CONFERENCE PROGRAMM
Moderation Björn Stahlhut, Senior Editor, SECURITY-NETWORK.com, CPM Verlag GmbH
EUDEX visitors can participate free of charge.
| 11:00 – 11:05 |
Welcome & Introduction Opening remarks by Tobias Ehlke (Managing Partner CPM Verlag GmbH) |
| 11:05 – 11:35 |
Keynote: Rethinking Comprehensive Defence - Civil-Military Cooperation as a Prerequisite for National Resilience Speaker: Lieutenant General (Ret.) Alfons Mais (Former Chief of the German Army) |
| 11:35 – 12:30 |
Panel I: Military Requirements & Civilian Capabilities - What Both Sectors Can Learn from Each Other Moderator: Björn Stahlhut (Senior Editor, SECURITY-NETWORK.com, CPM Verlag GmbH) Panellists: - State Secretary Paul Höller (Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy) - Lieutenant General (Ret.) Alfons Mais (Former Chief of the German Army) - Lieutenant General Thorsten Poschwatta (Commander, Air Component Command) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 15:30 |
Panel II: Civil-Military Cooperation in Practice - Structures, Interfaces, and Operational Readiness Moderator: Björn Stahlhut (Senior Editor, SECURITY-NETWORK.com, CPM Verlag GmbH) Panellists: - Lieutenant Colonel Holger Schneider (North Rhine-Westphalia State Command, S3) - Christian Kromberg (Member of the City of Essen’s Executive Board responsible for Legal Affairs, Public Safety and Public Order) - Udo Schröder-Hörster (Full-time Member of the State Executive Board, Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V., North Rhine-Westphalia Regional Association) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Summary of the Conference Day Björn Stahlhut (Senior Editor, SECURITY-NETWORK.com, CPM Verlag GmbH) |
| 10:00–10:15 |
Welcome & Introduction Björn Stahlhut (Senior Editor, SECURITY-NETWORK.com, CPM Verlag GmbH) |
| 10:15–11:15 |
Wake-Up Call: NATO’s Military-Strategic Development since the Annexation of Crimea and the Resulting Challenges for the Bundeswehr Moderator: Björn Stahlhut (Senior Editor, SECURITY-NETWORK.com, CPM Verlag GmbH) In conversation with: - Lieutenant General (Ret.), German Air Force, Jürgen Knappe (Former Commander of NATO’s Joint Support and Enabling Command (JSEC)) |
| 11:15–12:15 |
Panel III: Resilience in an Emergency - Strengthening Healthcare, Military Medicine, and Crisis Response through Civil-Military Cooperation Moderator: Björn Stahlhut (Senior Editor, SECURITY-NETWORK.com, CPM Verlag GmbH) Panellists: - Prof. Dr Angelika Eggert (Chair of the Executive Board and Medical Director, University Hospital Essen) - Julia Obermeier (CEO, Beth-El Europe GmbH) |
| 12:15–13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30–14:30 |
Panel IV: Innovation for National Preparedness - How Industry and Government Can Strengthen Resilience Together Moderator: Björn Stahlhut (Senior Editor, SECURITY-NETWORK.com, CPM Verlag GmbH) Panellists: - Dr Matthias Witt (Managing Partner, WIMCOM GmbH) - Gerd Friedsam (Former President of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW)) - Niklas Kull (Head of Development & Testing, Kärcher Futuretech GmbH) |
| 14:30–15:30 |
Panel V: CBRN Protection as a Cross-Societal Responsibility Moderator: Hans Baum (Head of the CBRN Protection Working Group, Förderkreis Deutsches Heer e.V.) Panellists: - Dr Michael Heidinger (Former Mayor of the City of Dinslaken; CBRN Specialist Adviser to the District of Wesel; V-Commander of the Bundeswehr’s CBRN Defence Command) - Colonel Tim Richardt, Dipl.-Pol. (Commander of the Bundeswehr School of CBRN Defence and Statutory Protection Tasks in Sonthofen, Allgäu) - Senior Fire Officer André Schild (Deputy Head of the Training Department and Head of the Essen Fire Brigade’s Biological Analytical Task Force (ATF Bio)) |
| 15:30–16:00 |
Summary of the Conference Day Björn Stahlhut (Senior Editor, SECURITY-NETWORK.com, CPM Verlag GmbH) |
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