Visit of IBM vice-president

22.09.2011

Meeting of vice-president of IBM and also a general director of IBM in Eastern Europe and Asia Kyryl Kornilyev with rector of NTU "KPI" Michael Zgurovsky took place on September 22, 2011.During the meeting participants discussed prospects and areas of future cooperation for IBM and NTU "KPI".

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The meeting was also attended by Director of IBM in Ukraine Penko Dinyev, Academic Initiatives and ISV Specialist, IBM Ukraine Alexander Danko, Director of World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development (WDC-Ukraine) Konstiantyn Yefremov and Director of the Youth Business Incubator "Politeko" Yaroslav Kolohryvov. The sides pointed out the necessity and importance of collaboration and defined some steps for the nearest future.

Also, within the scopes of technological forum «IBM Smarter System - building blocks of Smart Planet," dedicated to the 100-th anniversary of the company, Kyryl Kornilyev gave a lecture for the students, and staff of NTU "KPI" on "Forming the science of information." The lecture was more than successful as it caused a lively discussion among listeners.