Ukraine IT universe by Yevgen Sysoyev, AVentures Capital #idcee2013Yevgen Sysoyev
Comprehensive overview of Ukrainian IT sectors and venture capital ecosystem as of late 2013. Presentation by Yevgen Sysoyev, AVentures Capital at IDCEE 2013.
Presentation by Yevgen Sysoyev at U.S. Ukraine Business Forum in Washington D.C. on 13 July 2015. Overview of Ukrainian software tech sector and its role in the global tech ecosystem
2014 Developments in Ukrainian IT sector, Yevgen Sysoyev @ IDCEE2014Yevgen Sysoyev
2014 Developments in Ukrainian IT sector, overview of venture capital market in Ukraine. Announce of Dealbook Ukraine. By Yevgen Sysoyev, managing partner of AVentures Capital @ IDCEE2014
Ukraine Dealbook IT and Internet Market 2012-14Yevgen Sysoyev
The comprehensive overview of venture market in Ukraine and all tech deals in 2012-14, overview of key trends, players and Ukrainian venture ecosystem
Subscribe to @YevgenSysoyev to receive updates
Downloadable version is here:
http://www.ewdn.com/files/ua_dealbook.pdf
Key findings:
https://prezi.com/y_gg35xswhcr/the-deal-book-of-ukraine/
For optimized reading: http://www.uadn.net/files/ua_hightech.pdf
A comprehensive 250-page review of software R&D and IT outsourcing activities in Ukraine, the country with the largest number of software engineers in CEE. http://www.uadn.net/files/ua_hightech.pdf
Ukraine IT universe by Yevgen Sysoyev, AVentures Capital #idcee2013Yevgen Sysoyev
Comprehensive overview of Ukrainian IT sectors and venture capital ecosystem as of late 2013. Presentation by Yevgen Sysoyev, AVentures Capital at IDCEE 2013.
Presentation by Yevgen Sysoyev at U.S. Ukraine Business Forum in Washington D.C. on 13 July 2015. Overview of Ukrainian software tech sector and its role in the global tech ecosystem
2014 Developments in Ukrainian IT sector, Yevgen Sysoyev @ IDCEE2014Yevgen Sysoyev
2014 Developments in Ukrainian IT sector, overview of venture capital market in Ukraine. Announce of Dealbook Ukraine. By Yevgen Sysoyev, managing partner of AVentures Capital @ IDCEE2014
Ukraine Dealbook IT and Internet Market 2012-14Yevgen Sysoyev
The comprehensive overview of venture market in Ukraine and all tech deals in 2012-14, overview of key trends, players and Ukrainian venture ecosystem
Subscribe to @YevgenSysoyev to receive updates
Downloadable version is here:
http://www.ewdn.com/files/ua_dealbook.pdf
Key findings:
https://prezi.com/y_gg35xswhcr/the-deal-book-of-ukraine/
For optimized reading: http://www.uadn.net/files/ua_hightech.pdf
A comprehensive 250-page review of software R&D and IT outsourcing activities in Ukraine, the country with the largest number of software engineers in CEE. http://www.uadn.net/files/ua_hightech.pdf
An astounding number of tech innovations around the globe are fueled by talent from Ukraine. You might not realize it, but you have benefited from them if you’ve used Ford’s in-car infotainment system, Reuters' award-winning photography app, Nokia’s customer retail experience, or Deutsche Bank’s Risk Management System.
People are starting to take notice. Last month George Soros announced that he made a significant investment in a tech firm in Ukraine. He has a solid record of making big bets ahead of the curve. Razom/IT invites you to explore that part of Ukraine.
Важные причины инвестировать в Украину именно сегодня от Horizon CapitalKira Ivanova
Важные причины инвестировать в Украину именно сегодня от Horizon Capital
Инвестиционный фонд Horizon Capital сделал презентацию, которая показывает возможности Украины и призывает инвестировать в Украину прямо сейчас.
В Horizon Capital объясняют, какие перспективы есть у Украины, откуда они берутся, что нужно сделать в стране и какое будущее ее ожидает. В презентации кратко описаны также возможности и риски для инвестора, который отважится вложить деньги в Украину. В Horizon это называют "ground-floor investment opportunity".
Кризис – это не только проблемы, но и новые возможности!
Спасибо Horizon Capital за материалы.
Важливі причини інвестувати в Україну саме сьогодні від Horizon Capital
Інвестиційний фонд Horizon Capital зробив презентацію, яка показує можливості України та закликає інвестувати в Україну прямо зараз.
