28-29/06/2024
LVIV, Ukraine
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MIND.UA, A LEADING BUSINESS OUTLET, INVITES BUSINESSMEN AND INVESTORS WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN WORKING AND WHO ARE PLANNING TO INVEST IN UKRAINE TO A UNIQUE PRIVATE GATHERING TO DISCUSS REAL PROJECTS AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
The event will bring together over 1,000 participants – foreign investors and money, government officials, representatives of large, medium and small businesses – all of whom believe in Ukraine's victory, develop business here and plan to build new projects.
Євген Шпитко
головний редактор Mind.ua
Mind Invest Summit IS THE PLATFORM FOR STARTING WORK IN UKRAINE, CHOOSING A DIRECTION, FINDING A PARTNER OR RECEIVING FUNDING. WE GATHER SECTORS, PROJECTS, ANALYSIS – EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO START DOING BUSINESS IN UKRAINE.
Yevhen Shpytko
Editor-in-Chief of Mind.ua

SPEAKERS 2024

Viktor Yushchenko

The third President of Ukraine
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Viktor Yushchenko

The third President of Ukraine
  • 2-16 September 1996 - as Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, Mr. Yushchenko successfully carried out monetary reform (the hryvnia was adopted), created the State Treasury, and started the construction of the Banknote Printing and Minting Works.
  • 1997 – he ranked among the world's top six bankers by Global Finance magazine.
  • 1998 - with his participation, the Cabinet of Ministers and the NBU successfully averted a financial crisis, the so-called "1998 default".
  • December 1999 - May 2001 - as Prime Minister, he implemented the government's Reforms for Welfare programme, which created positive dynamics in the economy: the first GDP growth, a change in the mechanism of settlements and payments to the central and local budgets, the abolition of barter and borrowing, the improvement of the energy market, and a significant increase in budget revenues and social spending. During this one year, budget arrears in salaries, pensions and scholarships were eliminated.
  • 2005 - During Viktor Yushchenko's tenure, a record amount of foreign investment was attracted over the period of Ukraine’s independence.
  • Amendments to the Constitution that came into force in January 2006 deprived the President of the power to directly influence the Government's economic policy.
  • 2006 - the US cancels the Jackson-Vanik amendment with respect to Ukraine.
  • 2008 - Ukraine joined the World Trade Organisation.
  • Also in 2008, Ukraine started a dialogue with the EU on obtaining a visa-free regime.

Roman Matys

President of International Investment Office
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Roman Matys

President of International Investment Office
  • Economist, entrepreneur, former Head of the Investment Policy Department of the Lviv Regional State Administration, public figure, human rights activist.
  • During Roman's tenure at the Lviv Regional State Administration, he managed to attract almost USD 1 billion of foreign direct investment (according to NBU statistics) into the Lviv region's economy and create about 75,000 jobs.
  • In parallel with the development of the strategy "Lviv Region - the Factory of Europe", Mr. Matys implemented an additional strategy for Lviv "100 thousand new jobs", which consisted of developing the city as a location for creating centres for providing remote business services around the world. One of the first such offices to be opened in Lviv as part of the strategy was the office of the international audit company PwC.
  • Member of the Coordination Council on the Use of the Ukrainian language in All Areas of Public Life at the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. Initiator and co-author of the draft law "On the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language #5670-d.

Mykhailo Podolyak

Ukrainian politician, political strategist, journalist, crisis manager, and advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
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Mykhailo Podolyak

Ukrainian politician, political strategist, journalist, crisis manager, and advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
  • Since April 2020, Mykhailo Podolyak has been the advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, and the Presidential Office's anti-crisis communications manager. He is responsible for assessing domestic and foreign policy priorities, developing strategic positions in the state information policy, crisis prevention,organization of the coordination of information policy by state institutions.
  • With the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting from the 28th of February 2022, he became a member of the negotiation group.

Andriy Sadovyi

Lviv City Mayor

Vasyl Khmelnytsky

Ukrainian entrepreneur and the founder of UFuture
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Vasyl Khmelnytsky

Ukrainian entrepreneur and the founder of UFuture
  • At the beginning of his investment career, he managed a Kyiv-based trading and investment company. Between 2004 and 2008, the company made a number of successful exits, with one of the biggest being the sale of a majority stake in Zaporizhstal steel mill.
  • Today, the entrepreneur’s most ambitious projects are the development of innovation parks UNIT.City and LvivTech.City. Through these platforms, he supports technology-based, creative, and other advanced industries in Ukraine, striving to provide opportunities to the country’s abundant IT and scientific talent.
  • He invests in education, entrepreneurship, and innovative solutions. Among the most important investment projects he supports are annual Kyiv International Economic Forum, Small and Medium Entrepreneurship School, Lean Institute Ukraine, etc.
  • Being also the Chair of the Supervisory Board at National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Vasyl Kmelnytsky is firm that only by changing how people in Ukraine think, which should start with education, the country can achieve prosperity and assume its rightful place in the modern world.

