Keeping Pace: Policy in the Age of Agentic AI

Ryan Dattilo is a Partner at The Aquia Group and Executive Director for the Agentic Futures Initiative, a trusted legal and policy professional with more than a decade of experience advising and representing companies on some of today's most challenging and critical issues. Most recently, Ryan served as the Head of Competition for AWS Americas, where he led the development and support of public policy positions on competition and content moderation. Prior to AWS, Ryan served as the Chief Antitrust and Bankruptcy Counsel to the U.S. Senate and House Committees on the Judiciary, where in just four years he crafted and ushered the enactment of over a dozen significant pieces of bipartisan and bicameral legislation, including the first comprehensive bankruptcy reform in over 15 years. His work on the Small Business Reorganization Act earned him a spot on the American Bankruptcy Institute's 40 Under 40 list. A graduate of Miami of Ohio and Notre Dame Law School, Ryan previously worked at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and co-taught a class in distressed dealmaking at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Ryan Blaney is a partner in Jones Day's Washington, DC office. He advises clients on regulatory investigations, enforcement actions, litigations, cyber incidents, compliance, and corporate transactions in the areas of data privacy, cybersecurity, health care, and artificial intelligence (AI). He has two decades of experience representing health care entities, life sciences, private equity, financial services, retail companies, and technology firms. He has served as lead counsel defending clients in regulatory investigations conducted by agencies including HHS-OCR, DOJ, FTC, FCC, and State Attorneys General, and in quarterbacking responses to large-scale ransomware attacks and cyber breaches by nation-states. Before joining Jones Day, Ryan was a health care partner and chair of the Privacy & Cybersecurity practice at an AmLaw 50 firm.

Cynara Lilly is Chief Communications Officer at Hippocratic AI, where she leads communications, brand, and government affairs for one of healthcare AI's most closely watched companies. She oversees executive thought leadership, product launch communications, media relations, and policy engagement as the company expands its clinical AI platform across health systems, payers, and pharma. Prior to Hippocratic AI, Cynara served as Executive Director of Communications and Policy at Ballmer Group, where she guided investment in issues like early childhood education, housing, data and tech, and education. She also served as a Principal at RALLY, a communications and advocacy firm focused on U.S. and state policy.

Jon Nadzam has spent his career on the national security problems that artificial intelligence is now being asked to address, a perspective grounded first in government service. For the past three years, he has led Unstructured's Public Sector effort to deliver generative AI data infrastructure to the defense and intelligence communities. Previously, he led growth for several intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms at Sierra Nevada Corporation, and earlier spent 12 years in national security and diplomatic roles in Washington, DC as well as abroad in the Middle East and Africa. He holds a Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech and a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University.

Sarah Hudgins is Head of Public Affairs, Americas for Booking Holdings Inc., the leading provider of online travel services through five primary consumer-facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, and OpenTable. Based in Washington, D.C., Sarah serves as chief spokesperson in the U.S. and Americas, engaging with political and regulatory audiences to advocate for policies that make travel easier for everyone. Prior to Booking Holdings, she led the Global Government Affairs and Public Policy team for Search, News, and Geo at Google, and served as Amazon's Director of Public Policy for Digital, Devices, and Consumer Protection. Her expertise spans intellectual property, media and telecommunications, competition, data governance, and AI. She attended the University of Iowa and holds a Juris Doctorate from the Catholic University of America.

Landon Lerner is Senior Assistant General Counsel for Emerging Technology & AI at Intuit, where he works at the intersection of product development, business strategy, and frontier AI. He leads legal and operational strategy for the company's generative and agentic AI initiatives, partnering with teams across the Intuit ecosystem to build and scale AI-powered products. His work focuses on creating practical frameworks that help teams navigate complex technical, regulatory, and commercial challenges. Prior to Intuit, Landon established the legal function at Lime during a period of hypergrowth and global expansion. He began his career in complex commercial litigation.

Mary Alexander Myers is a trusted advisor for clients on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data privacy matters, and strategic technology transactions focused on protecting key intellectual property and data assets. She leads Jones Day's global Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection Practice and serves on the Firm's global AI and Innovation team. She develops strategic compliance approaches relating to obligations under the GDPR, CCPA, and other U.S. state and federal privacy and data security requirements, and counsels clients on data sharing and licensing, outsourcing and technology transactions, and data monetization. She also focuses on financial services and fintech matters, including payments, crypto, and derivatives, and represents buyers and sellers in domestic and cross-border corporate transactions. She serves on the National Board of Techbridge, a leading technology nonprofit.

Congressman Zach Nunn is in his second term serving Iowans in the Third Congressional District. A sixth-generation Iowan, Zach served almost two decades in the United States Air Force as an airborne intelligence officer, flying recon missions off the coasts of Russia and China and over 700 combat hours after deploying three times to the Middle East. He served as Director of Cybersecurity at the White House's National Security Council and currently serves as a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Following active duty, he served in the Iowa House and Senate before his election to Congress, where he sits on the House Financial Services Committee and the House Agriculture Committee, as well as the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. He holds master's degrees from the Air Command and Staff College and the University of Cambridge.

