Events & Speaking

Washington, DC

The forum will examine where Chinese technology poses genuine security risks and where such connections might advance American prosperity, peace, and stability. One goal of the conference is to understand how China’s technology ecosystem actually works, including the role the government plays in technology development. Based on this more granular and accurate foundation, participants will assess where and how the two countries can connect securely amid low trust. Can the American and Chinese tech stacks be made interoperable without unacceptable vulnerabilities? Finally, how both societies navigating the shared sense of precarity that rapid technological change is producing? What common guardrails and approaches to AI safety and governance are needed?

Washington, DC

This China Tech Roundtable series seeks to bring together experts from disciplines that do not frequently intersect: China technology policy and U.S. domestic civil society organizations focused on tech accountability & justice at home.

Washington, DC

ABIS 2026 is organised by the Millennium Excellence Foundation, the trusted convener of high-level dialogue between Africa and the global investment community.

Washington, DC, The British Academy

The event is the second conference of the British Academy–Carnegie Endowment joint international policy program on Global (Dis)Order, held in Washington, DC on 1–2 June. It brings together scholars and policy experts for panels and a fireside chat focused on how current global upheavals are creating both risk and opportunity across areas such as US foreign policy, AI, climate and energy security, middle powers, and the changing world order.

London, UK

An intimate gathering of leading thinkers from across the world, this workshop explores China’s growing conceptual and intellectual influence on how major global domains are imagined and understood.

Washington, DC

Briefing: Community Forums, AI Governance, and African Contexts

Georgetown Law School, Washington, DC

Hosted by Georgetown's Institute for Technology Law & Policy and Student Intellectual Property Law Association. I discuss AI risks in Africa, surveillance challenges from Chinese tech expansion, digital rights solutions, cyberlaw developments, and key publications on digital sovereignty and postcolonial tech governance.

Wesleyan University, CT

Cables, Clouds, and Control: Digital Infrastructure and Sovereignty in the Global South is a lecture exploring how undersea cables, cloud systems, and digital platforms shape power dynamics and sovereignty for nations in Africa and Asia. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Kenya's ICT sector, it critiques risk discourses that deter Western investment while analyzing China's Digital Silk Road as a reconfiguration of dependency—visible infrastructure like fiber networks masking upstream control in software and standards. The talk highlights "stacked dependency," agency amid great-power rivalry, and calls for recognizing African states' negotiated roles in global digital accumulation.

Athens, Greece

Engaged in a Microsoft conference offsite in Athens (March 3–4), coordinating with senior leaders, including the President of Microsoft Global Affairs (national security, cybersecurity, and international government affairs).

Virtual, Meeting

I attended a follow-up consultation event with Pall Mall Process, which focused on good practices for industry to address the threats posed by the proliferation and irresponsible use of commercial cyber intrusion abilities.

Presentation at Annual Africa-Americas Forum on China,John Hopkins Bloomberg Center, Washington, D.C.

This panel will examine how Africa and the Americas can exercise greater norm-setting power in global AI and emerging technology governance—across areas such as data governance, digital public infrastructure, algorithmic accountability, cybersecurity, and cross-border digital trade. The discussion will focus on how policymakers can leverage procurement, regulation, and regional coordination to shape global rules, ensure technology supports inclusive development, and avoid new forms of technological dependency in an increasingly fragmented digital order.

Stanford University and Pepperdine University, Washington, DC

On December 9th, Stanford University and Pepperdine University will be hosting a reception from 3:00-4:30pm at the Hoover Institute offices in DC. This event will follow an earlier small group symposium ​titled "From People to Policy Makers: Perspectives on AI" with a small number of industry partners and policy leaders. The participants in the reception will include representatives from Meta, Microsoft, Cohere, DoorDash, PayPal, Anthropic, and others. It will also include Congressmember staffers, civil society (Center for Democracy and Technology; American Enterprise Institute; others) and researchers in the area of participatory AI. Because the summit has extremely limited space, the organizers wanted to make sure that stakeholders like you are invited into the reception.