VIII Global Ukrainians Forum

The only platform in Ukraine that systematically develops a network of highly educated Ukrainian expats who are visionaries of the global world, help scale social projects of Ukrainian communities worldwide and believe in the global expansion of Ukrainian creative brands, will present a unique Global Ukraine application (iOS, Android, Web) and talk about some future development projects in order to attract intellectual and financial resources to local development projects in Ukraine.

The Forum expects representatives of the Ukrainian government and local self-government bodies will attend, MPs, representatives of international organizations and embassies in Ukraine, representatives of the Ukrainian business and expert environment who will be able tobrainstorm over the strategy of attracting intellectual and financial resources of Ukrainian expats, migrants and diaspora, for the acceleration of the development within the hromadas in Ukraine and for a more systemic promotion of Ukrainian IT, HighTech and other creative industries globally.

The Forum's work program is available following the link (http://bit.do/ProgramGlobalUkrainiansForum) and in the Global Ukraine application (on the Apple Store and on Google Play). More information about the application and the Forum can be found in the press conference record (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPslQSRKefU, in Ukrainian).

The forum will give to the participants the opportunity to:

1. Learn about the functionality of the unique Global Ukraine application (developed with the new #SmartNation technology), which will open up new formats of cooperation with the progressive and effective leaders of the Ukrainian diaspora of the world, for a moresystematic and effective promotion of Ukraine's imageand voice in the world.2. Learn about the launch of the hugely important #UndiscoveredUkraine crowdsourcing project, where everyone can add the Ukrainian brands that can travel worldwide more intensely and the Ukrainian pearls for which tourists should come to Ukraine.3. Get acquainted and make friends with several dozens of extremely talented Global Ukrainians Ambassadors who will tell you how the 7 Handshake Theory becomes 2,5-3 times shorter for Ukrainian creative brands, thanks to the Global Ukrainians Network.4. To be among the first to learn how Global Ukraine plans to create mechanisms for the return of intellectual and financial capital of Ukrainian expats to Ukraine (using blockchain and smart contracts new technologies).5. Communicate around the new digital strategies for the sustainable development of Ukrainian hromadas, the exciting perspectives for global expansion of the Ukrainiancreative economy through the Global Ukrainians Network’s business clubs & business hubs, the parliamentary initiatives aiming to ensure the constitutional rights for Ukrainian migrant workers, etc.

Everyone who wishes to learn more about the Global Ukrainians Network’s public, cultural, sciences and business diplomacy, to strengthen the existing initiatives and aim to promote Ukraine's interests globally on a daily basis in order to return Ukraine to the club of the strong powers of the world (as it was by the times of Anne of Kyiv) is invited to participate in the Forum !

The recommendations of the speakers, experts and participants of the Forum will be sent to the relevant state institutions, which will develop a national reintegration policy for Ukrainian highly educated and globally connected expats. We know how to bring home the "knowledge, experience and mental values" of all Ukrainians in the world !

Links for registration:for officials: http://bit.do/GUForumOfficialsRegistration for representatives of Ukrainian business and public organizations:http://bit.do/GUForumBusinessCivilSocietyRegistration for the media: http://bit.do/GUForumMediaRegistration

Seats are limited, registration on the first day of the Forum will be confirmed according to the number of seats available. For the strategic workshops on the second day will only be invited the representatives of organizations that have experienced former cooperation with the Global Ukrainians Network, in order to develop a strategy for joint cultural, scientific and business diplomacy projects for 2020.