Tech, Trade, and Tensions: The Role of Digital Technologies in Times of Global Power Struggles

How can digital technologies serve as tools for diplomacy and international cooperation?Should Europe push for greater digital independence, or is collaboration with global tech giants as well as other regions of the world inevitable?How does the European Union balance their interests and workings with geopolitical pressures?How effective are digital sanctions as economic tools, and do they have unintended consequences?What are the technologies that our speakers are focusing at the moment, where should our attention and funding be pointed at?Marjorie Paillon, Presenter, Speaker, Founder, I Love ProductionsHenna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, European CommissionBaiba Braže, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Latvia