Brave CFO Gathering 2026-strategic kick-off of the XXIV Ukrainian CFO Forum season, one of the key business platforms for financial leaders in Ukraine, will take place on 5 June in Kyiv and online.
The year 2026 is shaping new challenges for business: AI is transforming the finance function, ERP systems are becoming the foundation of management resilience, and access to capital increasingly depends on the quality of management decisions and the company’s ability to operate in an environment of high uncertainty. These are the issues that CFOs, CEOs, investors, supervisory board members and business owners of leading Ukrainian and international companies will discuss during Brave CFO Gathering 2026.
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Ukrainian CFO Forum has been forming a professional community of financial leaders in Ukraine for over 23 years. Since 1997, the platform has united more than 15,000 participants and more than 1500 speakers, and annually the Forum events gather more than 700 participants.
The focus of the Brave CFO Gathering 2026 programme is private capital attraction and IFIs financing, AI and automation of the finance function, ERP-transformation and transition from 1C to international management systems, international scaling of Ukrainian companies, Due Diligence, risk management, currency liberalisation and new tax rules.
The programme includes practical cases and management discussions with participation of NOVA Group, Rozetka-EVO, COMFY, Kormotech Global, Biosphere Corporation, NIBULON, AVDtrade, Done, Eurocon, business, Agrotrade Group, EBRD, Unicorn Capital, SMART business, Innoware, IT-Enterprise, EBS, Concorde Capital and other market leaders.
Among the speakers of Brave CFO Gathering ‘ 2026 and experts of the CFO Forum ‘ 2026 programme committee: – Iryna Levkovska, Group CFO Rozetka-EVO-Anna Demchenko, CFO COMFY-Serhiy Konovets, independent member of NR Motor Sich, Ukroboronprom, Operator of GTS of Ukraine-Marina Panina, CFO VARUS and varus.ua – Yulia Opalenik, CFO of Kormotech Global – Yulia Dankova, CFO of Metinvest Group, №1 in the rating of the best CFOs in Ukraine – Sergiy Shulga, Group CFO of VITAGRO – Yana Romanenko, HRD, Member of the Board of Directors of NIBULON – Vladyslav Leshchy, CFO British American Tobacco Ukraine – Alena Kavka, HRD ROSHEN – Tatyana Timchenko, CFO Novaya Pochta – Anna Lebedinets, Associate Director, Senior Banker EBRDand other CFOs, CEOs, investors and business owners.
A separate focus of the programme is the evolution of the CFO role: from a control function to real influence on strategy, business scaling and management decision architecture.
Among the official partners of Brave CFO Gathering ‘ 2026: FUIB | Innoware | SMART business | Bank Yuzhny | Payoneer | IT-Enterprise | EBS | Business Evolution | Done | on time | ABM Cloud | Odgers | ACCA | Bayadera Group | ASCANIA GROUP and others.
Official educational partner of ACCA Forum: 1 hour of participation = 1 CPD unit. Participants of the Ukrainian CFO Forum ‘ 2026 cycle can receive up to 35 CPD units with a confirmation certificate.
Brave CFO Gathering 2026 will conclude with the CFO Cocktail Party & Networking – a space for professional networking, new partnerships and informal socialising of the financial community.