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08:00 - 09:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Registration and Morning Coffee
09:00 - 09:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
moderator
Maryna Vorotyntseva
Strategic Communications Consultant
moderator
keynote
Jānis Sārts
Director, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
keynote
09:30 - 10:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Baiba Braže
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Latvia
speaker
speaker
David Cattler
Founder and Managing Principal, Ironhelm Works
speaker
speaker
Jonatan Vseviov
Counsellor to the Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia
speaker
speaker
Dr. Roman Sheremeta
Professor of Economics and Chair of the Economics Department, Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University
speaker
moderator
Oana Lungescu
Distinguished Fellow, Royal United Services Institute
moderator
10:30 - 11:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Andrea Rotter
Deputy Director, Academy for Politics & Current Affairs and Head of Division, Foreign and Security Policy, Hanns Seidel Foundation
speaker
speaker
Louis Brooke
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Zinc Network
speaker
speaker
Max Villman
Founder and Managing Partner, Gungnir Capital
speaker
moderator
Jānis Garisons
CEO, NEWT21
moderator
11:00 - 12:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Dr. Natalya Kovaleva
Academy Fellow, Chatham House
speaker
speaker
Dr. Parnian Sadeghi
Multimedia Journalist, BBC
speaker
speaker
Robert Potter
Founding Partner, Cyber Activities Group (CAG)
speaker
moderator
Eto Buziashvili
Research Fellow, Atlantic Council’s DFRLab
moderator
11:00 - 12:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Col. Brent Hamilton
Strategic Information Operations Planner, U.S. European Command
speaker
speaker
Jay H. Janzen
Allied Command Operations Communications Director, NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE)
speaker
speaker
Kateryna Stepanenko
Russia Team Lead and Deputy Director of the Cognitive Warfare Project, Institute for the Study of War
speaker
moderator
Guna Šnore
Acting Branch Chief, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
moderator
12:00 - 13:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Dr. Chiyuki Aoi
Director, Strategic Communications Education and Research Unit (SCERU), University of Tokyo
speaker
speaker
Janina Gillian O. Santos
Analyst, Local Coordinator, Doublethink Lab
speaker
speaker
Lydia Khalil
Program Director and Research Fellow, The Lowy Institute for International Policy
speaker
speaker
Nicholas Fang
Managing Director, Black Dot
speaker
moderator
Dr. Neville Bolt
Founder and Director, Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications
moderator
14:30 - 15:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Dr. Bo-Jiun Jing
Senior Research Fellow and Programme Manager in Taiwan Studies, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford
speaker
speaker
Fei-Fan Lin
Deputy Secretary General, National Security Council, Taiwan
speaker
speaker
Dr. Ya-Chi Chiang
Deputy Representative, Taipei Representative Office in the United Kingdom
speaker
moderator
Dr. Philipp Fluri
Professor, Department of International Affairs, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages
moderator
15:00 - 16:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Kyoko Kuwahara
Research Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs
speaker
speaker
Rear Admiral (ret.) Takahiro Sasaki
Principal Research Fellow, National Security Institute, Fujitsu Defense and National Security Limited
speaker
moderator
Dr. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova
Director, Latvian Institute of International Affairs
moderator
15:00 - 16:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Adrian J. Arjun
Consultant
speaker
speaker
Dr. Anna Powles
Associate Professor, Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University
speaker
speaker
Jose Sousa-Santos
Associate Professor of Practice Head, Pacific Regional Security Hub, University of Canterbury
speaker
moderator
Eden Cole
Director, Raidillon Associates SRL
moderator
16:00 - 16:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Olga Belogolova
Director, Emerging Technologies Initiative at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
speaker
speaker
Dr. Vilma Luoma-Aho
Dean, School of Business & Economics, University of Jyvaskyla
speaker
moderator
Elīna Lange-Ionatamišvili
Senior Expert, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
moderator
17:30 - 18:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Major General Kaspars Pudāns
Chief of Defence, Republic of Latvia
speaker
speaker
General Onno Eichelsheim
Chief of Defence (CHOD), Netherlands
speaker
moderator
Eleonora Russel
Strategic Communications Advisor, Russell STRATCOM B.V.
