IT Ukraine Association

🏥 Helping together! This week began with a tragedy for all Ukrainians: the buildings of NSCH "Ohmatdyt" were destroyed by targeted strikes of Russian missiles. The enemy once again underestimated what Ukrainian unity is — the entire country came together to help on the spot as well as promptly having begun fundraising. 💰 The "Ohmatdyt" Foundation reports that over ₴360 million was collected in a few days — over ₴300 million by UNITED24 and monobank (a record amount for the ‘jars’ at a record pace) and over ₴60 million came through Tabletochki CF Since Monday, the #ITUkraineAssociation has been constantly updating the donations list of the industry which has been picked up by the specialised and general media, business and public opinion leaders. As of Friday afternoon, the Ukrainian IT industry attributed over ₴120 million—about a third of the total raised amount—of which ₴40 million came from the #ITUMember and #ITUPartner companies: 🤲🏻 ₴10m from Favbet Tech (Favbet company group) 🤲🏻 ₴3m each from Mercedes-Benz AG Ukraine (an UkrAVTO company, is the official Ukraine Distributor), Glovo, Trinetix 🤲🏻 ₴2m from Payoneer Україна 🤲🏻 ₴1.5m from EPAM Systems 🤲🏻 ₴1m each from Intellias, NovaPay and Nova Digital (a Nova Global Group), SoftServe Ukraine’s 'Open Eyes' Charity Fund, N-iX, Uklon, Asters, MGID UA, Avenga Ukraine, Miratech and GlobalLogic 🤲🏻 ₴500k each from Sigma Software Group, VUSO Private Stock Insurance Company, Ciklum, and Room 8 Group 🤲🏻 ₴300k from SPD Technology 🤲🏻 ₴100k from Alcor 🤲🏻 ₴25k from Diya 🤲🏻 ₴32k from Mate academy We extend our deepest respect and gratitude to all colleagues who joined in for the fundraiser, ensuring the future of the leading medical facility for Ukrainian children. We will rebuild together! 🇺🇦 Full list of the IT industry chip-ins: lnkd.in/giYBSPgw Become a (one-time) donor: lnkd.in/gG4nvHj9

#ITUMember Itera made a guest appearance on 107th episode of Pro Progressio’s podcast ‘Good Morning BSS World’. Together with Pro Progressio’s CEO and podcast host Wiktor Doktór, Itera’s Central Europe Director Taras Tovstyak discussed: 🌍 Challenges and opportunities in the IT Industry in Central and Eastern Europe; 🌍 Itera's hybrid model that includes combining on-site and remote teams to deliver IT services to the clients successfully; 🌍 Itera’ goals to expand its market presence in the UK and Germany and continuing innovating in digital consulting and AI. Listen to the full episode: 🎧 YouTube—lnkd.in/gHS7T3m5 🎧 FOCUS ON Business | media—lnkd.in/gwNtcNdv 🎧 Spotify for Podcasters—lnkd.in/gMJk28Va 🎧 Spreaker—lnkd.in/gcmwdR3t

