2018 Riga Stratcom Dialogue

2018 Riga Stratcom Dialogue(conference)
Date	11 June 2018 - 13 June 2018
Location	Riga, Latvia
Participants	Alex Aiken, Jente Althuis, Eric Applewhite, Ali Aslan, Ingrid Bicu, Neville Bolt, Ramsay Brown, Gemma Calvert, Paolo Cesarini, Jan Engelmann, Ofer Fridman, Alina Frolova, Marina Gorbis, Gilan Gork, Leonie Haiden, Steve Harrison, Ben Heap, Tacan Ildem, Charles Kriel, Eerik-Niiles Kross, Kadri Kütt, Erik Lagersten, Mark Laity, Thomas Eymond Laritaz, Dagnija Lejina, Inese Libina-Egnere, Jarno Limnéll, Edward Lucas, Carlos Malamud, Mikk Marran, Arnaud Mercier, Benjamin Newell, Michael Platt, Bob Posner, Ilmar Raag, Tarmo Randel, Janis Sarts, Juliette Schmidt, Jonas Survila, Briony Swire-Thompson, Päivi Tampere, Riho Terras, Patrick Tucker, Andriy Tyushka, Matthijs Veenendaal, Raimonds Vejonis, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, Christine Whitecross, Katie Woodward, Claire Yorke
Witnessed by	Maria de Goeij
Description	Spooky/MICC conference attended by Maria de Goeij whose trip report on it for the Integrity Initiative was leaked.

The 2018 Riga Stratcom Dialogue was a 3 day conference on "Russian Propaganda" and "fake news" attended by Maria de Goeij.

Contacts

Maria de Goeij attended this event and submitted a trip report which was leaked in December 2018.^[1]

Participant	Description
Alex Aiken	Senior UK "Director of Communications"
Alina Frolova
Andriy Tyushka
Arnaud Mercier
Ali Aslan	journalist, influencer
Ben Heap
Benjamin Newell
Neville Bolt	A "terror expert" mentioned in the 7th Integrity Initiative leak.
Carlos Malamud
Charles Kriel
Christine Whitecross
Claire Yorke
Dagnija Lejina
Eerik-Niiles Kross
Eric Applewhite
Erik Lagersten
Gemma Calvert
Gilan Gork
Ilmar Raag
Inese Libina-Egnere
Ingrid Bicu
Jan Engelmann
Jarno Limnéll
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
Jente Althuis
Jonas Survila
Juliette Schmidt
Kadri Kütt
Katie Woodward
Leonie Haiden
Edward Lucas	NATO/II journalist
Marina Gorbis
Mark Laity
Michael Platt
Mikk Marran
Ofer Fridman
Paolo Cesarini
Patrick Tucker
Bob Posner	Chief executive of the Electoral Commission. Attended the 2018 Riga Stratcom Dialogue
Päivi Tampere
Raimonds Vejonis
Ramsay Brown
Riho Terras
Steve Harrison
Briony Swire-Thompson	Fake news researcher
Jānis Sārts	Latvian propagandist with some deep state connections.
Tacan Ildem
Tarmo Randel
Thomas Eymond Laritaz
Matthijs Veenendaal	Leading Dutch cyber-expert that helped with the first Dutch cyber-defence strategies. Suspected liaison of the Institute for Statecraft and helped setting up their Dutch cluster. Has a spooky interest in deepfakes.

Witness	Description
Maria de Goeij	Integrity Initiative/Institute for Statecraft polyglot