Technology Happens

What are the main contemporary technological trends and their drivers? What are the associated risks and opportunities for security and defence? Do we have the right tools and capacities within NATO and the EU to anticipate those trends, and then harness and exploit them to the benefit of security and defence? How are non-Western nations such as Russia and China catching up with the West in terms of technological power? Is the West able to prevent diffusion of most critical civilian and military technologies, in order to maintain strategic superiority, while at the same time some NATO and EU individual members pursue their own commercial and strategic interests? Can it do so without undermining its own strategic influence or industrial competitiveness?

Speakers

Christopher Coker

Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom

Mica R. Endsley

Chief Scientist, US Air Force, United States

Ben Fitzgerald

Senior Fellow, Director, Technology and National Security Programme, Centre for New American Security (CNAS), United States

Anna Fröjd

Senior Vice President, Head of Market Area Nordic and Baltics, SAAB AB, Sweden

Michel Rademaker

Deputy Director, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, Netherlands

Jaan Tallinn

Co-founder of Skype, the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk of the University of Cambridge, and Ambient Sound Investments, Estonia

Moderator

Oliver Väärtnõu

CEO, Cybernetica AS, and former Director of Strategy, Government’s Office, Estonia