R&D

Ukraine’s association agreement to Horizon Europe and Euratom Research and Training Programmes enters into force

Today, the agreement associating Ukraine to Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme (2021-2027) and the Euratom Research and Training Programme (2021-2025) entered into force, following its ratification by Ukraine. The Ukrainian research and innovation actors can now fully participate in these programmes on equal terms with entities from the EU Members States. In view of the ongoing …

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Google opens R&D center in Ukraine

The US digital giant launched an R&D center in Kyiv in January 2020, Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA reported. The facility is being housed in a building belonging to CloudSimple, a US cloud technologies firm which Google acquired along with its Ukrainian office in November 2019. Even though Google has eight offices across Central and Eastern Europe, …

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Ring violated customer privacy and develops fake AI tools with Ukrainian R&D team, claim US media

Ring, the much-hyped US startup which develops outdoor home-security solutions and was acquired by Amazon in 2018, is known for having opened an R&D office in Ukraine in 2016. Located in Kiev (Kyiv), this facility integrates computer vision, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies into the company’s products, as reported a few months ago by Ukraine …

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International event to discuss digital decentralization and disruption (Lviv, March 16-17)

On March 16-17, Lviv (Lvov), a major city in Western Ukraine, will play host to D-Tech Space, an international conference for tech entrepreneurs, software experts and decentralization community. The event will bring together 12 speakers from all over the world to cover exponential technologies, innovative entrepreneurship, and disruptive business models “that are already shaking up …

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Why startups from Eastern Europe are so strong in face recognition and augmented reality

Eastern-European engineers seem to have some special skills, or secret sauce, to develop face recognition and related AR technologies, if judging by the number of startups with roots in this region that have made the news over the past few years. Emerging from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine in particular, they have topped international contests, received …

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US neuroscience startup Thync launches R&D in Ukraine

Last month California-based startup Thync launched an R&D center in Dnipro, a large industrial city in the south-central part of Ukraine (formerly know as Dnipropetrovsk), to develop mobile products, reported Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA. Thync’s electronic wearable device stimulates nerves with low-level electrical pulses to change a person’s state of mind. The device works by neurostimulation techniques such as TENS and tDCS, according to the company.

Kyiv conference to gather Agile professionals from across Eastern Europe (April 8-9)

The 7th edition of Agile Eastern Europe Conference, the region’s largest annual conference targeting Agile/Scrum professionals, will be held on April 8-9 in Kyiv (Kiev). The conference aims to integrate Eastern European experts and practitioners into the global Agile community. About a half of conference speakers are well-known industry professionals from the USA, Canada and Western Europe.

Report: Ukraine asserts itself as major software development powerhouse

In spite of the country’s recent political turbulence, Ukraine has seen its IT service and software R&D capacities grow every year by double-digit figures. From Cisco, to Oracle, to Rakuten, to Samsung, more than a hundred global major tech firms conduct R&D activities in Ukraine, while an array of local IT outsourcing companies of all …

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Madberry CEO Dmitry Sverdlik: “Like Israel, Ukraine may build a fantastic tech sector in spite of external threats”

Helsinki-based Madberry offers a global automated advertising system specially designed for the needs of game companies. The company does not outsource its research and development works; yet it has launched an R&D center in Kyiv (Kiev) in partnership with Ukrainain IT firm Innovecs. Dmitry Sverdlik, Madberry’s co-founder and CEO, explains the strategy behind this offshore center and speaks frankly about …

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Software developer Innovecs opens internationally-oriented Blockchain R&D center in Kiev

Earlier this month American-Ukrainian software development company Innovecs  launched a Blockchain research and development center in Kyiv (Kiev). The center was set up with the participation of Mikhail Chobanyan, co-founder of Bitcoin Foundation Ukraine (BFU). A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of data records. This technology offers protection against tampering and revision, even …

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