Engineering Manager at GrammarlyAlexander is lucky to be an active participant in the maturing process of Grammarly's engineering team. Before joining Grammarly, Alexander enjoyed 12 years of coding, starting from academic C++ projects and continuing all the way into diverse technologies of the startup era.

Founder of Zero to Hero, author at DOU.uaYou might have read three Alexander's popular articles on DOU about his life and work in Denmark. Alexander was a CTO in Danish startup and platform developer at a biggest Danish TV channel, so he saw the IT business from both sides. Their startup was the biggest client of Google Denmark 2 years in a row. Now Alexander has returned to Ukraine and plans to help to change the national educational system.

Managing partner, Director of Business Development at Skyeng, ex. YandexHe joined Skyeng team in January 2014. From 2008 till 2014 he managed teh international development at Yandex. Skyeng is biggest one-to-one online English school in Europe. More than 1200 teachers. 80 000 private lessons per month. $1 mln revenue per month.

Founder & CTO @ Petcube, Co-founder & CEO DREAMcorp, San Francisco— in 2009 founded Dream corp, company for research in Augmented Reality based in Berlin, Germany—in 2012 build and headed technical department in leading digital agency in Ukraine Prodigi— in 2014 Petcube, wich initially was just a toy for my pet Rocky became the best European hardware startup

Product Manager in EVO, prom.ua projectEarlier worked for prom.ua and JBS Ukraine as a Project Manager.

Senior Program Manager at Luxoft12 years in IT in different roles like software engineer, consultant, PM, Program Manager, etc. Trainer at Luxoft [series of trainings with focus on People Management].

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Business coach and trainerAnton is recognized as experienced professional in UK, Germany and Ukraine, what is proven by his outstanding clients: Samsung, Luxoft and Volkswagen", - Imre van Gastel, founder of the "Factor C – Consulting", Spain.

Agile Consultant / Engagement ManagerMore than 15 years in IT field, 10 years of experience in project and program management building efficient distributed teams and ensuring business continuity. Starting from 2012 driving Agile transformation programs for various domains.

The founder and managing partner in such companies as BizGames, Prosto Trening, TeamMaster, a business trainer, a trainer in business games development, a development consultant, a methodologist.

PMO Head at Namecheap10 years of pure Project Management experience. Expertise with distributed teams and large products development. Day-to-day Program and Portfolio Management practice. Experience with companies' Agile transformation. Was involved in a numerous quantity of projects throughout the World in wide range of domain areas (not limited to IT-secific only).

Head of Digital Business Department Credit Agricole, FranceIn charge of the development of Digital Business, Education and Culture, he had implement several methods and processes to mind employees and management about the changes due to Digital in way of Banking. Boris Guitton is in change management, cross-cultural approach and data dimension during his daily basis experience in Credit Agricole Ukraine.

Head of R&D engineering at Ciklum, Co-founder of startup Fino.Borys has 5 years of experience in embedded development and 6 years in Android. From 2015 till now leading R&D department and work with IoT, VR and Machine Learning projects.Co-founder of startup Fino.

Managing Partner at One Way Ventures, a mentor at Techstars (Boston), the golden standard for tech start-up acceleration.Eveline Buchatskiy is a Managing Partner at One Way Ventures, a seed stage fund focused on immigrant founders, and a mentor at Techstars Boston, the golden standard for tech start-up acceleration. She was Director for Techstars Boston for the past 3 years, where she was part of the selection committee that reviews hundreds of applications annually.During incubation, Eveline mentored outstanding entrepreneurs from all over the world on how to scale their companies to global success stories. Prior to Techstars, Eveline was a founding Managing Director for Eastlabs accelerator based in Kiev. In an effort to create a vibrant ecosystem, Eveline helped launch Ukraine's first tech angel investment network, UAngel, and is currently a member of the Board. Eveline was CEO of APCT, a cleantech startup, winner of the Silicon Valley Open Doors award, and CEO of Ekonomika, digital media holding in Ukraine. Prior to her general management years, Eveline worked as a chemical engineer for one of the largest industrial gases companies in the world, Praxair. Eveline holds a Bachelors in Science degree in Chemical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, a Masters in Science degree in Engineering from State University of New York, Buffalo, and an executive MBA from INSEAD.

PhD, Head of didactics DP "Festo". Certified trainer.His professional interest directs to Industry 4.0, specializing in social changes and related new competencies of employees. As a speaker, recently Evgeniy inspired students on their contests around topics of mechtronics and mobile robotechnics in Kiev, Kharkov, Leaders Forum 2017 (Kiev, organiser of APPAU).