У Horizon Capital пояснюють, які перспективи має Україна, звідки вони беруться, що потрібно зробити в країні та яке майбутнє її чекає. У презентації коротко описані також можливості та ризики для інвестора, який наважиться вкласти гроші в Україну. В Horizon це називають "ground-floor investment opportunity".
Криза - це не тільки проблеми, але й нові можливості!
Дякуємо за матеріали Horizon Capital.
Ukraine 2015: A ground-floor opportunity at the EU’s frontier – Horizon Capital
Horizon Capital has developed and shared a comprehensive, data-rich report entitled “Ukraine 2015: A ground-floor opportunity at the EU’s frontier”.
The youngest, most pro-business government in the history of modern Ukraine is driving a bold structural reform agenda that is both the right thing to do for the country as well as the clear demand of an active, engaged civil society. From a business perspective, the lasting competitive advantages in export-focused sectors, such as IT, Agriculture, Food and others, open up exciting investment opportunities, made even more compelling by very attractive valuations.
Thais is a brief version of the Horizon Capital presentation.
http://horizoncapital.com.ua/sites/default/files/horizon_capital_press_release_july_24_2015_english.pdf
There were 87 investment deals with Ukrainian innovative companies in 2016 , which is 32% more than in 2015 - such a data was presented by the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) in its annual market overview. The overview has gathered information on venture, private equity and angel investment deals - their total volume is accounted in 88 mln. USD in 2016. The amount of investments over the past 5 years growth to 400 mln. At the same time, the volume of investment deals decreased on 33% since 2015 (including 13 undisclosed deals), but still is higher than in 2014 at 125%. The reason is few deals in 2015 amounted in dozens of millions.
Distinguishing feature of the market in 2016 is the prevalence of seed-stage deals. Thereby among all deals 73 were made at the seed-stage with the average amount of ticket over 500K USD. So we can expect that these initially invested companies will attract bigger investments in future.
The average ticket amount (on all stages) has grown up to 1M USD in 2016.
Tech Ecosystem of Ukraine 2019. Insights, facts, companies you wanted to knowKirill Mazur
Ukraine's tech ecosystem is booming.
Last 5 years have become history-changing for Ukraine. With its 185 000 tech specialists, a few thousand startups, first unicorns, first innovation district and 20% average annual tech workforce growth, Ukraine is facing a prominent creative revolution in many areas.
In 2019, UNIT.City team together with partners has launched the guide about key things you should know about innovations in Ukraine.
This is a comprehensive analysis of the IT sector in Ukraine. It is an integrated guide for perspective investors who are exploring opportunities in Ukraine. The report includes key figures characterizing the market, as well as information about the ongoing projects. This report also contains the list of forthcoming reforms and policy development needed to boost Ukrainian IT. The report was prepared by the Office of the National Investment Council of Ukraine and presented at the Council meeting in Kyiv, on May 25, 2018
All you wanted to know about Ukrainian Tech.
UKRAINE: Europe’s biggest Tech country
Ukraine is a blooming tech talent pool. We power global tech engines. It’s BRAINing here.
Entrepreneurship hub: Start easy, develop fast, grow global with Ukraine. The land of tech freedom.
World’s R&D lab. Everything is TECHable with Ukraine.
Check the presentation to find out more.
Ukraine will once again showcase its IoT and innovation achievements to the world.
For the second time in a row Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) together with Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF) are organizing the UA TECH Expo Zone at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - one of the largest consumer electronics conferences, which will be held on January 9-12 in Las Vegas.
The Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) and the audit and consulting company Kreston Ukraine present the “Ukraine venture capital and private equity markets 2020” annual review, which also includes data for 8 months of 2021.
According to the results of 2020, Ukrainian technology companies and their investors closed 188 deals with investors worth USD 533.5 million. About 50% of the deals are small grants (25 and 50 thousand USD) from the Ukrainian Startup Fund. For 2020—2021, it has invested USD 5.3 million in Ukrainian projects.
Just three years ago, Ukraine did not have a single unicorn among its startups. Nowadays, as many as five of them — Gitlab, Grammarly, Bitfury, People.ai, and Ring — raised USD 1.3 bln funding and dominate the global market.
In this review, we analysed the key market trends, such as “investment focus on software projects”, “increase of foreign investors in the Ukrainian market”, “growing quality of Ukrainian startups and their interest in smart money” for the first time. The key drivers and barriers to market development were identified — the respondents noted that despite the imperfect regulatory framework, the country still has enough private capital to promote the sector.
