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- 20 May 2024
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- 8 Mar 2025, 12:37 pm
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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s The Sydney Dialogue is a world-first summit for critical, emerging and cyber technologies.
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The Sydney Dialogue is an annual summit organized by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, aiming to address critical, emerging, and cyber technologies. It highlights the widening gap between rapid technological advancements, such as generative AI, and the ability of governments and societies to regulate or understand these changes. The dialogue seeks to build partnerships and facilitate discussions between global leaders, industry innovators, and policymakers, with a focus on promoting diverse perspectives, notably from regions like India, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. The initiative underscores its commitment to exploring major technological trends, emphasizing the need for integrated policy responses to mitigate risks and leverage opportunities.
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An annual summit for critical, emerging and cyber technologies1/An Initiative byAbout the Sydney DialogueRegister your interestThe Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Sydney Dialogue is the premier policy summit for critical, emerging and cyber technologies.Technology is developing much faster than societies can regulate it or even fully absorb its implications.The remarkable surge in the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI), and the lack of any agreed roadmap on what the next breakthrough will be – much less how governments might respond – is just the latest and most profound demonstration of the growing gulf between the advances of innovators and the ability of policymakers and societies to understand and confidently adopt them.The Sydney Dialogue (TSD)was createdto help break down silos and bring together political leaders, senior officials, technology industry innovators and civil society leaders. It aims to promote diverse views that stimulate real conversations about the best ways to seize opportunities and minimise risks and bring more diverse voices into public debates.While the positions of the United States, China and Europe tend to dominate the global conversation, the world hears too little about policy thinking taking place in India, Japan, Southeast Asia and Oceania. TSD is also a place where new partnerships are built between governments and with industry, and where existing partnerships are deepened.TSD 2025 will explore trends in the most advanced and consequential technology fields including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum computing, biotechnology, space technology, hybrid warfare such as disinformation, climate and energy and critical infrastructure. We will look at the ways technology is disrupting workforces, upending economic and strategic power, splintering supply chains and transforming militaries.In addition to public sessions, TSD 2025 will also include a series of closed-door discussions, smaller roundtables and media engagements.Now in its fourth year, TSD 2025 builds on the momentum of previous dialogues, which included contributions from India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japan’s former Prime Minister, the late Shinzo Abe, Samoa’s Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata’afa, Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, Chair of the Special Competitive Studies Project and former Chief Executive Officer of Google Eric Schmidt and Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rappler Maria Ressa.Organisations and governments can find out more about partnership opportunities for TSD 2024here.Explore TSD 2021, TSD 2023 and TSD 2024hereto find out more about the speakers, sessions, side events and supporters that were involved in previous dialogues.Sponsor the Sydney Dialogue