Modern technologies and innovations, secure cloud services, and access to learning platforms for students and faculty with a focus on artificial intelligence trends – these are just some of the benefits Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) will gain through its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS). KPI can access a wide range of cloud technologies and IT services from AWS providing world-leading cloud technologies that help any organization and any individual build solutions to transform industries, communities, and lives for the better.
On September 27, 2024, an AWS delegation led by Liam Maxwell, Director of Government Transformation at AWS, visited Ukraine for the first time since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. He was accompanied by Peter Marquez, Head of Global Space Policy at AWS.
“I am very grateful to Amazon, particularly to Liam and Peter, for coming to visit KPI. This is a very important visit because it shows that large global companies are interested in the activities of Ukraine’s largest university of technology,” said Oleksandr Marikovskyi, Head of the Subcommittee on Regional Economic Cooperation and Trade at the Parliamentary Committee on Economic Development, and Member of Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s parliament).
Representatives from the public sector, leading Ukrainian entrepreneurs and business leaders joined the meeting at the university. Together with KPI scientists, they plan to launch joint startup projects, using Amazon cloud technologies. In particular, the priority areas of the projects include enhancing Ukraine’s economic resilience and contributing to post-war reconstruction efforts.
“This is a strategic partner, one of the largest cloud technology providers in the world, and not only cloud technologies. Amazon is also involved in space technologies, which are virtually interconnected with what Kyiv Polytechnic focuses on. Therefore, there is indeed a broad scope for cooperation. We must seek ways of collaboration to help us win this war and rebuild Ukraine,” said Heorhii Dubynskyi, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
“We know how unstable our energy grids are right now during these missile and drone attacks. But we must carry out our research projects even in the face of electricity outages. Amazon can provide access to their infrastructure. Secondly, it is a platform for training artificial intelligence models. These models are currently being used at the front, and we are actively working in this direction,” said Serhii Stirenko, KPI Vice-Rector for Science.
Amazon Web Services and Kyiv Polytechnic will collaborate to develop cloud technologies, digital transformation, and innovation. Moreover, KPI students and staff will be able to seamlessly carry out their research projects, regardless of the challenges posed by martial law.
“Today’s meeting with Amazon proves the value of this partnership. We have leading enterprises developing military technologies, and, of course, cooperation with students who aspire to careers in the mil-tech sector is very valuable for us because engineers in Ukraine are the new gold. They are truly helping to bring victory closer. Therefore, this cooperation with KPI holds the tremendous potential for us,” concluded Kateryna Mykhalko, Executive Director of Technological Forces of Ukraine.