Speaker at the “Tochka Cuire” business programme

Denis Smetnev

Co-founder of Skyeng and the uForce marketing agency · MIPT Business School

Denis Smetnev is a co-founder of the online English school Skyeng and the uForce marketing agency, and academic director of the master’s programme at the MIPT Business School.

He founded Skyeng in 2012 together with Georgy Solovyov, Khariton Matveev and Andrey Yaunzem, served as commercial director and was responsible for international development. In 2023 he stepped away from running the school, remaining a shareholder, to focus on uForce.

uForce started as a unit of Skyeng and has been independent since 2021: it helps companies find clients and specialists, raise funding and launch marketing and advertising campaigns. The agency hires university students and graduates and turns them into strong specialists within a year and a half to two years — Smetnev himself calls the project a reflection of his long-held dream.

Skyeng uForce Marketing MIPT Business School

“Tochka Cuire” business programme

At the “Tochka Cuire” festival

Talk · 23 October, 12:30

uForce marketing agency

Red Hall, CSI “Byl”: the audience in the hall, Denis Smetnev by video link. Free, registration required.

The “Tochka Cuire” festival is held with the support of the Department of Culture of the Stary Oskol City District Administration and the Metalloinvest company.