Ruslan Magomedov

Chairman of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission of Ukraine
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Ruslan Magomedov

Chairman of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission of Ukraine
  • Ruslan Magomedov started his career in 2005 at the State Property Fund of Ukraine as a chief specialist at the Competition Preparation and Holding Department.
  • In 2007, he held the position of Head of Securities and Exchange Trading at Midland Group for two years. From 2010 to 2016, Mr. Magomedov was CEO of Astrum Investment Management.
  • From 2017 to 2019, he served as Senior Project Manager at the EBRD Reform Office at the  National Securities and Stock Market Commission of Ukraine (NSSMC).
  • Prior to his appointment as the Head of the NSSMC in 2019, he served at the Banking Group as an outside consultant for the ‘mobile application for access to the securities and banking products market’ project.

Rostyslav Vovk

Chairman of The Supervisory Board of Kormotech LLC
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Rostyslav Vovk

Chairman of The Supervisory Board of Kormotech LLC
  • CEO and co-founder of Kormotech, a global family company with Ukrainian roots.
  • Co-owner and member of the Supervisory Board of Enzym Group.
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs.
  • In 2023, he launched the venture fund Kormotech Venture.

Kateryna Zagoriy

Co-founder of the Zagoriy Foundation social projects bureau and director of the board of directors of the Darnytsia pharmaceutical company
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Kateryna Zagoriy

Co-founder of the Zagoriy Foundation social projects bureau and director of the board of directors of the Darnytsia pharmaceutical company
  • She started her career with the non-governmental organization "Educational Resource Center" in the city of Lviv. Already in 2002, she worked at the Association of Network Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine in Kyiv. Since 2005, she was the head of the "Industrial Television Committee" company. From 2014 to 2016, she was a member of the National Council of Ukraine on Television and Radio Broadcasting.
  • Since 2018, Kateryna has become one of the initiators of the project of the global movement #GenerousTuesday in Ukraine, which first started on November 27, 2018.
  • She is a member of the board of trustees of the "Tabletochki" charity fund and a member of the senate of the Ukrainian Catholic University.
  • A graduate of the Aspen Institute Kyiv in 2008, she has been a member of the supervisory board since 2021.

Serhii Kovalenko

CEO Yasno
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Serhii Kovalenko

CEO Yasno
  • He has 20 years of experience in managing retail companies, banking and industrial enterprises in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. In particular, he was the director of development of "Nova Poshta", chairman of the supervisory board of "Post Express" and chairman of the board of "ATF Bank" (Kazakhstan).
  • Since January 2022, he heads D.Solutions Holding, which operates under the YASNO brand.

Taras Kytsmey

Co-Founder and Board Member of SoftServe
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Taras Kytsmey

Co-Founder and Board Member of SoftServe
  • From 1997 till 2013 he served as the company’s President leading SoftServe to growth and success as a global provider of high quality software development and technology consulting services. Taras was chairman of the IT Ukraine Association in 2011, 2016, and 2020. He has also been a member of the European Business Association (EBA) board since 2018.
  • A recognized Ukrainian economist, Taras was awarded the Order of the Lion by the Lviv City Council in 2018 for his leadership role in developing the country’s IT industry.
  • Mr. Kytsmey graduated from the Applied Mathematics Faculty of Lviv National Ivan Franko University and obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science with thesis in Fuzzy Database Systems, and in 2012 he completed Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program. From 1992 until 2002, Mr. Kytsmey worked as a professor at the Lviv National Polytechnic University.

Ashot Abrahamyan

CEO at Bank «Lviv»
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Ashot Abrahamyan

CEO at Bank «Lviv»
  • Head of the bank's management since 2017. During the last 17 years, he held senior positions in the financial industry of Armenia and Ukraine.
  • In the field of his attention and expertise: general management, development of small and medium-sized enterprises, corporate banking, as well as risk management.
  • Ashot compares his role to the captain of a ship, who sets the course and unites the crew. These skills are especially important during a perfect storm. Ashot always considers any challenge, first of all, as an opportunity, knows how to make difficult decisions and rally professionals around a common goal. He sees activities aimed at attracting international funding to Ukraine as his own priority. According to his conviction, rebuilding the Ukrainian economy here and now is an urgent task and an indispensable basis for victory.
  • Ashot believes that to be free is to independently define goals and persistently move towards their realization. His personal example is an unconditional reference point for the entire team of Bank Lviv.

Mykhaylo Bubnov

General Director Schneider Electric Ukraine
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Mykhaylo Bubnov

General Director Schneider Electric Ukraine
  • Mr. Bubnov has over 10 years of experience in energy management and automation.
  • He has in-depth knowledge of effective integrated solutions in the industry combining energy, automation and software. He has extensive experience in industrial automation and business management systems, and with his team has implemented automated infrastructure projects worth millions of dollars for some of the most demanding Ukrainian clients.
  • He launched the Energy Committee jointly with the French-Ukrainian Chamber Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFU) and became its leader.
  • Mr. Bubnov also initiated and sponsored the creation of the Schneider Electric Ukraine Innovation Hub, a demonstration and training centre for Ukrainian energy management and automation specialists.

Serhii Martynchuk

CEO of Cisco Ukraine
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Serhii Martynchuk

CEO of Cisco Ukraine
  • Mr. Martynchuk has been working at Cisco since 2008. In his capacity, he manages teams responsible for promoting the company's solutions and technologies, developing partner and distribution networks, coordinates marketing activities in Ukraine, and helps strengthen the company's position as a leading stakeholder in the digitalisation movement in the Ukrainian market.
  • He has 20+ years of experience in IT business (product and service development, B2B sales, marketing, partner network building, etc.)
  • He is actively involved in the Startup Community of Ukraine as an Advisory Board Member of the YEP startup incubator and accelerator for young people, a mentor of the n.cubator project, etc.
  • Mr. Martynchuk is a co-founder of several SaaS startups; supports and takes an active part in projects aimed at training and development in various fields (cybersecurity, digital finance, development programmes for CIOs, etc.)

