A flagship public diplomacy event where global leaders engage with the Black Sea area and beyond, the Aspen – GMF Bucharest Forum bridges Trans-Atlantic conversations and creates a process of reflection on the region and its impact within the international agendas.
Our era is marked by two congruent revolutions:Digital and Green. These two synergetic trends are challenged by the need to re-industrialize and to develop traditional technologies, and by the current geopolitical turbulent context that weakens customary supply chains. While these challenges and tensions are widely felt, they are more evident in the proximity of the two major armed conflicts, in the Black Sea region and in the Middle East, where the link between geopolitics, economy and security is most evident. At its 13th edition, the Aspen – GMF Bucharest Forum will analyze these momentous changes, as well as the social disruptions and political backlashes that have ensued today as a result of these revolutions and the intrinsic tensions. The Forum will focus on both the opportunities and challenges the Green and Digital Revolutions provide in changing the paradigm when it comes to industry, finance and consumer behaviors. The Aspen – GMF Bucharest Forum will continue to focus on the geopolitical and economic shifts impacting our societies and shaping our economies and security. Against a background of unprecedented new technologies, revolutionary transformations are already modeling our future. Given the interconnectedness of today’s global affairs, the Aspen – GMF Bucharest Forum will approach all major trends in energy, technology, finance, as well as the all-grounds’ implications of the War in Ukraine, the intense political polarization across Europe, and perspectives for transatlantic relations in the context of US elections.
Standing at a unique intersection of geographical, economic and socio – cultural crossroads, the Aspen – GMF Bucharest Forum is a key platform for engagement. A gateway between the West and the East, Romania and its region also bridge multiple geopolitical contexts and economic corridors at its North and South, East and West. As such, these will be reflected by the Aspen – GMF Bucharest Forum in a two-day program, built as an extraordinary public platform presenting an opportunity to interact with a wide range of stakeholders and facilitating otherwise highly complex dialogue, drawing on a long-standing tradition and expertise, with its first edition dating back to 2012. Building upon successful past editions, this year’s Aspen-GMF Bucharest Forum will reunite once more world-famous leaders, remarkable thinkers, policymakers, private and public sector experts, media representatives and journalists in a two-day conference consisting of various formats and engaging a diverse audience.
A strategic platform for the EU, NATO, and Trans-Atlantic relations, the Aspen – GMF Bucharest Forumis geographically placed in the vortex of events and offers a unique opportunity for dialogue in a key geopolitical area of the world.
Organizers: Aspen Institute Romania, German Marshall Fund of the United States
With the support of: NATO Public Diplomacy Division, USAID, Ministry of National Defence, Embassy of Greece, Embassy of Sweden
Knowledge Partners: The Aspen Institute US, Aspen Institute Kyiv, Aspen Central Europe, Aspen Ananta Centre India, Center for the Governance of Change at IE University Madrid, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung KAS, College of Europe, HRCC
Main Partners: PPC Romania, Google, UniCredit, Rompetrol, Qualcomm, Coca Cola, OMV Petrom, Uber, Premier Energy
Partners: Lockheed Martin, Mastercard, E.ON, Electroalfa, MSD, Enevo Group
Supporters: Aqua Carpatica, Cotnari
Media Partners: PROTV, DC Media Group, Curs de Guvernare, Calea Europeană, KissFM