Colton Malkerson is Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at EdgeRunner AI, a Series A defense technology company building military-specific AI for the tactical edge, where he leads business operations, finance, legal, people, marketing, comms, and policy. Previously, Colton was Head of Enterprise Sales at Stability AI and worked at Amazon Web Services. Earlier in his career he worked in business operations at a seed-stage startup and for Speaker Paul Ryan and Speaker John Boehner on Capitol Hill. He earned his MBA from Stanford University in 2020 and his BA in government from Georgetown University in 2013.

Scott Courtney is VP of Engineering at GoDaddy, where he leads the Global Edge and Domains Engineering organization, with responsibility for the registry, registrar, managed DNS, and edge gateway platforms that serve tens of millions of SMB customers. He spent the prior 16 years at Verisign, ending as VP of Architecture and Infrastructure and the company's chief infrastructure architect. He architected the Agent Name Service (ANS), a production registry that anchors an autonomous AI agent's identity in DNS and public-key certificates, so a counterparty can verify the agent before transacting with it on the open internet. Scott co-authored the IETF ANS v2 Internet-Draft and leads the standard's contribution to the Linux Foundation and its enterprise integrations.

Dr. Rick Abramson is Associate Director for Digital Health and Director of the Digital Health Center of Excellence within the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In this role, he leads efforts to advance the development, evaluation, and regulation of digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence and software-based medical devices. A physician-executive with more than 20 years of experience at the intersection of healthcare delivery, technology, and policy, he previously served as Global Chief Medical Officer at Annalise-AI and held senior leadership roles at Covera Health and HCA Healthcare. Earlier, he was Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Innovation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and a Master of Health Care Delivery Science from Dartmouth College, and is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology with more than 80 peer-reviewed publications.

Debashis Das is a Principal in the Office of the CISO at Amazon Web Services, where he raises the internal security bar across AWS and contributes to national cybersecurity standards and policy development. His current focus areas include AI security and governance and the security implications of agentic AI systems. Debashis is a co-author of the AWS/SANS whitepaper "AI for Security and Security for AI" and was instrumental in shaping AWS's published guidance on agentic AI security, including its response to NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation RFI on securing agentic AI systems. He brings over 25 years of experience building and securing complex systems at scale.

Ryan Blaney is a partner in Jones Day's Washington, DC office. He advises clients on regulatory investigations, enforcement actions, litigations, cyber incidents, compliance, and corporate transactions in the areas of data privacy, cybersecurity, health care, and artificial intelligence (AI). He has two decades of experience representing health care entities, life sciences, private equity, financial services, retail companies, and technology firms. He has served as lead counsel defending clients in regulatory investigations conducted by agencies including HHS-OCR, DOJ, FTC, FCC, and State Attorneys General, and in quarterbacking responses to large-scale ransomware attacks and cyber breaches by nation-states. Before joining Jones Day, Ryan was a health care partner and chair of the Privacy & Cybersecurity practice at an AmLaw 50 firm.

A ninth-generation Arkansan, Congressman French Hill has represented Arkansas's Second Congressional District since January 2015 and serves as Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee in the 119th Congress. In the 118th Congress, he served as the Committee's Vice Chairman and as Chairman of the subcommittee overseeing digital assets and financial technology. He previously served on the staff of U.S. Senator John Tower and the Senate Banking Committee, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance under President George H.W. Bush, and as Executive Secretary to the President's Economic Policy Council. Before Congress, he worked in investments and banking for three decades, including as founder, Chairman, and CEO of Delta Trust & Banking Corporation. He is a magna cum laude graduate in Economics from Vanderbilt University.

Michelle Lease is Head of Platform Policy at Intuit, the global financial technology platform behind TurboTax, Credit Karma, Mint, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp. She joined Intuit in 2018 and leads the company's public policy and advocacy strategy on critical technology issues including artificial intelligence and data privacy. Her understanding of the global regulatory landscape is built on experience as a Privacy Consultant at Ernst & Young, where she advised clients on the EU General Data Protection Regulation and other data protection laws, and as Policy Counsel at the Application Developers Alliance. Michelle holds a J.D. from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law and a B.A. in Government from George Mason University.

Ted W. Lieu represents California's 36th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. Ted is serving in his sixth term in Congress and currently sits on the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees. He was also re-elected by his colleagues to serve as Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus, making him the highest ranking Asian American to have ever served in House Leadership. In the 118th Congress, Ted was the Co-Chair of the House's Bipartisan Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence. This Congress, Ted serves as Co-Chair of Leader Hakeem Jeffries' Democratic Commission on AI. Ted is a veteran, having served on active duty and then in the Reserve for the Air Force. He retired from the Reserve in 2021 with the rank of Colonel.

