Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue Makes Tech Diplomacy Academy Free to All
02.02.26
As Emerging Technologies Reshape American and Allied Security, Prosperity,
and Freedom, Institute Unlocks Its Flagship Platform
Washington, DC — The Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue announced today that its flagship Tech Diplomacy Academy will be free and open to learners worldwide. The Academy is the world’s first online education platform dedicated to preparing leaders across government, industry, and civil society to understand how critical and emerging technologies shape national power, economic competitiveness, and freedom.
The decision reflects the Institute’s founding belief that technology must advance freedom. Artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing, cyber systems, space technologies, and advanced networks now influence daily life and the balance of power among nations. Yet the ability to understand and govern these technologies remains concentrated in narrow circles, even as their consequences expand across society. By unlocking the Tech Diplomacy Academy, the Institute is scaling the understanding required for the United States and its allies to compete, cooperate, and shape how technology is deployed rather than having it shape us.
“Emerging technologies are becoming the backbone of economic strength and national power,” said Michelle Giuda, CEO of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue. “If free societies do not understand and help shape them, adversaries will. Opening the Tech Diplomacy Academy is about ensuring leaders and citizens alike have the knowledge to lead, set the rules, and make sure technology serves people, not authoritarians, and advances freedom rather than oppression.”
By removing the paywall, the Institute is transforming the Tech Diplomacy Academy from a limited executive education program into a global public education platform, designed to operate at the scale and speed the moment demands.
The Tech Diplomacy Academy already serves as a training platform for leaders across U.S. and allied government, industry, and civil society. Participants include professionals from the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and NATO’s Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic. To date, more than 17,000 learners in over 30 countries have participated in the Academy, supported by global distribution partnerships with organizations such as LinkedIn Learning, the Project Management Institute, and the Sourcing Industry Group.
The Tech Diplomacy Academy reflects the Krach Institute’s commitment to best-in-class education, developed in close collaboration with Purdue University. The curriculum is rigorous and practitioner-driven, grounded in real-world geopolitical and technological challenges. It draws on Purdue’s strengths in engineering, science, and innovation, alongside leading experts and experienced practitioners from government, industry, diplomacy, and the national security community. Together, this ensures learners gain practical, relevant understanding of how technology intersects with power, policy, and democratic values. The Academy is focused on substance and real-world application, bringing Purdue-backed academic excellence together with hands-on experience to prepare learners to engage meaningfully in shaping the technologies that increasingly define security, prosperity, and freedom.
To learn more about the Tech Diplomacy Academy and to enroll, please visit TechDiplomacyAcademy.org.
About the Tech Diplomacy Academy
The Tech Diplomacy Academy is the world’s first online education platform dedicated to training government, business, technology and citizen leaders at scale about critical and emerging technologies, and how to compete and lead in a contested technology and geopolitical landscape. The Tech Diplomacy Academy is being used by a growing roster of global organizations including the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Commerce, NATO’s Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), U.S.-Taiwan Business Council, Guidehouse, and TalentCraft. Purdue University has integrated the Tech Diplomacy Academy into its Purdue University Online platform, expanding access to learners around the world.
About the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue
The Krach Institute is the world’s preeminent trusted technology accelerator. As the leader in the new category of Tech Diplomacy, the Institute integrates technology expertise, Silicon Valley strategies and foreign policy tools to build the Global Trusted Tech Network of governments, companies, organizations and individuals to accelerate the innovation and adoption of trusted technology and ensure technology advances freedom.
Visit the Krach Institute online at TechDiplomacy.org and follow on X, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. Enroll in the Tech Diplomacy Academy to learn what you need to know now about key emerging technologies and their impact on business, policy and the global economy. Subscribe to the Institute’s weekly newsletter Tech Diplomacy Now for the latest news at the intersection of high tech and foreign policy.
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