In navigating the rapid advancements of the Information and Digital Age, governments and private enterprise alike continue to capitalize on the strategic power of generative AI tools, emerging biotech, and smart-climate solutions to advance both competitiveness and national security. In an effort to avoid or reverse ‘decline’, particularly within a highly polarized and unpredictable international geopolitical environment, government must reinvent itself into a more effective and strategic state apparatus, with technology and innovation at the apex of it. In this timely fireside conversation between two global leaders, Tony Blair and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović will share their own insight and policy expertise, discussing the role of technology infrastructure in transforming future governance within the evolving global agenda, in Europe and beyond.