Justin A. Maturo is a member of Anthropic's Federal Public Policy team in Washington, D.C., where he drives the company's Democratic engagement with the U.S. House of Representatives on AI governance and emerging technology policy. He brings more than 13 years of federal policy experience, having served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director to Representatives Derek Tran (CA-45) and Mark Takano (CA-39), and as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense. A New York native, Justin holds an M.A. from the U.S. Naval War College and a B.A. from American University.

Ryan Dattilo is a Partner at The Aquia Group and Executive Director for the Agentic Futures Initiative, a trusted legal and policy professional with more than a decade of experience advising and representing companies on some of today's most challenging and critical issues. Most recently, Ryan served as the Head of Competition for AWS Americas, where he led the development and support of public policy positions on competition and content moderation. Prior to AWS, Ryan served as the Chief Antitrust and Bankruptcy Counsel to the U.S. Senate and House Committees on the Judiciary, where in just four years he crafted and ushered the enactment of over a dozen significant pieces of bipartisan and bicameral legislation, including the first comprehensive bankruptcy reform in over 15 years. His work on the Small Business Reorganization Act earned him a spot on the American Bankruptcy Institute's 40 Under 40 list. A graduate of Miami of Ohio and Notre Dame Law School, Ryan previously worked at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and co-taught a class in distressed dealmaking at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Daniel Kroese is Palo Alto Networks' Vice President of Global Policy & Government Affairs, where he leads the company's global efforts interfacing with policymakers, government stakeholders, and business leaders. He most recently served as the Staff Director on the House Homeland Security Committee, where he formulated and advanced a bipartisan cybersecurity agenda. He previously served as a senior official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and as Chief of Staff to then-Congressman John Ratcliffe. Daniel is a CyberScoop 50 winner, FedScoop 50 finalist, and Washingtonian 2025 'Tech Titan,' and serves as a visiting fellow at both the National Security Institute and the Auburn McCrary Institute. He holds an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Josh New is Director of Policy at SeedAI, a nonprofit focused on promoting national AI readiness. SeedAI's work spans policy issues related to AI and science, AI's economic impact, and barriers to AI diffusion, and helps educate policymakers on challenging issues in AI. SeedAI runs Accelerate Science Now, a coalition of over 80 leading AI labs, universities, startups, and research organizations focused on accelerating scientific discovery. Prior to SeedAI, Josh worked as a Technology Policy Executive and Senior Fellow of the IBM Policy Lab at IBM, and before that was a Senior Policy Analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

Matt Boulos is a lawyer and computer scientist leading legal and policy work at Imbue, an AI company building tools that put individuals in control of their own computing. He focuses on what technological power means for individual liberty, working across interoperability legislation, software licensing, and coalition-building to ensure rights and freedoms carry over into digital life.

Tiffany Guarascio is the Democratic Staff Director for the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In 2021, she became the first woman and mother selected to hold this position for the Majority in the Committee's 230-year history. Tiffany is responsible for working with Committee members to develop, manage, and execute the Committee's agenda across key policy areas. This includes leading minority staff efforts to pass legislation into law, conduct oversight of 16 federal departments and agencies, and examine critical national issues through hearings and investigations. She also coordinates with House and Senate committee and leadership offices on political and policy matters. Tiffany has over two decades of Congressional experience. The majority of her tenure on Capitol Hill has been spent working for Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ), one of the most senior members of the House of Representatives, who now serves as Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Tiffany earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master of Arts in Political Management from the George Washington University. She lives on Capitol Hill with her husband Matt and their sons, Arlo and Auden.

Ryan Dattilo is a Partner at The Aquia Group and Executive Director for the Agentic Futures Initiative, a trusted legal and policy professional with more than a decade of experience advising and representing companies on some of today's most challenging and critical issues. Most recently, Ryan served as the Head of Competition for AWS Americas, where he led the development and support of public policy positions on competition and content moderation. Prior to AWS, Ryan served as the Chief Antitrust and Bankruptcy Counsel to the U.S. Senate and House Committees on the Judiciary, where in just four years he crafted and ushered the enactment of over a dozen significant pieces of bipartisan and bicameral legislation, including the first comprehensive bankruptcy reform in over 15 years. His work on the Small Business Reorganization Act earned him a spot on the American Bankruptcy Institute's 40 Under 40 list. A graduate of Miami of Ohio and Notre Dame Law School, Ryan previously worked at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and co-taught a class in distressed dealmaking at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Ryan Blaney is a partner in Jones Day's Washington, DC office. He advises clients on regulatory investigations, enforcement actions, litigations, cyber incidents, compliance, and corporate transactions in the areas of data privacy, cybersecurity, health care, and artificial intelligence (AI). He has two decades of experience representing health care entities, life sciences, private equity, financial services, retail companies, and technology firms. He has served as lead counsel defending clients in regulatory investigations conducted by agencies including HHS-OCR, DOJ, FTC, FCC, and State Attorneys General, and in quarterbacking responses to large-scale ransomware attacks and cyber breaches by nation-states. Before joining Jones Day, Ryan was a health care partner and chair of the Privacy & Cybersecurity practice at an AmLaw 50 firm.