(Transcript) 2025 LeadershIP Conference Opening Remarks & Keynote

April 4, 2025

This transcript is from the 2025 LeadershIP Conference hosted at CSIS on April 1st, 2025. Watch the full video here.

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Speakers

Dr. Kirti Gupta, Executive Director, LeadershIP; Senior Adviser, Renewing American Innovation, CSIS

Navin Girishankar, President, Economic Security & Technology Department, CSIS

Coke Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

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