Generally, all market players are unanimous in their outlooks and are quite optimistic about further market development. According to 81% venture and 67% private equity investors surveyed, all quantitative indicators are likely to grow, and high-tech industries traditionally represent the most promising ones.
Ukrainian investors primarily point to the experience and qualification of the team (according to 94% venture and 17% private equity investors surveyed) and the market potential of the business idea (according to 82% venture and 83% private equity investors surveyed), among the key factors for investment decisions. On the other hand, when choosing an investor, startups consider their industry expertise, investment terms, and ‘smart money’ they can get.
The study results show that Ukrainian companies offer attractive, relevant, and globally competitive solutions and demonstrate sustainability and adaptability in COVID-19. Ukraine is gradually transforming from a talent and idea exporter into a big international venture capital market player.
Ultimate Guide to Ukrainian IT Ecosystem. We tried to collect all open data on the number of IT specialists, graduates, salaries and investments in Ukrainian startups.
An astounding number of tech innovations around the globe are fueled by talent from Ukraine. You might not realize it, but you have benefited from them if you’ve used Ford’s in-car infotainment system, Reuters' award-winning photography app, Nokia’s customer retail experience, or Deutsche Bank’s Risk Management System.
People are starting to take notice. Last month George Soros announced that he made a significant investment in a tech firm in Ukraine. He has a solid record of making big bets ahead of the curve. Razom/IT invites you to explore that part of Ukraine.
Важные причины инвестировать в Украину именно сегодня от Horizon CapitalKira Ivanova
Важные причины инвестировать в Украину именно сегодня от Horizon Capital
Инвестиционный фонд Horizon Capital сделал презентацию, которая показывает возможности Украины и призывает инвестировать в Украину прямо сейчас.
В Horizon Capital объясняют, какие перспективы есть у Украины, откуда они берутся, что нужно сделать в стране и какое будущее ее ожидает. В презентации кратко описаны также возможности и риски для инвестора, который отважится вложить деньги в Украину. В Horizon это называют "ground-floor investment opportunity".
Кризис – это не только проблемы, но и новые возможности!
Спасибо Horizon Capital за материалы.
Важливі причини інвестувати в Україну саме сьогодні від Horizon Capital
Інвестиційний фонд Horizon Capital зробив презентацію, яка показує можливості України та закликає інвестувати в Україну прямо зараз.
У Horizon Capital пояснюють, які перспективи має Україна, звідки вони беруться, що потрібно зробити в країні та яке майбутнє її чекає. У презентації коротко описані також можливості та ризики для інвестора, який наважиться вкласти гроші в Україну. В Horizon це називають "ground-floor investment opportunity".
Криза - це не тільки проблеми, але й нові можливості!
Дякуємо за матеріали Horizon Capital.
Ukraine 2015: A ground-floor opportunity at the EU’s frontier – Horizon Capital
Horizon Capital has developed and shared a comprehensive, data-rich report entitled “Ukraine 2015: A ground-floor opportunity at the EU’s frontier”.
The youngest, most pro-business government in the history of modern Ukraine is driving a bold structural reform agenda that is both the right thing to do for the country as well as the clear demand of an active, engaged civil society. From a business perspective, the lasting competitive advantages in export-focused sectors, such as IT, Agriculture, Food and others, open up exciting investment opportunities, made even more compelling by very attractive valuations.
Thais is a brief version of the Horizon Capital presentation.
http://horizoncapital.com.ua/sites/default/files/horizon_capital_press_release_july_24_2015_english.pdf
There were 87 investment deals with Ukrainian innovative companies in 2016 , which is 32% more than in 2015 - such a data was presented by the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) in its annual market overview. The overview has gathered information on venture, private equity and angel investment deals - their total volume is accounted in 88 mln. USD in 2016. The amount of investments over the past 5 years growth to 400 mln. At the same time, the volume of investment deals decreased on 33% since 2015 (including 13 undisclosed deals), but still is higher than in 2014 at 125%. The reason is few deals in 2015 amounted in dozens of millions.
Distinguishing feature of the market in 2016 is the prevalence of seed-stage deals. Thereby among all deals 73 were made at the seed-stage with the average amount of ticket over 500K USD. So we can expect that these initially invested companies will attract bigger investments in future.
The average ticket amount (on all stages) has grown up to 1M USD in 2016.
Tech Ecosystem of Ukraine 2019. Insights, facts, companies you wanted to knowKirill Mazur
Ukraine's tech ecosystem is booming.
