DEV Challenge
Friends Day

The second day of the Season XX Final. Participants, judges, partners, and the entire championship community will gather at UNIT.City for networking, discussion, and celebration of the Final.

Communication

This is the day of the Championship that brings the entire community together in the comfortable atmosphere of the Final.

The award ceremony

An exciting moment that we have been building up to for over two months. The moment that will finally reveal the winners of the anniversary season.

Speeches

Top-level experts will talk about IT, innovation, design, and business. New trends in the market and really relevant questions from the pros.

Friends Day

November 05

Friends Day Timeline

Gates open / Registration
11:30-12:00
Judges feedback
12:00-14:00

Product design

12:00-12:20

UI design

12:20-12:40

Testing

12:40-13:00

Frontend

13:00-13:20

Backend

13:20-13:40

Speeches
13:50-15:30

Vadim Ilchenko, Engineering Culture in Product Companies

13:50-14:10

Sergiy Medvedyev, Devs' Future in AI-driven World

14:10-14:30

Nik Page, Embracing User-Centric Innovation: The Key to Business Success

14:30-14:50

Yuri Ternytsky, The Innovation Journey: Designing Solutions in a Product World

14:50-15:10

Iana Mykhailenko, Career Aspirations: On the Path to CTO

15:10-15:30

Сeremony Part
16:00-17:00

Final words, announcement and awarding of winners

Talks & Drinks
from 17:00

Who is invited?

We want to share the twentieth anniversary season of the Championship with all the friends of DEV Challenge:

> participants and finalists of the twentieth season
> judges of this and previous seasons
> partners of the Championship
> people who have become part of the community for 20 seasons

Speakers

Vadim Ilchenko

CTO @ Mate academy

Passionate advocate of modern website development with over 6 years of experience in the tech industry, he embarked on his career as a Frontend developer in 2017. Since 2020, he has held the role of Lead Software Engineer, concurrently serving as the CTO at EdTech startup Mate academy.

Sergiy Medvedyev

Chief IT Architect @ TemaBit Fozzy Group

Chief IT Architect with 20+ years of experience, currently building a dream architecture team at Temabit for Fozzy Group. He started his career as an engineer for embedded solutions and IoT devices, then moved to software development as an Enterprise Architect, developing projects for leading global companies: Samsung, Ford, VW, Mercedes, OMNICOM, etc.

Nik Page

Product & Account Manager @ Salsita Software

Experience & Product guy who launched his first tech startup in 1979. He is an active speaker and participated in more than 25 conferences around the world.

Yuri Ternytsky

Co-Founder @ Practical Product Design

Product Design leader with a problem-solving mindset and graphic design, user research, workshop facilitation, and program management expertise. Co-authored the first edition of a product design course.

Iana Mykhailenko

Director of Engineering @ Turnitin

Judge and mentor of international competitions and hackathons, and moderator of the “How to Become a Great CTO” meetup series. She works as Director Of Engineering at Turnitin – the most famous anti-plagiarism program in the world.