Please visit the event page for the 2019 Conference.

This full-day event provides an opportunity to learn about emerging trends in export control and trade sanctions.

Jean Schtokal, International Business & Trade Attorney, Foster Swift Collins & Smith, PC, will be presenting.

There will also be case studies and other updates provided by the FBI.

2018 Agenda

8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. – Lincoln Room

Check-in & Light Refreshments

8:15 a.m. – 8:25 a.m.

Opening Remarks – MSU Interim President John Engler

8:25 a.m. – 8:40 a.m.

Welcome and Intro to Academic Alliance –

• FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Timothy Slater

8:40 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Presentation of FBI Video - “Made in America”

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Case Study –

• FBI Special Agent Bruce Fowler
• MSU Police Department Detective/FBI Task Force Officer Kenneth M. Zimmerman

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.  – Break

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Case Study – “Purple Maize”

• FBI Special Agent Bruce Fowler

11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.  – LUNCH SERVED Big Ten C

1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.  

Biometrics – Professor Arun Ross, Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University

1:45 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Export Controls 101 – Focusing on Interactions with People and Organizations on the Entity and SDN Lists

– Jean Schtokal, International Business & Trade Attorney, Foster Swift Collins & Smith, PC

2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.  – Break

2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Export Controls 101 – Focusing on Interactions with People and Organizations on the Entity and SDN Lists – cont.

– Jean Schtokal, International Business & Trade Attorney, Foster Swift Collins & Smith, PC

3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act – Paul M. Hunt, Senior Associate Vice President, Research & Graduate Studies, Michigan State University

4:00 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.

Wrap-up/Closing Remarks

Registration is now closed. If you would still like to attend tomorrow's event, please email research@msu.edu.