Talk given at the Inaugural Meetup WiMLDS Kyiv, organised together with WiMLDS Paris and Poznan, 20 December 2022

1. By Anastasiia Tryputen

2. DISCUSSION OUTLINE
why Ukraine matters
the success of Ukrainians inside and
outside of the country
truth and facts
effect of war on Ukraine
how ML can help to win the war
PART 1: BACKGROUND
PART 2: RUSSIAN FULL-SCALE WAR
PART 3: ML FOR THE VICTORY

3. YOU NEVER REALIZE HOW MUCH
OF YOUR BACKGROUND IS SEWN
INTO THE LINING OF YOUR
CLOTHES.
TOM WOLFE

4. BACKGROUND
OR WHAT DO YOU NEED TO
KNOW

5. UKRAINE IN FACTS
OR DID YOU KNOW..?
Ukraine is the biggest country of continental
Europe
The territory of Ukraine was one of the largest
historical transport routes - "the way from the
Vikings to the Greeks"
Ukrainian Philip Orlyk created one of the world's
first constitutions
Ukrainians have developed an aircraft with the
world's largest payload - An-225 "Dream" and it is
being currently restored
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is considered to be the
oldest educational institution in Eastern Europe
846 is the total number of higher education
institutions in Ukraine.
Ukraine ranks fourth in the world in the number of
citizens with higher education

6. LABOR MARKET
App.200K-220K professionals located in 5 major cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv,
Dnipro, Odesa
HIGH NUMBER OF HIGHLY SKILLED IT INDIVIDUALS
Ukraine has 400+ start ups with numerous unicorns and recognized founders
among them
Ukraine traditionally has a strong small and middle size business culture with
more than 1,9M registered business entities
BOOMING START UP CULTURE
STRONG SMALL AND MIDDLE SIZE BIZ CULTURE

7. SUCCESS
STORIES
Jan Koum - WhatsApp
Max Levchin - PayPal
Oleg Rogynskyy - People.ai
Kirill Bigai - Preply
Dmitriy Zaporozhets - GitLab
Vlad Yatsenko - Revolut
Max Lytvyn - Grammarly
Alex Shevchenko - Grammarly
Dmytro Lider - Grammarly
Roman Mogylnyi - Reface
Oles Petriv - Reface
Yaroslav Boyko - Reface
Denys Dmytrenko - Reface
Kyrylo Syhyda - Reface
Dima Shvets - Reface
Ivan Altsybeiev - Reface
And many more

8. WAR IS A DEFEAT FOR HUMANITY.
POPE JOHN PAUL II

9. RUSSIAN FULL-SCALE WAR
THE UGLY TRUTH

10. RUSSIAN FULL-SCALE
WAR
War started 8 years ago
ANNEXATION OF CRIMEA, WAR IN DONBAS
Full-scale invassion of Russia in Ukraine
The words 'escalation' and 'conflict' should be taken out of vocabulary - IT IS
WAR!
24 FEBRUARY 2022
IT IS NOT A CONFLICT!

11. WAR IN NUMBERS
Ukraine is invincible but bleeding...
OHCHR confirmed 6,755*
civilians were killed:
- 2,656 men
- 1,804 women
- 174 girls
- 212 boys
- another 38 children and
1,871 adults' sex can't be
identified
- 10,607 injured
Numerous cities and
villages in blockage or
occupied:
- Mariupol
- part of Kherson
- Melitopol
and many more...
USD 39B - housing
USD 30B - transport
infrastructure,
USD 10B - commerce
and industry
USD 3B** - energy
More than USD 100B -
damage to infrastructure
including:
+USD 250B in lost
agricultural production
*Only confirmed and documented cases, the number of deaths on occupied territories is undetermined
**Before massive attacks on energy system

12. WAR IN NUMBERS
What Russia is not telling
PERSONNEL - ABOUT 96,590 PEOPLE
TANKS - 2,975 UNITS
ARMORED COMBAT VEHICLES - 5,946 UNITS
ARTILLERY SYSTEMS - 1,943 UNITS
MLRS - 406 UNITS
AIR DEFENSE MEANS - 211 UNITS
AIRCRAFT - 281 UNITS
HELICOPTERS - 264 UNITS
SHIPS / BOATS - 16 UNITS
FUEL TANKS - 4,563
SPECIAL MACHINERY - 172
LOSSES
Numbers as of December 15, 2022

13. SINCE WAR STARTED
CROSSED BORDER OF UKRAINE
Numbers as of December 13, 2022; source: UNCHR
16,331,091 PEOPLE
8,495,845 PEOPLE CROSSED BORDER TO UKRAINE
Survey done by UNCHR on the profiles of people
Survey done by UNCHR on the profiles of people
Survey done by UNCHR on the profiles of people

16. IT HAS BECOME APPALLINGLY
OBVIOUS THAT OUR
TECHNOLOGY HAS EXCEEDED OUR
HUMANITY
ALBERT EINSTEIN

17. MACHINE LEARNING
OR HOW TO WIN THE WAR

18. ML IN ACTION
DETECTION OF WAR CRIMINALS AND UNDERCOVER AGENTS
FACIAL RECOGNITION
DETECTION OF STOLEN GRAIN
INFORMATION ON OCCUPIERS VIA E-VOROG CHAT
COMPUTER VISION
CONVERSATIONAL AI