USCIB and the Transatlantic Policy Network Host Conference on Transatlantic Relations

Whitney Baird and Andrew Puzder (US Ambassador to the EU).

USCIB and the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) co-hosted a conference, Transatlantic Relations: Navigating Change, Building Bridges, Driving Growth, from March 23-24 in Brussels. The conference explored opportunities for US-EU bilateral engagement in 2026, discussing challenges in ongoing trade negotiations, the pursuit of common ground on regulatory simplification, and strategies to enhance economic competitiveness on both sides of the Atlantic. The event was generously sponsored by USCIB members ExxonMobil and Cisco.   

Several USCIB members were featured speakers, including Lisa Schroeter (The Dow Chemical Company), Bart Vermeulen (ExxonMobil), Rachele Ciavarella (Salesforce), Liam Benham (Boeing and Chairman of AmCham EU), Amélie Coulet (IBM Europe), Ania Helseth (Meta), Federica Rampulla (The Walt Disney Company), and Matteo Quattrocchi (Cisco). Members shared business priorities for transatlantic cooperation on energy, circularity, trade stability, Artificial Intelligence, and the digital economy, to an audience of over 100 representatives from US and European business, the European Parliament, European Commission, and US government. 

Whitney Baird, President and CEO at USCIB, moderated a fireside chat with Andrew Puzder, US Ambassador to the EU, to discuss the state of transatlantic relations at a moment of growing economic and geopolitical complexity. Alice Slayton Clark, USCIB SVP for Trade, Investment, and Digital Policy led a discussion on transatlantic competitiveness and how to achieve alignment on regulatory reform and simplification.