Emil Fitoš is President of the Slovak IT Association and chairman of the European digital innovation hub Slovak Center of Digital Innovations. Former CEO of Atos IT Solutions and Services in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. He has combined his career with innovation and has devoted his entire professional life to the IT sector. He worked at Siemens Business Services as a director for the public sector, healthcare, and transport. He held the position of CEO of Atos Czech Republic & Slovakia for three years. In 2017, he was elected president of the IT Association of Slovakia (ITAS), and defended his position in 2019 and also in 2021. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at STU with a specialization in Automated Control Syst…

Ľubor Illek is the founder of the civic association Slovakia.digital, where he also works. He has been involved in eGovernment area, primarily in data management, electronic signature, copyright, security, eGovernment projects evaluation. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Slovak Informatics Society. In 2009, he was one of the founding members of the Open Information Technology Society, in which he pursued the idea of openness in public policy making, especially in OpenData, open standards and the use of free software. He studied informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University. He has been active in Gordias company where he focuses on information security. Since 2009, he has been teaching social aspects of…

Milan Ištván studied journalism in Bratislava and Paris. Between the years 1998 and 2002 he was the youngest MP. His interests were internet in the schools, liberalization of telecommunication market and electronic signature law. Since 2002 he supports information society through association Partnerstvá pre prosperitu (PPP). He is a member of Advisory Body of Digital Leader of the Slovak Republic. He was a member of Monitoring Committee for Knowledge Society in program period  2007-2013 (OPIS, OPKaHR and OP VaV). At present he is a member of Monitoring Committee for OP Integrated Infrastructure (OPII) and a member of Steering Committee for Priority Axis 7 OPII Information Society. 

Rastislav Janota has more than 20 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications sector. During his professional career, he held several expert and top managerial positions in the field of ICT and cyber security both in the private sector and in public administration, both in Slovakia and in various countries abroad. Since September 1, 2023, he has been working as a special envoy of the NBU for cyber security at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, D.C., USA.

Miriam Letašiová, Director General of the Business Environment and Innovation Section of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, is responsible for the smart industry agenda, better regulation and measures to improve the business environment. She also covers the Smart Cities agenda and is convinced that a better life in our cities will be achieved through a change of thinking and a common dialogue. At the same time, she is in charge of the Government Council's Working Group on Export and Investment Promotion, where she supports the expansion of Slovakia's pro-export policy. She gained experience in this field already in 2012 - 2016, when she worked as the Chief Executive Officer of EXIMBANKA SR. At the same time, she is the presi…

He started his career at VSŽ Košice as a programmer. Later he became a manager in various positions with responsibility for IT systems, many of which have been operating successfully to this day. After the extensive experience, he then decided to build new IT companies of Ness KDC in Košice and GlobalLogic, which targeted customers abroad. In this highly competitive environment, the company managed to create a working IT Valley model where he became Chairman of the Supervisory Board. His 20-year-lasting career allowed him to travel a lot, taught him about himself and about the great potential of his own country.

He leads a team of analysts at the Value for Money Unit that assesses the effectiveness of public investments, assists with their planning and the preparation of feasibility studies. The goal of the OHP is to strengthen the results orientation in decision-making on public policies, regulations, investments and government operations. For public investments, the IHP helps to analyse whether public funds will actually be spent in the best possible way to achieve the stated objectives. For more than 10 years, he has been professionally dedicated to supporting the use of data and analytics in decision-making. For the last 5 years, he has worked at the Ministry of Finance where he has also worked on the preparation of the review of IT spending…