Futures for the Quad Regarding Technology Trends, Peace and Stability

This webinar will address futures in the Quad for critical technologies affecting ‘peace and stability’. The discussion will feature the internationally prominent tech specialist Mike Nelson, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Mike Nelson helps decisionmakers understand and address the impacts of emerging technologies, such as digital technologies, biotechnology, and machine learning. Prior to joining Carnegie, he started the global public policy office for Cloudflare, a startup that has improved the performance and security of tens of million websites around the world. Nelson has also served as a principal technology policy strategist in Microsoft’s Technology Policy Group and before that was a senior technology and telecommunications analyst with Bloomberg Government.

In addition, Nelson has taught courses on the future of the internet, internet policy, technology policy, innovation policy, and e-government in the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program at Georgetown University. Before joining the Georgetown faculty, Nelson was director of internet technology and strategy at IBM, where he managed a team helping define and implement IBM’s next generation internet strategy. He serves as a trustee of the Institute for International Communications. From 1988 to 1993, he served as a professional staff member for the Senate’s Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space and was the lead Senate staffer for the High-Performance Computing Act. In 1993, he joined Vice President Al Gore at the White House and worked with President Bill Clinton’s science adviser on issues relating to the Global Information Infrastructure, including telecommunications policy, information technology, encryption, electronic commerce, and information policy.

The webinar will run for one hour from:

2.00pm AEST 27 June (Sydney)

9.30am IST 27 June (Delhi)

6.00am CEST 27 June (Berlin)

12am EDT 27 June (Washington)

The Social Cyber Institute is pleased to host the webpages for this AICCTP project, as all six of the Australian team members are Fellows or Directors of SCI.