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Nicholas Stanek
Join the Belfer Center for a full day of live, front-line policy conversations and interactive sessions on the issues shaping global power today.
The program opens in the Forum with a featured conversation bringing together Professor Nick Burns, former U.S. Ambassador to China, and Ambassador Jane Hartley, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and to France and Monaco, moderated by Meghan O’Sullivan. Together, they will examine how diplomacy is practiced at the highest levels today—how alliances are managed, where leverage comes from, and how diplomats are adapting to a more fragmented and contested global landscape.
An interactive Emerging Technology Demo Day inside the Democracy Labs. This is not a panel. Guests are invited to visits booths where Belfer researchers will run fast, hands-on demonstrations of cutting-edge work—from AI to biosecurity and defense and strategic overview—showing how these tools function and where they are already shaping real-world outcomes.
The day concludes back in the Forum with a live crisis scenario led by David Sanger of The New York Times, alongside Belfer experts. Set against a rapidly escalating international crisis in Taiwan, the session unfolds in real time, with participants responding as events develop. It offers a rare look at how decisions are made under pressure—across national security, economic stability, and alliance dynamics.