The PRNext International Forum

The PRNext International Forum (until 2023 – the International PR Festival) is a non-commercial professional cross-industry event financed on the principle of crowdfunding. The festival has been held since 2002 under the auspices of the Ukrainian PR League and is the longest project of the domestic communication industry. It differs from events of a similar industry orientation in its rich content, and is positioned as the brightest and most honest PR event in Ukraine. The organizing partner is the PR-Service Agency, the head of the Organizing Committee is Olena Derevianko.

The audience of the event consists of managers and specialists of PR services of international and Ukrainian companies and outsourcing agencies, as well as top managers and business owners who are interested in reputation management. As a rule, about 300 guests participate in the face-to-face format, up to 3000 in the online format. The speakers include experts from the PR industry and related industries (including media business), whose activities are interesting for a professional audience, as well as star speakers.

In different years, Kyivstar, Ukrtelecom, SCM, Nova Poshta, Zaporizhstal, Corum Group, Danone, Shell, Socar, ATB, Galnaftogaz Concern, WOG-retail, Ukrgazvydobuvannya, Bayer, British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group, UniCreditBank, PUIB, Vitmark (Jaffa juices, etc.), Intel Ukraine, Foxtrot, Bayadera Group, LOréal Ukraine, Maybelline New York, Nielsen, StarLight Media and many others delegated their representatives as speakers.

PRNext speakers of recent years
2023

• Olena Arkhipova, Chief Editor of UNN.
• Andrii Bedniakov, actor and TV presenter.
• Ihor Blystiv, Marketing Director and Innovation Director of the Kormotekh company.
• Maksym Gardus, Expert of the Office of Reforms of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
• Maryna Horodyshcheva, Head of Marketing at Eventyr.pro.
• Yurii Husiev, Chief Editor of Delo.ua.
• Aliona Husieva, specialist, consultant and lecturer in personal branding and international PR and communications.
• Anastasiia Zazuliak, Editor-in-Chief of the Channel 24 website.
• Oleh Kozerod, Vice-President of the Centre for the Study of European Democracy (Brussels), adviser to members of the European Parliament.
• Yevhen Kudriavchenko, Founder of Vintage Web Production.
• Maksym Lavrynenko, Founder of "Trukha", the largest Telegram channel of Ukraine.
• Nataliia Lehka, Head of PR HarvEast.
• Yevhen Malolietka, world-class laureate photographer.
• Liubomyr Mysiv, Deputy Director of the Rating Sociological Group.
• Olena Plakhova, Director of Reputation Management of the Nova Poshta group of companies.
• Hlib Pronenko, Co-owner and CEO of MOKO digital, member of the board of the NGO "Hardened Hearts".
• Anastasiia Ravva, Editor-in-Chief of Espreso.tv channel.
• Clive Roach, Social Media Marketing Expert.
• Taras Topolia, soloist of the popular Ukrainian band "Antytila", press secretary of the Youth Council under the President of Ukraine, co-founder of the charity fund "ANTYTILA", volunteer, volunteer fighter of the Territorial Defence Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
• Svitlana Sheremetiieva-Turchyn, Deputy General Director of the RBC-Ukraine information agency.
• Iryna Shynkarenko, Deputy Head of "Epicenter K" LLC for advertising, marketing, public relations and mass media.
• Vira Shcherbakova, Head of Communication at Ajax Systems.

2021

• Petro Chernyshov, famous Ukrainian manager, ex-CEO of Carlsberg Ukraine and Kyivstar, member of the supervisory board of Farmak, VoxUkraine and the Kyiv School of Economics.
• Ielyzaveta Alexiyuk, media law lawyer.
• Oleh Serha, press secretary at PrivatBank.
• Vitalii Tkach, founder of Jumperound Games creative laboratory.
• Denys Panchuk, head of SMM projects of Insta, TikTok UIA.
• Andrii Buts, UIA co-pilot.
• Kir Marchyshyn, Marketing Design Lead at Reface.
• Mykola Kulyna, analyst and scriptwriter for the Citrus YouTube channel, trainer in YouTube and video making at Citrus Academy.
• Serhii Demchenko, head of the corporate communications department of ATB Corporation
• Diana Hloster, blogger, singing actress.
• Ihor Nissenbaum-Levytskyi, Client partner director Httpool.
• Oksana Koval, Head of Communications Department, PR and GR Kernel.
• Svitlana Surova, Head of Internal Communications Department of Smart Holding.
• Andrii Chabanov, Marketing Director of Peugeot Citroen Ukraine
• Aliona Kharkhan, Philip Morris employer brand project manager in Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Moldova.
• Victoriia Iesaulenko, Marketing Director of Asters Law Firm.
• Kateryna Nadtochiy, Chief Reputation Officer of StarLightMedia media group.
• Kseniia Serheieva, Co-founder at Big Bangers.
• Semen Kremenyuk, AIR Producing COO at AIR Media-Tech CEE.
• Ilia Anufriyenko, chief of the Bickerstaff.826 agency, founder and creative director of Bickerstaff.734, Ex-senior-artdir at Banda.