Agenda

Welcoming Remarks

Global Threats and Ukraine’s Contribution

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

President of Ukraine

Stephen Sackur

Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

Break and conference picture

Brainstorming: Are We Heading for Apocalypse?

Niall Ferguson

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Rutger Bregman

Historian, Author, De Correspondent

Stephen Sackur

Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

Brainstorming: Does the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan Imply a Loss of Credibility for All US Commitments and Alliances? Or is Afghanistan a Special Case?

Charles Kupchan

Professor, Senior Fellow, Georgetown University, Council on Foreign Relations

John Bolton

Former U.S. National Security Advisor, The John Bolton PAC

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Philosopher and Writer

Rana Foroohar

Financial Times Columnist, Global Economic Analyst, Author

Aziz Harara

Visual Artist

Lunch

Extreme Weather and Climate Change – Can We Stop It, and What Will It Take?

Andrew Forrest AO

Chairman and Founder, Fortescue Metals Group, Fortescue Future Industries, Minderoo Foundation, and Tattarang

Mike Berners-Lee

Director, Small World Consulting

Rutger Bregman

Historian, Author, De Correspondent

Fareed Zakaria

Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN

Break

Brainstorming: AI and Big Tech: Global Threat or Global Cure?

Cathy O'Neil

Founder, ORCAA

Rana Foroohar

Financial Times Columnist, Global Economic Analyst, Author

Stephen Sackur

Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

A Discussion on the Future of AI

Eric Schmidt

Co-Founder, Schmidt Futures, Former CEO & Chairman, Google

Fareed Zakaria

Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN

Break

West, US, China, Russia...and Ukraine

Linda Yueh

Fellow in Economics, St Edmund Hall, Oxford University Adjunct Professor of Economics, London Business School Visiting Professor, LSE IDEAS

Masha Gessen

Author, Journalist, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Distinguished Writer in Residence, Bard College

Charles Kupchan

Professor, Senior Fellow, Georgetown University, Council on Foreign Relations

Michael McFaul

Academic and Diplomat

Rana Foroohar

Financial Times Columnist, Global Economic Analyst, Author

Is Humankind Getting More Peaceful? Or Are We Heading for a Third World War?

Steven Pinker

Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University

Niall Ferguson

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Summary

Carl Bildt

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994), YES Board

Dinner

The United States’ Foreign Policy and What it Means for Ukraine

Victoria Nuland

Under Secretary for Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Carl Bildt

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994), YES Board

COVID and Future Pandemics. Part 1

Nicholas Christakis

Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science

Niall Ferguson

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

COVID and Future Pandemics. Part 2

Noubar Afeyan

Founder & CEO, Flagship Pioneering; Co-founder and Chairman, Moderna

Fareed Zakaria

Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN

Pipelines, Politics and Pipedreams. Balancing energy security, climate change and costs (Nightcap)

Crisis in Belarus: What does it mean for Ukraine, the United States, and European security? (Nightcap)

Decarbonization. What is the Ukrainian way? (Nightcap)

Social Inequality and What Can We Do About It (Nightcap)

Security breakfast (off the record)

Brainstorming: Nord Stream 2 – What do We Have Besides. Part 1

Amos Hochstein

U.S. Senior Advisor for Energy Security, U.S. Department of State

Rana Foroohar

Financial Times Columnist, Global Economic Analyst, Author

Discussion paper

Brainstorming: Nord Stream 2 – What do We Have Besides. Part 2

Andriy Yermak

Head, Office of the President of Ukraine

Wolfgang Ischinger

Ambassador, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Senior Professor of Hertie School of Governance

Yuriy Vitrenko

CEO, NJSC "Naftogaz of Ukraine"

Rana Foroohar

Financial Times Columnist, Global Economic Analyst, Author

Discussion paper

Rule of Law in Ukraine - Is It Getting Better or Worse?

Dmytro Razumkov

Chairman, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Gillian Tett

Chair of the Editorial Board, Editor-at-large, US, The Financial Times

Break

Is the De-Oligarchization Initiative a Good Step for Ukraine?

Oleksii Danilov

Secretary, National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Denys Malyuska

Minister of Justice of Ukraine

Daron Acemoglu

Institute Professor, MIT

Vladyslav Rashkovan

Alternate Executive Director, International Monetary Fund

Stephen Sackur

Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

Europe and Ukraine: Addressing Global Challenges Together

Kersti Kaljulaid

President of Estonia

Dmytro Kuleba

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Stephen Sackur

Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World News

Lunch

Ukraine in the Global Economy – What Can Ukraine Contribute?

Vladyslav Rashkovan

Alternate Executive Director, International Monetary Fund

Olena Bilan

Chief Economist, Dragon Capital

Taras Kachka

Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine – Trade Representative of Ukraine

David M. Rubenstein

Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, The Carlyle Group

Gillian Tett

Chair of the Editorial Board, Editor-at-large, US, The Financial Times

Summary

Carl Bildt

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994), YES Board

The Kremlin’s View of Ukraine – and What to Do About It

Timothy Snyder

Levin Professor of History, Yale University

Serhii Plokhii

Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Olha Stefanishyna

Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine

Masha Gessen

Author, Journalist, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Distinguished Writer in Residence, Bard College

Niall Ferguson

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Break

9/11 and the Aftermath – What it Means for Tomorrow

Tony Blair

Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007)

Fareed Zakaria

Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN

Closing Debate: A New Cold War Cannot Save a Warming Planet

Niall Ferguson

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Fareed Zakaria

Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN

Gillian Tett

Chair of the Editorial Board, Editor-at-large, US, The Financial Times

Closing Remarks

Aleksander Kwaśniewski

President of Poland (1995-2005), Chairman of the Board of YES

Reception