Social networking event to which all participants and panelists are invited.

A fireside chat with Agnieszka Homanska, Head of Minister’s Cabinet, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland, will start at 20:00.

Arrival and registration

Welcome and opening remarks

President of YATA Norway, Richard Federhofer

Nordic Security project managers, Marie Nordlie, Gaute Øien Tollan, Kristina Kvist.

Secretary General of The Norwegian Atlantic Committee, Kate Hansen Bundt

Keynote speech by Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth
Eide

Panel: Multipolarity in Practice: Who Holds Power in a Fragmenting
World?

Panelists:

Espen Barth Eide, Foreign Minister of Norway

Nicolas de La Grandville, Ambassador, European Union Delegation to Norway

Erik Løkke, Fellow, Civita

Øystein Tunsjø, Professor, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies

Moderator: Benedicte Røvik, Excecutive Vice President, YATA International

Coffee Break

In-depth interview: The United States as a changed actor: strategy, power
and a fragmented world

Panelists:

Chris Herrmann, Programme Coordinator/US Programme, European Council on Foreign
Relations

Moderator: Håkon Syrrist, Adviser, Norwegian Ministry of Energy

Lunch break

Coffee break

Panel: Lessons learned from the war in Ukraine, the path to peace, and
deterring future Russian aggression.

Panelists:

Lars Peder Haga, Associate Professor, Norwegian Defence University College

Agnieszka Homanska, Head of Minister’s Cabinet, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland

Stepan Rusyn, Coordinator of German-Ukrainian Partnership Programme, Transatlantic
Dialogue Centre

Moderator: Theodor Kilen Soebner, Board Member, YATA Norway

Registration

Keynote speech by Julie Wilhelmsen – The Russian understanding of
the state and a changing order.

Panel: The Battle of Minds: hybrid threats and disinformation

Panelists:

Julie Wilhelmsen, Leader research group Eastern Europe and Asia, Norwegian Institute
for International Affairs

Paul Buvarp, Senior Researcher Cyber-Social Propaganda and Influence, Norwegian
Defence Research Establishment

Nele Loorents, Secretary General, Estonian Atlantic Council

Moderator: Ani Tsintsadze, European Parliament, European People’s Party

Coffee Break

One-on-One talk: The future of diplomacy in a changing world

Panelists:

Kai Eide, Career Diplomat and former Norwegian ambassador to NATO

Moderator: Chiara Ayad, Aspirant, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Lunch break

Panel: Security in the High North: Cooperation, Diverging Interests, and
Strategic Dynamics

Panelists:

Serafima Andreeva, Researcher, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute

Maria Varteressian, Author/Former State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Bent-Joacim Bentzen, Member of the Norwegian Parliament

Moderator: Ingrid Kongshaug Johannesen, Programme Manager, Nordisk Sikkerhet AS

Motivational closing speech by Chief of the Norwegian Defence Staff
Ingrid Gjerde

Closing remarks by the NorSec project managers, Marie Nordlie, Gaute
Øien Tollan, Kristina Kvist