Shahin Kohan Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale Tim Molino

Community: VFI is a free community for Microsoft partners who want to stay informed and involved on public policy issues that impact the IT sector and their business Platform: VFI provides a platform for members to champion positive policies and educate lawmakers about the technology industry—and often, thereby, grow their own businesses U.S. engagement: we’re composed of Microsoft partners in the U.S. and primarily, though not exclusively, in the SMB and public sector space Who we are Take your first VFI action at WPC Get your badge scanned by one of our staffers to tell Congress to “Fix the Talent Gap” Look for the VFI shirts! Act now Eager to do more? Contact your lawmakers and sign petitions on federal and state issues that VFI is following We provide quick and easy tools to write, tweet, and click your way into activism! Visit Do more

President, AIMS 360 / Focal Technology Solutions

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Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Services, International Trade Administration

Strong Intellectual Property rights and protections: Lead to job creation and economic growth Level the competitive playing field Increase the flow of technology Incentivize entrepreneurs and drive innovation

State AGs leverage unfair competition laws

Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiating countries: Transatlantic Trade and Invest. Partnership

Director, Policy, BSA | The Software Alliance

Of most organizations' value and revenue sources are in intangible assets, intellectual property and proprietary competitive advantages 75%

20% of counterfeit CD/DVD programs installed malware 28% of Web-based counterfeit had performance issues 36% of Web-based counterfeits installed Trojans and adware 78% of Web-based counterfeits installed tracking cookies and spyware

$127B in identification, repair, and data recovery from malware $364B in dealing with data losses 64% of these losses will be attributable to criminal organizations

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