🫶🏻 Dear ticketed #UTCD online participant, we’ll have you know that you helped kids by… well, simply watching the Conference stream! Per our stated (lnkd.in/guj35ymC) intention, the IT Ukraine Association transferred the proceeds from the yan.ua/l/UTCD online tickets to the Charity Partner, Fund "Your Support (Твоя опора)". 🏥 The Foundation has been implementing projects to help children with congenital heart defects in Ukraine for 10 years, and has also systematically provided humanitarian aid since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine. To date, the Fund has collected more than ₴790 million and provided assistance to people and medical institutions in 24 regions of Ukraine. The fund supported more than 7.6 thousand children, 135 hospitals, 77 orphanages and shelters. Children are the most vulnerable category. They have already survived the horrors of war and are still under its impact. In order to ameliorate the lasting consequences, now as well as in the future, the Family Centre for Mental Health "Your Support" in Vorzel, Ukraine was established. The Centre aims to provide psychosocial assistance to the children of Buchansk district, to where the Fund will direct funds from the #ITUkraineAssociation. 💬 "The true value of the Association is measured not only by our achievements, but also by our willingness to support. The transfer of funds from the online conference tickets to the “Your Support” Charity Fund is our contribution to a better future for those who need it the most," ITU Executive Director Maria Shevchuk emphasizes. The Foundation has set its further development goal as follows: helping children and their families, limiting the psychological consequences of war, strengthening psychological stability and ensuring children’s harmonious development. 💬 "Children are our future and their mental health is something we have to take care of every day. It’s especially crucial now that the war has forced them to face non-child-like problems: PTSD, anxiety, depression, alienation, etc. I am truly grateful to the IT Ukraine Association for your support. Our partnership is a great example of how jointly we can do good," said the founder and general Valeriia Tatarchuk, Director of the "Your Support" Charity Fund. Ukrainian TechComms Days brought together PR specialists, marketers, SMM specialists and media working in the field of IT. The atmosphere synergy and support was remarked upon by all attendees, many of whom contributed to the charitable cause as well 🤲🏻

👩🏻💼 Yesterday, Maria Shevchuk, IT Ukraine Association CEO, joined the Committee on Digital Transformation of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The session’s spotlights were changes to the special tax&legal policies of Diia City (Ukraine Law No. 9319), and “Analysis of Application Practices of the Ukraine July 15, 2021, Law “On stimulating development of the digital economy in Ukraine” No. 1667-IX. Maria Shevchuk presented key updates on the Association’s current and upcoming large-scale projects and events, as well as underscored the pathways for expanding the current industry cooperation and deepening its integration 🇺🇦

🤝🏻 This has been a second meeting of the ITU-initiated&organised quarterly format whereby the #ITUkraineAssociation’s C-suite, regional clusters and associations hold talks with Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister for Innovation, Education, Science and Technology Development and Minister, and other Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine representatives. This time, the conversation centred around several key industry matters: 📌 Digitalisation of the specialists’ booking process, which was announced at the ITU General Meeting earlier this month and, since last week, is available to all entreprises the government recognises as critical, including some companies from the IT sector (lnkd.in/g8SVNNRK); 📌 The war by tech and the involvement of the IT sector in the innovations process, as Ukraine’s IT is already significantly contributing to bringing the military victory closer — working with the UAF (lnkd.in/gY4FeVkh), and fundraising (lnkd.in/gGXteuug); 📌 Education, transformed — businesses are ever more involved in the academic process, assisting Higher Education institutions (lnkd.in/gRriDwf8) to keep up with the latest in tech. Tech is one of the key development directions of the country, especially its economy. Per the Ministry of Digital Transformation, one IT employee supplies almost three jobs, and the industry overall constitutes over 40% of the country’s service exports (lnkd.in/gA5rG28z). This, as well as the Diia City eResidence prospects, was covered in ‘Digital Tiger: the Power of Ukrainian IT – 2023’ (lnkd.in/gr2BxKbA) and brought up during the discussion. 📍 The first meeting of this format took place in March (lnkd.in/gpgibEwA). These meetups are deemed highly important by both the IT Ukraine Association and the Ministry, engendering the productive state-business dialogue.

