While most businesses are put off by instability in Ukraine, Norway’s Itera isn’t one of them. The company, one of Scandinavia’s leading tech players, headquartered in Oslo, came to Ukraine amid the 2008 global economic crisis to open a research and development center. Itera’s center in Kyiv, which is active in consulting, software design, development and …
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Demand for IT specialists is still growing in Ukraine, as illustrated by the 1,500 people hired by the 25 biggest Ukrainian IT companies in the last six months, 5% more than the previous six months, according to HR resource DOU. GoIT, a provider of tech courses in Kyiv, has been in existence for a year and 46 …
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As part of Pioneers Festival, Europe’s major startup and investor conference, the PioneersKyiv festival took place at M17 Contemporary Art Center on June 27. The winner was Andrey Maranov, a student of Bogomolets National Medical University, whose startup ARanEd suggests a holistic approach to human skeleton research employing augmented reality technology.
Resuming activities in Ukraine after two years of interruption, Mobile Monday gathered more than 90 industry professionals at Kyiv (Kiev)’s iHUB on June 25. In addition to mobile developers, project managers, top managers and investors, the event hosted industry figures from such companies as Groupon, ABBYY, Lohika Systems, Intersog, 4shared, Ciklum, Luxoft, PaymentWall. Also attending were Ms. Arja Makkonen, Ambassador of …
Kyiv (Kiev) became the fifth city in the world on June 19 to let MasterCard holders pay for subway rides with cards that have chips using the so-called PayPass technology. Kyivsky Metropoliten, the city-owned company that manages Kyiv’s subway system, installed 17 turnstiles with MasterCard payment terminals, according to a June 19 company news release. Only London, …
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Earlier this month the conference Fintech Ukraine 2015 played host to a presentation from the public initiative FinTech Cluster, created within the Ukrainian Venture Hub. The goal of the project is to unite finance startups, banks, and investment funds in the collective development of the Ukrainian fintech market and to lobby for its interests. The creators of …
Seed Forum Kyiv 2015, a closed international investment conference, was held on April 28 in the Ukrainian capital. The event gathered high tech investors, businessmen and journalists, as well as diplomats, who discussed the main industry issues in an international perspective. Steinar Hoel Korsmo, co-founder of Seed Forum Central and Eastern Europe, praised Ukraine’s IT …
A part of a series of international investment conferences in more than 45 countries, Seed Forum Kyiv 2015 will take place on April 28 in the Ukrainian capital. The event will present the best Ukrainian hardware and software startups with a global development potential, according to the international Seed Forum Fund’s expert committee.
Last week the best Ukrainian startups and industry figures were distinguished in the new edition of the Ukrainian Startup Rating, an initiative of the GrowthUP accelerator to highlight the country’s most promising tech projects. The jury was composed of 30 experts, investors, entrepreneurs, and press representatives. No fewer than 81 startup and 45 personalities were nominated. GrowthUP founder Denis Dovgopoliy was …
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Earlier this month nine Ukrainian startups finalists presented their hardware and software projects at the iHub Ring #2 contest. The first prize and the audience award went to Preply, a platform that allows you to find foreign language tutors for home or Skype lessons.
Ukraine’s technology community already has several massive annual events like Investor Day Central and Eastern Europe (IDCEE) and iForum that showcase the nation’s tech industry to the world. Another big scale event has joined the list recently. InnoTech Ukraine conference, billed as the first Ukrainian forum on innovative technologies, took place at Olympic Stadium in Kyiv on …
IT innovations conference takes off at Kyiv’s Olimpiysky Stadium Read More
Next month startup entrepreneurs and investors from Ukraine and beyond will gather at the Kiev Startup Week (April 14-19), a series of events held in the Ukrainian capital. One of them is iForum, a key conference on the Eastern European IT scene with more than 5,000 of Internet entrepreneurs and business people attending each year. Entrepreneurs …
