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The Adapt Institute is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit, analytical think-tank that focuses primarily on security policies, with a specific focus on geopolitical and geoeconomic resilience and strategic adaptations and changes in the international security environment. The Adapt Institute aims to provide high quality analyses and (policy) recommendations, develop the Slovak security community through education, nurture multidisciplinary expert network in both public and private spheres, and to stimulate expert dialogue at both national and international level, as well as to help improve public debate on selected topics giving space to experts in various interconnected disciplines.

 VILIAM OSTATNÍK, Deputy Director for Research and Analysis of the Adapt Institut, is a moderator and expert guarantor of the discussion panel INNOVATIONS & RECYCLING: THE BEST STRATEGY FOR THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY?

 
Viliam Ostatník, M.A., Ph.D., is a researcher at the Department of Political Science at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. In his research, he focuses on the private military corporations and their impact on the core functions of the modern state and on the international system/security. He is also a Deputy Director for Research and a Senior Analyst at the Adapt Institute in Bratislava, where he leads projects and initiatives regarding comprehensive defence, the defence industry and dual-use technologies, and geo-economic resilience, specifically in the automotive industry. In 2022, Viliam was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Brussels School of Governance (VUB).