AI and data management during war: participation of the BSPU representative at the Olvia Forum

Vice-Rector for Scientific Work of the Berdyansk State Pedagogical University Yana Sychikova took part in the work of the Olvia Forum.

The XXIII International Scientific Conference “Olvia Forum-2026: Strategies of the Black Sea Region Countries in the Geopolitical Space” aimed to exchange international experience of countries in the fields of governance, law, energy, human and environmental security, information technologies, etc.

The event was held at the Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University.

Yana Sychikova delivered a report “When Data Becomes a Weapon: Artificial Intelligence and Data Management During War”. As the speaker illustrates: “Ukraine has accumulated over 2 million hours of video from more than 15,000 crews – this is approximately 228 years of continuous video and 5–6 TB of new data every day”/ This is experience transformed into material for training, validation and improvement of artificial intelligence models.

The report raises the issue of control over this resource, “national security and Ukraine’s ability to maintain the value of its own data”, the role of AI in transforming observation into decisions and the associated risks.

As the vice-rector sums up on her Facebook page: “Data today is simultaneously a resource, memory, knowledge, evidence, infrastructure, strategic asset and responsibility”.

The presentation of the speech is available at the link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21149108 .

Based on materials from Yana  Sychikova’s Facebook page