
🎥 Speaking Highlights
Watch Mark Kennedy in Action
From global summits to association conferences, boardrooms to campuses, Mark Kennedy brings clarity, conviction, and strategic insight to every audience. Below is a curated selection of recent speeches, panels, and keynote clips spanning the topics of strategic competition, economic statecraft, technology leadership, and institutional trust.
Featured Clips
Strategic Competition: What It Means and Why It Matters
- Wilson Center | January 2024
- Kennedy breaks down the concept of strategic competition for a global policy audience.
Ten Steps to Win the AI Race
- Harvard | Bostong Global Forum | November 2024
- A forward-looking strategy for democratic tech leadership in AI.
Issues Driving the US Foreign Policy Debate
- Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs | October 2024
- Kennedy engages with PISA students in Paris just before the U.S. election.
Vision for New Economic Alliance
- Harvard | Bostong Global Forum | April 2025
- Kennedy makes the case for global collaboration on AI.
UND Commencement | Winter 2017
- Wilson Center | January 2025
- Kennedy speaks and moderates a panel of experts at the very beginning of the new administration.
UND Inagural Address | October 2016
Preserving the Ideals of the Enlightenment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - AI Action Summit in Paris | February 2025
University of Colorado - State of the University | December 2020
University of Colorado Boulder Commencement | May 2020
University of North Dakota Commencement | Summer 2018
University of North Dakota Commencement | May 2017
University of North Dakota Law School Commencement | May 2017
Leading in the Age of Activism | April 2017
University of North Dakota Commencement | Winter 2016
Select Panel Moderation
Strategic Competition in the Second Trump Administration| January 2025
Securing the Supply Chains of the Future
MODERATED PANEL FOR US INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION - DECEMBER 9, 2024
Fireside Chat with Senator Pat Toomey
ECONOMIC CLUB OF MINNESOTA CHAMPION OF FREE TRADE EVENT - MARCH 19, 2024
Navigating US – China Strategic Competition
MODERATOR OF ECONOMIC CLUB OF MINNESOTA PANEL - DECEMBER 15, 2023
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) - Private Sector Perspectives
MODERATING WILSON CENTER PANEL - JULY 25, 2023
Reforming the Multilateral Development Banks for Global Structural Challenges in a Post-Pandemic World
WILSON CENTER PANEL DISCUSSION WITH FORMER PRESIDENT OF PERU - JULY 19, 2023