Navigating toward Resilience: Technological Gamechangers

Disruptive and emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence, bioengineering, autonomous systems, and quantum computing—present substantial challenges and opportunities to the United States and its allies. To ensure the resilience of deterrence and defense, as well as of civil society, it is critical that allies continue to assess how these technologies could affect security. 

Join Hudson Institute and the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Euro-Atlantic Resilience Centre (E-ARC) for a workshop on how the US and its allies should address the promises and perils of emerging technologies.

The event will consist of two panels held simultaneously in Washington, DC, and Bucharest, Romania, which will be simulcast.

Agenda

All times in EDT.

Welcome Address

• H.E. Dan-Andrei Muraru, Ambassador of Romania to the United States
• Luke Coffey, Senior Fellow

10:00 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.: Opening Remarks 

• Gen. Daniel Petrescu, Chief of Defence Staff, Romania

10:05 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.: Keynote Speech

• Gen. Philippe Lavigne, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation 

10:35 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.: Break 

10:40 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.: Session One 

Washington DC

Moderator:

• Patrick Tucker, Science and Technology Editor, Defense One

Speakers: 

• Lawrence Schuette, Director, Global Research and Innovation, Lockheed Martin 
• Bryan Clark, Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology, Hudson Institute 

Bucharest 

Moderator:

• Sascha Fahrbach, Technology and Business Journalist 

Speakers:

• Patrick O’Neil, Chief Innovation Officer, Blacksky 
• Victor Vevera, Director, National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics 

11:35 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.: Coffee Break 

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.: Session Two 

Washington DC 

Moderator: 

• Patrick Tucker, Science and Technology Editor, Defense One

Speakers: 

• Peter Dombrowski, Professor, Strategic and Operational Research Department, US Naval War College
• David Myers, President and CEO, Ultisat Inc. 

Bucharest 

Moderator: 

• Sascha Fahrbach, Tech and Business Journalist 

Speakers: 

• Erez Koren, Director, Intelligence, Space and Cyber Directorate, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.
• Arnold Dupuy, Chair, Energy Security in the Era of Hybrid Warfare, NATO Science and Technology Organization 

12:45 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.: Closing Remarks 

• Liliana Filip, President, Political Research Group