October 8 - Industry leaders, key government figures and other significant stakeholders will gather to discuss critical Arctic issues such as climate change, economic development and new shipping lanes at the inaugural Arctic Circle assembly, October 12-1

Present at the event will be: Iceland president, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson; special envoy of Russian president Vladimir Putin to the Arctic, Artur Chilingarov; Greenland premier, Aleqa Hammond; US Senator, Tom Harkin; and Google executive chairman, Eric Schmidt.
 
Further details regarding the brand-new event can be found at the Arctic Circle assembly website (link below)
 
www.arcticcircle.org