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The Centre organizes conferences, workshops, seminars, and executive sessions with leading researchers and representatives from technology companies and public bodies around the world. Browse our upcoming and past events below or sign up to our newsletter and event notifications.

Upcoming Events

Past Events: 2019

East-West Technology Conflict

“Information Security” versus “Cybersecurity”: Conceptual Challenges

When AI Ethics Goes Astray: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles

Social Media Polarization Over Brexit

Sean McFate's "Goliath: Why the West Isn’t Winning And What We Must Do About It" Book Launch

Trading with Adversaries: Policy Solutions for Supply Chain Security

“Future Skies" Workshop: Private Industry and Public Policies Shaping the Space Sector

The Future of Cybersecurity and Privacy: A Discussion with Bruce Schneier

Workshop on Digital/Frontier Technologies and International Development

Drawing the Line: Cyber Mercenary or Cyber Threat Intelligence Provider?

Being a Part of the Problem: Innovation Within Government

The International Politics of Cyber

A Spectrum of Offensive Cyber Operations

Online Manipulation of the US Elections: The First Dozen Years

AI Adoption Strategies

Life of an Incident

The Politics of Publicly Attributing Cyber Incidents

Hinkley Point C: Value for Money?

Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime

GCHQ at the Heart of National Security for 100 Years – Helping to Keep Us All Safe

Corporate Boards and AI Adoption in Financial Services

AI and Ethics: The European Approach

Moral Manoeuvres: Cybersecurity in Egypt and the Gulf States

The New Cold War Online and Offline

Past Events: 2018

Is Algorithmic Justice an Oxymoron?

Will European Cybersecurity Policy Deliver Strategic Autonomy and Cyber Sovereignty?

Persistent Engagement in Cyberspace

The Politics and Technology of Cyber Security

"Cybersecurity: Frontiers of Strategy and Policy" Executive Education Programme

Russian Revisionism and Cyberspace

AI and Ethics

Cryptocurrencies: Toward a Privacy-Enhancing Electronic Value Exchange

War & Peace and Space

Why Quantum Computing Will Not Destabilize International Security: The Political Logic of Cryptology

1st "Robotic Skies" Workshop: The Role of Private Industry and Public Policy in Shaping the Drones Industry

Avoiding Tragedy: Promoting Space Sustainability Through Global Space Governance

Social Impact Careers: Workshop on Exponential Technologies

Scott Sagan on Challenges to Non-Combatant Immunity

Propaganda, Misinformation, "Fake News", and what to do about it

Free, Open, Peaceful and Secure: Applying the UK's New 'Fusion Doctrine' in Cyberspace

State-Sponsored Hacktivism: Attributing Cyber Information Operations Using Hacktivist Personas

AI, the Study of International Affairs, and the Art of Governance

Workshop on Applied AI

Cyber Weapons: What Are They Good For?

From ICBMs to Instagram: The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Nuclear Escalation and Arms Control

Breaking the Privacy Barrier: Big Data Style Analytics Using Secure Computing

“Delayed Disclosure”: National Security, Whistle-blowers and the Crisis of Secrecy

The Birth of a New Asset Class: Crypto Assets

Applied AI for Organizational Yield

Chinese "People’s Diplomacy" Before and After the Bomb: The Impact of Chinese Nuclearization on State-Sponsored Engagement with Transnational Epistemic Networks

Weird Machines, Exploitability, and Provable Unexploitability

Past Events: 2017

Governance and Leadership in the EU's Digital Single Market

Singularity on the Battlefield? AI, US-China Competition, and the Future of Warfare

Technology, Security, and Regime Survival in North Korea

How Will Technology Change Our Lives in Europe?

Book Launch: The Virtual Weapon and International Order

The Sixth Oxford Training Session on the Modern Information Society

Workshop on the Meaning and Practice of Collective Defence in the Cyber Domain

The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence from Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom

Nuclear Prominence and Cyber Persistence: The dynamics of 21st century international security

The Fifth Oxford Training Session on the Modern Information Society

Towards Property-Owning Democracy by Private Property of Personal Data

European Cybersecurity: Future Trends and Policy Challenges

Past Events: 2016

Book Workshop: The Virtual Weapon and International Order

The Human Story of Cybernetics

The Fourth Oxford Training Session on the Modern Information Society

DPIR at the Alumni Weekend: The Cyber Threat: Problems of Strategic Adaptation

Data Science and Big Data in the Public Sector

UK Cyber Security – Next Steps

Cybersecurity and the Future of the European Union

Europe and Innovation

The Third Oxford Training Session on the Modern Information Society

Past Events: 2015

Architecting Estonia: A Systems Architecture Perspective on Digital Government

The Second Oxford Training Session on the Modern Information Society