Last week I attended the BIS Update conference in Washington, D.C. For those of you that are not familiar, the Update conference, put on by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), is an annual conference of nearly 1,000 export compliance professionals, government officials, attorneys and business leaders who assemble in DC to network and learn about changes in US export policy. The world... Read moreLast week I attended the BIS Update conference in Washington, D.C. For those of you that are not familiar, the Update conference, put on by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), is an annual conference of nearly 1,000 export compliance professionals, government officials, attorneys and business leaders who assemble in DC to network and learn about changes in US export policy. The world economy as we know it would not exist without this tight knit community who essentially shepherd the export of US-origin products through a maze of Commerce Department regulations to eager customers around the world. View page