Programme Day 1, Tuesday, 24 Nov 2020

08.00 Opening of the Exhibition / Registration

08.45 Welcome to the Congress

  • Uwe Proll, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Behörden Spiegel
  • Dr Hans-Gert Pöttering, former President of the European Parliament, Representative for European Affairs of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Congress President BSC 2020

09.00 Opening Ceremony

  • Tomáš Petříček, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
  • Thomas Silberhorn MP, Parliamentary State Secretrary on behalf of the German Federal Minister of Defence

10.00 Keynote Congress Partner

  • Dong Jin Koh*, President & CEO Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

10.20 Keynote Speech

  • Helga Maria Schmid, Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS)

10.40 Keynote Congress Partner

  • NN, Raytheon Technologies Corp

11.00 Coffee Break

11.45 HIGH-LEVEL DEBATE: European Security and Defence – Central and Eastern (Expectations) and Contributions

Chair and Introduction:

  • Niels Annen MP, Minister of State, German Federal Foreign Office

Speakers:

  • Dr Artis Pabriks, Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister of Latvia
  • Tomáš Petříček, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
  • Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary
  • Rt. Hon. Ben Wallace* MP, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom
  • Dr Detlef Wächter, Director General for Security and Defence Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany
  • General Tod D. Wolters*, USAF, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)

13.00 Luncheon / Buffet
14.30 Panel Session: Panels A1 – A7

Panel A1: Review of CDP / CARD / EDF / PESCO – how to achieve more synergy in defence and budget plans?

Chair:

  • Lieutenant General Christian Badia, Director-General for Planning, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany

Introduction:

  • NN, NN

Panellists:

  • Sophia Besch, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform (CER)
  • Rear Admiral Jürgen Ehle, Senior Military Advisor Managing Director for CDSP and Crisis Response EEAS
  • Dr Jörg Hennemann, Marketing Police, Military & Sport, Schmidt & Bender
  • Josef Procházka, Deputy Director Centre for Security and Military Strategy Studies, National Defence University Brno, Czech Republic
  • Dr Jan Wille, Partner and Managing Director at PwC Strategy& (Germany) GmbH

Panel A2: Framework Nations Concept – effective catalyst of regional mil-mil cooperation?

Chair and Introduction:

  • Lieutenant General Jürgen Knappe, Commander JSEC and Commanding General of MN JHQ Ulm

Panellists:

  • Major General (ret) Bohuslav Dvorak, Former Deputy Chief of General Staff Czech Armed Forces
  • Brigadier General Dipl.-Ing. Gerald Funke, Head of Division Strategic Defence Planning and Concepts, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany
  • Dr Gergely Németh, Deputy State Secretary and Defence Policy Director, Hungary
  • Brigadier General Jaroslav Schön, Commander Joint Logistics Support Group Brunssum

Panel A3: CBRN Defence – Whole-of-Government Approach

Chair:

  • Lieutenant General Martin Schelleis, Chief of the German Joint Support and Enabling Service

Introduction:

  • Christopher W. Frech, Senior Vice President Global Government Affairs, Emergent Biosolutions

Panellists:

  • Colonel David Martínek, Director JCBRN Defence Centre of Excellence, Czech Republic
  • Dr Dieter Romann*, President of the Headquartes Federal Police Germany
  • Colonel Klaus Werner Schiff, Commander Bundeswehr CBRN Command

Panel A4: Air Defence for Multinational Formations on the move

Chair:

  • Lieutenant General Klaus Habersetzer, Commanding General Air Operations Centre, Commander CAOC,
    Uedem and Executive Director Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Kalkar

Introduction:

  • NN, Raytheon Technologies Corps

Panellists:

  • Brigadier General Gregory Brady, Commanding General 10th Army Air & Missile Defense Command
  • Lieutenant General (ret) Howard B. Bromberg, Vice President for Strategy and Business Development, Integrated Air and Missile Defense
    Lockheed Martin Corporation
  • Major General Rob Jeulink*, Deputy Commander Royal Netherlands Army
  • Colonel Vladimír Vyklický, Research Fellow, Centre for Security and Military Strategy Studies, Defence University in Brno, Czech Republic
  • NN, NN

