Preliminary Program

08:30 – 09:30

Arrival & Welcome Coffee

Registration and initial conversations

09:30

Welcome & Opening Talk

Markus Langemann & Diana-Maria Stocker

Keynote – Prof. Dr. David Engels

Chronicler of the West in Transition

Historical Lessons and Forecasts on Europe’s Future Development.
With the analytical precision of a historian and the eye of a chronicler, he interprets present-day Europe through the mirror of past civilisational cycles. His comparisons between the late Roman Republic and today’s European Union open a differentiated view of long-term developmental dynamics and possible future paths.

Keynote – Prof. Dr. Werner J. Patzelt

A Seismograph of German Democracy

Future-Ready in Uncertain Times – Why Political Systems Are in Transition.
Prof. Dr. Patzelt examines long-term changes in political orders. Within the tension between freedom and stability, society and institutions, he outlines structural adaptation processes and the conditions for the sustained functionality of modern democracies.

TALK – Prof. Dr. Engels & Prof. Dr. Patzelt in Conversation with the Audience

“Europe Under Pressure: History, Institutions and Political Resilience”
A dialogue on historical lessons, institutional fatigue, social conditioning and the question of which factors shape Europe’s long-term development.

11:00 – 11:45

Viennese Coffeehouse Dialogue

Networking in the Spirit of Viennese Coffeehouse Culture.

Interview and Talk – Dr. Hans-Georg Maaßen

Voice of Conservative Reorientation

Between Security and Freedom – The State in the Age of Digital Control
In his assessment of global shifts in power, he describes the balance between state responsibilities and individual rights. Maaßen’s view of statehood as guarantor or threat to security opens up the decisive question of how much control a free society can bear. Following the interview, a dialogue with the audience begins: on the state’s capacity to act, security architecture and the boundary between the mandate to protect and digital control.

12:35 – 13:35

Lunch Break

K & K Viennese Culinary & Conversation

Keynote – Prof. Dr. Philipp Bagus

A Visionary of Economic Renewal

Argentina as an Economic Test Case
What Europe, the Mittelstand and asset owners can learn from Javier Milei’s reform agenda. Prof. Dr. Philipp Bagus offers personal insights into developments around Javier Milei in Argentina and analyses what lies behind one of the most closely watched free-market reform experiments of our time. At the centre is the question of which economic stabilisation measures are possible under real crisis conditions – and what lessons Europe, the Mittelstand and the protection of assets can draw from them. Bagus examines prejudices and media framing directed at free-market reforms and discusses the necessary steps in monetary and foreign policy.

Strategic Reality Check

Prof. Dr. Philipp Bagus, Prof. Dr. Werner J. Patzelt & Dr. Christian W. Konrad

“Reform Capacity Under Real-World Conditions: Economics, Politics, Law”
Bagus outlines the economic logic of a stabilisation programme: What would have to happen if a state is to regain economic capacity to act? Patzelt assesses which political systems can sustain such reforms. Konrad adds the legal and institutional perspective: What order does capital need so that trust, investment and economic sovereignty can emerge? A focused reality check on economic necessity, political enforceability and legal resilience.

Bagus Direct – Questions from the Audience

“Milei, Markets and the Mittelstand: What Protects Economic Sovereignty?”

Featured Talk – Dr. Christian W. Konrad

Sovereign Navigator in International Legal Arenas

Legal Systems as the Foundation of Economic Sovereignty and Investment Security
In a multipolar world of colliding legal orders, Dr. Christian W. Konrad safely navigates investors and companies through conflicts – often directly in litigation. As founder of Konrad Partners and arbitrator at international institutions, he masters both Civil and Common Law from Europe to the Gulf region. With sober, rule-based clarity, he sees the UAE as a model of clear structures.

TALK – Dr. Christian W. Konrad with Audience Participation

“Legal Certainty, Capital and Choice of Location: Where Do Resilient Framework Conditions Emerge?”
On real opportunities within other legal systems, international investment security and the question of why functioning legal spaces become strategic location factors.

Interview – Dr. med. Anian Künlen

Guardian of Human Performance
Longevity as a strategic resource. Physical performance, prevention and conscious self-leadership. How health, energy and regenerative capacity can be preserved in demanding phases of life and work.

15:35 – 16:20

Viennese Coffeehouse Dialogue

Networking in the Spirit of Viennese Coffeehouse Culture.

Featured Talk – Prof. DDr. Christian Schubert

Analyst of Human Resilience

Security Begins Within the Individual
Sustained uncertainty affects not only markets, institutions and political decisions. It affects the individual: the nervous system, the endocrine system, the immune system and the ability to make clear decisions. From the perspective of psychoneuroimmunology, Prof. DDr. Christian Schubert shows what chronic stress, fear, loss of control and social pressure do to body and psyche – and why resilience is not a soft comfort formula, but a central prerequisite for personal sovereignty.

Panel – Nassim Farahzad & Prof. DDr. Christian Schubert

What Does Society Do to the Individual?
Chronic stress, social pressure, and a loss of stable bearings shape the way we think, our health, and our sense of self. Christian Schubert examines how sustained pressure affects us biologically and psychologically; Nassim Farahzad asks what becomes of personal responsibility and identity when established social certainties begin to erode. Together, they discuss when psychological explanations strengthen people—and when they reinforce victimhood and dependency. At the heart of B-Safe26 lies one question: What makes people resilient, capable of sound judgment, and sovereign in their own decisions?

Keynote – Prof. Dr. Georg Gasser

Philosopher of Human Sovereignty in the Age of AI

What We Should Not Delegate. Human Sovereignty in the Age of AI.
Artificial intelligence writes, advises and decides. Georg Gasser asks where it relieves us and where it takes away something we must keep for ourselves. A standard for entrepreneurs and decision-makers: which judgements, relationships and abilities remain in human hands.

TALK – Prof. Dr. Georg Gasser with Audience Participation

“Algorithm or Judgement: Who Has the Final Say?”
On decisions that machines may prepare and those a human must answer for. Questions from the audience, answers from philosophy and from practice.

Panel – Prof. Dr. David Engels & Prof. Dr. Georg Gasser

Looking Ahead

Humans, Machines and Values. What lies ahead, and who will decide?
Technology is reshaping our world. But according to which principles? Historian David Engels and philosopher Georg Gasser discuss how innovation can succeed without sacrificing freedom, identity and responsibility.

Summary and Outlook

With Markus Langemann & Diana-Maria Stocker

18:30

End of the Summit

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19:30

Viennese Evening Salon

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