Navigating AI Regulations in Global Trade
September 16-17, 2026
The Westin San Diego Gaslamp | Westin Gaslamp Quarter | 910 Broadway Cir, San Diego, CA
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Day 1 – Wednesday, September 16, 2026
9:00 – 9:15 | Opening Remarks
Dave Allman, SIA Board President
9:15 – 10:15 | AI Regulations and Policy
Impacts on the ITAR and EAR: legislative and regulatory changes affecting AI, including congressional activity, DDTC, and DTSA policy priorities, interagency coordination, and practical implications for compliance programs.
Lindsay Wardlaw, Wardlaw Trade (Invited)
Joseph Khawam, Law Reform Institute
Industry Invited
10:15 – 10:30 | BREAK
10:30 – 11:30 | Licensing AI Technologies: Classification and Authorization Challenges
Hear from the experts about how to classify and apply for licenses for your commodities related to AI, encryption, and software.
Todd Smith, KYG Trade
Industry Invited
11:30 – 12:30 | Leveraging AI to Automate Global Trade Compliance Processes
Explore where organizations are successfully using AI today, lessons learned from projects that failed, building the business case for AI investment, measuring compliance effectiveness and ROI, and how to prepare for future regulatory scrutiny.
Jeff Sammon, TE Connectivity
Industry Invited
12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 | Export Control Enforcement: AI Under the Microscope
Learn about current enforcement trends involving advanced computing, AI technologies, cloud access models, and semiconductor-related exports, along with lessons from recent investigations.
Industry Invited
2:30 – 3:30 | Voluntary Self Disclosures: AI as a Tool for Compliance, Internal Review, and Mitigation
Look at the role of AI in identifying and investigating potential violations, how to structure an effective voluntary self-disclosure, internal review best practices, mitigating factors and enforcement outcomes, and balancing speed with accuracy in AI-assisted reviews.
Heather Sellew, Covington
Tahlia Townsend, Holland & Knight (Invited)
Industry Invited
3:30 – 4:00 | BREAK
4:00 - 5:00 | From the Ground Up: Building and Scaling Export Compliance Programs with AI
This panel will explore governance frameworks for internal AI deployment, risk-based approval models, human oversight requirements, managing model bias and hallucinations, documentation and defensibility, and internal audit and compliance monitoring.
Kelley Paradis, PWC
Industry Invited
5:00 PM | Wrap Up & Adjourn
Day 2 – Thursday, September 17, 2026
9:00 | Opening Remarks
Dave Allman, SIA Board President
9:05 – 10:00 | The Future of AI Regulations in the
U.S.-China Technology Race
Addressing strategic competition and export
control policy, Entity List and end-use/end-user controls affecting AI and
semiconductors, outbound investment restrictions, allied coordination and
multilateral controls, and scenario planning for compliance programs.
Industry Invited
10:00– 11:00 | Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, and Trade
Compliance
This panel will cover export-controlled technical data in cloud
environments, data residency and cross-border access, remote work challenges,
AI model security, protecting training data and model weights, regulatory
expectations for cybersecurity controls, and compliance integration with IT and
security teams.
Nancy Draper Schaefer, Microsoft
11:00– 12:00 | Conducting Assessments in an Evolving
Trade Compliance Landscape
Hear about designing risk-based compliance
assessments, incorporating AI-related risk into audit scope, assessing
third-party and supply chain exposure, benchmarking against peer programs, and
translating assessment findings into program improvements.
Ed Bond, IBM
12:00 | Conference Wrap-Up