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.

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 Editor and 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.

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