Industrial Evolution Forum on Ukrainian Production During the War to Take Place in the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park
Ukrainian industry has endured what once seemed impossible. Despite widespread destruction, energy crises, and constant military threat, production in Ukraine has not stopped. In 2025, the processing industry paid UAH 367.5 billion in taxes — 18% of all state budget revenues. This is the largest growth of any sector in the economy.
Behind these figures are entrepreneurs who continue to take risks, invest, and build. There is also government policy that in recent years has shifted to more active support for production: funding programs, tax incentives, and industrial park development.
Ukraine now has a network of 116 industrial parks. Within them, 37 industrial facilities have been built or are under construction: 22 plants are already operational, 15 more are in progress.
The priority now is to scale this up — and turn industrial parks into real hubs of production, investment, and new jobs.
“Production drives a country's economy. It means jobs, taxes, development, and resilience — as the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park already shows. We need more such projects: more production, more investment, more people gaining the skills the new economy requires”, says Vasyl Khmelnytskyi, founder of UNIT.City Innovation Park and Bila Tserkva Industrial Park, and initiator of the forum.
These are the questions at the center of the forum “Industrial Evolution: Production Turns On the Economy”, taking place for the fifth time on June 18, 2026, at the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park.
The forum will bring together more than 1,500 participants — owners and executives of production companies, investors, government representatives, financial sector professionals, and experts. International delegations from the business, industrial, investment, and diplomatic communities will also attend.
The program includes panel discussions, a technology and equipment exhibition for producers, case studies from companies already scaling production in Ukraine, and networking.
Key topics: energy challenges, workforce shortages, access to finance and insurance, government support, industrial parks, exports, and new markets.
Speakers include:
- Vasyl Khmelnytskyi, founder of UNIT.City and Bila Tserkva Industrial Park, initiator of the Forum
- Mykola Kalashnyk, Head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration
- Danylo Hetmantsev, Head of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy
- Volodymyr Popereshniuk, Co-owner of Nova Poshta
- Vitaliy Kindrativ, Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine
- Kostyantyn Yefymenko, President of the pharmaceutical company Biopharma Plasma
- Dmytro Kyselevskyi, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development, coordinator of the Made In Ukraine policy
- Dmytro Zavhorodnii, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine for digital development, digital transformations and digitalization
- Ruslan Illichov, Director General, the Federation of Employers of Ukraine (FEU)
- Stanislav Hayday, CEO & Co-founder of BALEX company
- Tymofiy Mylovanov, President of the Kyiv School of Economics, Minister of Economy of Ukraine (2019-2020)
Producers will share practical experience from working during the war, and government representatives will outline which support tools are already in place and what is planned ahead.
The forum is organized by the Bila Tserkva Industrial Park, the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, Astrobuild LLC (managing company and developer of the Bila Tserkva IP), and the Kyiv International Economic Forum.
Attendance is free with prior registration: industry.forumkyiv.org.
