Below you will find the presentations from the Avenir Suisse Think Tank Summit 2020. To download a presentation, click on “slides” behind the speech titles.
| Thursday, 16 January 2020 | ||
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| 11.00 - 11.15 | Welcome Note Peter Grünenfelder, Director Avenir Suisse Opening Speech - The Importance of Transnational Security Cooperation in Europe Pascal Lago, Researcher, Security Policy, Avenir Suisse |
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| 11.15 - 12.15 | Introductory Keynotes The Culture of European Security Spyros Economides, Associate Professor in International Relations and European Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science LSE A More Sophisticated Approach to NATO’s Burden Sharing Ben Hodges, Lieutenant General (Ret.), former Commander United States Army Europe from 2014 to 2017 |
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| 13.15-14.30 | Panel 1a | What Is European Security? The EU as a Defense Actor: Towards Strategic Autonomy Yvonni-Stefania Efstathiou, Political Attaché at the EU’s Delegation in Madagascar; former Programme Coordinator and Research Analyst for Defense and Military Analysis, International Institute for Strategic Studies IISS PESCO at 2: Assessing Early Trends (Slides) Steven Blockmans, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Foreign Policy and Institutions Unit, Centre for European Policy Studies CEPS Transatlantic Relations: Internal Divergences, External Challenges and the Way Ahead Karolina Muti, Researcher in Security and Defense at Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome |
| 14.45-16.00 | Panel 1b | Actors in European Defense (NATO, EU, Country Perspectives) France and European Defense – Vision and Ambition Alice Billon-Galland, Research Associate, Europe Programme at Chatham House The UK and European Security after Brexit (Slides) Benjamin Martill, Lecturer in European security, British politics, and Brexit at the University of Edinburgh Pussyfooting, Mediation or Avantgarde? – Germany’s Role in European Defense Olaf Wientzek, Director of the Multilateral Dialogue Geneva at the Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) |
| 16.30-17.35 | Panel 1c | The Challenges of (Post-)Neutral Countries and Their Role for the Security in Europe The Need for Further Development of Swiss Security Policy (Slides) Pascal Lago, Researcher Security Policy, Avenir Suisse Austria’s Engaged Neutrality Heinz Gärtner, International Institute for Peace (IIP) and University of Vienna, Chair of the Advisory Committee for Strategy and Security Policy of the Scientific Commission at the Austrian Armed Forces (BMLV) Swedish Changing Security and Defense Policy in Its Post-Neutral Posture Calle Håkansson, Associate Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs |
| 17.45 - 18.15 | The Swiss Federal Perspective on European Security Baschi Dürr, Member of Basel-Stadt cantonal government; vice president of the Conference of Cantonal Directors of Justice and Police (Slides) |
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| 18.15- 19.00 | Closing Keynote The Odd Animal in the Zoo: Swiss Security Policy Ambassador Pälvi Pulli, Head of Swiss security policy at the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport |
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| Friday, 17 January 2020 | ||
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| 09.00 | Opening Welcome Peter Grünenfelder, Director Avenir Suisse Pascal Lago, Researcher, Security Policy, Avenir Suisse |
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| 9.00 - 9.30 | Introductory Keynote OSCE and the European Security and Cyber Diplomacy OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger |
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| 9.30 - 10.45 | Panel 2a | Cyber Security and Doing Business Cybersecurity: Businesses in the Line of Fire Ria Thomas, Global Co-Lead, Cybersecurity, Brunswick Group The Machines Fight Back – Artificial Intelligence as a Response to Cyber Attacks Hippolyte Fouque, Commercial Director, Darktrace Promise & Pitfalls of Insuring Cyber-Risk (Slides) Jeffrey Bohn, Director, Swiss Re Institute |
| 11.15 - 12.15 | Panel 2b | Cyber Diplomacy, Cyber Warfare and Disinformation Cyber Diplomacy: Opportunities and Challenges for Switzerland Jon Fanzun, Special Envoy for Cyber Foreign and Security Policy at the Swiss Federal Departement of Foreign Affairs FDFA Joint Responses to Malicious Cyber Activities Julia Schuetze, Project Manager, International Cyber and Security Policy, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung Central and Eastern Europe at Digital Age: Challenges for Diplomacy and Security Marcin Zaborowski, Lecturer in International Relations at Lazarski University, Warsaw, Poland |
| 13.15-14.30 | Panel 2c | Cyber Security in Switzerland Cyber Risks and Strategy: Switzerland in a European context Stefanie Frey, Managing Director Deutor Cyber Security Solutions GmbH Switzerland’s Cyber Security Policy (Slides) Manuel Suter, Coordinator of Swiss Cybersecurity strategy at the Federal IT Steering Unit Cyber Risks in the Context of Critical Infrastructure Protection (Slides) Stefan Brem, Head of Risk Analysis and Research Coordination at Federal Office for Civil Protection |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Keynote | Cybersecurity - Perspective of a Transmission System Operator (TSO) Rainer Mühlberger, Head of technology of Swissgrid, the Swiss electricity grid operator |
| 15.30 - 15.40 | Closing Speech | Security in Europe - the Road Ahead Security in Europe – the Road Ahead Pascal Lago, Researcher, Security Policy, Avenir Suisse |
| 15.45 | End of Summit | |
