VIP Guest Speakers:

Brig. Gen. Mariusz Chmielewski PhD – Commander of the Cyberspace Defense Forces (since 2026)
Minister Jacek Czaputowicz – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (2018-2020).
Ambassador Jennes de Mol – Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Poland and Belarus
President Dalia Grybauskaitė –  President of the Republic of Lithuania (2009 to 2019)
Minister Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir – Special Envoy of the Secretary General on the Situation of Children of Ukraine, Council of Europe. Minister for: Foreign Affairs (2021-2023, 2024), Finance and Economic Affairs (2023–2024), Tourism, Industry and Innovation (2017–2021) and Justice (2019), Iceland.
Ambassador Patrick Haughey – Ambassador of Ireland to Poland
Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania (2020-2024)
Ambassador Luca Franchetti Pardo – Ambassador of the Italian Republic to the Republic of Poland
Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka – Undersecretary of State in the European Union Affairs Division, Government Plenipotentiary for the Instrument for Increasing European Security.
Minister Konrad Szymański –  Member of the European Parliament (2004-2014). Minister of European Affairs (2015-2022). Deputy Director of the Polish Economic Institute (2022-2024)

VIP Guest Speakers:

Minister Jacek Czaputowicz – Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (2018-2020).
General Andrzej Fałkowski – Lieutenant General (Ret.), Doctor of Economics. Former Polish Military Representative to the NATO and EU Military Committees in Brussels (2014-2018), Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (2013-2014).
Minister Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir – Special Envoy of the Secretary General on the Situation of Children of Ukraine, Council of Europe. Minister for: Foreign Affairs (2021-2023, 2024), Finance and Economic Affairs (2023–2024), Tourism, Industry and Innovation (2017–2021) and Justice (2019), Iceland.
Ambassador Tomasz Łukaszuk – Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Indonesia (2005–2010) and India (2014–2017); Director of Asia and the Pacific Department at Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010-2012).
Ambassador Zdzisław Rapacki – Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations Office in Geneva, the Conference on Disarmament and other organizations (2004-2010); Director of the Office of International Affairs in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland (1996-2004).
Franak Viačorka – Chief of Staff to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Leader of Democratic Belarus; Vice President of the Digital Communication Network; Senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska – Member of the Parliament, Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and National Defense Committee, NATO Subcommittee; Chair of Polish-American Parliamentary Group, ViceChair of Polish-Ukrainian Parliamentary Group.

VIP Guest Speakers:

Prof. Adam Bodnar – Vice-President of the Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights (2010-2015), Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Poland (2015-2021)
Ambassador Mark Brzezinski – Ambassador of the United States to Poland (from December 2021). US Ambassador to Sweden (2011-2015)
Clare Hutchinson – NATO Representative for Women, Peace, and Security (2018-2021)
Daria Kaleniuk – Co-Founder of the Anti-Corruption Action Center & International Center for Ukrainian Victory
Ambassador Adam Kobieracki – Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Center (2011 – 2015). NATO Assistant Secretary General for Operations (2003-2007)
Minister Linas Linkevičius – Permanent Representative to NATO (2005-2011), Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (2012-2020).
General David Petraeus – Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011-2012), Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (2010-2011), Commander of US Central Command (2008-2010).
Robert Pszczel – Head of the NATO Information Office in Moscow (2010-2015), Expert on Security Policy and Multilateral Institutions.
Kira Rudik – Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation

VIP Guest Speakers:

Anne Applebaum – Journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner for  “Gulag: A History”, staff writer for The Atlantic and senior fellow at The Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Baroness Catherine Ashton – Baroness of Upholland, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First,Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission (2009-2014).
Dalia Grybauskaitė – President of Lithuania (2009-2019).
Theresa Fallon – Founder & Director of the Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (CREAS), Belgium.
Pavlo Klimkin – Minister of Foreign Affairs (2014-2019); Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Germany (2012-2014).

VIP Guest Speakers:

Baroness Catherine Ashton – Baroness of Upholland, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First,Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission (2009-2014).
Hanna Hopko –  Head of the Committee on foreign affairs of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2014-2019), People’s Deputy of Ukraine (2014-2019)
General David Petraeus – Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2011-2012), Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (2010-2011), Commander of US Central Command (2008-2010).

VIP Guest Speakers:

Ambassador Bogdan Góralczyk – former Ambassador of Poland in Thailand, the Philippines and Myanmar (2003-2008), Professor, University of Warsaw
Pawło Klimkin – Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2014 – 2019)
Dr. Orsolya Pacsay-Tomassich – State Secretary for the Hungarian Diplomatic Academy and Stipendium Hungaricum Programme, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary
Robert Pszczel – Senior Officer, Russia and Western Balkans, Public Diplomacy Division, NATO
Jamie Shea – Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO (2010-2018)
Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos – President of the European Court of Human Rights (2019-2020)