Sunday, November 20 - Halifax
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2022 Halifax International Security Forum

DATE
November 18-20, 2022

LOCATION
Halifax, Nova Scotia

PARTICIPANTS
300

AGENDA & SPEAKERS

Sunday, November 20

7:00

5K RUN

with General Wayne Eyre, Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Armed Forces

8:30-9:45

Breakfast SessionsOFF THE RECORD

Canada’s Quiet Tech Triumphs

  • LOCATION: Elements
  • SPEAKERS: Mr. Ajay Agrawal, Founder, Creative Destruction Labs; Mr. Chris Hadfield, President,Chris Hadfield Inc.; Mr. John Risley, Chair of the Board CFFI Ventures Inc.; Dr. Janice Stein, Chair, HFX Board of Directors
  • MODERATOR: Ms. Adrienne Arsenault, Chief Correspondent, CBC News; Host, The National, CBC TV

Wartime Ready: Rearming Our Allied Economies

  • LOCATION: Harbour B
  • SPEAKERS: General Wayne Eyre, Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Armed Forces; Mr. Eric Fanning, President, Aerospace Industries Association, United States; Ms. Beth McGrath, Managing Director, Government and Public Services, Deloitte; Mr. Paul McLeary, Defense Reporter, POLITICO
  • MODERATOR: Ms. Luiza Savage, Executive Editor, Growth, POLITICO

Wonder Weapon: Ukraine’s Women

  • LOCATION: Atlantic Ballroom
  • SPEAKERS: Ms. Daria Kaleniuk, Anti-Corruption Action Centre, International Centre for Ukrainian Victory; Ambassador Yuliia Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada; Ms. Yuliia Paevska,
    Founder, Taira’s Angels; Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna, European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine; Yuliia Mykytenko, Senior Lieutenant, Armed Forces of Ukraine
  • MODERATOR: Ms. Jacqueline O’Neill, Ambassador, Women, Peace and Security, Global Affairs Canada

10:00-10:30

Halifax ChatON THE RECORD

WITH: Mr. Petro Poroshenko – 5th President of Ukraine; Mr. Nick Schifrin – Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent – PBS NewsHour

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MODERATOR Mr. Nick Schifrin

Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

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Mr. Petro Poroshenko

5th President of Ukraine

10:30-11:30

Plenary 7: H 2 O: Heatwave 2 OverflowON THE RECORD

 

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MODERATOR Mr. Jamie Coomarasamy

Senior Presenter, BBC Radio and World Service

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Mr. Mark Hetfield

President & CEO, HIAS

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Ms. Melanie Nadeau

Chief Executive Officer, COVE, Canada

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Ms. Dalia Ziada

Chairperson, Liberal Democracy Institute

11:30-12:00

Coffee Break

12:00-13:00

Plenary 8: The Future of Democracy? Democracy. — ON THE RECORD

 

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MODERATOR Mr. Kenneth Wollack

Chairman, National Endowment for Democracy

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Secretary General Luis Almagro

Secretary General, Organization of American States

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Ms. Hanna Hopko

Chairwoman, Democracy in Action Conference, Ukraine

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Ms. Tawakkol Karman

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Yemen;

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Mr. Lassina Zerbo

Former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso; Chairman of the Executive Advisory Board for Africa, NANO Nuclear

13:00-14:00

Closing Lunch
LOCATION: Atlantic Ballroom