• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)
• Organising department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - ‘Technology, Security, and Regime Survival in North Korea’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jieun Baek (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - ‘Technology, Security, and Regime Survival in North Korea’
  Jieun Baek (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Singularity on the Battlefield? AI, US-China Competition, and the Future of Warfare
  All are welcome. Warm lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Elsa B. Kania (Center for a New American Security)

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Governance and Leadership in the EU's Digital Single Market
  Krzysztof Szubert (Secretary of State, Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs, The Government Plenipotentiary for Digital Single Market, Government of Poland)

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Breaking the Privacy Barrier: Big Data Style Analytics Using Secure Computing
  Dan Bogdanov (Cybernetica AS)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Cyber Weapons: What Are They Good For?
  Lunch will be provided from 12.15pm.
  Max Smeets (cybersecurity fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford University), and Research Associate at the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs (University of Oxford))

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - AI, the Study of International Affairs, and the Art of Governance
  Tantum Collins (Principal, Research & Strategy, DeepMind)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - State-Sponsored Hacktivism: Attributing Cyber Information Operations Using Hacktivist Personas
  Christy Quinn (Security Specialist in Cyber Threat Intelligence)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Free, Open, Peaceful and Secure: Applying the UK's New 'Fusion Doctrine' in Cyberspace
  Nick Dean ( Cabinet Office)

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Inside the (Real) Zero Day Industry
  Joseph Cox (Motherboard)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Accountable Algorithms: How to Make New Tech Work for Society
  Hal Hodson (The Economist)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Avoiding Tragedy: Promoting Space Sustainability Through Global Space Governance
  Nikita Chiu (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Toward a Privacy-Enhancing Electronic Value Exchange
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Geoff Goodell (UCL)

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Russian Revisionism and Cyberspace
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Politics and Technology of Cyber Security
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Danny Steed (ReSolve Cyber)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Persistent Engagement in Cyberspace
  JD Work (Marine Corps University)

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Will European cybersecurity policy deliver strategic autonomy and cyber sovereignty?
  Paul Timmers (University of Oxford), James Morrison (Head of Cabinet of European Commissioner Sir Julian King)

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Möbius Hacker: Reflections on Studying Shifting Identities in Cybersecurity
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Leonie Tanczer (UCL)

Wednesday 16 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The New Cold War Online and Offline
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm
  Edward Lucas (CEPA)

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Moral Manoeuvres: Cybersecurity in Egypt and the Gulf States
  Lunch will be provided from 12:15pm
  James Shires (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - AI and Ethics: The European Approach
  Roberto Viola (European Commission)

Wednesday 30 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Corporate Boards and AI Adoption in Financial Services
  Lunch will be provided from 12.15pm
  Clara Durodié

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - GCHQ at the Heart of National Security for 100 Years – Helping to Keep Us All Safe
  Sir John Adye (Former Director, GCHQ)

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime
  Jonathan Lusthaus (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Hinkley Point C: Value for Money?
  Simon Bittlestone (National Audit Office)

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The Politics of Publicly Attributing Cyber Incidents
  Florian Egloff (ETH Zurich)

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - AI Adoption Strategies
  Abhishek Dasgupta (Oxford), Steven Wendler (r4 Technologies)

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - A Spectrum of Offensive Cyber Operations
  Daniel Moore (iDefense, Accenture)

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - The International Politics of Cyber
  Alexander Evans (Cyber Director, FCO)

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Being a Part of the Problem: Innovation Within Government
  Alison Hawks (H4D UK)

Wednesday 12 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Drawing the Line: Cyber Mercenary or Cyber Threat Intelligence Provider?
  Stewart K. Bertram (Digital Shadows)

Wednesday 30 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Social Media Polarization Over Brexit
  Lucas Kello (University of Oxford), Alice Thwaite (Echo Chamber Club), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford)

Friday 1 November 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - When AI Ethics Goes Astray: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles
  Hubert Etienne (Facebook AI Research)

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - “Information Security” versus “Cybersecurity”: Conceptual Challenges
  Jackie Kerr (Stanford University)

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - East-West Technology Conflict
  Robert Hannigan (UK National Cyber Security Centre)

Wednesday 15 January 2020 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Regulating Autonomous Weapons: The Role of Timing
  Neil C. Renic (University of Hamburg)