Day 1 - Sunday, 29 August
10:00-20:00 Registration (Hotel Golf)
14:00-15:00 Gathering and Reception (Festivalna dvorana - Festival Hall)
15:00-15:30 Opening of the Bled Strategic Forum (Festivalna dvorana - Festival Hall)
Welcome Address: H. E. Mr Samuel Žbogar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia (confirmed)
Mayor's Welcome: Mr Janez Fajfar, Mayor of Bled (confirmed)
Address by the Guest of Honour: H. E. Dr Danilo Türk, President of the Republic of Slovenia (confirmed)
Speech by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia: H. E. Mr Borut Pahor, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia (confirmed)
Moderated by: Ms Miriam Možgan, Secretary General of the Bled Strategic Forum (confirmed)
15:30-17:30 Main Panel: "Global Outlook for the Next Decade" (Festivalna dvorana - Festival Hall)
Chaired by: H. E. Mr Samuel Žbogar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia (confirmed)
Message from Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, delivered by Mr Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (confirmed)
• H. E. Mr Yves Leterme, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium (confirmed)
• H. E. Mr Amre Moussa, Secretary General of the League of the Arab States (confirmed)
• H. E. Ms Preneet Kaur, Minister of State for External Affairs of the Republic of India (confirmed)
• Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federative Republic of Brazil (confirmed)
17:30-19:15 Special Panel: "EU in a multipolar World" (Festivalna dvorana - Festival Hall)
Moderated by: Ms Helga Maria Schmid, Director of the Policy Unit of the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union (confirmed)
• The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence of Canada (confirmed)
• H. E. Dr János Martonyi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary (confirmed)
• H. E. Mr Nickolay Mladenov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria (confirmed)
• Mr Felipe González Márquez, Former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Spain and Chair of the Reflection Group (confirmed)
• Mr Jean-Dominique Giuliani, Company Manager - Chairman of the Board of the Foundation Robert Schuman, France (confirmed)
• Ambassador Mei Zhaorong, Executive Director of China Foundation for International Studies, China (confirmed)
19:30-22:00 Dinner (Hotel Toplice) by invitation only
Keynote speaker: General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.), former U.S. Secretary of State (2001-2005) (confirmed)
19:30-22:00 Networking Reception (Festivalna dvorana - Festival Hall)
22:15-00:00 Night Owl Session: "Innovation on the Rebound from the Economic Crisis" (Hotel Golf)
Co-organised with OECD
Moderated by: Ms Maja Grgič, Journalist at Delo, Slovenia (confirmed)
Keynote speaker: Ambassador Richard A Boucher, Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (confirmed) -> 
SPEECH
• Mr Andrew Wyckoff, Director for Science, Technology and Industry at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (confirmed)
• Dr Marko Jaklič, Chairman of the Expert Council for Science and Technology of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (confirmed)
• Mr Janez Škrabec, Director of Riko d.o.o., Slovenia (confirmed)
Day 2 - Monday, 30 August
09:00-11:00 Parallel Panels A/B (Hotel Golf)
Panel A: "Trust (in) the Balkans"
Moderated by: Mr Zoran Thaler, Member of the European Parliament (confirmed)
• H. E. Mr Sven Alkalaj, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina (confirmed)
• H. E. Mr Gordan Jandroković, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Croatia (confirmed)
• Dr Besim Beqaj, Minister for European Integration of the Republic of Kosovo (confirmed)
• Mr Daniel Serwer, Vice-President of Centers of Innovation, United States Institute of Peace, United States of America (confirmed)
Panel B: "The Water Challenge"
Moderated by: Mr R. Andreas Kraemer, Director of the Ecologic Institute, Germany (confirmed)
• Dr Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for the Environment (confirmed)
• Mr Jorge Borges, State Secretary of Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Co-operation and Communities of Cape Verde (confirmed)
• Dr Kerri Ann Jones, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, United States of America (confirmed)
• Prof Dr Francisco Nunes Correia, Former Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning of the Portuguese Republic and Full Professor at IST - DECivil, Portugal (confirmed)
• Prof Dr Lučka Kajfež Bogataj, Professor at the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (confirmed)
• Dr John H. Matthews, Lead Freshwater Adaptation Scientist at World Wildlife Fund, United States of America (confirmed)
11:15-13:15 Parallel Panels C/D (Hotel Golf)
Panel C: "The Internet does Change Everything!"
Moderated by: Ms Katarina Škoberne, Communicator and Innovator, United Kingdom (confirmed)
• Dr Jozsef Györkös, State Secretary at the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia (confirmed)
• Ms Dunja Mijatović, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (confirmed)
• Mr Andrej Nabergoj, Co-founder of Internet Companies: Aventures, Parsek, Httpool, Easyweb and Noovo, Slovenia (confirmed)
• Prof Dr Žiga Turk, Secretary-General of the Reflection Group (confirmed)
• Mr David Kennedy, Director of Eurescom, Germany (confirmed)
• Mr Zoran Vehovar, Member of the Management Board of Telekom Slovenije, d. d., Slovenia (confirmed)
Panel D: "Regional Security Challenges and Cooperation in Central Asia"
Moderated by: Mrs Mjuša Sever, Director of Regional Dialogue (confirmed)
• Mr Konstantin Zhigalov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (confirmed)
• Mr Ján Kubiš, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (confirmed)
• Mr Goran Svilanović, Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (confirmed)
• Dr Boris Frlec, Ambassador, Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Referendum Observation Mission in Kyrgyz Republic (confirmed)
• Mr Alain Délétroz, Vice President (Europe) at the International Crisis Group, Belgium (confirmed)
13:30-15:00 Lunch (Hotel Golf)
Keynote address: Dr Ljubica Jelušič, Minister of Defence of the Republic of Slovenia (confirmed)
15:30-17:30 Parallel Panels E/F (Hotel Golf)
Panel E: "Transition to New Energy"
Moderated by: Mr Stephen Tindale, Associate Fellow at Centre for European Reform, United Kingdom (confirmed)
• Dr Doug Arent, Executive Director of the new Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, United States of America (confirmed)
• Mr Ulrich Benterbusch, Director of Global Energy Dialogue, International Energy Agency (confirmed)
• Dr Andrea Castronovo, President of BMW Group Central Eastern Europe, Germany (confirmed)
• Dr Uroš Merc, President and Chief Executive Officer of BISOL, d.o.o., Slovenia (confirmed)
• Dr Plínio M. Nastari, President and Founder of DATAGRO, Brazil (confirmed)
Panel F: "Reconnecting Balkans: Business, Energy, Transport"
Moderated by: Mr Tim Judah, Balkans Correspondent for The Economist, United Kingdom (confirmed)
• Dr Patrick Vlačič, Minister of Transport of the Republic of Slovenia (confirmed)
• Prof Dr Nikola Rajaković, State Secretary at the Ministry of Mining and Energy of the Republic of Serbia (confirmed)
• H. E. Mr Vojko Volk, Former Western Balkan Coordinator at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia and Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to the Republic of Croatia in Zagreb (confirmed)
• Mr Aleš Hauc, Director-General of Pošta Slovenije d.o.o., Slovenia (confirmed)
• Mr Peter Reiniger, Managing Director for Central and South Eastern Europe, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (confirmed)
• Ms Jana Hudernik, Head of Strategic Planning at Keter Group, Slovenia (confirmed)
• Prof Dr Mojmir Mrak, Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (confirmed)
17:30-17:45 Closing of the Bled Strategic Forum (Hotel Golf)
Closing remarks by: H. E. Mr Samuel Žbogar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia
