Computer scientist and artificial intelligence expert is one of the leading personalities of science in Slovakia. In 2020, she founded and still leads KInIT – Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (https://kinit.sk), an independent research institute inspired by similar institutions abroad, which as a center of excellent research and expertise in artificial intelligence supports companies' interest in research, their stronger connection with the academic sector and the circulation of talents between sectors and also between Slovakia, Europe and the world. Until 2020, she worked at the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies of STU in Bratislava, which she headed for four years from 2015. In 2016, she received the IT …

Peter is one of the key representatives of Tachyum in Slovakia as well as a member of the company’s Board of Advisors. After graduating from the Faculty of Commerce, University of Economics, Bratislava, Peter co-founded a PR agency Interel, currently known as Seesame, one of the most successful PR agencies in Slovakia. After a successful entrepreneurial experience, Peter spent 11 years working in the leadership positions in global technology companies Motorola and Microsoft. Between 2011 and 2013, Peter held a Country Manager position at s&t Slovakia. Since 2014, Peter has been Managing Director of Gratex International, Slovakia based software house, with a key focus on scaling up the company’s business internationally, particularly in t…

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…

A professional with more than 25 years of experience in IT in Slovakia and abroad. He is involved in project management, consulting and implementation services in the implementation of IT projects and as a manager also in the building implementation teams. New technologies and processes in the field of enterprise digital transformation, BizDevOps, enterprise process automation (RPA), enterprise information systems (ERP, CRM, DMS, software integration and development) and more are at the heart of his focus. He has been working at Atos since 2013 and is leading a group that carries into operation development and implementation projects. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of STU in Bratislava, at the Department of Micro…

Ing. Gabriel Lachmann was born in 1976. He was studying at FEI STU in Bratislava, majoring in automation. In 1999 he was a co-founder and CEO of software company Elline s.r.o., which dealt with the supply of internet portals, bank and stock market systems. In 2003 he coordinated fusion of companies Elline and Euromove, that eventuated information of system integrator EEA s.r.o. Since 2003 he has functioned in EEA s.r.o. on the position of business director (CBO). He is a co-founder of the civil association Utopia and a member of the Society for open information technologies.

Since 2017, Daniel Straka has been working as the Executive Director of the Slovak Organization for Research and Development Activities. He has more than 13 years of experience in the development and implementation of research and innovation policies at national and European level. In 2014, he founded and led the Liaison Office of the Slovak Republic for Research and Development in Brussels (SLORD). He has experience in preparing and implementing international projects, as well as organizing international conferences both in Slovakia and in Brussels. From 2011 to 2013 he served as the Executive Director at SOVVA, and was responsible for managing the support structures of the EU's 7th Framework Program for Research and Development. Previo…

He works for various consulting companies and state authorities that prepare forecasts, study action plans for the development of electronic communications in Slovakia. From 2008 to 2015 he participated in the process of preparation and processing of studies within the operational program informatisation of society for increasing Internet Access from EU Funds. In 2016 he worked as an expert for the European Union in the process of high-speed internet subsidies in the Czech Republic. He is Chairman of the Forum for Communications Technology and a member of the commission, which annually awards prestigious IT awards. He is the chairman of the Jozef Murgaš and J. Gregor Tajovský Club.

Ivan Kotuliak is the dean of FIIT STU and at the same time acts as the expert representative of the Slovak Republic for the European Blockchain Partnership at the EC, as well as the Slovak representative of the Information for All program of the Slovak Commission of UNESCO. He previously received a PhD from the University of Versailles in Informatics, as well as from FEI STU in Telecommunications. Since 2002, he has been working as a researcher, later as an assistant professor, and since 2019 as a faculty professor. His research orientation includes communication network performance, NGN network architectures, mobile and wireless networks. His recent focus is on Blockchain and Content Delivery Networks (CDN), where he co-authored the …