22nd Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum, Bucharest, Romania, July 6-8, 2022

Opening Reception 8:00

Official opening 9:00 - 9:40

• Robert Pittenger - Chairman Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum
• Klaus Werner Iohannis - President of Romania
• Florin Citu - President of the Senate of Romania
• Marcel Ciolacu - President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
• Nicolae Ciucǎ - Prime Minister of Romania

THE WAR IN UKRAINE: RESHAPING THE GLOBAL SECURITY MAP 09:40 - 11:15

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy - President of Ukraine
• Ruslan Oleksiyovych Stefanchuk - Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada TBC
• Maia Sandu - President of the Republic of Moldova TBC
• Larry Pressler - US Senator
• Trevor Mallard - Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
• Cheryl Gallant - Member of Parliament in Canada and Member of the board of the NATO Assembly
• Victor Gonzalez - Member of Congress of Deputies of Spain
• Olena Khomenko - Member of Parliament of Ukraine
• Philip Popov - Member of Parliament, Bulgaria and Deputy Chairman of the Legal Committee and Member of the Committee for Control of Security Services
• Emanuelis Zingeris - MP, Chairman, USA Congress caucus, Parliament of Lithuania
• Fatmir Mediu - MP, Former Defense Minister, Albania
• Olivier Cadic - Member of the French Senate

COFFEE BREAK 11:15 - 11:30

IS DIPLOMACY DRIFTING? THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 11:30 - 13:00

• Antonia Colibasanu - COO Geopolitical Futures
• Nury Turkel - Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
• Dan Neculǎescu - Permanent Representative of Romania to NATO
• Nathan Sales - Senior Fellow Atlantic Council
• James Carafano - VP Foreign and Defense Policy studies at the Heritage Foundation
• Rihards Kols - Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Parliament of Latvia

LUNCH 13:00 – 14:15

SECURITY, INTELLIGENCE AND DEFENSE CHALLENGES 14:15 - 15:45

• Vasile Dîncu - Minister of Defense, Romania
• James J. Townsend Jr - Senior Advisor Atlantic Council, Former DASD for European and NATO Policy, Department of Defense
• Catherine Sendak - Senior Fellow Atlantic Council, Former director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Department of Defense
• Daniel Petrescu - Chief of Defense of Romania
• Rajmund Andrzejczak - Chief of Defense of Poland TBC

CYBER, 5G AND EMERGING TECH THREATS 15:45 - 17:45

• Sorin Ducaru - Director SATCEN
• Dan Cîmpean - Director of Romanian National CyberSecurity Directorate - Moderator
• Dustin Carmack - Research fellow for cybersecurity, intelligence, and emerging technologies at The Heritage Foundation, Former Chief of Staff for the Director of National Intelligence TBC
• Anton Rog - Head of National Cyberint Center, Romania Intelligence Service Adrian Ionita, Bitdefender
• Adrian Ionita - Bitdefender
• Surjeet Mahant - Managing Director at K2 Integrity
• John Strand - CEO Strand Consult
• Sohan Dasgupta - Former Deputy General Counsel at Department of Homeland Security

COFFEE BREAK 17:45 - 18:00

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND TERRORISM 18:00 - 19:30

• Lucian Bode - Minister of Interior Affairs, Romania
• Karen Bradley - Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking
• Rushan Abbas - 2022 Nobel Peace Prize nominee
• Ioana Bauer - Executive Director of eLiberare and Former Senior Advisor to the PM
• Anne Basham - Chair of PI-SF Taskforce on Human Trafficking
• Rozalia Biro - Chairwoman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs CDEP (RO)
• Davis Opoku - MP, Ghana

DINNER 19:30

PRAYER BREAKFAST

• William Franklin Graham - IV & MP’s from Ukraine

WELCOME COFFEE 08:30 - 09:00

ADVERSARIAL FOREIGN INVESTMENTS AND ABUSIVE EXPLOITATION IN GLOBAL ECONOMIC EXPANSION 09:00 - 10:30

• David Rader - Deputy Director for the US Committee on Foreign Investment
• Pavel Popescu - Chairman of the Defense Committee of Romania - Moderator
• Olivier Cadic - Member of Senate of France
• Marco Zanni - Member of the European
• Andreas Jahn - Bundestag Foreign Policy Senior Advisor
• Milos Ivkovic - International Arbitrator, Advisor to Governments

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY 10:30 - 12:00

• Cosmin Ghita - CEO Nuclearelectrica
• Stefan Popescu - Deputy Director for Public and Regulatory Affairs at Engie Romania, former Secretary of State to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania – Moderator
• Vladimir Socor - Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Foundation
• Ion Sterian - CEO Transgaz
• Cristian Buçoi - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, European Parliament
• John Hopkins - CEO NuScale
• Helene Conway Mouret - Member of Senate of France

COFFEE BREAK 12:00 - 12:15

ILLICIT FINANCE, ILLICIT TRADE AND MONEY LAUNDERING 12:15 - 13:45

• Adrian Cucu - President National Office for Prevention and Control of Money Laundering - Keynote Speaker TBC
• John Walsh - President and CEO SightSpan Inc.
• Silvia Matus de la Cruz - President Junta del Capitulo de Mexico
• Andreas Frank - AML/CFT advisor for the Bundestag, Council Europe and the European Parliament US Embassy representative, TBA

WRAP-UP SESSION WITH US CODEL AND MIRCEA GEOANA 13:45 - 14:30