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Shaping Debates on Technology Innovation
ITIF hosts a rich program of panel discussions, debates, roundtables, and conferences featuring distinguished authors, prominent policymakers, influential thinkers, and other leaders on issues shaping the course of technology innovation.
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Upcoming Events
February 26, 2025|Register Now
Broadband Beneath the Waves: Understanding the World of Submarine Cables
Join ITIF for a panel discussion featuring submarine cable owners and operators as they delve into the past, present, and future of this essential industry. Learn about the technological advances, policy challenges, and global implications shaping the world beneath the waves.
March 3, 2025
Tech Policy 202: Spring 2025 Educational Seminar Series for Congressional and Federal Staff
ITIF’s spring seminar course explores core emerging technologies and issues that are reshaping our world and, in the process, creating public policy challenges and opportunities. The course is open to congressional and federal staff only.
March 4, 2025|Register Now
Competition Policy in the Trump Administration: The Future of Conservative Antitrust and the FTC
Please join ITIF for a virtual panel with renowned experts who will discuss how antitrust enforcement might change with the new administration, whether the Trump enforcers will carry forward any of the neo-Brandeisian policies, and what the future may have in store for the FTC.
April 3, 2025|Register Now
From Rejection to Reform: Rethinking Globalization
Please join ITIF for a hybrid event presenting key findings from a significant new report and a panel of distinguished trade policy experts. Speakers will examine the failures of the last phase of globalization, the economic and policy dead ends caused by recent anti-globalization trends, and the principles and policies needed to shape a “Globalization 2.0” framework.
Past Events
February 5, 2025
The Decline of the “Anglo-Saxon” System of Capitalism
Watch now for a panel discussion with international experts who discussed why nations operating by the Anglo-Saxon economic playbook must abandon their reliance on purely market-driven capitalism, how they can reverse their recent declines, and what alternative systems policymakers should embrace to meet the demands of a modern, technology-driven global economy.
January 30, 2025
Scale Matters: Understanding The Economics of Global Semiconductor Innovation
Watch now for an expert panel elucidating the innovation economics of the global semiconductor industry, exploring how the industry is capitalized, and exploring the landscape of global semiconductor competition and policy in the year ahead.
January 21, 2025
The Worst Tech Policies of 2024: How the New Administration and Congress Can Turn the Page
Watch now for a virtual panel discussion with technology policy experts who highlighted and critiqued the most counterproductive tech policies of the past year, and considered how the incoming administration and Congress can turn the page.
January 16, 2025
Balancing National Security and Economic Competitiveness in AI Export Controls
Watch now for a panel discussion on the proposed AI export control framework’s implications for U.S. competitiveness, the global AI ecosystem, and national security. Panelists will discuss the risks of the proposed approach, explore alternative policy strategies, and discuss the path forward to balance economic, security, and foreign policy objectives.
December 17, 2024
Techlash 2025: The Outlook for Tech Policy in the Trump Administration
Watch now for an online presentation and discussion with Robert D. Atkinson and David Moschella, co-authors of Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths About Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy.