At the 2026 Emerging Tech Symposium at Johns Hopkins SAIS, the panel on “Innovation Economies & The Business of Emerging Tech” focused less on any single technology and more on the commercial architecture that makes emerging technology possible in the first place. Moderated by Melissa K. Griffith, the discussion featured
At the 2026 Emerging Tech Symposium at Johns Hopkins SAIS, one of the most substantive conversations of the day focused on a question that sits at the center of U.S. economic security strategy: how trade policy, technology leadership, and industrial competitiveness are now converging in ways that can no
The 2026 Emerging Tech Symposium at Johns Hopkins SAIS opened at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., with a defining question for this moment: what does technological sovereignty actually mean in 2026, and how is it reshaping global power, policy, and markets? The opening panel, “Technological Sovereignty
At the Science Diplomacy Summit 2026, a panel titled Governing the Final Frontier brought together Frank Justice, Director of the Meridian Space Diplomacy Initiative, Victoria Samson, Chief Director for Space Security and Stability at Secure World Foundation, and Valda Vikmanis, Director in the Office of Space Affairs at the U.
At the Johns Hopkins Science Diplomacy Summit 2026, a panel on rare earths and critical minerals made one point especially clear: supply chains are no longer simply commercial systems. They are increasingly instruments of strategic leverage, industrial resilience, and geopolitical competition. The session brought together Mahlet Mesfin of the Stimson
This week, OpenAI released a policy document that reads less like a set of recommendations and more like an early blueprint for the next economic system. Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age | OpenAI announcement What stands out is not any single proposal, but the framing. AI is no longer being
The most important conversations in global diplomacy are not always happening in foreign ministries or at the United Nations. Sometimes they happen in a laboratory in Pyongyang, a research institute in Havana, or a conference room in Tehran, between scientists who share a language that can move across political divides.
