SYNERGY 2021

December 16

The main part of the event will take place on this day.
You will be able to attend panel discussions, visit the partners' exhibition area and join networking.
The event will be held offline with a parallel stream.

Welcome coffee

Official opening session

Welcome speech from ITU management and partners

Vitaliy Sedler

President of the IT Ukraine Association, СEO Intellias

Yuriy Antonyuk

Vice President, Head of EPAM in Central and Eastern Europe

Maksym Pochebut

VP on Educational issues, Chief Learning Officer, Sigma Software Group

Konstantin Vasyuk

Executive Director, IT Ukraine

The Presentation of the RoadMap for IT Education Reform

Keynote speech

Mykhailo Fedorov

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Digital Transformation

Serhiy Shkarlet

Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine

Reform of IT education. Strategy, plans, approaches

Keynote discussion

Moderator

Andrii Suslenko

Founder of COGNICOO, expert in organizational development and communications, executive coach

Mykhailo Fedorov

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Digital Transformation

Serhiy Shkarlet

Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine

Yuriy Antonyuk

Vice President, Head of EPAM in Central and Eastern Europe

Taras Kytsmey

Co-founder and Board Member at SoftServe

Volodymyr Bugrov

Rector of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

High demand for talents - new challenges for the education market

Panel Discussion

Moderator

Maksym Pochebut

VP on Educational issues, Chief Learning Officer, Sigma Software Group

Artur Seletskyi

Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine

Yegor Stadny

KSE Vice President for Bachelor’s Programs

Valery Krasovsky

Co-founder and CEO, Sigma Software

Ievgen Sakalo

Project Lead, Cooperation with Universities Ukraine Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor

Konstantin Vasyuk

Executive Director, IT Ukraine

Dariia Riznyk

Talent Learning and Development Manager, Intellias

From Disciplinary to Transdisciplinary: A Framework for IT Education

Sponsor of the speaker's speech - Epam

Rick Shangraw

President, Cintana Education, Founding President, American University Kyiv

Connect the dots: The one life-skill that you will need in the future to be able to succeed and create "smart luck"

Prof. Dr. Christian Busch

Professor at New York University & London School of Economics; Author, Connect the Dots: The Art & Science of Creating Good Luck

Dinner

Are switchers trendy? How to make the transition from another industry comfortable?

Panel Discussion

Moderator

Olexandra Alkhimovich

Academic Leader of UCU Business School, Co-Chair of the ACC IT Committee

Andriy Pereymybida

Talent Acceleration Center Director, SoftServe

Marianna Konina

Chief Public Engagement Officer for TECHIIA holding

Andrii Lavreniuk

Senior Software Engineer в Exadel

Inesa Matevosian

Operations Manager, Beetroot Academy

Iryna Manukovska

Chief of marketing & strategy at JEVERA software solutions & XME.digital low code platform, ICF certified coach

Yegor Galushko

Head of Affiliate Marketing, Cpamatica

Getting closer to the future. New learning reality

Panel Discussion

Moderator

Illya Filipov

CEO and Co-Founder, EdEra

Denys Grynov

Head of EPAM University Program in Ukraine

Vitaliy Zaytsev

Rector Kharkiv university of technology "STEP"

Ihor Baranov

Director of Zhytomyr City Humanities Gymnasium №23 im. M. Ochereta

Zlata Gromova

PhD in Psychology, Lead Coach at Rocket

Galyna Datsiv

Vice President of Learning and Development at SoftServe

Olha Oseredchuk

Lead University Programs, Sigma Software

Coffee break

IT for non IT sector. How talent pool in non IT sector is changing?

Panel discussion

Moderator

Valerii Hlubochenko

Twice golden sales coach according to the "B2BMaster. Battle of the best coaches of CIS"

Sasha Dmytriieva

Education producer, head of Citrus Academy & TseHUB

Konstantyn Lezhnin

Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Retail Banking

Andriy Vavrysh

Founder and CEO, SAGA Development

Mariya Panchenko

Vice President Organization Transformation та CHRO, PromoRepublic

Closing remarks. Networking // Wine & sweets

December 17

Thematic workshops from the partners of the event will be held on this day. You can take part in the workshop only in the online format. We will open registration for workshops soon.

Workshop: "AWS Academy is the best way to teach students cloud technology"

During the workshop there will be a live demonstration of the AWS Academy functionality and the peculiarities of the implementation of AWS Academy programs in the educational process in Ukrainian universities will be discussed.

Andrii Kostromytskyi

Trainer of the DevOps course at EPAM University Program, head of Cloud & DevOps training

Workshop: "Education and SoftServe: a way to cooperation"

Cooperation of businesses with universities is a driver for the development of IT education in Ukraine. At SoftServe, we are always interested in cooperating with educational institutions: we've got 36 partnering universities, and more than 150 implemented projects.
During the event you will learn about the ways of cooperation with SoftServe at all levels of educational interaction: with students, teachers and administration. What’s the difference between Educational Provider and Educational Trusted Partner? What are crash courses and how do we provide educational grants?

Andriy Pereymybida

Talent Acceleration Center Director, SoftServe

Why we should care about BigData and how it works

In modern society, we do produce more data than ever. Companies are targeting building business models around new digital opportunities that are trending nowadays. Issues in the past such as the scalability of technical solutions could be well addressed today. Top tech companies in the world were built around Big Data. Big Data is an essential part of the business and opens new opportunities. In this session, you will find what is Big Data, what kind of challenges it addresses, what kind of problems it solves, how this helps businesses to grow. We will take a look at a particular use case in the marketing area and see how it affects the company. I will portrait a typical data engineer and GL’s expectations on this position. We will review one of the training programs in GL.

Oleksandr Fedirko

CEE Head of BigData Practice at GlobalLogic

Workshop: "Digital Environment of Teacher Development. KNU Professionals Case"

A platform for the development of professional competencies of educators. In the year of the platform’s existence, 4 large-scale and 6 specialized projects were created gathering over 2,000 participants. The KNU Teach Week-2 mass course for teachers’ competencies development received over 1,000 registrations of educators from all regions of Ukraine.

Inna Stepanets

Vice-rector of Taras Shevchenko National Uiversity, expert of educational programs, National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, founder and coordinator of the platform for professional development of teachers KNU professionals

IT education trends: GoIT cases

Educational technologies are constantly changing, because they are constantly dealing with modern challenges and it is crucial that all these challenges are met. Almost all of you must have heard about such trends and methods as lifelong learning, project-based learning, a flipped classroom, competency building approach, edutainment, or simply - gamification of learning. Moreover, there are new trends constantly appearing, such as nano-learning, learning facilitation, AI-based adapted learning, neuro-learning areas, and much more.
For educational institutions that claim to be experts in training for IT industry, it is vital to effectively teach students modern technologies and services; therefore it is important to monitor trends in IT education.
During the workshop we will not only talk about trends in IT education and show their results in the implementation of GoIT and GoITeens, but also take a look at other cases, suggesting the ways of implementing these trends in the educational process of Ukrainian universities.

​​Vyacheslav Polinovsky

CEO of GoITeens, Ph.D., Associate Professor