Last 5 years have become history-changing for Ukraine. With its 185 000 tech specialists, a few thousand startups, first unicorns, first innovation district and 20% average annual tech workforce growth, Ukraine is facing a prominent creative revolution in many areas.
In 2019, UNIT.City team together with partners has launched the guide about key things you should know about innovations in Ukraine.
This is a comprehensive analysis of the IT sector in Ukraine. It is an integrated guide for perspective investors who are exploring opportunities in Ukraine. The report includes key figures characterizing the market, as well as information about the ongoing projects. This report also contains the list of forthcoming reforms and policy development needed to boost Ukrainian IT. The report was prepared by the Office of the National Investment Council of Ukraine and presented at the Council meeting in Kyiv, on May 25, 2018
All you wanted to know about Ukrainian Tech.
UKRAINE: Europe’s biggest Tech country
Ukraine is a blooming tech talent pool. We power global tech engines. It’s BRAINing here.
Entrepreneurship hub: Start easy, develop fast, grow global with Ukraine. The land of tech freedom.
World’s R&D lab. Everything is TECHable with Ukraine.
Check the presentation to find out more.
Ukraine will once again showcase its IoT and innovation achievements to the world.
For the second time in a row Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) together with Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF) are organizing the UA TECH Expo Zone at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - one of the largest consumer electronics conferences, which will be held on January 9-12 in Las Vegas.
The Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) and the audit and consulting company Kreston Ukraine present the “Ukraine venture capital and private equity markets 2020” annual review, which also includes data for 8 months of 2021.
According to the results of 2020, Ukrainian technology companies and their investors closed 188 deals with investors worth USD 533.5 million. About 50% of the deals are small grants (25 and 50 thousand USD) from the Ukrainian Startup Fund. For 2020—2021, it has invested USD 5.3 million in Ukrainian projects.
Just three years ago, Ukraine did not have a single unicorn among its startups. Nowadays, as many as five of them — Gitlab, Grammarly, Bitfury, People.ai, and Ring — raised USD 1.3 bln funding and dominate the global market.
In this review, we analysed the key market trends, such as “investment focus on software projects”, “increase of foreign investors in the Ukrainian market”, “growing quality of Ukrainian startups and their interest in smart money” for the first time. The key drivers and barriers to market development were identified — the respondents noted that despite the imperfect regulatory framework, the country still has enough private capital to promote the sector.
Generally, all market players are unanimous in their outlooks and are quite optimistic about further market development. According to 81% venture and 67% private equity investors surveyed, all quantitative indicators are likely to grow, and high-tech industries traditionally represent the most promising ones.
Ukrainian investors primarily point to the experience and qualification of the team (according to 94% venture and 17% private equity investors surveyed) and the market potential of the business idea (according to 82% venture and 83% private equity investors surveyed), among the key factors for investment decisions. On the other hand, when choosing an investor, startups consider their industry expertise, investment terms, and ‘smart money’ they can get.
The study results show that Ukrainian companies offer attractive, relevant, and globally competitive solutions and demonstrate sustainability and adaptability in COVID-19. Ukraine is gradually transforming from a talent and idea exporter into a big international venture capital market player.
Ultimate Guide to Ukrainian IT Ecosystem. We tried to collect all open data on the number of IT specialists, graduates, salaries and investments in Ukrainian startups.
Outsourcing to Ukraine. Country Overview. Webinar 13.01.10.Victor_Maznyuk
Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative made the general overview of the Ukrainian IT outsourcing services industry, including the history of IT industry development in Ukraine and some trends of the development of IT outsourcing market for 2010.
Ukraine: more than just another outsourcing destination” by Alex Golod, InteticsIntetics
The presentation highlights the latest social and economic trends in the country, discusses why Ukraine is becoming a hot outsourcing destination based on its industry growth, its access to a skilled well educated talent pool, and the government support. Special emphasis is placed on the favorable environment for direct investments in next few years, as well as expected growth of M&A activity in the country. In conclusion, the argument is made that Ukraine will gain prominence as ITO and especially BPO hot destination within next 3 to 5 years.
Dmitry ovcharenko it in ukraine the opportunity london 2MiniBar
Alcor BP is one of the top outstaffing companies in Kyiv Ukraine. They find you an office space, hire a top team of developers and manage the whole process.
We invest in Ukraine!
