This event brings together senior leaders from government, finance, industry and defence to explore how the UK and its allies can build economic security in an era of increasing geopolitical risk and undeclared economic warfare.

Hosted by King's Defence Studies Department in collaboration with the Economic Conflict & Competition Research Group, and the Centre for Economic Security. This conference launches a critical conversation on the practical steps needed to strengthen economic resilience in support of national security.

Why attend?

Economic security — the ability of a nation’s institutions, financial systems and industrial base to underpin national defence — is essential to deterring threats and maintaining strategic advantage. Yet, it remains under-recognised and poorly understood.

This conference offers cross-sector insight into how we can collectively:

Strengthen the economic levers that underpin deterrence and defence
Align financial systems with strategic policy goals
Secure critical supply chains and industrial capacity
Overcome finance barriers in the defence and commercial sectors.

The event will take place over two days:

July 23rd: Hackathon/ideation day hosted by Guidehouse Consulting to focus on two central themes:

What do banks need from government, and what does government need from banks to get comfortable with funding defence, security and critical national infrastructure?
How would a Shadow Ministry of Economic Warfare draw on the expertise of finance, innovators and technology experts in the defence and security area?

Attendees are advanced manufacturing and defence and security businesses, financial organisations, data and technology providers and government.

July 24th: Future of Security event, hosted by King's College London, Great Hall:

Senior Leaders’ event to explore how the UK and its allies can build collective economic security and sovereign resilience through effective partnerships with finance.

Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-of-security-conference-tickets-1417704274649?aff=oddtdtcreator

If you're a policymaker, financial actor, defence supplier or corporate leader, this is your opportunity to connect with others who share a clear conviction: that economic security is vital to protecting the democratic, market-based values that have underpinned global stability for 80 years

Hackathon/Ideation Day