The Warsaw Security Forum (WSF) – a bipartisan international conference annually organised by the Casimir Pulaski Foundation in strategic partnership with NATO and the National Security Bureau to the President of the Republic of Poland. Since 2020 the event has been co-organized with the German Marshall Fund of the United States. The chairwoman of the WSF is Katarzyna Pisarska. Since its inception in 2014, the conference has served as a platform for numerous prominent politicians, decision-makers and experts to share their views and experience on security-related issues. The Warsaw Security Forum gathers annually over 1500 highest representatives of governments, international organisations, industry, think tanks and civil society coming from over 90 countries. Along with the Munich Security Conference, it is one of the biggest and most influential events in its field in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. History The first edition of the Warsaw Security Forum took place on November 20–21, 2014. The conference was established as a platform devoted to the transatlantic cooperation and elaboration of shared responses to common challenges in the CEE region. The main focus of the 2014 edition was placed on security problems, especially that of Europe and Poland, the relations between the EU, NATO and Russia, as well as energy, economic and other security issues. 64 international speakers attended the 2014 edition and among them were: Bronisław Komorowski, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Giorgi Bokeria, Borys Tarasyuk, Richard Lugar, Garry Kasparov, numerous ambassadors and senior political advisors as well as experts and journalists. The 2015 WSF edition was held on November 5–6 and centred on the following topics: The Rise of the West in a post-Western World; Eastern Partnership 2.0; Regional Instabilities in the European Neighbourhood, NATO Eastern Flank, issue of reforms in Ukraine, rise of illiberalism in Europe funded by Russia and other. Among the distinguished speakers were: Vytautas Landsbergis, Mikheil Saakashvili, Radosław Sikorski, Pavlo Klimkin, Linas Linkevicius. In 2016 the event hosted such internationally known persons as Madeleine Albright, Jose Manuel Barrosso, Toomas Ilves, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Carl Bildt and Alexander Stubb. The focus of the 2016 edition was traditionally on the security of the Euro-Atlantic region, post-Soviet region and Russia. Among some of the topics discussed during the conference were the future of the liberal order, demise of the political leadership in the EU, the future of Putin's Russia and threats it poses to European liberalism, EU security of energy suppliers et al.