On June 30, 2018, the Congress Center of SSU was the “SUMY PM COMMUNITY” Forum, which was organized by the NGO “Young Scientists Council” with grant from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development under the EU4Business initiative of the European Union.
The “SUMY PM COMMUNITY” Forum which was called the “Sumy Project Managers Community as a Component of IT Business Development” brought together representatives of Sumy’s leading IT companies such as MindK, Brocoders, PortaOne, NetCracker, Apptimized and AMC Bridge, as well as representatives of SSU`s ELIT faculty. These are programmers, testers, designers, project managers and business owners.
The forum achieved its goal – to bring together different Sumy IT companies at one common platform to share experience, discuss problematic issues, develop a joint strategy for developing the IT sphere of the region, and create an IT cluster.
Within the forum, a practical workshop on Project Proposal was held by Karine Makaryan, product manager, business analyst at international IT company AlreadyOn (Oslo-Kyiv).
The event was moderated by Bogdan Gaydabrus, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies (ELIT) of SSU.
The speakers of the forum included:
Alexander Roth-Serov, Director of PortaOne (Sumy),
Rodion Salnik, CEO and Founder of Brocoders IT Company (Sumy).
Oleg Nesterov, CEO and Founder of the IT company MindK (Sumy).
Mykola Sergienkov, Regional Manager, Technical Solution Support, NetCracker.
Timur Khalilov, Analyst at EBRD Small and Medium Business Finance and Development Group (Kharkiv).
Olga Nazarenko, Lead PM MindK.
Andriy Koreyba, Director of the Kyiv Branch of the STEP Computer Academy (Kyiv).
Vladislav Dombrowski, Head of Operations, Apptimized Operation (Sumy).
Vladimir Smirnov, managing director of Apptimized Operations (Sumy).
Kateryna Potapenko, PM Brocoders (Sumy).
Studing, discussing problematic issues of the industry, motivating speakers and live communication – the forum was not only productive and useful, but also encouraged participants to further dialogue, develop a common strategy, create a true IT community.
