Kamil Šaško, Ministry of Economy SR (invited)

Each new set receives a lot of advice when starting. Officials and advisers point to important documents co-authored by them. Lobbyists show that they know how to help and generate ideas to wait. Those who felt left out point out that things need to be done differently. Someone has projects and measures in their drawer that were unjustly neglected in the past. Taking into account all possible goals and conflicting interests has led in the recent past to unrealistic promises, unfulfilled expectations, micro-management, but also to ignoring strategic matters, decisions to add gas and at the same time step on the brakes. A responsible manager should look at the capacities that will realistically be available to him, compare them with the demands placed on him and ask himself the question "WHAT NOT TO DO?". In his contribution, Emil Fitoš will talk about which priorities are not really priorities, which activities are a waste of energy and which promises are better not to make.

One of the goals of the Program Statement of the Government of the Slovak Republic, which recently ended its activities, was: "The Government of the Slovak Republic will introduce innovative forms of procurement in IT (agile procurement, open framework agreements - the so-called digital marketplace) in order to support competition, following the example of countries that are leaders in informatization .” From today's perspective, it is clear that the number of competitions has increased, but the number of companies that win them has decreased. We are witnessing a growing lack of interest of IT companies in public contracts. The reason is a combination of phenomena - procurement methods, the practice of setting preliminary contract values, irremovable or even growing bureaucracy. It was not possible to attract a large number of new companies to the public sector. It was not even possible to increase the competences of the customer state by fundamentally increasing the number of computer scientists on the state side. New phenomena are emerging here, such as predatory offers that aim far below the preliminary value of the order. The state is a high-risk customer, and IT companies that can establish themselves in other markets are increasingly doing so. The way out of this condition will not be easy. The first prerequisite for embarking on it is to stop transforming the relationship between the IT sector and public administration into politics, admit reality and start behaving in a managerial and professional manner.

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Leaders of Slovak artificial intelligence present interesting projects, cooperation, solutions in the field of artificial intelligence.

Emil Fitoš, AISlovakIA
Tomáš Vinař, Comenius University in Bratislava
Ivan Budinská, Slovak academy of sciences
Matej Pecháč, TACHYUM

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ERIK HEVESI, MIRDI: "Even in public procurement it is possible to achieve good results, only both parties have to want it."

Jozef Graňačka, Slovensko IT 
Erik Hevesi, MIRDI SR
Emil Fitoš, ITAS 
Peter Kubovič, Office for Public Procurement 
Marián Marek, ITAS

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Artur Bobovnický, SIEA 
Emil Fitoš, ITAS 
Marwan Oghli, TACHYUM
Juraj Rumanovský, FORTINET 

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panel speakers
Emil Fitoš, ITAS



 

Digitization has significantly changed entire industries - financial services, retail and wholesale, energy and telecommunications. Under the name Industry 4.0, the digitization of industry is underway. In all these sectors, there have been fundamental changes in processes, organizational structures, human resources and customer service. Why don't we see the same benefits of IT in public administration, even though the suppliers are the same companies?

We still have a circulation of documents based on the paper world. Electronic processes also copy the paper world. Decisions must be sought and substantiated. All applications must be approved, the scope of automation is zero. The data are still largely isolated. Agendas are also payable to the department, and information systems faithfully copy this fact. If everyone does the same thing, they just use a computer instead of paper, in fact too little will change.

The potential of the digital age needs to be fully exploited. It also means transforming processes in public administration and introducing separate electronic tools and procedures, independent and unrelated to paper procedures and tools. An analogy can be, for example, banks, where the same operation is performed differently at the branch and differently through internet banking, while the result for the client is the same.

 

Invited guests:
Marek Antal (MIRRRI), Pavel Karel (NASES), Vladimír Dzurilla (MV ČR), Emil Fitoš (ITAS), Pavol Frič (DITEC), Gabriel Lachmann (Slovensko.Digital), Rastislav Janota (NCKB SK-CERT), Pavol Miroššay (Slovensko IT)

It does not make sense to convince Slovak companies of the importance of industry 4.0. Most of them clearly understand the opportunity they represent. At the same time, they understand what they are in danger of losing competition in this area.

Politicians or decision-makers do not need to be convinced of the need for digital transformation of Slovak industry. In recent years, the term Industry 4.0 has become part of their vocabulary.

However, they need to be asked how they will deal with the digital transformation of the economy in the context of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRF). There is cause for concern, as the National Integrated Reform Plan is unmanaged in this respect. RRF is a chance to remedy, but it must be preceded by a different view of the country's priorities and what tools the state should apply so that Slovakia can be modern and successful not only in marketing slogans, but also in terms of a prosperous and competitive economy.

 

Discussion of invited speakers:
Richard Sulík, Deputy Prime Minister  of the Slovak Republic and Minister of Economy SR
Peter Blaškovitš, SIEA
Lukáš Demovič, SAV
Emil Fitoš, ITAS
Eva Stejskalová, Microstep
and other invited speakers