2025 Pacific Security Forum
Strengthening U.S. National Power in an Era of Geopolitical Uncertainty
The Pacific Security Forum seeks to advance the interests of the United States and its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific and demonstrate the importance of the Pacific Northwest in accomplishing U.S. national security interests. The Forum brings together top experts from government, academia, and the private sector to address issues of strategic and security importance to U.S. interests in Asia.
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NBR will convene the 2025 Pacific Security Forum in Seattle on October 27-28. Registration to request a seat to attend the Forum will open on July 7, 2025.
Under the theme Sustaining and Strengthening U.S. National Power in an Era of Geopolitical Uncertainty, the 2025 Pacific Security Forum will examine how changes in the global landscape are challenging the traditional foundations of U.S. national power and showcase the essential role of alliances, partnerships, and public-private sector collaboration in strengthening U.S. national power.
SESSIONS
- Reassessing the Evolving Indo-Pacific Environment
- Revitalizing the U.S. Defense Industrial Base
- Emerging Technology amid a Defense Industrial Revolution
- China’s “World-Class” Military and Indo-Pacific Security Challenges
- Finding Common Cause with Allies and Partners
SPONSORS AND PARTNERS
Announcement of additional sponsors and partners is forthcoming.
SPEAKERS
The 2025 Pacific Security Forum is co-chaired by:
Admiral Jonathan Greenert (U.S. Navy, ret.), the 30th Chief of Naval Operations
Roy Kamphausen, Special Advisor to the President and Senior Fellow for Chinese Security at NBR.
Additional speakers and distinguished guests will be announced soon.
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About the Pacific Security Forum
2025 Pacific Security Forum co-chairs Roy Kamphausen (left) and Adm. Jonathon Greenert (right) pictured with Nadège Rolland, NBR Distinguished Fellow for China Studies, at the inaugural 2023 Pacific Security Forum.
As the world’s geopolitical center shifts toward the Indo-Pacific, the United States faces several opportunities—and challenges—that require nuanced understanding and whole-of-society involvement. Evolving and intensifying competition with China will influence every sector and community—ranging from industry to nonprofits to academia to government. The Pacific Northwest is the country’s gateway to the Indo-Pacific and is home to several key industries, military bases, and Indo-Pacific leaders, making it a critical nexus in achieving security objectives related to U.S. interests in Asia.
Leveraging NBR’s Seattle home and unique ability to connect policy to practice, NBR hosted its inaugural Pacific Security Forum on October 31, 2023, in Seattle, Washington. The Forum featured discussions with senior scholars from NBR’s network and remarks from current and former U.S. government officials, members of Congress, and political and security leaders from allied and partner governments.
See video from the 2023 Pacific Security Forum.
