CRITICAL MINERALS: 2025 YEAR IN REVIEW & LOOKING AHEAD TO 2026. 12/15, 9:00am-6:00pm (EST), IN PERSON ONLY. Sponsor: CSIS. Speakers: Seth G. Jones, President, Defense and Security Department; Harold Brown Chair; Jarrod Agen, Executive Director of the White House’s National Energy Dominance Council; Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Ranking Member, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining; Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Chairman, Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance; Representative Ami Bera (D-CA), Ranking Member, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific; Representative Young Kim (R-CA), Chair, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific; Rahim Bapoo, Managing Director, Energy Transition, Metals, Mining & Critical Minerals, BMO Capital Markets; and more.
LOOKING TO 2026: ECONOMIC PROSPECTS AND POLICY CHALLENGES IN THE GCC. 12/15, 10:00-11:00am (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Arab Gulf States Institute (AGSI). Speakers: Amine Mati, Assistant Director, Mission Chief for Saudi Arabia, Head of GCC Division, International Monetary Fund; Monica Malik, Chief Economist, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank. Moderator: Tim Callen, Visiting Fellow, AGSI.
CRAFTING A NATIONAL POWER INDUSTRY STRATEGY IN RESPONSE TO CHINA’S INDUSTRIAL WAR. 12/15, 1:00-2:30pm (EST), VIRTUAL. Sponsor: Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Speakers: Michael Brown, Partner, Shield Capital; Lt. Gen. (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Moderator: Robert D. Atkinson, President, ITIF.
ANNUAL CHIEF OF THE DEFENCE STAFF LECTURE BY AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR RICHARD KNIGHTON. 12/15, 6:30-9:00pm (GMT), 1:30–4:00pm (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: Royal United Services Institute. Speaker: Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton KCB ADC FREng, Chief of the Defense Staff.
AI GOVERNANCE: A DISCUSSION WITH REPRESENTATIVE JAY OBERNOLTE, FEATURING REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN HERN. 12/15, 3:00-4:00pm (EST), HYBRID. Sponsor: American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Speakers: Kevin Hern, Chairman, House Republican Policy Committee; Jay Obernolte, US House of Representatives (California); Jim Harper, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
