Official working hours:
9.00-10.30 1^st session
10.30-16.00 Free
16.00-16.30 Tea/Coffee
16.30-18.00 2^nd session
18.00-18.15 Break
18.15-19.45 3^rd session
21.00-22.30 Evening Session

Sunday 6 January 2013 Arrive Hotel Gruppo Brenta, Andalo

Monday 7 January 2013 - 1^st session
Introduction to Isodarco (Carlo Schaerf)
Overview of Issues (Judith Reppy)
Chair: Carlo Schaerf
Secretary: Matthew Evangelista
2^nd session
An Historical Perspective (Filippo Andreatta)
Chair: Matthew Evangelista
Secretary: Faye Scott
3^rd session
Robots and Drones: Military Uses and Ethical Problems (Noel Sharkey)
Chair: Peter Dombrowski
Secretary: Sinja Graf

Tuesday 8 January 2013 - 1^st session
Why do Western States Love (Military) Robots? (Niklas Schoernig)
Military Robots The German Case (Niklas Schoernig)
Chair: Peter Dombrowski
Secretary: Giovanni Battista Nazareth
2^nd session
Non-State Actors and Remotely Piloted Aerial Vehicles (Eugene Miasnikov)
Chair: Venance Journé
Secretary: Damiano Bettelli
3^rd session
New Technologies and Military Planning (Scott Smitson)
Chair: Joelien Pretorius
Secretary: Phoebe White
Tuesday evening
Party

Wednesday 9 January 2013 - 1^st session
Planned Military Cyber-Disruption of Electronic Urban Architectures (Steve Wright)
Chair: Diego Latella
Secretary: Maria Grazia Porceda
2^nd session
Beware of Hype: A Skeptic's View of the New Technologies (Peter Dombrowski)
Chair: Nadia Arbatova
Secretary: Stephanie Norton
3^rd session
Ethical and Legal Implications of the New Technologies (Neta Crawford)
Chair: Bruce Larkin
Secretary: Karina Rodríguez
Wednesday evening
Prospects for BMD Technologies (George Lewis)
Chair: Francesco Calogero
Secretary: Domenico Silvestro

Thursday 10 January 2013 - 1^st session
Panel Discussion: "Views from Europe" (Nadia Arbatova, Fabrizio Coticchia, Niklas Schoernig)
Chair: Catherine Kelleher
Secretary: Felice Swaby
2^nd session
Counterforce Capabilities of Conventional Strategic Arms (Eugene Miasnikov)
Chair: Fabrizio Coticchia
Secretary: Guy Biggs
3^rd session
Conventional Strategic Arms: Implications for Strategic Stability and Proliferation (Alexei Arbatov)
Chair: Alessandro Argentini
Secretary: Juliet Swerling
Thursday evening
Open for participant-organized meetings

Friday 11 January 2013 - 1^st session
Panel Discussion: "The state of nuclear arms control" (Catherine Kelleher, Alexei Arbatov, Carlo Trezza)
Chair: Alessandro Pascolini
Secretary: Matteo Gramaglia
2^nd session
What Controls for the New Technologies? (Denise Garcia)
Chair: Alexei Arbatov
Secretary: Georgia Gwynne
3^rd session
Revolutionary Technologies and International Security (Jürgen Altmann)
Chair: Scott Smitson
Secretary: Benjamin Koeltz

Saturday 12 January 2013 - 9:00-12 noon
Wrap-up (Matthew Evangelista, Judith Reppy and Carlo Schaerf)

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