AGENDA WARSAW SECURITY FORUM 2018 24th – 25th OCTOBER
TIME ROOM DAY 1
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24TH 2018
08:00 – 09:00 REGISTRATION
09:00 – 09:15 WELCOME REMARKS
Zbigniew Pisarski - President of Casimir Pulaski Foundation (confirmed) Paweł Soloch - Head of the National Security Bureau of Poland (confirmed)
09:15 – 09:30 OPENING SPEECH
Mateusz Morawiecki - Prime Minister of Poland (invited)
09:30 – 09:45 KEYNOTE SPEECH
Florence Parly - M inister for the Armed Forces, France (confirmed)
09:45 – 10:30 MINISTERIAL SESSION
Jacek Czaputowicz - M inister of Foreign Affairs, Poland (confirmed) Pavlo Klimkin - M inister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine (invited) Linas Linkevicius - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania (confirmed) Wess Mitchell - Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State, United States (invited) David Zalkaliani - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georgia (confirmed)
10:30-10:45 NETWORKING BREAK
10:45-11:15 CONVERSATION WITH SPECIAL GUESTS The NATO Brussels Summit - What Have we Learned about the State of the Alliance?
LTG (retired) Ben Hodges - Former Commanding General, US Army Europe, Pershing Chair, CEPA, Partner, Berlin Global Advisors (confirmed) Anders Fogh Rasmussen - NATO Secretary General (2009-2014) (confirmed)
Moderator: Dr. Katarzyna Pisarska - Director and Founder, European Academy of Diplomacy, Poland (confirmed)
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11:15 - 12:15 PLENARY SESSION Celebrating 100 Years of Independence in Central Europe - A Look at the Past, Perspectives for the Future.
Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze - First Deputy Prime Minister, Ukraine (confirmed) Bronisław Komorowski - President of Poland (2010-2015) (invited) Andrius Kubilius - Prime Minister (2008-2012), Member of Seimas, Lithuania (confirmed) Aleksander Kwaśniewski - President of Poland (1995-2005) (confirmed) Karel Schwarzenberg - Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-2009, 2010-2013), Member, Chamber of Deputies
Moderator: Jolanta Pieńkowska - Journalist, TVN BiS, Poland (confirmed)
12:15-12:30 NETWORKING BREAK
PRESENTATION | Richard Wike - D irector of Global Attitudes Research, Pew 12:30 – 12:45 Research Center (confirmed)
12:45 – 13:45 BREAKOUT SESSION | Global Outlook Track Upgrading democracy – what can we learn from populism?
Theresa Fallon - D irector, Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (confirmed) David Kramer - Senior Fellow at McCain Institute, U.S Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (2008-2009) (confirmed) Konrad Szymański - Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland (confirmed) Zsuzsanna Szelényi - Non-resident Fellow, Institute of Human Studies, Austria (confirmed) Nicolas Tenzer - Chair, Centre d'étude & de réflexion pour l'Action politique, France (confirmed)
Moderator: Roland Freudenstein - Policy Director, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Belgium (confirmed)
Session in partnership with the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Belgium
12:30 – 12:45 Resilience Track Presentation
12:45 – 13:45 BREAKOUT SESSION | Resilience Track Disinformation, Cyberwarfare and Social Engineering - new global threats to Democracy?
Beata Biały - Senior Expert (2016-2018), NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (confirmed) Anni Hellman - Deputy Head of Unit, DG Connect, European Commission (confirmed) Oana Popescu - Director, Global Focus Centre, Romania (confirmed) Jakub Turowski - H ead of Public Policy for Poland & Baltics, Facebook (confirmed) 2 AGENDA WARSAW SECURITY FORUM 2018 24th – 25th OCTOBER
Andrzej Zybertowicz - A dvisor to the President of the Republic of Poland (confirmed)
Moderator: D r. M ałgorzata Bonikowska - President, Centre for International Relations, Poland (confirmed)
Session in partnership with Center for International Relations, Poland
12:30 – 12:45 Defense Track Presentation
12:45 – 13:45 BREAKOUT SESSION | Defense Track NATO Defence and Deterrence – what comes next for the Eastern Flank?
