We are pleased to announce a new initiative by the Franco-UkrainianCCI – the very first Artificial Intelligence Forum: “ Seizing the AI moment: Between Disruption and Hope”, organized in partnership with the IT Ukraine Association and the French Tech Kyiv.

On Friday, October 10, 2025
from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM
at Ukrsibbank (2/12 Andriivska Street)
Event language: French and Ukrainian (simultaneous interpretation)

We are delighted to offer our members and partners a platform for discussion and exchange on the topic of artificial intelligence: its potential, its limits, and its practical applications in daily life and business.
On this occasion, we are bringing together experts, business leaders, and entrepreneurs to discuss the opportunities and risks associated with AI, share real-life experiences of how it already contributes to business development, and explore the latest trends.

In the context of the war and Ukraine’s recovery, these topics take on a new level of importance. AI can become a tool for resilience, innovation, and accelerated transformation. But to achieve that, it must be understood, embraced, and turned into a vehicle for comprehensive progress.

Event Program

AI Forum: “Seizing the AI Moment: Between Disruption and Hope”

Event Objectives:

• Inspire participants through high-level roundtables

• Examine the uses and limitations of artificial intelligence

• Show concretely what AI can already bring you today

• Share the latest developments in a rapidly changing sector

In a context of war and reconstruction such as Ukraine’s, these topics take on particular significance. AI can become a lever for resilience, innovation, and accelerated change. But to achieve this, it must be understood, adopted, and turned into a tool for collective progress.

09:15 – Welcome, coffee, and networking

10:00 – Opening of the event

• Maud Joseph, Director of the Franco-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Community Lead and board member of French Tech Kyiv

• Oleh Dubno, AI Unit Manager, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
  

• Artem Skrypnyk, CEO of Favbet Tech, general partner of the AI Committee of IT Ukraine Association

• Gaël Veyssière, Ambassador of France to Ukraine

10:20 - Keynote speaker: Michel Levy Provençal, Entrepreneur, speaker, and founder of TEDxParis

10:40 – 11:40 Roundtable: “AI as a Mirror of Our Societies”

Key Questions:

• How does artificial intelligence reshape our choices, biases, and priorities?

• In what ways does AI challenge our models of governance, our understanding of humanity, truth, merit, and intelligence itself?

• Profound transformations brought by AI in society, and a collective attempt to rethink our benchmarks in the algorithmic era.

Main topics to discuss:

• Work: Does AI transform our professions or render them obsolete? What is the role of humans?

• Knowledge: Can we trust information in a world of deepfakes, auto-generated CVs, and manufactured thoughts?

• Power and governance: Who makes decisions in the age of AI? What transparency and accountability must be ensured?

• Values: Is AI neutral? Which biases does it reproduce or amplify?

Speakers:

• Oleksandr Krakovetskyi, CEO of DevRain, CTO of DonorUA, Member of the AI Committee of the IT Ukraine Association

• Francis Pisani, Journalist, author, columnist, and speaker, currently publishing Myriades, a newsletter on the societal impact of AI and technology in a changing world

• Member of the Ministry of Digital Transformation team (TBC)

• Moderator: Dominique Piotet, President of La French Tech Kyiv

11:40 – 12:40 Practical Workshop: “Mastering AI in Everyday Work”

Objective:
Provide each participant with concrete ideas for integrating AI into their professional life — practices, successes and failures, feedback, advice, and trends.

Program:

• Examples of effective AI use in companies: HR, marketing, reporting, customer service, project management

• Best practices and common mistakes (prompting, ethics, managing confidential data)

• Discussion / Q&A

Speakers:

• Oleg Shcherbatenko, CEO of IT-Enterprise, AI expert, Member of the AI Committee of the IT Ukraine Association

• Evgen Bukhalskyi,  Chief Data Analytics Officer, UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, Member of the AI Committee of the IT Ukraine Association

• Volodymyr Krasotin, Chief Information Officer (CIO), General Management, NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine

• Roman de Stefanis, Director of Monitoring & Evaluation in Public Affairs at Ipsos, with a study titled "LLMs and brand image: what Artificial Intelligence (already) says about you" 
  

• Moderator: Jérémie Lengrais, co-founder and president of the PRESTE

12:40 – 13:20 “Inspiration” Workshop: “And What About Humans? AI, Art… and Love”

Objective:
Create. Feel. Resist.
In a world where algorithms generate images, music, and poetry, what room is left for human sensitivity?
This workshop will be a privileged moment of silence and reflection to understand what makes us unique.

Key themes for discussion:

• AI as a tool for equality or exclusion: what place for humans?

• Creation, art, language: where does originality begin (and end)?

• What does it mean to “live in society” in the age of algorithms?

• How to avoid a divide between those who control AI and those who passively endure it?

Speakers:

• Marysia Nikitiuk, Film Director 

• Eugene Kryvin, Producer of the Svitlo Concert

• Moderator: Daryna Vazhynska, Editor-in-chief, Knygolav publishing house

Closing remarks by the Franco-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

• Bertrand Barrier, President of the CCIFU

13:30 – Cocktail and networking