Certified Agile Trainer, Czech RepublicFred is a specialist in introducing Agile in big companies. He deals with three topics: gathering requirements, running documentation and project sabotage. He used to work in such European IT-companies as Zoom Technical, IDC, Kit Digital, Sitronics Telecoms Solutions.

CEO at SkyengCo-founder of Skyeng company. Graduate of Moscow physical-technical university, Winner of national competition of tech science. He has been combining his science education and research at Institute of Solid bodies. Having bright balance of scientific mindset and business scalability he managed to found and develop Skyeng project to an international successful business in a very short term.

Chief Business Development Officer at Yalantis, Co-founder/CCO at KaiiaxIan consults IT companies on brand development and marketing, helps Yalantis to grow business and acquire new expertise. Ian is a multidisciplinary IT professional with hands-on experience in technology research, UX architecture, project management and marketing.

Director of Trasformation, KyivstarLean introduction in Service companies.

Senior Engineer at Skype (Microsoft), Czech Republic15 years of engineering experience. Started in the outsourcing, went through startup projects, joined Skype backend team before Microsoft acquisition. Happy Microsoft employee for multiple years.

Deputy Mayor at City of DniproOver 15 years of investment sector and 20 years of technology sector experience meets passion for innovation, technology and investing in Ukraine.

Digital transformation consultant and former Deputy CTO, UK government.James is a technology leader with extensive hands-on experience building capability, setting direction, developing and operating digital services, and leading organisations through substantial change.As an independent consultant, he works right across organisations from board-level to operations teams to help accelerate delivery, enable digital transformation, embed modern delivery and security practices, and evolve strategy.Previously, as a co-founder of the UK Government Digital Service, James played a wide variety of roles in the digital transformation of the the UK government, from hands-on technology lead through to Deputy CTO for Government.He led the work of hiring the initial development team and setting the architectural and practical direction for the first phase of building GOV.UK. Subsequently he's put in place management, development and support for a technology team of over 150 and worked to embed agile architectural approaches and support delivery across government. James was responsible for cloud, hosting and networking policy, and was heavily involved in the formation of the National Cyber Security Centre.His team's work was described by O'Reilly Radar as "the default for how government should approach their online efforts in the 21st century."

Kristina is an Evangelist at TriggMine, email marketing automation service. She is great when it comes to email marketing tips. During pasted 2 years she successfully launched more than 50 email campaigns for e-commerce websites. She's also the voice of TriggMine. Kristina performed as a speaker at 100+ events in Europe & Asia. Among them are 10 Meet Magento events, Predictive Analytics World in London and San Francisco, Global Predictive Analytics Conference in Santa Clara CA, eComExpo (Spain), Webit Summit (Bulgaria, Turkey), Wolves Summit 1st & 2nd edition (Poland). She believes that email marketing rules and data is the king.

Expert in sales and business development, ex. Renault, Luxemburg17+ years in sales and commercial development of business. The experience of negotiations with large European enterprises, and with personalities.

Senior Delivery Manager at EPAMSenior Delivery Manager, Java Tech Lead and experienced coach. Expert in Java development, scalable architecture, Agile engineering practices and project management. Having 13+ years of development experience, specializes on complex distributed scalable systems. Active participant and speaker of many international conferences. Founder and coach in training center XP Injection.

Internet entrepreneur, co-founder and founding CEO of the photography social network and photo distribution platform 500pxEDUCATIONGutsol was born in Kiev, Ukraine and moved to Canada as a teenager. He studied Applied Computer Science at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada from 2002 to 2005, and dropped out from his senior year to run the company he started, GSM Toronto, full-time.CAREERGutsol started learning to write software at the age of 9, after receiving a ZX Spectrum computer as a birthday gift. In 2000, he became interested in website design and development. In 2003 he launched GSM Toronto, a company specializing in distributing, modifying and unlocking GSM phones and development of mobile games for Nokia Series 40, Series 60 and Symbian platforms.In late 2007 he joined Evgeny Tchebotarev to create 500px out of a LiveJournal community that Evgeny was curating at that time. While working on 500px, Gutsol also took a software development contract with Filemobile, SaaS video platoform. 500px went live on Halloween 2009, launched from Gutsol's apartment in downtown Toronto. The company saw exponential growth for the inception and raised a seed round from ffVC and other early stage NYC venture funds in May 2011.The company raised additional $8.8M in August 2013 in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, and $13M Series B in July 2015, led by Visual China Group. In September 2014 Gutsol was ousted from 500px, following a disagreement within the leadership team about the direction 500px should take.In May 2015, together with his wife, he launched Pickapaw, a global community for responsible animal breeders.In December 2016, following his passion for machine learning and artificial intelligence, Gutsol started working on the collective governance algorithm company, Consensus.

Founder at Heartln Inc, USAHe's a serial entrepreneur and investor with twenty-five years experience. Oleksii creates twelve companies and do couple exits while. His professional background is business and team development, software/hardware engineering, sales, and finance.

Co-Founder, Director of Product Strategy and Marketing at The Gradient Director of Business Development School at LITS. PhD in Management.Seasoned specialist in IT-industry with more than 11 years of experience in project, program, account management, as well as business development. ex-Head of ELEKS Digital and BDD at Perfectial. Trainer. Speaker.

CEO & Founder в EarthLight Foundation, Founder, CEO New Worlds Institute, Founder and Chairman of the Board Deep Space Industries, Founding Board Member в XPRIZE, Co-founder в Space Frontier Foundation, ArgentinaRick Tumlinson is the co-founder of several space companies and non-profits including Deep Space Industries, Orbital Outfitters, the New Worlds Institute, and the Space Frontier Foundation. He is an active space entrepreneur and space activist. He has testified on space-related topics before the U.S. Congress six times since 1995.

Agile coach/scrum master @ backbase, NetherlandsHis technical background in development and infrastructure spans a period of more than 20 years, but more relevant are the 7 years Roland is working as a scrum master and agile coach. Roland worked on numerous projects in various international companies, mainly in the banking industry. All of the projects he contributed to, near/and offshoring was involved.

Director of Product Development в DAESA, ex. Wargaming, Cyprus(@anotherpm) - Director of Product Development in DAESA, speaker, trainer and cynic :) He has been working in managerial positions in software development for over 12 years: Luxoft, GlobalLogic, Wargaming.

Founder & Director at FoxmindED20 years in software development, 15 years in Java. Sergey performed and combined technical and management role of Java lead and Project Manager in most of large outsourcing companies. Moreover, he also educates and trains employees of Luxoft, Ciklum, Nettracker, IntroPro.

Chief Operating Officer at AMC Bridge, USAWith over 350 employees, Vadym manages the AMC Bridge LLC operations in Ukraine. He is currently responsible for aligning the company's strategic goals while optimizing day-to-day operations. He provides leadership to the back-office functions and directs the automation of internal and external business processes.

Vice-President in Marketing and Sales in Intellias company, a teacher-trainer in Business Development course in Lviv ІТ School ("Strategy" module).Victor started his career ten years ago as an engineering developer. Since November 2016 Victor has been responsible for Sales and Marketing in Intellias which belongs to the most quickly-growing private companies in Europe according to Inc.com.

Designer & Co-founder at Hochu rayu. design bureauThe main our directions are space design with communication elements and product design. Creating spatial design, we offer design solutions unique history, which increases the efficiency of our clients business. Subject design from "Hochu rayu" are entire microcosms in one subject that will complement your personal space or successfully represent your business product.

Vladimir ZheleznyakIT-Boost cofounder, Head of support and Backend Team lead at FundSeeder18 years in IT in different roles like software engineer, PM, programmer again and later CTO. Changing programming languages several times he developed different products in different business domains. From his own experience he is aware how different IT cases look and are managed in various approaches. He also observed many times how successful projects failed due to tunnel management view.

Designer & Co-founder at Hochu rayu. design bureauDesign Bureau "Hochu rayu" was founded in 2007 by two brothers Yurii and Vitalii Cyril. Danuta Cril has joined us in 2011 and become a partner of our agency. While creating our own brand "Hochu rayu" we have been asked the next question: what is the best place for us all.

Founder of UXPresso, BelarusYuri Vedenin is the founder of UXPressia, an online tool to create customer journey maps.He is also the founder and the CEO of UX consulting and services company UXpresso, founder and trainer at training center ITMINE.

Agile & Enterprise Coach; Certified Scrum Trainer; the author of The Great ScrumMaster Book; Scrum Alliance member.Zuzi has been working with Agile methodology since 2005 when she was working in the USA in a huge medical manufacturer Medtronic. Clients: DHL, Tesсo, Autodesk, T-Mobile, Rockwell Automatation and 20+ customers.