Events

The 2026 Futures Summit offers an informed dialogue on the paths forward for U.S. engagement with the Global South and how to advance this new era of international cooperation. 

Join us for a discussion on the future of the transatlantic partnership. 

Scholars, policymakers, and industry experts discuss cutting-edge policy issues at the intersection of innovation, intellectual property, and national security.

Please join the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program for a discussion exploring the complex factors behind rising electricity prices and the role AI data centers will play in future rate trajectories. 

Please join the CSIS Aerospace Security Project and Missile Defense Project for a conversation about the Golden Dome for America.

Watt’s Law is the idea that the next decade of progress will be driven less by transistor shrinkage alone and more by how effectively we convert watts of electricity into useful computation through better full-system design, including accelerators, memory, networking, software, distribution via edge computing, and operations. Watt’s Law is not a law of physics and not a guaranteed doubling schedule. It is a rule-of-thumb about what is increasingly determining real-world AI capability, which is system efficiency and utilization under power constraint. For most of the modern digital economy, the United States has enjoyed a quiet structural advantage where computing kept getting better while the energy cost of using it generally fell. That assumption is collapsing, and countries that can mobilize power and compute at speed are on track to surpass us. The AI boom has pushed demand for computing beyond the comfortable world where transistors got cheaper and more efficient as a matter of course.

This will be event that gathers India’s leading power distributors, policymakers, and energy innovators to explore how cutting‑edge digital and AI solutions can transform the nation’s electricity grid.

Join the CSIS Global Development Department for the launch of A New Landscape for Development. This event will examine recent U.S. foreign assistance shifts and what they mean for the future of global development.

What are the implications of the 2026 National Defense Strategy for the Korean Peninsula? Dr. Victor Cha hosts a discussion with leading experts on this issue in The Impossible State podcast. 

In this episode of the AI Policy Podcast, Stephen Clare and Stephen Casper writers of second International AI Safety Report discuss the latest report with Gregory C. Allen.