11:30 - 12:30 | Woodrow Wilson
International AI Infrastructure: Opportunities and Constraints of the ICT Stack
This roundtable explores how the strength — or weakness — of a country’s ICT infrastructure directly shapes what AI can realistically deliver, scale, and secure in practice. Key discussion areas and participant takeaways:
- Understand the real enablers of AI adoption by examining how data centres, networks, cloud platforms, and terrestrial and subsea cables underpin AI development and deployment.
- Identify where infrastructure gaps create friction, limiting performance, resilience, security, or speed to market for AI systems.
- Compare national readiness to see how different ICT environments shape what countries can absorb, operate, and govern across the AI stack.
- Clarify cross‑stack dependencies between ICT and AI systems, and how those dependencies affect operational resilience and national security.
- Separate ambition from reality, highlighting which layers of the AI technology stack are realistically scalable today — and which remain constrained by foundational infrastructure.
Confirmed discussion leader: Darci Pauser, Economic Officer, Cyberspace & Digital Policy Bureau and Emerging & Critical Technology Policy Office, US Department of State
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