Introduction
The Center for International Strategic Studies (CISS) Islamabad organized an International Workshop on ‘Exploring New Frontiers of International Security: Cyberspace, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Autonomy.’
Notable statesmen, think tank professionals, academics, foreign policy experts, and students participated in the workshop. The speakers, in the order of Workshop program, included Ambassador Ali Sarwar Naqvi (Executive Director, CISS Islamabad), Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed (Chairman, Senate Defence Committee of Pakistan), Dongyoun Cho (Senior Researcher, Security and Technology Program (STP), United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Samuele Dominioni (Researcher, STP, UNIDIR), Najeeb Hassan (AI and Emerging Technologies Researcher, UTHM, Malaysia), Abdul Moiz Khan (Research Officer, CISS Islamabad), Dr Asma Shakir Khawaja (Executive Director, CISS AJK), Mohammad Kamran Akhtar (Additional Secretary, Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Issues (ACDIS)/PP/PD, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan), Andraz Kastelic (Lead Cyber Stability Researcher, STP, UNIDIR), Dr Waseem Qutab (Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs Branch (ACDA), Strategic Plans Division (SPD), Pakistan), Dr Andrey Pavlov (Professor, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia), Dr Aqeel Akhtar (Deputy Director, ACDA, SPD), Dr Muhammad Muhammadi (Associate Director Research, CISS Islamabad), Muhammad Oves Anwar, (Director, Conflict Law Centre, Research Society of International Law (RSIL), Islamabad), Mauru Vignati (Advisor New Digital Technologies of Warfare, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva), Brigadier Zahir Kazmi (Director General, ACDA, SPD), Dr Yasar Ayaz (Chairman, National Center of AI (NCAI), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad), Ioana Puscas (Researcher, STP, UNIDIR), Air Marshal Ashfaque Arain (Director, Technologies, Center for Aerospace and Strategic Studies (CASS), Islamabad), Malik Qasim Mustafa (Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Centre (ACDC), Institute of Strategic Studies (ISS), Islamabad), Husham Ahmad (Counseller, Pakistan’s Permanent Mission in Geneva), Muhammad Ali Baig (Research Officer, CISS Islamabad), Syed Saqib Mumtaz (Chief Executive Officer, A2Z Publishing), Raza Shah Khan (Chief Executive, Sustainable Peace and Development Organization (SPADO), Islamabad), Murad Ali (Research Officer, CISS Islamabad), Ambassador Bilal Ahmad (Pakistan’s Permanent Representative in Geneva), Dr Atia Ali Kazmi (Director Research, CISS Islamabad), and Ambassador Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi (Foreign Secretary of Pakistan).