Serhiy Prytula

Volunteer, public figure, founder of Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
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Serhiy Prytula

Volunteer, public figure, founder of Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
  • Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, he has been an active volunteer, collecting material aid and delivering it to the Ukrainian military.
  • For his volunteer activities, he was awarded the Order of Merit 3rd Class (2019) and the non-state Order of the People's Hero of Ukraine (2016).
  • On the first day of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Mr. Prytula and a team of volunteers opened a volunteer headquarters in his office in Kyiv. The headquarters works as a coordination hub - a kind of bridge between those who bring help and those who need it.
  • On June 22, 2022, on behalf of Prytula Charity Fund, he announced the fundraising of UAH 500 million for three Bayraktar drones for the Ukrainian Army called "People's Bayraktar". On June 24, the raising of funds was stopped, and the amount of collected funds exceeded UAH 600 million, which would be enough for four drones. Having learned about the promotion, the Turkish manufacturer decided to supply three drones for free. With the collected funds, Sergiy bought a satellite for the Armed Forces and a one-year subscription to the Finnish company ICEYE’s satellite network on August 18, 2022.

Vitaly Koval

Head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine
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Vitaly Koval

Head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine
  • In 2019-2023, he headed the Rivne Oblast State Administration, in 2006-2019, ran companies in the agricultural, transport and construction sectors, and in 2004-2006, he worked in banking.
  • In 2003, Mr. Koval graduated from the Ternopil Academy of National Economy with a degree in banking (awarded the qualification of Master of Banking). In 2017, he received an MBA degree from the Lviv Business School of the Ukrainian Catholic University.
  • In 2021, he studied at the Aspen Institute Kyiv.
  • Mr. Koval is a member of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, First Vice President of the Greco-Roman Wrestling Federation of Ukraine, Vice President of the Ukrainian Wrestling Association.

Jennes de Mol

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Ukraine

Yevhen Shpytko

Editor-in-Chief of Mind.ua

Oleksandr Prokhorovych

Fiscal Regulation Manager Philip Morris Ukraine
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Oleksandr Prokhorovych

Fiscal Regulation Manager Philip Morris Ukraine
  • Got a master's degree in finance at the Academy of the Customs Service of Ukraine (Dnipro).
  • During 2011-2015, he worked in the State Customs Service of Ukraine and the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.
  • Since 2015, he has worked at the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and such companies as METRO Cash and Carry Ukraine and Farmak.
  • He joined Philip Morris Ukraine in October 2022 and currently holds the position of fiscal regulation manager.
  • Co-chairman of the Committee on Customs Policy of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine.

Оleksandr Melnychenko

Acting Executive Director, UkraineInvest
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Оleksandr Melnychenko

Acting Executive Director, UkraineInvest
  • He is an Honored Lawyer of Ukraine (1998), who served as a judge in the courts of Kyiv for 12 years. Subsequently, he held leadership positions as Deputy, First Deputy, Acting Chairman of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, and held responsible positions in the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, and the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine.
  • Under his participation and leadership, over 200 laws and other regulatory acts in the field of competition (antimonopoly) law were developed.
  • In addition, Oleksandr Melnychenko represented Ukraine in various intergovernmental negotiations, at Global Forums on competition issues, and in the Intergovernmental Expert Group on Competition Policy and Law at UNCTAD.
  • He is also an Honorary Member of the Association of Lawyers of Ukraine and a member of the Executive Committee of the Ukrainian Bar Association.

Tetiana Lukyniuk

B2C Director at Kyivstar
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Tetiana Lukyniuk

B2C Director at Kyivstar
  • Responsible for sales, marketing, retail and service for over 24 million subscribers.
  • She has more than 25 years of experience in international companies, in particular, she held the position of CEO of Red Bull in Ukraine for six years.
  • She is also an associate professor at the Kyiv School of Economics, the founder of the largest book club in Ukraine, and the co-author of a best-selling book about career.
  • She was included in the ranking of Self Made Women according to Forbes and in the list of Top 30 successful women in business NV.

Stepan Veselovskyi

CEO at Lviv IT Cluster
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Stepan Veselovskyi

CEO at Lviv IT Cluster
  • Developed Lviv IT Cluster into the largest association of technology companies in Ukraine.
  • For the past 12 years, he has been actively involved in the development of the Ukrainian technology industry at the local and state levels.
  • He is one of the ideologists of the cluster strategy for the development of industries and helped to create dozens of new clusters in Ukraine. One of the greatest achievements of the Lviv IT Cluster is the creation of 19 innovative bachelor's programs at the universities of Lviv, the key technology event of Eastern Europe - IT Arena, as well as the Victory Projects initiative, which is aimed at providing support to business, the military and critical infrastructure institutions, as well as strengthening the security of the region during a full-scale war.
  • One of the latest initiatives in the position of CEO of the Lviv IT Cluster is the creation of a Research Center in partnership with the USAID Program "Competitive Economy of Ukraine", Lviv City Council and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
  • In addition, Stepan is an Honorary Ambassador of Lviv and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Nezlamni charitable foundation.

