Annual Kharkiv Security Conference Cyber Resilience in Ukraine: Strengthening Ukraine’s Cyber Defenses
May 13, 2019
Premier Palace Hotel, Nezalezhnosti Avenue, 2
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Please, join the Atlantic Council and Burisma Group at the Annual Kharkiv Security Conference addressing Cyber Resilience in Ukraine: Strengthening Ukraine’s Cyber Defenses on Monday, May 13, 2019 from 09:00 until 12:00 at the Premier Palace Hotel (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Russia has long waged a hybrid war in Ukraine, using it as a testing ground for operations ranging from disinformation campaigns to cyberattacks aimed at the power grid and other critical infrastructure, as well as its continued military presence in Ukraine’s east. Russia’s cyber aggression has now extended past its neighbors and will require a transatlantic response.
As technology outpaces the development of security measures, the cyber threat against Ukraine and the West will only continue to grow. Moscow’s cyber operations have provoked international concern about the nature of online disinformation, cybersecurity, and technology’s role in democratic discourse.
The Atlantic Council, in partnership with Burisma Group, will bring together a panel of experts to discuss the threat at hand in Ukraine and beyond, as well as Russia’s broader aims.
We hope you can join us for this timely discussion.
PARTNERS
SPEAKERS
Ambassador John E. Herbst
Director, Eurasia Center,
Atlantic Council
President Aleksander Kwaśniewski
President of Poland
(1995-2005)
Mr. Ireneusz Bil
Secretary General, European Council on Tolerance and
Reconciliation; Director, Aleksander Kwaśniewski Foundation Amicus Europae
Mr. Kenneth Geers
Cyber Analyst, Ukrainian Election Task Force; Senior
Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
Dr. Alina Polyakova
David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Foreign Policy Center,
Brookings Institution
AGENDA
Registration
09:00 – 09:30
Welcome and Introduction
09:30 – 09:35
Ambassador John Herbst,
Director,
Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
Keynote
09:35 – 09:50
H.E. Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Former President of Poland
Panel
09:50 – 10:50
Mr. Kenneth Geers, Cyber Analyst, Ukrainian Election Task Force; Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
Dr. Alina Polyakova, David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Foreign Policy Center, Brookings Institution
Mr. Ireneusz Bil, Secretary General, European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation; Director, Aleksander Kwaśniewski Foundation Amicus Europae
Moderated by:
Ambassador John Herbst, Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council
Q&A with the audience
10:50 – 11:20
Final address
11:20 – 11:30
Major Oleksii Rvachov, Assistant Professor, Cyber Police Faculty, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs
Group photoshoot
11:30 – 11:35
Press remarks
11:35 – 11:55
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