On September 26th, IPI in partnership with The Doha Forum, Stimson Center, and Global Institute for Strategic Research cohosted a policy forum on “The Innovation Imperative: Technology and the Future of International Cooperation.”

The policy forum, taking place during the high-level week of the opening of the UN General Assembly, focused on the findings and recommendations of “The Future of International Cooperation Report 2024.” This report, written in partnership with The Doha Forum, Stimson Center, and the Global Institute for Strategic Research, offers reflections and insights, following the 2023 Doha Forum, as well as puts forward ideas and recommendations to help set the stage ahead of this year’s Doha Forum taking place on 7-8 December this year. The report addresses some of the most urgent questions of our time, including the question: What are the institutions and practices – globally, regionally, and nationally – that are required today to harness technology’s full potential for the benefit of all of humanity?

The report examines both the risks and promises of technology governance innovations for global development in the AI/cyber-tech, bio-tech, and green-tech spaces, and for global peace and security in the domains of AI/cyber-tech, weapons of mass destruction, and outer space. For policymakers, policy researchers, policy advocates, journalists, and the broader international community, the event will provide an opportunity for a dynamic exchange on the state-of-the-art, in terms of both thinking and practice for using technology as a force for good rather than ill.

Following the Summit of the Future, taking place in New York earlier the same week, this event provided the opportunity to discuss the second edition of “The Future of International Cooperation,” in which special consideration is given to how technology and its governance can best advance and safeguard (or, inversely, erode and preclude) fundamental global development and security goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the quest for sustainable peace.

Welcoming Remarks:
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, President and CEO of the International Peace Institute
Mohammed Khalifa H. Alnasr, Deputy Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the UN
Ahmad Hasnah, President, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Opening Remarks:
Mubarak Al Kuwari, Executive Director, Doha Forum

Speakers:
Renata Dwan, Senior Adviser, Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Tech Envoy
Ashutosh Chadha, Senior Director UN Affairs and International Organizations, Microsoft
Richard Ponzio, Director, Global Governance, Justice & Security Program, Stimson Center
Nudhara Yusuf, Executive Coordinator, Global Governance Innovation Network
Carla Montesi, Director, Green Deal, Directorate-General for International Partnerships, European Commission

Moderator:
Adam Lupel, Vice President and COO, International Peace Institute