Agenda
Navigate the meeting- 9 September
- 10 September
Friday, September 09
09.00
Visit to Hostomel, Bucha
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
President of the Republic of Poland (1995-2005); Chairman, YES Board
Oleksii Kuleba
Head, Kyiv Regional State Administration
15.30
Introduction
Victor Pinchuk
Founder, YES, YES Board
15.40
Ukraine: Defending All Our Freedom
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine, Office of the President of Ukraine
Egils Levits
President of Latvia
Mateusz Morawiecki
Prime Minister of Poland, Chancellery of the Prime Minister
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
16.50
Break and conference picture
17.35
The Place of this War in Human History
Timothy Snyder
Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prize winning Historian, Journalist and Commentator, The Atlantic
Serhii Plokhii
Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
18.20
Security – What Guarantees Will Work?
Andriy Yermak
Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Office of the President of Ukraine
Carl Bildt
Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden; Member, YES Board
Mircea Geoana
NATO Deputy Secretary General
Gillian Tett
Chair of the Editorial Board, Financial Times (US)
18.55
Dinner
20.00
A Conversation with Jake Sullivan (online)
Jake Sullivan (online)
United States National Security Advisor, Executive Office of the President
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
20.20
Interview and Performance Sviatoslav Vakarchuk
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Musician, public activist, Okean Elzy
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
20.40
A Conversation with Haluk Bayraktar
Haluk Bayraktar
CEO, Baykar technology
Kersti Kaljulaid
President of Estonia (2016-2021), United Nations Secretary-General's Global Advocate for Every Woman Every Child; Member, YES Board
21.00
Interview and Performance 95 Kvartal
21.30
Nightcap discussions
Saturday, September 10
07.30
The war: situation as of today, outlooks and perspectives. A Brainstorming
Yevhen Moisuk
Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Armed Forces of Ukraine
Hanna Maliar
Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine
Christian Freuding
Brigadier General; Head of the Situation Center Ukraine, Federal Ministry of Defense
Wesley Clark
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO, Wesley K. Clark & Associates
Andriy Sybiha
Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Office of the President of Ukraine
Nataliya Bugayova
Non-Resident Russia Fellow, Institute for the Study of War
Andriy Zagorodnyuk
Chairman, Centre for Defence Strategies
Elliot Ackerman
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic
Richard Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
08.30
Break
09.00
Are Sanctions on the Right Track?
Andriy Yermak
Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Office of the President of Ukraine
Michael McFaul (online)
Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Gillian Tett
Chair of the Editorial Board, Financial Times (US)
09.30
Crime and Punishment – War Crimes, Genocide and Tribunals
Andriy Kostin
Prosecutor General of Ukraine
Egils Levits
President of Latvia
Geoffrey Nice
Emeritus Professor Law Gresham College London; Chair of China Tribunal, Chair of Uyghur Tribunal, Geoffrey Nice Foundation
Ivan Fedorov
Mayor of Melitopol, Melitopol City Council
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Stanford University
10.15
Break
10.45
Technology, Freedom and the War
Eric Schmidt
Co-Founder, Schmidt Futures; Chair, Special Competitive Studies Project; Former CEO & Chairman, Google, Schmidt Futures
Mykhailo Fedorov
Vice Prime Minister — Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
Andriy Pokrasa
Volunteer, Army of Ukraine
Yuriy Kasyanov
Officer, Army of Ukraine
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
11.35
The Information War
Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prize winning Historian, Journalist and Commentator, The Atlantic
Mykhailo Podolyak
Advisor to the Head of the Office of President of Ukraine
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Editor, ForeignAffairs
12.20
Break
12.50
A Conversation with Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine
Olena Zelenska
The First Lady of Ukraine, Office of the President of Ukraine
Timothy Snyder
Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University
13:20
Lunch
14.40
Future Ukraine – What Country Should We Dream Of, and How Do We Get There?
Eric Schmidt
Co-Founder, Schmidt Futures; Chair, Special Competitive Studies Project; Former CEO & Chairman, Google, Schmidt Futures
Yulia Svyrydenko
First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of Economy of Ukraine, Ministry of Economy of Ukraine
Rostyslav Shurma
Deputy Head, Office of the President of Ukraine
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Masi Nayyem
Founder, Miller law firm
Carl Bildt
Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden; Member, YES Board
15.40
Recovery of Ukraine – A Conversation with Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal
Denys Shmyhal
Prime Minister of Ukraine, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Gillian Tett
Chair of the Editorial Board, Financial Times (US)
16.00
Break
16.30
The Policy of the United States Towards Ukraine Victoria Nuland (online)
Victoria Nuland (online)
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Carl Bildt
Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden; Member, YES Board
16.55
Overcoming Fatigue - Can the West Keep Unity in Supporting Ukraine Against the Russian Aggressor?
Egils Levits
President of Latvia
Annalena Baerbock
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany
Jim Costa
Member from California's 16th District, United States House of Representatives
Wesley Clark
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO, Wesley K. Clark & Associates
Dmytro Kuleba
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
18.25
What is the Definition of Victory?
Oleksii Reznikov
Minister of Defence of Ukraine
Radosław Sikorski
MEP, Chairman of the EU-USA Delegation, European Parliament
Richard Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
William B. Taylor
Vice President, Russia and Europe, United States Institute of Peace
Wolfgang Ischinger
President of the Foundation Council, Munich Security Conference Foundation, Member, YES Board
Robert Seely
Member of Parliament, House of Commons of the United Kingdom
Stephen Sestanovich
Professor, Senior Fellow, Columbia University, Council on Foreign Relations
John E. Herbst
Senior Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
19.15
Dinner
19.10
Closing remarks
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
President of the Republic of Poland (1995-2005); Chairman, YES Board
«If you do things that can make the country a better place, you’re more likely to achieve personal happiness than through anything else you’re likely to do in the short term.»