OPENING REMARKS | Tomasz Szatkowski - Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Defense, Poland (invited)
DISCUSSION | Ian Brzezinski - D eputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO policy (2001-2005), Resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council, United States (confirmed) Gen. Krzysztof Król - Deputy Commander Multinational Corps Northeast, Poland (invited) Claudia Major - Senior Associate, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Germany (confirmed) Jamie Shea - Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO (2012-2018) (confirmed) Tomasz Siemoniak - Minister of Defence (2011-2015), Poland (invited)
Moderator: M ichał Kobosko – Senior Adviser, Atlantic Council (confirmed)
Session in partnership with the A tlantic Council , United States
13:45-14:00 NETWORKING BREAK
14:00 - 15:00 PLENARY SESSION | The EU as an Outlier of the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
OPENING REMARKS | Jadwiga Emilewicz - M inister of Entrepreneurship and Technology, Poland (invited)
DISCUSSION | Carl Bildt - C hairman of the Council, European Council on Foreign Relations (invited) Kalin Anev Janse - Member of the Management Board and Secretary General of the European Stability Mechanism (confirmed) Martina Larkin - H ead of Europe and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum (confirmed) Paweł Świeboda - Deputy Head of the European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission (confirmed)
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Moderator: M artin Michelot - Deputy Director, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy (confirmed)
Session in partnership with the EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Czech Republic
15:00-15:15 NETWORKING BREAK
15:15 - 15:30 OPENING REMARKS | Lt. General Moshe Yaalon - Minister of Defence of Israel
(2013-2016) (confirmed)
15:30– 16:30 BREAKOUT SESSION | G lobal Outlook Track Migration, confrontation and... cooperation? – Wishes, realities and plans for EU’s Southern Neighborhood
Fabrice Leggeri - Executive Director, FRONTEX (confirmed) Soli Özel - Visiting Fellow, Institut Montaigne, Turkey (invited) Maciej Popowski - D eputy Director-General, European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission (confirmed) Nathalie Tocci - D irector, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy (invited) Julien Théron - Sciences Po Paris, France (confirmed)
Moderator: M agdalena Skajewska - Journalist and reporter, Polskie Radio (confirmed)
Session in partnership with the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy
15:15 - 15:30 Resilience Track Presentation
15:30– 16:30 BREAKOUT SESSION | Resilience Track When Hackers turn the switch off - protecting Critical Infrastructure
OPENING REMARKS | Marek Zagórski - Minister of Digital Affairs, Poland (invited)
DISCUSSION | Javier Candau - Head of Department of Cybersecurity, National Cryptological Centre, Spain (confirmed) Merle Maigre - D irector at NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (confirmed) Ronan Murphy - Chief Executive Officer, Smarttech247, Ireland (confirmed) Jorge Portugal - Director General, Associação Empresarial para a Inovação, Portugal (confirmed) Jarosław Sordyl - D eputy Director of Cybersecurity, PSE S.A., Head, CERT PSE (confirmed)
Moderator: Lior Tabansky - Researcher, Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, Israel (confirmed)
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Session in partnership with the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, Israel
15:15 - 15:30 Defense Track Presentation
15:30– 16:30 BREAKOUT SESSION | Defense Track Three seas, one threat – deterrence on the Baltic, Black, and Mediterranean Sea
Agnieszka Adamusińska - National Security Bureau, Poland (invited) Col. Gjert Lage Dyndal - Strategic Analysis Capability Team, NATO (confirmed) Admiral James G. Foggo III - C ommander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa U.S. Sixth Fleet, The United States (invited) Greg Melcher - Centre for the Study of New Generation Warfare, The United States (confirmed) RAdm Jens Nykvist - C hief of Royal Swedish Navy (invited) RAdm Jarosław Ziemiański - Inspector for the Navy of Armed Forces General Command, Poland (invited)
Moderator: Janusz Onyszkiewicz - Minister of Defence of the Republic of Poland (1992-1993, 1997-2000) (confirmed)
Session in partnership with Euro-Atlantic Association, Poland
16:30-17:00 NETWORKING BREAK
TRANSPORTATION TO THE KNIGHT OF FREEDOM AWARD 17:30 – 18.30 CEREMONY VENUE
19:00 KNIGHT OF FREEDOM AWARD CEREMONY | by invitation
with the presence of the Honorable Anders Fogh Rasmussen NATO Secretary General (2009-2014)
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TIME ROOM DAY 2
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25TH 2018
8:00-9:00 WORKING BREAKFAST (by invitation only) Relaunching Weimar Cooperation - A New Way Forward OPENING REMARKS | Maurice Gourdault-Montagne - Secretary-General Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, France (invited) Andreas Michaelis - State Secretary, Federal Foreign Office, Germany (invited) Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk - Secretary of State for European Policy, Asian Policy and Economic Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland (confirmed)
