SUMMER SCHOOL KIEF ACADEMY X Activitis Education X UGF "Business Reboot: Strategy, Finance, and Competitive Advantage"
A development programme for entrepreneurs, top managers and investors. It will help you rethink your company’s finances and find new opportunities, improve your business model, sharpen your strategy, and gain sustainable competitive advantages.
Participants will attend 15 training sessions during May-August 2026.
The training format is offline/online.
The application deadline is 21 May 2026.
The training programme is a part of the KIEF Academy’s educational programmes on the Ukraine Global Faculty platform in partnership with fintech company Activitis*.
*Participation in the programme is free of charge thanks to the support of Activitis.
SECTION 1: "MACRO, TRENDS, STRATEGIES"
- Global trends. New niches and opportunities in the face of turbulence.
- Financial landscape: international market and opportunities in Ukraine.
- Business models. Business strategy. Competitive advantages.
SECTION 2. "FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE OF BUSINESS"
- Structure and logic of financial statements as a common business language. How to read financial statements. Key financial indicators and their practical application.
- Financial model of business. Manager’s tools in financial management.
- Organisation of management accounting and budgeting systems. Financial responsibility centres and unit economics.
- Business value. Key approaches to valuation.
SECTION 3. "TOOLS FOR RAISING CAPITAL"
- Business capital map: objectives, scale, cost, sources, and tools
- International financial institutions and project finance
- Private Equity.
- Bank financing and loans 5-7-9
- Embedded finance.
- Grants and donor programmes for business
- Corporate bonds.
- Venture capital investments for start-ups
37 лекцій та семінарів:
Speakers
CEO of KIEF Academy and Ukraine Global Faculty, Adjunct Professor at Kmbs
Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine
General Director of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine
Doctor of Economics, Professor, Founder and Chairman of Advanter Group, Center for Social Change and Behavioral Economics, International Business Community Board, Kyiv Foresight Foundation, Co-founder of Investudio, AiWiser
Associate Dean of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business-School
Member of the Board of Directors of BGV Group Management
Industry Expert and Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Member of Verhovna Rada of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Development
Director General of the Government Office for Coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
Chairman of the Board of the Business Development Fund
Advisor on International Cooperation and Donor Coordination at the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine
Partner, CFO of UNIT.City and UDPRenewables
Founder of the Netpeak group
Managing Director of Blackstone LaunchPad at Cornell University (USA)
Business Case Innovator and co-founder of Noorderwind (Netherlands)
Venture Partner at Zag, investor & mentor director at eō Business Incubators (UK)
President of Lean Institute Ukraine
Expert in neuromanagement, lecturer at the Business School of the Ukrainian Catholic University, certified ICF coach (Erickson University International)
Founder and CEO of Learn To Earn Global
Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the Trulaske College of Business, University of Missouri (US)
Co-founder of KNESS
President of the Ukrainian Export Alliance
General Director of Agrol LLC
Head of the Analytics and Monitoring Department, Office of the President of Ukraine; member of the Board of the Centre for Social change and Behavioural economics
Adjunct Lecturer of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California (US)
Founder and Managing Partner of the strategic communications agency U Agency. Co-author of the podcast about PR, words and meanings "NE PID ZAPYS"
Serial entrepreneur, CEO of Win Win Club
Business Development Director at UFuture, CEO of the investment accelerator INDAX
Chief Growth Officer at Genesis
Director of Electricity Trading and Supply at KNESS
UGBC (Ukrainian Green Building Council) Leader
First Deputy director of the State Research Institute for Informatization and Modeling of the Economy, advisor to the Committee on Economic Development of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
CEO at IT Ukraine Association
Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), University College London (UCL)
Deputy Commercial Director for Forecasting at the Aurora multimarket chain
Менеджер проєктів та бізнес-розробник в галузі інженерії агросистем Група рослинних наук, Вагенінгенський університет і дослідницький центр (WUR, Нідерланди)