Wednesday, April 3
| 09.00 a.m. – 9:05 a.m. | Scene Setter What Does NATO Mean to You? | MC: Nik Gowing, Founder and Director, Thinking the Unthinkable MC: Ines Pohl, Editor-in-chief, Deutsche Welle |
| 9:05 – 9:30 a.m. | Opening The Alliance at 70 | Rose Gottemoeller, Deputy Secretary General, NATO Moderator: Jessica Donati, State Department and National Security Reporter, The Wall Street Journal |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Conversation Turkey’s Role in NATO and Regional Security Challenges | Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey Moderator: Margaret Brennan, Moderator, Face the Nation, CBS News |
| 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. | Discussion Innovation and Security: Adapting to Hybrid Threats and Emerging Technologies | Lindsay Gorman, Fellow for Emerging Technologies, Alliance for Securing Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States Ken Loy, Chief Executive Officer, Hensoldt Inc. Admiral Manfred Nielson, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, NATO Noam Perski, International Government Lead, Palantir Technologies Inc. Moderator: Jeanne Meserve, Senior Fellow, Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, The George Washington University |
| 10:45 – 10:50 a.m. | Storytelling Behind the Iron Curtain | Rastislav Káčer, Chairman, GLOBSEC |
| 10:50 – 11:00 a.m. | Spotlight Why NATO Matters: The Next Generation’s Perspective | MC: Nik Gowing, Founder and Director, Thinking the Unthinkable MC: Ines Pohl, Editor-in-chief, Deutsche Welle |
| 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. | Brunch | Live Viewing of Joint Session of Congress |
| 12:00 – 12:10 p.m. | Audience Perspectives Reflections on the Joint Session of Congress | First Responses: Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT Pete Seat, Executive Director of Strategic Communications and Talent Development, Indiana Republican Party MC: Nik Gowing, Founder and Director, Thinking the Unthinkable MC: Ines Pohl, Editor-in-chief, Deutsche Welle |
| 12:10 – 12:30 p.m. | Spotlight Putting People First: NATO and Human Security | Álfrún Perla Baldursdóttir, Political Advisor, NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan Zafar Hashemi, Millennium Fellow, Atlantic Council Moderator: Kevin Baron, Executive Editor, Defense One |
| 12:30 - 12:35 p.m. | Spotlight: A Perspective on Russia | Chris Murphy (D-CT), Member, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate |
| 12:35 – 1:30 p.m. | Discussion Enlarging Security in the Neighborhood | Discussion: Linas Linkevičius, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Lithuania Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Ukraine David Zalkaliani, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georgia Spotlight Conversation: Nikola Dimitrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of North Macedonia Giorgos Katrougalos, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hellenic Republic Moderator: Heather Conley, Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic; and Director, Europe Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies |
| 1:30 – 1:50 p.m. | Statement The Alliance at 70: Perspectives from Washington | Prelude: General James L. Jones, Jr., USMC (Ret.), Executive Chairman Emeritus, Atlantic Council Introducer: Kay Bailey Hutchison, Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO Vice President Mike Pence, Vice President, United States of America |
| 1:50 – 2:40 p.m. | Discussion Russia Resurgent: Deterrence and Dialogue after the INF Treaty | Karlijn Jans, Defense Policy Advisor, British Embassy, The Hague Lieutenant General (Ret.) Frederick Benjamin “Ben” Hodges, former Commander of the United States Army in Europe; Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, The Center for European Policy Analysis Edgars Rinkēvičs, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Latvia Moderator: Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman, Munich Security Conference |
| 2:40 – 3:00 p.m. | Congressional Conversation The US Role in NATO and Enduring Value of the Transatlantic Bond | Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Co-Chair, Senate NATO Observer Group, United States Senate Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Chair, US Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, United States House of Representatives Mike Turner (R-OH), Member, Committee on Armed Services, United States House of Representatives Moderator: Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO, Wilson Center |
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Statement and Conversation The Alliance at 70: Perspectives from NATO HQ | Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General, NATO Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News |
| 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Storytelling 9/11 and Article 5 | Tim Brown, Retired Firefighter, New York Fire Department, 9/11 Survivor |
| 3:45 – 4:15 p.m. | Coffee Break | |
| 4:20 – 4:25 p.m. | Storytelling Serving Side by Side | Major Matt Wilson, United States Air Force |
| 4:25 – 4:45 p.m. | Statement and Conversation Germany, NATO, and Transatlantic Security | Heiko Maas, Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany Moderator: Karen Donfried President, The German Marshall Fund of the United States |
| 4:45 – 5:25 p.m. | Discussion Stronger Together: Allies in an Era of Great Power Confrontation | Jacek Czaputowicz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland Kiron K. Skinner, Director of the Office of Policy Planning and Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State, US Department of State Constanze Stelzenmüller, Robert Bosch Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Member, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, United States Senate Moderator: Frederick Kempe, President and CEO, Atlantic Council |
| 5:25 – 5:30 p.m. | Closing Looking Ahead: The Alliance at 80 | Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group |
| 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. | Farewell Reception |
