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
Space's New Architecture of Trust: Inside the Science Diplomacy Summit Panel 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,
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.
The future of artificial intelligence will not be shaped by technology alone. It will be determined by the institutions capable of aligning education, applied research, policy, and global partnerships into systems that build trust and deliver public value. In this episode of The Global Lens: Science Diplomacy in Focus, I
