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NATO: The Road Ahead

Meeting Today's Requirements and Tomorrow's Challenges

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Do you know what opportunities lie ahead?

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NATO: The Road Ahead’ investigates the challenges that the organisation and its members face today and will face in the future.  From Enlargement to Transformation, key decision makers will analyse the lessons learned and discuss how to extend both NATO’s and their own capabilities.

By attending this event, you will comprehend what individual members require to achieve force transformation within the NATO framework.  By looking at NATO enlargement with range of partners at difference stages of the process, you will be able to re-align your objectives to focus on what is required. With an overview of current operations, you will have the opportunity to discuss current challenges such as force protection, interoperability and common standards.

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A rapidly changing world presents new challenges and opportunities.  In this new arena, NATO’s credibility is intricately associated to the ability to adapt to up-and-coming operational realities. Members and partners understand this and know that they need to continuously enhance their individual strengths and collective capabilities to face emerging threats.

 

Understand NATO from Enlargement to Transformation!



Why Attend this Executive Symposium:

ü Hear about the experiences and plans for greater integration from new alliance members
ü Discuss challenges faced in force protection, mission planning, deployment and crisis management
ü Learn how NATO plans to achieve standardisation
ü Understand how to the Ukraine plans to increase collaboration with the Allied Forces
ü Post Riga: Understand how NATO is planning to implement a "Comprehensive Approach"
ü Gain an insight into sub-regional initiatives in furthering the NATO integration process plans across the alliance
ü Discover co-operation initiatives

Session Topics Include:

Ø  Steps taken in defence planning
Ø  Defence reform processes
Ø  Structural re-organisation
Ø  Enhancing national security
Ø  Force Transformation for NATO
Ø  Sub-regional initiatives
Ø  Strength of an 'Open Door' policy
Ø  Romanian accession experience
Ø  Balkan Post-Riga experience
Ø  Force Protection and sustainability
Ø  Changing nature of threats
Ø  Lessons from current operations
Ø  Enhanced mission planning
Ø  Readiness and deployability
Ø  Deploying Equipment
Ø  Crisis management
Ø  Perils of division
Ø  Need for air and space power
Ø  NATO Comprehensive Approach
Ø  NATO defence planning framework
Ø  NATO-Ukraine work plan
Ø  NATO-Russia work plan
Ø  NATO "Training Cooperation Initiative'
Ø  NATO support for defence reforms
Ø  NATO support for security reforms
Ø  NATO Planning Procedures
Ø  NATO Training Certification for NRF
Ø  Partnerships for Peace (PfP)


Our oustanding line-up of experts includes:

  • Frank Boland, Director of Force Planning, NATO
  • Corneliu Dobritoiu, State Secretary and Chief, Policy of Defense and Planning Department, Ministry of Defence Romania
  • Brigadier General Adam Pavel (CZE Army),  Deputy Assistant Director, Co-Operation & Regional Security Division, NATO 
  • Major General Mircea Savu , Head of Operations Directorate, Romanian Defence Staff
  • Air Commodore Garfield Porter, Assistant Director for Transformation, Joint Air Power Competence Centre (JAPCC), NATO
  • Ivan Dvorak, Director, Defence Policy and Strategy Division, Ministry of Defence, Czech Republic
  • Zsolt Nagy, Director, Defence Policy Department, Ministry of Defence, Hungary
  • Tadej Burgar, Head, Defence Policy Directorate, Ministry of Defence, Slovenia
  • Pjer Šimunovic, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Croatia
  • Colonel Volodymzr Askarov, Deputy Chief, Department for Defence Policy and Strategic Planning, Ministry of Defence, Ukraine
  • Lieutenant Colonel Mark Payne, NRF Secretary of Co-ordination, NATO
  • Senior Representative, NATO Standardization Agency
  • Nikola Radovanovic, Ambassador to NATO, Ministry of Defence
  • Paul Flaherty, Defence Counsellor, UK Delegation to NATO
  • Dirk Deverill, Director, Defense Plans, US Mission to NATO 
  • Srdjan Gligorijevic, Director of Analysis, International and Security Affairs Centre, ISAC Fund, Serbia
  • Christian Stetter, Vice President, Sales, Satlynx
  • Leo O'Shea, Director, Threat Reduction Programs, Washington Group International
  • Chris Bennett, Director of Communications, Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Office of the High Representative, European Union


The Venue: 

The JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel offers its guests luxury and elegance. Centrally located next to the unique Parliament Palace, the JW Marriott Bucharest is its own "city within a city" complete with shopping gallery and casino, state-of-the-art fitness centre, Health Academy and 6 of Bucharest's finest restaurants.

             



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Doing Business with NATO

Align you Business Strategy with NATO’s New Requirements

5th December 2007, JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel, Bucharest.

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