Third Meeting of IGDA Chapter Kiev

11 February 2005

 Our guests gathered and signed in a bit later, that planned, but that was a pleasure for us to see some new faces.

 The meeting itself begun with the short presentation leaded by Evgeniy Babich, PR-manager of Persha Studia. The presenter talked about the results of Kiev Chapter activity in 2005 year. Next person the audience listened to was Andrei Pozolotin, Vice President of Nikitova LLC.

He told everyone about his notion of IGDA and Ukrainian Association activities.

 Than Yuri Kobzarenko, laywer conducted the voting to create a legal Ukrainian Association. First of all Ukrainian developers voted for acceptation of Statute and it was accepted unanimously. Then a real election company started. Were represented two candidates for post of Prisedent-Nadia Matukhno that holds the position of Marketing Manager in Persha Studia and Yiriu Lichota, director of Crazy House Games.

 These two candidates presented their programmers, told about their experience and told everyone about their plans for future as the President of Ukrainian Game Developer Association. Than they answered the questions and election was hold.

 And the winner was recognized Yuri Lichota, the director of Crazy House Games and new President of Kiev Chapter. Yuriu thanked everyone for trust and promised not to disappoint members of Association.

 After a short coffee break started elections of Board members. All of them presented themselves and told about their professional experience. After their short speeches was voting and the to the Board of members were chosen next persons-Dmytriy Lusenko (Rostok Games), Evgeniy Babich (Persha Studia), Maksym Dembik (Crytek), Oleg Naprasnui (Monte Cristo Games) and Taras Corol (Adbucted Artists). Aleksey Goncharov (AeroHills), Andrei Pozolotin (Persha Studia) and Maksym Bakhmatov (UkrGameExport) become the Supervisory Board.

Conclusion

In general, it was a very productive meeting of Kiev Chapter that resulted in creation of legal entity – Ukrainian Game Developer Association. In particular, it was a meeting of professionals, who came to choose the future of Association and to propose their help in creation a strong society of game developers. Next meeting of newly formed Association is to be performed soon, along with more tight cooperation with IGDA.