Baltic Military Conference 2019
Learning to Defend: Adapting Western Experiences in the Baltics
Draft programme
Day 1: Wednesday, 20 March 2019
11:00-11:50 Registration
11:50-12:00 Introduction
Colonel (ret.) Vaidotas MALINIONIS, Managing Director, National Defence Foundation
12:00 Session 1: Welcoming remarks
Chair Prof. Dr. Jūratė NOVAGROCKIENĖ, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
Mr. Raimundas KAROBLIS, Minister of National Defence, Republic of Lithuania
Major General Vitalijus VAIKŠNORAS, Chief, Defence Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces
Colonel Juozas KAČERGIUS, Commandant, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
12:30-13:00 Session 2: Keynote address “Changes in Finnish Defence Policy after Crimea Annexation”
Mr. Jussi NIINISTÖ, Minister of Defence of Finland
13:00-13:30 Coffee break
13:30-14:30 Session 3: Keynote address
Chair Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deividas ŠLEKYS, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania / Vilnius University
Lieutenant General (ret.) Ben HODGES, Pershing Chair in Security Studies, Center for European Policy Analysis
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:30 Session 4: Strategic-Military Changes in the Baltic Region
Chair Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nortautas STATKUS, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
Dr. Lukas MILEVSKI, Leiden University
Mr. Charly SALONIUS-PASTERNAK, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Mr. Saulius GASIŪNAS, Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Lithuania
16.30-17.00 Session 5: Recent trends of the information confrontation in the Baltic region
Mr. Tomas ČEPONIS, Lithuanian Armed Forces
17.00-17.25 Session 6: UAS Operational services in conjunction with EuroServe initiative
Mr. Oliver NUFFER, AIRBUS
17:30-19.30 Dinner
Day 2: Thursday 21 March 2019
08:30-09:00 Tea and coffee
09:00-09:45 Session 7: Keynote remarks
Chair Assoc. Prof. Dr. Margarita ŠEŠELGYTĖ, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University
Brigadier General Almantas LEIKA, Lithuanian Armed Forces
09:45-11:30 Session 8: How We Learned
Chair Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deividas ŠLEKYS, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania / Vilnius University
Major General Meelis KIILI, Estonian Armed Forces
Brigadier General Gintautas ZENKEVIČIUS, Lithuanian Training and Doctrine Command
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:30 Session 9: Development of The Militaries’ in the Baltic States
Chair Mr. Saulius GASIŪNAS, Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Lithuania
Colonel Ilmar TAMM, Baltic Defence College
Lieutenant Colonel Rolandas GREIBUS, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
Lieutenant Colonel Linas IDZELIS, Lithuanian Armed Forces
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Session 10: Keynote remarks
Chair Prof. Dr. Šarūnas LIEKIS, Vytautas Magnus University / European Commission ECRI
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deividas ŠLEKYS, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania / Vilnius University
15.15-15.30 Coffee break
15:30-16:45 Session 11: Future of the Small States’ Defence
Chair Assoc. Prof. Dr. Giedrius ČESNAKAS, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
Dr. Anke SCHMIDT-FELZMANN, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
Colonel Jakob SOGARD LARSEN, NATO Force Integration Unit Lithuania
Lieutenant Colonel Benedictus RIJNENBERG, Defence Attaché of the Netherlands to Lithuania
16:45-17.15 Session 12: OCEAN2020 Project – A Technological Demonstrator of Enhanced Situation
Awareness in Naval Environment with the Use of Unmanned Systems
Ms. Ingrid Leijonhufvud, SAAB AB
17:15–17.30 Session 13: Concluding remarks
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deividas ŠLEKYS, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania / Vilnius University
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nortautas STATKUS, General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania
18:00–19.30 Dinner
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