It takes place annually in Warsaw, Poland, and brings together politicians, experts and business representatives to discuss current security challenges and strategies.

In the years that followed discussions covered topics such as NATO strategies, regional security issues and the changing geopolitical landscape.

The forum continued to expand in 2017, adding cybersecurity, hybrid threats and security in the Baltic Sea region to the topics covered.

The members of the Advisory Board are Catherine Ashton, Jacek Czaputowicz, Mark Carleton Smith, Ben Hodges, Hanna Hopko, Linas Linkevičius, David Petraeus and Norbert Röttgen.

Among the laureates are Norman Davies, Władysław Bartoszewski, Aleksander Milinkiewicz, Lech Wałęsa, Valdas Adamkus, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Javier Solana, Bernard Kouchner, Richard Lugar, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Micheil Saakashvili, Carl Bildt, Radosław Sikorski, Toomas Ilves, Michail Chodorkowski, Mary Robinson, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Dalia Grybauskaitė, Thorbjørn Jagland, Alexei Nawalny, Olena Zelenska and NATO.