StrategEast State and IT Eurasian Forum, which will take place on November 4-5, 2019 in Kyiv (Ukraine), is scaling-up to significantly contribute towards development of the IT industry in Eurasian countries. We welcome our new partners Google Ukraine, EBRD, EPAM Systems, EY, Big Wallet, and European Business Association.

Among the inaugural annual StrategEast State and IT Eurasian Forum speakers are the leaders of global and local IT industry, innovators, venture investors and, as well as government officials from US, EU and Eurasian countries.

The speakers of the StrategEast State and IT Eurasian Forum include: Aziz Abakirov, Kyrgyz software and services developer’s association Chairman, Founder of High-Tech Park; Olga Afanasyeva, Head of UVCA, Ukrainian Venture Capital Association; Arevik Anapiosyan, Deputy minister of education of Armenia; Gregory Asmolov, Kings College, London; Edmunds Beļskis, Deputy State Secretary for Information and Communication Technologies at the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia; Arkadiy Dobkin, Founder and President of EPAM; Eric Hontz, Program director at CIPE (Center for International Private Enterprise, US); Farhod Ibragimov, Director of IT Park (Uzbekistan); Oleksiy Imas, Head of the EY Start-up Accelerator in Ukraine; Pavel Koktyshev, Astana HUB; Mariam Lashkhi, Deputy head of Georgia’s Innovation & Technology Agency; Konstantin Michel, Vlasova, Michael and partners, Law firm responsible for the IT legislation in Belarus; Matteo Patrone, Head of EBRD Ukraine; Dmytro Sholomko, Director of Google Ukraine; Nicolas Spengos, Business Innovation Director, Oracle; Eka Tkeshelashvili, Head of EU Anticorruption Initiative in Ukraine; Dmytro Yeriomin, Managing Partner, UNIT.City; Daniel Witt, ITIC (International Tax and Investment Center, US); Aija Zitcere, Director of Financial Market Policy Department at Ministry of Finance of Republic of Latvia; Representatives of the Government of Ukraine and the Office of President of Ukraine.