About GLOBSEC GeoTech Center
Mission:
Our mission is two-fold:
- To help accelerate Europe: We seek to help Europe increase its capacity to create, shape, scale, and absorb critical technologies in order to accelerate the capacity of Europe to be globally competitive.
- To help align Europe and the U.S.: We work to foster transatlantic convergence on geotech issues in order to limit, reduce, and bridge the widening multisector technology gap between Europe and the U.S.
Our mission is based on the understanding that Europe’s ability to develop and integrate tech and digital solutions will be just as critical to its competitiveness and global influence as its efforts to regulate them. We also recognize that a joint transatlantic approach that enshrines democratic norms will significantly increase both U.S. and Europe’s capacity to face international rivals.
Leadership:
The GLOBSEC GeoTech Center is led by General John R. Allen.
The Center will intellectually and administratively run from Washington D.C. while relying on experts and contributors located throughout Europe. The Center will be embedded in the work of GLOBSEC US Foundation.
Our work is structured around three lines of effort:
- Software for national security
- Digital technologies for democracy
- Critical enabling infrastructure (including data centers, energy sources, supply chains, regulator frameworks, computational infrastructure)
Each of these lines of effort will also examine specific areas where Europe and the U.S. can and should seek global partners and suggest ways how these partnerships can be built and organized.
How we will do it
The center will work to achieve these broader goals by:
- conducting research and making informed policy recommendations
- informing the thinking of policy, tech and business communities
- building a network of innovators, policy makers, business leaders, tech experts, and civil society with the goal to provide multifaceted perspectives, formulate better policies, and build strategic partnerships and alignments
- providing our convening platforms to stimulate a sustained debate and engagement between critical players
Outputs, formats, and platforms:
- Strong emphasis on public-private engagements in all our work
- Insights and policy recommendations in the form of policy briefs, publishable white papers, guidelines, memos, audio and visual outputs, and other related formats
- Private and public convenings of experts, practitioners, and policy makers
- High level convenings between public and private stakeholders
The Center will also run projects that focus on specific research and activities to more deeply explore the most urgent and consequential questions within the identified areas of work.
Special project: Prague GeoTech Summit
Prague GeoTech Summit will be an annual flagship event co-organized with H.E. Petr Pavel, President of the Czech Republic.
The Summit brings together thought leaders, policymakers, business leaders, and tech visionaries to explore the ever-evolving landscape where cutting-edge technologies intersect with national security, geopolitics, and geostrategic relationships.
Goals
The Summit aims to:
- make progress in building global norms and policies on emerging technologies
- generate strategies to position Europe as a pivotal player in developing and shaping emerging tech
- facilitate partnerships with like-minded partners on tech cooperation
Formats: The Summit will include interactive plenary sessions, off-the-record boardroom style discussions, alongside casual fireside conversations and special social formats.
