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Ukraine-NATO-EU: Focus on Information and Cyber Security

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The Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Office in Ukraine organize an international round table “Ukraine-NATO-EU: Focus on Information and Cyber Security”.

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At the event, the key directions of NATO-EU security cooperation and their interaction with Ukraine in information, cyber security and strategic communications spheres, as well as possible ways to counter information and cyber threats will be discussed.
The discussion will be aimed at the following issues:
  • Ukraine-EU-EaP-NATO together for common security;
  • Cooperation in the EaP area to counter hybrid challenges and threats;
  • Information and cybersecurity in the era of hybrid warfare;
  • Kremlin’s propaganda and cyber threats Ukraine, the EU, EaP and NATO countries and their cooperation for common resistance;
  • Strengthening Ukraine's interaction with the EU and NATO in countering information and cyber threats.
Representatives of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Government, missions of the international organizations in Ukraine, embassies of foreign states, leading Ukrainian and foreign think-tanks, scientific and civil society organizations, and media are expected to participate in the discussion.

Working languages are Ukrainian and English.

To participate, please, fill in the form till September 16, 2019 and wait for confirmation letter from organizers.

Contact person: Vitalii Martyniuk – +380950859241 (mobile), e-mail:  vitalmartyniuk@gmail.com.

 

Program

09:30 – 10:00 Registration / Welcome coffee

Conference Hall Tactic 1, 1st floor

10:00 – 10:15 Opening session. Welcome speeches

Mykhailo Gonchar, President of the Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI
Tim B. Peters, Head of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Office Ukraine
Dmytro Kuleba, Vice Prime Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine  (tbc)
 

10:15 – 11:45 Discussion panel 1. Information security in the EU, EaP, NATO and Ukraine – key direction of countering hybrid threats

  • Ukraine-EU-EaP-NATO together for common security
  • Information security in the era of hybrid warfare
  • Kremlin’s propaganda threatens Ukraine, the EU, EaP and NATO countries
  • Cooperation in the EaP area to counter actual challenges
  • Ways of cooperation of the EU and NATO with Ukraine in information security 
Speakers:
Serhii Saienko, Acting Director-General of the EU and NATO Directorate General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
Oleksandr Gain, Representative of the Strategic Communications Coordination and Monitoring Office of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
Dmytro Dubov, Head of department of information security and information society development, National Institute for Strategic Studies (Ukraine)
Samuel Doveri Vesterbye, Managing Director of the European Neighborhood Council (Brussels)
Veronika Špalková, Manager of the European Values Think-Tank, Member of the Kremlin Watch Program (Czech Republic)
Ruslan Deynychenko, Executive Director, StopFake (Ukraine)
Oleksandra Shandra, Euromaidan Press (Ukraine)

Q&A
Moderator - Vitalii Martyniuk, Executive Director – Head of the International Programs, Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI (Ukraine) 
 

11:45 – 12:15 Coffee Break

12:15 -13:45 Discussion Panel 2. The EU-NATO cooperation with Ukraine and other EaP countries for countering cyber threats

  • Cooperation in the EaP area to counter hybrid challenges
  • Cyber security in modern warfare
  • New cyber challenges and threats to Ukraine, EU, NATO and EaP countries
  • Cooperation of the EU and NATO with Ukraine and EaP countries for cybersecurity
  • Strengthening Ukraine's interaction with the EU and NATO in countering cyber threats 
Speakers:
Kakha Gogolashvili, Senior-Fellow and the Director of the European Studies at the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Georgia)
Hanna Zabielina, Deputy Head of the Cyber Police Department, National Police of Ukraine
Kiril Milev, Senior Adviser on Cybercrime of the EU Advisory Mission to Ukraine
Yurii Lapaiev, Ukrainian Week (Ukraine)
Evgen Dokukin, Ukrainian Cyber Forces (Ukraine)

Q&A
Moderator – Andreas Marazis, Project Manager of the European Neighborhood Council (Brussels)

13:45 – 14:00 Closing remarks

Mykhailo Gonchar, President of the Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI
 

14:00 – 15:00 Informal discussion, lunch

 Re:fuel Zone, Ground  floor

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Venue

Conference Hall Tactic 1, Aloft Hotel Kyiv, Esplanadna Str. 17

Publication

StratCom in the focus of Ukraine – EU – NATO cooperation under the present conditions: Analytical study
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Contact

Tim B. Peters

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Referent Medien und Demokratie

tim.peters@kas.de +49 30 26996-3626 +49 30 26996-3626
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Kateryna Bilotserkovets

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Project Coordinator

kateryna.bilotserkovets@kas.de +380 44 4927443

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