The First Transatlantic Forum on Strategic Communications and Digital Disinformation in Washington, DC

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast and Registration
 
9:00 – 9:10 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction

Mr. Frederick Kempe
President and CEO
Atlantic Council

9:10 – 10:00 a.m.
Opening Keynote
 
The Hon. Ron Johnson

The Hon. Sheldon Whitehouse
US Senator for Rhode Island
US Senate

10:00 – 10:10 a.m.
Coffee Break
                       
10:10 – 11:25 a.m.
Panel I: Transatlantic Response to Disinformation: Paving a Way Forward

Ambassador Daniel Fried
Distinguished Fellow, Europe and Eurasia
Atlantic Council

Ambassador Tacan Ildem
Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy
NATO
 
Mr. Nils Svartz
Director General
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
 
H.E. Jakub Dürr
Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
Czech Republic
 
Moderated by:
Mr. Jim Sciutto
Chief National Security Correspondent
CNN
 
11:25 – 11:35 a.m.
Coffee Break
 
11:35 – 12:50 p.m.
Panel II: Straight Out of the Kremlin’s Toolkit: Strategies of State Actors
                             
Mr. Peter Pomerantzev
Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute of Global Affairs
London School of Economics
 
President Toomas Ilves
Former President 
Estonia
 
Mr. Edward Lucas
Senior Vice President,
Center for European Policy Analysis;
Senior Editor
The Economist
 
The Hon. Joaquín Castro
Representative for Texas’s 20^th Congressional District
US House of Representatives
 
Moderated by:
Ms. Miriam Elder
World Editor
BuzzFeed News
 
12:50 – 2:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
                                                           
2:00 – 3:25 p.m.
Panel III: Social Media and Radicalization: The Challenge of ISIS and Other Non-State Actors
 
Ms. Farah Pandith
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations;
Former Special Representative to Muslim Communities
US Department of State
 
Dr. H.A. Hellyer
Senior Fellow, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East
Atlantic Council;
Associate Fellow, International Security Studies
Royal United Services Institute
 
Ambassador Alberto Fernandez
President, Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc.
Broadcasting Board of Governors;
Vice President
Middle East Media Research Institute
 
Moderated by:
Mr. Michael Weiss
National Security Analyst
CNN
 
3:25 – 3:40 p.m.
    Closing Remarks     
 
3:40 – 6:00 p.m. 
Reception and Research Showcase

This event is supported by:
 Baltic-American Freedom Foundation
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
NATO

For inquiries contact Geysha Gonzalez at ggonzalez@atlanticcouncil.org