#ITUkraineAssociation’s Committees (lnkd.in/eStBhe5V) have started their work! O July 18th, the EdTech Committee held its first Strategic Session, whereby the parties: 📂 shared their vision for the development of the vertical's development in Ukraine, as well its global outreach; 📂 outlined the challenges, having considered the pressing market issues; 📂 analysed the fundamental directions of the vertical’s successful development within larger IT industry. 💬 “Today, the participants of the EdTech Committee have developed a considerable number of initiatives that will become the basis for the sustainable development of this industry,” stated Maria Shevchuk, ITU CEO. “Ukrainian EdTech actors finally have an operating platform to exchange views, voice ideas, and highlight common problems. It's nice to feel a match in thoughts and values. I sincerely thank all participants, especially the IT Ukraine Association, for this opportunity to apply real change," noted Kateryna Borovska, CMO of Promova, Committee Leader. #ITUEdTech Committee Participants: Promova, Hillel IT School, STEP IT Academy, GIOS (Global Innovative Online School) , Choice31 , CASES, FlexReality, EPAM Systems Digital, Lionwood.software, DAN.IT education, GlobalLogic Ukraine, HUSPI IT Consulting & Development, UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Zapal, Beetroot Academy, Geniusee - Custom Software Product Development, Ciklum, ITVDN, Sigma Software Group, and GoIT - start your career in IT. 💬 “The evolution of IT in Ukraine is a story of gradually moving from promoting the IT industry in general to developing it, establishing and promoting specific niches, directions, and levels. We have a lot of very appealing companies—from the prominent ones with multimillion-billion dollar evaluation to those that require our support in their growth, with special conditions at that, those that do not apply widely,” underscored Yurii Hladkyi, the Strategic Session Moderator. Just recently, the Association presented the Committee Leaders for the AgriTech, CyberTech, FinTech and EdTech verticals. The roadmaps of each of the committees, once fully formed, will be integrated into the profile events of the Association. More details: lnkd.in/ehU9ZrwD 🤝🏻 We thank UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, the project’s General Partner and donor, and SoftServe (an #ITUMember) for the hospitality and support of the Session.

🌐 DM Solutions, welcome to the #ITUkraineAssociation! DM Solutions is a leading Ukrainian IT company of 12 years that specialises in processing and systematising global address data of any complexity. The main activity markets for the company are Ukraine, wider Europe and Asia. The company strives to make data an accessible, accurate, useful and powerful tool for businesses. DM Solutions' patent address-processing algorithms optimise costs and increase business efficiency by harnessing CRM and Big Data power. Today, the company has an Address Book database of more than 15 million verified postal addresses in Ukraine (updated daily), used by more than 280 clients from business and governmental sectors alike. 💬 "Joining the IT Association of Ukraine is an important step for DM Solutions. We believe that cooperating with the country's leading IT companies contributes to the overall development and innovations, increasing the competitiveness of Ukrainian technologies at the international level. We are thrilled to join the IT Ukraine Association in promoting Ukrainian IT technologies and inventions," comments Olena Hryhorash, CEO of DM Solutions. #ITUMember Card: lnkd.in/gscSU-JU 💙

🖥 The fourth annual Artificial Intelligence Technology summer school — with #ITUkraineAssociation as the Information Partners — was wrapped up at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Participants comprised 500 students from Ukraine, USA, Poland, Germany, Turkey and Spain. The best projects developed within the course will be awarded in September. Details 👇🏻

🌱 SmartFarming, welcome to the #ITUkraineAssociation! SmartFarming is an integrator of technologies in crop production. The company provides a full range of services in land bank management and agricultural production efficiency and trains agricultural producers in new technological approaches. The company sees its value in not only helping customers digitise their agribusiness but also transforming their problems and challenges into growth areas:  "As a company that works with innovations and develops its own IT solutions, we are always looking for new ideas and promising partnerships. We decided to join the IT Ukraine Association as it opens up new opportunities for development and cooperation with leading industry players. By joining forces, we will be able to much more effectively respond to market challenges, introduce innovations and improve the quality of services for our clients," the company notes. 💬   SmartFarming is the official dealer of Precision Planting, Arable, Augmenta, and OneSoil Yield in Ukraine, developed unique software products for land bank management: the ProZemli system and the Vkursi Zemli land analytics service. Currently, the total land bank of the company’s clients exceeds 5 million hectares. 💙 #ITUMember Card: lnkd.in/giuHuyxv