We invite you to this year’s last meeting in scope of Community LvBS project on Thursday, December 21. It is featured by the format and the topic. Owing to the networking format advantages, we will be able to practice using design-thinking for business with Oleksandr Akymenko, who has been studying design thinking at Stanford University! Registration for the event has begun.
The co-founder and CEO of Platformedia Company, an innovation advisor, LvBS lecturer, Oleksandr Akymenko will tell the participants what design thinking is and in which cases it is worthwhile to use this technique.
He will also share case studies clearly illustrating how companies and universities create innovation. And what is more, he will hold interactive session to work together in design thinking and understand how to apply it to work and life!
The meeting begins at 18:30. Participation fee: UAH 400.
Participants of the LvBS Community can attend on usual terms.
ЗареєструватисьWrite to the e-mail spilnota@lvbs.com.ua to take part in the event.
To learn more about the LvBS Community project call +38(067) 675 66 08.
Oleksandr Akymenko
Co-founder and CEO of Platformedia. Publisher of the Internet magazine http://platfor.ma/, Innovation Advisor. He was an editor and a journalist up to 2014. Stanford University JSK Fellow 2015/16.
In July 2016, he graduated from the JSK Fellowship program at Stanford University, where he studied strategic management, entrepreneurship, basics of venture capital, media business, investment, design thinking, disruptive innovation, and the democracy development.
He headed the department of journalistic investigations of the Ukrainian version of Forbes magazine from early 2012 till August 2013. Majored in exposing corruption of the state senior officials: tender, financial fraud, offshore schemes, smuggling, and ownership transparency.
After the Dignity Revolution victory participated in the project YanukovychLeaks.org, which was aimed at preserving and providing free access to documents of the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych that were thrown into the Dnieper River. As a result of the project, more than 20 thousand internal accounting documents of Yanukovych companies were dried up, digitized and posted for open access. The documentary film “Newsroom Mezhyhirya” has been shot about the joint efforts of journalists and their work.
At various times in his career, he worked on materials for Thomson Reuters, Buzzfeed, Ukrainska Pravda (Українська правда), Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Дзеркало тижня), Svidomo (Свідомо) Bureau, “Inter” TV channel.
In 2016, together with his wife Kateryna, created a concept and offered the Center for the Democracy and Rule of Law of Stanford University to establish Ukrainian Emerging Leadership Program, an annual educational program for the new leaders of Ukraine, which, starting from the fall of 2017 will accept three professionals in the field of reforms, law, economic development, and entrepreneurship per annum.