Ukrainian IT SECTOR AS OF late 2014
VENTURE ECOSYSTEM AS OF late 2014
VENTURE MARKET: key highlights
$2B+ WORTH STARTUPS
Success stories FROM UKRAINE
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Startup Cities: Sofia, Bulgaria - Me Convention 2018Chinwag
Denitsa Simeonova, CEO, Association of the Bulgarian Leaders and Entrepreneurs (ABLE) presented Sofia as part of the Startup Cities programme at the Me Convention 2018 in Stockholm featuring 20 cities, hosted by Sam Michel.
More at: https://toodlepip.co.uk/2018/20-startup-cities/
The DealBook is our annual overview of the Ukrainian tech investment industry. This edition comprehensively covers the full year 2023 and the first deals of 2022.
В отчете, который презентовали 29 мая в инновационном парке UNIT.City, были изучены наиболее значимые научные разработки, динамика инновационной активности, интересы международных компаний в Украине, а также украинских изобретателей за рубежом за 2007-2017 года. Проект был реализован совместными усилиями Innolytics Group, SingularityU Kyiv Chapter, UNIT.City, в партнерстве с DLA Piper и Ukrinnovate.
Relations between Government and IT (Dimitri Podoliev Business Stream)IT Arena
Lviv IT Arena is a conference specially designed for programmers, designers, developers, top managers, inverstors, entrepreneur and startuppers. Annually it takes place on 2-4 of October in Lviv at the Arena Lviv stadium. In 2015 conference gathered more than 1400 participants and over 100 speakers from companies like Facebook. FitBit, Mail.ru, HP, Epson and IBM. More details about conference at itarene.lviv.ua.
Similar to NYC event Razom Ukraine: Rise of Ukraine as Technology Nation (20)
The DealBook is our annual overview of the Ukrainian tech investment industry. This edition comprehensively covers the full year 2021 and the first deals of 2022
Due diligence (аудит) стартапов. Мастер-класс Евгения СысоеваYevgen Sysoyev
На мастер-классе Евгений будет подробно освещать следующие вопросы:
- Due diligence: что стоит за этими пугающими словами?
- Взгляд инвестора: зачем, что и как проверять?
- Готовность проекта к проекту: что и как готовить?
- Due diligence наоборот, или стартап проверяет инвестора.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
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NYC event Razom Ukraine: Rise of Ukraine as Technology Nation
1. Rise of the Technology Nation:
Ukraine tech key findings and sector highlights
Yevgen Sysoyev
Managing Partner
AVentures Capital
ys@aventurescapital.com
3. Despite odds, Ukraine software tech miracle is growing fast
Ukraine software tech industry is booming these days and
our country is increasing its role in the global knowledge economy
Dec 29, 2014Nov 24, 2014
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4. Snapchat acquired startup Looksery for $150MM
September 15, 2015
Looksery – a
two and a half
year-old
company from
Odessa, Ukraine
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5. Invest Ukraine? IT Sector? now?
Georges Soros said: yes, yes, yes
November 18, 2015
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6. So what is going on? Rise of Technology Nation
December 16, 2015
http://www.slideshare.net/YevgenSysoyev/ukraine-rise-of-a-technology-nation
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7. Ukraine has the largest and fastest-growing number of
IT professionals in Europe
Ukraine IT engineering work force is expected to double
to over 200,000 by 2020
Ukrainian talent can offer a wide range of engineering
capabilities
US market is the main destination for Ukrainian IT firms, with
an estimated 80% volume of exported services
Over the past year, Ukraine has significantly improved its
status in international business venue rankings
Ukraine has the long history of country of innovation and now it is unleashing its
potential in IT space, again
Key Findings: Pre-release 210-pages research “Rise of the Technology Nation”
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9. Ukraine IT sector delivers value to fortune 500 companies & beyond…
IT COMPANY
BASED IN UKRAINE
SELECTED CLIENTS
Ever growing number of Fortune 500 companies, and beyond, directly or indirectly has
a software shop in Ukraine
Software R&D in Ukraine is of highest world-class quality and certainly very
competitive compared to rest of world
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10. …to US & EU largest corporations, tech companies and startups
IT COMPANY
BASED IN UKRAINE
SELECTED CLIENTS
Those international players who come for R&D in Ukraine,
remain long-term partners and happy customers
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11. While many international companies even set up R&D centers in Ukraine
America Europe Asia
100+ global companies has already established R&D centers in Ukraine
Ukraine can still offer large pool of engineers for new R&D centers
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12. Growing number of Ukrainian startups become successful internationally
VERTICAL SELECTED COMPANIES
Web
Mobile
Enterprise
A decade ago, to succeed in the US market, one had to leave Ukraine. So many Ukrainians
