Panelists

Inaugural Session

Nikol Pashinyan

Prime Minister, Armenia

Ararat Mirzoyan

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia

Moderator

Maria Titizian

Editor-in-Chief, EVN Report, Armenia 

One-on-one format

Robert Fico

Prime Minister, Slovakia

Moderator

Maria Titizian

Editor-in-Chief, EVN Report, Armenia 

South Caucasus as a Strategic Hub: Challenges and Opportunities for Trade and Connectivity

Armen Grigoryan

Secretary of the Security Council, Armenia

Lazăr Comănescu

Secretary General, Permanent International Secretariat, Black Sea Economic Cooperation

Saeed Khatibzadeh

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Head of the Institute for Political and International Studies, Iran

Joshua Kucera

Senior South Caucasus Analyst, Crisis Group, United Kingdom

Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti

Senior Research Fellow, Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Centre, Institute for International Political Studies, Italy

Moderator

Anahide Pilibossian

Vice President, Strategy and Development, Applied Policy Research Institute, Armenia

The EU’s involvement in Eastern Neighborhood

Arman Yeghoyan

Chair, Standing Committee on European Integration, National Assembly, Armenia

Belén Martínez Carbonell

Secretary-General, European External Action Service

Rasa Juknevičienė

Member of the European Parliament, Lithuania

Marc Cools

President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Council of Europe

Marko Štucin

State Secretary for European affairs, Economic diplomacy, International law and the protection of interests, Slovenia

Lucian Fătu

President, Euro-Atlantic Resilience Centre, Romania

Moderator

Alica Kizekova

Major Lead for International Relations, Lecturer, Curtin University, Australia

Parliamentary Dimension of the Crossroads of Peace: Through democracy to security and prosperity

Keynote address

Sargis Khandanyan

Chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, National Assembly, Armenia

Moderator

Hripsime Grigoryan

Member of National Assembly, Armenia

Transatlantic Turmoil: Europe’s Future Amidst American Ambivalence

Ivan Scalfarotto

Member of the Senate, Italy

Dimitris Skalkos

Secretary General for International Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece

Krisztian Meszaros

Director, Partnership & Global Affairs Directorate, NATO

Amanda Sloat

Professor of Practice at the School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs, IE University, Spain

Jay Kansara

Board Member, Asian Pacific American Public Affairs, USA

Areg Kochinyan

President, Research Center on Security Policy NGO, Armenia

Moderator

Dhruva Jaishankar

Executive Director, ORF America, USA

Mitigating Security Challenges Through Inclusive Cooperation in the Middle East, South Caucasus, and Central Asia

Ararat Mirzoyan

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia

Jean-Noël Barrot

Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France 

Varsen Aghabekian

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Palestine

Tatiana Molcean

Executive Secretary,  United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Nigar Göksel

Project Director, International Crisis Group, Türkiye

Moderator

Anja Wehler-Schöck

International Editor and Member of the Editorial Board, Tagesspiegel, Germany

Green Technology as a Shield: Strengthening Energy Infrastructure Against Hybrid Threats

Rastislav Chovanec

Deputy Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovakia

Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi

Chairman of Sharjah Consultative Council, United Arab Emirates

Hayk Yesayan

General Director, Team Telecom Armenia

Ornela Çuçi

Head of Research Center, Western Balkan University, Albania 

Liliana Śmiech

Director General for International Affairs, Ludovika University of Public Service, Hungary

Moderator

Fabian Wigand

Senior Director Energy, Tetra Tech, Germany

Roundtable: Faith and Freedom: Strengthening Religious Freedom in a Shifting Global Landscape

Sam Brownback

Co-Chair of the International Religious Freedom Summit and Save Armenia Board Member, USA 

Narek Mkrtchyan

Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Armenia

Mirosław Stanisław Wachowski

Under Secretary of the Secretariat of State, Holy See 

Jacob McGee

Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Department of State, USA

Oscar Tatosian

Co-Chair, Armenian Assembly of America, USA 

Moderator

Mark Vlasic

Senior Fellow, Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Policy, Georgetown University, USA

The Role of Trade and Transport Connectivity in Promoting Regional Cooperation

Vahan Kostanyan

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia

Josef Karl Pelikan

Director, Division of Regional Bureaus and Field Coordination, Special Representative for Europe and Central Asia, UNIDO

Andreas Theophanous

President, Center for European and International Affairs, Cyprus

Kaush Arha

President, Free and Open Indo-Pacific Forum, USA

Yair Hirschfeld

Senior Lecturer, Department of Middle East History, University of Haifa, Israel

Moderator

Nada Al Hajjri

President, Yemen Information Center, Yemen

Information Integrity: Navigating the Challenges of the Digital Age

Rupa Huq

Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

Alison Gillwald

Executive Director of Research ICT Africa, South Africa

Gyan Tripathi

Lawyer and Data Rapporteur of the Observatory, Forum on Information and Democracy, India

Anzhela Kzhdryan

Lead, Strategic Communication and Participatory Governance Reform, Armenia

Moderator

Camille Grenier

Executive Director, Forum on Information and Democracy, France

Securing a Resilient Future for Small Island Developing States

Zulmira Rodrigues

Chief of Section for Small Island Developing States, UNESCO

Jacques Belle

Minister-Counsellor, Deputy Permanent Delegate of Seychelles to UNESCO, Seychelles

