Opportunities and Challenges of a Complex Future: NATO ACT Report Launch

Opportunities and Challenges of a Complex Future:
Launching ACT’s 2017 Strategic Foresight Analysis Report

Keynote Remarks by:

General Denis Mercier
Supreme Allied Commander-Transformation
North Atlantic Treaty Organization

A conversation with:

Maj. Gen. William B. Hickman
Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategic Plans and Policy, Headquarters
Supreme Allied Command-Transformation

Ms. Amy McAuliffe
Chair
National Intelligence Council

Dr. Michael O’Hanlon
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy
Brookings Institution

Ms. Caroline Vicini
Deputy Head of Delegation
Delegation of the European Union to the United States

Moderated by:

Ms. Susan Glasser
Chief International Affairs Columnist
POLITICO

The shift toward multi-polarity and a growing potential for major power conflict, combined with increasing populism, rapidly changing demographics, and emerging technologies, is presenting unique challenges to governments, militaries, and societies around the world. Allied Command Transformations’s (ACT) 2017 Strategic Foresight Analysis report identifies the key drivers of these global trends and their implications for NATO and the Alliance. The panel – featuring US and European experts on security, strategy, and foresight – will discuss how NATO and the Alliance can use insights from the analysis to help prepare itself for a future that is more complex, interconnected, and unpredictable.

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