OPENING SESSION

Venue: Plenary Chamber, Building II of the Seimas, Gedimino pr. 53, Vilnius

8.30–9.30

Registration at the Seimas

Venue: lobby, Building II of the Seimas

9.30–10.00

Welcome address

H.E. Mr Gitanas NAUSĖDA, President of the Republic of Lithuania (video message)

H.E. Ms Viktorija ČMILYTĖ-NIELSEN, Speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania

Mr Guy Bernard RYDER, Under-Secretary-General for Policy, United Nations (video message)

Moderator

Mr Raimundas LOPATA, Chair of the Committee for the Future, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania 

PLENARY SESSION 1: GEOSTRATEGIC RECONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD

Venue: Plenary Chamber, Building II of the Seimas, 2^nd floor

10.00–12.00

Keynote speaker

Ms Margareta CEDERFELT, Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Riksdag of the Kingdom of Sweden, and President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

Panellists

Mr Duarte PACHECO, President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Mr Oleksandr KORNIYENKO, First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Mr Bernard JENKIN, Chair of the Liason Committee, House of Commons, Parliament of the United Kingdom

Mr Andrius KUBILIUS, Member of the European Parliament, European People’s Party

Mr Zeid AL HUSSEIN, President of the International Peace Institute

Mr Žilvinas MECELIS, Founder of Covalis Capital

Moderator

Jovita NELIUPŠIENĖ, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania and appointed Head of the European Union's mission to the United States

12.00

Family photo

Venue: Plenary Chamber of the Seimas, Building II, 2^nd  floor

12.00–14.00

Lunch

Venue: Restaurant, Building III of the Seimas, 2^nd floor

13.00–13.45

Guided tour of the buildings of the Seimas (Optional)

PLENARY SESSION 2: THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY

Venue: Plenary Chamber, Building II of the Seimas, 2^nd  floor

14.00–16.10

Keynote speaker

Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Deputy Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, and Signatory to the Act of Independence of Lithuania 

Panellists

Mr Michał Tomasz KAMIŃSKI, Deputy Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland 

Mr André GATTOLIN, Senator of the French Republic

Ms Khatia DEKANOIDZE, Member of the Parliament of Georgia 

Mr Oleksandr MEREZHKO, Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Chair of the Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation (online)

Mr Oleksii GONCHARENKO, Member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (online)

Mr Hugo Antonio ACHA, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for a Secure Free Society

Mr Vadim PROKHOROV, Lawyer, the Defense Attorney of Russian opposition (online)

Mr Paul MASSARO, Policy Advisor, U.S. Helsinki Commission

Ms Rosa María Payá ACEVEDO, Cuban activist for freedom and human rights (video message)

Mr Sergei DAVIDIS, Co-chair of the Human Rights Defence Center Memorial

Mr Tom HASHIMOTO, Vilnius University Associate Professor, Director of the Baltic Institute of Economics and International Relations

Mr Anatol LIABEDZKA, Adviser to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Constitutional Reform and Parliamentary Cooperation, and Director of the European Dialogue Center

Ms Natalia PINCHUK, spouse of Nobel Prize laureate and political prisoner Ales Bialiatski (online)

Moderators

Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Deputy Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, and Signatory to the Act of Independence of Lithuania

Paul MASSARO, Policy Advisor, U.S. Helsinki Commission 

16.10

Coffee and networking

Venue: lobby of the Plenary Chamber, Building II of the Seimas, 2^nd floor

16.15–17.15

ROUNDTABLE OF HEADS OF DELEGATIONS

Venue: Kazimieras Antanavičius Hall, Building III of the Seimas, 2^nd floor

Moderator

Mr Raimundas LOPATA, Chair of the Committee for the Future, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania

19.00–21.00

Dinner hosted by Mr Raimundas LOPATA, Chair of the Committee for the Future, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania

Venue: Merchants’ Club, Gedimino ave. 35, Vilnius

Speaker

Ms Giedrė BALČYTYTĖ, Chancellor of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania

Saturday, 13 May

PARALLEL SESSIONS:  EMBEDDING FUTURES IN PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE

Venue: Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Gedimino pr. 53, Vilnius

9.00–10.30

Parallel session 1.

