Summary from Sessions tagged “Academia”
- Universities and foundations act as long‑horizon stewards for sovereign digital capacity. Linux Foundation, IEEE and NaUKMA illustrate how open standards, curricula, and governance forums create durable infrastructure and lower adoption risk for the state and industry.
- Education pipelines are shifting to applied, industry‑aligned delivery. NaUKMA’s master’s track, educator meetups, and cross‑faculty collaborations aim to produce practitioners for identity, market design, and AI safety rather than only theory.
- Research themes connect ethics and implementation: verifiable credentials, privacy‑preserving proofs, and responsible AI are treated as prerequisites for benefits, pensions, and grid operations where stakes are high.
- Panels and meetups bridge silos. Public sector, industry, and academia converge on pragmatic paths: shared datasets, reproducible methods, and procurement‑ready pilots to accelerate from idea to impact.
- International linkages (EU, Taiwan, UN) inform course content and lab practices, reinforcing interoperability and credibility when exporting Ukrainian pilots abroad.
Related sessions
Speaker | Bio | Topic | Youtube |
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Legislator Ko | Legislator At-Large of Taiwan Parliament, Vice Co-chair of Legislative-yuan US-Taiwan Caucus (LUC), Founder and Chair of Emerging Technology Exchange Association (ETEA) | Rebuilding Trust: From Ukraine’s Web3 Manifesto to Taiwan’s Digital Democracy | www.youtube.com |
Dr. Stefan Craß | Senior Researcher & Area Manager @ ABC Research | Blockchain Perspectives from Austria | www.youtube.com |
Dr. Alex Norta | IEEE Finland Blockchain Group | Leveraging Blockchain for Ethical AI: Mitigating Digital Threats and Strengthening Societal Resilience | www.youtube.com |
Prof. Dr. Roman Beck | The European Decentralisation Institute, Bentley University | Digital Sovereignty to Rebuild Ukraine | www.youtube.com |
Prof. Wei Cai | University of Washington | Preliminary Studies on decentralized communities in Conflicts and Societal Prosperity | www.youtube.com |
Max Semenchuk | Program Director @Web3 Institute, Advisor to the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine | Web3 Institute Results, Plans & Invitations | www.youtube.com |
Jess Scully | Executive Director, RadicalxChange | Inspiring radical imagination and enabling collective action | www.youtube.com |
Panel: Impact of Decentralization in Key Sectors of Ukraine’s Digital Economy | Sergii Grybniak – Presenter & Moderator Alex Bornyakov – Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Ramesh Ramadoss, PhD – Chair, IEEE Blockchain Technical Community Paul Brody – Principal & Global Blockchain Leader, Ernst & Young Hart Montgomery – CTO, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Dimitrios Psarrakis – Board Director, GBBC | Impact of Decentralization in Key Sectors of Ukraine’s Digital Economy | www.youtube.com |
Dr. Ramesh Ramadoss | Entrepreneur | Researcher | Author | Speaker | Chair, IEEE Blockchain Technical Community | AI and Blockchain: Current Challenges and Opportunities | www.youtube.com |
Prof. Umit Cali | Digital Engineering for Future Technologies and Legal Tech Expert (LL M.), University of York | Techno-Legal Guardrails for (Generative) AI and Blockchain, Toward Digital Sovereignty in Critical Infrastructure | www.youtube.com |
Gayan Benedict | Technology Partner at PwC | MIT CISR Industry Research Fellow | ISO TC/307 Blockchain Standards Committee | Governing ecosystems - applications in architecture and resilience | www.youtube.com |
Olha Osinska | Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Head of Sandbox for AI and blockchain startups | Sandbox for AI and blockchain startups | www.youtube.com |
Kyrylo Gorokhovskyi | Senior lecturer at faculty of informatics NaUKMA, CEO BRKS Labs LLC, Senior blockchain solution architect, Solidity, Rust, Move software engineer. | Master's certificate program Blockchain technologies at NaUKMA - how to integrate business demands into educational process | www.youtube.com |
Daniela Barbosa | General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust | Open Source: collaborative innovation in shaping the digital foundations of resilient economies. | www.youtube.com |
Vakhtanh Chikhladze | Postgraduate Researcher in National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Quant and Blockchain Developer | Conceptual Framework for Building Decentralized Electricity Markets Based on Derivative Instruments Using Blockchain Technology. | www.youtube.com |
Dmytro Maslov | NASU, Web3 Institute | DeSci: Decentralized Science Publishing and the Future of Research Evaluation | www.youtube.com |
Web3 Educators, Researchers & Students Meetup | Євгенія Поліщук, професорка кафедри корпоративних фінансів і контролінгу Київського національного економічного університету імені Вадима Гетьмана, Fulbright дослідниця MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab "Досвід передових університетів США у WEB3 освіті та наукових дослідженнях: можливості імплементації в Україні" Кирило Гороховський, старший викладач факультету інформатики НаУКМА, CEO Brks Labs LLC "Masters certificate program "Blockchain technologies" at NaUKMA" Олександр Хошаба, доцент кафедри програмного забезпечення Вінницького національного технічного університету "Досвід вивчення розподілених систем на кафедрі програмного забезпечення (ВНТУ)" | Web3 Educators, Researchers & Students | www.youtube.com |
LF Decentralized Trust Meetup | Roman Kravchenko, CEO 482.solutions : Digital identity as a new institutional form of ownership in the next-gen economy Mirko Mollik, Identity Architect at SPRIND, worked on the digital identity project in Bhutan Darrell O’Donnell, Executive Director at Ayra Association, deeply involved and knowledgeable about the EUDI Wallet program Oleksandr Brezhniev, CTO @ Privado ID | National and Ecosystem Approaches To Digital Identity and Wallets | www.youtube.com |
Suggested “HMW” prompts
- HMW scale industry‑aligned curricula and research tracks with NaUKMA and partners to meet immediate infrastructure needs?
- HMW formalize open‑source and standards collaborations into sustained programs for sovereign digital capabilities?
- HMW incentivize applied research on identity, AI safety, and energy resilience with public‑private labs?