Anna Wintour

Vogue US Editor-in-Chief, global chief content officer and artistic director at Condé Nast

The Vogue US editor-in-chief and a visionary of the fashion media world, Dame Anna Wintour is one of the most influential figures in the industry. Since 2020, she has overseen editorial content across most of the publishing houses’ brands. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Wintour has personally supported the Vogue Ukraine Ukrainian Designer Showcase, an initiative by the Ukrainian Vogue team, during Paris Fashion Week.

Venya Brykalin

Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Ukraine

Venya Brykalin was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Vogue in May 2023. In this role, he develops the publication's unique visual style and strengthens the brand's international presence. Last year, Brykalin was featured in the BoF 500 list of the most influential people in the industry. At this year’s conference, he will be moderating a public talk with Tiffany Godoy from Vogue Japan.

Kateryna Osadcha

Journalist, TV presenter, and public activist

This year's Vogue UA conference will be hosted by the renowned journalist and TV presenter Kateryna Osadcha. After the beginning of the full-scale invasion, she launched a nationwide search program for civilians who had gone missing during hostilities and in the occupied territories. The team of the Find Your Loved Ones project has been instrumental in advocating for new laws and legal tools for more effective search and recovery of missing people.

Tiffany Godoy

Head of Editorial Content, Vogue Japan

A journalist, editor, consultant, and creator of videos and podcasts, Godoy began her career as a fashion editor in Tokyo. Over the past two decades, she has contributed to major media outlets and publications, including Vogue, CNN, and Highsnobiety. She is the author of Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion–Tokyo and a co-founder of The Reality Show, a multimedia magazine and creative studio. Godoy is internationally recognized as a leading expert on street fashion and culture. In January 2022, she was appointed Head of Editorial Content at Vogue Japan.

Lilia Litkovska

Designer, founder of Litkovska

Since 2017, Lilia Litkovska has showcased her namesake collections on the official calendar of Paris Fashion Week. Her designer clothing is available for sale at TSUM (Kyiv), Selfridges (London), La Samaritaine and Leclaireur (Paris), and Tokyo's Dover Street Market. Litkovska reimagines traditional Ukrainian motifs and promotes sustainable fashion through her ecological demi-couture line, "Artisanal." In 2020, Litkovska founded Schooll of Art x Craft, an educational platform that guides the next generation of professionals—tailors, designers, and fashion brand managers—into the fashion industry.

Mark Guiducci

Creative Editorial Director, Vogue

Mark Guiducci has been Vogue’s Creative Editorial Director since 2020, working across print, digital, video, audio, film and television. He was formerly the Arts Editor of VOGUE, and a Managing Editor at Vanity Fair. Guiducci is a co-chair of the Friends of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He studied art history at Princeton University and lives in New York City.

Tamara Cloé Leguía

Senior Trend Forecasting Consultant, WGSN

As a representative of WGSN, a leading analytical platform for forecasting future trends, Leguía helps the world’s biggest brands discover innovative business solutions. She is on the management team of the WGSN Sustainability Board, which works on sustainability initiatives. Tamara holds degrees in fashion and psychology from the London College of Fashion (LCF).

Yulia Svyrydenko

First Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Economy of Ukraine

Yulia Svyrydenko, an economist, will be the First Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Economy of Ukraine from 2021. Together with the team of the ministry, Yulia oversees the support and development of the Ukrainian economy during wartime; the mass mortgage program, humanitarian demining, including the development of the Mine Action Strategy and the launch of the humanitarian demining services market; development of the Ukraine Plan within the European Commission’s Ukraine Facility, the development of the Ukrainian light industry and much more

Odeta Jacė

Founder, Storyfounders

Odeta Jacė is a next-gen tech experiences strategist and innovations and fashion tech connaisseur, working with emerging trends and global tech solutions to help brands navigate them. As a founder of Storyfounders, a future-insights and next-gen tech consultancy agency, she focuses on the future consumer, digital culture research, Web3, and integrating immersive tech into brand business strategies and customer journeys. Jacė excels at translating tech buzz into clear, future-proofed roadmaps.

Viktor Halasiuk

Economist, president of the Ukrainian Association for the Club of Rome

In 2022, Dr. Halasiuk spearheaded Ukraine Global Faculty, an international educational initiative that brings world-class education to the country through leading university professors. He currently serves as the CEO of KIEF Academy and sits on the boards of the Kyiv International Economic Forum and WWF-CEE. Dr. Halasiuk provides strategic counsel on innovation and growth to businesses, investors, and high-ranking government officials. He is also an adjunct professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (KMBS) and Kyiv School of Public Administration (KSPA), where he teaches Engineering Economics.

Sophia Panych

Beauty Expert

Originally from New York, she began her career at Condé Nast, first at Glamour and then at Allurem where she remained for almost a decade. As the magazine’s beauty editor and then digital beauty director, Sophia wrote extensively about the beauty industry and directed the brand’s digital strategy and oversaw the online execution of its hallmark Best of Beauty franchise. In 2019 she moved to London where she held roles at POPSUGAR UK and Farfetch. She is now a freelance writer and consultant, working with prestigious brands like Pat McGrath Labs. As an American of Ukrainian heritage, since the full-scale invasion she has used her platform to help raise awareness around the war in Ukraine, from rallying beauty brands to donate products for refugees entering the UK to reporting on the state of Ukraine’s salon industry for Allure.

Paul Papadimitriou

Futurist, Founder of Intelligencr

Paul explores what is our human experience today. How our cultures, sub-cultures, values, behaviors, perception of status, hopes, changed with the speed and reach of globalized AI-infused technology advances. How we will buy, how we will travel, how we will experience, how we will redefine everything transaction we undertake, and what will this all mean to our societies, our cities, our families, our well-being, our quality of life — our joie de vivre. Paul leverages his multicultural background (Swiss, Greek, Finn), multilingual abilities, and global living (from Tokyo to London) to bring a truly unique perspective — one he also endeavors to capture with the camera he always carries with him.

Alyona Ponomarenko

Beauty editor Vogue Ukraine

Journalist and editor with 15 years of experience, Alyona Ponomarenko, has a master's degree in law. She left her career in legal to write about beauty, self-acceptance and mental health. She oversees large social project for Ukrainian Vogue and the print beauty supplement. Alyona's texts are constantly featured in Vogue CS.

Violett Fedorova

editor-in-chief of vogue.ua

Since 2017, Violett Fedorova has headed the digital editorial office of Vogue Ukraine. During this time, vogue.ua became an essential platform for popularising Ukrainian fashion and culture within the country and abroad, and the project's audience grew more than three times. Her interests include fashion as a business and communications in the fashion industry. She regularly contributes to Vogue Czechoslovakia, supervises the Fashion course at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, and lectures on fashion history. Within the framework of the conference, he will hold a public talk dedicated to the future of the Ukrainian fashion industry.

Anna October

designer, founder of the Anna October brand

Created the Anna October brand in 2010. Her clothes are presented in Galeries Lafayette and on the Moda Operandi, SSENCE, FWRD and Revolve. Among the brand's fans are Hailey Bieber, Serena Williams, Lady Gaga and Megan Fox. In 2022, Anna was included in the Business of Fashion 500 list and presented her collection as part of the official Paris Fashion Week schedule. Over the past two years, the designer has presented collaborations with the American brand J.Crew.

Yaakov Lyubetsky

UX Designer, YouTube

Yaakov is a UX Designer, AI Prototyper, and Co-founder of YouTube’s GenAI Lab. He helps teams across YouTube & Google explore the new terrain of emerging technologies & make bigger leaps with confidence.

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