Alex Richter is an undergraduate studying Economics and Political Science at UC Berkeley.

Andrea Gilli is a lecturer in strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews, an expert mentor at NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), and an associate fellow at the NATO Defense College.

Austin Gray holds degrees from Davidson, MIT, and Harvard. He is also co-founder and chief strategy officer of Blue Water Autonomy, an autonomous naval technology company.

Ms. Labowe-Stoll is a law student at the New York University School of Law.

Ben Fischer is deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies. He is a graduate of Stanford University and a Marshall Scholar.

Bob Gleichauf is a technical advisor and former Senior Fellow at In-Q-Tel, the strategic investor for the U.S. Intelligence Community. Previously, he helped develop products in cybersecurity, databases, and early office automation.

Bohdan Volyanyuk holds degrees from MIT and North Carolina State University. He is also a co-founder at Autonomous Cyber, an early stage VC-backed AI company.

Mr. Boyd is a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. A former U.S. Army and Marine officer, he was director of AI-enabled warfighting capability development at the Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. He holds degrees from Cambridge, UC Irvine, and the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College.

Brandon Lee is a third-year B.A. Candidate in Economics at Yale University and a Research Fellow at the Next Frontier Seminar (NFS).

Catherine Horner is a senior at Dartmouth College studying Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.

Ms. Huntzinger leads responsible business and sustainability efforts at Palantir Technologies.

Dan Geer a Senior Fellow at In-Q-Tel. He is an electrical engineer, a statistician, and a farmer.

Daniel Silverberg served as national security advisor to former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. A graduate of Stanford Law School and Harvard College, he serves as managing director of corporate practice at Capstone, where he also co-leads the national security team.

Mr. Gomez is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, where he conducts research on East Asian defense issues and U.S. nuclear strategy. He holds a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Geneseo and a master’s degree from the Bush School at Texas A&M University.

Mr. Lin-Greenberg is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gabriel Diamond is a fellow at the Yorktown Institute. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Mr. Diamond holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University.

Mr. Bogden is an associate at White & Case. He was formerly a George F. Kennan Fellow at the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Strategy & Policy Fellow at the Smith Richardson Foundation, and a Senior Visiting Researcher at Bard College. Previously, he served as the German Marshall Fund’s Helmut Schmidt Fellow, based in Berlin. He holds DPhil in international relations from the University of Oxford, a JD from New York University School of Law, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University. He is a Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of Chatham House and IISS.

Mr. Helberg is a research fellow at the Palantir Foundation and the author of The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power (2021). He was appointed as a commissioner of the bipartisan U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission in 2022 by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Mr. Olidort is Director of Research at the Gemunder Center for Defense & Strategy at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA).

Mr. Birdwell is pursuing an M.A. in East Asian Studies at Stanford University, where he focuses on the role of AI in national security.

Mr. Parello-Plesner is Executive Director at the Alliance of Democracies Foundation in Copenhagen founded by former NATO Secretary General and Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He served as the senior advisor on China and Northeast Asia to the Danish Foreign Ministry from 2005-2009. Parello-Plesner recently published The Battle for Taiwan, a book that argues that the free world should defend Taiwan. He co-authored with Rasmussen a chapter for Matt Pottinger’s recent book on Taiwan The Boiling Moat.

Jordan Hirsch is a senior counselor to the CEO of Palantir Technologies. He is also a senior fellow in the Technology, Security, and Global Affairs Program at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Hirsch holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Joshua Levine is the manager of technology policy at the Foundation for American Innovation, a San Francisco-based think tank. He holds a B.A. in Political Economy from Tulane University.

Karman Lucero is an Associate Research Scholar and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. He has a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College, Columbia University.

Kazumi Hoshino-Macdonald is currently pursuing a J.D. as well as a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University, as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. Hoshino-Macdonald was also a fellow at Taiwan’s National Institute for Cyber Security and an International Strategy Forum Fellow at Schmidt Futures. Hoshino-Macdonald also holds a B.A. in international development studies from McGill University and was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, receiving an M.Phil. in International Relations.

Keegan McBride is a lecturer in AI, government, and policy at the Oxford Internet Institute and an adjunct senior fellow in national security and technology at the Center for a New American Security. He holds an MSc and a PhD from Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia.

Lieutenant (j.g) Andrew Song is a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer assigned to the USS Nevada (SSBN-733). He is a 2025 Dubik Fellow for the U.S. Army.

Ms. Lu is an undergraduate student at Stanford University, where she focuses on U.S.-China relations.

Mary Julia Koch is a freelance journalist and a reporter for The New York Sun. She focuses on foreign policy and higher education, and her writing has been featured in Air Mail and The Free Press. Mary Julia graduated with a B.A. in history from Harvard University, where she was Editor-In-Chief of The Harvard Independent.

Mauro Gilli is senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH-Zürich) and has consulted for private and public organizations, including the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment.

Michael Wang is a vice president on the national security team at Capstone. He holds an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. from George Washington University.

Mike Watson is the associate director of Hudson Institute’s Center for the Future of Liberal Society. He holds a BA in history from the University of Virginia and an MA in security policy studies from George Washington University.

Mr. Rasmussen is a professor in International Relations at the University of Copenhagen.

Mr. Samten works as an investment associate at a hedge fund in London, with a research focus on the intersection of finance and geopolitics.

Mohamed Suliman is a senior disinformation researcher at Northeastern University’s Civic AI Lab. He holds a degree in engineering from the University of Khartoum.

Seth Cropsey is the president of the Yorktown Institute. He served as a naval officer and deputy Undersecretary of the Navy and is the author of Mayday and Seablindness.

Talha Güney is an MA candidate in International Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), specializing in geopolitics and technology. He holds a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Mannheim. Previously, Güney was a young cyber fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Milonopoulos is assistant professor in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College.

Ms. Saade is a graduate student at Stanford University and an adjunct cyber and AI policy fellow at the Institute for Security and Technology.

Yi-Ting Lien is a former staffer on Taiwan’s National Security Council and was previously a campaign spokesperson for President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan. She holds an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School, an M.S. from the London School of Economics in Communications and Media Studies, and a B.A. in Sociology from National Taiwan University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at University College London in Political Science.

Ziya Hasanli is an independent researcher based in Warsaw, Poland, whose interests range from political history and philosophy to contemporary geopolitics and the political implications of emerging technology.