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This talk examines how technological acceleration is transforming the nature of intelligence and reshaping strategic competition. In a world defined by data abundance, artificial intelligence, and rapid technological diffusion, governments no longer hold a monopoly over information or analytical capacity. At the same time, geopolitical competition has increasingly shifted below the threshold of open conflict, targeting innovation ecosystems, supply chains, and critical infrastructure largely owned by private actors.
Against this backdrop, private intelligence has emerged as a structural feature of contemporary security. The presentation explores how AI-enabled analysis, open-source data, and ecosystem-level mapping are redefining intelligence tradecraft and what this shift in dynamics means for deterrence and resilience in an era of hybrid strategic competition.
DANIEL BAGGE
Daniel Bagge is the Senior Intelligence Advisor at Strider Technologies, where he leads the Europe Intelligence Team out of London. Before joining Strider, he worked for 18 years for the Czech Government. He previously served as the chief technology strategist in the Czech Military Intelligence Service. Prior to this post, he spent eight years working for the Czech National Cyber Information Security Agency, which he co-founded, holding positions of Director of Cyber Security Policies Department and Cyber Attaché in Washington DC. He holds a master’s degree from the International Security Studies Programme at George C. Marshall Centre for Security Studies and is author of Unmasking Maskirovka: Russia’s Cyber influence Operations.
PHILIPPINE HÉBERT-LEROY
Philippine Hébert-Leroy is a Strategic Intelligence Analyst at Strider Technologies where she supports public and private sector partners across Europe identifying threats from nation-state actors including Russia, China, and Iran, and enabling government and industry to proactively mitigate the effects of economic statecraft. Prior to joining Strider, her research examined the role of intelligence in the contemporary Russian understanding of conflict and war. A University Consortium Fellow and Auditeur of the Institut des Hautes Études à la Défense Nationale (IHEDN), her broader academic interests include Russian hybrid operations across Western Europe – particularly in France – and the evolving dynamics of influence, coercion, and strategic competition between Moscow and the West. Philippine holds an MSc in Russian and East European Studies from Lincoln College, University of Oxford and a BA in International Relations from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.
