Tech Diplomacy Simulator
Who is in the room when the rules are written?
Your team is.
A live negotiation simulation for the people who make technology policy. Your team holds a national position through a crisis that is still unfolding, and finds out what that position cost.
The same crisis, from every seat.
Every team represents a different interest. What one delegation wins, another usually pays for.
- GovernmentsEach holds a national position it has to defend.
- Regional blocsMany members, one voice, slow to move.
- CoalitionsStronger together, if they can hold together.
- IndustryThe companies that build the technology.
- Civil societyThe people the rules are written for.
How a session runs
Decisions happen on phones. Negotiation happens across the table. The simulator keeps score in between, so the conversation starts from consequences, not opinions.
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Take a seat
Each team becomes a delegation and gets a confidential brief: its interests, its objectives, its red lines.
- 2
Decide in private
Every delegation chooses on its own phones against a countdown. Nobody sees what anyone else chose.
- 3
Live with it
The simulator resolves every decision together and shows what the world now looks like. Choices compound.
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Then negotiate
Face to face, from the positions the room created for itself. By now the grievances are real.
Built so the room learns the right lesson.
Scored against your own goal
A high score means your delegation got what it wanted. It does not mean it was right, and there is no single winner to play toward.
Grounded in what really happened
Every scenario starts from a real episode. At the end the room sees what the real decision makers chose, and how that compares.
First scenario
The Kill Switch
In June 2026 the United States ordered a frontier AI developer to block foreign nationals from its most capable models. The company could not filter by nationality, so it withdrew the models worldwide for 19 days. Europe learned that access to the systems its economy depends on was a decision taken in Washington. The Global South learned it had not been asked.
Your delegations pick the story up from there.
Built for rooms where the file is technical and the stakes are not.
- Foreign ministries and diplomatic academies
- Officers who will negotiate technology files without a technical background.
- Accelerators and executive education
- A single session that carries a module on geopolitics and technology better than a case discussion.
- Corporate government affairs
- Teams who need to understand the room on the other side before they walk into it.
Bring the simulator to your room.
Built by the Tech Diplomacy Global Institute, an independent institute working on the governance of technology across borders.