Journalist and TV presenter. Born in Crimea, moved to Kyiv in 2014. Hosts TV programs on ICTV, “24” and UA: Persyi channels. He is a columnist for Radio Liberty, Liga.net, “Novoye Vremya” and “Ukrainska Pravda”.
He thinks that we live in the best of the worlds, though we are sure of the opposite. He will try to prove it in his speech.

Studying for Viktor Artemenko is a never ending story. He lives in a constant research on how education is organized in different countries of the world.

Starting from the student years, he engaged in various kinds of social activities, representing the community of Ukrainian students at the European level. He took part in numerous exchange programs, including Canada, Sweden and France. On top of that, he completed an internship at the European Seaport Organization in Brussels, where he managed to set up an information system for all European ports.

He organized many visits of the EU former ministers-reformists to Ukraine, and was one of the organizers of the experience exchange program for civil servants of Ukraine and Poland. Last but not least, he coordinated the Open University Reform Program.

During his work at the USAID Health Care Support Team in Ukraine, he participated in the development and implementation of development strategies in Ukrainian medical education.

He enjoys playing sports, running marathons, conducting trainings on project management and organizing networking events.

Lies, manipulations, fakes, myths, populism, propaganda and misinformation. It is not only the realities of our lives, but also the daily work of Maksym. A few years ago, he left banking and began working to clear the Ukrainian information space from these phenomena. The fight continues.

Oleksandra advocates the rights of tiny patients – those born with a weight from 500 grams. She is the mother of a premature baby herself, the chairman of the Ukrainian Association of Parents of Prematurely Born “Early Birds”, and represents Ukraine at the European Newborn Assistance Foundation among the other 70 patient organizations in the world.

Olesia Verchenko is the Professor and Vice President of Economic Education at Kyiv School of Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Virginia in the USA, she graduated from the University of Lausanne with a degree in Banking.

Her recent research focuses on research in pricing models, macro asset pricing, and financial market analysis.

Co-founder of the annual Art Camp “Space Camp”, communicator of the DAH Center for Contemporary Art and GOGOLFEST, co-organizer of the first art train in Europe GogolTrain.

For the past several years, he has been actively researching myth theory, the psychology of the information society, and the phenomenon of post-truth.

Communication in the post-truth era, in the digital era of clip-thinking, is the most gorgeous field for exploring the modern world of which we all are participants. Mythmaking is his way of interacting with the world.

Having a degree in cultural science, at the age of 21 Kateryna joined the volunteer battalion of paramedics. She is currently advocating the rights of women veterans and is working to form a women’s veteran community. The most important thing for her is human rights, so in March this year Ukraine delegated her to UN headquarters to speak about women’s rights.

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Published of Inspired and The Village Ukraine. Co-founder of Native Advertising Studio ZDATNI. Adept of content advertising.

Mykola was one of the first in Ukraine who began to implement native projects. His Studio sets the rhythm of the native advertising market in the country.

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Co-founder and managing partner of StudyDive, an online platform for offline lectures, seminars, workshops.

Visiting Lecturer at the School of Management of the Ukrainian Catholic University and International Business Institute (IIB)

Former Head of the eHealth Project Office overseeing the development of the eHealth functionality needed to launch health care reform.

One of the coordinators of the public procurement reform of Prozorro at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.

Before the Ministry, Yuriy worked at METRO AG (Dusseldorf, Germany), one of the top 10 retailers in the world, as an internal consultant on the development and implementation of the company strategy in countries such as Ukraine, Germany, Czech Republic and Russia.

Yuriy received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a master’s degree in political economy from BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo, Norway).

TedX Speaker.

Open Government Partnership Award (Paris, 2016).

Dr. Maksym Yakovlyev is Director of School for Policy Analysis and Associate Professor at the Department of Politics at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy at which he also teaches for the Department of Sociology, Kyiv-Mohyla School of Public Administration, School of Public Health. He did his BA in social work, MA (with distinctions) and PhD in politics (2010).

Dr. Yakovlyev was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, University of Maastricht, University of Geneva, and taught at Corvinus University in Budapest, Comenius University of Bratislava, University of Helsinki. His research focuses on post-socialist social and cultural transformations, political concepts and ideologies, Ukrainian identity, the Donbas region, and the (post)modern Russian imperialism. He also has a passion for both qualitative and quantitative research methods and is active in translating books into Ukrainian (most recent translations: Erich Fromm “Escape from Freedom”, James Mace “Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation…”, Richard Florida “Creative Class” etc).

Oleksandr is a Molecular Biologist, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Research Fellow at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of the NAS of Ukraine, Chairman of the Council of Young Scientists of the NAS of Ukraine, a promoter of science, sports and healthy lifestyles.

He has been practicing martial arts since the age of 12 and has a karate kyokushin kai I dan (black belt). He is interested in mountaineering, hiking, marathon running and trailing.

Running 11 marathons and 6 ultramarathons. Participant in the World Trail Running Championships (Portugal, 2019).

Editor of the Trail section of the Track and “Zhorstka Atletyka” portal, author of articles for Feet of the Gods, LiveLong Blogger. The founder of the “Sporty” project: lectures for those who want to train properly and live long.