The Transatlantic Reset
Rebuilding trust, coherence and strategic alignment in the digital age.
The Transatlantic Reset reflects the structural evolution of the relationship between Europe and the United States in an era of geopolitical fragmentation and technological competition. It acknowledges that alignment can no longer rely on historical assumptions, shared narratives, or implicit convergence.
Instead, cooperation must operate between distinct sovereignties, each organizing its own security, industrial policy, and technological ecosystem.
This shift is visible in areas such as cybersecurity, cloud governance, supply chains, and the integration of the private sector into national security architectures.
The strategic task is therefore to make these sovereignties interoperable through explicit architectures of trust, standards, and market access frameworks.
The Reset is no longer about organizing cooperation, but about defining the rules of engagement and action.
Paris Format
The Paris Format is a Chatham House Provocative Lane.
This a method for strategic dialogue developed within the framework of the Paris Cyber Summit.
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It brings together public officials, industry leaders, and experts
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It structured and candid discussions without diplomatic posturing or public signaling.
The objective is to test ideas, confront interests, and clarify divergences before they become political blockages. Discussions are conducted in small groups, under strict confidentiality, often inspired by Chatham House–style rules.
The format prioritizes substance over posture, allowing participants to speak frankly about risks, constraints, and strategic trade-offs.
At AI speed, the Paris Format aims to accelerate shared understanding and enable actionable alignment across capitals in a fragmented worl
The Rise of Agentic AI
A New Strategic Frontier
Agentic AI is not merely an evolution of generative AI. It represents a redefinition of agency itself.
Systems capable of acting autonomously across digital, economic and operational domains are emerging as a new layer of infrastructure for decision, execution and coordination. They open unprecedented opportunities in defence, public services, science and industry. But they also challenge existing governance models, accountability frameworks and security architectures.
The strategic question is no longer only technological. Agentic AI rests on four foundational pillars that will determine the balance of power in the coming decade: computing power, energy capacity, financial capital, and data ecosystems. Control over these pillars will shape the ability of states and industries to deploy autonomous systems at scale.
Europe and the United States will not approach this frontier with the same institutional traditions, regulatory instruments or industrial structures. Yet in a world operating at AI speed, the issue is no longer simply innovation. It is the capacity to design trusted architectures of action where governments, industry and institutions remain able to set the rules, manage risk and maintain strategic autonomy.
PCS 2026 will explore:
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How Agentic AI reshapes national, economic and operational security?
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How the four pillars of AI power, computing, energy, finance and data, structure the emerging geopolitical landscape?
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How transatlantic governance models can converge where necessary, and diverge where sovereignty requires it?
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How to design trusted infrastructures capable of integrating autonomous systems at scale?
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How public-private cooperation must evolve as private actors become operational components of security architectures?
Transatlantic Dialogue
Beyond institutional dialogues
Formal structures such as the EU–US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) and national cyber dialogues remain essential pillars of the relationship. Yet they are also shaped - and often constrained - by political cycles, negotiation mandates, and the need for public signalling.
They maintain the relationship, PCS helps transform it.
Paris Cyber Summit is designed to complement official mechanisms by offering:
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A neutral, high-trust space to test ideas before they become formal positions.
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A place where actors who rarely sit at the same table - public, private, strategic, industrial, academic - can confront perspectives and build convergence.
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A vantage point connecting Paris, Brussels, Washington, and other capitals, enabling participants to understand not only what is happening, but why.
This unique approach is what makes PCS a platform, not an event.
A Platform for Strategic Alignment
Paris Cyber Summit 2026 is conceived as a solution space:
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a place where perspectives are refined,
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coalition-building is accelerated,
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he United States can craft a shared understanding of what is at stake and what is possible.and where Europe and t