2025Kharonglobal summit

Washington, DC | November 5, 2025

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SECURING INTERESTS IN A REDRAWN WORLD

Global trade and finance are being re-architected. National security priorities, accelerated AI disruption, and geopolitical realignments are converging – and legacy systems of strategy, risk management, compliance, and governance are struggling to keep pace.

The Trump Administration’s evolving agenda has upended policy assumptions. Meanwhile, AI is dismantling core business functions faster than most organizations can respond.

Amid this volatility, the Kharon Global Summit 2025 convenes senior voices from government, finance, technology, and the national security community. This is not a routine panel series. It’s a strategic forum — where leaders decode risk, untangle complexity, and map the future of commerce, enforcement, and influence.

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What to expect

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High-signal dialogue

Structured, off-the-record dialogue that clarifies threats and opportunities, surfaces blind spots, and accelerates strategic foresight.

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Strategic peers

Engage with those facing the same decisions you are, across policy, enforcement, and enterprise risk.

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Operational relevance

From export controls to sanctions evasion, AI risk to supply chain recalibration – the Summit reflects the real-time concerns of those managing strategy and risk at scale.

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Intelligence Sets the Agenda

The day runs on Kharon: structured intelligence informs each discussion, threading clarity and relevance through every moment.

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VOICES THAT SHAPE THE GLOBAL LANDSCAPE

Each edition, the Summit features the architects of tomorrow’s policy, enforcement, and industry strategy.

Check back regularly for additions to our 2025 speaker lineup, and browse past participants below whose work defines the cutting edge of national and economic security.

Sahand Boorboor

Sahand Boorboor

Global Head of AML, Sanctions, and Anti-Corruption Compliance

Citadel Securities
Matthew Epstein

Matthew Epstein

CEO and Chairman

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Dan Fata

Dan Fata

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO

U.S. Department of Defense
Janice Gardner

Janice Gardner

Former Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis

U.S. Department of the Treasury
Brian Grant

Brian Grant

Global Head of Financial Crimes Compliance Operations & Global Head of Sanctions Compliance

MUFG
William La Plante

William LaPlante

Former Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment

U.S. Department of Defense
Stuart Levey

Stuart Levey

Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer

Oracle
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Howard Mendelsohn

President, Global Business Development and Engagement

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Adam Ruff

Adam Ruff

General Manager, Sanctions & ABC Compliance

National Australia Bank
Rahul Dev Sharma 1

Rahul Sharma

Global Head of Detection and Client Insights

Citi
Brad Smith

Brad Smith

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control

U.S. Department of the Treasury
Adam Szubin 1

Adam Szubin

Former (A) Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

U.S. Department of the Treasury
Kenneth Wainstein

Kenneth Wainstein

Former Under Secretary for Intelligence & Analysis

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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The Issues That Matter Now

Topic 1
Policy as a Market Force
National security priorities in Washington are reshaping global business. Understanding policy, regulatory, and enforcement direction is now a core part of strategic planning.
Topic 2
Strategic Choices in a Shifting Landscape
Explore how business leaders are recalibrating and seizing opportunity in the face of global uncertainty, investment risk, and rapid technological change.
Topic 3
AI and the Future of Compliance is Now
AI will change how risk management and compliance functions operate – from faster signal detection to scalable decision support. Across our speakers and topics we will dive into multiple perspectives on how applied models are shaping the future of regulatory response.
Topic 4
Reinforcing the DIB Supply Chain
Security considerations for the defense industrial base and adjacent sectors are now front and center. The discussion will unpack how resilience and compliance are being built into complex supplier networks.
Topic 5
Generational Forward Thinking in Financial Crimes Compliance
As threat priorities are redefined and opportunities for excellence come into focus, risk management leaders at financial institutions are rethinking exposure, effectiveness, operational response, and approaches to AML modernization.
Topic 6
Disrupting Drug Trafficking Organizations and Illicit Fentanyl
The fentanyl crisis has made urgent the need to expose how criminal terrorist networks operate across finance, trade, and supply chains. Discussions trace the intelligence, priorities, and global coordination behind the response.
Topic 7
U.S. - China Competition in the Global Risk Equation
Trade, investment, and superiority in future technologies and military capabilities are driving headlines every day. See why managing exposure to China requires balancing access, risk, and competitive dynamics.
Topic 8
Human Rights in Global Manufacturing and Supply Chains
Forced labor enforcement is challenging how companies operate across jurisdictions. The focus is on visibility, accountability, and mitigating the risk of scrutiny.

/A Look Back

HIGHLIGHTS FROM PAST KHARON GLOBAL SUMMITS

In 2023 and 2019, Kharon convened senior regulators, CEOs, and global security leaders for focused exchanges on enforcement, financial crime, and the shifting landscape of international compliance. Panels addressed human rights risk, multilateral coordination, and the increasing fusion of commercial and security imperatives.

Selection of previous speakers at Global summit

Khaldoon Al Mubarak

Group CEO and Managing Director

Mubadala Investment Company

Stephen Biegun

Deputy Secretary (2019 - 2021)

U.S. Department of State

David Cohen

Deputy Director

CIA (2015-2017, 2021-2025)

Michael Corbat

CEO

Citigroup (2012-2021)

Dr. Liam Fox MP

Member of Parliament

U.K. (1992-2024)

Michael Milken

Director

Milken Institute

Alina Nedea

Head

European Union Sanctions Unit

Noel Quinn

Group Chief Executive

HSBC (2020-2025)

Liz Rosenberg

Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes

U.S. Department of the Treasury (2021 - 2024)

Daleep Singh

Deputy U.S. National Security Advisor

White House (2024-2025)

Giles Thomson

Director

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), HM Treasury

Robert Werner

Director

Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) & FinCEN, U.S. Department of the Treasury (2004 - 2006)

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Join us in Washington DC on November 5th

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$895USD

*This offer is valid until September 12, 2025.

Regular

$1495USD

*Registration closes October 31, 2025.

Reach out to us for group discounts, government and public service discounts.

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