Ukraine 2026

EU-Ukraine Business Summit 2026 - ON THE ROAD TO URC

22 & 23 April

Autoworld, Brussels (Parc du Cinquantenaire 11, 1000 Bruxelles)

On April 22-23, 2026, European Business Summits and the European Commission will host the third edition of the EU-Ukraine Business Summit together with the governments of Ukraine and Poland. The Summit brings together policymakers, businesses and financial institutions in Brussels for two days of high-level discussions, round tables, B2B matchmaking, sectoral pitching sessions and interactive workshops. Key topics will include supporting Ukraine's defence and European strategic industries, critical raw materials, leveraging public-private partnerships and public tenders for EU investors, business environment reforms and investment support instruments, support for SMEs, investments into the energy sector, private equity, cross-border logistics and more. The EU-Ukraine Business Summit also serves as the official preparatory event to the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2026 in the business dimension.

Discover the B2B Matchmaking Platform here.

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Discover the 2026 invited speakers

Marta Kos
European Commissioner for Enlargement
Taras Kachka
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
Oleksii Sobolev
Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine
Marta Cienkowska
Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Poland
Yuliia Kyian
Director General for Strategic Planning and Recovery, Ministry of Energy of Ukraine
Alona Shkrum
First Deputy Minister for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine
Gert-Jan Koopman
Director-General, DG ENEST
Magda Kopczyńska
Director-General for Mobility and Transport
Mechthild Wörsdörfer
Deputy Director-General for Energy and Natural Resources
Yegor Perelygin
Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine
Anna Jarosz-Friis
Director, Ukraine Service, DG ENEST
Lukas Vesely
Deputy Head of Unit, Reconstruction and Accession, Ukraine Service, DG ENEST
Anna Derevyanko
Executive Director, European Business Association
Volodymyr Mudryi
Chairman of the Management Board, OTP Bank Ukraine
José Vicente de los Mozos
CEO, Indra
Alejandro Alvarez
Country Manager, IFC
Karl Nehammer
EIB Vice-President
Eglė Šimė
CEO of LTG Cargo
Marcin Witczak
President of the Management Board, Laude Smart Intermodal S.A
Jakub Jaworowski
Member of the Management Board, BGK
Serhiy Voitsekhovskyy
Board Member of BGV
Véronique Williams
Secretary-General, SMEunited
Olga Slyvynska
Head of Economic Recovery and Development, Kyiv School of Economics
Isabelle Bebear
Director of International and European Affairs, Bpifrance
Julien Mauduit
Regional Head Energy for Europe, EBRD
Tomáš Fiala
Founder and CEO, Dragon Capital
Olga Kovalchuk
Managing Director, Goldbeck Solar Ukraine
Outi Slotboom
Director for internal Market, Industry Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Jarek Beldowski
First Deputy CEO, Kredobank
Natalia Butkova-Vitvitska
Member of the Management Board, Oschadbank
Viktor Pavlushchyk
Head of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention
Tomasz Ochrymowicz
Future of Ukraine leader Central Europe, Deloitte
Anka Feldhusen
Business Ombudswoman of Ukraine
Roksolana Vakulenko
CEO, VIP-TOYS LLC
Wojciech Kostrzewa
President of the Polish Business Roundtable
Vlad Bobko
Associate Partner, Head of Investment, AON
Violaine Silvestro von Kameke
Principal Adviser, EIB
Timo Sarvijärvi
Director, Business development & Marketing, Metso
Luca Zanotti
CEO of INTERPIPE
Fabian Marckstadt
Head of Business Transformation, Deloitte
Dmytro Boroday
Investment Committee Member, Horizon Capital
Patrick Avato
Manager Infrastructure, Europe, IFC
Vladyslav Belbas
