Mayak Innovatsiy

Vitalii Lopushanskyi is the Founder of UADAMAGE, AI Partner, and Advisor of Team4UA by HIT.

Host - Dominique Piotet, board member at UNIT.City, co-founder at Ukrainian Phoenix Fund (based in USA), co-founder at NGO Team4UA by Humanitarian Innovative Technologies (based in Lviv) & US representative of Beetroot.

This episode is recorded in wartime on March 29, 2023, in San Francisco and Kyiv, online via www.iris.fm 

Vlad Savchenko – Ukrainian IT businessman, President of the European association of software engineering, founder of Powercode — International IT company and Foodex24 delivery service.Dominique Piotet discussed with Vlad the situation in IT market of Ukraine during wartime.

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Lesha Shaldenko, CEO at Wantent, spent 32 days in a bomb shelter in Kyiv and kept working for his company and cooperating with video production companies, OTT platforms, TV channels, and advertising agencies across the world.

Wantent is a unique AI-based platform that identifies consumer reactions to the content and provides an analysis of the emotional connection between client and product by applying machine learning technologies.

https://www.wantent.io/

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TechUkraine is a non-governmental organization and media platform that represents the voices of the Ukrainian tech ecosystem. In this episode, editor-in-chief of TechUkraine.org Iryna Supruniuk shared numbers of relocated Ukrainian IT specialists, news on behalf of companies helping Ukraine and its people, and a vision of how to rebuild Ukraine and its tech ecosystem once the war is over. A lot of challenges including brain drain are ahead, but everything is TECHable with Ukraine!

Read official tech news from Ukraine: https://techukraine.org/

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Elon Musk, Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, Miley Cyrus, and many other celebrities use the Ukrainian app Reface. The Reface app is a leader in AI/ML technologies for personalized content creation and hit #1 in the App Store soon after release. Also, Reface is famous for receiving a $5.5 million investment from the Andreessen Horowitz Foundation of America and business angels just in 26 hours after the meeting.

In the very first hours of war in Ukraine, Reface launched an information campaign aimed to show the truth of what’s happening to the users. In this episode, Anton Volovyk, Chief Operating Officer at Reface, is sharing the war strategy of the company and the news about fundraising by Reface to aid Ukrainian defenders.

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Last week Spanish online delivery platform Glovo has partially resumed operations across 20 Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, to provide essential services and give humanitarian support, it said on Tuesday.

Having suspended all operations on Feb. 24 after Russia invaded, Glovo said it restarted in a limited capacity due to an increased demand for vital services to residents and NGOs who are unable to access food, medicine, and urgent basic goods.

Glovo delivered more than 10,000 orders since restarting last week and has more than 700 couriers currently able to operate in the country.

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Yegor Aushev, co-founder of Kyiv-based cybersecurity company Cyber Unit Technologies, together with more than 1,000 hackers is defending Ukraine from DoS attacks and helping organize a makeshift Ukrainian coalition of hackers that has carried out cyberattacks targeting Russia.

You can join the cyber army of Ukraine messaging to Yegor Aushev on LinkedIn 

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Music Credit: Laniakea - Hyperion (Previously Unreleased) from Slava Ukraini! by Various Artists (Fundraiser for Ukraine) 

Bill Reichert is a venture capitalist and Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures from Silicon Valley. He works with startups and entrepreneurs helping them to get to wow and to grow into legendary companies. Among Bill’s cases are SpaceX and Airbnb, for instance.

This episode is not a regular interview. It’s a mantra for those who dare to dream big and make an impact.

Recorded in November 2021, during Kyiv International Economic Forum, when Bill Reichert was visiting Ukraine for the first time looking for new opportunities. And he saw the next big thing here!

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Nik Gowing is the Founder of Thinking the Unthinkable. The independent project helps leaders embrace threats and opportunities in the new era of radical uncertainty and disruption.

Also, you may know Nik as the main presenter for the BBC’s international 24-hour news channel BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented 'The Hub with Nik Gowing', BBC World Debates, Dateline London.

Nik Gowing and Dominique Piotet had a thoughtful conversation about leadership and leaders who could face the challenges of the time to ensure our survival on this planet. This episode was recorded during Kyiv International Economic Forum in November 2021, but recent events in Ukraine and in the world have heightened the urgency with which these issues were discussed.

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Chris Burry is Co-CEO of USMAC which is helping the founders of non-US technology to build great companies that can succeed not only in their local market but in global markets as well. In the past 5 years, USMAC has worked with the founders of more than 2,000 startups from more than 40 countries, including founders in Ukraine.

What is USMAC’s mission? What is effectuation in entrepreneurship? Listen to this episode if you want to learn this, plus other secrets of successful entrepreneurship, and why brain circulation is more important than brain drain.

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