Jan 18, 2026
Regulate Tech 2026:1 - Tools, Craft and Career
Regulate Tech
Between them, Richard Allan and Nicklas Berild Lundblad have over 50 years of experience in internet technology policy. And they still love talking about it. In this podcast, they dig into major technology policy questions before policy makers, teasing out the trade-offs they have to consider. They reflect on their own experiences from both sides of the business and politics divide. Some episodes are aimed at technology policy professionals as Richard and Nicklas share what they have learnt along the way. They believe there is public value in services having effective policy teams and want to help these develop, grow and, well, make new mistakes...
Episodes
Episodes
Dec 30, 2025
Dec 30, 2025
57 min
In 2026 Regulate Tech returns. Here we go through a few new ideas, where we are in life and what comes next. We also discuss 2025 and 2026 - and share ideas on how the new year will unfold.
Enjoy!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Oct 24, 2024
Oct 24, 2024
36 min
In this episode we discuss how we should think about, analyze and understand power in tech policy. We are bad at talking about power because it is such a loaded term - but all politics, and all technology, in some way relates to the exercise of power, so we need to have a working theory of power to make sense of it all!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Oct 17, 2024
Oct 17, 2024
34 min
In this episode we discuss the challenges of regulating for what is and what will be - and how to think about artificial intelligence: is it efficiency or innovation? And what should policy makers do?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Oct 10, 2024
Oct 10, 2024
32 min
In this episode we discuss how to approach public policy issues at different points in the Gartner hype cycle -- should you lean in to the peak of inflated expectations? Solidly make a home in the trough of disillusionment? Listen in!
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Oct 3, 2024
Oct 3, 2024
36 min
In this episode we discuss the importance of cyber and information security, why it is hard to draft regulation to make a city safe, the NIS2 and the trade offs involved in security policy overall.
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Sep 25, 2024
Sep 25, 2024
31 min
How should we think about internet services in a global first world? The answer to that question is shifting fast from launch once, access everywhere to the more complex launch, comply and restrict - and ultimately maybe this has to be solved in a trade framework -- so how will that work? Will we get international standards for platforms? AI?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Sep 18, 2024
Sep 18, 2024
32 min
In this episode we discuss the special challenges that policy professionals meet as new governments are coming in, how to work with them - and how to best prepare, and when to simply stand back. What do we do a year before an election? 3 months before? During the first 100 days?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Sep 12, 2024
Sep 12, 2024
34 min
It is the OG of tech policy issues -- encryption. And not it is back! How should we manage the requests to create backdoors, disable e2e encryption and where are we headed in this contentious debate?
Participants: Richard Allan, Nicklas Berild Lundblad
A podcast about tech, policy and the future
Are you interested in learning more about the craft of tech policy? Dig deep in the classics? Figure out what the future for tech holds? Then this is the podcast for you. Conversations between two long-time policy professionsals with 50+ years of shared experience from tech policy in companies, trade associations and academia.