INFOPAC: Information Forces Pacific

Ipsos is delighted to be a gold sponsor of this year’s INFOPAC Symposium – an event focused on U.S., Allied, and partner military practitioners in the information forces. Be sure to drop by our booth to meet with us in-person, or join us for our sessions! To register, please visit the INFOPAC website.

Date: Monday, August 31
Time: 14:10 – 14:50
Speaker: Dr. Shawnna Mullenax, SVP, Ipsos Public Affairs
Topic: Influence Opportunity Mapping: Indo Pacific Perceptions of the U.S. Amid the Iran Conflict
Location: Online

Developed specifically for the INFOPAC audience, this briefing brings fresh intelligence on how the Iran conflict may be shaping perceptions of the United States across the Indo-Pacific. Fast-moving crises create challenges for information forces: audiences interpret events in real time, adversary narratives compete for attention, and synthetic or low-quality AI-generated content can accelerate confusion, doubt, or distrust. This moment provides a timely case study for assessing how events outside the Indo-Pacific can affect perceptions among allied and partner publics.

This briefing introduces a rapid research framework for identifying influence opportunities during a live crisis. The approach combines three Ipsos assets in a single operational model: ongoing global public opinion data, live social and narrative intelligence, and online communities with real people in priority markets. Together, these tools help information forces move from awareness to action: where U.S. perceptions may be shifting, which audiences and narratives are driving that movement, and what messages can protect or improve confidence.

Date: Wednesday, September 2
Time: 14:00 - 14:40
Speaker: James Conrad, President, Strategy
Topic: How Agentic Artificial Intelligence Can Be Used for Cognitive Advantage
Location: Alohilani Stingray Room

Modern influence operations unfold at a speed and scale that increasingly exceeds traditional intelligence and strategic communications processes. Adversaries leverage AI-generated content, coordinated social amplification, and rapidly evolving narratives to shape perceptions faster than organizations can detect, assess, and respond. While AI offers opportunities to accelerate decision-making, many solutions lack the governance, transparency, and human oversight required for operational use in high-stakes environments.

This presentation introduces CLAIR (Cognitive Leverage & Adaptive Influence Runtime), a multi-agent decision-support framework designed to provide decision advantage across the full cognitive and information operations lifecycle. Developed through a collaboration between Thoughtworks and Ipsos, CLAIR combines agentic AI, behavioral science, and sovereign deployment architectures to support monitoring, planning, coordination, execution, and assessment activities while maintaining human authority over all consequential decisions. A key differentiator for CLAIR is that is incorporates real human understanding through Ipsos’ global reach and depth in human understanding.

Be on the lookout for us! We're looking forward to meeting you.