Economic Espionage in Silicon Valley: Experts Discuss the Obvious and the Not-So-Obvious

​From indictments to arrests, headlines about spies operating in the Bay Area is nothing new. The world's most valuable technology is built here, and foreign intelligence services know it. Why then,  does it feel different now?

​Join a panel of veterans who have gone head-to-head with Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and other intelligence services around the world, and right here in Silicon Valley. They've worked these cases in the field and fought them in the courtroom.

​They'll cover the obvious and the not-so-obvious: how espionage really works, who is being targeted, what it looks like in a startup, a lab, or a boardroom, and why the Bay Area is one of the world's most contested intelligence battlegrounds.

​If you build, fund, research, or work in tech, this one is for you. Come find out what's really going on in your backyard.

​Speakers:

​Jeff Fields, Former Counterintelligence Deputy, FBI San Francisco

​Tom Moran, CIA Senior Intelligence Service, Executive Dir., Intelligence Project, Berkeley Institute for Security and Governance

​Ismail Ramsey, Former U.S. Attorney, Northern District of California

​Moderated by Andrew Reddie, Director, Berkeley Risk and Security Lab