SPEAKERS
Tetiana Stakhivska
Co_Founder, Creascope & WHF Ambassador for Ukraine
Since 2000, Tetiana has been involved in marketing, consulting and the production of cultural and educational projects in the fields of design, fashion, food, trends, services and design thinking. She is also the co-founder of the annual international conference Creascope. Highly experienced in organizing cross-disciplinary activities, and with many years of communication with international speakers and partners, she helps create networks that benefit local businesses and initiatives. With her global perspective, she hopes build cultural bridges between Ukrainian creatives and the international scene.
Natalia Kryvda
Natalia Krivda is a culturologist, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Director of the MBA program at Edinburgh Business School, and today a volunteer at the “Come back alive” foundation. She is also the author of the monograph"Ukrainian Diaspora: the experience of the culture creation” and more than 120 scientific articles in addition to teaching materials in history and theory of Ukrainian culture, memorialization, cultural identity and values.
Jen Sidary
CEO & Founder, Angel for Fashion
Angels for Fashion introduces another amazing force within Ukraine: their phenomenal fashion industry. Promoting individual designers and encouraging customers to develop a personal emotional connection to their work. They are inspiring, courageous and you will see their values reflected in their creations. A place to shop and personally support the Ukrainian fashion industry. AFF was created to mobilize the global fashion community and ensure Ukrainian fashion continues to thrive. Their goal is for you to buy a piece of their heart that lies within every stitch of clothing, so please shop with confidence knowing you are supporting these companies with your purchase as the money goes directly to support the brand and their creative employees.
Irina Dzhus
Designer, DZHUS
DZHUS is a conceptual clothing and accessories brand founded in 2010 by Ukrainian designer and stylist Irina Dzhus. Avant-garde yet utilitarian, DZHUS clothing is internationally recognised by its innovative cut and multi-purpose transformations. From the day of its launch, DZHUS has been a vegan-friendly brand. All the products are ethically manufactured using cruelty-free materials only. In 2019, DZHUS won the Cruelty-free Fashion prize at Best Fashion Awards - the most prestigious fashion rating in Ukraine, and in 2020 and 2021, BFA nominated the brand in the Sustainable Fashion category. DZHUS’ customers are nonconformist intellectuals in search of a perfect shell for their distinctive inner world. Initially designed as womenswear, many of DZHUS garments have unisex aesthetics and fit.
Olena Shabaltas
Shabaltas
Shabaltas has always been and will be interested in modern materials, trends in design and architecture. Our brand stands for a happy life full of responsibility and freedom! Olena has always been interested in topics concerning femininity and the transformation of women at different ages being in different mood states and in different situations. The leading idea about both the way a woman thinks over her and the way society sees her is endless and will always be relevant. These parallels can be found in our product names. Shabaltas not only works as a brand of decor and accessories, but also as decorators, stylists.
Tetiana Filevska
creative director Ukrainian Institution, philosopher
Tetiana Filevska is a curator, cultural activist and researcher of 20th-century Ukrainian art. Tetiana has worked at the EIDOS Foundation, the Center for Contemporary Art Foundation, the “Izolyatsia” – a platform for cultural initiatives – and on the Mystetskyi arsenal team for its educational and public program. She has recently been involved in the representation of Ukraine at the 2022 Venice art biennial.
Father Roman Demush
Priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Deputy of the head of the Commission at the youth affairs of the UGCC.
A participant and initiator of cultural and educational visits at the school in the parish and in Berezhany, since 2002 Father Roman Demush has conducted summer parish camps which have expanded their activity on the territory of the parish. InNovember 2020 Father Demush became the Deputy head of the Commission of the UGCC on the Right Youth and was awarded the distinction of the Ternopil Regional Sovereign Administration and the Certificate of appreciation from the Mayor of Ternopil'. Father Demush recently has become the coordinator of the Humanitarian Headquarters at the Arch Cathedral Cathedral of the NZPB m. Ternopil.
Alexander Smirnov
curator Recreate Ukraine and co-founder and partner TABASCO
Alexander Smirnov is the curator of ReCreateUA, an open competition that calls on architects, illustrators, designers and artists from around the world to create concepts for the Ukrainian buildings destroyed & damaged during the current war. Olexandr is also partner and creative director of TABASCO and president of the Club of Ukrainian Art Directors. He has developed and implemented social campaigns for the government, UNDP and Amnesty international. He was awarded the Diploma of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for his significant personal contribution to the development of the volunteer movement, the creation and development of social projects for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and supporting the ATO forces, strengthening the defense capacity of the state. He has also been acknowledged for preparing a campaign dedicated to Crimean Tatar human rights activist Ervin Ibrahimov.
