Security and prosperity at the eastern border of NATO and the EU – 2019

SECURITY AND PROSPERITY AT THE EASTERN BORDER OF NATO AND THE EU

7th of November 2019, JW Marriott Bucharest – ROMANIA
– a Diplomacy360 International Conference –
4th edition

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CONFERENCE AGENDA: 7th of November 2019
JW Marriott Bucharest, ROMANIA

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9:00 – 9:30 — Registration, Welcome Coffee & Networking

9:30 / Official opening

Opening remarks: Valentin PREDA – CEO, Romanian Business Exchange

General(r) Nicolae CIUCA – Minister of National Defence

Constantin IONESCU – State Adviser at the Presidential Administration – Head of the Integrated Intelligence Office

Ms. Abigail RUPP – Deputy Head of Mission: Embassy of the United States of America

10:00 – 11:00 / 70 years of the Transatlantic Alliance – NATO

H.E. Mr. Cristian DIACONESCU – Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Magdalena Szuber-Zasacka – Charge d’Affaires Embassy of Poland

Iulian CHIFU – President of The Center for Conflict Prevention and Early Warning

Moderator: General(r) Alexandru GRUMAZ

The panel is held under the Chatham House rules.

11:00 – 11:15 — Coffee Break & Networking

11:15 – 12:00 / The role of the Defense Factor in providing Security and Prosperity at the Eastern border of NATO and EU

Colonel Flavien GARRIGOU-GRANDCHAMP – Defense Attaché: Embassy of France

Commander Neil THOMPSON – Defence Attaché: British Embassy

Colonel Jerzy JANKOWSKI – Defence, Military, Naval and Air Attaché: Embassy of Poland

Moderator: General(r) Paul HURMUZ, Career Military Diplomat – Former Deputy Director of the Intelligence Division of the NATO International Military Staff

The panel is held under the Chatham House rules.

12:00-12:45 — Lunch Break & Networking

12:45 – 13:30 / Strategic Business Diplomacy

Sorin PREDA – CEO, Global Vision

Cosmin GHITA – CEO, NUCLEARELECTRICA

Cristian NACU – Sr. Country Officer Romania & Moldova, International Finance Corporation

Javier Garcia del Valle – CEO, Happy Tour

Moderator: Emanuel CERNAT – Public Affairs Manager, McGuireWoods

13:30 – 13:45 / Cyber Diplomacy

Shaun RIORDAN – British Career Diplomat, Director of the Chair in Diplomacy and Cyberspace and the European Institute of International Studies

13:45 – 14:30 / Diplomacy’ Synergies with other sectors

Ionut RITES – Chief of Classified Information Office – Chamber of Deputies