Agenda

  • 10:30-11:30

    Why We Fight For You: A Conversation with Soldiers and Veterans

    Moderator: Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994), Member, YES Board

    • Khrystyna Boychuk, Officer, National Guard of Ukraine

    • Dmytro Finashyn, Hero of Ukraine, Advisor on Veteran Policy to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

    • Daniel Salem, Officer, Special Forces Unit

    • "Tataryn", Crimean Tatar, Soldier, Armed Forces of Ukraine

    14:00-15:00

    Tectonic Shift? What A New US and Europe Mean for Ukraine

    Moderator:Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist

    • Charlie Gasparino, Senior Correspondent, Fox Business Network

    • Niall Ferguson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

    • Walter Mead, Global View Columnist, Wall Street Journal

    • Nataliia Gumenyuk,  Co-founder, Public Interest Journalism Lab and The Reckoning project

    17:00-18:00

    Food Security in the Changing Times

    Moderators: Nataliya Gumenyuk and Katrin Eigendorf

    • Vitaliy Koval, Minister of Agrarian policy and food of Ukraine

    • Rania Dagash-Kamara, Assistant Executive Director, World Food Program

    • Taras Kachka, Trade Representative of Ukraine - Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukrainе

    21:00-21:45

    160 GB of Resistance. A conversation with S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 video game creators Ievgen and Mariia Grygorovych

    • Ievgen Grygorovych, CEO, GSC Game World

    • Maria Grygorovych, Creative Director, GSC Game World

    21:45-22:45

    Nightcap discussion

    Breakdown of Global Order or a Chance for Renewal? Ukraine and Beyond 

    Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger, President of the Foundation Council of the Munich Security Conference Foundation, Member, YES Board

    • Ishaan Tharoor, Foreign Affairs Columnist, Washington Post

    • Philips O’Brien, Professor, Chair of Strategic Studies, St. Andrews University

    • Valerii Pekar, Chairman of the Board, Decolonization NGO

    • Oleksandr Korniyenko, First Deputy Chairman, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

  • 9.30-10.00

    Special Discussion with Elina Valtonen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland

    Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger, President of the Foundation Council of the Munich Security Conference Foundation, Member, YES Board

    12:30-13:15

    How Do International Norms Work? A Conversation With Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker

    Moderator: Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, Editor in Chief, Foreign Affairs

    • Dr. Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

    15:00-16:00

    A World War Ukraine Must Win

    Moderator: Nataliya Gumeniuk, Co-founder, Public Interest Journalism Lab and The Reckoning project 

    • Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs, Yale University

    • Kenneth Woosuk Choi, Deputy Managing Editor of The Chosun Daily Newspaper, Director General, The Asian Leadership Conference

    • Philips O’Brien, Professor of Strategic Studies, St. Andrews University

    • Oz Katerji, Ukraine Correspondent, TVP World

    18:00-19:00

    Security and Military Production – Is the West Losing? How to Prevail in Ukraine, and Why It Is Our Best Option.

    Moderator: Charlie Gasparino, Senior Correspondent, Fox Business News

    • Moritz Schularick, President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy

    • Margus Tsahkna, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia 

    • Oleksandr Kamyshin, Advisor to the President for Strategic Affairs, Office of the President of Ukraine

    • Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder and CEO, People.ai

  • 10:00-11:00

    The Stakes of the War: What Can History Tell Us?

    Moderator: Nataliia Gumenyuk, Co-founder, Public Interest Journalism Lab and The Reckoning project

    • Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs, Yale University

    • Yaroslav Hrytsak, Professor, Ukrainian Catholic University

    • Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times

    • Walter Mead, Global View Columnist, Wall Street Journal

    17:15-18.10

    Kidnapped to Kill: The Weaponization of Ukraine’s Children by Russia (organized in cooperation with the Office of the President of Ukraine)

    Moderator: Gillian Tett, Columnist and Editorial Board Member, Financial Times

    • Mr. Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director, Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab

    • Mykola Kuleba, Founder, Save Ukraine; Expert in child protection

    • Daria Zarivna, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine

    • Baroness Helena Kennedy of the Shaws LT KC