Schedule - GO VIRAL FESTIVAL 2020

Olga Yurkova is a journalist and cofounder pf StopFake, an independent Ukrainian organization that trains an international cohort of fact-checkers in an effort to curb propaganda and disinformation in the media. She teaches different audiences how propaganda works and how to identify fake news, consulting a range of organizations and public structures.

She has 15 years in journalism. Yurkova has been working as a media trainer since 2012. For fighting propaganda, she was included in the list of New Europe 100 and was named a TED Fellow in 2018. Her TED Talk was watched more than 1 million times.

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16:00 –18:00

Workshop: Gerald Holubowicz "Deepfakes: weapons of mass illusions”

Gerald Holubowicz

Media

Former photojournalist and web-documentary maker, now product manager specializing in editorial innovation, Gerald studies the impact of synthetic media (deepfakes) on the making of digital visual culture.

After 10 years of regular interventions with different journalism schools (EMI, CFJ/CFPJ, INA, Sciences Po Grenoble), Gerald Holubowicz teaches at the School of Journalism and the Media Center of Sciences Po Paris.

Zoom

18:00 –19:00

Discussion: Rustem Akishbekov "My journey from Startup founder to Venture fund partner”. Moderator: Alim Khamitov, Go Viral Business curator.

Rustem Akishbekov

Business

Rustem is a founder and former CEO at Robo Technologies (Robo Wunderkind), the pioneer in the educational robotics market. Arkley was lead investor in Robo Wunderkind’s seed round. Rustem with two co-founders started Robo Wunderkind in 2013 during studies at the Vienna University of Technology and brought the idea to a successful company with customers from 58 countries. During 2014-2017 Rustem lived 1,5 years in Shenzhen, China working with factories and building up a supply chain for his robots. Prior to Robo Wunderkind Rustem worked at Pioneers (acquired by Startup300 AG) in Marketing & Sales team.

Rustem is included in Forbes Magazine’s 30 under 30 and New Europe 100 List by Financial Times & Google. Graduate of HAX and finalist of Techcrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield 2015. Rustem has spoken at TedX and other events in Taipei, Innsbruck, Munich, Astana, Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Rustem holds an international patent in the field of modular robotics. During free time he enjoys playing tennis, piano and reading booksRustem is based in Vienna, Austria and responsible for Arkley’s investments in DACH and CIS regions.Rustem Akishbekov is a Partner at Arkley VC with a focus on helping DACH & CIS entrepreneurs to succeed at the global stage | Founder at Robo Wunderkind | Forbes 30 Under 30

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19:00 –21:00

9 Stories - a presentation of a translation project. Collection of short stories by contemporary American authors in Russian. Speakers: American writers and Literary Translation Laboratory. Project managers: Yuriy Serebryansky and Anton Platonov.

9 Stories

Culture

9 Stories – a collection of short stories by contemporary American authors in the Russian language. This project was led by Yuriy Serebryanskiy, a Kazakhstani author and alumnus of the IWP International Writing Program, and Anton Platonov, translator and cultural researcher.

The project supported by U.S. Consulate in Almaty has started in 2018 as a translation workshop turned later into Literary Translation Laboratory, the group of Kazakhstani authors and literary translators - Polina Chhichina, Oral Arukenova, Mairzhan Kourmanov, Victoriya Russakova, Anna Kozhanova, Ekaterina Patrikova, Alyona Kim, Olga Abramova, Mariya Kuznetsova, Meruert Tair, Kamilla Mushkina, Katerina Dzvonik, Marina Mihtayeva, Katerina Hodyreva, Jamilya Akhmedova.

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