DISCUSSION | Anna Maria Anders - Secretary of State in Chancellery of Prime Minister, Plenipotentiary for International Dialogue, Member, Senat, Poland (invited) Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska - Member, Parliament, Minister of National Education (2013-2015), Poland (invited) Dietmar Nietan - M ember, Bundestag, Germany (confirmed) Philippe Michel-Kleisbauer - Member, National Assembly, France (confirmed) Frédéric Petit - Member, National Assembly, France (confirmed) Paul Ziemiak - Member, Bundestag, Germany (confirmed)
9:15-9:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH Andrzej Duda - President of the Republic of Poland
9:30-9:45 KEYNOTE SPEECH | Jerzy Kwieciński - Minister of Investment and Development, Poland (confirmed)
9:45-10:30 CONVERSATION WITH HIGH-LEVEL GUESTS
OPENING REMARKS | Alejandro Alvargonzález - Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO (confirmed)
DISCUSSION | Mariusz Błaszczak - M inister of Defence, Republic of Poland (invited) Levan Izoria - M inister of Defence, Republic of Georgia (confirmed) Jüri Luik - M inister of Defence, Republic of Estonia (confirmed) Radmila Sekerinska – Jankovska - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, Macedonia (confirmed)
10:30 – 11:30 PLENARY SESSION | Is a New World War Approaching? – the New US Security Strategy towards Russia and China
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OPENING REMARKS | Fiona Hill - Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs (invited)
DISCUSSION | Pavel Felgenhauer - D efense Analyst, Novaya Gazeta, Russia (confirmed) Gen. Richard Shirreff - Former NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR) (2011-2014) (confirmed) Julianne Smith - Senior Fellow and Director, Transatlantic Security Program, Center for the New American Security (CNAS), Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President of the United States (2012-2013) (confirmed) Thomas Silberhorn - Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Minister of Defence, Germany (confirmed) Steve Tsang - A ssociate Fellow, Asia-Pacific Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House (confirmed)
Moderator: M ichał Baranowski - D irector of the German Marshall Fund’s office in Warsaw (confirmed)
Session in partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), United States
11:30 – 12:00 NETWORKING BREAK
12:00 – 12:45 PLENARY SESSION | Europe Whole and Free - An Idea of the Past or of the Future?
Hanna Hopko - M ember of Parliament, Head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Ukraine (confirmed) Sophie Katsarva - C hairperson of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Parliament of Georgia (confirmed) Katarína Mathernová - Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission (confirmed) Delphine O - Deputy of Paris, Commission of International Affairs, National Assembly, France (confirmed)
Moderator: D r. B obo Lo - Independent Analyst (confirmed)
12:45-13:00 NEW SECURITY LEADERS GRADUATION
13:00-13:15 NETWORKING BREAK
PRESENTATION | D r. Agnia Grigas - Energy and political risk expert, 13:15 – 13:30 Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council (confirmed)
BREAKOUT SESSION | G lobal Outlook Track The Russian-Ukrainian War: Is Ukraine falling off everyone’s radars?
13:30 – 14:30 OPENING REMARKS | Kurt Volker - U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, U.S. Department of State (invited)
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DISCUSSION | Bartosz Cichocki - U nder Secretary of State, M inistry Foreign Affairs, Poland (confirmed) Eugene Czolij - President, Ukrainian World Congress (confirmed) Adam Eberhardt - D irector, Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Poland (confirmed) Iulia Joja - Fellow, Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr, University of Potsdam (confirmed) Mustafa Nayyem - Deputy of Verkhovna Rada, Commission for the Euro-integration, Ukraine (confirmed)
Moderator: Jana Kobzova - Policy Director, Rasmussen Global (confirmed)
Session in partnership with Center for Eastern Studies (OSW), Poland
13:15 – 13:30 Resilience Track Presentation
BREAKOUT SESSION | Resilience Track Future of European Defence Industrial and Technological Base: the Significance of the European Defence Fund
Zdzisław Krasnodębski - Vice-President, European Parliament (invited) Claudia Major - Senior Associate, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Germany 13:30 – 14:30 (confirmed) Philippe Michel-Kleisbauer - Member, Commission of Defence and Arms, National Assembly, France (confirmed) Paul Taylor - Senior Fellow, Friends of Europe, Contributing Editor, POLITICO (confirmed)
Session in partnership with Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Poland
13:15 – 13:30 Defense Track Presentation
BREAKOUT SESSION | Defense Track Protecting skies over Central and Eastern Europe - Air and Missile Defence as a field of regional cooperation?
