Ukraine Strategy Seminar 2026

Bohdan DANYLIV, Head of Military Department, Serhiy Prytula Foundation, Kyiv
Falko DROßMANN, MP (Social Democrats) Spokesperson on Defense Policy for the SPD Parliamentary, Deutscher Bundestag, Hamburg/Berlin
Kai KIEßLER, Head of Unit Security Cooperation with Ukraine, German Ministry for the Economy, Berlin*
Dmytro PUTIATA, Drone Warfare Expert and Defence Analyst, 20th Unmanned Systems Forces Brigade "K-2”, Kyiv**
Line RINDVIG, Chief Strategy & Defence Investment Officer at Baryon Fund, Kyiv/Copenhagen**

Moderation: Mattia NELLES, Co-Founder & Executive Director, German-Ukrainian Bureau, Düsseldorf

(in partnership with Democracy Reporting International, TBC)
Balázs JARÁBIK, Founder, Minority Report, Budapest
Garry POLUSCHKIN, Consultant and Country Coordinator Ukraine in the German Economic Team*
Victoria VOYTSITSKA, Advocacy Director, International Center for Ukrainian Victory, former Member of Parliament, Secretary at the Committee on Fuel Energy, Nuclear Policies and Security (2014-2019), Kyiv

Moderation: Oleksandr IAKYMENKO, Democratic Governance & EU Integration, Democratic Reporting, Berlin

Oksana HUSS, Research Centre Trustworthy Data Science and Security, University Alliance Ruhr Duisburg and 2026 Partnership for Peace Research Fellow, NATO Defence College, Duisburg
Meriam YOL, Chief Operating Officer, Volonterska Foundation, Kharkiv
Natalia ZUBAR, Chair Maidan Monitoring Information Centre, Kharkiv

Moderation: Inna NELLES, Co-founder, German-Ukrainian Bureau, Düsseldorf

Arne Bård DALHAUG, Lieutenant General (Ret.), Royal Norwegian Army, President of the Norwegian Defence Association, and Senior Adviser to the Norwegian Atlantic Committee, Oslo
Anders Puck NIELSEN, Military Analyst, Naval Officer, Researcher, Royal Danish Defence Academy
Lesia OGRYZKO, Head of the Reform Support Office of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Co-founder & Director of the Sahaidachnyi Security Center
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Devin R. PEPPER, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans and Policy at NATO Allied Command Transformation*

Moderation: Elena DAVLIKANOVA, Associate Senior Fellow, Sahaidachnyi Security Center

Lead: Natalia ZUBAR, Citizen War Crime Investigator, Kharkiv

Lead: Gustav GRESSEL, Senior Lecturer and Researcher National Defence Academy, Austrian Armed Forces*

Meeting point (Reception)

Yaryna CHORNOHUZ, Poet, Writer, Translator, and Marine, Servicemember of the 30th Marine Corps, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Kyiv

Moderation: Kateryna RIETZ-RAKUL, Head of Ukrainian Institute in Germany, Berlin

*invited
** prel. confirmed

Yevgeniya GABER, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
TBC, Serpens Center for International Security, Kyiv*
Robin WAGENER, Member of Parliament (The Greens), Member in the Defence and in the Foreign Affair Committee and Head of the German-Ukrainian Parliamentarian Group, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin/Bad Salzufen

Moderation: Wilfried JILGE, Senior Researcher, German-Ukrainian Bureau, Berlin

Kristina BERDYNSKYKH, Freelance journalist with regular contributions to Il Foglio (Italy) and Liberation (France), Kyiv
Nataliya PRYHORNYTSKA, Co-Founder and Board Member of Open Platform/ Alliance of Ukrainian Organizations, Berlin
Oleksiy SOROKIN, Co-founder and Deputy Chief Editor, Kyiv Independent, Kyiv
Brian WHITMORE, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council and Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Texas-Arlington

Moderation: Inna NELLES, Co-Founder, German-Ukrainian Bureau, Düsseldorf

Inna NELLES, Co-Founder, German-Ukrainian Bureau, Düsseldorf
Mattia NELLES, Co-Founder & Executive Director, German-Ukrainian Bureau, Düsseldorf
Thomas MÜLLER-FÄRBER, Protestant Academy Loccum

*invited
** prel. confirmed