• • About the conference (O konferenci)

• Venue (místo konání):
  • 22 September – Chamber of Deputies (Poslanecká sněmovna PČR), Malostranské nám. 7/19, 118 00 Praha 1 – Malá Strana (místnost Konírna)
  • 23 September – Office of the Rector (Rektorát ČVUT), Jugoslávských partyzánů 1580/3, 160 00 Praha 6

Venue: Main Seat of the Chamber of Deputies. Sněmovní 176/4 118 26 Praha 1 – Malá Strana Czech Republic

Translation provided: English, Czech

9:15 – 9:50 – registration

Opening of the conference

10:00

• Ms Markéta Adamová Pekarová, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
• Mr Jan Lipavský (CZ) – Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Mr Marek Mutor (PL) – President, Platform of European Memory and Conscience, Deputy Director of National Ossolinski Institute
• Mr Pavel Žáček (CZ), Chairman of the Committee on Security of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

Keynote speech

10:30

• Mr Thomas Wegener Friis (DK) – historian, Associate professor SDU, Director of Center for Cold War Studies, Executive Director of the International Intelligence History Association

11:00

SESSION I: Prologue to the present: selected Cold War operations of the communist bloc in the free media of the democratic West

(Prolog k současnosti: vybrané vlivové operace komunistického bloku ve svobodných médiích demokratického světa)

Chair: Mr Peter Rendek (SK/CZ), Platform of European Memory and Conscience / Security Services Archive

• Ms Marie Koldinská (CZ), historian, Associate Professor at Masaryk University and expert at the Department of Strategic Communication of the State
• Mr Prokop Tomek (CZ), historian, Military History Institute
• Mr Jerguš Sivoš (SK) historian, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Slovak National Memory Institute
• Mr Douglas Selvage (USA/DE), historian, independent scholar

12:15

SESSION II: On the front line: the information war in the world – regional experience

(V první linii: informační válka ve světě – regionální zkušenost)

Chair: Ms Veronika Víchová (CZ) – Center for an Informed Society

• Mr Marcin Jerzewski (PL), Head of the Taiwan Office of the European Values Center for Security Policy, member of the Expert pool at the European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (online)
• Mr Davit Petrosyan (AM), freelance journalist, political scientist, master degree in national security Yerevan State University (online)
• Ms Kryscina Šyjanok (BY), director of the Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Czechia
• Mr Pavel Havlíček (CZ) – Research Fellow at the Association for International Affairs (AMO)

13:15 – 13:45 break

13:45

SESSION III: Effective defense: Tools of the rule of law against influence operations (education, training and prevention)

(Účinná obrana: Nástroje právního státu proti vlivovým operacím (vzdělávání, výchova a prevence)

Chair: Ms Alena Resl (Konrad Adenauer Foundation)

• Mr Otakar Foltýn (CZ), Czech Government Commissioner for Strategic Communication
• Mr Yurii Kohut (UA) – Associate Professor at the Department of Public Administration and Management of Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, Director General “Sidcon” International consulting company
• Mr Jan Paťawa (CZ) – Crisis Information Team of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic
• Mr Ondřej Kundra (CZ), journalist and author, Respekt magazine

Venue: Rector’s Office of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Jugoslávských partyzánů 1580/3, 160 00 Praha 6 – Dejvice, Česká republika

Opening

• Mr Pavel Žáček (CZ), Chairman of the Committee on Security of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

9:00 – 10:30

SESSION IV: Prologue to the present: Serving Freedom of Speech

(Prolog k současnosti: Ve službě svobody projevu)

Chair: Mr Marek Mutor (PL)

• Mr Mateusz Palka (PL), cultural studies specialist, The National Ossolinski Institute
• Mr Pavel Žáček (CZ), historian, journalist, MP, Chairman of the Committee on Security – The Chamber of Deputies Parliament of the Czech Republic
• Mr Daniel Fried (USA), US former diplomat (online)
• Mr Jolyon Naegele (USA/CZ), journalist, former correspondent of the Voice of America in communist Czechoslovakia

10:30

SESSION V: Effective Defense: New Technologies in the Context of National Security

(Účinná obrana: Nové technologie v kontextu národní bezpečnosti (vzdělávání, výchova a prevence)

Chair: Mr Jaroslav Šmíd (CZ) – former deputy director of the National Cyber and Information Security Agency

• Mr Aleš Špidla (CZ) – Director of the Center for the Development of Information Competencies at CEVRO University, guarantor of the postgraduate programs Management and Cybersecurity and Information Protection.
• Ms Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová (CZ), Head of the Center for Innovation and Cyberlaw Research, Institute of State and Law, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Mr Luděk Michálek (CZ), Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic, Director of the Department of Security Research and Police Education
• Mr Tomáš Pevný (CZ), AI center ČVUT

Closing remarks