15 September 2018
People Trusted by Society Must Take Power in Their Hands – Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
15 September 2018

People Trusted by Society Must Take Power in Their Hands – Svyatoslav Vakarchuk

People that are truly trusted by society have to take power into their hands, co-founder of the Center for Economic Reforms, social activist and lead singer of Okean Elzy band, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk,...
Building a successful Ukraine requires effective protection of freedoms and property – Anatoliy Grytsenko
15 September 2018

Building a successful Ukraine requires effective protection of freedoms and property – Anatoliy Grytsenko

Building a successful Ukraine requires an effective protection of citizens’ rights, freedoms and property, believes Leader of Civil Position party and former Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2005-2007), Anatoliy Grytsenko.

Yulia Tymoshenko calls for the creation of a free market for gas and cease government regulation
15 September 2018

Yulia Tymoshenko calls for the creation of a free market for gas and cease government regulation

Ukraine needs to build a free market for gas and cease the practice of the government establishing prices for the population, said member of Ukrainian Parliament and Head of Batkivschyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko, at the 15th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting themed “The Next Generation of Everything” and organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.

Yulia Tymoshenko: Integration of occupied territories but with the preservation of Russian control is unacceptable
15 September 2018

Yulia Tymoshenko: Integration of occupied territories but with the preservation of Russian control is unacceptable

Return of the temporarily occupied territories of the Donbas and Crimea to Ukraine while Russia’s control over them remains is unacceptable, said Yulia Tymoshenko, Member of Parliament, and leader of the political party “Batkivshchyna” at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) “The Next Generation of Everything”, organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation

15th YES Annual Meeting: the headlines from day one
14 September 2018

15th YES Annual Meeting: the headlines from day one

President Poroshenko and Victor Pinchuk open the day’s discussion – calling for Ukraine and the West to carefully assess all the risks and opportunities the future brings.

New technologies ensure equal opportunities - Kersti Kaljulaid
14 September 2018

New technologies ensure equal opportunities - Kersti Kaljulaid

The introduction of new technologies is extremely important because they ensure equal opportunities for people of various backgrounds, income or education, Estonian President, Kersti Kaljulaid has said.

UK may regret its decision to withdraw from the EU within five years, Tony Blair
14 September 2018

UK may regret its decision to withdraw from the EU within five years, Tony Blair

The United Kingdom may regret its decision to withdraw from the EU within five years, says Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute.

People’s Awareness of Video Synthesis is Best Way to Counteract Deep Fake – John Gibson
14 September 2018

People’s Awareness of Video Synthesis is Best Way to Counteract Deep Fake – John Gibson

The best tool to counteract the effect of deep fakes – fake pictures generated with artificial intelligence’s support – is raising people’s awareness of the capabilities of the modern video and audio synthesis systems, ASI Data Science Director, John Gibson said. Gibson was speaking at the 15th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting, organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.

Social media in Ukraine hit harder by propaganda than elsewhere - Anders Fogh Rasmussen
14 September 2018

Social media in Ukraine hit harder by propaganda than elsewhere - Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Propagandists have a much stronger influence on social networks in Ukraine than in other countries, according to Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the founder of Rasmussen Global, secretary general of NATO (2009-2014) and prime minister of Denmark (2001-2009). Rasmussen was speaking at the 15th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.

Information warfare and cyberattacks should be countered more actively – Kurt Volker
14 September 2018

Information warfare and cyberattacks should be countered more actively – Kurt Volker

The US and Ukraine should make more effort to counter information warfare and cyberattacks, said State Department Special Representative for Ukraine, Kurt Volker at the 15th Yalta European Strategy (YES) Annual Meeting themed “The Next Generation of Everything” and organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.

Tony Blair
Tony Blair
Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute and former UK Prime Minister, 16th YES Annual Meeting, 2019
«At the heart of everything that gonna happen in the next ten years will be - how do you make sense of the technological revolution, how do you access its benefits, mitigate its downsides, and how do you show the next generation that there is a way to deal with this.»