Confirmed speakers
- General Petr Pavel – Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
- Prof James Der Derian– University of Sydney
- Dr Henning Meyer – Editor-in-Chief – Social Europe
- Ambassador Štefan Füle – former European Commissioner and Czech Deputy Minister of Defence
- Admiral Giampaolo di Paola – former Italian Minister of Defence
- Prof Andrew Moravcsik – Princeton University
- Ambassador Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven– First Asst. Secretary General of NATO
- Ambassador Gerhard Jandl – Director of Intl. Security Policy, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria
- Ambassador Stefano Stefanini – Atlantic Council & former Italian Permanent Representative to NATO
- Prof Mark Galeotti – Institute of International Relations, Prague
- Prof Gunther Hellmann – Goethe University, Frankfurt
- Prof Catarina Kinnvall – University of Lund & Editor-in-Chief of Political Psychology.
- Prof Ian Manners – University of Copenhagen
- Prof J. Peter Burgess – Ecole Normale Superieur, Paris
- Dr Matt Kroenig– Georgetown University and Atlantic Council
- Dr Daniel Nexon – Georgetown University & Lead Editor, International Studies Quarterly (ISQ)
- Prof Jaap de Wilde – University of Groningen.
- Mr Jan Havranek – Policy Adviser, Policy Planning Unit, Office of the Secretary General, NATO
- Mr William Alberque – Director, Arms Control, Disarmament, and WMD Non-Proliferation Centre, NATO
- Prof Johan van der Walt – University of Luxembourg
- Prof Juha Vuori – University of Helsinki
- Dr Nadine Godehardt –German Institute for International & Security Affairs (SWP)
- Dr Irina Kobrinskaya – IMEMO Primakov Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Dr Henning Riecke – Head of Transatlantic Programme, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
- Dr Victoria Basham – Cardiff University & Editor of Critical Military Studies
- Dr Benjamin de Carvalho – Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
- Dr Jairus Grove – University of Hawaii
- Dr Kathrin Hoerschelmann – Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig
- Dr Antoine Bousquet – Birkbeck, University of London
- Dr Saara Särmä – Finnish National Defence University
- Dr Anna Durnova – Institute for Advanced Study, Vienna
- Dr Chris Zebrowski – University of Loughborough
- Dr Xavier Guillaume – University of Groningen.
- Mr Marco Kruger – Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen