Maksym Urakin, Deputy Director of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency and founder of the Experts Club information and analytical center, has joined the jury of the national SBC Ukraine Awards 2026, dedicated to achievements in sports marketing, communications and the sports business.
As reported by the industry publication SportBusiness.Media on October 15, 2026, the organizers of the awards, Sport&Business Club, announced the names of another 16 experts in sports, business, marketing and media who will evaluate the competition projects.
In total, approximately 150 representatives of the sports industry, entrepreneurship, advertising market, mass media and communications are expected to be involved in the jury of the SBC Ukraine Awards 2026. They will determine the winners in 23 categories.
Among the new jury members, in addition to Maksym Urakin, are Ihor Hryshchenko, Secretary General of the Ukrainian Association of Football; Denys Boyko, former goalkeeper of the Ukrainian national football team; Dmytro Stryzhov, founder and member of the Supervisory Board of the SHERIFF holding company; Pavlo Shylko, General Producer of the YUNA Music Awards; and Anton Lohonovych, Executive Director of SITKOD LLC (BETON).
The jury also includes sports marketer and television presenter Oleksandr Androsov, entrepreneur Stanislav Arutiunian, Dobroznak founder Oleksandr Buzov, SportArena journalist Mykyta Dmytrulin, Linecore web studio founder Maksym Kachan, television presenter Oleksandr Popov and Idealers agency Creative Director Oleh Svyshch.
The panel of experts was supplemented by professor and media expert Diana Faivishenko, OPTIMA University professor Tetiana Kharchuk and DTEK Academy Head of Business Development and Partnerships Tetiana Sherman.
Maksym Urakin holds the academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in History. He is the founder of the Experts Club information and analytical center, which specializes in economic research, analysis of international markets, demographic processes and socio-political trends.
The involvement of representatives of the media, economic analysis and business in evaluating sports projects reflects the cross-sectoral nature of the awards. Modern sports marketing encompasses not only the promotion of sports clubs and competitions but also the development of commercial partnerships, attraction of sponsorship investments, digital communications and social initiatives.
As part of the SBC Ukraine Awards 2026, the best sports projects and events, managers, athletes, journalists, bloggers, advertising and PR campaigns, creative solutions, digital platforms, as well as social and charitable initiatives, are to be recognized.
Projects implemented between December 1, 2025, and November 25, 2026, are eligible to participate in the competition. There is no limit on the number of categories for which one participant may apply; however, an individual project may be submitted in a maximum of two categories.
The SBC Ukraine Awards 2026 winners’ announcement ceremony is scheduled for December 2026. The organizers expect more than 400 guests, including athletes, heads of sports federations and clubs, company owners, top managers, marketers and media representatives.
The SBC Ukraine Awards is an industry award in the field of sports marketing organized by Sport&Business Club. Its purpose is to recognize projects and professionals who contribute to the development of Ukraine’s sports industry, the commercialization of sports products, improving the effectiveness of marketing communications and cooperation between sports and business.
Source: SportBusiness.Media, publication dated October 15, 2026.
ProZorro.Sale JSC became a finalist for the IAM Asset Management Excellence Awards 2023 and was named one of the world’s six best projects working with the digitalization of asset management, it was announced during the annual official award ceremony held by The Institute of Asset Management (IAM) in London on December 4.
As noted in the release of the state-owned company on Tuesday, the finalist organizations demonstrated the application of the best principles and approaches in asset management, adapted to digitalization trends, and their projects were a response to business and consumer requests.
The IAM is an international non-profit organization that has been bringing together asset management professionals since 1994. The Institute recognizes projects and innovative achievements in asset management in the face of modern challenges. The IAM Asset Management Excellence Awards annually honor projects around the world that innovate in asset management in the face of modern challenges.
It is specified that Prozorro.Sale JSC, which administers the state electronic trading system, which hosts online auctions for the sale of public assets, reached the final in the Digital Innovation category. In the final in this category, ProZorro.Sale competed with projects and companies from Spain and the United Kingdom. The winner in this category was a project to improve the efficiency of asset management by Transport Scotland.
“More than seven years ago, with the launch of public online auctions in the Prozorro.Sale electronic trading system, the state began to change the approaches and principles of public asset management. During this time, transparent and open e-auctions have become an effective tool for the state and communities, which have already brought more than UAH 80 billion to the budgets of various levels, and opened up opportunities for businesses to obtain resources for development, including during martial law,” commented First Vice Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko.
According to her, the inclusion of the Ukrainian IT solution – the state electronic trading system Prozorro.Sales – in the world’s best in the Digital Innovation category of the prestigious IAM Asset Management Excellence Awards is evidence that it is impossible to achieve results in asset management without digitalization.
“Being among the top 6 best projects in the world is a great responsibility for us, for the entire ProZorro.Sale ecosystem, which includes both ProZorro.Sale JSC and platforms, organizers and bidders. Amid the war, we are more than ever determined to continue working on improving the system and increasing the efficiency and transparency of asset sales in even more markets,” said Serhii But, CEO of ProZorro.Sale.
The company reminded that in 2022, the state electronic trading system ProZorro.Sale was recognized as the best public service by the most prestigious UN Public Service Awards. The administrator of the system, Prozorro.Sale JSC, guarantees the security of electronic auctions, the impossibility of interference in their course and equal access of each participant to participate in the auction, the release emphasizes.
The Diia.City project was awarded the Emerging Europe Awards, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov said.
“The Diia.City project received the Emerging Europe Awards in the Modern and Future-Proof Policymaking nomination. The award celebrates the projects of countries that change the life of the developing region of Europe. The winners are chosen by people from all over the world who can vote online for their favorite project. This year, thousands of people took part in the voting, noting the importance of Diia.City,” Fedorov wrote on his Telegram channel.
The minister emphasized that “City was noted for its unique contribution to positioning Ukraine as a powerful IT hub, as well as for creating conditions for the development of companies and attracting investments.”
“I am sure that Ukraine will soon become the largest European IT hub. I am grateful to President Volodymyr Zelensky for the political will and full support in the launch of Diia.City,” Fedorov wrote.
