This year’s Arctic Frontiers will take place next week, January 21-26. Arctic Consensus will once again be present in Tromsø and participate in the various events and presentations.
This year’s conference has a special focus on connecting the Arctic, which is also the subject of the first session lead by Stephen Sackur. In addition, the conference will touch topics such as the political, business and scientific opportunities and challenges that arise in the region.
The speakers are a diverse group of prominent people from many different organizations and nationalities. There will thus be representatives from both politics, professions, and academia.
The speakers count people such as; the Norwegian foreign minister Ine Eriksen Søreide, Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó, senator Bert Stedman from Southeast Alaska, Letizia Tedesco from the Finnish environment institute and vice president of Lundin Petroleum Christine Batruch.
During the five-day conference, more than 1400 people will meet to discuss development and research in the Arctic region.
Find out more and see the program at www.arcticfrontiers.com