Conference Free

UK-Ukraine Tech Conference

9am – 3pm 8 March 2024 London techUK, 10 St Bride Street, London, EC4A 4AD

Sabina Ciofu

Associate Director – International, techUK

Daniel Clarke

Policy Manager for International Policy and Trade, techUK

Oliver Alderson

Policy and Public Affairs - Team Assistant, techUK

On March 8, 2024, techUK, IT Ukraine Association, and the Department for Business and Trade are organizing a UK-Ukraine Tech Conference, as part of the recently signed UK-Ukraine Tech Bridge. There will be a delegation of around 25 Ukrainian tech SMEs across the below verticals.

Participants: Officials, representatives of tech companies, business associations, and media from the UK and Ukraine

The UK-Ukraine Tech Forum aims to create a dynamic platform for dialogue and collaboration, bringing together government officials, tech industry representatives, associations, and media from both Ukraine and the UK to discuss commercial opportunities and developments in both nations on a number of sectors.

AGENDA

9:30 - Registration & Welcome coffee

10:00 - 10:15 - Official opening

Speakers:

Oleksandr Yarema, State Secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Rhiannon Kempson, Deputy Director, Ukraine Reconstruction, UK Department for Business and Trade

10:15 - 11:00 - Government to Government: Furthering technological cooperation between Ukraine and the UK

Speakers:

Matt Evans, Director, techUK
Oleksandr Bornyakov, Deputy Minister for Digital Transformation of Ukraine
Rhiannon Kempson, Deputy Director for Ukraine Reconstruction at UK Department for Business and Trade
Andre Koelln, Deputy Director, Ukraine Early Recovery and Reconstruction at UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office

11:00 - 11:15 - IT Insights from Ukraine 2023

Speaker: Maria Shevchuk, CEO, IT Ukraine Association

11:15 - 12:00 - UK-Ukraine Business Partnerships: Highlights and Provisions for the Future

Speakers:

Moderator: Ihor Polych, Vice President on International Cooperation of IT Ukraine Association, СЕО of Devlight

Andrii Remizov, Director of the Entrepreneurship and Export Promotion Office
Neal Riley, Chief Information Officer, The Adaptavist Group
Natalia Denikeieva, Head of Diia City' project office, Director of IT Industry Development Directorate
Matt Houlihan, Senior Director of Government Relations, UK & Europe, Cisco
Andy Hayhurst, CBO, ELEKS UK

12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch & Networking

13:00 - 13:15 - Telecom Research Presentation

Speaker: Iryna Manukovska, CMO of JEVERA

13:15 - 14:00 - Area for Collaboration: Trade and Investment

Moderator: Olivia Minnock, Senior Partnerships Manager of mmob

Speakers:

Sergiy Khmelovskyi, CEO, COAX
Dmytro Bilash, CBDO, Osavul
Andrew Pavliv, Founder and Board Member N-iX
Oleg Osipenko, Chief Country Representative, Ukraine, SEAF
Oleh Derevianko, CVO, ISSP

14:00 - 14:15 - "Collaborative Frontiers: Fostering Corporate Innovation Through Startup Synergies"

Speaker: Daria Yanieva, Investor Director at Sigma Software Labs

14:15 - 15:00 - Area for Collaboration: Skills and Innovation

Speakers:

Moderator: Konstantin Magaletskyi, Vice President on Partnerships issues of IT Ukraine Association, ex-partner of Horizon Capital, co-founder of Ukraine Recovery Fund, Angel Investor

Denis Gursky, Partner, 1991 Ventures
Kate Bokhynska, Communications Lead, Algorytm NGO
Drew Smith, Head of Government Relations, Zoom UK&I

15:00 - 16:30 - Networking

UK-Ukraine Tech Forum is organised by the Department of Business and Trade of the UK, the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, the IT Ukraine Association together with techUK. Main partner of the UK-Ukraine Tech Forum: Sigma Software.

Partners of the event: ELEKS and Algorytm NGO.

The Trade mission to the UK is organised by the Entrepreneurship and Export Promotion Office (Ukraine), the national project Diia.Business in cooperation with the IT Ukraine Association and supported by the European Union and the German Government within the "EU4Business: SME Competitiveness and Internationalization" programme implemented by the German federal company Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The program aims to support Ukraine's economic resilience, recovery, and growth, create better conditions for the development of Ukrainian MSMEs, and support innovation and exports.

Matchmaking with Ukrainian SME tech companies

B2B matchmaking session for Ukrainian SMEs, organized by the Entrepreneurship and Export Promotion Office of Ukraine with the financial support of the European Union and the German government (GIZ Ukraine).