Razom IT Trip Report

Published: June 7, 2016

Capitan, artificial intelligence for grocery shopping. Meadow, smart event planning. Cardiolyse.me, an individual health management platform. Blynk, an Internet of Things app builder. MMOne Project, a VR gaming chair that turns on three axes. Luciding, lucid dreaming guaranteed. All are companies creating new possibilities. All of them come from Ukraine.

Why This Program: #big #smart #now

Razom IT is an economic development initiative launched by Razom six months ago. We host monthly talks in New York City that bring together people who are interested in the development of tech and Ukraine. continue reading →

A conversation with the new CEO of Hromadske TV

Published: May 15, 2016

In May we got to sit down with the new CEO of Hromadske TV and have a conversation about the question ‘What is worth doing to support Ukraine?’ Razom came together to support Maidan. Now we work with volunteers around the world on projects that amplify the voices of people from Ukraine and that increase civic engagement. We do not have a specific project with Hromadske TV, but we were glad to have the chance to talk with someone who is leading an institution that also sprung from the street protests in 2013.

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Razom IT presents: Ukraine Tech at SXSW 2016

Published: March 15, 2016

Razom IT decided to head over to Austin, Texas to find projects with roots in Ukraine who participated in the festival of tech, film and music. As is our custom, we got the word out, visited the convention center and hosted a pop-up happy hour.

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Razom IT presents: Using Tech to Transform Government: a case study of Odessa

Published: October 6, 2015

Lyuba Shipovich and Natalia Shyrba quit their jobs in the US and became volunteers at the Odessa regional administration in Ukraine. Their mission continue reading →

Razom IT presents: Networking in NYC #Big #Smart #Now

Published: August 4, 2015

IT in Ukraine employs 100,000 professionals where 50,000 of them are software engineers.

As we moved around the start up community in New York, software engineers from Ukraine kept popping up everywhere. We knew that the out staffing industry had grown in the past decade in Ukraine. And we knew that companies all around the world rely on the engineering smarts of people in Ukraine to design, build and run all sorts of complex software.

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Protected: A musical evening to support the Co-Pilot Project

Published: February 1, 2014