Panel A5: EU / NATO Naval Cooperation – prerequisite for maritime security on the eastern flank in the Baltic and the Black Sea

Chair:

  • Vice Admiral Andreas Krause, Chief of German Navy

Introduction:

  • NN, General Atomics

Panellists:

  • Gian Franco Abresccia, Vice President Naval Systems, Leonardo
  • Rear Admiral Hans-Jörg Detlefsen, Commander Maritime Air NATO, Allied Maritime Command, Northwood
  • Rear Admiral (UH) Mihai Panait, Chief of the Romanian Naval Forces
  • Rear Admiral Nils Andreas Stensønes, Chief of the Royal Norwegian Navy
  • NN, Damen

Panel A6: Countering Cyber Threats – the progress of digital warfare in multidomain operations

Chair:

  • Vice Admiral Dr Thomas Daum, Chief of German CID Service

Introduction:

  • NN, IBM

Panellists:

  • Dr Christoph Erdmann, CEO Secusmart
  • Peter Morwinski, Head of Business Development, Bechtle GmbH & Co. KG.
  • Brigadier General (ret) Karel Řehka, Director National Cyber and Information Security Agency, Czech Republic
  • Andreas Schiel, Head of Business Unit Command & Control Systems and Joint Fire Support ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH

Panel A7: Strategic Intelligence and Communications –prerequisite for strategic analysis and decision making on EU-level also in a hybrid conflict environment

Chair:

  • Dr August Hanning, former President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND),
    former State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Member of the programme and editor board of the Behörden Spiegel Group

Introduction:

  • NN, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Panellists:

  • Lieutenant General (ret) Frank Leidenberger, Chief Digital Officer, BWI GmbH
  • José Casimiro Morgado, Director EU-Intelligence and Situation Center (EU INTCEN)
  • Colonel (ret) Ralph D. Thiele, Chairman „Politisch-Militärische Gesellschaft“ (pmg), President EuroDefense (Deutschland), CEO StratByrd Consulting
  • Dr Teija Tiilikainen, Director European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE)
16.00 Coffee Break

16.30 Keynote Congress Partner

  • Timothy S. (Tim) Cahill, Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin International

16.50 Keynote Speech

  • General Jörg Vollmer, Commander Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum

17.10 Military digital collaboration - a vision for a European approach

  • Udo F. Littke, Head of Public Sector and Defence Central Europe, Atos

17.30 Keynote Speech

  • General Claudio Graziano, Chairman of the European Union Military Committee (CEUMC)

17.50 HIGH-LEVEL MILITARY FORUM: Enhancing European security through regional military cooperation – opportunities and gaps

Chair:

  • General (ret) Petr Pavel, former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee

Speakers:

  • Admiral Rob Bauer*, Chief of Defence, the Netherlands
  • General Claudio Graziano, Chairman of the European Union Military Committee
  • General Ferenc Korom, Chief of Defence, Hungary
  • Lieutenant General Markus Laubenthal, Deputy Chief of Defence, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany
  • Lieutenant General Valdemaras Rupšys, Chief of Defence, Lithuania
  • Lieutenant General Jaromír Zůna, MSc., Ph.D. Deputy Chief of Defence, Czech Republic
  • NN, Congress Partner

19.15 CIDAN/ESDA Ceremony

  • European Award for Citizenship, Security and Defence

19.45 Buffet / Networking

21.00 End of the first day

Programme Day 2, Wednesday, 25 Nov 2020

08.00 Opening of the Exhibition

08.30 Welcome to the 2nd Conference Day

08.40 OPENING OF THE 2ND CONFERENCE DAY

  • Lubomír Metnar, Minister of Defence, Czech Republic
  • Klaus Iohannis*, President of Romania

