Transatlantic Technology and Trade Forum

I host a Transatlantic Technology and Trade Forum where private sector experts and public officials explore digital and trade challenges and opportunities for the United States and Europe. Selected products from those involved in our ongoing work include:

Briefs:

• Reconciling Digital Strategic Autonomy with Transatlantic Partnership: A US–EU Agenda, chapter in Decoding EU Digital Strategic Autonomy: Sectors, Issues, and Partners
• Getting to Yes: Making the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council Effective, Daniel S. Hamilton
• Remarks to the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC), U.S. Stakeholders Roundtable, Daniel S. Hamilton

Topics:

ICT Security and Competitiveness

Policy Brief: 

• Forging a Transatlantic Technology Alliance: Opportunities and Challenges Related to ICT and Cloud, Daniel S. Hamilton

Background Papers:

• US and EU approaches to 6G, Ali Khayrallah & Hugo Tullberg
• Global 6G Initiatives – Research Landscape, Peter Vetter
• 6G – a (short) European Perspective, Bernard Barani

Climate and Clean Technologies

Policy Briefs: 

• Time for TACTA: Forging a Transatlantic Clean Technology Alliance, Daniel S. Hamilton, The Hill
• Zeit für transatlantische Technologieallianz, Daniel S. Hamilton, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung[in German]
• The United States and the European Union in the Climate Races, Daniel S. Hamilton
• Winning the Climate Races: Recommendations for U.S-EU Action, Daniel S. Hamilton
• Making the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council Work for Climate and Clean Tech: Recommendations for Action, Daniel S. Hamilton

Background Paper:

• Clean Energy Technology – An Opportunity for Trans-Atlantic Leadership,  Jonathan Elkind

Technology Standards in New and Emerging Technologies

Policy Briefs: 

• Promoting U.S.-EU Coordination and Cooperation on Technology Standards: Recommendations for Action, Daniel S. Hamilton
• Artificial Intelligence: Recommendations for U.S.-EU Action in the Trade and Technology Council, Daniel S. Hamilton

Background Papers:

• Identifying Common Transatlantic Principles for AI Regulation, Meredith Broadbent
• Opportunities for Transatlantic Cooperation on Technology Standards, Carisa Nietsche
• Policy Brief – Considering the U.S.-EU TTC Working Group on Technology Standards, Jeff Grove and Craig Updyke

Promoting Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) Access to and Use of Digital Tools

Policy Brief: 

• Promoting Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises Access to and Use of Digital Tools, Daniel S. Hamilton

Background Papers:

• Digitalization & Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Kathryn Lundquist
• SME digitalisation for more resilient economies, Marco Bianchini and Lora Pissareva
• SME adoption of digital technologies: a Transatlantic view, Stefano da Empoli and Giusy Massaro 

Advancing Supply Chain Resilience and Competitiveness

Policy Briefs: 

• Advancing Supply Chain Resilience and Competitiveness: Recommendations for U.S.-EU Action, Daniel S. Hamilton 
• Enhancing Resilience in Pharmaceuticals Supply Chains, Daniel S. Hamilton
• Enhancing Semiconductor Supply Chain Resilience and Competitiveness: Recommendations for U.S.-EU Action, Daniel S. Hamilton 

Data Governance and Tech Platforms 

Background Papers:

• On joined up law-making: the privacy/safety/security dynamic, and what this means for data governance, Victoria Baines
• Regulating the Globalisation of Data: Which Model Works Best?Erik van der Marel
• On New Regulation of Europe’s Digital Markets, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama
• Regulating Platforms the EU Way? The DSA and DMA in Transatlantic Context, Frances Burwell
• How the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council Cooperation Can Navigate Conflict and Find Meaningful Cooperation on Data Governance and Technology Platforms, Nigel Cory
• Can the EU and US find common ground on data and platform governance?Susan Ariel Aaronson
• US and EU collaboration on data governance and technology platforms, Paul Timmers 

Misuses of Technology to Threaten Security and Human Rights

Background Papers:

• Addressing the Misuse of Technology to Threaten Security and Human Rights,  Nina Jankowicz
• Transatlantic Approaches to AI,  Dominika Hajdu and Miroslava Sawiris

Global Trade Challenges

Background Papers:

• The changing nature of digital trade, current and future barriers and ideas to overcome them, Javier López-González

Data Flows and Privacy Rights

Background Papers:

• American Perspectives on Transatlantic Data Flows, Peter Swire, Ashley Gorski and Theodore Christakis
• Privacy Rights and Data Flows – A Conversation with Max Schrems, Max Schrems with Mark Scott