10:00 -  11:00  Registration of participants, coffee break

11:00 – 11:05  Formal opening of the Forum

11:05 – 14:00 Forum sessions: the discussion on

Challenges and prospects of  high technologies

development and implementation in Ukraine

11:05 – 11:10 Maxim Shkolnick, International Charitable Foundation “Technobridge”,

Chairman of the Board

Speech of welcome: Ukraine as a potential actor of the global hi-tech market. Prospects and challenges.

11:10 – 11:25 Lawrence Burstein, Unity Venture Capital, President:

What interest do foreign investors have in Ukraine? From expectations to practice.

11:25 – 11:45 Andrey Gurjiy, First Deputy Minister

of science end education of Ukraine:

The state regulation of the innovation activity in Ukraine.

11:45 – 12:05 Valeriy Lanovenko, Microsoft Ukraine, Director-General:

IT and education in Ukraine.

12:05 – 12:25 Igor Mendzebrovsky, IT-Ukraine Association, President, SoftServe Company, President:

IT-industry development strategy.

12:25 – 12:40 Anton Zatsepin, Adviser of the Chairman of the National Agency for Investments and Innovations:

The city of high technologies. Presentation of the Project.

14:00 – 14:45 Break. Luncheon.

14:45 – 15:00 The audience’ division pursuant to the accreditation information: one part participates in the discussion workshops, another – attends the seminar.

Both events are simultaneous.

15:00 – 17:45 The Seminar: Scientific, practical and legal aspects of intellectual property protection. Room 1.

Experts of the State Scientific and Research Institute of Intellectual Property of the Academy of Law Sciences of Ukraine:

- O. Shtefan, Chief of the Copyright and allied rights Department, candidate of law sciences, Assistant Professor:

Intellectual property rights protection.

- V. Krashcenko, Senior Research Assistant, candidate of technical sciences:

Intellectual property in plain notions.

Invited experts:

- Eduard Fomenko, Zaporojiye Chamber of Industry and Commerce:

Intellectual property protection: legal practice.

- N. Koshkina, V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine:

 Protection of paper information by means of spectral methods of computer stenography.

- Alexander Litvinenko, National Aviation University:

Computer technologies in intellectual property protection.

12:40 Leonid Tovajnyansky, National Technical University of Ukraine “Kharkov Politechnical Institute”, Rector:

High technologies – scientific research and developments of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kharkov Politechnical Institute”; Establishment of educational-scientific-industrial complex  (UNPK) for informatics and management system analysis “Silicon Valley”.

13:00 – 13:10  Alexander Korenev, SMF “EnranTelecom”, Director-General:

Information technologies in Ukraine – challenges and prospects of implementation.

13:10 – 13:20  Inna Gagauz, “Kharkov Technologies” Centre for small business development, Director:

Internet-projects as an instrument for innovations’ implementation in the society.

13:20 – 13:30 Vladislav Korol’kov, Zaporojiye National Technical University, Dean of the faculty of economy:

Structural model of a high technology and specific patterns of its implementation.

13:30 – 13:40 Pavel Tzibulev, The Institute of Intellectual Property and Law, First pro-rector:

The role of intellectual property in high technologies creation.

13:40 – 13:50 Constantine Pakhotin, Private Educational Institution “European University”, Assistant Professor:

Main challenges of the high technical school reform.

13:50 – 14:00 Yelena Yaremchuk, Young Scientists Association “Intellectual Leadership”, President:

Young scientific elite’s intellectual property development.

15:00 – 17:45 Discussion workshops. Room 2.

- Discussion workshop #1.

Main topic: Computer software.

Moderator: Yevgeniy Sazansky, Microsoft Ukraine.

Personal topics:

-         The use of software in education.

-         Computer mathematics.

-         Modern trends of computer software design tools.

-         Software developers’ IPR protection, registration of programs.

- Discussion workshop #2.

Main topic: Computer hardware.

Moderator: Zuban Yuri

Candidate of technical sciences, Sumy State University

Personal topics:

-         Methods and devises in data compression

-         The field of data encoding theory

- Discussion workshop #3.

Main topic: Internet and networks.

Moderator: Yegor Anchishkin, United Software Corporation, Business Development Manager.

Personal topics:

-         Consolidation of computing resources for resolution of global tasks.

-         How to make a broadband available.

-         The Future of blogging.

-         Corporate Wikipedia.

- Discussion workshop #4.

Main topic: Computer (information) security.

Moderator: Dennis Kudin, Information Security Center, Ltd., Technical Director.

Personal topics:

-         Detection/identification of “spy” programs.

-         Necessity of control over employees’ desktops.

-         PKI – problems and prospects.

-         Security of workstations.

-         Security technologies and products.

 - Discussion workshop #5.

Main topic: Communications (mobile and non-mobile technologies).

Moderator: Sergey Bunin, Scientific and Research Institute of Telecommunications, Department of Telecommunications, Head.

Personal topics:

-         Worldwide trends in telecommunications.

-         Challenges of intellectual monitoring systems creation.

-         Operative communication technologies