Global Expert Briefings

Join us for an engaging, practical discussion that takes the mystery out of AI agents and explores how they can help your credit team work smarter and collect more cash. Discover the difference between bots and AI agents and how they work. We’ll explore potential pitfalls and essential guardrails for successful implementation. Most importantly, we’ll explain how AI can help solve real-world credit and collections challenges, uncover opportunities, and turn outstanding receivables into cash. Whether you’re an AI novice or a seasoned power user, you’ll walk away with valuable insights and actionable ideas you can put to work immediately.

I’ve had more than 35 years working with credit and financial executives across a wide range of industries. I’ve organized and facilitated credit discussion groups, and advised credit executives on technology, process, risk management and collections strategy.

Finance leader with more than 20 years in multinational companies, including senior global AR and finance roles at Tyco, Verizon and CommScope. Track record of improving cash flow and collections by making better use of existing AR systems and automation tools, without waiting for major transformation programs.

Sanctions and export controls are not just a shipping department issue. For credit and collection professionals, they can decide whether a customer can be approved, whether an invoice can be collected, and whether a payment can be accepted at all. This session gives a practical overview of current U.S. sanctions and export control legal frameworks and how they show up in everyday credit and receivables work. We will discuss screening customers and their beneficial owners, key red flags in orders and payment instructions, what to do when a customer becomes sanctioned mid-relationship, and how blocked or frozen funds affect collections. We’ll also cover recent enforcement trends and the highlight where U.S. and EU rules overlap.  Attendees will leave with a practical compliance guidance that they can apply to domestic and international accounts.

Lizbeth Rodriguez-Johnson is a Counsel in Reed Smith’s International Trade and National Security Group. She has more than 20 years of experience advising U.S. and international clients on U.S. export controls and trade sanctions, including conducting internal investigations, audits and gap assessments. She regularly helps clients develop, draft and implement customized export compliance programs that reduce the risk of non-compliance while meeting their business needs. She also routinely represents clients in civil and criminal investigations involving potential or apparent violations of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and the trade sanctions regulations administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).