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Ukraine on Europe’s Digital Innovation Map

Hosted by Diia.City Union
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About Event

The side event, hosted by Diia.City Union and EIT Community Hub in Ukraine and supported by Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, EU4Innovation East, and AWS, will bring together 150 senior leaders from the innovation and tech sector, cloud infrastructure, government, and international development agencies to advance a practical agenda for Ukraine’s integration into the European innovation network.

Taking place within the framework of the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC 2026), the event frames Ukraine's recovery not only through reconstruction, but through innovation - technology, talent, and solutions tested in the most demanding operational conditions in Europe.

This event is included in the official program of Ukraine Recovery Conference.

The discussion will center on Ukraine's transition from a service-based IT model to an innovation-driven ecosystem of product and deep-tech companies, as well as practical pathways for joint technology development with European partners.

Agenda

16:00 – 16:20 | Opening Remarks:

  • Taras Kachka, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration

  • Valeriia Kushnerchuk, Executive Director, Diia.City Union

  • Ihor Markevych, EIT Community Officer in Ukraine

  • Julien Schmitt, Director for the EU4Innovation East Project, Expertise France

16:20 – 17:20 | Panel discussion: Ukraine on Europe's Innovation Map

Moderator: Yehor Pyvovarov, Policy Officer for Research and Innovation at the EU Delegation to Ukraine.

Panelists:

  • Nataliia Denikeieva, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

  • Roman Sioda, CEE Region Director, NVIDIA

  • Dominique Piotet, Founder of Phoenix Tech Fund

  • Mikolaj Budzanowski, CEO of InnoEnergy Central Europe

  • Charles Mathiaux, Deputy Director of the EU4Innovation East Project

17:20 – 17:30 | Keynote presentation
Matthias Wyrwoll, Managing Director, Financial Markets Advisory (FMA) Group, BlackRock

17:30 – 18:30 | Panel discussion: Beyond Logos: Real Partnerships and Real Impact for Ukraine

Moderator: Valery Krasovsky, CEO and Co-Founder, Sigma Software Group

Panelists:

  • Oleksandr Komarov, President of Kyivstar

  • Yevgen Kaganovsky, CEO, Microsoft in Ukraine and the Baltic States

  • Tetyana Lukinyuk, Director of Google Ukraine

  • Taras Kytsmey, Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors at SoftServe

  • Ruslana Zbagerska, Vice President of Product, Science & Technology, Amazon Web Services (TBC)

18:30 - 21:00 | Networking

Location
Sopot
Poland