The CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Bridging the Gap are pleased to host the 2021 Future Strategy Forum, an initiative to connect scholars who research national security with its leading practitioners. Future Strategy Forum: National Security and Technology will feature a virtual closing keynote discussion with Rose Gottemoeller on May 11, 2021, in addition to three panels over three days exploring national security and technology, and a war game with Hoover Institution’s Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider.

This panel will consider the ways in which emerging technologies are shaping interstate interactions across the spectrum short of kinetic action, from statecraft and diplomacy to information operations, and more. Which elements of emerging technologies are driving cooperative behaviors, and which are driving competitive behaviors? Are emerging technologies increasing the risks of misperception and miscalculation or contributing to deterrence? How successful have efforts been to establish laws or norms governing the use of emerging technologies? Does the emergence of these technologies suggest a need to restructure the national security apparatus and the responsibilities assigned to different bureaucracies? How does emerging technology impact the relationship between states and non-state actors, like private sector companies?

Moderator:
Suzanne Spaulding
Senior Adviser, Homeland Security, International Security Program
 
Panelists:
Camille Stewart
Head of Security Policy, Google Play & Android, Google

Ginny Badanes
Director of Strategic Projects, Cybersecurity and Democracy, Microsoft

Christie Lawrence
Director, Research and Analysis, National Commission on Artificial Intelligence

Sanne Verschuren
PhD Candidate, Brown University