HCSS in the media | Week 42
HCSS is happy to share its knowledge and expertise. Our in-house strategic analysts and affiliated subject matter experts are regularly requested to provide commentary and insights on geopolitical and international security matters for national and international media and press.
Emma Bokel | Guest lecture Breda University on the application of data in the field of geopolitics, defence and security
Emma Bokel visited Breda University of Applied Sciences to guest lecture Applied Data Science & AI students about how HCSS applies data science to geopolitics, defence, and security. She explained the Datalab’s method of turning vast, unstructured news data into insights through collecting, cleaning, and analyzing it using natural language processing techniques, including named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and large language models. This process creates structured datasets and dashboards that track geopolitical and climate trends in real time. The students showed strong interest, asking about cybersecurity, language variations, and the LLM models in use.
HCSS at the Future of War Conference, 26–28 October 2026
From 26–28 October 2026, the Future of War Conference will take place in Amsterdam, a joint initiative of the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology – Changing Character of War Centre of the University of Oxford and the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA). Three days of exchange on the changing character of conflict will bring together senior military leaders, scholars, and practitioners, including HCSS experts Tim Sweijs, Davis Ellison, Friso Stevens and Markus Iven.
