We’re excited to share a conversation featuring 2026 BEI Winter School keynote speaker Dr. James Giordano, PhD, Director of the Center for Disruptive Technology and Future Warfare at NDU’s Institute for National Strategic Studies, who joined the NATDEF podcast to discuss how converging technologies, AI, biotechnology, quantum science, and autonomous systems, are reshaping the character of modern warfare, from cognitive influence operations to the dual-use risks of AI-accelerated biotechnology, and why ethical reasoning must stay inseparable from technological development itself. Watch the full interview here, and catch more from Dr. Giordano at the BEI Online Winter School, December 14–18, 2026.