14:00-14:30: Registration at the Luxembourg Palace, 15 ter rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris. Please, be on-time, as the registration will close at 14:30. Only confirmed guests will be allowed entrance.

14:30-14:45

Opening word by Nadia Sollogoub, President of France-Ukraine Friendship Group in the French Senate, and by Cedric Perrin, President of the Senate Commission on Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Armed Forces 

14:45-15:45

Panel 1: The evolution of the Ukrainian defense industry and its influence on European DefTech: the use case of drones :

• Stanislav Boiko, Ukrainian MoD 
• Yaroslav Azhnyuk, Founder of The Fourth Law
• Xavier Tytelman, Aerospace and Defense Analyst, Online Intelligence
• Radionix
• Roman Romanyuk, Ukrainian journalist, Ukrainska Pravda

15:45-16:45

Panel 2: The evolution of Ukraine’s military doctrine, NATO doctrine and Europe’s defense policy under technology transformation :

• General Vincent Breton, Director of the Interarmy Center of Concepts, Doctrine and Experimentation (Centre interarmées des concepts, doctrines et expérimentations, CICDE) of the French Armed Forces
• Colonel Henadiy Kovalenko, Ministry of Defense, Ukraine 
• Hanna Shelest, Defense Program Director, Ukrainian Prism
• Francisco de Borja Lasheras, Senior Fellow at CEPA

Moderator: Anastasiya Shapochkina, president of Eastern Circles

16:45-17:15 Break

17:15-18:15

Panel 3: Business model and future funding strategies of European DefTech: 

• Pierre Heilbronn, Special Envoy of the French President for the Reconstruction of Ukraine
• Alexandre Escorcia, Assistant Defense Policy Director, Direction of Strategy and International Affairs, French Ministry of the Armies
• Daniel Bilak, Partner, Kinstellar Ukraine 

Moderator: Edward Lucas, journalist, former Senior Editor of The Economist

18:15-18:30

Conclusion, followed by a cocktail reception