TEDxKharkiv

Speakers

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• PULS DANCE SCHOOL

  A Puls Dance School was founded by Lena Pul in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Lena is a passionate dancer and choreographer, a participant and a winner of Ukrainian Dance TV Shows. The dancing group consists of non-professional dancers.

• Aleksandr Kostenko

• Anastasiya Leukhina

  Anastasiya has been recently involved in various aspects of law enforcement reform in Ukraine. She worked as a Head of the Vetting Commission of the National Police of Ukraine, consulted the launch of the new patrol police, contributed to Carnegie Ukraine Reform Monitor and implemented many projects to develop Ukrainian civil society.

• Anton Senenko

  Anton Senenko is a senior scientific researcher at the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. His scientific interests are nanotechnology. Also, Anton is known for his activity as a popularizer of science, educator, and blogger who covers not only scientific events but researches and writes about social issues in Ukraine.

• Dmytro Gadomsky

  Dmytro Gadomsky is an information technology lawyer, educator, innovator, community activist and mentor for many tech entrepreneurs in Ukraine. Being a successful lawyer, Dmytro contributes to developing a strong tech and entrepreneurial community and helps free of charge budding entrepreneurs and startups to establish their businesses. Also, he is known for his unusual look at the corporate rules. He implements Agile in the management of his law firm Axon Partners.

• Evgeny Komarovsky

  Evgeny Komarovsky is one of the most famous and most outstanding pediatricians in Ukraine and countries of the former USSR. He is a Doctor of Medical Sciences, television presenter and author of more than 20 books on child care and health and common sense of parents.

• Fedor Boytsov

  Fedor Boytsov is an architect, inventor, and a keeper of the architectural heritage from Odessa, Ukraine. In recent years he has been developing a technology to preserve digitally old buildings in Odessa and Kyiv. He runs a Pixelated Realities NGO which scans historical and architectural objects in order to create digital passports based on which those objects could be restored.

• HeartBeat Brass Band

  HeartBeat Brass Band was formed by childhood friends in Kharkiv in 2011. Musicians get inspiration from their idols - Youngblood Brass Band and Hypnotic Brass Enseble. HBBB play covers for popular compositions and they develop their own style. Playing on the city streets, guys give joy and good mood to passers-by. If you visit Kharkiv, come to the place in front of the Kharkiv National Academic Theater for Opera and Ballet. Perhaps you are lucky to hear and see their live performance :)

• Igor Klyuchnik

  Igor Klyuchnik is an actor, innovator, experimentator and co-founder of "The Beautiful Flowers Theatre" in Kharkiv. They founded the unique genre called Funk Futurism. Another Igor's initiative is a Testo Acting School ("testo" is translated as a dough).

• Oleksiy Chekal

• Pavlo Bondarenko

  Pavlo Bondarenko is in charge of communications in Ecoisme, the energy startup that develops the home energy monitoring system. Ecoisme won the EDF Pulse 2016 Award in Smart Home category established by Électricité de France (EDF).

• Sergei Petrov (aka Bob Basset)

  Sergei Petrov is a designer and a co-founder of Bob Basset. Bob Basset is a virtual artist whose creations are as fantastical as he is. You can see Bob Basset's masks in videos of Slipknot, Korn, Metallica and cinema. Sergei lives and works in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

• Tetyana Gavrysh

  Tetyana Gavrysh is one of the best international legal experts in Ukraine. Besides legal practice, she has the authority of the Honorary Consul of Germany in Kharkiv. Tetyana Gavrysh is actively involved in public service. She was one of the organizers of an educational project “School of Entrepreneurship” for senior high school students. Tetyana was in charge of charitable funds like “Bereg Nadezhdy” (Shore of Hope) and “The Renaissance”, the activity of which was aimed to support social projects in culture, education and arts.

• Vladyslav Momot