2024.2 (online)
Program Friday, 10.05.2024
The Pirate Security Conference program will take place as part of the NAFO “Future Forum”.
10:00 – 10:45 Opening
Greetings from H.E. Oleksii Makeiev, Ambassador of Ukraine and Michael Roth, Member of the German Bundestag and Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
SECURITY AND LAW
10:30 – 11:15
Russia’s war of aggression and scenarios of global great power competition
Dr. Jochen Kleinschmidt, TU Dresden
11:15 – 12:00
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Special Guest
12:00 – 12:45
Turning Point- Ukraine, Germany and Europe’s real turning point
Dr. Benjamin Tallis, Senior Research Fellow & Head of Action Group Turning Point, DGAP
13:30 – 14:15
Dealing with Russia’s toxic society
Dr. Gesine Dornblüth, Slavicist and journalist and Thomas Franke, author and journalist
TOPIC AREA (DIS)INFORMATION
14:15 – 15:00
Can e-voting break Estonian democracy?
Märt Põder, Estonian philosopher and digital activist
(Pirate Security Conference)
15:00 – 15:45
Resisting Polarization: The Essential Toolkit
Sara “Beau” Hjalmarsson, Counterterrorism, Security and Intelligence expert
(Pirate Security Conference)
16:00 – 16:30
Troll Management
Schoresch Davoodi and Alexander Kohler, AG Foreign Policy of the Pirate Party
(Pirate Security Conference)
16:30 – 17:15
Algorithms, chance and symmetry – a look at truth and resilience
Dr. Jens Oehlschlägel
17:15 – 18:00
Russian disinformation
Dr. Franziska Davies, LMU Munich and Dr. Heike Winkel, Federal Agency for Civic Education
18:15 – 19:45
Russia watchers on stage
Thomas Leurs, Dimitri Nabokoff, Markus Pöhlking and Dr. Stefan Schaak
20:00 – 22:00
Night Talk – Disinfolkore vs. resilience
Martin Sauerbrey-Almasy and Ralph Yanik, among others with Stephen Douglas, ex-diplomat and OSCE observer in the Donbas
2024
2023
2022
Multipolar and Multidimensional Geopolitics in Interesting Times/Day 1
| Day 1 – 2022.06.18 (Saturday) | Agenda – all times are CEST/DST (UTC+2) |
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| Begin | End | Speaker | Lecture |
| 10:00 | 11:00 | Alexander Kohler & Anja Hirschel |
Opening Greeting from the Lord Mayor of Prague, Mr. Zdeněk Hřib ![]() |
| 10:05 | 10:30 | Mikuláš Peksa | Influence of Russian Energy Companies on Energy Policies of European Countries![]() |
| 11:00 | 12:00 | Gregory Engels | Putins Internet Plan![]() |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | Alexander Isavnin | Russia: Communication Freedom exchanged for „Security“ |
| 13:00 | 14:00 | – | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 | 15:00 | Paula Cipierre | Security in an Interconnected World – the Role of Information Technology![]() |
| 15:00 | 16:00 | Patrick Breyer | Why the EU’s CSAM Scanner Proposal threatens our Security![]() |
| 16:00 | 17:00 | Paul C. Strobel | The Continuation of Warfare by other Means: Online Warfare and its Implications for the Future |
| 17:00 | 18:00 | Fritz Felgentreu | War in Ukraine, and then? EU-Perspectives in a Multipolar World![]() |
| 18:00 | 18:15 | Anja Hirschel | Closing Day 1 |
Multipolar and Multidimensional Geopolitics in Interesting Times/Day 2
| Day 2 – 2022.06.19 (Sunday) | Agenda – all times are CEST/DST (UTC+2) |
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| Begin | End | Speaker | Lecture |
| 10:00 | 11:00 | Anja Hirschel | Opening |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Bandera D. | The Situation in Sri Lanka |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Makar Diakonov | Helping To Leave![]() |
| 11:00 | 12:00 | Enno Lenze | War Crimes in Ukraine |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | – | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 | 14:30 | Schoresch Davoodi | War in Ukraine and Information-Warfare against the West![]() |
| 14:30 | 15:30 | Dennis Wufka | Lessons learned? The War that Challenges the Fundamental Perceptions of Western Geopolitics |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Anja Hirschel | Closing Day 2![]() |
2021
The Future world order looming in the aftermath of the crisis Tag/Day 1
| Tag 1 / Day 1- 14.08.2021 (Saturday/Samstag) | Programm / Agenda – all times are CEST/DST (UTC+2) |
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| Begin / Beginn | End / Ende | Speaker / Redner | Lecture / Vortrag |
| 10:00 | 10:05 | Opening – Eröffnung |
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| 10:05 | 11:05 | Stéphane Koch | Digital illiteracy |
| 11:10 | 12:10 | Manouchehr Shamsrizi | Gaming as an arena of foreign and security policy |
| 12:10 | 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00 | 15:00 | Enno Lenze | Rockets on Israel – Iran’s Contribution to Hamas’ Work |
| 15:05 | 15:55 | Dr. Keith Goldstein | How Pirate parties and Pirate Parties International Can Utilize Crypto Currencies |
| 16:00 | 16:55 | Coffee Break | |
| 17:00 | 17:55 | Dave Borghuis | How to fine municipality Enschede in 42 easy steps |
| 17:55 | 18:00 | Closing Day 1 / Abschluss Tag 1 | |
Recordings:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
The Future world order looming in the aftermath of the crisis Tag/Day 2
| Tag 2 / Day 2- 15.08.2021 (Sunday/Sonntag) |
Programm / Agenda – all times are CEST/DST (UTC+2) |
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| Begin / Beginn | End / Ende | Speaker / Redner | Lecture / Vortrag |
| 11:00 | 11:05 | Opening – Eröffnung | |
| 11:05 | 12:05 | Gregory Engels | Digital sovereignty in Russia |
| 12:10 | 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:05 | 15:05 | Rafael Capurro & Anja Hirschel | Global information Ethics |
| 15:10 | 16:55 | Roderich Kiesewetter,
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Future multipolar world order after Corona Main event & Panel Discussion |
| 16:55 | 17:00 | Closing / Abschluss | |
Recordings:
Part 1
Part 2
2020
| Category | Topic | Speaker |
| Resilience | Blackout: Are we fit enough to survive | Herbert Sauregg |
| Resilience | Mobilisation and resilience of movements in 2020 | Nick Kelly |
| Digital Sovereignty | Digital sovereignty in Russia | Gregory Engels |
| Middle East | Appeasement in Hybrid War Times: useful or coward? | Mirjam Fischer |
| Middle East | Telling the truth by watching the war | Enno Lenze |
| Middle East | Iran – Current situation in the Middle East | Schoresch Davoodi |
| Risk Analysis in a Dynamic World | Know Thy Risk – Approaches to Political Risk Analysis in a Dynamic World | Dr. Konstantinos Tsetsos |
| The New Iron Curtain | Surveillance capitalism vs. digital self-determination – the New Iron Curtain | Mikuláš Peksa |
| Digital Safety | Digital integrity of the human person | Alexis Roussel |
| Hybrid threats | Drones as a means of hybrid warfare | Kurt Klein |
2019
| Category | Topic | Speaker |
| Artificial Intelligence | The Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence | Ing. Alessandro Guarino |
| Artificial Intelligence | Economic aspects of AI / Wirtschaftliche Aspekte von KI | Chris Boos |
| Genome editing | Genome editing with CRISPR / Cas | Dr. Anna Müllner |
| Data Security | Active Directory – The weakest link in the chain | Ivor Kollár |
| Safety | Social networks as a place of crime | Elina Radionova-Girsa |
| Safety | The Dream of Digital Invisibility or Speech to the Little Digital Man | Peter Stummer |
| Safety | Perception of safety in Europe | Patrick Breyer |
| Asylum & Migration | Fortress Europe: Clash of cultures | Adam Wolf |
| Asylum & Migration | Festung Europa: Kampf der Kulturen | Schoresch Davoodi |
| Asylum & Migration | Panel Discussion | Gregory Engels, Adam Wolf, Schoresch Davoodi |
| Artificial Intelligence | Technology Cold War: The Artificial Intelligence arms race | Yvonne Hofstetter |
| Artificial Intelligence | How KI changes our everyday life | Dr. Isabella Gekel |
2018
2017
| Category | Topic | Speaker |
| Orga | Opening Day 1 | Patrick Schiffer, Alexander Kohler |
| Safety | Cleavages between Inner and Outer Security | Alessandro Guarino |
| Digital Society | Challenges to Face in a Digital Environment | PhDr. Ivan Bartoš |
| and Carlo von Lynx | ||
| Crypto Currency | Bitcoin: Privacy and Censorship Resistance Beyond the Web | |
| Orga | Opening Day 2 | Alexander Kohler |
| Middle East | Situation Report on Syria and Iraq | Enno Lenze |
| and Kawa Prüfer | ||
| Safety | Big Data and its Impact on Modern Society | Vesselin Popov |
| Digital Society | Expert Interview: The Role of Whistleblower in Modern Society | Birgitta Jónsdóttir |
| and Sylvia Steinitz | ||
| Orga | Opening Day 3 | Alexander Kohler |
| Digital Society | Global Governance: Norms Rules and Practices | Mikuláš Peksa |
| and Frank Herrmann | ||
| Safety | The Turning Point in Global Cooperation? Challenges and Opportunities | Dr. Alexandre Vautravers |
| and Dennis Wufka |
2016
2015
To be continued









