Panel meeting “Digital excellence of business” will be held within the framework of the International Forum “Days of quality in Ukraine” during ​European quality week. Digital excellence of enterprises and organizations has become an integral component of quality, requiring proper managerial and technical support and address.

Date: November 12, 2025

Key question panel meetings:

• Digital excellence in the system of factors of competitiveness of companies and organizations.
• Tools for increasing digital maturity of companies and organizations.
• The impact of digitalization on the quality of goods and services.
• Quality management of digitalization processes.
• Digitalization in the system of higher education.
• Modern security challenges: digital culture and strategy.

Registration: https://forms.gle/yheUvnHnJbrqYrck6​​​​​​

According to the established tradition annually on 13th of November under the auspices of the UN throughout planet the World Quality Day is celebrated! This year's inspiring motto – “Quality: Think "Differently" is not just a slogan, but a powerful a call to action and deep transformation. It encourages everyone – from business leaders to individual specialists – rethink usual approaches used to achieve and maintain​​ quality. It's time to move away from routine methods and dare to innovate.

This motto emphasizes critical importance new ideas and bold solutions in three key areas that determine our future:

• Management of quality: Search for non-standard and more effective tools for creation of products and services that​ surpass consumer expectations.
• Innovations: Consider quality not as an end goal, but as a driving force for creation breakthrough solutions and technologies.
• Constant Development: Integrate principles of quality into a strategy to ensure long-term sustainability, social responsibility and environmental consciousness.

World Quality Day 2025 is common possibility to inspire creativity, courage and innovative thinking, to create better quality, more stable and better future for everyone !

This year the motto of European quality week sounds like a powerful call to action: "Profitable quality and risk management”. This is not just a slogan, but a business and economic roadmap to prosperity! A real quality is not a cost, it is a strategic source of profit, protected due to intelligent risk management!

The European emphasis is on systemic and strategic approach, which has two inseparable components:

• Quality as an engine for efficiency: goes beyond simply meeting standards. It’s about quality as essential part of business process, directly influencing profitability and overall efficiency. High quality is​ investment that​ guarantees return.
• Systemic risk management: in a modern, changing world success requires foresight and preparedness. Europeans call to integrate systemic approach into ​risk management at each stage, ensuring stability, reliability and protection of profit and prosperity.

In Ukraine perennial tradition which started​ back in 1999 within the framework of the European quality week, – International Forum “Days quality in Ukraine” – was forcibly interrupted by a full-scale war. But the critical importance of quality for today is undeniable! This necessary reinforcement element​ for armed forces and stabilization of economy. Quality is our duty to our defenders and future generations.

On November 12th International Forum: "Quality in Ukraine in the conditions of full-scale war" will take place. Our powerful and the only possible motto: "Quality - in the name of Victory"! Join the formation of high-quality future today!

Forum organizers:

• Ukrainian Association for Excellence and Quality (UAQQ);
• Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP);
• GlobalFederationofCompetitivenessCouncils (GFCC);
• Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman (KNEU);
• Anti-Crisis Headquarters for Economic Stability under Martial Law (ASH);
• Main Department of State Quality Assurance of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUDYA);
• International Guild of Quality Professionals;
• European Digital Innovation Hub "WIN-WIN EDIH".

The panel meeting is being held at the initiative of the Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman within the framework of the international project 101191647 WIN2EDIH «Win-WinEuropeanDigitalInnovationHub» ( Win-Win European Digital Innovation Hub), program: Digital Europe / DIGITAL-2023-EDIH-04-ASSOCIATED.

Representatives of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Office of the President, the National Security and Defense Council, central and local executive bodies, academies of sciences, associations and organizations of industrialists, entrepreneurs, and trade unions are invited to participate in the forum.

More about the event on the partners' pages. More detailed information will be sent to the addresses specified during registration. Participants who plan to participate in the offline format will be notified of the exact location of the event on November 10.

The general program of the forum includes: a plenary session, a workshop, and a master class.

Venue of the forum: Kyiv.

Date and time: November 12, 2025.

PANEL MEETING 11-00

WORKSHOP 15-00

Digital excellence: tools for the digital maturity assessment of public sector organizations, small and medium-sized enterprises.

Ilnytskyy D.O., Doctor of Economics, Professor, Coordinator of the project "European Digital Innovation Hub" WIN-WIN EDIH "", KNEU.

MASTER CLASS 16-00

Draft of international standard ISO 9001:2026 “Quality management systems. Requirements" - what can change and how to prepare for it.

Kalita T.P., director of the Company of quality professionals "Systems", expert of the Fund for support of reforms in Ukraine, member of the board of the Ukrainian academy of quality assurance, DQS auditor for quality management systems according to the ISO 9000 series.

Co-funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. The WIN2EDIH   project has received funding under the Digital Europe Programme, Grant Agreement No. 101191647.