09:00 – 09:10 – Opening remarks by Juxhina Gjoni, YATA President
09:10 – 09:25 – Keynote address by Amb. Mircea Geoana, NATO Deputy Secretary General
09:25 – 09:40 – Keynote address by Amb. Baiba Braze, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy
09:40 – 09:50 – Keynote address by Fabrizio W. Luciolli, President of the Italian Atlantic Committee
09:50 – 10:20 – Q&A Session moderated by YATA President
10:20 – 10:30 Technical break
I Session – NATO 2030: Future-proofing the Alliance
10:30 – 10:45 – NATO’s Current Agenda – by Nicola de Santis, Head of the Engagements Section, NATO Public Diplomacy Division
10:45 – 11:15 – Q&A Session moderated by Juxhina Gjoni, YATA President
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break
II Session – The Think-Tank Perspective on NATO’s Agenda
11:30 – 11:45 – Ukraine-Georgia – by Bruno Lété, Senior Fellow, Security and Defense, German Marshal Fund of the United States
11:45 – 12:00 – EU-NATO relations– by Benjamin Haddad, senior director of the Europe Center at the Atlantic Council (online intervention)
12:00 – 12:15 – Q&A Session moderated by Chiara Pasini, YATA Executive Vice President
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
III Session – NATO’s Emerging Security Challenges
12:30 – 12:45 – Counter Terrorism – Gabriele Cascone, Head of Counter Terrorism Section, NATO Emerging Security Challenges Division
12:45 – 13:00 – Q&A Session moderated by Felix Debrenti, VP for Public Diplomacy at YATA 13:00 – 13:05 – Technical break
13:05 – 13:20 – The cyber threat landscape and NATO’s approach to tackle it – by Chelsey Slack (Deputy Head of the Cyber Defense Section) and Daniel Black (Senior Cyber Threat Analyst), NATO Emerging Security Challenges Division.
13:20 – 13:40 – Q&A Session moderated by Manuel Santos, YATA Secretary General
Closing Remarks
13:40 – 13:50 – Closing Remarks by Jim Townsend, President of Atlantic Treaty Association (online intervention)
