Kateryna Laskari is a Ukrainian media manager and producer who co-founded SPACE PRODUCTION in June 2018 with her partner, Daria Leygonie-Fialko. SPACE has since become a domestic market leader in terms of output, producing 387 episodes in 2021 alone.

Prior to launching SPACE, Kateryna headed up production at Ukrainian channels TV-3 and CTC. During this time, she was responsible for creating dozens of top-performing original series, including detective mystery Fifth Watch, comedy Psychological Girls, docudrama Fortune Teller, sports drama The Last Axel and Detective Anna, which was very successful on TV3, received high audience scores on Netflix and Amazon Prime, and is now available in 13 countries.

Earlier in her career, Kateryna was Editor in Chief of popular Ukrainian television series Guten Morgen (M1), Fabrika Zirok/Star Factory (Novy Channel) and Verka Serdyuchka Show (TRK Ukraina). She developed the original format of talent show Narodna Zirka/People's Star, and contributed to the creation of large-scale dance format Maidan's.

Kateryna graduated from the New York Academy of Cinema and the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, where she studied publishing and editing. And she became a member of the European Producers Club (EPC) in 2023.

Speaking on: PANEL: Co-Pro Challenge—Local stories, global appeal