History

2014
2015
2016
2017

IT Arena in 3 years

4000+

participants

270

outstanding
speakers

400+

unique startups

32

workshops

265

hours
of exciting talks

25

countries

11

unforgettable
afterparties

IT Arena 2016

Launched in 2014 as a local event, IT Arena has quickly grown as one of the biggest tech conferences in Eastern Europe. In 2016 nearly 1800 participants, including developers, entrepreneurs, business analysts, designers and startuppers from 12 countries and almost every region of Ukraine have united to discuss the latest tech tendencies. Representatives of some of the world leading companies were included in the conference lineup: IBM, Philips, AlmazCapital, Twitter, Spotify, Uber, Microsoft etc.

IT Arena 2016 explored topics ranging from breakthrough technologies to challenges IT business in Ukraine is facing at the moment. The conference was divided into four streams: Technology Hands On and Technology Innovation, Product, Business. Every day participants could choose lectures from a list with more than 20 positions. In addition, participants had a chance to take part in workshops – there were 6 of them during the conference.

2000+

Participants

80+

Speakers

60%

Foreigners

10

Workshops

1

Tech Expo

3

Afterparties

Speakers

Esther Dyson - the most influential woman in IT according to The New York Times, Anton and Irene - a multicultural duet of New-York based designers, Stephen Russo from IBM and Aleksandro Grabulov from Philips have become the real rockstars of the conference.

80 speakers from 14 countries:

Belarus
Canada
Finland
France
Germany

Lithuania
Moldova
Netherlands
Poland
Spain

Sweden
UK
Ukraine
USA

Competition of Startups

Startup Competition became one of the highlights of the conference. In total 80 startups took part in it, but only 10 made their way to finals. Viosk (Ukraine) won the best B2B startup, and Likely (Slovakia) was nominated as the best B2C startup. The winner of Startup Competition – Blynk won The Best Pitch nomination.

Futureland Festival 2016

Everyday after parties have been productive sites for networking. The last day of the conference finished with the mega-show – Futureland Festival, attended by more than 2600 visitors. The world famous drum&bass DJ Netsky performed at Arena Lviv Stadium accompanied with a great light show and DJ Omnia – the only Ukrainian DJ who got into the list of world’s Top 100 DJs.

IT Arena 2015

The second IT Arena, held on October 2-4 2015, brought together about 1400 participants including hundreds of IT professionals, top managers, designers, investors, entrepreneurs and startuppers. The number of the attendees exceeded the expectations of organizers – the conference almost doubled in size compared to 2014.

In 2015, the conference consisted of 3 simultaneous streams: Product, Technology and Business. Attendees could visit discussions conducted in English, Ukrainian or Russian and listen to speakers coming from 10 countries (USA, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Estonia, Russia, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine). The selection of speakers was decent and included representatives from IBM Design, Amazon, FitBit, Epson, Facebook, SAP, HP, Petcube and Microsoft.

Speakers included representatives

Conference geography:

Azerbaijan
Belgium
Germany

Greece
Lithuania
Poland

Romania
Netherlands
Ukraine

UAE
UK
USA

Tech Expo

Hi-tech Expo – an exhibition of robots and latest IT developments also took place within the conference. Participants had a chance to pilot drones, experience VR and interact with the legendary NAO robot.

Startup Competition

Traditionally, Startup Competition was held on the last day of the conference. 13 young startups and entrepreneurs competed for 5,000$ in Amazon Cloud Services and a chance to attend the Traction Camp.

Closing IT Arena 2015

Even though the conference agenda was packed with talks, the organizers have left some space for entertainment too. The final day of the conference ended with a performance of a well-known Ukrainian band – TNMK.

IT Arena 2014

The first IT Arena took place on October 2-4 2014. Being a meeting ground for 800 participants, including IT professionals from all directions (software engineers, designers, QAs), CEOs, young entrepreneurs and startups the conference became the biggest tech event in Western Europe.