Erik Grigoryan

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Environment Group, Armenia

Chevaan Daniel

Executive Group Director, Capital Maharaja Group, Sri Lanka

Moderator

Jackline Kagume

Programme Officer, Constitution, Law and Economy Program, Institute of Economic Affairs, Kenya

Curators Curtain Call

Davit Karapetyan

Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Armenia

Samir Saran

President, Observer Research Foundation, India

Plurilateral Pathways: Restoring Order in a Fraying Multilateral System

Mnatsakan Safaryan

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia

Lasha Darsalia

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Georgia

Andrew Rosindell

Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

Minna-Liina Lind

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Estonia

Ahmad Saidmurodzoda

Deputy Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Sarah Mosoetsa

Chief Executive Officer, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa

Kei Koga

Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Japan

Moderator

Lisa Singh

Chief Executive Officer, Australia India Institute, Australia

Upholding Justice: The Global Imperative of the Rule of Law

Anna Vardapetyan

Prosecutor General, Armenia

Osvaldo Zavala Giler

Registrar, International Criminal Court

Boštjan Škrlec

Chair of the Board on Relations with Partners, Eurojust

Nancy Okail

President and Chief Executive Officer,  Center for International Policy, USA

Moderator

Sheila Paylan

International Human Rights Lawyer and Senior Legal Consultant, United Nations

Reversing Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss: Balancing Ecology and Economy

Pietro Francesco De Lotto

President, Consultative Commission on Industrial Change of the European Economic and Social Committee

Tamara Lagurashvili

Director, Central and Eastern Europe, Clean Air Task Force, Germany

Irina Ghaplanyan

Senior Climate Change Specialist, The World Bank Group, Armenia

Alisée Pornet

Senior Advisor to the Operations Director, Agence Française de Developement, France

Moderator

Sunjoy Joshi

Chairman, Observer Research Foundation, India

Smart, Nimble, and Agile: Foreign Policy for a Fractured World Order

Filip Ivanović

Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, Montenegro

Péter Szijjártó

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary

Ruben Rubinyan

Vice President, National Assembly, Armenia

Charles Flanagan

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs & Former Minister of Justice, Ireland

Sachin Pilot

Former Minister of Telecommunications, IT and Corporate Affairs, India

Moderator

Zbigniew Pisarski

Founder and President, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, Poland

Between Innovation and Destruction: Regulating AI and Dual-Use Technologies

Aram Jivanyan

Chairman of Military Industrial Committee, Armenia 

Satoru Nagao

Fellow, Hudson Institute, Japan

Urmi Tat

US-India ORF AI fellow, India

Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy

Assistant Professor, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan 

Moderator

Leonid Nersisyan

Senior Research Fellow, Applied Policy Research Institute, Armenia

The Expansion Equation: Should EU Enlargement be made easier?

Sargis Khandanyan

Chair of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, National Assembly, Armenia 

Julius Pranevičius

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania

Rick Fawn

Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Tatiana Turculet

Compliance Officer, European Investment Bank Group, Luxembourg 

Moderator

Rachel Rizzo

Senior Fellow, Europe Center, Atlantic Council

Deep Dive Into the Unknown: Exploring the Depths of Artificial Intelligence

Matthias Kloth

Head of Digital Governance and Sport Department, Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe

Vahe Andonians

Founder and CEO, Cognaize, Armenia

Mallory Knodel

Founder and Executive Director, Social Web Foundation, USA

Silvana Lopez

Group Chief Operations Officer, ClarkeModet, Spain 

Stephanie Diepeveen

Senior Lecturer in Global Digital Politics, King’s College London, United Kingdom

Moderator

Erin Watson

Founder and Managing Director, Baker & York, Australia

The Biodiversity Nexus: Reweaving the Earth’s Living Tapestry

Hambardzum Matevosyan

Chief Adviser to the Prime Minister, Armenia

Françoise Jacob

United Nations Resident Coordinator in Republic of Armenia

Ana-Maria Paraschiv

Founder, Ubuntu World, Romania

Moses Kajwang

Senator for Homa Bay County, Kenya

Moderator

Teenah Jutton

Former Member of Parliament, Mauritius

The Social Algorithm: Decoding the Data-Driven Economy

Tatjana Macura

Minister in Charge of Gender Equality, Prevention of the Home Based Violence and Political and Economical Empowerment of Women, Serbia

Ararat Ghukasyan

First Deputy Chairman, Management Board, Unibank, Armenia

Baratang Miya

Founder, Women In Internet Governance, South Africa

Scott Cunningham

Entrepreneur, Investor, Global Change Leader, USA

Moderator

Viktoria Poghosyan

Director of External Affairs, Philip Morris, Armenia

Mission Mitigation: Bridging the Path to Decarbonisation in the Developing World

Patricio Barreiro

Institutional Development and International Cooperation Director, Argentina

Xufeng Zhu

Dean, School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University, China

Abdeta D. Beyene

Executive Director Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation, Ethiopia 

Judith Mwaniki

Director, Development Programs – Consortium for Economic Research and Development Studies, Kenya

Moderator

Aude Darnal

Research Analyst and Project Manager, Stimson Center, USA

Closing Remarks & Vote of Thanks

Davit Karapetyan

Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Armenia