Humans in the Loop / The SOFT Side of Hard Power emphasizes that every breakthrough hinges on human judgment and culture. As systems accelerate, the strategic edge goes to those who design adaptable social, economic, and technological operating systems. This is a working convening, not a traditional conference, where civil society, security practitioners, policy makers, and entrepreneurs collaborate across five tracks to explore how people remain the decisive factor in competition, crisis, and resilience, and how to build the skills, trust, and civic capacity for the decade ahead.