Program

• Master of Ceremony: Lejla Mazlić, Journalist, Al Jazeera Balkans

• Dr. Hikmet Karčić, Director, Sarajevo Security Conference
• Dr. Azeem Ibrahim OBE, Senior Director, NewLines Institute (DC)
• HE. Dr. Thomas Fitschen, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany
• HE. Henk van den Dool, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

• General Chris Badia, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (DSATC)

ALL GUESTS

Military orchestra of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina

BY INVITATION ONLY

• Major General Matthew J. Van Wagenen, Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, SHAPE HQ 

• Major General Matthew J. Van Wagenen, SHAPE Deputy Chief of Staff Operations
• Dr. Robert Person, Professor of International Relations, United States Military Academy (West Point) 
• Dr. Azeem Ibrahim OBE, Director of New Lines Institute (DC) 
• Brigadier General Jay Janzen (ret), J10 Strategic Communications Director - Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe 
• Moderator: Dr. Harun Karčić, Al Jazeera Balkans

• Vice Admiral Kevin M. Donegan (US Navy, ret.), Distinguished Senior Fellow on National Security at the Middle East Institute

• Matthew James Bryza, former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan 
• Galip Dalay, Chatham House Senior Consulting Fellow, Turkey Initiative, Middle East and North Africa Programme 
• Dr. Burcu Ozcelik, Senior Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute 
• Glenn A. Corn, Senior Director for Geopolitics and Global Threat Assessment, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology and Adjunct Professor, Institute of World Politics 
• Alexander Patterson, Director, SC Strategy, London
• Moderator: Esmir Milavić, Editor and Reporter, N1 Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Prof. Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy Director General of the Royal United Services Institute 
• Dr. Valbona Zeneli, Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and Transatlantic Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security 
• Dr. Jasmin Mujanović, Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Newlines Institute 
• Radmila Shekerinska, Vice President of the Party of European Socialists, former DPM and MoD of North Macedonia 
• Dr. Dženeta Karabegović, Researcher and Lecturer, University of Salzburg 
• Moderator: Aleksandar Brezar, Journalist, Euronews

• Major General Manushaqe Shehu, former Albanian Armed Forces Deputy Chief of General Staff 
• Kayla McGill, Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Advisor
• Sabina Ćudić, Member of Parliament, House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
• Edita Miftari, Women, Peace and Security Program Specialist, UN Women 
• Moderator: Tanya Domi, Adjunct Asst. Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, Harriman Institute & a US Army Veteran Commissioned Officer

• Mykhailo Minakov D. Habil, Senior Advisor, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 
• Host: Dr. Jasmin Mujanović, Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Newlines Institute 

Restaurant Baoli Dining and Lounge - BY INVITATION ONLY

• Major General Barre Seguin (US Air Force, ret), Director of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

• Hans Petter Midttun, Independent analyst on hybrid warfare, Non-Resident Fellow at the Centre for Defense Strategies, former Defense Attaché of Norway to Ukraine, and officer (R) of the Norwegian Armed Forces 
• Dr. Charles Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. 
• Brigadier General Matthew Valas, NATO Headquarters - Sarajevo Commander 
• Major General Dacian Tiberiu Șerban, Director of the Cooperative Security Division (CS) of the NATO International Military Staff (IMS) 
• Moderator: Dr. Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Deputy Editor, Foreign Policy

• Dr. Kenneth Dekleva, Professor of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX

• Adnan Ćerimagić, Senior Analyst, European Stability Initiative (ESI) 
• J.D. Maddox, CEO, Inventive Insights LLC, and professor, George Mason University and Tulane University 
• Natia Seskuria, Associate Fellow at RUSI and Director of Regional Institute for Security Studies (RISS) 
• Frauke M. Seebas, Visiting Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) Brussels Office 
• Moderator: Jeta Loshaj, Program Manager, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Kosovo

The Brasserie, Hotel Novotel - CONFERENCE SPEAKERS AND DELEGATIONS
Conference Room Banja Luka Lounge Area - ALLGUESTS

• Dr. Rosa Aloisi, Associate Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department, Trinity University 
• Vedran Lakić, Minister of the Federal Ministry of Energy, Mining and Industry of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
• Dr. Jelena Džankić, Part-time Professor, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies 
• Alija Kožljak, Chief of Staff of the Chairman of the Presidency BiH dr. Denis Bećirović; National security advisor; Teaching International relations and security 
• Lisbeth Pilegaard, Chair of the Executive Committee of the European Endowment for Democracy (EED) and a Board of Governors member 
• Inspector General Edin Fako, Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
• Haris Avdić-Pejićić, Western Balkans Task Force at the European External Action Service 
• Moderator: Emina Muzaferija, Project Coordinator Western Balkans, New Lines Institute

• Dr. James Waller, Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice, University of Connecticut

• Dr. James Waller, Christopher J. Dodd Chair in Human Rights Practice, University of Connecticut (US) 
• Prof. Rachel Kerr, FRHistS, FHEA, Professor of War and Society in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London 
• Dr. Alfred Montoya, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Trinity University 
• Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Professor Manhattan University, New York 
• Richard S.A. Newell, Researcher at the University of Graz, Center for South East European Studies 
• Velma Šarić, Founder and President of the Post-Conflict Research Center 
• Moderator: Paul Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of the Arts London

Gastro Wine Bar Apetit - BY INVITATION ONLY