The Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Federation

"Ukrainian Canadians: The New Challenge" explored the challenge to our professional and business community as we search for new ways to capitalize on our cultural heritage combined with our economic interest and expertise.

Below is a description of the convention program:

June 29 - July 2, 1995

CHATEAU CHAMPLAIN 1, Place du Canada Montreal, Quebec

PROGRAM

6:00 p.m.

Cocktail at Montreal City Hall - Guest speakers Robert Cote - Conseiller municipal associe au Maire de Montreal - mediation / Vera Danyluk, Chairman, Executive Committee, Montreal Urban Community.

8:30 a.m. Opening remarks - Dr. Lou Melosky

9:00 a.m. InterNet Workshop opens

9:00 a.m. Session on management

Today's pace of change can be overwhelming in both our business and personal life, including family and volunteer work. Your ability to deal with change can result in either disillusionment and burnout or optimism and success. This explanation will explain the concepts of change and how you can identify the opportunities change presents to create the future you want.

imaginIZATION Olia Stachnyk, Bob Wheatley

10:15 a.m. Intermission

10:30 a.m. The Honourable Shiela Finestone,P.C., M.P., Secretary ofState (Multiculturalism) (Status of Women)

11:00 a.m. Session on Business and Ethnicity

What part does ethnicity play in the economic well-being of its members? Does ethnicity help or hinder one's career outside one's cultural community? Can ethnic business associations ease their members' entry into the larger business world?

Moderator:

Margret Kopala, Freelance Writer

Panelists:

• Dr. Dmytro Cipywnyk, President, Canadian Ethnocultural Council, and President, Ukrainian World Congress
• Rev. Dr. Peter Galdza, Assistant Professor, Saint Paul University, Ottawa
• Dr. Myron Kuropas, Adjunct Professor, Northern Illinois University
• Dr. Arvind K.Jain, Associate Professor of International Business and Finance, Concordia University

2:30 p.m. Session on Neighbors

What can we Ukrainians learn from other ethnic communities about strengthening our community through business?

Moderator:

Raya Shadursky, Director Field Services, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

Panelists:

• Eugene Zalucky, Vice-president, National Council of Ethnic Business and Professional Associations
• John Voorpostel, President, Toronto Chapter, National Council of Ethnic Business and Professional Associations
• Consolato Gattuso, Executive Vice-president, Canadian Italian Professional and Business Association of Montreal
• Rita Teitelbaum, Chair of Canadian Jewish Congress of Quebec

4:00 p.m. Session on Young Professionals

What can Ukrainian Professionals do to ease the entry of their young into economic life while retaining their participation in the cultural community?

Moderator:

Roman Dubczak, Wood Gundy

Panelists:

• Jon Tomas, President, Ukrainian Canadian University Students Association
• Helen Holowka, c.a., Tretiak, Holowka
• Motria Dzulzynsky, Manager, Pharm-Econ Drug Mart
• Myroslav Klid, President, Finders Research Corporation

5:15 p.m. Cocktail - Meet the nominees for President and the Executive

8:00 a.m. Reports from Affiliated Associations of the Federation

9:00 a.m. InterNet Workshop begins

9:30 a.m. Session on Business and the Arts

What obligations do Ukrainian professionals, businesses, institutions and artists have to support each other?

Moderator:

Shawna Balas, Curator, Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Center

Panelists:

• Dr. Robert Klymacz, Curator of Art and Ethnicity, Museum of Man and Civilization
• Yurij Klufas, Executive-producer, Kontakt
• John Pichlyk, Artistic Director, Ukrainian Shumka Dancers

11:00 p.m. Session on Ukrainian Women

What factors have and are defining the role of the Ukrainian woman? What needs to be done in the Ukrainian community to accomodate the contemporary woman?

