Beyond the Line of Ordinary Insights

  • Keynotes & Presentations

    Unique talks and presentations connecting the dots between disruptive tech and disruptive geopolitics from multiple perspectives including the future of cyber resilience, digital battlefields, the geopolitics of AI, the challenge of tech companies as geopolitical actors, astropolitics, securing tech supply chains, and innovating defence ecosystems.

    Whether to a closed boardroom or global convention centre each talk is tailored to help the audience make sense of rapidly evolving tech futures.

    Melanie is also an experienced moderator and facilitator, helping to bring nuance into the most sensitive public conversations.

  • Workshops & Training Programmes

    Drawing on over fifteen years of experience creating and teaching online and in-person courses for universities, government departments, and executives, Dr Melanie Garson can design and deliver interactive and experiential learning programmes for people of all backgrounds and knowledge levels.

    Cutting across disciplines from law to international security studies, Melanie can provide unique learning experiences tailored to your company needs.

    Previous courses have covered: Managing Difficult Conversations, Geopolitics of AI & Compute, Cyber Policy & Cyber Governance, 3D Policy Design, and International Negotiation & Diplomacy.

  • "Beyond the Horizon" Insights

    Bespoke research, analysis, and advisory for organisations to stay forewarned and forearmed to risks where tech and geopolitics converge.

    Combining traditional tools for analysis with systems thinking approaches for policy design, as well as options for immersive scenario approaches, organisations can access meaningful interdisciplinary insights to meet all their internal and external needs.

    With options for regular written or in-person briefings or deep-dive research pieces, we build insights that can help companies identify opportunities for innovation, strengthen governance and corporate resilience, and generate the thought-leadership to drive forward policy conversations.

  • Corporate Techplomacy

    Helping companies understand their role in the geopolitical order and strategise approaches to leverage their voice in national and global forums.

    With a thorough understanding of key multi-stakeholder centres of influence in the tech ecosystem we advise companies on how to build their tech diplomacy capacity and strategy.