Every year, you’ll find global movers and shakers on security and defence gathering on Canada’s east coast. The Halifax International Security Forum invites world leaders, military brass, academics, think-tank denizens and journalists to confront pressing international issues. Canada is usually in the room, and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is a constant presence. He delivers an opening speech and even leads a 5K run early on the conference’s final day.

Macleans.ca will livestream every on-the-record session; on the full agenda below, we’ve marked which sessions are off the record—and only audible to those in the room. Peruse the three days of sessions and tune in whenever you’d like. All times Atlantic. You’ll hear about Brexit, NATO, climate change, China’s place in the world, and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—all of it in the context of the coming Donald Trump presidency.

The agenda

Friday, Nov. 18

15:00-15:30 | INTRODUCTIONPeter Van Praagh, President, Halifax International Security Forum

OPENING SPEECHThe Hon. Harjit Singh Sajjan, Canada’s Minister of National Defence

15:30-16:15 | The West Block, hosted by Tom ClarkProduced for Global News

• The Hon. Harjit Singh Sajjan, Minister of National Defence, Canada
• Ambassador Paula Dobriansky, Senior Fellow, The Future of Diplomacy Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
• General Jonathan Vance, Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Armed Forces

MODERATOR: Tom Clark, Chief Political Correspondent, Global News

16:45-17:00 | Britain’s Place in the WorldThe Right Hon. Sir Michael Fallon, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

17:00-18:00 | Make Democracy Great Again

• Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• The Hon. Ömer Çelik, Minister for European Union Affairs, Turkey
• The Right Hon. Sir Michael Fallon, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

MODERATOR: Jonathan Tepperman, Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs

19:30-21:30 | GALA DINNERPresentation of the Builder Award Senator Tim Kaine, Senator from Virginia, United States Senate

21:45 | NIGHT OWLS

Middle East Mess: Who Should Clean It Up? Who Can?(Off the record)

• Farea Al-Muslimi, Non Resident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• H.E. Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir, Head of Foreign Relations Department, Kurdistan Regional Government
• Ralf Brauksiepe, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Defense, Germany
• Lotfi Maktouf, Founder and President, Almadanya

MODERATOR: Janice Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Russia: Putin’ the Bloc Back Together(Off the record)

• The Hon. Hannes Hanso, Minister of Defence, Estonia
• General Petr Pavel, Chairman of the Military Committee, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Bohdan Yaremenko, Chairman of the Board, Maidan of Foreign Affairs

MODERATOR: Josh Rogin, Columnist, Washington Post

Sea, Cyber, Space: The Long Game in Asia(Off the record)

• The Hon. Seung Joo Baek, Member of the National Assembly of Republic of Korea
• Ram Madhav, National General Secretary, BJP, and Director, India Foundation
• Tsuyoshi Sunohara, Secretary-General for US-Japan Project, Japan Center for Economic Research

MODERATOR: Randy Scheunemann, President, Orion Strategies

Saturday, Nov. 19

8:30-9:45 | The Superpower’s Enduring Priorities: Trade, Justice and the American Way

• Rosa Brooks, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Georgetown University Law Center
• Admiral Harry Harris, Commander, United States Pacific Command
• Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit

MODERATOR: Gideon Rose, Editor, Foreign Affairs

10:15-11:30 | Great Continent, Great Responsibility: Finding China’s Role

• Professor Matake Kamiya, Professor of International Relations, National Defense Academy of Japan, and Adjunct Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs
• Ram Madhav, National General Secretary, BJP, and Director, India Foundation
• Senator Dan Sullivan, Senator from Alaska, United States Senate

MODERATOR: Michael Auslin, Author, The End of the Asian Century

12:00-13:15 | Because Syria: I’m Your Friendly Neighborhood Terrorist

• General John Allen (Ret.), Co-Director, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution
• The Hon. Ömer Çelik, Minister for European Union Affairs, Turkey
• The Hon. Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Defence, France
• Senator John McCain, Senator from Arizona, United States Senate

MODERATOR: Yalda Hakim, Presenter, Impact, and Correspondent, BBC World News

14:30-15:00 | HALIFAX CHATSPEAKER: Sen. John McCain, Senator from Arizona, United States SenateMODERATOR: Robin Shepherd, Senior Advisor, Halifax International Security Forum

15:00-16:15 | NATO: Necessary

• Rose Gottemoeller, Deputy Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of Croatia
• The Hon. Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
• Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Senator from New Hampshire, United States Senate

MODERATOR: Robin Shepherd, Senior Advisor, Halifax International Security Forum

16:45-17:45 | Climate Security, Energy Security and the Politics of Slow Moving Threats

• Senator Chris Coons, Senator from Delaware, United States Senate
• Ralf Fücks, President, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Germany
• General Joseph Lengyel, Chief, United States National Guard Bureau
• General Tom Middendorp, Chief of Defence, Netherlands
• Masashi Nishihara, President, Research Institute for Peace and Security
• Taylor Wilson, Nuclear Physicist, University of Nevada, Reno

MODERATOR: Jeanne Meserve, Senior Fellow, Homeland Security Policy Institute, George Washington University

19:30-21:30 | DINNER SESSIONS (Off the record)Beneath the Waves: Submarine Surge