Moderator:

Olya Kuplowska, Director Research, TV Ontario

Panelists:

• Veronica Onyskiw, Investment Vice President U.S. Equities, Manulife Financial
• Dr. Janice Kulyk-Keefer, Author and Professor, University of Guelph
• Bohdana Bashuk, Host "Open for Discussion" WTN

2:30 p.m. Federation Annual General Meeting

Canadian Foundation of Ukrainian Studies AGM

3:30 p.m. Meeting of the new President and Executive with the delegates

5:00 p.m. InterNet Workshop ends (or later, upon request)

6:00 p.m. Saturday Night Cabaret - Music by

ZOLOTA BULAVA

8:00 a.m. Reports from Affiliated Associations of the Federation

9:00 a.m. InterNet Workshop begins

9:30 a.m. Session on Ukraine's Development

What progress has occurred in Ukraine's economic environment since independence? What trade policies do the federal and provincial governments have toward Ukraine and other former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries? How can Ukrainian Canadian enterpreneurs and professionals further their business and trade opportunities between Canada and Ukraine?

Bob Onyschuk, President of the Ukraine Canada Chamber of Commerce

Panelists:

• Andrij Vesselovsky, Deputy Chief of Ukrainian Ambassador, Ukrainian Embassy
• Roman Hruby, Trade Commissioner, Central and Eastern Europe, Trade Development Division Canada
• Ian Donald, Director General, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Office, Industry Canada (To Be Confirmed)
• Alain Bardoux, Director, Central and Eastrern Europe, External Affairs and International Trade Quebec

11:00 a.m. Session on Ukraine's Development (continued)

Moderator:

Oksana Bashuk Hepburn, President, UCAN, Ukraine Canada Relations Inc.

Panelists:

• John Petryshyn, Lawyer, Glowacki and Libitka
• Jack Minsky, President, Apple Computer Ukraine
• Halyna A. Wolanskyj, International Business Consultant
• Harry Etienne, Teleglobe Canada Inc.

2:30 p.m. Meeting of President and New Executive

5:00 p.m. Internet Workshop ends

LOCATION:

Chateau Champlain (rooms Huronie A and B) 1, Place Du Canada Montreal, Quebec H3B 4C9 Tel:(514)878-9000

DATE:

June 30 to July 2nd, 1995

TIME:

9:00 AM through 5:00 PM (or later, upon demand)

SPONSORS:

The UCPBF convention, UKUG_MTL (Ukrainian Komputer Users' Group of Montreal), and various corporate sponsors.

COST:

This workshop is free to attend, and anyone interested is both invited and welcome. Please note that attending the workshop does not grant you free access to the UCPBF convention.

2. On display (and available for your use) will be:

(a) - Two active InterNet workstations

(b) - Cyrillic/English software: Language Master & MultiTYPE!

(c) - Easy Ukrainian: an on-line English/Ukrainian dictionary

(d) - Atlas of Ukraine: an interactive electronic atlas of Ukraine (in English)

(e) - Ukrainian Apple operating system

(f) - FAXinating Solutions automated data entry services.

(g) - Internet books and references

3. The INTERNET demonstrations will show you:

(a) - How to use Electronic Mail

(b) - Mailing lists: UKES-NEWS, UKES-SOCIAL, UCPB@soma.crl.mcmaster.ca

(c) - Newsgroups: SOC.CULTURE.UKRAINIAN

(d) - 16 freenets across Canada; e.g. freenet.edmonton.ab.ca

(e) - www home pages via NETSCAPE, MOSAIC, LYNX or CELLO

• UCPB home page http://soma.crl.mcmaster.ca/~kostiuk

• UKES home page http://soma.crl.mcmaster.ca/ukes/

• KYIV home page http://www.freenet.kiev.ua

• UKUG_MTL page http://www.cam.org/~ukugmtl/ (under construction)

(g) - Other resources related to your profession or business

(h) - How to connect to the InterNet including:

• contact information for INTERNET services providers in your local area.

• what kind of hardware and software you'll need

• what costs and prices to expect (electronic mail costs from $0 to $10.00 per month)

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Tel:(514)521-0187 Will Zuzak: Tel:(514)652-8697; Res:(514)649-3338

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