Agenda
Navigate the meeting- 8 September
- 9 September
Friday, September 08
10:00
Opening Remarks
Victor Pinchuk
Founder, YES
10:10
11:10
Break
11:45
What Does This War Mean for the Future of Mankind and Today’s Civilization?
Thomas L. Friedman
Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
Timothy Snyder
Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University
Francis Fukuyama
Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Yaroslav Hrytsak
Professor, Ukrainian Catholic University
Comfort Ero
CEO, President, International Crisis Group
12:45
Lunch
14:00
What Heroes Fight For and Give Their Lives For
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Rustem Umerov
Minister of Defense of Ukraine
Dmytro Finashyn
Старший сержант Національної гвардії, Герой України
Masi Nayyem
Founder, Military officer, Miller Law Firm, Armed Forces of Ukraine
Alina Mykhailova
Officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, deputy of the Kyiv City Council, civic activist
Egor Firsov
Junior Sergeant, Combat Medic of the 109 brigade, Armed Forces of Ukraine
Denys Zaikov
Assistant to the Head of the Headquarters Section S-2, the 25-th Air Assault Brigade, Armed Forces of Ukraine
David H. Petraeus
Partner and Chairman, KKR and KKR Global Institute
15:00
Break
15:30
What Works In Today’s World and What Must Be Changed?
Fareed Zakaria
Anchor, CNN
Andrii Yermak
Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
Boris Johnson
Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Head of the Center for Civil Liberties, human rights lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2022
Francis Fukuyama
Senior Fellow, Stanford University
16:30
Tangible Steps from the West - Towards Security and Justice in Unsecured World
Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prize winning Historian, Journalist and Commentator, The Atlantic, The Atlantic
Dmytro Kuleba
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Leo Docherty
Minister for Europe, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the Government of the United Kingdom
Andriy Kostin
Prosecutor General
17:05
Break
17:30
A Conversation with George W. Bush (online): Ukraine and NATO: Looking Back to 2008 and to the Future
Gillian Tett
Chair Editorial Board, Financial Times
George W. Bush
The 43rd President of the United States (2001-2009)
David Rubenstein
Co-Chairman and Co-Founder, The Carlyle Group
18:00
Supporting Ukraine Is the Best You Can Do For the Global Economy?
Gillian Tett
Chair Editorial Board, Financial Times
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Rostyslav Shurma
Deputy Head, Office of the President of Ukraine
Larry Fink
CEO, BlackRock
18:45
The Power of Ukraine’s Ideas
Gillian Tett
Chair Editorial Board, Financial Times
Eugene Hütz
Frontman of the Gogol Bordello Band
Serhiy Zhadan
Poet, novelist, artist "Zhadan i Sobaky"
19:30
Dinner
21:00
Night Caps
Saturday, September 09
07:30
Working Breakfast: Institutions, Mechanisms and Plans for Ukraine’s Reconstruction
Kersti Kaljulaid
President of Estonia (2016-2021), Member, YES
Pierre Heilbronn
Special Envoy of the French President for Ukraine's Relief and Reconstruction, French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
Davide La Cecilia
Special Envoy for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy
Michael Gahler
Member of the European Parliament
Rostyslav Shurma
Deputy Head, Office of the President of Ukraine
Yuliia Svyrydenko
First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister of Economy of Ukraine, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Danylo Getmantsev
Member of Parliament, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
08:30
Break
09:00
The Economy of Survival and the Economy of Recovery
Stephen Sackur
Presenter, BBC
Denys Shmyhal
Prime Minister of Ukraine, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
9:20
Reforms, Democracy and Ukraine’s Accession to NATO and the EU: What Can Ukraine Do in Times of War, and What Exceptions Should Be Made for Ukraine?
Stephen Sackur
Presenter, BBC
Michael McFaul
Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Olha Stefanishyna
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Jim Costa
Congressman, United States House of Representatives
Carl Bildt
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994), Member, YES Board
10:30
Break
11:00
Healing Ukraine: Rehabilitation and Mental Health
Timothy Snyder
Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University
Olena Zelenska
First Lady of Ukraine
11:30
The Military Front
Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prize winning Historian, Journalist and Commentator, The Atlantic, The Atlantic
Ganna Maliar
Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine
Anatoliy Bargilevych
General Major, Chief of Staff of the operational and strategic grouping of forces "Khortytsia", Armed forces of Ukraine
Christian Freuding
Director Joint Planning and Command Staff, Ministry of Defense, Federal Republic of Germany
Vadym Skibitskyi
Deputy Director of the Analytical Department of the Main Directorate of Intelligence, Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
12:45
Lunch
14:15
Has the West Learned from Its Mistakes After Many Years of Neglecting Ukraine to Cooperate With Russia? If Yes, Then Why Does the West Act So Slowly?
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Editor, Foreign Affairs
Radosław Sikorski
Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the EU-USA Delegation
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Lesia Vasylenko
Member of Parliament, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Yehor Cherniev
Member of Parliament, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
15:30
Break
16:00
Path to Victory: A View from the US Government
Natalia Gumeniuk
Co-founder, The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies
Thomas L. Friedman
Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
Victoria Nuland
Acting Deputy Secretary of State, U.S., Department of State
16:30
Of 8 Billion People, How Many Are on Ukraine’s Side?
Fareed Zakaria
Anchor, CNN
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Michael McFaul
Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Happymon Jacob
Founder, Honorary Director, Council for Strategic and Defence Research (CSDR); Associate Professor, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Oleksandr Korniyenko
First Deputy Chairman, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Comfort Ero
CEO, President, International Crisis Group
17:30
Break
18:00
Discussion with Kyrylo Budanov
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Stephen Sackur
Presenter, BBC
Kyrylo Budanov
Lieutenant General, Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Ministry of Defence of Ukraine
18:30
Townhall What is the Definition of Victory as of September 9, 2023?
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Stephen Sackur
Presenter, BBC
19:15
Closing Remarks
Kersti Kaljulaid
President of Estonia (2016-2021), Member, YES
Carl Bildt
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014); Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994), Member, YES Board
19:20
Dinner
«We were shocked with the western elites’ expectations that Ukraine would lose in three days. It was only when we started to fight back within the week that we saw a different Europe. It began with an understanding that Ukraine could win this war and that changed mindsets»