New Data Solutions for the China S&T Challenge

On Wednesday, May 19 and Thursday, May 20 at 8 a.m. EST, join us for a 2-day online workshop hosted by Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center Intelligence Project, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Innovation Initiative, and The Center for Advanced Defense Studies.

The last decade has seen dramatic alterations in the international security environment. China is seeking to dominate emergent technologies and gain advantage over the traditional liberal economies through both rapid development of domestic innovation eco-systems and large scale, organized networks for licit and illicit acquisition of foreign technologies. Activities by state and non-state actors across the world’s digitized infrastructure produce ever increasing volumes of data, which can be collected, interpreted and acted upon.

Traditional intelligence collection paradigms are ill-configured for a borderless, digital age. Understanding the nature and scale of competition with China will require data collection sensors, advanced analytical tools, and data-literate analysts. It will demand innovative partnerships between industry, academia and government.

This two-day conference will bring together practitioners from academia, industry, government, and civil society for the first time to begin charting concrete solutions to problems hindering the adoption of data into defense and intelligence awareness.