National Coordinator
Disruptive Technology Strike Force, U.S. Department of Justice
David Lim serves as National Coordinator of the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, a joint venture between the U.S. Departments of Justice and Commerce to enforce U.S. laws protecting U.S. advanced technologies. As National Coordinator, David oversees the operations of fourteen strike cells charged with investigating the unlawful acquisition of sensitive U.S. technology by hostile nation-state actors. In addition to his responsibilities as National Coordinator of the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, David Lim is Deputy Director for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Task Force KleptoCapture (“TFKC”), an interagency law enforcement task force dedicated to enforcing the sweeping economic sanctions, export restrictions, and economic countermeasures that the United States imposed in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As a member of the task force’s senior leadership team, David helps to oversee the investigation and prosecution of violations of U.S. sanctions and export control laws, and supervises the task force’s efforts to seize and forfeit the assets of individuals and entities who violate U.S. law.
Prior to assuming his roles on the task force and strike force, David served as a Trial Attorney in the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section (CES) of the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division, where he investigated and prosecuted federal crimes related to national security, specializing in export controls and economic sanctions. Before joining CES, David served as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division where he oversaw the national security and international law portfolios. David began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. David received a Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University College of Law, a Master of Art in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Boston University.
Jimmy Goodrich
Vice President, Global Policy
Semiconductor Industry Association
Dave Hanke
Majority Staff Director
House Select Committee on the CCP
Mr. Dave Hanke serves as Staff Director of the U.S. House Select Committee on China, leading the work of the Committee’s 28-person majority staff in support of Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI-8).
Previously, Dave was a Partner at the law firm of ArentFox Schiff LLP, where he represented clients on matters involving foreign investment screening (CFIUS), strategic technology policy, supply chains, U.S.-China competition, and government relations. Prior to that, he spent over 12 years on Capitol Hill, serving in a variety of senior national security staff positions, including as a Professional Staff Member on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and as Counsel for National Security Affairs to Senator John Cornyn (R-TX, then-Senate Majority Whip). Dave was the staff architect of Senator Cornyn’s Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA), as well as the original staff architect of “secure 5G” legislation that was later enacted as the Secure 5G and Beyond Act of 2019. In addition, he previously served on the staff of the House International Relations Committee (Middle East Subcommittee), the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Committee on House Administration.
From 2004-2007, Dave served on active duty in the U.S. Army as a JAG officer, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom for 11 months in 2005-2006, during which he served as the Brigade Judge Advocate for the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). Dave received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University (Bloomington), as well as a J.D. from Indiana University (Indianapolis).
Jonathan Stivers
Minority Staff Director
House Select Committee on the CCP
Mr. Jonathan Stivers serves as Democratic Staff Director the U.S. House Select Committee on China. Mr. Stivers has more than two decades of experience in the Executive and Legislative Branches focusing on foreign policy including Asian Affairs, international development, U.S.-China relations, security, trade, global economics and finance, global health, democracy and human rights.
Previously, Mr. Stivers served as a Commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission, where he focused on the mandate of the commission to monitor, investigate, and submit to Congress an annual report on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, and to provide recommendations, where appropriate, to Congress for legislative and administrative action.
During the Obama Administration, he served as Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Asia at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In the U.S. Congress, Mr. Stivers served as Senior Advisor to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and Democratic Leader Pelosi.
Molly O’Leary
Director of Government Affairs
Semiconductor Industry Association
Molly O’Leary is the director of government affairs at the Semiconductors Industry Association (SIA), where she advocates on behalf of the association’s membership before the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch.
Before joining SIA, Molly served as Director of Government Affairs for NTCA—The Rural Broadband Association where she managed winning advocacy campaigns on behalf of NTCA’s 850 rural broadband providers, including work on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s $65 billion investment in broadband programs. Molly previously served as a policy advisor to U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) on technology, telecommunications, transportation, appropriations, and Native affairs. She is also a former judiciary and economic policy aide to U.S. Senator Al Franken (D-MN) for his position on Senate Judiciary Committee.
