The Future of National Security and Technology
May 10, 2021 3:30 pm - 5:00 pmThe Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), are pleased to host the 2021 Future Strategy Forum, an initiative to connect scholars who research national security with its leading practitioners. Our forum will explore the implications for US national security, international security, and transnational conflict of technological developments in cyberspace, outer space, nuclear, unmanned systems, artificial intelligence and bio-engineering. Our experts will address pressing questions and advance cooperative solutions to the challenges of emerging technologies and international security.
Join us Monday, May 10, Tuesday, May 11 and Wednesday, May 12 for three days of programming:
MONDAY, MAY 10
Opening Remarks
3:30 p.m. EDT
Panel 1: Emerging Technologies and War-fighting
4:00 p.m. EDT
The panel will consider the ways in which emerging technologies are shaping the battle space and changing the nature of warfare. What are the most important emerging technologies for war-fighting? What impact will emerging technologies have on the traditional domains of conflict (e.g. air, sea, and land) and on emerging ones (e.g. space and cyberspace)? Do the benefits and costs of these technologies accrue differently to state and non-state actors, or across political systems? This panel will assess how prepared the U.S. military is to acquire, integrate, and adapt these technologies into war-fighting, and how prepared competitors such as China and Russia are able to do the same.
Speakers:
Ulrike Franke
Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Julie George
PhD Candidate, Cornell University
Evanna Hu
CEO and Partner, Omelas
Nina Kollars
Associate Professor, U.S. Naval War College
Sara Plana (moderator)
PhD Candidate, MIT
TUESDAY, MAY 11
Panel 2: Emerging Technologies and Statecraft
1:00 p.m. EDT
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?
Speakers:
Ginny Badanes
Director of Strategic Projects, Cybersecurity and Democracy, Microsoft
Christie Lawrence
Director, Research and Analysis, National Commission on Artificial Intelligence
Suzanne Spaulding (moderator)
Senior Advisor, Homeland Security, International Security Program
Camille Stewart
Head of Security Policy - Google Play & Android, Google
Sanne Verschuren
PhD Candidate, Brown University
Panel 3: Janne Nolan Prize Winners: Discussion of Emerging Technology and National Security
3:00 p.m. EDT
In 2020, as part of the Future Strategy Forum, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, in cooperation with CSIS and the Texas National Security Review, offered prizes to the best new scholarship from early career scholars in national and international security. Winners of the Janne Nolan Prize competition, Dr. Jane Vaynman, Dr. John Emery and Ms. Saher Naumaan will speak on their winning essays to be published this summer in a special edition of the Texas National Security Review. Their articles focus on the implications of emerging technology on arms control, the origins of political-military wargaming and issues around surveillance, security and privacy. This panel will also illuminate other technology-driven challenges in national security.
Speakers:
John Emery
Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Saher Naumaan
Principal Threat Intelligence Analyst, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
Rachel Tecott (moderator)
PhD Candidate, MIT
Jane Vaynman
Assistant Professor, Temple University
For more information on the Janne Nolan Prize click here.
Closing Keynote Address: Emerging Technologies and Nuclear Weapons with Rose Gottemoeller
4:00 p.m. EDT
Rose Gottemoller served as the Deputy Secretary-General of NATO from 2016 to 2019. Prior to this, she served for nearly five years as the Under Secretary for Arms Controls and International Security at the U.S. Department of State, advising the Secretary of State on arms control, nonproliferation, and political-military affairs. While Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance in 2009 and 2010, she was the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation. Presently, Ms. Gottemoeller is a Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute, as well as a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She will discuss the future of emerging technologies and nuclear weapons in her address.
Speakers:
Guest Keynote:
Rose Gotemoeller
Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Center for International Security and Cooperation
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Moderator:
Beverly Kirk
Fellow and Director for Outreach, International Security Program, and Director, Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12
Virtual War Game with the Hoover Institution's Jacquelyn Schneider
1:00 p.m. EDT
As part of this year’s forum, Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider, assisted by Ms. Rachael Shaffer and Mr. Benjamin Schechter, will host a virtual war game
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EDT
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