Invitation

GLOBSEC Membership Platform 2021

GLOBSEC TRANSATLANTIC FORUM 2024: Resetting the Transatlantic Agenda

GLOBSEC Transatlantic Forum 2024: Resetting the Transatlantic Agenda December 3, 2024 | Washington D.C.

A large-scale, multi-stage event with thematic tracks, attached roundtable dinners, media roundtables, and media interactions.

The Forum Leadership GLOBSEC US Foundation is a nonprofit, non-parti- san public policy organization that works to strength- en the transatlantic relationship and to enhance security and prosperity in the United States, Europe, and throughout the world. With sister organizations in Bratislava, Kyiv, and Brussels, GLOBSEC US pro- vides a unique gateway to the region on the front- line of the newly divided world.

The GLOBSEC Network started with the establishment in 2005 of GLOBSEC in Bratislava, Slovakia, and has grown to encompass the entire transatlantic community, from Washington to Brussels to Kyiv. Now the leading think tank in Central and Eastern Europe, GLOBSEC is also a trendsetter in organizing keystone events. GLOBSEC flagship platforms include the GLOBSEC Forum and Tatra Summit, which serve as key platforms for world-class thinkers, business leaders and heads of states and governments to discuss pressing challenges to security and prosperity. Participants in these events have included Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ursula von der Leyen, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz, David Cameron, Pope Francis, Jens Stoltenberg, Madeleine Albright, John McCain, Mark Esper, Brad Smith, Francis Fukuyama, and others.

Steve Clemons, Co-Chair, GLOBSEC USA Initiative

Steve Clemons is contributing editor at The National Interest. He has served as Editor at Large of The Hill, The Atlantic and Semafor as well as in senior editorial roles at National

Journal and Quartz. He is also proprietor of the popular political blog, The Washington Note, and hosts the popular news show, The Bottom Line, on the global network of Al Jazeera English.

The Forum Overview The numerous elections in Europe and the U.S. have made 2024 a year of anxiety, introspection, and reassessment of national priorities and the means to achieve them.

As the big elections year comes to a close, we find ourselves in an environment propitious for a reset of the transatlantic agenda. It is time to focus on how

the U.S. and Europe will position themselves global- ly, where their interests align, and what a reset of the transatlantic agenda is likely to look like.

Happening a few weeks after the U.S. elections, the Summit will put Americans and Europeans in a con- versation to assess the outcomes of the elections, identify points of convergence (and contention) in key areas and determine how to approach them moving forward

The summit will be focused on three strategic issues for Transatlantic relations that will underpin global competition:

⊲ Defense and security ⊲ New technologies and digital innovation ⊲ Strategic industries and resilience of supply

chains We expect the summit to receive significant media coverage and impact policy debate and direction on topics of international significance like the economy, security, technology, and democracy among others.

The Forum Formats The program will include:

⊲ a half-a-day of on-the-record live-broadcast plenary sessions and chats

⊲ a series of private roundtable with key stake- holders

The Forum Participants A core group of 30-50 political leaders, business representatives, and thought leaders from the U.S. and Europe primarily will travel through a series of private roundtables.

100-200 guests will join in person the on-the-record sessions throughout the day of public conversations with key insiders on political and business thinking from the U.S. and Europe.

The Forum Flow December 3

09:30 am – 1:00 pm Public conference Topical framework:

⊲ Framing the shared China challenge ⊲ Protecting strategic industries: security, effi-

ciency, and connectivity dilemmas ⊲ Future of U.S. and European competitiveness ⊲ Defending the Digital Realm: Counteracting

Broader Cybersecurity Threats ⊲ Solving the energy challenge ⊲ Future of NATO and Transatlantic security ⊲ The tech generation: modernizing defense

industrial base ⊲ The road to sustainable peace in Ukraine

1:00 – 6:00 pm Private roundtable 1: Refreshing transatlantic security strategy

Private roundtable 2: Points of convergence for American and European approaches to strategic industries

Private roundtable 3: Shaping global tech competition