The NATO Communicators Conference is an annual forum organized by NATO’s two strategic commands, which alternate leadership and support roles each year. The conference serves as a platform for the exchange of knowledge and expertise between civilian and military leaders, policy makers, and experts with a communications portfolio from across NATO Commands, Agencies, and Organisations, as well as academia, industry and media in the communications disciplines of Strategic Communications, Military Public Affairs, Psychological Operations and Information Operations.
Prior to the conference, Bi-SC working groups for Military Public Affairs, Information Operations and Psychological Operations as well as the informal plenary working group on Strategic Communications meet at the same location. Attendance and organisation of those working groups is managed by the working group secretariats through invitation (with attendance limited to participants within the relevant Terms of Reference).
The NCC features VVIP speeches, plenary sessions, workshops and networking opportunities, exploring the alignment of NATO’s narratives in order to develop cognitive capacities across military, governments and allied entities.
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The 2025 NATO Communicators Conference (NCC) was held 24-25 September 2025 in Athens, Greece.
The theme for this year’s conference was ‘Warfighting Advantage Through Cohesive Communications.’ In an era of unprecedented global challenges and complex operational environments, the theme highlighted the critical nature of being unified in our communications activities. Harnessing cognitive capabilities enables and empowers high-level decision making, resilience and operational effectiveness, and can provide the warfighting edge needed in the modern dynamic battlespace.
The Communication Teams from Allied Command Operations and Allied Command Transformation hosted the 2024 NATO Communicators Conference in Berlin, Germany.
The conference focused on the timely topic of “Strategic Communications across the Warfighting Spectrum” and was attended by over 450 participants from 33 nations, including Ukraine. Renowned authors, Russia experts, deterrence specialists, Ukrainian information warfare professionals, data scientists, behavioural experts, and high-ranking government and military officials delivered presentations at the event.
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Allied Command Transformation executed the 2023 NATO Communicators’ Conference in Paris, France, demonstrating the Alliance’s efforts to control its information environment and maintain advantages in emerging trends in the information space. The Conference also permitted stakeholders a space to share best practices, important messaging narratives and lessons learned.
Ukraine joined the Conference activities, demonstrating the developing and ongoing partnership between Kyiv and the Alliance. The Ukrainian delegates actively interfaced with other attendees and provided unique perspectives on communications-based topics within the context of active war. Ukrainian Strategic Communications personnel joined the “Communications from the Front” panel, which emphasized the importance of controlling information environments and messaging for the continued success of active kinetic operations, and “Delivering Cognitive Effects in Conflict”, discussing social media engagement and strategic communications objectives during wartime. Ukrainian presentations also shared the challenges to successful communications campaigns, both domestically and internationally, and provided briefings on the current state of affairs in the country. The Ukrainian delegation’s participation in the Conference builds on the Alliance’s ongoing commitment to Ukraine’s right to self-defence established during the 2023 Vilnius Summit.
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