Alex Bornyakov — the Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine on IT industry development, Head of the Diia City project. 

Bornyakov was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation in October of 2019 and has been boosting the growth of Ukraine’s IT industry and working on creating a legal space for Ukrainian and international VASPs to officially register their businesses in Ukraine.

The ministry's most important project is the so-called "state in a smartphone" project that was aiming that by 2024 100% of all government services should be available online with 20% of services provided automatically, without the intervention of an official, and 1 online fill-in form to receive a package of services "in any life situation".

Within three days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the ministry organized a campaign to pressurize technology companies to boycott Russia. They have also secured access to Starlink and recruited the IT Army of Ukraine. Together with Kuna.io cryptocurrency exchange from Ukraine, the Ministry initiated the creation of the largest fundraising crypto fund in the world called Crypto Fund for Ukraine aimed to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine combat the Russian invasion.

A French Futurist invited Alex Boryakov to talk about the world and technologies after almost a year of war in Ukraine.

The episode was recorded on February 3, 2023, in Kyiv.