Speakers include a number of intellectuals from the Kurdistan Region, Europe and the United States, as well as opening remarks UKH Vice Chancellor Mohammed Mochtar, UKH Chancellor and Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, Tom Grant, a senior research fellow at Wolfson Colloge – Cambridge, and a keynote speeches by Michael Gunter, a professor of political science at Tennessee Technological University and Hamit Bozarslan a senior researcher at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in France.