moderator
18:30 - 18:45
UTC+3 (EEST)
moderator
Maryna Vorotyntseva
Strategic Communications Consultant
moderator
18:45 - 21:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Networking Reception
08:30 - 10:15
UTC+3 (EEST)
Registration and Morning Coffee
09:00 - 10:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Kristian Ljungberg
Head of Special Operations Communication (N7), Swedish Police Authority
speaker
speaker
Tuva Raanes Bogsnes
Head of Communications, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
speaker
moderator
Ben Heap
Senior Expert, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
moderator
09:00 - 10:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Givi Gigitashvili
Resident Fellow, Atlantic Council's DFRLab
speaker
speaker
Sopo Gelava
Associate Director for Research, Atlantic Council's DFRLab
speaker
speaker
Victoria Olari
Research Associate, Atlantic Council's DFRLab
speaker
moderator
Devin Chavira
Director, Atlantic Council's DFRLab
moderator
09:00 - 10:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Caitlyn Cunningham
Information Environment Assessments Specialist, Accenture Federal Services
speaker
speaker
Dr. Doowan Lee
Chief Strategy Officer, EdgeTheory
speaker
speaker
Robert Pratten
Executive Chair and Founder, Conducttr
speaker
speaker
Tetiana Haiduchyk
Head of Analytics, Trementum
speaker
moderator
Andrew Cheatham
Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor, King's College London and Boston University
moderator
10:00 - 10:20
UTC+3 (EEST)
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
moderator
Maryna Vorotyntseva
Strategic Communications Consultant
moderator
10:30 - 11:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Alistair Wheate
Principal Solution Strategist, Brandwatch
speaker
speaker
Dr. Halyna Padalko
Fulbright Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
speaker
speaker
Dr. Trenton W. Ford
Assistant Professor, Data Science, William & Mary
speaker
moderator
Hadley Newman
Senior Advisor, Defence & Security Academic
moderator
11:30 - 12:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Peter Sjöholm
Senior Cyber Security Consultant, Combitech AB
speaker
speaker
Roman Osadchuk
Director of Threat Intelligence, LetsData
speaker
speaker
Sophia Freuden
Open Source Investigator
speaker
moderator
Dr. Gundars Bergmanis-Korāts
Chief of AI Laboratory, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
moderator
12:00 - 13:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Amitis Sedghi
Partnerships Manager Europe, BBC Monitoring
speaker
speaker
Emerson Brooking
Director of Strategy and Resident Sr. Fellow, Atlantic Council's DFRLab
speaker
speaker
Dr. Rolf Fredheim
Director, Markolo Research
speaker
moderator
Dominik Presl
Podcast Host and OSINT Analyst
moderator
12:00 - 13:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Alex Cooper
Co-Founder, Electric Twin
speaker
speaker
Dr. Marco Gotelli
Senior Researcher, Simulation Team, University of Genoa,
speaker
speaker
Raul Harnasch
Lead, Information Dominance and Deterrence, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
speaker
speaker
Zachary M. Schwitzky
Co-Founder, Limbik
speaker
moderator
Jean-Romain Roy
Data Scientist, NATO StratCom COE's AI Laboratory
moderator
13:00 - 14:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
Lunch
14:30 - 15:30
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Christopher Walker
Vice President, Center for European Policy Analysis
speaker
speaker
Oana Lungescu
Distinguished Fellow, Royal United Services Institute
speaker
speaker
Dr. Pekka Abrahamsson
Professor of Software Engineering, Tampere University
speaker
moderator
Keir Giles
Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House
moderator
15:30 - 16:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Candace Rondeaux
Professor of Practice, Future Security Initiative
speaker
speaker
Dr. Peter Frankopan
Professor of Global History, Oxford University
speaker
moderator
Rebecca Skippage
Consultant, Rebecca Skippage Consulting
moderator
17:00 - 17:15
UTC+3 (EEST)
speaker
Jānis Sārts
Director, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
speaker
moderator
Maryna Vorotyntseva
Strategic Communications Consultant
moderator
18:00 - 22:00
UTC+3 (EEST)
Verre de L'amitié (at K.K. fon Stricka Villa)
NATO StratCom 2022