Mykola Veresen

Ukrainian journalist, TV presenter, public and political figure

Vitaly Sedler

CEO/Co-founder at Intellias
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Vitaly Sedler

CEO/Co-founder at Intellias
  • Entrepreneur and business leader Vitaly started his career in the mid-1990s by joining a small group of local IT industry pioneers.
  • He co-founded Intellias in 2002 and has grown the company from a small agency to one of the leaders of the industry, a trusted technology partner to Fortune 500 enterprises and top-tier organizations around the world.
  • As CEO, Vitaly is the driving force behind the company’s strategy and business development activities. He is actively promoting Intellias as a speaker and panelist at high-profile industry events.
  • Vitaly is a strong supporter of educational and cultural initiatives and has great appreciation for contemporary art.

Vitaliy Deynega

Former Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, Founder of “Come back alive” charity fund
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Vitaliy Deynega

Former Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, Founder of “Come back alive” charity fund
  • Volunteer, public figure, founder and head of the charity fund "Come back alive" from 2014 to 2020 — one of the largest funds to help Ukrainian military personnel fighting in Donbas. The foundation provided more than a thousand thermal imaging devices for the front, organized the training of officers in business schools and conducted the first sociological study in the history of independent Ukraine to understand the motives for the dismissal of professional soldiers.
  • In 2020, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the foundation organized a fundraiser among Ukrainian diplomats to help the military in the fight against Covid-19.

Ivan Kompan

Director of Deloitte Academy in Ukraine and founder of First Kyiv Investment Club
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Ivan Kompan

Director of Deloitte Academy in Ukraine and founder of First Kyiv Investment Club
  • Ivan Kompan is a finance professional with 25 years of experience.
  • Throughout his professional career, he has held senior positions in a range of large Ukrainian and international financial companies, including Deloitte, where he was a partner and head of the Financial and Advisory Services Department.
  • He is a graduate of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and holds a PhD. During his academic career, he did research in econometrics at the Sorbonne University (Paris), the Institute for Advanced Study Vienna, and the Centre for Economic Research at Charles University in Prague.
  • Mr. Kompan's main research results were presented in national and international scientific journals and conferences, and were patented in the United States.

Roman Waschuk

Business Ombudsman of Ukraine
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Roman Waschuk

Business Ombudsman of Ukraine
  • Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine from 2014 to 2019.
  • He joined the Foreign Service in 1987. In Ottawa, he worked in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in the Eastern Europe, European Union, and Policy Planning Divisions, as well as on the Global Partnership, and the Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force. In the latter position, he managed an annual budget of CAD 125 mn.
  • Abroad, he worked in the Political/Economic sections of Embassies in Moscow (1988-91), Kyiv (1994-98), and Berlin (2002-2007). Appointed Ambassador of Canada to Serbia in 2011, with concurrent accreditation to Northern Macedonia and Montenegro. Transferred to Kyiv in October 2014, where he served as Ambassador of Canada until October 2019. Co-organized the Conference on Reforms in Ukraine (Toronto, 2019).
  • He was awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal and the Presidential Order of Merit – Third Class (Ukraine).

Roman Cherepakha

Investment Director Horizon Capital
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Roman Cherepakha

Investment Director Horizon Capital
  • At Horizon Capital, Roman is focused on sourcing the pipeline of new investments and oversees portfolio companies in Food, IT and Manufacturing sectors.
  • Mr. Cherepakha worked for Horizon Capital as an associate in 2012-2015. He rejoined the company following the completion of MBA program at Chicago Booth and gaining experience with USA-based investment firms McNally Capital and Sandalphon Capital where he was involved in deal sourcing and execution.
  • Roman also holds Master of Science degree in Economics of Competition and Market Regulation from Barcelona GSE and Bachelor of Arts in Finance from The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Mr. Cherepakha is a mentor with Board, a leading Ukrainian business community of 450+ business leaders from all regions of Ukraine.

Artem Shcherbina

Capital Times Investment Director
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Artem Shcherbina

Capital Times Investment Director
  • PhD in Economics, author of a number of articles and studies. His experience in managing investment portfolios exceeds USD 50 million.
  • He headed investment committees at Concorde Capital and HUG'S.
  • He is an expert in macroeconomic analysis and an opinion leader in Ukraine. Mr. Shcherbyna leads the analytical consulting for Ukrainian companies with export potential.
  • He has implemented financial analytics projects in the food processing, FMCG, light industry, pharmaceuticals, IT products, and other sectors.

Yuliia Lipovetska

Ex-director of a Big Four company, founder and CEO of SAPience

Mykola Babenko

CEO of the Meat Industry Association of Ukraine
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Mykola Babenko

CEO of the Meat Industry Association of Ukraine
  • 20 years of management experience in private business, as well as in the execution of industry-specific production growth strategies. Mr. Babenko is a professional in crisis management, modern livestock farming technologies, and an expert in strategies, control and business development.
  • He advises owners and top management on business development in livestock breeding.
  • In April 2020, he was elected as the Head of the Meat Industry Association, which represents and protects industry interests at the central government level, promotes the development of the raw material base, provides media support and information support to participants, opens new markets and sales channels, organises international cooperation, and attracts investments to Ukraine. Since 2020, the Ukrainian Meat Industry Association, together with the Centre for Livestock Efficiency, has been implementing the New Pig Farming 2025 cross-sectoral programme.

Boris Shestopalov

Co-owner and CEO of HD-group
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Boris Shestopalov

Co-owner and CEO of HD-group
  • Ukrainian agri-food entrepreneur, co-owner and managing partner of HD-group holding, founder of GFSGROUP, PhD in Economics.
  • He is Vice President of the Ukrainian Bakers Association, a member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs and the Union of Flour Millers of Ukraine, a member of the Family Business Network and CEO Club Ukraine, and a member of the Ukrainian Food Industry Association.
  • Mr. Shestopalov is an expert in food industry strategies, foodtech and food of the future. He speaks at the largest Ukrainian forums and business events in the country. Also, he is a co-founder of NEWFOOD.MEDIA, a portal about foodtech and the latest food technologies. Since 09.05.2017, he has been performing the mission of the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Austria in Zaporizhzhia.

Oles Pishchak

Owner Audit of Sales, managing partner BUDE DIM
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Oles Pishchak

Owner Audit of Sales, managing partner BUDE DIM
  • Sales system reorganization expert.
  • Expert teacher of the Swedish project for business owners DYB|Develop Your Business and guest speaker at LvBS.
  • Author of books on analysis and reorganization of the sales system "Sales Audit", "300 Sellers"." "Expert on reorganization of the sales system.

Viktoriya Pokatis

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Mind.ua

Dmytro Kuzmenko

Director of the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
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Dmytro Kuzmenko

Director of the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
  • 10 years of experience in finance and investment, such as: lending, cooperation with major banks on mortgage and collateralised properties, venture capital investment, working with investment projects, technology start-ups and operating companies in various fields on investment issues.
  • He is an experienced crisis manager as well as a development manager.
  • Expert in the Ukrainian venture capital market, and conducting in-depth analysis of market trends and its actors.

Danilo Yakub

Senior Partner and COO at Diligent Capital Partners
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Danilo Yakub

Senior Partner and COO at Diligent Capital Partners
  • Danilo Yakub is a Chairman in the Netherlands, Co-Founder of Children of Heroes Fund, Senior Partner and COO at Diligent Capital Partners.
  • Mr. Yakub is an experienced professional in investment banking, investment management, and private equity. He has held the positions of Executive Director at UBS and Vice President at Citibank. He received his Executive MBA degree from Smurfit School in 2007.

Dmytro Khorishko

СЕО Ukrainian Aerospace Cluster
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Dmytro Khorishko

СЕО Ukrainian Aerospace Cluster
  • Managing partner and co-founder KSP STRATEGIES.
  • WBAF senator from Ukraine.
  • Impact investor, innovation director with 15 years of experience, creator of the innovation ecosystem, co-founder of startups.
  • Has extensive experience in the construction of industrial and logistics complexes

Remigijus Simasius

Former Minister of Justice of Lithuania, Former Mayour of Vilnius
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Remigijus Simasius

Former Minister of Justice of Lithuania, Former Mayour of Vilnius
  • Independent advisory, consultancy, and research
  • Senior adviser at Centenary Policy Institute
  • Co founder at World as a School (WISed)
  • Council member at Vilnius City Council
  • Former member of Parliament
  • Former President, Lithuanian Free Market Institute (economic research and promoting market reforms NGO). PhD (social sciences, law)

Yevhen Klopotenko

Chef, businessman, public activist
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Yevhen Klopotenko

Chef, businessman, public activist
  • Chef, restaurateur, co-owner of "Inakshi" gastroholding.
  • In 2024, he opened two new lines of business - the MAKITRA chef ordering service and his own line of food products under the ""100 years"" brand (spoiler).
  • The initiator of adding borscht to the list of intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO and the ideologist of the Cult Food food culture improvement project.

Sasha Reminnyi

IT entrepreneur, Angel Investor
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Sasha Reminnyi

IT entrepreneur, Angel Investor
  • Sasha has made 10+ investments in startups.
  • He is a Founding partner United Angels Network.
  • Author of the book "Startup Kitchen" and the podcast of the same name.

Natalka Sleptsova

Co-founder of Business Stand Up
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Natalka Sleptsova

Co-founder of Business Stand Up
  • Отримав ступінь магістра з фінансів у Київському національному економічному університеті, а також сертифікат фінансового аналітика від CFA Institute, США. Має значний досвід роботи у інвестиційному та фінансовому секторі, працював керуючим активами у Dragon Asset Management.
  • У 2015-2016 роках займав посаду радника Міністра інфраструктури України. Опікувався координацією проєктів, спрямованих на підвищення прозорості діяльності, відкритих даних та покращення корпоративного управління державними підприємствами.
  • З 2016 по 2018 рік очолював проєкт Prozorro.Sale у Transparency International Ukraine, де координував розробку ІТ-рішень для прозорого продажу державних активів. З 2018 року став керівником державного підприємства “Прозорро.Продажі”. Також був президентом спільноти фінансових аналітиків CFA Society Ukraine та головою Консультативної наглядової ради CoST Ukraine.
  • У січні 2023 року призначений на посаду заступника Міністра економіки України з питань цифрового розвитку, цифрових трансформацій і цифровізації.

