With support of the Consulate General of Ukraine in San Francisco the large-scale IT Conference “UKRAINE TECH GEM” (www.utgem.co) focused on potential and opportunities of the IT industry of Ukraine in the USA will be held on 18th September 2014 in Hyatt Regency Hotel.
Over 500 participants are expected to attend this Conference. The delegation of Ukraine embraces representatives of all national IT sectors (outsourcing companies, technological enterprises and business-incubators, investment funds as well as educational and scientific institutions, NGOs).
The Coordination Committee, which included representatives of the leading Ukrainian IT companies (AVentures, EPAM, Happy Farm, SoftServe, Ciklum, Stanfy, Bionic University, Brain Basket Foundation etc.), was in charge of the Conference preparation.
The official delegation of Ukraine will be headed by Mr. Valeriy Omelchenko, the Chairman of Informatization and Information Technologies Committee of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine.
The Conference Keynote speakers are famous Ukrainian singer (World Music Award and Eurovision Song Contest winning artist) and civil activist (UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador) Ruslana Lyzhychko, senior officers of the world leading IT corporations, such as «Intel», «Hewlett Packard», «500 Startups» and «Andreessen Horowitz», as well as rating companies «PriceWaterHouseCoopers» and «Forbes».