on 19 April 2024, Kyiv will host the Mind Entrepreneur Summit, a conference of representatives of small and medium-sized businesses in Ukraine that managed to keep their businesses alive during the war. The event is organised by the business publication Mind, and its goal is to become a single platform for communication, searching for and finding opportunities for the development and growth of entrepreneurs, Komersant ukrainskyi reports
The main topics of discussion:
- The impact of artificial intelligence technology on Ukrainian business.
- Discussion – real pro and con – of the National Revenue Strategy.
- Interviews with representatives of the State Tax Service and the BES about the pressure on business.
- Practical advice and exchange of ideas on Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
- Finding and attracting funding for business.
- Diia.City and Industrial Parks: opportunities or corruption component.
- Information technology (IT) for business.
- Entering export markets.
- How to win in tenders and, especially, public procurement.
Among the speakers:
- Igor Tsymbal, Head of Sales SME OTP Bank Ukraine,
- Tetiana Volochai, Director of the MHP for the Community Charitable Foundation,
- Yevhen Mospan, Senior Director of Solution Architecture and Chief Technology Officer at ERAM Ukraine,
- Pervin Dadashova, Director of the Financial Stability Department of the National Bank of Ukraine,
- Yaroslav Zheleznyak, MP, Golos faction, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy,
- Valentyn Krasnopyorov, Chairman of the Board of the NGO “Strong Communities”,
- Katarina Mathernova, Ambassador of the European Union to Ukraine,
- AndoRehemaa, Advisor on Economic and Business Diplomacy, Cooperation and Reconstruction,
- Mariana Betsa, Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for Ukrainians worldwide,
- Pavlo Guzyr, Head of Alternative Channels Project AgriFactory at OTP Bank Ukraine,
- Oleksandr Rassakhatskyi, Head of Customer Experience Management at OTP Bank Ukraine,
- Volodymyr Panchenko, Head of National Projects at MHP-Hromada, which implements the Do Your Own business idea competition,
- Olesya Zaluska, USAID Competitive Economy of Ukraine Programme Manager, Digital Transformation Mentor,
- Elena Kosharna, Executive Director of Horizon Capital,
- Andriy Gapon, Chairman of the Board of the Entrepreneurship Development Fund,
- Natalia Mykolska, Director of Diia.Сity.United,
- Oleksandr Bondarenko, Managing Partner of Bureau of Investment Programmes, Managing Director of NOVO Industrial Parks,
- Dmytro Shvets, Director of Start Global, author of the Start Global Insights podcast for exporters,
- Constantin Bunescu, CEO of UcRo Impex S.r.L., entrepreneur and innovator. Bucharest, Romania,
- Yevhen Sarantsov, Ukrainian entrepreneur, founder of Reactor.ua and Blackbox.ua,
and others.
Who is the conference for?
- Entrepreneurs and owners of micro, small and medium-sized businesses
- Top managers of large and medium-sized businesses
- Those considering starting their own business
- HRDS
- PR specialists
- IT specialists
For security reasons, the organisers will inform participants about the venue 24 hours in advance.