Danuta Kril
Co -founder Guculiya
Danuta Kril graduated from the National University of Forestry in Lviv, Department of Design(Master of Arts and Design). During her studies, she began her practice as a furniture designer, and later continued her independent work as an interior designer. She was a participant in all-Ukrainian and international competitions of object design. Under the brand VODA design. (In collaboration with colleague Vladimir Karalyus). Since 2012 she has been a co-owner of the Hoch Rayu design bureau, which has repeatedly won many design competitions. The main specialization is retail design, public space interiors, as well as object design. In 2020, she launched the Guculiya project, which brings together design and craft manufacturers in Ukraine. In 2021, the Guculiya.TINI project was shortlisted for Dezeen awards and won an award at the All-Ukrainian Design Competition.
Dartsia Tarkovska
Co-founder of Music Export Ukraine
Dartsya Tarkovska is a founder of music consulting agency Soundbuzz and a co-founder of Music Export Ukraine. She’s also an author of educational projects about music management and marketing. Dartsya is a speaker of The Great Escape (UK), Waves Vienna (Austria), Mundial Montreal (Canada), Mastering the Music Business (Romania), Nouvelle Prague (Czech Republic), MENT Ljubljana (Slovenia), Nimbs, PRO music USA, Successful Artist talk and others. Alumni of the International Marketing course at Berklee College of Music. Since 2018 she provides management support of Ukrainian artists at European showcase festivals.
Alina Kacharovska
Ceo & co-owner of Kacho Group and Melly the brand
Alina Kachorovska is CEO and co-owner of the Ukrainian fashion holding Kacho Group (brands Kachorovska, Melly, 1957coffeеbar), which manufactures shoes, bags and clothes. The company's mission is to give people the experience of happiness. Alina has been continuing the family's third-generation shoe business since 1957. While still a student, she began her work in the atelier for individual shoemaking and measured more than 10,000 feet of clients. All design and production is located in Ukraine. Kachorovska is a niche Ukrainian brand about affordable luxury and timeless shoes.
Viktoria Parhomenko
Founder of Klukva&Brukva Restaurant
Victoria Parkhomenko is known as an international gastronomy expert, restaurateur and founder of GastroSreda and Gastrotour projects, GastroConsulting agency. She is a leader of Slow food Kiev, an organization focusing on the ethical responsibilities of the food industry. Victoria develops restaurants from concept to opening day. She also organizes gastronomic dinners and festivals and is a master in all types of cuisines, including Thai Royal Cuisine and Southeast Asian. She also specializes in sourcing local products as well.
LIDEWIJ EDELKOORT
Co-Founder World Hope Forum
One of the world’s most renowned trend forecasters and colorists, Li is an intuitive thinker who constantly tracks how socio-cultural trends evolve. She is also a publisher, humanitarian, educator and exhibition curator. From 2015 to 2020 she was the Dean of Hybrid Studies at Parsons and she also founded New York Textile Month each September. She wrote the Anti_Fashion Manifesto in 2014 and is the co-author of A Labour of Love (Lecturis, 2020), presenting the work of a very new generation of conscious designers and makers. Her most recent endeavor is the World Hope Forum, dedicated to spreading hope across the globe through design in a post-pandemic landscape.
PHILIP FIMMANO
Co-Founder World Hope Forum
A trend analyst, design curator and writer, contributing to Trend Union’s forecasting books, magazines and strategic studies for international companies in fashion, interiors and lifestyle. Fimmano along with his partner Lidewij Edelkoort, has co-created exhibitions for museums and institutions around the world, including Tokyo's 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Design Museum Holon and the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris. In 2011, he co-founded Talking Textiles; an ongoing initiative to promote awareness and innovation in textiles through touring exhibitions, a trend publication, a design prize and free educational programmes – including New York Textile Month, a citywide festival celebrating textile creativity each September. Fimmano teaches a forecasting masters at Polimoda in Florence and is on the board of directors for the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe.