7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. - Breakfast & Networking
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Program and Q&A
Global policy and regulatory trends are impacting business strategy and necessitating improved risk mitigation efforts in organizations of all sizes. As companies manage existing products and services and seek new channels for growth, they need to fully understand the policy landscape and monitor the political environment impacting their business. The key question becomes: how do you navigate growth in an uncertain policy environment?
Carl Holshouser, a leader in PwC’s Strategic Policy Advisers Group, will address how businesses should proactively identify and manage emerging policy, regulatory, and legislative issues that could directly impact business growth. The discussion will explore how organizations can establish governance, processes, and metrics to create and measure effective government & regulatory affairs, public affairs, and compliance organizations that are rapidly addressing new risks. as well as how to imbed policy, regulatory, and legislative information into product, sales, and engineering teams as products and services are rolled out.
PwC
400 Campus Drive
Florham Park, NJ 07932
2 Collaborative Credits
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PwC, Director, Strategic Policy Advisors
Carl Holshouser is a Director in PwC’s Risk and Regulatory Practice and is a leader in the Strategic Policy Advisors Group. Carl advises companies and industry groups on strategically managing and navigating the rapidly evolving regulatory and legislative landscape as they work to innovate, create new products, and grow their businesses. Carl has a special focus on privacy, cybersecurity, data security, and the impact of regulation on product development. Carl is a tested resource and practitioner on adherence to and effective management of federal and state lobbying compliance programs and advises on risk mitigation of corporate political action committee activities. Prior to joining PwC, Carl served for more than five years as Senior Director of Global Government Relations at Visa, handling a broad range of technology policy issues, including innovation, data security, consumer privacy, digital identity, emerging payment technology, blockchain, telecommunications, and cybersecurity. Previously, Carl served at RCC Consultants, a global telecommunications, technology and engineering consulting firm, and Textron Systems, a global defense and technology company, where he handled technology and cyber policy issues. From 2007 until 2011, Carl was a Principal at Capitol Partners, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based government affairs firm. He handled budget, appropriations, defense and commerce-related issues on behalf of the firm’s clients. Carl also served as a Capitol Hill staff member in the offices of U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX) and Rep. Lamar Smith (TX-San Antonio). Carl is a former (2017-2019) Chairman of the Public Policy Committee at TechNet, the largest CEO-led technology trade association in the United States; the former Vice Chairman (2017-2018) of the board of the National Cyber Security Alliance; and currently serves as the Chairman (2018-2019) of the Information Technology Industry Council’s (ITI) Government Relations Committee.
