15 December 2023
Scientific and technological conference “IT Stars”

“IT Stars” — new stars of the IT sphere!
We hope that we at Odesa IT Family managed to inspire you with new ideas, thoughts and vectors of development at our scientific and technological conference.

More than 130 students
6 Universities
10 technical departments

Students were very active! A lot of raised hands, lots of questions, lots of gifts!

We have inspected for you interesting theses from the lectures:
Do not neglect your hobby – advice for those looking for a job!
Books worth reading: “Turn the ship around” and “Negotiations with dolphins”.
GPT chat can be a mentor instead of a Senior specialist.
If you don’t know English, don’t write “fluent” in your CV (and it’s even better to improve your language skills).
Be the first or die – no longer works.
It is important to get noticed with the team!

We thank our speakers — Vlad Shimov, CEO of Capgemini Engineering Ukraine, and Olena Grigorko, Regional Department Manager (Dnipro&Odesa), for your inspiring stories about modern technologies, oft and hard skills, etc.
We would like to thank Elizaveta Mileninia, manager of educational programs of the NGO “Junior Achievement Ukraine”, Yan Shapiro, founder of U-Nation, the first international startup accelerator in the south of Ukraine, Iryna Tishchenko, head of the marketing and public relations department, teacher of the department of marketing and international logistics, product manager, business consultant for the implementation of the product management methodology at enterprises, Ekaterina Solovei, CEO Odesa IT Family for a lively panel discussion on how to find the first job.

We are glad that by teaming up with universities, we have created a cool event for students!
We thank the National University “Odesa Polytechnic”, the Institute of Computer Systems of the Odesa Polytechnic, the Odesa National University named after I.I. Mechnikova, Faculty of Cyber Security, Software Engineering and Computer Sciences of the International Humanities University, Odesa National University of Technology, Odesa National University of Economics and National University “Odesa Law Academy” Faculty of Cyber Security and Information Technologies

We would also like to thank our partners – UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, DataArt, Capgemini Engineering, Hillel Computer School / Hillel It School and UZSPACE UZSPACE – for the gifts for the participants!
More to come! Follow the announcements!

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