• 09.07.2025
  • The Building Hotel, Via Montebello, 126, 00185 Roma RM, Italy

One day before the Ukrainian Recovery Conference, U-Nation brings together investors, enterprises, government officials, public leaders and NGOs for “Innovations to Rebuild Ukraine” — a space to connect, collaborate, and turn recovery ideas into real projects on the ground in Ukraine.

🔹 Opportunities to connect with global partners and impact-driven players
🔹 Expert panels with investors & industry leaders
🔹 Presentations of recovery projects for Ukraine

Program is built around such a transformative sectors:

  • AGRICULTURE & FOOD
  • SMART CITY & CONSTRUCTION

  • MANUFACTURING

  • DEFENSE & DUAL-USE TECH

  • HEALTHCARE & REHABILITATION

  • ENERGY & MINERALS

Program:

  • 13.30 Registration

  • 14.00 Opening Panel: Officials

  • 14.40 U-Nation projects presentation

  • 15.00 Investment. Overview of Ukraine

  • 15.15 “Military & Dual-Use Technologies: From Defense to Recovery”

  • 16.15 Coffee Break

  • 16.30 Healthcare & rehabilitation

  • 17.10 Сonstruction & smart city

  • 17.25 Smart city & construction

  • 18.15 Coffee Break

  • 18.30 Manufacture industrie

  • 19.10 Agriculture & food

Thanks to partners, without whose support this would not have been possible:

UADUT | Ukrainian Dual-Use Technology Cluster

Karma Group

Ukrainian Venture Capital

Private Equity Association (UVCA)

UKA Україно-Корейська асоціація нового будівництва

Algeco Italia

Regional Development Agency of Odesa Region

Cherkasy Regional Development Agency

Speakers

Mr. Herman Smetanin

Ukraine

Minister for Strategic Industries of Ukraine

Orest Tokac

Ukraine

Policy Coordinator – Ukraine Relief & Reconstruction European Commission

Mr. Lee Yang-goo

Republic of Korea

 Former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Ukraine, President, Korea–Ukraine New Building Association (KUNBA)

Oleksandr Turchenyak

Ukraine

Deputy Head of Cherkasy Regional State Administration

Yan Shapiro

Ukraine

Founder / CEO U-Nation

Andriy Kolodiuk

Ukraine

Chairman Ukrainian Venture Capital & Private Equity association

Christoph Alexander Geisler

Germany

Managing Director, OSEGS gGmbH (Organization for Science, Education & Global Society)

Oleksandr Kamyshyn

Ukraine

Former Minister for Strategic Industries of Ukraine

David Aloyan

Ukraine

Deputy Minister for International Affairs of the Ministry of Strategic Industries of Ukraine

Elisabetta Trenta

Italy

Former Minister of Defence of Italy, Italian Ministry of Defence; Centro Militare di Studi Strategici (CEMISS)

Robert Ilatov

Israel

Former Member of the Israeli Knesset and Chairman of the Yisrael Beiteinu faction (waiting for confirmation)

Luciano Quarta

Italy

member of the National Security Committee of the Unipegaso University

Anastasia Yushchenko

Ukraine

Ukrainian Dual-Use Technology Cluster

Kaia Demchuk

Ukraine

Founder of Global Partnership for Ukraine (GPU), Advocate for reforms, recovery, and international cooperation

Mark Vytvytskyy

Canada

Vice President & Chair of Innovation & Technology Committee, Member of Supervisory BoardCanada Ukraine Chamber of Commerce

Marco Toson

Ukraine

President, Ukrainian Consortium of Reconstruction

Yevhen Krylov

Ukraine

Representative of the DOC Center and the initiator of the creation of the National Rehabilitation Center “Green Hill”

Vito Amati

Italia

CEO, Managing Director

Mihaela Artis

Italia

Managing Director Algeco Eastern Europe

Mr. Bronislav Kulikov

Chairman, Supervisory Board, JSC WITKOWITZ Atomica

Mr. David Chrobok

Chairman of the Board, JSC WITKOWITZ Atomica

Mr. Yaroslav Korniiachenko

CEO, Vlasne Misto Project

Roman Grygoryshyn

Chairman of Ukrainian Korean Business Council

Mariia Koshkina

CEO of the Cities of Future Foundation

Michaela Macharik

President Czech-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry & Commerce

Marcus Ciupek 

Co-Owner & Executive Time&Space Ukraine

Olga Trofimtseva

Sector Lead Agriculture and Food Security Ukraine Facility Platform

Petr Stransky

Partner IDAP Global, Founder & CEO iCEIBA

Wesley Jordan

CEO Vision Fund Ukraine