Binary Studio at UTGEM in San Francisco
September 18th, San Francisco. Hayat Regency – posh hotel in the heart of the city is has become the center of Ukraine Tech life just for one day.
European Business Association together with Happy farm business accelerator organized the most ambitious yet event of the Ukrainian IT abroad – UTGEM.
Supported by the Government of Ukraine, and the Consulate General of Ukraine in San Francisco, the event boasted a great number of speakers from both US and Ukrane, anonng them also many prominent speakers, such as Steve Goldberg (Venrock), Ruslana Lyzhychko, Torben Majgaard (Ciklum), Sridhar Solur (Director @ HP Mobility and Cloud Services).
Our CEO Artem Goncharov who’s recently moved to Silicon Valley and is currently studying to get his MBA at UC Berkeley had to skip classes to attend UTGEM. Artem shares his impressions about the event:
“The atmosphere of the event was exceptional; the rooms were filled with patriotic symbolic, people wearing national cloths (vishivankas) and even Ukrainian sweets, made me believe I was back home. The exhibition hall included company presentation stalls, startup and VC alleys: companies and startups Ukrainian VC – mostly from the states. They also organized demonstration of Ukrainian tech products, that’s how I tested Petcube!
Unfortunately I didn’t have a chance to spend a whole day, so I listened just to a few talks by Torben Majgaard from Ciklum and CEO of Epam. Ruslana was extremely proactive and open, talking to people her main point was to understand what she could do to help Ukrainian IT.”
We hope that events of such kind will become a tradition and thus Ukraine will become well known worldwide as a tech gem of the Europe.
Source: Binary Studio