FORESIGHT: A PRACTICAL TOOL FOR ANTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE

Venue: Kazimieras Antanavičius Hall, Building III of the Seimas, 2^nd floor

Presentations

Mr Darius ŽERUOLIS, Adviser to the Prime Minister, Lithuania.State Development Strategy Lithuania 2050

Mr Francisco CHAHUÁN, Senator, President of the Committee on Future Challenges, Science, Technology, Innovation and Knowledge, Senate of the Republic of Chile. Proposal for a Foresight Institutionality for Chile: Testimony of the Development of a Public Policy for the Future (online)

Mr Klaus WELLE, Academic Council Chairman of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, former Secretary-General of the European Parliament. The European Strategy Policy Analysis System (ESPAS): 10 Years of Foresight in Europe

Mr Mario DAMEN, Senior Policy Analyst, and Virginia MAHIEU, Policy Analyst, Strategic Foresight and Capabilities Unit of the European Parliament Research Service. Foresight in a Multinational Context – best Practices from the European Parliament

Ms Trish LAVERY, Strategic Foresight Analyst of the Strategic Foresight Unit, OECD. The OECD Foresight Toolkit for Resilient Public Policy

Moderator

9.00–10.30

Parallel session 2.

GEOPOLITICS OF LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY

Venue: Constitution Hall, Building I of the Seimas, 3^rd floor

Panellists

Mr Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS, European Commissioner

Mr Bernard JENKIN, Chair of the Liason Committee, House of Commons, Parliament of the United Kingdom

Mr Lukas SAVICKAS, Deputy Chair of the Committee for the Future, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania

Ms Elizabeth DIRTH, Development Director of the ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies 

Mr Miroslav GREGORIČ, Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia 

Mr Toomas UIBO, Member of the Riigikogu of the Republic of Estonia

Mr Tom HASHIMOTO, Vilnius University Associate Professor, Director of the Baltic Institute of Economics and International Relations

Moderator

Ms Elizabeth DIRTH, Development Director of the ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies 

9.00–10.30

Parallel session 3.

GOVERNANCE: HOW TO PUT CITIZENS FIRST

Venue: Room 218 B, Building III of the Seimas, 2^nd floor 

Presentations

Mr Mario SCHARFBILLIG, Science Policy Advisor, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Understanding Citizens –Innovative Ideas for the Integration of Values Diversity into Policymaking and Politics

Ms Veera HEINONEN, Director of the Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA. An Open, Participatory and Deliberative Legislative Process

Mr Jan VAN DE VENIS, Deputy Chair, Network of Institutions for Future Generations. Realising the Rights of Future Generations – Towards Better Governance in Parliaments and Governments

Ms Sarah BOYACK, Member of the Scottish Parliament. Developing a Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill

Mr Modestas GELBŪDA, Secretary General of the Seimas. Building an Innovative, Engaged and Globally Learning Parliamentary Administration

Discussion

Moderator

Mr Mario SCHARFBILLIG, Science Policy Advisor, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

10.30–11.00

Coffee break

Venue: lobby of the Plenary Chamber, Building II of the Seimas, 2^nd  floor

PLENARY SESSION 3: LEVERAGING LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS

Venue: Plenary Chamber, Building II of the Seimas, 2^nd floor

11.00–13.00

Keynote speaker

Mr Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS, European Commissioner

Panellists

Mr Klaus WELLE, Academic Council Chairman of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, former Secretary General of the European Parliament

Ms Daniella TILBURY, Chair for the Global Network for Institutions and Leaders for Future Generations (online)

Ms Sophie HOWE, Sustainability Futures and Wellbeing Adviser and the first Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

Ms Taylor DEE HAWKINS, United Nations Foundation Unlock Advisor, Australia

Mr Rodrigo GOÑI REYES, Chair of the Special Committee on the Future of the General Assembly of Uruguay

Ms Jolita BUTKEVIČIENĖ, Director for Innovation in Science and Policymaking, Joint Research Centre, European Commission

Ms Veera HEINONEN, Director of the Democracy and Engagement, Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA

Moderator

Mr Tony BARBER, European Comment Editor of the Financial Times

CLOSING OF THE CONGRESS

Venue: Plenary Chamber, Building II of the Seimas, 2^nd  floor

Conclusions

Moderators of the sessions

Speaker

Ms Sophie HOWE, Sustainability Futures and Wellbeing Adviser and the first Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

Moderator

Mr Raimundas LOPATA, Chair of the Committee for the Future, Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania

14.00–14.30

Press conference

Venue: Press Conference Hall, Building II of the Seimas, 2^nd  floor

14.00–15.30

Lunch

Venue: Restaurant, Building III of the Seimas, 2^nd floor

Departure of participants