DAY 1
13/11/2020
9:30—10:00
Registration
10:00—10:15
Welcome to BSC
10:15—10:45
Keynote Speeches
Ioan Mircea Pașcu, Former Vice President of the European Parliament, former Minister of Defence of Romania
, Jamie SHEA, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, former NATO Spokesperson
, David VAN WEEL, Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO



10:45—12:30
Plenary session – The world after COVID 19 – how will the pandemic redesign our world; B9 countries in a world of westlessness?
Simona COJOCARU, State Secretary for Defence Policy, Planning and International Relations, Ministry of National Defence, Romania
, Viorel Ardeleanu, Director General, Department for Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania
, Vasile Secăreş
, Noel FACHI, heater Security Cooperation Program Manager, HQ USAFE-AFAFRICA, Péter Balázs, Director, Center for European Enlargement Studies
, H.E. Violeta MOTULAITĖ, Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to Romania
, H.E. Ingrid KRESSEL VINCIGUERRA, Ambassador of Estonia to Romania





14:00—16:00
Parallel panel 1- Europe's future, between political (in)stability and defence challenges
14:00 — 16:00
Parallel panel 2 - 10 years of Eastern Partnership
Day 2
14/11/2020
9:30—10:00
Welcome
10:15—12:00
Plenary session NATOs Strategic Goals. Military capabilities in the Black Sea
Major Gen. Stayko PROKOPIEV, Director of Defence Staff, Bulgaria, Gen. (Ret.) Mihail Ionescu, Former Director of the Institute for Military History and Defence Political Studies, Romania
, Boyko Noev, Former Minister of Defence, Bulgaria
, Brig Gen (ret) Mircea Mîndrescu, Chair of the Executive Academic Board (EAB) of the European Security and Defense College
, Antonia COLIBĂȘANU, SNSPA, Romania
, Sergiy GERASYMCHUK, Deputy Executive Director, Regional Initiatives and Neighbourhood Program Director, the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”, Ukraine





14:00—16:00
Parallel panel 1 Threats of the future and R&D: from hybrid to biological threats
Ioan-Cosmin Mihai, Vice President of Romanian Association for Information Security Assurance (RAISA)
, H.E. Sorin Ducaru, Director, SatCen
, Daniel FIOTT, Security and Defence Editor, EUISS, Visiting Professor at the Institute for European Studies, Free University of Brussels (IES), Belgium
, Hanna SHELEST, Editor-in-Chief at Ukraine Analytica (UA); Security Studies Program Director, The Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”, Ukraine
, Radu Magdin, VP, Strategikon, CEO, Smartlink Communications SRL, Romania





14:00— 16:00
Parallel panel 2 Informational warfare in Eastern Europe: new challenges in times of Covid-19
Alina Bârgăoanu, Dean, Faculty of Communication and Public Relations, SNSPA
, Carmen ROMERO, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy
, Angel TILVAR, Deputy Head of the Romanian Delegation to the NATO PA, Dan Sultănescu, Research Director, Center for Civic Participation and Democracy, SNSPA, Romania
, Alex SERBAN, Atlantic Council Romania
, Olena CARBOU, Executive Director Ukrainian Think Tanks Liaison Office in Brussels
, Elena MÂRZAC, Executive Director of the IDC on NATO in Moldova
, Octavia MOISE PhD, SNSPA, Romania







14:00— 16:00
Parallel panel 3 China: a future European Power?
Viorel ISTICIOAIA BUDURA, Former Ambassador of Romania to People’s Republic of China
, Doru COSTEA, Former Ambassador of Romania to China
, Adrian Severin, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Romania
, Flavius CABA-MARIA, President of Middle East Political and Economic Institute, Alexandru GEORGESCU, Senior Analyst ICI
, Liviu MUREȘAN, President, EURISC, Romania





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Professor
Ioan Mircea PAȘCUFormer Vice-president of the European Parliament and Chairman of the BSC Advisory Board at #BSC2018
“Our security environment has deteriorated and it does that at an exponential pace. Probably we were not paying enough attention to a number of threats and we are confronted not with linear developments, but rather with a series of breakthroughs”
Mr. Pascu will have an opening speech at the 2020 edition of the Bucharest Security Conference.