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.