Dmytro Shvets

Director of Start Global, author of the Start Global Insights podcast for exporters
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Dmytro Shvets

Director of Start Global, author of the Start Global Insights podcast for exporters
  • Author of the podcast for exporters Start Global Insights
  • Dmytro is the founder of n.cubator, a platform for the development of conscious entrepreneurship, a lecturer at kmbs and UCU Business School
  • 20 years of experience in international consultancy and sales. 5 years of developing entrepreneurship among Ukrainians in Ukraine and abroad
  • Dmytro is an advocate of action learning, with 8 years of corporate and open programmes to enter international markets and develop your own business

Mariia Shevchuk

CEO at IT Ukraine Association
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Mariia Shevchuk

CEO at IT Ukraine Association
  • She was born in 1990 in Kyiv. In 2013, she received a master's degree in international economics at KNEU. V. Hetman.
  • She worked as the first deputy of the Office for Export Promotion of Ukraine.
  • He has 10 years of experience in implementing internationalization programs for Ukrainian companies to the EU, USA, Canada, Asian and African countries. She cooperated with many international organizations and technical assistance projects, including USAID, GIZ, EBRD, EU4BIZ, WNISEF, UNDP, QFTP, etc.
  • Attracted financing and implemented various projects to increase the competitiveness of Ukrainian business in the amount of more than $2.5 million. From September 1, 2023, she was appointed to the position of at. executive director of the IT Ukraine Association.

Andriy Trofimov

Senior Director, Software Engineering at EPAM Systems, PMP
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Andriy Trofimov

Senior Director, Software Engineering at EPAM Systems, PMP
  • Senior director of software development, head of the Western Ukrainian location of EPAM Ukraine, co-chairman of EPAM Greece, PMP, MBA
  • He has 23 years of experience in Ukrainian and international IT service companies.
  • Andriy started his career in IT as a system administrator, was a PHP and Java developer, and later became a project manager. Since 2017, he has headed the Western Ukrainian office of ERAM, which currently has more than 3,000 specialists.
  • In 2022, the SSR was actively involved in the activities, because Lviv and the western location became the main evacuation center for more than 5 thousand ERAM specialists and their families. He is also responsible for the deployment and development of the delivery of the ERAM organization in Greece, where the company has been steadily strengthening its position in the IT market since 2022.
  • Core expertise is in managing large projects and teams, as well as scaling organizational processes, building strategy based on R&D, and implementing effective solutions. In addition, it focuses on evaluating and improving results, motivating and developing talent, training, attracting and retaining specialists.

Denys Sviatokum

Co-founder and executive director Defense Alliance of Ukraine
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Denys Sviatokum

Co-founder and executive director Defense Alliance of Ukraine
  • Vice President of the International Vision Institute for Strategic Partnerships.
  • Executive Director, Bizdev, GR, Integrator of Grow Up Strategies.
  • 5+ years of experience building communities.
  • 15+ years of business experience.
  • Ambassador of the Board community and a graduate of the "School of Ministers" at KSHDU Nizhniy.

Ivan Petrenko

Managing Partner at Angel One Fund
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Ivan Petrenko

Managing Partner at Angel One Fund
  • Master's degree in international economic relations of Lviv National University named after I. Franko.
  • He worked as a director of work with corporate clients of the insurance company "Universalna", director of the company "Terrin", which developed, launched and managed the chain of restaurants "A la minute", "Pasta Mia" and sales points "Hot Cafe" for the network of gas stations "OKKO"
  • Subsequently, he worked as a development director of Galnaftogaz.
  • Earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the UCU Business School (LvBS), completing the Key Executive MBA program.

Anna Haiduchok

Head of the Export promotion and Cluster development Component of the EU4Business Programme, GIZ
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Anna Haiduchok

Head of the Export promotion and Cluster development Component of the EU4Business Programme, GIZ
  • Strategy and business development executive with experience designing, leading, and implementing a broad range of corporate growth and realignment initiatives.
  • Hands on manager with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • She is responsible for long-term growth and profitability of the organization.
  • Experienced in writing and managing International projects.

Oleksandr Kolb

General partner and co-founder Toloka, CEO Promodo
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Oleksandr Kolb

General partner and co-founder Toloka, CEO Promodo
  • One of the leaders of the Digital Marketing market in Central and Eastern Europe.
  • 20 years in business.
  • He has practical experience in building marketing and sales strategies for large international brands.In 2014  became one of the founders of the Kharkiv IT cluster, which includes more than 250 companies.
  • He is a member of the supervisory board of the cluster and the Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics.
  • He has two higher educations from TEch University and a MBA degree from Kyiv-Mohyla University of Applied Sciences.

Olga Rudneva

CEO and co-founder Superhumans Center
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Olga Rudneva

CEO and co-founder Superhumans Center
  • Superhumans Center is a clinic for psychological assistance, prosthetics, reconstructive surgery, and rehabilitation for people affected by the war.
  • Since the beginning of the war, Olga has been heading the largest logistics hub in Europe, HelpUkraine Center, created in partnership with Nova Poshta, Rozetka, TIS Terminal.
  • Prior to this, she was the director of the Olena Pinchuk Foundation and the coordinator of the space for sexual education, Dialog Hub. She is also a co-founder of Veteran Hub, a space that provides comprehensive services to veterans.
  • Under Olga's leadership, the most large-scale campaigns in the media have been implemented, including charity concerts by Elton John, Queen and Paul McCartney.
  • Among the most notable projects is the Medsanbat, which trained over 5,000 paramedics and introduced standards for providing battlefield first aid in 2014-2015.
  • Olga has been included in the list of the most successful women in Ukraine for 4 consecutive years. She is a contributor to Elle and NV magazines and actively advocates for equal rights and opportunities for women and men.
  • Main expertise: project management, charity fund management, fundraising.

