Over the past few years Ukraine has become a globally recognised techhub. For example, Ukraine hosts 110+ R&D centres owned by multinational corporations including Microsoft, SnapChat, Samsung, Wargaming, Ring (by Amazon), ABBYY and others. 100+ of Fortune 500 companies hire Ukrainian tech specialists. Product tech companies, founded by Ukrainians, such as Grammarly, MacPaw, Readdle, PetCube, GitLab, People.AI and many others are known beyond Silicon Valley. More than 170,000 Ukrainian tech specialists work for startups and IT service companies worldwide.

We sincerely believe that now is the best time to start your tech business or expand it to Ukraine. The purpose of the event is to bring together the British and Ukrainian tech ecosystems, to share knowledge and to create new business connections. At the event you will meet companies who can help you to expand your developer operations and upscale your business in Ukraine.

British-Ukrainian Tech Night: Discover Booming Opportunities

PROGRAMME 

06:00 – 06:30 pm

Welcome drinks, registration and networking

06:30 – 06:40 pm

Welcome remarks, short overview of Ukrainian Tech ecosystem

Natalia Galibarenko, Ambassador of Ukraine in the UK

06.40 – 07.30 pm

3 founders stories + Q&A

07.35 – 08.10 pm

Startup Pitch Session + Q&A

08:10 – 09:30 pm

Drinks & networking

Speakers:

• Toby Pannell

  Director, Talking Edge Solutions

• Christian Ahlert

  Founder and CEO of MiniBarLabs.com

• Igor Karpets

  Head of Sales at Grammarly

• Valery Krasovsky

  CEO of Sigma Software

• Nataly Veremeyeva

  National coordinator of IT-sector Export Strategy of Ukraine

Organisers: 

London startup community “Minibar”

The Embassy of Ukraine in London

State Institute “Export Promotion Office of Ukraine”

Kyiv IT Cluster

UTEW Tech Tribe community

Empowered by USAID

General Partner: 

Sigma Software

Information Partners:

The FintechTimes

UVCA

London Tech Advocates