Bytes and Bullets: Europe in a Strongmen World

From persistent security threats coming from the East to increasingly adversarial relations with the United States, Europe faces the greatest geopolitical squeeze since the end of the Cold War. The question is whether and how the old continent can power its way through a strongmen world?

The answer lies in large part in addressing vulnerabilities and dependence in the traditional military realm, but also in critical technologies as well as rethinking its fiscal and financial firepower and its influence in its own neighbourhood.

This event will bring together entrepreneurs, experts and government officials to take stock and lay out concrete avenues for a strong Europe in a strongmen world.

The event is organised in partnership with Rasmussen Global, the geopolitical advisory firm founded by Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Confirmed speakers: 

• Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Chairman of Rasmussen Global, former Danish PM, former NATO SG

• Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-president of the European Commission for Technological

Sovereignty, Security and Democracy

• Dr. Karolis Aleksa, Vice Minister of National Defence of Lithuania

• Josef Aschbacher, Director-General of ESA

• Radmila Shekerinska, NATO Deputy Secretary General

• Marjut Falkstedt, Chief Executive of European Investment Fund

• Admiral Sir Keith Edward Blount, D-SACEUR NATO

• Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Former Polish Deputy Prime Minister

• Dan Mircea Geoană, Former Deputy Secretary General of NATO

• Lord Mark Sedwill, Former NSA to Prime Minister’s Theresa May and Boris Johnson

• Gabrielius Landsbergis, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania

• Fabrice Pothier, CEO of Rasmussen Global

• Carsten Drachmann, CEO of GomSpace

• Loïc Mougeolle, CEO & Co-founder of Comand AI

• Nataliya Boyko, Deputy Head of Naftogaz Board and Adviser to Prime Minister of Ukraine

• Pablo Casado, Founder and Managing Partner of Hyperion Fund

• Dr. Jakob Greiner, Vice President European Affairs at Deutsche Telekom

• Ramunas Stanionis, Member of Cabinet of Commissioner Kubilius

• Sven Kruck, Co-CEO of Quantum-Systems Gmbh

• Jaanus Tamm, CEO of DefSecIntel

• Vladyslav Belbas, CEO of UkrArmor

• Hanna Hvozdiar, Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine