2023 Agenda
Wednesday, March 8
6:00pm - Welcome Reception
Thursday, March 9
Greenberg Conference Center, 391 Prospect Street
8:30am - Breakfast available
9:00am - Forum Introduction
Speakers
Oona Hathaway and Ted Wittenstein, Co-Directors, Yale Cyber Leadership Forum
9:15 - 10:30am - Session #1: Understanding the Cyber Threat Landscape and Challenges to Law Enforcement - A Special Conversation with Matthew Olsen, Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Moderator
Oona Hathaway, Co-Director, Yale Cyber Leadership Forum
Readings
Matthew Olsen, “Remarks on Countering Nation-State Threats,” U.S. Department of Justice (Feb. 23, 2022)
10:45am - 12:00pm - Session #2: Transnational Dimensions of Cybercrime and Cyberespionage
Panelists
Richard Domingues Boscovich, General Counsel, Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit
Samm Sacks, Cyber Policy Fellow, New America Foundation; Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School
Scott Shapiro, Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
Moderator
Ted Wittenstein, Co-Director, Yale Cyber Leadership Forum
Readings
Tom Burt, “Nation-State Cyberattacks Become More Brazen as Authoritarian Leaders Ramp Up Aggression,” Microsoft (Nov. 4, 2022)
Samm Sacks, “How America Competes to Win the Futures Versus China,” House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommitte on Innovation, Data, and Commerce (Feb. 1, 2023)
12:00 - 1:15pm - Session #3 (Lunch Conversation): The United States and China - Dueling Narratives
Panelist
Jing Tsu, John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures; Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University
Moderator
Oona Hathaway, Co-Director, Yale Cyber Leadership Forum
1:30 - 2:45pm - Session #4: Emerging Technologies and U.S.-China Relations - Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict
Panelists
Jason Hsu, Former Legislator-at-Large, Taiwan; Visiting Scholar, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School
Anat Lior, Schmidt Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in Global Affairs, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
Stephen Roach, Former Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia; Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School
Moderator
Ted Wittenstein, Co-Director, Yale Cyber Leadership Forum
Readings
Stephen Roach, “The Sino-American Tech Trap,” Project Syndicate (Jan. 24, 2023)
Stephen Roach, “Xi’s Costly Obsession with Security,” Foreign Affairs (Nov. 28, 2022)
2:45 - 3:15pm - Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:30pm - Session #5: Defend Forward and Active Defense
Panelists
Gary Corn, Director, Technology, Law and Security Program, Washington College of Law, American University; former Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel), U.S. Cyber Command
Michael Sulmeyer, Principal Cyber Adviser to the Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of Staff; former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Cyber Policy, U.S. National Security Council
Moderator
Oona Hathaway, Co-Director, Yale Cyber Leadership Forum
Readings
Gary P. Corn, Cyber Conflict: From Apathy to Action, American Bar Association (Jan. 6, 2023)
Paul Nakasone and Michael Sulmeyer, “How to Compete in Cyberspace: Cyber Command’s New Approach,” Foreign Affairs (Aug. 25, 2020)
4:30 - 5:30pm - Reception
Friday, March 9
Greenberg Conference Center, 391 Prospect Street
8:30am - Breakfast available
9:00 - 10:15am - Session #6: Disinformation and Influence Operations
Panelists
Caroline Agsten, Threat Context Lead, Digital Threat Analysis Center, Microsoft
Asha Rangappa, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Senior Lecturer, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
Jack Stubbs, Vice President for Intelligence, Graphika
Moderator
Ted Wittenstein, Co-Director, Yale Cyber Leadership Forum
Readings
Graphika, DeepFake It Till You Make It (Feb. 7, 2023)
Caroline Agsten et al., “Chinese State Media Rehashes U.S. Biolab Conspiracy Theories, This Time with a Ukraine Angle,” Microsoft Digital Threat Analysis Center (March 9, 2022)
10:30 - 11:45am - Session #7: Reflections on the Biden Administration’s Newly Released Cybersecurity Strategy
Part I: Inside the Office of the National Cyber Director: Strategy Design and Objectives
Panelist
Michael C. Hochman, Chief of Staff, Office of the National Cyber Director, The White House
Part II: Private Sector Perspectives
Panelists
Geoff Brown, Vice President, Recorded Future
Jordan Rae Kelly, Senior Managing Director, Head of Americas Cybersecurity, FTI
Sachin Bansal, Chief Business Officer, SecurityScorecard
Moderator
David Lashway, Partner and Co-Chair, Global Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice, Sidley Austin LLP
Readings
The White House, National Cybersecurity Strategy (March 1, 2023)
Rattray, Brown, and Moore "The Cyber Defense Assistance Imperative – Lessons from Ukraine,” The Aspen Institute (February 2023)
SecurityScorecard, Metrics that Matter: How the New U.S. Cyber Strategy Can Transform Global Cyber Defense (March 2, 2023)
11:45am - 1:00pm - Session #8 (Closing Lunch Reflections): U.S.-China Technological Competition - A New Cold War?
Panelist
Adam Segal, Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security; Director, Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations
Moderator
Oona Hathaway, Co-Director, Yale Cyber Leadership Forum
Readings
Adam Segal, “China’s Vision for Cyber Sovereignty and the Global Governance of Cyberspace,” NBR Special Report No. 87 (Aug. 25, 2020)