How Current Legislation Affects Smart Technologies
This panel session will cover trends and insights into how currently passed and proposed legislation affects security technologies, focusing on prevailing legislative debates around artificial intelligence and data privacy, new laws passed concerning taxes and administrative actions on tariffs and trade. Panelists will summarize the areas that SIA government relations staff and members are focused on and what they have seen legislatively under the new administration and Congress.
Speakers
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Lauren BresetteSenior Manager of Government Relations, Security Industry AssociationAs senior manager of government relations at the Security Industry Association, Lauren Bresette leads SIA’s congressional initiatives among other duties. She came to SIA with three years of experience in Washington D.C., working on legislative policy, programmatic funding, regulatory issues and business development for defense, homeland security and veterans’ issues.
Lauren holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies and economics from Boston College, where she studied political conflict, environmental policy and Middle East/North African affairs, and has earned an acquisition law and policy credential from the Defense Acquisition University.
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Dave McCarthyProgram Manager, Government Relations, Axis CommunicationsDave McCarthy is an experienced public policy professional with a decade of experience in technology and government relations. After completing a B.A. in economics and political science from Florida State University, he worked in government advocacy at the federal, state and local levels monitoring a wide range of policy issues in the tech space. After working at organizations in the nation’s capital, Dave joined the government relations program within Axis Communications, where he focuses on a variety of technology issues facing the greater security industry. In his position, McCarthy oversees legislative and policy developments, manages collaboration with industry associations and works internally to ensure product line compliance with government regulations.
