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Met with Diia.City Union — the association of Diia.City residents, which includes tech entrepreneurs and leaders of the Ukrainian IT industry.
We talked about where our team is headed next, which projects we are working on, and where we can join forces.
After finishing our work in government, our mission has not changed — to help Ukraine win the war for independence and save as many lives as possible using technology and asymmetric solutions.
Right now we have three main technological priorities: sensing and robotization of the front, affordable interception tools, AI Strike.
We are already building concrete projects around these priorities — now in the private sector: an Army of Robots, a defense tech fund to attract Western capital into Ukrainian companies, and an analytical center that will help us see the next technological changes in war earlier.
This meeting with Diia.City Union is especially meaningful to me because we have already gone through a similar path.
When in 2022 we launched Diia.City, not everyone immediately understood why the tech industry needed a separate ecosystem and new rules of the game. But we saw that Ukrainian tech business needed an environment that would help it grow faster, attract investment, and scale.
Today Diia.City is over 4 600 companies and more than 80% of the Ukrainian tech sector. About 500 residents already work in defense tech.
We saw a similar logic with drones. At first it was a bet on a technology whose potential was not yet obvious to everyone. Then it changed the battlefield.
Now the same moment is arriving for robotization and autonomy.
Our task is to see the next technological cycle earlier, gather strong teams, capital, and technologies around it, and quickly scale what works.
That is exactly how technological advantage is formed.
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