Schedule

Kyiv Lviv Kharkiv Odesa
November 2
START TIMELOCATIONSPEAKERSTOPICS / DESCRIPTION
12:00 PMODESARoman Drach, Head of the pyrotechnic work group of the special emergency and rescue squad of the Main Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Odesa region (in person)

Topics of focus: 
– Experience of Odesa specialists in demining in Chernihiv and Mykolaiv regions;

– International aid;

– Types of ammunition and how to handle them


START TIMELOCATIONSPEAKERSTOPICS / DESCRIPTION
12:00 PMLVIVYuriy Buchko, Deputy Head of Lviv Oblast Military Administration (in person)Topics of focus:
–  The state of the region’s roads before winter: parking facilities, snow removal equipment, stocks of mixtures for sprinkling, etc.
1:00 PMLVIVKhrystyna Lebed, Head of the Tourism Office of Lviv City Council, Event Co-Organizer

Inna Klyap, Co-Founder of So Good Company event agency, organizer of Street Food So Good”, “Lviv Ice Cream Festival”, “So Green Fest” food festivals in Lviv, Event Co-Organizer

Maksym Kychma, Owner of Yanchyn Hills family winery

(in person)
Why this is interesting: 
Lviv Art and Wine festival will take place in Lviv on November 12-13. The new format of artistic and gastronomic synergy will become a unique platform for supporting Ukrainian winemakers and artists during the war.
 
START TIMELOCATIONSPEAKERSTOPICS / DESCRIPTION
10:00 AMKYIVIhor Smilyanskyi, Director General of Ukrposhta (in person)Topics of focus:
Resumption of Ukrposhta’s work in the de-occupied territories
What services can Ukrainians liberated from the occupation receive
Plan to restore Ukrposhta’s network damaged as a result of hostilities
How Ukrposhta will work in conditions of power outages
11:00 AMKYIVOleksandr Kharchenko, Director at the Energy Industry Research Center (in person)
Topics of focus:
Elimination of the consequences of attacks on the infrastructure: successes and main challenges
How residents should behave during power outages
Plan B for authorities and citizens in case of a blackout.
1:00 PMKYIVOleksandr Tkachenko, Head of the Expert Council, Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine
Kostiantyn Doroshenko, member of the Expert Council, Art Critic and Curator, Writer
Natalia Kryvda, member of the Expert Council, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Oles Doniy, member of the Expert Council, Ideologist, Head of Center for Research of Political Values NGO

A briefing by members of the Expert Council of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy on overcoming the consequences of russification and totalitarianism.

Topics of focus:

Explanation of the decision of the Expert Council regarding the relocation of certain categories of statues and monuments related to russian and soviet imperial history
Clarification of the decision of the Expert Council regarding renaming of the most common “russian” urbanonyms
Clarification of the recommendations of the Expert Council on overcoming the anti-Ukrainian influence of russian civilizational myths, russian imperial and soviet totalitarian heritage in the public space of Ukrainians settlement .