Dr Tytti Erasto - Researcher, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Sweden (confirmed) Thomas Karako - Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Director, Missile Defense Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (confirmed) 13:30 – 14:30 Col. Michał Marciniak - A rmament Inspectorate, Poland (confirmed) BrigGen Tadeusz Mikutel - Deputy Commander of Armed Forces Operational Command (confirmed)
Moderator: Marek Świerczyński - Editor, Polityka Insight (invited)
Session in partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States
14:30– 14:45 NETWORKING BREAK
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14:45 –15:00 The Sasakawa Peace Foundation Presentation
BREAKOUT SESSION | G lobal Outlook Track Make deals, break deals, or fake deals? A view from the United Nations Security Council.
DISCUSSION | Espen Barth Eide - Member, Norwegian Parliament, Former United Nations Special Adviser on Cyprus (invited) Małgorzata Wasilewska - H ead, EU Delegation to Jamaica, Belize, Turks and
15:00 - 16:00 Caicos Islands, Bahamas and the Cayman Islands (invited) Richard Gowan - Associate Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations, (confirmed) Almut Wieland-Karimi - D irector, Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) (confirmed) Boguslaw Winid - Advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland, Ambassador to the United Nations (2014-2017) (confirmed)
Moderator: Marcin Bużański - President, Global Leader.PL, Senior Advisor, Casimir Pulaski Foundation (confirmed)
14:45 –15:00 Resilience Track Presentation
BREAKOUT SESSION | Resilience Track Healing the European Union’s West-East Divide
Dr. Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz - Director, Forum Idei, Batory Foundation, Poland (confirmed) Ralf Beste - Head of Policy Planning Staff Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany 15:00 - 16:00 (invited) Delphine O - Deputy of Paris, Commission of International Affairs, National Assembly, France (confirmed) Tomáš Valášek - D irector, C arnegie Europe, Czech Republic (confirmed)
Session in partnership with Carnegie Europe, Belgium
14:45 –15:00 Defense Track Presentation
BREAKOUT SESSION | Defense Track Modernisation of the Russian Armed Forces - an “asymmetric response” or preparations for conflict?
Pavel Felgenhauer - Defense Analyst, Novaya Gazeta, Russia (confirmed) 15:00 - 16:00 Gustav Gressel - Senior Policy Fellow, European Council of Foreign Relations, Austria (confirmed) Bettina Renz - Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (confirmed) Col. (ret.) Dr. Zdzislaw Śliwa - Baltic Defence College, Poland (confirmed)
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Moderator: Jacek Bartosiak - Director of Wargaming Studies and Simulations Programme (confirmed)
16:00 - 16:30 NETWORKING BREAK
PLENARY SESSION | Russia and the West: If it's not a Cold War, then what is it? Session in memory of James S. Denton (1951-2018)
Dr. Bobo Lo - Independent Analyst (confirmed) Ilya Ponomarev, Politician, Member of Russian State Duma (2011-2016) (confirmed) Robert Pszczel - Senior Officer, Russia and Western Balkans, Public Diplomacy 16:30 – 17:30 Division, NATO (confirmed) Vygaudas Usackas - Director, Institute of Europe, Lithuania (confirmed) Celeste Wallander - President and CEO of the U.S.-Russia Foundation, Special Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Russia/Eurasia, National Security Council (2013-2017), United States (confirmed)
Moderator: B rian Whitmore - Senior Fellow, CEPA, United States (confirmed)
Session in partnership with Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) , United States
17:30-18:15 CONVERSATION WITH HIGH-LEVEL GUESTS | Catching wind in rough waters - EU and Western Balkans
Ditmir Bushati - M inister of Foreign Affairs, Albania (invited) Ivica Dačić - First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Serbia (invited) Behgjet Pacolli - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kosovo (confirmed) Marija Pejčinović - M inister of Foreign Affairs, Croatia (invited) Radmila Sekerinska – Jankovska - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, Macedonia (confirmed) Helga Schmid - Secretary General, European External Action Service (invited)
18:15 – 18:30 CLOSING REMARKS
18:30 CLOSING COCKTAIL
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