Yulia Vitka

Acting Chief of Party, USAID Investment for Business Resilience Activity

Dmytro Zozulia

Head of M&A, MHP
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Dmytro Zozulia

Head of M&A, MHP
  • A manager with work experience in Ukrainian and international companies. ​
  • Implemented a number of transformation and innovation projects in investment banking, agriculture, IT and renewable energy.
  • ​At MHP - an international company in the field of food and agricultural technologies - Dmytro is responsible for investment activities and strategic partnerships aimed at expanding the company's culinary ecosystem.

Ksenia Orynchak

CEO of NAEIU

Petr Stransky

Partner at IDAP Global
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Petr Stransky

Partner at IDAP Global
  • Entrepreneur and Strategist with over 20 years of experience in launching and expanding tech and tech-enabled companies. Successfully managed several exits and international M&A transactions, and led strategic IT corporate projects. Currently focused on innovative financing for the SME sector across multiple markets.

Olena Unanyan

LUN Development Director
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Olena Unanyan

LUN Development Director
  • Entrepreneur and Strategist with over 20 years of experience in launching and expanding tech and tech-enabled companies. Successfully managed several exits and international M&A transactions, and led strategic IT corporate projects. Currently focused on innovative financing for the SME sector across multiple markets.

Dmytro Kharchenko

CEO and owner of the development company Vertex

Nazar Kmit

Co-owner of Mukko agricultural holding, Operations Director of the plant

Dmytro Mikhailenko

Managing partner of Crowe Mikhailenko
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Dmytro Mikhailenko

Managing partner of Crowe Mikhailenko
  • Experience in structuring and practical implementation of tax optimization schemes, including for the largest financial and industrial groups of Ukraine, Ukrainian and foreign investment companies.
  • Author of more than 500 publications devoted to problems of taxation, civil law, legal regulation of investment activity.
  • President of the Association of Tax Consultants, member of the Supervisory Board of the Chamber of Tax Consultants, head of the Tax Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine, Legal Advisor of the IT Committee of the European Business Association (EVA).м
JAZZ WEEKEND

We all remember well the times when legendary jazz musicians, music critics, prominent cultural, public and government figures, journalists and entrepreneurs from around the world gathered in Lviv in late June. They were united by jazz and faith in Ukraine.

As part of the Summit, we plan to revive the atmosphere of the festival and, after the formal part of the event, organize jazz sessions so that our guests would spend as much time as possible in Lviv and have the ability to network in a more informal environment.

That is why we invited famous jazz stars and young Ukrainian bands. The show starts at 19:00 on June 28th, and will end with a perfomance by Alexey Kogan and his Jazz in Kyiv Band.

Nino Katamadze's concert will take place on June 29th. The queen of jazz and a great friend of Ukraine, Nino Katamadze, always performs with special inspiratio in front our audience.

Nino Katamadze's work is a boundless world of beautiful and sincere emotions and feelings. And in this world you dissolve, plunging your head into the atmosphere of peace and exaltation.

Jazz Weekend is included in the Mind Invest Summit ticket price. Summit participants can also purchase additional tickets to the jazz nights for their friends and parnters at a special price.

In addition, you have the opportunity to purchase a ticket only for jazz evenings at a standard price (click on the poster).

Programme. Day 1

Panel discussions on the Summit's main stage

09:50 – 10:00
Welcoming remarks. Yevhen Shpytko, Editor-in-Chief of Mind.ua
10:00 – 10:30
On-stage interview with Viktor Yushchenko: A global perspective on Ukraine
Viktor Yushchenko, the third President of Ukraine
Roman Matys, President of International Investment Office
10:30 – 10:50
Presentation and Q&A session. Investing in socially important projects
Andriy Sadovyi, Lviv City Mayor
Mykola Veresen, Ukrainian journalist, TV presenter, public and political figure
10:50 – 11:40
Panel discussion. Economic development strategy. What the government offers and what business needs
Moderator: Yevhen Shpytko, Editor-in-Chief of Mind.ua
Speakers:
Ruslan Magomedov, Head of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission of Ukraine
‍Mykhailo Podolyak, Ukrainian politician, political strategist, journalist, crisis manager, and advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine
Оleksandr Melnychenko, Acting Executive Director, UkraineInvest
11:40 – 12:05
Presentation and Q&A session. Technology and the future of Ukraine
Taras Kytsmey, Co-Founder and Board Member of SoftServe
Mykola Veresen, Ukrainian journalist, TV presenter, public and political figure
12:05 – 12:55
Panel discussion. International business in Ukraine: Experience, challenges and advantages
Moderator: 
Ivan Kompan, Director of Deloitte Academy Ukraine and Lecturer at Edinburgh Business School