CEO, Ukrainian Armor
Maryna Khlystun
Executive Director, UkraineInvest
Yulia Burmistenko
Head of international affairs, DTEK
Sonia Da Fonseca
Senior Procurement Specialist, EIB
Nourilya Moldakhmatova
Procurement Specialist, EBRD
Nataliia Butkova-Vitvitska
Member of the Management Board, Oschadbank
Jarosław Bełdowski
First Deputy CEO, Kredobank
Andrii Semchenko
CEO, INGO
Yuriy Ryzhenkov
CEO of Metinvest Group
Bogdan Zawadewicz
Head of Geoeconomic Analysis, BGK
Claudius Kirchhoff
Associate Director, Senior Banker, Non-Bank Financial Institutions, EBRD
Małgorzata Darowska
EU Affairs Coordinator, WB Electronics
Jacek Raubo
Head of Strategic Analysis, Defence24
Olena Bilousova
Senior Research Lead, Military and Dual-Use Goods, KSE
Volodymyr Demenko
CEO, Levada Cargo
Lothar Zeller
Senior Adviser, JASPERS/ EIB
Anna Athanasopoulou
Director, Simplification and Networks, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Kim Bjerner Rathsack
Regional Head of Project Logistics – Europe, Maersk
Stephan Dohm
Director Strategic Development, HHLA
Jarosław Bełdowski
First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, KredoBank
Mariin Ratnik
Undersecretary of State, Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Thomas Edward Lübeck
Manager, PPP Transaction Advisory Services, IFC
Niko Gachechyladze
Agency on Support Public Private Partnership
Andrii Tsokol
Associate Director, EBRD
Małgorzata Hejduk
Foreign Transactions Specialist, BGK
Anne Bercio
Deputy Programme Director, Step in 2 EU, GIZ
Sergii Nazarenko
NPC, Ukrenergo
Jan Rekiel
Head of International Reinsurance, KUKE
Dominykas Tuckus
Senior Investment Director, Amber Infrastructure Group
Małgorzata Jarosińska-Jedynak
Marshal’s Office of the Podkarpackie Region, Member of the Executive Board
Michał Kapa
Office Director, Strategy Department, PFR
Teymur Taghiyev
Chief of Staff, NEQSOL Holding
Konstantin Magaletskyi
Co-founder, Green Recovery Fund Advisors
Konrad Fijołek
Mayor of the City of Rzeszów
Vita Khyzhniak
Head of the Foreign Economic Relations Department, BGV Group
Denys Denyshchenko
Deputy Head of the Volyn Regional Military Administration
Dmytro Natalukha
State Property Fund of Ukraine
Zbigniew Wojciechowski
Chairman of the Committee on Regional Development and International Cooperation, Lubelskie Regional Assembly
Sergius Horlach
Representative of the Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce
Khrystyna Zamula
Deputy Head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration
Patrick Molinoz
Vice-President of the Region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in France, Representative of the European Committee of the Regions
Dmitri Vassiljev
Senior Investment Officer at European Investment Bank.
Olena Behal
Head of the Department of European Integration and International Cooperation, Volyn Regional Military Administration
Robin Schilhart
Senior Business Development, Stellar Exploration s.r.o.
Maya Ganelina
Head of External Relations, Ukrgasbank
Katarzyna Kowalska
Vice-President, KUKE
Hryhorii Tkachenko
Director, Naporyvske Farm
David Luengo
Managing Director Benelux, Indra
Volodymyr Tarasenko
Chairman of the Board, Vivat Invest
Herald Ruijters
Deputy Director-General, DG DEFIS
Anna Gvozdiar
Advisor to the Minister of Defence of Ukraine
Paweł Chorąży
Managing Director for European Union Funds, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego of Poland
Pekka Karkovirta
Vice President for International Relations, Finnvera
Andrea Ferjenčíková
Director for Financial Instruments, Národní Rozvojová Banka of Czechia
Orest Tokač
Team Leader, Dual-Use Technologies & Strategic Industries, Ukraine Service, European Commission, Moderator
Emma Hooper
Senior Manager
Jari Matero
Managing Director, Cois Capital & Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland
Michael Singer
Managing Partner, Verne Capital
Denys Gurak
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Investment Officer, MITS Capital
Benjamin Krahmer
Co-founder Verne Capital
Roman Sulzhyk
Co-Founder, Resist.UA Fund
Pavel Panasjuk
CEO, Angler
Dmytro Burakov
CEO, UGV Robotics
Piotr Matczuk
President of the Management Board, Polish Development Fund
Myroslav Popovych
Senior International Relations Manager, Ukrainian Council of Defence Industry
Cyrille Kabbara
CEO, Shark Robotics
Viktor Lokotkov
Chief Marketing Officer, Airlogix
Krastio Preslavsky
Acting Head of Unit, Defence Industrial Programming Coordination, DG DEFIS
Annemarie Hertner
Policy Officer, DG MOVE
Renauld Hock
Team Leader, Defence Technologies, DG DEFIS, European Commission
Olga Shubina
Enterprise Europe Network - Ukraine consortium coordinator/ Head of UCCI Coordination export support center
Elisabeth Szeli
Policy Officer, DG ENEST, European Commission, Moderator
Nataliia Shapoval
Chairwoman of Kyiv School of Economics, Moderator
Nataliya Mykolska
Executive Director, Diia, City United, Moderator
Matej Zakonjšek
Director of the Transport Community Secretariat, Moderator
Luca Léry Moffat
Economics Reporter, Kyiv Independent, Moderator
Crispin Ellison
Partner, Oliver Wyman, Marsh group lead for Ukraine, Moderator
Robert Baylis
InnoEnergy, Moderator
Kateryna Glazkova
Director-General, SUP, Moderator
Edwin Bendyk
President of the Board, Batory Foundation, Moderator
Gabriel Blanc
Team Leader, Reconstruction and Accession, Ukraine Service, DG ENEST, Moderator
Alain Baron
Team Leader, DG MOVE, Moderator
Mikhailo Prykhodko
Infrastructure advisory leader, EY-Parthenon, Ukraine, Moderator
Vladyslava Grudova
Executive Director of KSE Institute, Moderator
Mykhailo Bno-Airiian
Special Representative for Trade, Chairman European Integration Committee at the Federation of Employers of Ukraine, Moderator
Sasha Vakulina
Euronews, Moderator
Magdalena Cedro
Chief of Polish Press Agency in Brussels, Moderator
Markéta Řeháková
Policy Officer, Ukraine Service, European Commission, Moderator
LELEKA
Ukrainian singer
Jurand Drop
Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Finance of Poland
Maive Rute
Deputy Director-General, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission
Lorenz Gessner
Director of Ukraine and Moldova Office, KfW
Mykola Stavytskyi
Commander, Unmanned Systems Battalion, 34th Separate Marine Brigade, Armed Forces of Ukraine
Jana Drzkova
Head of Business Development, Euroquity, Bpifrance
Arnaud Thysen
Director General, European Business Summits, Master of Ceremonies
Name to be disclosed
Skyfall
Serhiy Levikov
CEO, Oblteplo, Head of the Committee on Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development, Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs
Anna Liubyma
Deputy Director of the Directorate, Ukrainian Chamber of Trade and Industry
Oleg Goshchanskyi
KPMG Ukraine Gateway Leader
Vyacheslav Ovechkin
Loan Officer, European Investment Bank
Oksana Vakshynska
Engagement & Partnerships Manager, Farsight Vision
Daria Yanileva
Head of Defense and Investments at Sigma Software Group & President of the Defence Builder Ecosystem

Check the 2026 Agenda

Our mission is twofold: we aim to bring politics and business together in order to provide them with an opportunity to debate and pursue their common goals, giving a voice to all sides of the debate. The other priority of EBS is to provide European institutions with a platform where they can place their top priorities in the spotlight and advance the development of new pieces of legislation through discussion with a variety of actors and stakeholders.

Arnaud Thysen
Director General

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