Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue Launches the Global Trusted Tech Network at the 2025 Trusted Tech Summit

The Global Trusted Tech Network is the world’s fastest-growing alliance of
governments, companies, and institutions advancing freedom through trusted technology.

WASHINGTON, D.C. and WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — On November 17, 2025, at the fourth annual Trusted Tech Summit in Washington, D.C., the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue launched the Global Trusted Tech Network, the world’s fastest-growing alliance of governments, companies, individuals and institutions united around the conviction that technology must advance freedom. 

The Global Trusted Tech Network is built on trust and grounded in integrity, accountability, transparency, reciprocity and respect for the fundamental pillars of free societies, like respect for the rule of law, human rights, property rights, and national sovereignty.

“George Washington entrusted us with ‘liberty’s sacred fire,’ and as we launch the Global Trusted Tech Network on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary, that fire still burns in free people worldwide,” said Keith Krach, Chairman of the Krach Institute. “With trust as our currency, innovation as our engine, and unity as our strength, the spirit that powered the free world since 1776 will now energize us through trusted technology toward peace and prosperity. This is our moment and this is our mission.”

The establishment of the Global Trusted Tech Network builds on Krach’s record of creating trusted networks across multiple industries. As a private-sector CEO, Krach pioneered B2B commerce and created the Ariba Network, which now moves $7 trillion/year worldwide. Krach’s DocuSign Global Trust Network now includes one billion users and 800,000 companies. As U.S. Under Secretary of State, Krach led the formation of the Clean Network alliance of 60 nations, accounting for two-thirds of the world’s GDP, 200 telecommunications companies, and dozens of industry-leading companies that secured the global 5G infrastructure. The Clean Network became a proven, duplicatable, and enduring model for advancing freedom across all areas of technological competition.

“America and its allies win when we act like an elite team,” said Michelle Giuda, CEO of the Krach Institute. “Technology is moving fast, and our adversaries are moving, too. The Krach Institute’s role is to be the force multiplier, helping the free world innovate, build, and adopt trusted technology faster and better than ever before.”

A Worldwide Platform for Trusted Innovation

The Global Trusted Tech Network is the organizing framework for a new era of Tech Diplomacy, linking governments, companies, organizations, and individuals that recognize the centrality of technology at the heart of the modern contest between freedom and authoritarianism and share the conviction to ensure that technology advances freedom. Together, they form the architecture of a fast-growing global movement at the intersection of technology, business, and diplomacy.

International Partners and a Global Architecture for Cooperation

• Trusted Tech Caucuses in Kenya, Romania, and Israel comprise legislators from diverse political parties focused on championing technology policy that is aligned with democratic values, serves the citizens, and mitigates authoritarian threats. 
• The Global Tech Security Commission, chartered by the Krach Institute with bipartisan support from the U.S. Congress and international partners, includes a global network of more than 200 public- and private-sector experts. This Commission examined the technological landscape and produced recommendations to accelerate the innovation, deployment, and adoption of trustworthy critical and emerging technologies. Read the Commission’s seminal report.
• The Global Trusted Tech Standard (xGTT) Board of Governors, led by Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-Large, and consisting of 19 renowned industry leaders and international experts, is guiding the development of the world’s first universal benchmark for trustworthiness across critical and emerging technologies. The effort is designed to reduce friction, accelerate innovation, and enable seamless collaboration across the free world’s technology ecosystems.

Private SectorPartners

More than a dozen early partners spanning critical sectors, including Anthropic, AWS, Boeing, Coupang, Deloitte, Ericsson, Goldilock, Google, Guidehouse, Intel, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Strider, TalentCraft, and Zscaler – support the Institute’s mission to align innovation with democratic values and advance trusted technology across global markets.

The Tech Diplomacy Academy 

The world’s first online education platform at the intersection of technology and foreign policy, the Tech Diplomacy Academy equips leaders to navigate the geopolitics of AI, quantum, and semiconductors.

It reaches millions of professionals through partnerships with the Project Management Institute (740,000 members), Sourcing Industry Group, LinkedIn Learning (27 million learners), and Oakwise in Latin America, with institutional users across the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Commerce, and NATO DIANA.

Learners in 33 countries demonstrate the Academy’s global reach and impact, including early programs with governments in Burundi, Dominican Republic, France, India, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, Romania, Sweden, Taiwan, Uganda, Ukraine, UK, United States, and more. 

Academic and NGO Partners

Partners include the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), Black Sea Trust of the German Marshall Fund, Economic Security Council of Ukraine, National Chengchi University (NCCU) and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taiwan, Pwani University, Robotic Institute and USIU University in Kenya, Romania 2030, SERICS Foundation in Italy, and the U.S.–Taiwan Business Council.

Global Advisory Council

Over 600 members, including former heads of state, ambassadors, parliamentarians, CEOs, founders, and investors, serve as strategic accelerators for the Network’s growth and impact.

2025 Trusted Tech Leadership Awards

At the 2025 Trusted Tech Summit, the Krach Institute presented its annual Trusted Tech Leadership Awards to leaders and institutions exemplifying integrity, courage, and innovation in advancing trusted technology across the AI stack:

• Atomic Industries — for re-imagining advanced manufacturing as a cornerstone of freedom 
• ReElement Technologies — for advancing secure and sustainable critical-minerals supply chains 
• Strider Technologies — for pioneering counter-intelligence solutions that protect innovation from foreign adversaries
• Government of Sweden — for demonstrating that innovation can be Europe’s greatest export 

Participation

The 2025 Trusted Tech Summit convened leaders from 30 countries and senior representatives from many of the world’s most influential companies and organizations. Participants included Accenture Federal Services, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deloitte, Ericsson, Guidehouse, Hanwha, ReElement Technologies, Atomic Industries, Strider Technologies, Australia’s Department of Home Affairs, the Embassies of Sweden and the United Kingdom, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the America First Policy Institute, the Edison Electric Institute, and officials from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Congress.

Countries represented at the Summit:
Australia, Burundi, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Malawi, Mozambique, the Netherlands, Peru, Romania, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uzbekistan.

Freedom’s Next Century

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, the Global Trusted Tech Network unites the free world’s innovators and allies to extend that legacy of freedom and prosperity into the next century of technology. By linking democratic nations, trusted enterprises, and mission-driven institutions, the Network provides the structure for lasting cooperation — ensuring that technology remains a force for freedom, prosperity, and peace.

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.

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