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From 7-8 June 2023, the Riga StratCom Dialogue will bring together the strategic communications community for two days of intensive and inspiring discussion between experts across disciplines from around the globe.

09:00 - 10:15
UTC+3 (EEST)
Registration and Coffee
10:15 - 11:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Jānis Sārts
Director, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
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Krišjānis Kariņš
Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia
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moderator
Ms Annie Geisow
RAF Course Developer/Diversity and Inclusion lead for Joint Service Command and Staff College
moderator
11:00 - 12:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Benedikta Von Seherr-Thoß
Managing Director for CSDP at the European External Action Service
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speaker
Graham Brookie
Vice President, Strategy and Tech Programs Senior Director, Digital Forensic Research Lab
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speaker
Marian Majer
State Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Slovakia
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moderator
Dr Ofer Fridman
Director of Operations, King's Centre for Strategic Communciations
moderator
12:30 - 14:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Batu Kutelia
Senior Fellow, FPRI’s Eurasia Program
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Kirill Konstantinovich Martynov
Editor-in-Chief, Novaja Gazeta Europa
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Rainer Saks
Member of The Management Board at CybExer Technologies, former State Secretary of Foreign Affairs, former Director General of Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service
speaker
moderator
Keir Giles
Senior Consulting Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House, London, UK
moderator
15:30 - 16:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Dr. Hanna Shelest
Director for Security Programmes, Foreign Policy Council "Ukrainian Prism"
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Dr Patrick James Christian
Director of Research & Training UK, CAN, USA, NATO Military Forces, Valka-Mir Research Foundation Psychological Warfare
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Sergiy Sydorenko
Editor, Co-founder, European Pravda
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moderator
Vera Michlin-Shapir
Lecturer in Strategic Communications Education, War Studies Department, King's College London
moderator
17:30 - 17:45
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Baiba Braže
Assistant Secretary General, Public Diplomacy, NATO
speaker
17:45 - 20:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Dinner
08:30 - 10:15
UTC+3 (EEST)
Registration and Coffee
10:15 - 10:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
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Ināra Mūrniece
Minister for Defence of the Republic of Latvia
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10:30 - 12:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
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Baiba Braže
Assistant Secretary General, Public Diplomacy, NATO
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speaker
Francesca Giovannini
Executive Director, Project on Managing the Atom Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School
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Peter Hultquist
Member of Parliament, former Minister of Defence, Sweden
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moderator
Dr. Neville Bolt
Director, King’s Centre for Strategic Communications, King’s College London
moderator
12:00 - 13:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Dr. Daniel Kliman
Senior Advisor for China, Global Engagement Center, U.S. Department of State
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Jacob Wallis
Head of Program, Information Operations and Disinformation, Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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Rachel Chernaskey
Director at Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center (DTAC)
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Tosh Minohara
Chairman/Professor, Research Institute of Indo-Pacific Affairs (RIIPA)
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moderator
Jean-Christophe Boucher
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science, University of Calgary
moderator
15:00 - 15:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Dr. John Kelly
Founder & CEO, Graphika
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speaker
Saad Ansari
Director of AI, Jasper.ai
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speaker
Dr. Thorsten Quandt
Professor of Online Communication, University of Münster, Germany
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moderator
Līna Sarma
Board Member, Riga TechGirls
moderator
17:00 - 17:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
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H.E. Mr. Egils Levits
President of Latvia
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speaker
Jānis Sārts
Director, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
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17:45 - 21:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
Verre de L'amitie (Von Stricka Villa, Briana str. 9)

You can download preliminary conference program in PDF format here.

 

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