Hello! Thank you for your interest in attending our next monthly Meetup to be informed, engaged and inspired to make the world safer, fairer and more sustainable.

This Meetup will focus on the crisis in Ukraine with a deeply moving short film about Ukraine, and three amazing guest speakers with first hand experience of the invasion of Ukraine:

Olga Oleinikova is a Ukrainian-born entrepreneur and university lecturer. Olga holds a PhD in sociology and social policy from University of Sydney. She has lived and worked in Switzerland, Ukraine, Germany, UK, US and now lives in Australia. Olga is Co-Founder & CEO at Persollo and HeyLink.me, servicing 500,000+ clients across 95 countries, including P&G, DHL, New Balance, Sunglass Hut, Havas Media, Mindshare, Ogilvy and Playstation. Olga is also a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney. In 2016 she founded SITADHub (Social Impact Technologies and Democracy Research Hub) with 170 associates across 16 countries actively researching and writing about the future of democracy, human computer interaction and global mobility. In 2020 Olga's first book Achievers vs. Survivors: Life Strategies of Migrants was published with Palgrave Macmillan. The book explores the lives of migrants leaving a crisis-torn homeland and re-establishing themselves in a new country. Olga holds numerous awards, including Forbes 30 Under 30, Forbes Top 40 Global Ukrainians, Anthill Hot Young Australian Entrepreneurs and is the face of VISA’s global female empowerment campaign. Olga delivered 40+ international talks and keynote speeches, including at the University of Oxford, WZB Berlin Social Science Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, University of Sydney.

Katerina Kyrychenko is a documentary filmmaker and the author from the Donbas, Ukraine, who also studied and lived in Kyiv. Katerina holds Masters degrees in Project Management and Film & Television Directing, and worked as a teacher of Math before embarking on her careers in film directing and writing. Katerina has produced a number of documentary films, including “Test of Humanity”, “War at Kilometer Zero” and the 12-part series about Ukrainian medical institutes, among others. Previously, Katerina and her husband also ran a successful confectionery business for 10 years, and can boast extensive experience in managing, systematising and optimising all business processes, auditing production processes and introducing improvements in production and business life cycle. Katerina is also a co-author of 12 books in the business economy, and possesses vast knowledge in a field of economics, education, psychology, management, videography, photography and real estate.

Dr. Oleksandr Shepelenko graduated from the National Technical University "KhPI" where he later worked as a lecturer and scientist for 15 years. He obtained his PhD at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2013. Oleksandr is the author of more than 60 scientific publications, including 15 patents for inventions and more than 30 scientific articles in the field of chemistry and chemical technology. In 2017, he founded a manufacturing chemical company in St. Petersburg (Russia), which he successfully developed until the start of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022. He currently works as a chemist in the Sydney division of SGS, a world leading testing, inspection and certification company.

WHEN: 6:30pm, Thu 24 November 2022

WHERE: Western Sydney University Sydney Sydney City Campus, Level 4, 255 Elizabeth St, Sydney

TICKETS (in-person): Humanitix

ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81104362779?pwd=aTlrNGZoWXQzN3YvN3V4MVBCTGhkZz09

Meeting ID: 811 0436 2779 / Passcode: 269165

PIZZA & DRINKS: Included!

We look forward to seeing you!

For more info:
W - www.unaansw.org.au
E - brett.martin@unaa.org.au (Global Citizenship Pillar Lead, UNAA NSW)