On the 27th of November 2018, Kyiv will host the annual Investment Forum to unite innovators, inventors, and pioneers in business and science. Over its 3-year history, Kyiv Investment Forum has become a large-scale platform for common projects of the city authorities, the business community, and civil society. The main topic of this year is innovation. Forum participants will come together to discuss how to contribute to the city’s development and attract investments, with particular focus on the following issues:

The ecosystem of Innovations: education – science – business. Innovations commercialization and transfer of technologies

What can the city offer to inventors and innovators? Nationwide and municipal programs in Ukraine

Financial tools for innovations: what the commercial sector can offer? Risks and benefits for investors

Investing in innovations: how the investors see it

Made in UA: cases from Ukraine

Thematic sections will focus on ІТ, software|hardware|R&D centers, fin-tech innovations, innovations in healthcare, and pharmacology.
The speakers of Kyiv Investment Forum-2018 include:

- Vitaliy Klitschko, Kyiv Major

- Oksana Markarova, acting Minister of Finances of Ukraine

- Yulia Kovaliv, Head of Office National Investment Council of Ukraine

- Volodymyr Stavnyuk, Chairman of the Board of The State Finance Institution for Innovations (SFII)

- Andy Hunder, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine

- Oleksandr Nesterenko, СЕО ARTKB (industrial design)

- Dmytro Ovcharenko, СЕО Alcor (R&D center opening in Ukraine)

- Kira Rudik, СОО of Ring Ukraine Company

- Vitaliy Cherniuk, Directorate of Innovation and Technology Transfer, Head of Expert Group on Communications and Strategic Planning, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

Background information:
Kyiv Investment Forum-2017 united more than 650 representatives of businesses, investors, diplomats, national and city authorities, international financial institutions and mass media from 19 countries –Austria, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Georgia, Moldova, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, USA, Germany, UK, Ukraine, and others.