Agenda
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Friday, September 12
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10:00
Opening
10:15
A Conversation with the President of Ukraine
Fareed Zakaria
Host and Bestselling Author, CNN
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine
11:00
A Conversation with the President of Finland
Fareed Zakaria
Host and Bestselling Author, CNN
Alexander Stubb
President of the Republic of Finland
11:45
Conference Photo. Break
12:15
Where Are We With Ending the War?
Keith Kellogg
Assistant to the President and Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine
Andrii Yermak
Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
Jonathan Powell
National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Xavier Chatel
Diplomatic Advisor for Strategic Affairs and Disarmament to the President of the French Republic
Fabrizio Saggio
National Security Adviser and Diplomatic Counselor of the Italian Prime Minister
Günter Sautter
Foreign Policy and Security Advisor, German Chancellor
Wolfgang Ischinger
President of the Foundation Council of the Munich Security Conference Foundation, Member, YES Board
Trey Yingst
Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, FOX News Channel
14:00
Lunch
15:15
A Conversation with General Keith Kellogg
Keith Kellogg
Assistant to the President and Special Presidential Envoy for Ukraine
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
15:35
A Conversation with Yvette Cooper and Andrii Sybiha
Carl Bildt
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994), Member, YES Board
Yvett Cooper
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom
Andrii Sybiha
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
16:10
Break
16:30
A Conversation with Ukrainians Who Returned from Russian Captivity
Borys Gudziak
Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, Archeparchy of Philadelphia
Yulian Pylypei
Marine, PoW, Armed Forces of Ukraine
Valeriy Horishnii
Senior Sergeant, 12th Special Forces Brigade Azov
Tetyana Teplyuk
Combat medic of the Azov Corps, PoW, National Guard of Ukraine
Volodymyr Mykolaienko
Mayor of Kherson (2014-2020), former PoW
17:15
How to Finally Put Maximum Pressure on Russia?
Boris Johnson
Former UK Prime Minister
Gabrielius Landsbergis
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania (2020-2024); Founder, NGO Friends of Democracy
Gabriel Attal
Former Prime Minister of the French Republic, Chairman of the EPR Group
Trey Yingst
Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, FOX News Channel
Anne Applebaum
Historian, Journalist and Commentator, The Atlantic
18:00
Break
18:30
When Is Europe Ready for a Russian Attack?
Radosław Sikorski
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
Pavlo Palisa
Deputy Head, Office of the President of Ukraine
Kaupo Rosin
Director General of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Republic of Estonia, EFIS
Moritz Schularick
President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Trey Yingst
Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, FOX News Channel
19:30
Dinner
21.00
Nightcaps
Saturday, September 13
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09:00
The State of the Country
Fareed Zakaria
Host and Bestselling Author, CNN
Taras Kachka
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine
Oleksii Sobolev
Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine
Serhii Marchenko
Minister of Finance of Ukraine
09:30
Message from the President of the United States Donald J. Trump
09:35
The State of the War and What We Need to End It
Denys Shmyhal
Minister of Defence of Ukraine
Chrystia Freeland
Minister of Transport and Internal Trade of Canada, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada
10:20
War on the Ground
Ievgen Moisiuk
Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine
Andrii Hnatov
Lieutenant General, Chief of the General Staff, Armed Forces of Ukraine
Ihor Obolensky
Commander of the 2nd Khartia Corps, National Guard of Ukraine
Andriy Biletsky
Commander of the 3rd Corps , Armed Forces of Ukraine
David Petraeus
Partner, Chairman of the Global Institute and Chairman of KKR Middle East
Carl Bildt
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994), Member, YES Board
Gillian Tett
Columnist and Editorial Board Member, Financial Times
11.00
Break
11:15
Reforms And Fight Against Corruption
Ruslan Stefanchuk
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Taras Kachka
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine
Semen Kryvonos
Director, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine
Oleksandr Klymenko
Head, Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office
Benjamin Haddad
Minister Delegate for Europe, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France
Chrystia Freeland
Minister of Transport and Internal Trade of Canada, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada
11:15
Reforms And Fight Against Corruption
Igor Zhovkva
Deputy Head, Office of the President of Ukraine
Radosław Sikorski
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
James Panetta
Congressman, United States House of Representatives
Hanno Pevkur
Minister of Defence of the Republic of Estonia
Kajsa Ollongren
EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Member, YES Board
12:45
Lunch
13:45
Is Russia Winning or Collapsing?
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Happymon Jacob
Editor, India’s World magazine
Jade McGlynn
Senior Research Fellow, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Sergiy Kyslytsya
First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Gillian Tett
Columnist and Editorial Board Member, Financial Times
Trey Yingst
Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, FOX News Channel
14.50
Break
15:20
Drones and the Future of Warfare in Ukraine
Oleksandr Kamyshin
Advisor to the President, Office of the President of Ukraine
Shamil Krutkov
Commander of the 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade, Armed Forces of Ukraine
Christian Freuding
Major General, German Federal Ministry of Defense
Andrius Kubilius
Commissioner for Defence and Space, European Comission
Sven Kruck
СЕО, Quantum Systems
Sanna Marin
Prime Minister of Finland (2019-2023); Member, YES Board
Nataliya Gumeniuk
CEO, Public Interest Journalism Lab
16.15
A Conversation with Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt
Former CEO & Chairman, Google
Fareed Zakaria
Host and Bestselling Author, CNN
16:30
Break
17:00
What Will Historians Consider a Ukrainian Victory?
Timothy Snyder
Professor, University of Toronto
Serhii Plokhii
Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University
Yaroslav Hrytsak
Historian; Doctor of Historical Sciences; Professor, Ukrainian Catholic University
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Thomas Friedman
Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
18:00
How to End the War?
Oleg Sentsov
Military, Armed Forces of Ukraine
Yehor Firsov
Commander of the Muramasa group, 21st Regiment of Unmanned Systems
Oksana Rubaniak
Commander of a Strike UAV Company, Unmanned Systems Battalion of the 67th Mechanized Brigade
Dmytro Finashyn
Advisor of the Minister of Internal Affairs for Veteran Policy, Ministry of Internal Affairs
Mariia Nazarova
Tactic medic NAEMT instructor
Volodymyr Demchenko
Commander of the Unmanned Systems Battalion, 93rd Mechanized Brigade
Chrystia Freeland
Minister of Transport and Internal Trade of Canada, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada
18:50
Closing statement
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
President of the Republic of Poland (1995-2005); Chairman, YES Board
«The world must revise its approach to global governance »