How many certificates do you have on your shelf or on LinkedIn? Now the real question is: did these courses really help you develop your skills? Learning is not just a line on your resume, it makes a real difference in your work and life. In her speech, Uliana will share practical tools that will help you learn so that your knowledge works and your skills are strengthened, not just add to your collection of certificates. We will talk about effective approaches to learning, motivation, and how to avoid the trap of the “eternal student”.

Conflicts within a team are not always a bad sign. On the contrary, they can become a powerful tool for development. In this talk, Orest will share my experience and practical tools for resolving conflicts constructively, which help not only maintain harmony in the team but also improve its overall performance. You will learn how to turn conflicts into opportunities to strengthen team bonds, enhance communication skills, and achieve better results.

I’m confident that many IT professionals are currently facing the same situation I was in a few months ago. Mobilization, uncertainty. How can I be maximally beneficial to the country with my experience and continue professional development in such circumstances? Since the onset of the full-scale invasion, I've been actively volunteering and assisting the army. Mobilization became the next logical step.

The leader must be strong all the time. The leader cannot afford to make mistakes, let alone fail in front of their team. Is that really true? Nick Gicinto, a cybersecurity leader with over 25 years of experience, who has worked for the CIA and has built security systems from scratch at Tesla and Uber, fully hiring teams for these projects, will talk about the importance of being vulnerable to build trust within a team.

Sharing open feedback can be difficult because it equals much work on yourself. However, feedback needs attention and a special place in the corporate culture. It helps to grow dynamically, build a team of like-minded people and achieve powerful results.

This talk will reveal four destructive communication patterns that can undermine team spirit, reduce productivity and cause conflict, and offer effective strategies for neutralizing them.

Create your personal pitch correctly (sales points, structure); understand, depending on the type of company, what managers want to hear about you at the interview; be able to package irrelevant or no experience; understand your strengths; create an example of a personal pitch

As you grow in experience as a tech specialist and close the needs of Maslow's hierarchy, you realize that you can help beginners in your specialization. But how to do it effectively? Where to look for future mentees? How to avoid mistakes that demotivate both sides? And, in general, how can you benefit from investing your time in the success of a mentee? I'll discuss this based on my 1.5 years of experience mentoring beginners.

Imposter syndrome is a psychological phenomenon that most of us suffer from to one degree or another. I'm no exception and have faced this for most of my IT career, which has been around 10 years. I did not immediately understand that the impostor syndrome is one of the biggest blockers for my personal and career development. When I understood it, I gradually started, with small and large steps, fighting with a syndrome in all available ways. In my talk, I will share my story and how it helped me grow from an ordinary developer to a team leader and, eventually, the leader of the entire department.

Key strategies for effective and respectful interactions across different cultures. Best practices for Ukrainian developers to communicate effectively in a multicultural team. Top things to know when working with LatAm clients & teams. Feedback matters: how to ask, give, and receive feedback across cultures. Tactics for overcoming language barriers and cultural misunderstandings.