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08:30 - 10:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Registration and coffee
10:00 - 10:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
moderator
Henrik Twetman
Business Unit Manager, Combitech
moderator
keynote
Jānis Sārts
Director, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
keynote
10:30 - 12:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Dr. Andris Sprūds
Minister of Defence, Republic of Latvia
speaker
speaker
Chiyuki Aoi
Director and Professor, Strategic Communications Education and Research Unit, University of Tokyo
speaker
speaker
Nico Lange
Senior Fellow, Munich Security Conference
speaker
speaker
Peter Frankopan
Professor of Global History, Oxford University
speaker
moderator
Oana Lungescu
Distinguished Fellow, Royal United Services Institute
moderator
12:00 - 13:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Marie-Doha Besancenot
Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO
speaker
speaker
Shikata Noriyuki
Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs, Prime Minister's Office of Japan
speaker
speaker
Stephanie Speck
Head of Communications, Green Climate Fund
speaker
speaker
Tanna M. Krewson
NATO ACT Contractor
speaker
moderator
Jay Paxton
Chief Public Affairs Officer, NATO ACT
moderator
15:00 - 15:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Peter Greste
Professor of Journalism, Macquarie University
speaker
speaker
Sevgil Musaieva
Editor-in-Chief, Ukrainskaya Pravda
speaker
moderator
Gunta Sloga
Executive Director, Baltic Centre for Media Excellence
moderator
15:30 - 16:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard
Tech Ambassador
speaker
speaker
Dmytro Plieshakov
CEO and Co-founder, Osavul
speaker
speaker
Roberta Duffield
Director of Intelligence, Blackbird.AI
speaker
moderator
Dr. Gundars Bergmanis-Korāts
Principal Scientist, NATO StratCom COE
moderator
15:30 - 16:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Dr. Liudmila Dolhonovska
Chief of Staff, American University Kyiv
speaker
speaker
Martina Smedberg
Program Manager, Psychological Defence Research Institute, Lunds University
speaker
speaker
Oana Lungescu
Distinguished Fellow, Royal United Services Institute
speaker
moderator
Jean-Christophe Boucher
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science, University of Calgary
moderator
16:30 - 17:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Coffee break
17:00 - 17:20
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Sir Lloyd Marshall Dorfman
British entrepreneur and philanthropist
speaker
moderator
Dr. Neville Bolt
Founder and Director, Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications
moderator
17:20 - 18:20
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Anneli Ahonen
Former Head of East Stratcom Task Force, EEAS
speaker
speaker
Air Vice-Marshal Di Turton
Military Representative to NATO, Australia
speaker
speaker
Dr. Mervyn Frost
Professor of International Relations, Department of War Studies at King's College London
speaker
moderator
Dr. Neville Bolt
Founder and Director, Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications
moderator
18:20 - 18:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
moderator
Henrik Twetman
Business Unit Manager, Combitech
moderator
18:30 - 21:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Networking reception
08:30 - 10:15
UTC+3 (EEST)
Registration and coffee
09:00 - 10:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Franky Saegerman
Digital Analyst, Information Environment Assessment Team, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO HQ
speaker
speaker
Varis Teivāns
Deputy Manager, CERT.LV
speaker
moderator
Dr. Hadley Newman
Strategic Communications Advisor
moderator
09:00 - 10:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Emerson Brookings
Director of Strategy and Resident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council’s DFRLab
speaker
speaker
Eto Buziashvili
Research Associate for the Caucasus, Atlantic Council’s DFRLab
speaker
speaker
Givi Gigitashvili
Research Associate for the Caucasus, Atlantic Council’s DFRLab
speaker
speaker
Graham Brookie
Vice President and Senior Director, Atlantic Council’s DFRLab
speaker
09:00 - 10:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Dr. James Pamment
Director, Lund University Psychological Defence Research Institute
speaker
speaker
Mykola Balaban
Deputy Head, Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security of Ukraine
speaker
moderator
Ben Heap
Senior Expert, NATO StratCom COE
moderator
10:15 - 10:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
keynote
Jānis Sārts
Director, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
keynote
10:30 - 12:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Anja Manuel
Executive Director, Aspen Strategy Group
speaker
speaker
Barbora Bukovska
Senior Director for Law and Policy, Article 19
speaker
speaker
Dr. Charles Kriel
Senior Fellow, AI & Technology, Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications
speaker
12:00 - 13:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Arnold Sinisalu
Former Chief of Estonia Internal Security Service
speaker
speaker
Jeppe Kofod
Executive Strategic Advisor, Kofod Global, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark
speaker
speaker
Olga Belogolova
Director, Emerging Technologies Initiative, Johns Hopkins SAIS, Lecturer, Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies
speaker
speaker
Rory Cormac
Professor of International Relations, University of Nottingham
speaker
moderator
Graham Brookie
Vice President and Senior Director, Atlantic Council’s DFRLab
moderator
15:00 - 15:45
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Chris Riley
Head of Strategic Communications Unit, NATO Public Diplomacy Division
speaker
speaker
Jay H. Janzen
Director of the Communications Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
speaker
speaker
Rain Ottis
Professor of Cyber Operations, Head of the Centre for Digital Forensics and Cyber Security, Tallinn University of Technology
speaker
moderator
Guna Šnore
Senior Expert, NATO StratCom COE
moderator
15:45 - 16:15
UTC+3 (EEST)
Coffee break
16:15 - 17:45
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Dr. Ahmed Naimat
Director of the Media Response Unit, NCSCM
speaker
speaker
Ai-Men Lau
Social Engagement Team Lead, Doublethink Lab
speaker
speaker
H. E. Baiba Braže
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
speaker
speaker
Jagannath P. Panda
Head, Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs
speaker
speaker
Justin Arenstein
Investigative Journalist, Co-Founder of CODE for Africa
speaker
moderator
Dr. Vera Michlin-Shapir
Director of Education, Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications
moderator
17:45 - 18:15
UTC+3 (EEST)
keynote
H.E. Edgars Rinkēvičs
President of the Republic of Latvia
keynote
18:30 - 22:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Verre de l'amitié / location - Vest Osta, Eksporta Street 3A, Riga

 

 

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