Visit of the Ukrainian delegation to the United States of America "Ukraine - USA: dialogue on the future"

Concept

The goal is to have a high-quality dialogue between the American establishment and the Ukrainian delegation in order to establish business and social communication.

The purpose is to establish a productive dialogue and solve the problems of the development of interstate relations between Ukraine and the USA to implement the best foreign practices in the political, business and media spheres.

Preparation

• Development and approval of the program; 

• Writing texts (announcements, articles, news); 

• Date selection - the meeting of the US Congress; 

• The choice of location - Capitol Hill, as the place where the leading institutions of the USA are based and nearby the headquarters of the World Bank.

• Negotiations with US members of Congress and senators, assistants and functionaries regarding the organisation of meetings with the offices of US elected officials, lobbyists, business people, associations, and media specialists; 

• Ordering passes to the relevant institutions with a regime pass on the specified dates; 

• Hotel reservations for the specified dates during the session of the US congress, when elected officials from all over the country gather; 

• Audience – offices of congress members, ex-advisor of Donald Trump, business association, top lobbyists, the media community, the Ukrainian delegation;  

• Creating a design: 

  1. Banner; 

  2. Pen; 

  3. Folder; 

  4. Agenda A4 in Ukrainian; 

  5. Agenda A4 in English; 

  6. Notepad.

• Text translation services; 

• Negotiations on the involvement of American partners;

• Negotiations on attracting speakers (correspondence, calls, personal meetings) – more than 800 contacts; 

• Personal calls to the American side - more than 400 calls; 

• Established contact with 25 offices of members of Congress and senators for the sake of quality information about the visit of the Ukrainian delegation; 

• Preparation of texts of speakers' speeches and questions to speakers; 

• Transfer order New York - Washington; 

• Finding a videographer and photographer and writing technical tasks for them; 

• 400 contacts from the political sphere, 250 calls; 

• Nine representatives of US political circles met with our delegation in the background; 

• Contact representatives of 50 media resources; 

• Met with five specialists from The Wall Street Journal, Reporters Without Borders; 

• Negotiations were held with about 40 business representatives. However, due to the tight schedule, a meeting was organised with the main ones - the World Bank and the American Council on Sustainable Business; 

Participants

  • Prasanna Lal Das

    Washington DC based data and digital policy/regulations thought leader with a strong track record. Prior to starting as an independent consultant, Prasanna worked for almost 20 years at the World Bank in Washington DC where he spearheaded numerous digital initiatives around the world.

  • Michael Caputo

    American political strategist and lobbyist. In April 2020, Caputo was appointed as assistant secretary of public affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. He worked for the Reagan Administration with Oliver North, and later as director of media services on the campaign for President George H. W. Bush in the 1992 United States presidential election.

  • Dina Ellis Rochkind

    American lawyer and lobbyist and a former Capitol Hill staff member with expertise in U.S. financial law and regulation. She is of counsel in the law firm of Paul Hastings in Washington, D.C., where her practice areas include virtual currency, financial technology, and payments.

  • Alan Cullison

    Reporter for The Wall Street Journal Europe in Moscow since February 1999. Mr. Cullison first joined Dow Jones & Company as a national copyreader in New York for AP/Dow Jones, a newswire of the Associated Press and Dow Jones, in December 1993. In June 1995, he moved to Moscow as a reporter, and in May 1998, became the newswire's Moscow bureau chief.

  • Benjamin Cardin

    American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maryland, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. representative for Maryland's 3rd congressional district from 1987 to 2007.

  • Albio Sires

    American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 8th congressional district since 2006. The district, numbered as the 13th district from 2006 to 2013, includes most of northern and eastern Jersey City, as well as most of Newark's Latino neighborhoods.

*Not the whole list of participants