Vilnius StratCom 2025

October 29, 2025 | Vilnius, Lithuania

Confronting the Invisible Battlefield: Cognitive Warfare in the Digital Age

The annual Vilnius StratCom conference returns for its 2025 edition, bringing together Europe’s leading strategic communication experts to tackle one of our era’s most pressing challenges: cognitive warfare. This specialized event unites communication professionals, academics, policymakers, and practitioners from across the Nordic-Baltic region and beyond.

Vilnius StratCom 2025 invites you to look beyond the daily information cycle — uncovering hidden narratives, connecting the dots, and exploring the subtle manipulations and “mind games” that shape our thinking, decisions, and future. Building on previous editions that focused on strategic communication as a tool for total defence, this year we tackle themes that challenge assumptions and redefine how we understand influence in the modern world.

The Challenge We Face

Strategic communication has become a key pillar of security and resilience in today’s complex information environment, where the battleground has shifted from physical territories to human minds. russian disinformation campaigns, sophisticated propaganda networks, and manipulation tactics targeting public opinion represent a new form of warfare—one that operates in the shadows of our digital lives, shaping perceptions and undermining democratic institutions from global policy to individual citizen responsibility.

What to Expect

• Expert Insights: Leading specialists from NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, and top academic institutions will share cutting-edge research and real-world experiences.
• Regional Perspectives: Learn from Finland’s pioneering approach to hybrid threats, Lithuania’s innovative research on social media manipulation and Ukraine’s frontline experience in combating cognitive warfare against russian aggression and adapting strategies throughout the ongoing conflict.
• Interactive Discussions: Engage in dynamic panel discussions exploring from AI-generated content and TikTok influence operations to the psychology behind disinformation spread.
• Practical Solutions: Discover actionable strategies for identifying, analysing, and countering cognitive warfare tactics in your own professional context.

Why It Matters

As information warfare evolves rapidly, staying ahead requires collective intelligence and coordinated response. More than just a conference, Vilnius StratCom 2025 is a community forum where new partnerships are forged, ideas take shape, and solutions emerge with the potential to impact the future. The conference offers the opportunity to connect with peers, share best practices, and build the professional networks essential for strengthening societal immune systems and cognitive defence in times of war.

Join us in Vilnius as we uncover the invisible frontlines of modern warfare and forge strategies for cognitive resilience.

All presentations and discussions follow the Chatham House Rule, enabling open dialogue on sensitive strategic communication topics.

Registration for the conference is now closed – all participant spots have been filled. Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to welcoming all registered attendees at the event.

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