Day 1

  • Balancing Dependency and Sovereignty: Building Australia’s Sovereign DNA
    — Can Australia Become an Indo-Pacific Tech Nexus?
    Pillar: Sovereign Capability & Resilience

  • Fortifying Critical Infrastructure: Energy Resilience in an Age of Cyber Uncertainty
    — Guarding Energy Sovereignty and Autonomy
    Pillar: Cybersecurity & Hybrid Warfare

  • AI’s Dual Edge: Sovereignty, Strategy, and the New Frontier of Conflict
    — Can Australia harness AI to defend its autonomy
    Pillar: AI & Emerging Technologies in National Security

  • Spies Next Door: Foreign Influence & Countering Coercion in the Age of Algorithmic Influence — TikTok to Campus: The Battle for Australian Minds
    Pillar: Countering Foreign Interference & Coercion

  • Day1 Panel
    Sovereignty in a World of Weaponised Trade, Tech, and Trust — AUKUS vs. Autonomy?
    Leverage alliances to counter weaponised trade and technology, to prioritise sovereign autonomy amid rising coercion.


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Day 2

  • Stewardship or Stagnation: Australia’s Role in Shaping Pacific Stability
    — Can a Middle Power Forge Unity in a Region of Competing Giants?
    Pillar: Regional Stability

  • Rethinking Protective Security for a Hyperconnected Age
    — Safeguarding sovereign assets without compromising innovation or trust
    Pillar: National Resilience and Security

  • Day 2 Panel
    2030: Sovereignty or Subservience? Australia’s Quantum Crossroads in a Fractured World Order     — Quantum leaps or quantum collapses?
    A no-holds-barred debate on partnering without capitulating, innovating with independence, and securing our position without fracturing relations.

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