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The New Atlanticist newsletter #DisinfoWeek Edition

Welcome and Introduction
9:00 – 9:10 a.m.

Mr. Frederick Kempe
President and CEO
Atlantic Council

Opening Keynote
9:10 – 9:45 a.m.
 
The Hon. Chris Murphy
US Senator for Connecticut
US Senate

The Hon. Rob Portman
US Senator for Ohio
US Senate
 
Panel 1: Russia's Information War in Europe: Undermining Democratic Values
 9:45 – 10:45 a.m.

Mr. Boris Reitschuster
Former Head, MoscowBureau
FOCUS Online
 
Ambassador Kurt Volker
Executive Director
The McCain Institute for International Leadership
 
Mr. Benjamin Haddad
Research Fellow
Hudson Institute

Ambassador Daniel Fried
Distinguished Senior Fellow,
Future Europe Initiative and Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Atlantic Council
 
Moderated by:
Dr. Laura Jewett
Regional Director, Eurasia
National Democratic Institute

Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:00 a.m.

Panel 2: Responding to Digital Disinformation
11:00 – 12:00 p.m.

Ms. Susan Glasser
Chief International Affairs Columnist
 POLITICO
 
The Hon. Will Hurd
Representative,
23rd Congressional District of Texas
US House of Representatives
 
Dr. Jennifer Lambert
Deputy Director, Office of Analytics, Bureau of International Information Programs
US Department of State
 
Mr. Clinton Watts
Senior Fellow, Center for Cyber and Homeland Security
George Washington University 
(Remotely)

Moderated by:
Dr. Alina Polyakova
Director of Research, Europe and Eurasia
Atlantic Council

Lunch
12:00 – 12:30 p.m.

Keynote
12:30 – 1:00 p.m.

Secretary Madeleine K. Albright
Chairman
National Democratic Institute
 
Moderated by:
Mr. Damon Wilson
Executive Vice President
Atlantic Council

Panel 3: The Unlikely Resister: Learning from Ukraine's Experience with Fake News
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Mr. Simon Ostrovsky
Reporter
CNN Investigations
 
Mr. Dmytro Potekhin
Founder, CivicOS.net; CEO
Nonviolent.Solutions

Dr. Yevhen Fedchenko
Co-Founder
StopFake.Org  

Moderated by:
Ms. Myroslava Gongadze
Ukraine Chief
Voice of America

Panel 4: Striking Back I: Strategies of Resistance From the Front Line States
2:00 – 2:45 p.m.

Mr. Mikael Tofvesson
Head of the Global Monitoring and Analysis Section
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
 
Mr. Thomas Elkjer Nissen
Special Consultant
Royal Danish Defence College
 
Ms. Jessikka Aro
Journalist
Yle

Moderated by:
Mr. Aaron Korewa
Project Coordinator, Decision Theater
McCain Institute for International Leadership
 
Panel 5: Striking Back II: Strategies of Resistance From the Front Line States
3:00 – 3:45 p.m.

Mr. Jakub Janda
Head, Kremlin Watch Program
European Values Think Tank

H.E. Rasa Juknevičienė
Member; Deputy Chair of National Security and Defence Committee
Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania

Mr. Roman Shutov
Program Director
Detector Media

Moderated by:
Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin
Senior Fellow, Future Europe Initiative
Atlantic Council
 
Panel 6: The Future of Political Warfare
3:45 – 4:45 p.m.
 
H.E. David McAllister 
Member; Head of the Committee of Foreign Relations
European Parliament
 
Ambassador Alexander Vershbow
Distinguished Fellow, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security
Atlantic Council

Mr. Matt Olsen
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security; Former Director
National Counterterrorism Center

Moderated by:
Ms. Geysha Gonzalez
Associate Director, Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center
Atlantic Council

Closing Remarks
4:45 – 5:00 p.m. 

Mr. Nico Lange
Head, Washington Office
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Event Reception 
Embassy of Lithuania to the United States
2622 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
6:30 p.m.
RSVP at rsvp.us@urm.lt by June 27
-RSVP is required-
 

On June 29, the Atlantic Council and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung will host a high level conference in DC featuring  panels on the threat of Russian influence in Europe, the next frontier in digital disinformation, and how to strike back.

International media coverage of “fake news” in the 2016 US presidential election has dramatically increased international attention on the role of digital disinformation in elections. While attention has focused on the influence of Russia’s propaganda efforts in the US and Europe, the problem is much broader. Disinformation is a global challenge that will require new coalitions, tools, and strategies to address it.

#DisinfoWeek is a week long set of strategic dialogues on how to collectively address the global challenge of disinformation. The conference will convene both US and European policymakers, tech companies, civil society, and members of think tanks, academia, and media. 

Join the discussion at #DisinfoWeek

Co-hosted by:
Atlantic Council
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

#DisinfoWeek Partners:
National Democratic Institute
Stanford University
FirstDraft
The McCain Institute for International Leadership
University of Oxford
Jigsaw
Demokratizatsiya