Digital Taiwan Lecture Series – Bridging Nordic Dual-Use Innovation and Taiwan’s Defense Ecosystem

As security dynamics in the Indo-Pacific continue to evolve, Nordic states and industries are paying growing attention to the region’s defense innovation and dual-use technology landscape. At the same time, Taiwan is rapidly expanding its focus on resilience, autonomous systems, civil-military integration, and scalable defense technologies in response to mounting geopolitical pressures.

Through the lens of Sweden’s growing engagement in dual-use innovation and emerging technologies, this webinar will explore where Nordic and Taiwanese priorities align, the opportunities and barriers shaping future collaboration, and how dual-use innovation ecosystems can support deeper engagement between Europe and the Indo-Pacific.

The session will also highlight applied examples from Swedish research projects involving AI, robotics, sensor fusion, and dual-use technological development. More specifically, the applied examples will cover the scenario of dealing with poor visibility in murky waters for an underwater robot, satellite imagery for analysis and reasoning integration, and collaborative robots for large-scale environment monitoring and mapping – and how they can be further developed and applied for dual-use.

The discussion will combine strategic analysis of evolving defense-industrial trends with real-world examples drawn from recent research projects and emerging technologies shaping the future of dual-use innovation. 

Speakers:

Bryce C. Barros is a defense innovation and dual-use technology strategist focused on Taiwan and allied cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.

He is a former U.S. Senate National Security Advisor and has supported the U.S. Department of Defense’s innovation efforts. His experience spans national security policy, emerging technology, and geoeconomic statecraft, including work at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and Kharon. 

He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research in Taipei, an Associate Fellow at GLOBSEC’s GeoTech Center, a Defence Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and a Global Taiwan Institute Scholar.

He is also a Council on Foreign Relations Stephen M. Kellen Term Member and has lived in Taiwan and China for nearly six years. 

Martin Längkvist is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at AI, Robotics, and Cybersecurity Center (ARC) at Örebro University, Sweden. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and representation learning, applied to multimodal data including medical and satellite imaging, time-series data from robotics and industrial systems, and high-dimensional biological and chemical data. He is also the CTO and co-founder of AIDO Solutions, a research-based AI startup specializing in dual-use AI technology.

He has contributed to numerous research projects with industrial partners, many involving dual-use and defence applications. His work is inherently interdisciplinary, spanning medicine, biology, materials science, environmental science, and economics. He teaches machine learning at bachelor’s and master’s levels and contributes to initiatives in lifelong learning.

He is motivated by translating advanced AI methods into real-world solutions that enhance performance, efficiency, sustainability, and decision-making in complex environments, with a strong passion for applied AI bridging theory and practice. 

Moderator: Yi-Chieh Chen, Research Fellow, ISDP Stockholm Taiwan Center

 

This webinar is in collaboration with AIDO Solutions. If you would like to learn more about their work and available sponsorships, please reach out to info@aidosolutions.com.