Date: November 23-24, 2023
Location: Warsaw, Poland, Google for Startup Campus
1st Day
Forum Opening Ceremony
17:00 – 18:00 Registration of Forum participants and Coffee break
18:00 – 18:30 Key speech – Marvin Liao
18:30 – 19:30 Opening remarks
- Anatoly Motkin, President, StrategEast
- USAID Representative
- Alex Bornyakov, Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
- Michał Kramarz, Head of the Google for Startups
19:30 – 22:00 Gala Dinner
2nd Day
9:00 – 10:00 Networking session and Coffee break
10:00 – 12:30 Morning Plenary sessions:
10:00 – 11:10 Ukraine as the Trusted Tech Destination
Moderator: Matthew Murray, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute
Speakers:
- Valery Krasovsky, CEO, Sigma Software Group
- Natalia Denikeieva, Head of Diia City’s project office, Ukrainian Tech EcoSystem
- Oksana Myronko, Head of Communications, European Business Association
11:10 – 12:30 Digital for Freedom
Moderator: Anatoly Motkin, President, StrategEast
Speakers:
- Marcin Gajdziński, General Manager for Poland, Baltics and Ukraine, IBM
- Tomasz Olejnik, Head of CEE Public Sector, AWS
- Yuriy Antoniuk, Vice President, EPAM Systems
- Microsoft Representative
12:30 – 14:00 Dinner and networking session
14:00 – 18:00 Evening Plenary sessions:
14:00 – 15:00 IT Generation: New Education for New Economy
Moderator: Ivan Petrenko, Managing Partner, Angel One Venture Fund
Speakers:
- Diana Rakus, Project Lead for IT-Generation, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
- Evghenia Iarina, Government Partnerships Executive, Coursera
- Yaroslav Prytula, Senior Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukrainian Catholic University
- Kateryna Kruk, Regional Public Policy Lead, Central and Eastern Europe, Meta
- Mike Rybachuk, Co-founder, Projector
15:00 – 15:50 Ukrainian Tech Ecosystem
Moderator: Rhonda Shrader, Executive Director, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
- Olga Shapoval, Executive Director, Kharkiv IT cluster
- Pavlo Kartashov, Director, Ukrainian Startup Fund
- Victoria Strokan, Marketing Director, SET University
- Andriy Zaikin, Founder & CEO, YEP Startup Accelerator
15:50-16:10 Coffee breake
16:10 – 17:10 Now is the Time to Invest in Ukrainian Tech
Moderator: Kinga Stanislawska, Founder, European Women in VC
- Marvin Liao, Partner, Diaspora Ventures
- Ruslan Furtas, Principal, Horizon Capital
- Ivan Petrenko, Managing Partner, Angel One Venture Fund
- Ihor Markevych, Innovations & Tech Lead, Advantage Ukraine
17:10 – 18:00 The Role of Global Developing Agencies in Ukrainian Tech
Moderator: Helen Uvarenko, Global Education Lead, StrategEast
- Piotr Matczuk, Country Officer, Poland, IFC
- Nataliia Petrova, Project Manager, USAID
- MASHAV Program Representative