{"id":367867,"date":"2025-12-24T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/367867\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:17:09","slug":"a-year-of-gmf-technology-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/367867\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year of GMF Technology in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hosting Key Transatlantic Conversations<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot 2025-12-24 at 11.45.13\u202fAM.png\" data-entity-uuid=\"6dd46688-b3b8-435f-be3a-1300945c2596\" data-entity-type=\"file\" alt=\"Brussels forum\" width=\"1998\" height=\"1354\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Transatlantic Innovation Competition vis-\u00e0-vis China at Brussels Forum<br \/>At GMF\u2019s flagship annual conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmfus.org\/brussels-forum-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brussels Forum<\/a>, Frank McCourt of Project Liberty, Heike Freund of Marvel Fusion, and GMF Technology Managing Director Lindsay Gorman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EB5dShGxM4U&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gmfus.org%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discussed<\/a> societal values and tech competitiveness in European innovation. GMF Technology also led conversations on \u201cGrading Made in China 2025\u201d and evaluated the long-term future of US-Europe-China technological and industrial leadership in quantum, biotech, and AI. We also assessed 6G competitiveness by exploring supply chain risks and strategies for allied technological leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Picture5_0.jpg\" data-entity-uuid=\"f269d468-0a80-449a-81d0-e5ae30e7ce71\" data-entity-type=\"file\" alt=\"Lindsay's panel with Eric Schmidt\" width=\"950\" height=\"635\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Defense Innovation and NATO on Disruptive Technologies<br \/>At the NATO Parliamentary Assembly\u2019s Transatlantic Forum in Washington, DC, Gorman spoke with Eric Schmidt, former CEO and chairman of Google and chair and CEO of Relativity Space, for a keynote conversation on the future of defense technology and innovation in the age of AI. Schmidt and Gorman discussed NATO&#8217;s future needs, how Europe\u2019s tech talent is driving change, and how advances in AI could reshape the future of security. In Brussels, GMF Technology hosted a series of salon-style conversations on prospects for European defense innovation, cyber readiness, and quantum information technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/agora.jpg\" data-entity-uuid=\"400f30fc-b1f5-4b52-9a21-ec7d1f819b38\" data-entity-type=\"file\" alt=\"GMF at the Agora\" width=\"1139\" height=\"913\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Fifth Annual European Cyber Agora\u00a0on AI and Digital Defense with Microsoft and EU Cyber Direct<br \/>GMF, Microsoft, and EU Cyber Direct convened government officials, industry leaders, and technology policy shapers in Brussels for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-eu\/cyber-agora\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">European Cyber Agora<\/a>. The event focused on AI and societal resilience, cyber accountability, and digital transformation for security and defense. GMF experts examined the cyber implications of disruptive technologies through sessions on \u201cQuantum, Cybersecurity and Europe\u2019s Strategic Autonomy\u201d with Danish Tech Ambassador Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard, \u201cDefending Europe&#8217;s Subsea Cable Infrastructure\u201d with European Commission Deputy Head of Unit for Future Connectivity Systems Agustin D\u00edaz-Pin\u00e9s, and \u201cSkills for a Resilient Europe\u201d with European Commission Head of Unit for Digital Education Georgi Dimitrov.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tte.png\" data-entity-uuid=\"728e556f-ed49-4332-888a-9063c3b681e1\" data-entity-type=\"file\" alt=\"second transatlantic tech exchange\" width=\"1252\" height=\"770\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Second Transatlantic Technology Exchange on AI Innovation and Policy<br \/>GMF Technology kicked off its second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmfus.org\/transatlantic-technology-exchange\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transatlantic Tech Exchange<\/a> (TTX) for legislators with a conversation in Washington on transatlantic AI that featured US Representative Don Beyer (D-Virginia), European Parliament Member Axel Voss, and Virginia State Senator Michelle Maldonado. In December, the first leg of the TTX study tour brought a bipartisan delegation of tech-focused state lawmakers from Massachusetts, Utah, and Virginia to Brussels and Paris to meet with European policymakers and innovators on public interest AI and data. Supported by Project Liberty and Stiftung Mercator, TTX will host a delegation of European parliamentarians in Washington, DC and Boston in 2026. Conversations will focus on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmfus.org\/news\/minerals-memes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI value chain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hosting Key Transatlantic Conversations Transatlantic Innovation Competition vis-\u00e0-vis China at Brussels ForumAt GMF\u2019s flagship annual conference, Brussels Forum,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-367867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}