Digital Futures of Security

23 July 2025 19:00 to 20:00

23Jul

Military men using a tablet to operate a drone

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Part of Living Well With Technology series

Join us online on Wednesday 23rd July at 7pm BST for a panel discussion on the Digital Futures of Security, where leading experts will explore how emerging technologies are reshaping the global security landscape.

As cyber threats escalate and AI transforms intelligence and warfare, what will the next decade of digital security bring? How are nations adapting to hybrid warfare, and what ethical challenges arise in the age of autonomous systems? Can global cooperation keep pace with rapidly evolving digital threats, or are we headed towards a fragmented, tech-driven arms race?

This panel will bring perspectives from academia and industry to offer insight into the strategic, technological, and geopolitical dimensions of our digital futures.

This event is part of the Digital Futures Institute's Living Well with Technology series.

Speakers' Info:

Tony Reeves, Strategic Lead AI in Defence, Partner, Deloitte

With over three decades of experience in defence and national security, Tony Reeves (King's alumnus, MA Defence & Strategic Studies, 2003-2004) serves as a Partner at Deloitte, leading the UK & NATO Digital Defence Practice and serving as the Strategic Lead for AI in Defence globally. Tony's extensive and varied background includes service as a British Army Officer, a government advisor, and a business leader. His operational experience spans deployments in Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and Northern Ireland, alongside significant contributions to the military adoption of innovative technologies and working methodologies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and across the African continent.

Claudia Aradau, Professor of International Politics, Department of War Studies, King's College London

Claudia Aradau is Professor of International Politics in the Department of War Studies and Principal Investigator of the Consolidator Grant SECURITY FLOWS (‘Enacting border security in the digital age: Political worlds of data forms, flows and frictions’), funded by the European Research Council (2019-2024). Her current research focuses on how digital technologies reconfigure security and surveillance practices, and how algorithms and machine learning recast relations between security, democracy and critique

Luca Viganò, Professor of Computer Science and Head of Cybersecurity Group, Department of Informatics, King's College London

Luca Viganò is Professor at the Department of Informatics of King's College London, UK, where he heads the Cybersecurity Group. His research focuses on formal analysis of cybersecurity and on explainable cybersecurity, where, in addition to more formal approaches, he has been investigating how different kinds of storytelling can be used to explain cybersecurity.