left and went to US, Canada, Israel where they built large tech businesses
These days more and more talent stays locally to build global tech business, particularly
targeting US market
Appearance of first few Ukrainian “Unicorns” is on a horizon, I start the countdown…
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13. With many of these startups generating 99% revenue globally
and having HQ in USA
DESCRIPTION
REVENUE
STRUCTURE
R&D OFFICE
HQ AND
SALES OFFICES
IoT company that develops
interactive pet monitor
systems and mobile pet lovers
community
Online marketplace for digital
images, the leading player in
emerging markets
A leading provider of
software-defined storage for
Hyper-V Microsoft
environments
99% - global markets
1% - Ukrainian market
99% - global markets
1% - Ukrainian market
99,9% - global markets
0,1% - Ukrainian market
25 1 250 56
6 20 6
I’m personally proud to be part of these success stories out of Ukraine
Online, enterprise, consumer, mobile, IoT, payment, SaaS – all kinds of
international software tech companies emerge from Ukraine
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14. Fast developing sector across all dimensions …
Increasing number of
R&D centers in
Ukraine
Increased delivering
of world class
software globally
2,000+ startups =
Increased
internationally
success
Continued VC
investment activity
and international
M&A activity
2X increase for
MCap of EPAM and
Luxoft (R&D in
Ukraine)
Tech sector is accelerating the transformation of Ukraine
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15. … so IT sector is transforming the Ukrainian economy
and the country as whole
IT services export ranking IT services export ranking
2014F 2025E 2014F 2025E
#1 #1 #7 #1-2
Share of IT in Ukrainian exports to
the US stood at 40% in 2014
IT services is #1 export item to
the US and will remain so in 2025
Share of IT in total Ukrainian exports
was ca 4% in 2014, while it was
close to zero a decade ago
By 2025 IT services might
become #1-2 export item in the
total export structure of Ukraine
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16. …and it is already an important part of global tech value chain
#1 in CEE by # of
developers and
$ volume
#1 size of working
population in CEE
TOP 7 country with
the most engineering
graduates
TOP 3 by earnings
of freelancers
at eLance-Odesk
platform
Thanks to the strong technical education, Ukraine has superior human capital. Its
workforce of 100,000 IT professionals is world class and fast growing
Ukrainian IT sector is playing an increasingly important role on in a global
knowledge economy
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17. Who are those 90,000 IT professionals?
What do they do in IT?
60%
Which city are they based in?
30%
4%
3%
Outsourcing Freelance
Product Startup
Roles
Manager Developer Q&A
14%
55%
11%
11%
44%
15%
8%
8%
Lviv
Kyiv
Kharkiv
Dnipropetrovsk
Odessa
Which gender are they?
14% 86%
They have high education and speak 3-4 foreign languages, interact with the outside
world every day and help to build “new Ukraine” and its knowledge economy
With average age of less than 30 years and x5-10 higher salaries than its peers,
they form Western minded middle class who is putting pressure for reforms
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18. BrainBasket Foundation: Best investment is always education into people
New wave of social
educational project Coding
for Future for refugees and
military conflict participants
Technology Nation – is a
pan-Ukrainian educational
project that allows anyone
to study computer
programming for free
“How to get in IT” – “live”
video meetings for those
who wants to get into the
world of IT, but do not know
how to start.
School Boost is a project
that stands for
improvement of the quality
of teaching of IT in schools
BrainBasket goal is to educate 100,000 more IT professional within next 5 years, or
double the engineering workforce in Ukraine. This is what being done as we speak
JOIN US - SUPPORT UKRAINE!
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19. What: Global conference to promote Ukrainian Technology Ecosystem
Two tracks: Startups & Distributed Development
Where: Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area
When: April 21, 2016
Target Audience: Technology and business leaders of
US-based companies interested in working with global
technology experts; Ukrainian based technology
companies interested in US market exposure
Questions:
Zhenya Rozinskiy 818-272-8232 zhenya@mirigos.com
Nick Bilogorskiy 408-203-4323 nick@novaukraine.org
Bridging Ukrainian IT sector with partners, investors and customers in Silicon Valley
Global World Tech Conference: join us!
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20. Set up your R&D in Ukraine, tell your CTO-friends
Invest in Ukrainian tech, enjoy returns
Support the education initiative BrainBasket, help Ukrainian people
Have an idea for startup?
Get MVP quickly and efficiently with Ukrainian outsourcing firms
Your ideas are welcome too!
We are doing all of the above, so ask me questions!
How can we work together?
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