Global Online Innovathon

Online International Entrepreneurial Experience

GYE Online Innovathon, a new take on the classic startup camp model, will bring together students from across the United States and Ukraine for an online 54 hour entrepreneurial event.

So what will you do?

Develop businesses, nonprofit organizations, products, and services that make a positive impact on the world while learning entrepreneurial skills that will help you solve tomorrow’s pressing issues.

Form or join a team and bring your group’s ideas to life by engaging in intense ideation, prototyping, market research, networking, and more — all supported by expert mentors.

Pitch expert judges and win a range of different prizes and scholarships (including a $1000 USD grand prize!)

When?

Bootcamp: May 24th

Innovathon: May 29-31, 2020 (Pacific Time)

Innovathon: May 30-June 1, 2020 (Ukraine Time)

Details

Over the course of the weekend, participants will:

• Experience an entire three day startup-camp through their computer screen

• Build relationships with peers and mentors from all around the world

• Participate in creative ideation sessions to learn how to take their ideas and form viable companies from them

• Work directly with students to enhance communication and cooperation skills

• Learn to use visual strategy tools

• Engage design-thinking and learn startup methodologies

• Learn how to acquire startup capital, make a sustainable business model, and forge a fool-proof plan

• Ask questions and get professional feedback from successful entrepreneurs

• Participate in a pitching workshop to perfect posture, prose, and communication

• Create a mock-organization and pitch it to qualified investors

Prizes

• The first-place team will receive 1000 US dollars in seed money as well as access to an international network of GYE mentors to further their company and continue their idea after the event.

• More TBA!

Itinerary

Please see the linked document!

Expert Speakers & Panelists

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr.

We are honored to have the previous U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor as a keynote speaker for GYE’s inaugural Online Innovathon. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and serving in the Vietnam War, Ambassador Taylor earned a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard and served in the U.S. Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and as Ambassador to Ukraine under Presidents George W. Bush, Obama and Trump.

Klitschko Foundation director Alina Nosenko

We are delighted to announce that our Ukrainian keynote speaker is the director of Klitschko Foundation Alina Nosenko. Alina graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Universität St.Gallen (HSG), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Carl Friedrich Goerdeler-Kolleg für Good Governance. After getting her German education, Alina interned in German Bundestag. Since 2013, she has been working as director of Klitschko Foundation. 

Youth Speakers/panelists

Judges

Ukrainian Mentors

American Mentors