Tech, Trade, and Tensions: The Role of Digital Technologies in Times of Global Power Struggles

• How can digital technologies serve as tools for diplomacy and international cooperation?
• Should Europe push for greater digital independence, or is collaboration with global tech giants as well as other regions of the world inevitable?
• How does the European Union balance their interests and workings with geopolitical pressures?
• How effective are digital sanctions as economic tools, and do they have unintended consequences?
• What are the technologies that our speakers are focusing at the moment, where should our attention and funding be pointed at?

Marjorie Paillon, Presenter, Speaker, Founder, I Love Productions

Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, European Commission

Baiba Braže, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Latvia