Sergiy Martynchuk, CEO of Cisco Ukraine
Mykhailo Bubnov, CEO of Schneider Electric Ukraine
Oleksandr Prokhorovych, Fiscal Regulation Manager Philip Morris Ukraine
Yuliia Lipovetska, Ex-director of a Big Four company, founder and CEO of SAPience
12:55 – 13:15
Presentation and Q&A session. Critical minerals. Current projects and opportunities 
Ksenia Orynchak, CEO of NAEIU
13:15 – 14:00
Panel discussion. Existing development projects in Ukraine: Opportunities and barriers
Moderator: Oleksandr Kolb, General partner and co-founder Toloka, CEO Promodo

Speakers:
Anna Haiduchok, Head of the Export promotion and Cluster development Component of the EU4Business Programme, GIZ
Yulia Vitka, Acting Chief of Party, USAID Investment for Business Resilience Activity
Petr Stransky, partner at IDAP Global
14:00 – 14:45
Lunch
14:45 – 15:30
Panel discussion. Interstate cooperation and foreign investor sentiment
Moderator:
Dmytro Shvets, Director of Start Global, author of the Start Global Insights podcast for exporters

Speakers:
Remigijus Simasius, Former Minister of Justice of Lithuania, Former Mayour of Vilnius
Roman Waschuk, Business Ombudsman in Ukraine
Jennes de Mol, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Ukraine
15:30 – 15:55
Presentation and Q&A session. Objects and plans for privatisation
Vitaliy Koval, Head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine
15:55 – 16:40
Panel discussion. Fundraising: Interaction of celebrities, business and the government
Moderator: ‍Natalka Sleptsova, Co-founder of Business Stand Up 

Speakers:
Serhiy Prytula, Volunteer, public figure, founder of Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
Kateryna Zagoriy, Co-founder of the Zagoriy Foundation social projects bureau and director of the board of directors of the Darnytsia pharmaceutical company
Yevhen Klopotenko, Chef, businessman, public activist
Olga Rudneva, CEO and co-founder Superhumans Center
16:40 – 17:00
Charity Auction Prytula Charity Foundation
17:00 – 17:55
Pitching session for projects
17:55 – 18:00
Final words from the organisers
19:00
Jazz Weekend
Jam session

Alexey Kogan, Jazz in Kyiv Band

Day 2

Panel discussions on the Summit's main stage

10:00 – 10:10
Welcoming remarks
10:10 – 11:00
Panel discussion. The current state of Ukrainian business. Challenges, pains and plans
Moderator: Artem Shcherbyna, Chief Investment Officer, Capital Times

Speakers:
Rostyslav Vovk, Chairman of The Supervisory Board of Kormotech LLC
Ashot Abrahamyan, CEO at Bank «Lviv»
Tetiana Lukyniuk, B2C Director at Kyivstar
Vasyl Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian entrepreneur and the founder of UFuture
11:00 – 11:30
Presentation and Q&A session. Energy economics and energy resources 
Serhii Kovalenko, CEO Yasno
11:30 – 12:20
Panel discussion. IT as a flagship industry. Potential and challenges for growth
Moderator: Stepan Veselovskyi, CEO at Lviv IT Cluster

Speakers:
Mariia Shevchuk, CEO at IT Ukraine Association
Vitaly Sedler, CEO and co-founder at Intellias
Andriy Trofimov, Senior Director, Software Engineering at EPAM Systems, PMP
12:20 – 13:00
Sectoral discussion. Food industry
• Food processing – is there enough capacity for exports and domestic demand?
• Pain points, needs and expectations

Moderator: Mykola Babenko, Chairman of the Meat Industry Association of Ukraine
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Participants:
Borys Shestopalov, Co-owner and CEO of HD-group
Dmytro Zozulia, Head of M&A, MHP
Nazar Kmit, Co-owner of Mukko agricultural holding, Operations Director of the plant
13:00 – 13:30
Charity auction of the project "Birds of Victory!"
13:40 – 14:30
Lunch
14:30 – 15:20
Panel with investors who are already in the process
Strategy, expectations, pain points. Will Ukraine become a new investment Mecca after the war?
Moderator: Dmytro Kuzmenko, CEO, Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association

Speakers:
Danilo Yakub, Senior Partner and COO at Diligent Capital Partners
Roman Cherepakha, Investment Director Horizon Capital
Ivan Petrenko, Managing Partner at Angel One Fund
Dmytro Mikhailenko, managing partner of Crowe Mikhailenko
15:20 – 16:00
Panel discussion. Development and materials
Oles Pishchak, owner Audit of Sales, managing partner BUDE DIM
Olena Unanyan, LUN Development Director
Dmytro Kharchenko, CEO and owner of the development company Vertex
16:00 – 16:50
Panel discussion. Defence Tech: Ukrainian innovations in demand on the global market
Moderator:
Vitaliy Deynega, Ex-Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine and Founder of “Come back alive” charity fund

Speakers:
Dmytro Khorishko, СЕО Ukrainian Aerospace Cluster
Denys Sviatokum, Co-founder and executive director Defense Alliance of Ukraine
Sasha Reminnyi, IT entrepreneur, Angel Investor
16:50 – 17:50
Pitching session for projects
17:50 – 18:00
Final words from the organisers
19:00
Jazz Weekend
Jam session

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Technology exhibition will bring together leading Ukrainian tech companies that will have an opportunity to introduce their products and inventions to potential customers and partners. To participate, please fill out the form.

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Anyone considering launching a new business
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Financial officers and bankers
Military personnel

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Speeches by top officials and representatives of big business
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Assistance in finding partners for development
Opportunities to raise capital
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