The Rīga Conference Future Leaders Forum 2024

Future Voices: Leading Through Chaos

Agenda

The event will be held at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation office in Riga.
Marijas iela 13 k-1, Centra rajons, Rīga

 

DAY 1 (October 16)
8:30 – 9:00
Registration and Coffee

 

9:10 – 9:30
Opening remarks
Elizabete Klēra Bože, Project director of the Future Leaders Forum
Latvian Transatlantic Organisation representative

 

9:30 – 10:00
Details on the Agenda
Elizabete Klēra Bože, Project director of the Future Leaders Forum

 

10:00 – 12:00
Simulation: Geopolitical Forecasting
Dr. Balkan Devlen, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Transatlantic Program Director

 

12:10 – 13:10
Lunch at Cidonija

 

13:30 – 14:10
Interview with Dr. Ilze Znotiņa, AST Holding

Moderator: Barnabás Heincz, Deputy editor-in-chief at Hype&Hyper

 

14:20 – 15:20
Steering Through War: The Role of Leaders in Crisis
Inga Samoškaitė, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Assistant Director, Transatlantic Security Initiative
Paul Taylor, European Policy Center, Senior Visiting Fellow

Moderator: Ana Jovanovska, participant of the Future Leaders Forum

 

15:20 – 16:20
Can NATO Endure 21st Century Geopolitics?
Prof. Julian Lindley-French, Chairman of The Alphen Group
Brian Whitmore, Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Texas-Arlington

Moderator: David Shakarishvili, participant of the Future Leaders Forum

 

16:20 – 16:30
Heading to the premises of Andalūzijas suns
Elizabetes iela 83, Centra rajons, Rīga

 

16:30 – 17:30
How to address and talk about sensitive topics
Silvia Boccardi, Journalist and Video Producer
Tomass Pildegovičs, Advisor to the Latvian Foreign Minister on Security and Societal Resilience

Moderator: Tetiana Fedosiuk, participant of the Future Leaders Forum

 

17:30
Closing remarks and networking with the Embassy of Italy in Riga

 

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DAY 2 (October 17)

 

08:30 – 09:00

Registration and coffee

 

09:00 – 09:10

Welcoming remarks

Elizabete Klēra Bože, Project director of the Future Leaders Forum

Oliver Morwinsky, Head of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Offices in the Baltic States

 

09:20 – 10:30

Resilience Skills for Future Leaders: Succeeding in Uncertain Times

Dr Eyal Frucher, Psychiatrist specializing in mental health, including Acute Stress Reaction,

PTSD prevention and treatment, reisilience and suicide prevention.

 

10:30 – 10:50

Coffee Break

 

10:50 – 12:00

Humanity during Safety concerns

Dr Jovana Marovic, Member at Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group

Kimberly Dozier, CNN Global Affairs Analyst

Moderator: Natalia De Linos Pallás, participant of the Future Leaders Forum

 

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch at Andalūzijas suns

 

13:10 – 14:30

Global perspectives: What guiding values emerge in times of global turbulence?

Dr. Tobias Spöri, Research Fellow at the d|part

Hiroyuki Akita, Commentator on Foreign Affairs and International Security Issues, Nikkei

Dr. Marie Mendras, Researcher, CNRS, Professor at Sciences Po

 

14:30

Closing remarks and departure to the Riga Castle Museum

Pils laukums 3, Centra rajons, Rīga, LV-1050

 

Special meetings during the Rīga Conference for the participants of the Rīga Conference Future Leaders Forum

 

 

October 18th at the Riga Castle Museum

12:00 – 12:30

Coffee with H. E. Baiba Braže, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia

 

October 19th at the Riga Castle Museum

10.00 – 10.30

Coffee with Juan Battalame, Security Advisor to Minister of Defence, Academic Director of the Argentinean Council of International Relations and a Professor at the Argentinean Naval War College and Air Force Staff College