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ABCD 2025

Speakers

Jacopo Barigazzi

Senior Defence Correspondent for Politico Europe

Max Bergmann

Director of Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Programme, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Cristian Bizadea

Former Deputy Director of the Intelligence Service of Romania

Adrian Ciolponea

Supreme Allied Command Representative in Europe at NATO ACT

Guido Crosetto

Minister of Defence of Italy

Oleksandr V Danylyuk

Chairman of the Center for Defense Reforms

Michel Duclos

Senior Fellow at the Institut Montaigne

Tuuli Duneton

Undersecretary for Defence Policy at the Ministry of Defence of Estonia

Mike Elviss

Commander of the Field Army of the British Army

Alexandre Escorcia

Director for Euro-Atlantic Security at the Ministry for the Armed Forces of France

Andreas Flåm

State Secretary to the Minister of Defence of Norway

Francois-Marie Gougeon

Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning at NATO HQ

Robin Häggblom

Senior Advisor at Risk Intelligence A/S

Joanne Hamer

Director Euro-Atlantic Security at the UK Ministry of Defence

Toomas Hanso

Research Fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

Viktoria Hjort Malmer

Defence Policy Director at the Ministry of Defence of Sweden

Laura Jakes

Foreign Correspondent at the New York Times

Vahur Karus

Chief of Staff of the Joint Headquarters of the Estonian Defence Forces

Marko Kaseleht

Senior Vice President of Defence at Nortal

Giedrius Krupauskas

Deputy Director of the State Security Department of Lithuania

Kaimo Kuusk

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of Estonia

Sang Hyun Lee

Senior Research Fellow of the Sejong Institute

Kyrre Lohne

Vice President of Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS

Jade McGlynn

Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London / Non-Resident Research Fellow at International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS)

Molly K McKew

Lead Writer at greatpower.us

John Mead

Deputy Commander of the Joint Force Command Brunssum

Andrus Merilo

Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces

Kristen Michal

Prime Minister of Estonia

Nicholas Nelson

General Partner at Archangel / Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)

Jacob Parakilas

Research Leader for Defence Strategy, Policy, and Capabilities at RAND Europe

Johannes Peters

Head of the Maritime Strategy and Security Department at the Institute for Security Policy Kiel

Hanno Pevkur

Minister of Defence of Estonia

Alexandra Prokopenko

Fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center
Kristi Raik

Kristi Raik

Director of the ICDS

Filip Rudnik

Research Fellow at the Centre for Eastern Studies

Takahiro Sasaki

Visiting Professor at Hiroshima University

Jüri Saska

Project manager Euroguard at Baltic Workboats

Laura Solanko

Senior Advisor to the Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition

Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar

Chair of the Steering Group of the UDCG IT Coalition

Mari-Liis Tori

Deputy Director General of the Internal Security Service of Estonia

Michael Vetter

Director-General for Cyber and Information Technology at the Federal Ministry of Defence of Germany

Jonatan Vseviov

Secretary General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia

Iwona Wiśniewska

Senior Fellow at the Centre for Eastern Studies

Vadym Yunyk

Founder of RoGuard Systems