09.10 The Czech Republic’s Perspective on Transatlantic Security

  • Lubomír Metnar, Minister of Defence, Czech Republic

09.40 HIGH-LEVEL INTERVIEW: Implementation of gender policy in NATO and EU defence planning

  • Dr Hans-Peter Bartels, former Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces, Germany
    with
  • Clare Hutchinson, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security
  • AMB Mara Marinaki, Principal Advisor on Gender and on the implementation of UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, EEAS
  • Colonel Magda Dvorřáková, Head of the Public Diplomacy Section, General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces
  • Lieutenant Colonel Peter Östmann, Commander Nordic Center for Gender in Military Operations, Sweden

10.20 Keynote Congress Partner

  • NN, Airbus Defence and Space

10.40 Keynote Speech

  • Admiral (ret) Matteo Bisceglia, Director Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR)

10.50 Coffee Break

11.20 Keynote Congress Partner

  • NN, Leonardo

11.40 change room for Panel Session
11.45 Panel Session: Panel B1 – B7

Panel B1: China’s military ascent and its implications for the West

Chair and indroduction:

  • Nils Wörmer, Head of Departement Foreign, Security and European Affairs, European and International Cooperation of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

Panellists:

  • Elbridge A. Colby, Principal at the Marathon Initiative, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
    Strategy and Force Development
  • Rt. Hon. Tobias Martin Ellwood* MP, Chairman Defence Select Committee, House of Commons, United Kingdom
  • Dr Sarah Kirchberger, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Strategy and Security, Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University
    gGmbH (ISPK)
  • Martin Riegl, Acting Deputy Minister for Defence Policy and Strategy, Czech Republic
  • NN, NN

Panel B2: Human Resources – recruitment and retention

Chair:

  • Emmanuel Jacob, President European Organisation of Military Associations and Trade Unions (EUROMIL)

Introduction:

  • Dr Germar Schröder, Partner PwC Strategy& (Germany) GmbH

Panellists:

  • Brigadier General (ret) František Mičánek, Research Fellow, Centre for Security and Military Strategy Studies,
    Defence University in Brno, Czech Republic
  • Rear Admiral Peter Reesink, Director Principal Directorate of Personnel, Ministry of Defence, the Netherlands
  • Brigadier General (MC) Dr Nicole Schilling, Vice President Federal Office of Bundeswehr Personnel Management
  • Colonel Peter Tagesson, Head of Personnel Planning, SWE

Panel B3: How to maintain a credible nuclear deterrence in and for Europe?

Chair:

  • Lieutenant General (ret) Heinrich Brauß, former Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning NATO

Introduction:

  • NN, NN

Panellists:

  • Ambassador Susanne Baumann, Federal Government Commissioner for Disarmament and Arms Control,
    Director-General for International Order, the United Nations and Arms Control, German Federal Foreign Office
  • Jessica L. Cox, Director Nuclear Policy Directorate NATO International Staff
  • Dr Jan Jireš, Chief Defence Counsellor, Czech Delegation to NATO
  • NN, NN

Panel B4: Land Forces in a Joint and Combined Environment – readiness and availability

Chair:

  • Lieutenant General Alfons Mais, Chief of German Army

Introduction:

  • Alexander von Erdmannsdorff, Vice President Government Business / Global Sales, Member of the Board, RUAG AG

Panellists:

  • Lieutenant General Christopher Cavoli, COM USAREUR
  • Dirk Moede, Senior Key Account Manager Defense, Computacenter AG & Co oHG Germany
  • Ivo Pikner, Research Fellow, Department of Military Science Theory, Faculty of Military Leadership, Defence University in Brno, Czech Republic
  • Lieutenant General (ret) Arnaud Sainte-Claire Deville, Vice President Institutional Relations, Nexter Group, France
  • Lieutenant General Slawomir Wojciechowski PhD, Commanding General of Multinational Corps North East

Panel B5: Multinational Air Power – enhancing EU-capabilities within NATO

Co-Chairs:

  • Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz, Chief of German Air Force
  • Air Chief Major General Nándor Kilián, Service Inspector for Air Force Hungarian Defence Command

Introduction:

  • NN, Boeing

Panellists:

