Agenda
Hilton Hotel Kyiv
Tarasa Shevchenka Blvd., 30, Kyiv, Ukraine
Conference Hall “New York”, 2nd floor (by special invitation only)
Hanna HOPKO, Chairwoman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Petras VAITIEKŪNAS, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania (2006-2008)
Roman WASCHUK, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Ukraine
Jan PIEKLO, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine
Moderator: Alia SHANDRA, Editor-in-Chief, Euromaidan Press
Conference Hall “New York”, 2nd floor (by special invitation only)
Kay Bailey HUTCHISON, Ambassador, U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO
Taras KUZIO, Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University
Stephan de SPIEGELEIRE, Principal Scientist, The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
Moderator: Barbora MARONKOVA, Director, NATO Information and Documentation Center of Ukraine
Dallas Ballroom
Arseniy YATSENYUK, Founder of Open Ukraine Foundation, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014-2016)
Dallas Ballroom
Petro POROSHENKO, President of Ukraine
Dallas Ballroom
Volodymyr GROYSMAN, Prime Minister of Ukraine
Saulius SKVERNELIS, Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania
Pavel FILIP, Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova
Süleyman SOYLU, Special Representative of the President and Government of the Republic of Turkey, the Minister of Interior
Arseniy YATSENYUK, Founder of Open Ukraine Foundation, Prime Minister of Ukraine (2014-2016)
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Dallas Ballroom
Andriy PARUBIY, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Dallas Ballroom
Vasyl BODNAR, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Dănuţ Sebastian NECULĂESCU, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania
Teona AKUBARDIA, Deputy Secretary, National Security Council of Georgia
Pawel Robert KOWAL, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (2006-2007), Member of the European Parliament (2009-2014)
Danylo LUBKIVSKY, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2014)
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Dallas Ballroom
Najet ZAMMOURI, Vice President, the Tunisian Human Rights League, 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Winning organization
Kazuyuki HAMADA, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan (2011-2012)
Stephen LARRABEE, Distinguished Chair in European Security, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Dallas Ballroom
Jeffrey GEDMIN, President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (2007-2011)
Shashi JAYAKUMAR, Head, Center of Excellency for National Security, Singapore
Ricardo BARETZKY, President of European Centre for Information Policy & Security (ECIPS)
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Dallas Ballroom
Ivanna KLYMPUSH-TSINTSADZE, Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine
Conference Hall “New York”, 2nd floor
Josef ZISSELS, Executive Vice President, Congress of Ethnic Communities of Ukraine
Przemysław ŻURAWSKI VEL GRAJEWSKI, Counselor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
James SHERR, Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Chatham House
Philippe de LARA, Philosopher, France
Vakhtang KEBULADZE, Philosopher, Ukraine
Danylo LUBKIVSKY, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2014)
Conference Hall “New York”, 2nd floor (by special invitation only)
David SAMUELS, The New York Times Magazine
Ariel COHEN, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Benjamin HADDAD, Research Fellow, The Hudson Institute
Moderator: Vladislav DAVIDZON, Odessa Review Editor
Dallas Ballroom
Oleksandr TURCHYNOV, Secretary, National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Arsen AVAKOV, Minister of Interior of Ukraine
Rose GOTTEMOELLER, NATO Deputy Secretary General
Raimundas KAROBLIS, Minister for National Defense of the Republic of Lithuania
Sir Malcolm RIFKIND, Secretary of State of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom (1995-1997)
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Dallas Ballroom
Robert KAREM, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Dallas Ballroom
Karel SCHWARZENBERG, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic (2007-2009; 2010-2013)
Oleh LYASHKO, Leader of the Radical Party, Ukraine
Peter BALAZS, Director, Center for European Neighborhood Studies at Central European University, European Commissioner for Regional Policy (2004), Hungary
Joachim SCHUSTER, Member of European Parliament, Germany
Bogdan KLICH, Minority Leader of Senate, Minister of Defense of the Republic of Poland (2007-2011)
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Conference Hall “Istanbul”, 3rd floor (by special invitation only)
Henning TILLMANN, Software Developer and Media Designer, Member of Committee for Media and Net Politics, SPD Party Executive, Germany
Yegor STADNYI, CEDOS, Ukraine
Andrii TYMCHYSHYN-VALEVSKY, Project Coordinator, “Kyiv Smart City”
Moderator: Eva ELLEREIT, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Department Eastern Europe
Dallas Ballroom
Ostap SEMERAK, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine
Andrius KUBILIUS, Member of Seimas of Lithuania, Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania (1999-2000; 2008-12)
Vadym GLAMAZDIN, Special Envoy on government relations, NJSC “Naftogaz of Ukraine”
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Dallas Ballroom
Viacheslav KYRYLENKO, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
Liliia HRYNEVYCH, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine
Steven PIFER, Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Dallas Ballroom
Volodymyr GORBULIN, Director, National Institute of Strategic Studies, Ukraine
Nicolas TENZER, President of the Center for Study and Research for Political Decisions, France
Benjamin HADDAD, Research Fellow, The Hudson Institute
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Dallas Ballroom
Mykola RIABCHUK, President, Ukrainian PEN Center
Alla KOVALENKO, Head, Department of Social Psychology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Denis GURSKY, CEO/Founder, Social Boost, Ukraine
Ivanka NEBOR, CEO/Founder, INgenius, Ukraine
Moderator: David EADES, Journalist, BBC
Dallas Ballroom
David SAMUELS, The New York Times Magazine