09:00 
Opening  Remarks 
 

• Sławomir Dębski, Director, The Polish Institute of International Affairs
• Evgenia Kara-Murza, Free Russia Foundation

 

09:30 – 10:30 Panel 1: 
Strategy of Winning. Defining Threats & Outcomes
 

• Richard D. Hooker, Jr., Nonresident Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security 
• Julian Lindley-French, Chairman, The Alphen Group
• Kori Schake, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
• Patrick Turner, Former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Planning and Policy
  
  Moderated by: Minna Ålander, Research Fellow, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs

 

10:30 – 11:30 Panel 2:
Moscow, Teheran, Beijing & Pyongyang: A Discussion Club or New League of Calamitous Intent? 
 

• Stephen Biegun, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
• In-bum Chun, Distinguished Military Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy
• Carsten Sondergaard, Former Ambassador of Denmark to Russia
• Rob de Wijk, Founder HCSS, Professor of International Relations, Leiden University
  
  Moderated by: Sharon Weinberger, National Security and Foreign Policy Editor, The Wall Street Journal

 

11:30 – 12:30 Panel 3:
Safeguarding the Seas: Making the Navy Great Again
 

• Andrew A. Michta, Director and Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Strategy Initiative, Atlantic Council
• Second LT Commander Donata Rossa, Section Head G5/7 Plans and Training, Headquarters Multinational Division North East
• Lin, Ying-Yu, Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies, Tamkang University 
  
  Moderated by: James Rogers, Co-founder and Director of Research, Council on Geostrategy

 

13:30 – 14:30 Panel 4:
European Defence Dilemma. Dependant, Complementary or Independent of the American Shield?

 

• Xavier Chatel, Advisor for Strategic Affairs to President Emmanuel Macron
• Guglielmo Picchi, Director Of International Relations, The Machiavelli Center
• Tomáš Pojar, National Security Advisor to Prime Minister, Czech Republic
• Jakub Wiśniewski, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
  
  Moderated by: Sławomir Dębski, Director, The Polish Institute of International Affairs

 

14:30 – 15:30 Panel 5:
Defeating Russia in the Field and Beyond: the Way to Get it Done
 

• George Barros, Russia Team & Geospatial Intelligence Team Lead, Institute for the Study of War  
• Liana Fix, Fellow For Europe, Council On Foreign Relations
• Lieutenant General Krzysztof Król,  Adviser to the Chief of General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces
• Benjamin Tallis, Senior Research Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations
  
  Moderated by: Teri Schultz, Freelance Reporter

 

15:30 – 16:30 Panel 6:
Cyber & Hybrid Warfare in 2024. A Real Victory over a not so Virtual Foe
 

• Evanna Hu, CEO, Omelas and Nonresident Senior Fellow Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
• Artur Kuliński, Google
• General Karol Molenda, Commander, Cyberspace Defense Forces
  
  Moderated by: Susanna Song, Journalist, The Cybersecurity Simplified Podcast

 

Day two    24 May

 

Working Breakfasts from 08:00 to 9:15 (by select invitation only)

Session I - Journeys to NATO: Taking Lessons from the Past Accessions to Complete the Enlargement

• Pavlo Klimkin, Co-founder at Centre for National Resilience and Development, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
• Patrick Turner, Former NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Planning and Policy or Distinguished Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis
  
  Moderated by: Anna Maria Dyner, Analyst, International Security Program, The Polish Institute of International Affairs

Session II - NATO and the Asia-Pacific: Providing Stability in the Region Through a New Level of Partnerships

• Imants Liegis, Senior Researcher, Latvian Institute of International Affairs
• In-bum Chun, Distinguished Military Fellow, Institute for Security and Development Policy
  
  Moderated by: Wojciech Lorenz, Coordinator, International Security Program, The Polish Institute of International Affairs
   

Session III The Trilateral: How Britain, Poland and Ukraine Can Help Shape Post-War Europe

• James Rogers, Co-founder and Director of Research, Council on Geostrategy,
• Hanna Shelest, Security Studies Program Director, Foreign Policy Council "Ukrainian Prism"
  
  Moderated by: Marcin Terlikowski, Deputy Head of Research, The Polish Institute of International Affairs
  Special Commentary: Dan Carden MP, Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons

 

09:30 – 10:30 Panel 7:
Ukraine Victorious: What's in the Toolbox?

 

• Yevgeniya Gaber, Professor of National Security Studies, George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies
• Pavlo Klimkin, Co-founder at Centre for National Resilience and Development, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
• Marie Mendras, Professor at Sciences Po University
• Daniel Szeligowski, Head of Eastern Europe Programme, The Polish Institute of International Affairs
  
  Moderated by: Konstantin Eggert, DW Russia analyst and programme host

 

10:30 – 11:30 Panel 8:
The Return of the Nuclear Fear: Winning the Global Nuclear Contest

 

• Łukasz Kulesa, Deputy Head of Research, The Polish Institute of International Affairs
• Barbara Kunz, Senior Researcher and Director of the SIPRI European Security Programme
• Paul Schulte, Honorary Professor, Institute for Conflict, Cooperation, and Security, University of Birmingham
• Amy Woolf, Senior Associate Fellow, The Royal United Services Institute
  
  Moderated by: Diego A. Ruiz Palmer, Former Special Advisor for Net Assessment, NATO Headquarters   

 

11:30 – 12:30 Panel 9: 
Draining the Middle East Quagmire: What's in it for the Free World?

 

• General (Ret.) Rajmund Andrzejczak, Former Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces
• Omar Ashour, Director of the Strategic Studies Unit at the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies at the Doha Institute
• John S. Bruni, Chief Executive Officer, SAGE International
• Patti Morrissey, CEO, Global Foresight Strategy
  
  Moderated by: Patrycja Sasnal, Head of Research, The Polish Institute of International Affairs
   

 

13:30 – 14:30 Panel 10:
Securing Peace in the Asia-Pacific. Is there a Role for Europe?

 

• Antoine Bondaz, Director of the Indo-Pacific Observatory, Foundation for Strategic Research
• S. Paul Choi, Principal at StratWays Group
• Alice Yang, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute for National Defense and Security Research
• Tomoyuki Yoshida, Director General, The Japan Institute of International Affairs 
  
  Moderated by: Justyna Szczudlik, Deputy Head of Research, The Polish Institute of International Affairs

 

14:30 – 15:30 Panel 11:
Biden 2.0 or Trump 2.0? Global Consequences for the Next Administration

 

• Charles A. Kupchan, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
• Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, Former Deputy National Security Advisor
• Stanley Sloan, Visiting Scholar in Political Science at Middlebury College
  
  Moderated by: Anne McElvoy, Executive Editor, Head of Audio, Politico Europe

 

15:30 – 16:30 Panel 12:
The Final Countdown. Are We Even Ready to Fight and Win?

 

• Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
  
  Moderated by: Sławomir Dębski, Director, The Polish Institute of International Affairs

 

Closing Remarks

 

Photo gallery from previous editions