  • Nicola Baumann, Operational Requirements Manager ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH
  • Major General Petr Hromek, Commander of the Air Force, Armed Forces of the Czech Republic
  • NN, Airbus
  • NN, Raytheon

Panel B6: Digitalisation – robust interoperable networks for European military operations

Chair:

  • Lieutenant General Michael Vetter, Director-General CIT, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany

Introduction:

  • Marcel Taubert, Head of Division Defence, secunet Security Networks AG

Panellists:

  • Jörn Becker, Head of Defence, Public Sector & Defence Central Europe / Germany, Atos
  • Janis Garisons, State Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Latvia
  • Brigadier General Frank Pieper, Chief Digital Officer German Army
  • NN, NN

Panel B7: New and Disruptive Technologies

Chair:

  • Dr Pavel Zůna, Director of the Collaboration Support Office, NATO Science and Technology Organization

Introduction:

  • Joel Bollö, CEO Micro Systemation (MSAB)

Panellists:

  • Major General Wolfgang Gäbelein, Director General Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planning
  • Terry Halvorsen, Chief Information Officer / EVP, IT & Mobile Communication, Samsung Electronics
  • Martin Issakhani, Senior Enterprise Account Manager DACH, RSA
  • Roland Raith, Director Business Development EMEA – Forensic, Hexagon Geosystems
  • Rear Admiral Ulrich Reineke, Director Plans & Concept, International Cooperation, German Naval Command
  • Vít Střítecký, Deputy Head, Security Studies Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Panel B8: Covid-19 Lessons Learned – maintaining Europe’s military capabilities (and resilience) in times of a global pandemic

Chair:

  • Brigadier General (MC) Zoltán Bubeník, Surgeon General of the Czech Armed Forces, Chairman of the Committee of the Chiefs of Health Services of the NATO (COMEDS)

Introduction:

  • Dr Hans C. Atzpodien, Managing Director, Federation of German Security and Defence Industries (BDSV)

Panellists:

  • Prof Dr Rainer Bernnat, Senior Partner and Managing Director PwC Strategy& (Germany) GmbH
  • Brigadier General (sel) Dr Zuzana Kročová, PhD., Rector-Commandant of the University of Defense in Brno, Czech Republic
  • Lieutenant General Kai R. Rohrschneider, Director-General Forces Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany
  • Major General Andreas Schick, Commander European Air Transport Command (EATC)
  • Lieutenant General (MC) Dr Stephan Schoeps, Deputy Surgeon General of the Bundeswehr Joint Medical Service
  • Ali Vezvaei, Vice Chairman ECOLOG International
13.15 Luncheon / Buffet

14.30 Keynote Speech

  • General Eberhard Zorn, Chief of Defence, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany

14.50 Keynote Congress Partner

  • NN, IAI

15.10 Keynote Speech

  • Ambassador Jiří Šedivý, Chief Executive, European Defence Agency (EDA)

15.30 FUTURE FORCES FORUM: EU Defence Initiatives for technological innovation and relevant capabilities – do they deliver?

Chair:

  • Ambassador Jiří Šedivý, Chief Executive, European Defence Agency (EDA)

Speakers:

  • Hubert Blahnik, Deputy National Armament Director, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany
  • Lieutenant General Thierry Carlier, Head of International Development and Deputy National Armament Director, France
  • Dr Gáspár Maróth, Government Commissioner for National Defence Industry, Defence Development and Coordination of Armament Modernization, Hungary
  • Timo Pesonen, Director General for Defence and Space, EU Commission
  • Major General (AF) Giandomenico Taricco, Director 4th Department Armament Programs Coordination, Italian National Armaments Directorate
  • Dr Pavel Zůna, Director of the Collaboration Support Office, NATO Science and Technology Organization
  • NN, Congress Partner

16.45 CLOSING REMARKS

  • Dr Hans-Gert Pöttering, Congress President of the BSC 2020
  • Uwe Proll, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Behörden Spiegel

17.00 End of the Congress

Chairman BSC 2020: Major General (ret) Reinhard Wolski
Coordinator BSC 2020: Colonel (ret) Hubertus von Rohr

*speakers requested