Science & Emerging Technology

The Bradford Disarmament Research Centre is an internationally recognised centre of academic and policy-oriented research on the proliferation and control of nuclear, biological, chemical and conventional weapons and the national, regional and global security contexts in which these issues are salient.

SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public.

Spiez CONVERGENCE intends to inform participants about latest advances on chemistry making biology and biology making chemistry, as well as the adoption of such advances by the bio-technology and chemical industries. Participants will discuss how such developments may affect production technologies for toxic chemicals, toxins and microorganisms and assess potential implications for chemical and biological arms control.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance.

INESAP is the International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation and was founded in 1993. It is a non-profit, non-governmental network organization with participants from all over the world.

The European AI Alliance will form a broad multi-stakeholder platform which will complement and support the work of the AI High Level Expert Group in particular in preparing draft AI ethics guidelines, and ensuring competitiveness of the European Region in the burgeoning field of Artificial Intelligence.

The ACA s a national nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies.

BASIC believes that a law-guided approach based on negotiated treaties and a cooperative security agenda is the only viable way to reduce weapons proliferation, terrorism and inter-state-conflict.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists informs the public about threats to the survival and development of humanity from nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies in the life sciences.

The Global Security Institute is dedicated to strengthening international cooperation and security based on the rule of law, with a particular focus on nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament.

The INES is an independent non-profit organisation committed to influencing the role and the impact that science and technology have on society.

Ploughshares Fund is engaged in an aggressive strategy to seize the unprecedented opportunities before us to achieve a safe, secure, nuclear weapon-free world.

The purpose of the Pugwash Conferences is to bring together, from around the world, influential scholars and public figures concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions for global problems.

The VERTIC is a non-profit organization established in 1986, supporting the development, implementation and verification of international agreements.