Speakers
Peter Vesterbacka
FinEst Bay entrepreneur FinEst Bay entrepreneur Global FinEst Bay entrepreneur in the heart of Eurasia. The brands created and initiated by Peter include HP Bazaar, Mobile Monday, Slush and Startup Sauna. He was in the Angry Birds for many years just the “Mighty Eagle”, and this brand moved to unprecedented heights. In 2011, Time Magazine announced Peter as one of the 100 most influential people on the planet. In 2019, Politico Europe included Petra in a narrow list of “politiko28” people who will greatly influence our future world.
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Prof. Mária Bieliková
Kempelen institute of intelligent technologies Kempelen institute of intelligent technologies Professor Mária Bieliková is a leading Slovak expert on information technology and artificial intelligence. She is the founder of the Kempelen institute of intelligent technologies (KInIT), a slovak organization focused on basic and applied research in intelligent technologies, which connects the academic world with the world of industry. Through her research and activities to this day, she has significantly contributed to the circulation of talent and connecting Slovakia with the rest of the world. She significantly increases the visibility of slovak research and innovations in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence.
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Libor Bešenyi
Xolution Xolution Libor is the CTO and co-owner of Xolution. He has been working in custom software development for more than 15 years and in artificial intelligence for the last 7 years. The projects he works on, win various awards. He and his colleagues are trying to create cognitive but synthetic intelligence. It is the holy grail of cybernetics. The projects he is working on fit into this idea. The company is gradually expanding the robot's cognitive capabilities and thus automating things that don't go the standard IT routes. Cybernetics bridges the fields of natural sciences, with social sciences. Philosophy, ethics, linguistics, and psychology are addressed, and these are topics that Libor has been a fan of all his life. Today he can apply it in practice. He has been on the board of the company for the last 8 years. His job is to make economic sense of edge technologies. This has proven to be the most difficult discipline in Libor's life. Otherwise, he has a family, a son and a dog. To unwind, he goes out with a drill in hand, to the countryside or to tango classes.
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Martin Lohnert
Director of the Void SOC Cyber Security Center Director of the Void SOC Cyber Security Center Martin has extensive knowledge and experience in network infrastructure and security. He currently manages the Security Operations Center - a service that is part of the Soitron Group under the Void brand www.voidsoc.com. He also worked at Soitron as a technical manager, led the Soitron Group marketing and helped the company become the third largest provider of IT solutions in Slovakia. He was present when Soitron expanded to the Czech Republic, Romania and Turkey. He also evaluates his experience as an IT manager in the Slovak branch of Asea Brown Boveri or Solution Architect in the Australian office of Dimension Data.
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Ján Michlík
Smart City/Building Smart City/Building IT enthuniasist supporting Startups and Youngers in Tatra region. His mision is to preserve biodiversity of our Planet Earth. After study at TU Kosice he built Metropolitan network in Poprad city. According to acquisition with Slovanet he ran many positions and was a board member of this telco company. From 2016 he is involved in IoT and Smart City/Building topics.
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Mgr. Gabriela Grmanová, PhD.
Kempelen institute of intelligent technologies Kempelen institute of intelligent technologies Gabriela is a senior researcher at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies. She is focusing on artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining and probabilistic modeling. She has applied her research to energy production and consumption forecasting, microgrid optimization and anomaly detection. In 2006, she completed a six-month internship at Vienna’s University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. She was a member of the Big Data Analysis group at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava and has been involved in several national and international research and industry projects.
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Martin Murín
Director of HDS, a.s.
Martin Decký
BuiltMind BuiltMind Martin Decky graduated from Harvard with a Master's Degree in Real Estate. He is a passionate creator with a drive to bring innovation to the market. His passion for transforming innovation into the marketplace led him to found BuiltMind, an award-winning technology startup focused on the residential real estate sector. BuiltMind provides residential developers and investors with robust market data and dynamic pricing propositions. It currently operates in Europe and the US.
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Pavol Hudák
Chairman of the Transport office
Tomáš Paciga
Resitech Resitech In business, he is guided by the motto: "The purpose of technology is to help". In 2018, he has founded and since then he runs resitech. It is a fast-growing and innovative company in the real-estate segment. The resitech platform connects, automates and streamlines the activities of stakeholders. It actively connects the developer, manager, distribution companies, the B2B segment and homeowners in order to save costs and bring added value to stakeholders.
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In 2020, Forbes pronounced resitech the most innovative company of the year at FORBES 30UNDER30. At the end of 2021, resitech was part of the Slovak delegation in Dubai at the EXPO event.
Igor Wzoš
Chairman of the Board of Slovak Smart City Clustra Chairman of the Board of Slovak Smart City Clustra, a graduate sociologist, enthusiast for smart energy. During his almost four-year tenure as Deputy Mayor of Poprad, he focused primarily on energy, smart cities and education. He stood at the birth of the Poprad Energy Company and the Slovak Smart City Cluster. He is a co-author of the Poprad City Development Program with a view to 2040, the Smart City Concept Poprad. He is currently a member of the Poprad City Council, a member of the Prešov Regional Office, a member of the Education Commission.
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Martin Hudec
Sales manager for Slovakia @ 2N TELEKOMUNIKACE a.s Sales manager for Slovakia @ 2N TELEKOMUNIKACE a.s After studying communication technology and electrical engineering, he spent a large part of his professional life in logistics and trade in telecommunications and similar professions. Since 2016, he has been working for 2N as Sales Manager for Slovakia: "There are many experts in smart building solutions in Slovakia and I am very pleased to be able to offer them 2N products that are fully compatible with their solutions."
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2N is a world leader in IP intercoms. The 2N product portfolio also includes access readers and a complete intelligent access control system. One of the greatest advantages of 2N products is their easy integration with third-party systems in the field of VMS, home automation and other systems. More information about 2N products and solutions can be found at www.2n.com.
Šimon Staňo
CEO, Co-Founder of DAITABLE, s.r.o. CEO, Co-Founder of DAITABLE, s.r.o. A young entrepreneur and the head of business development in his own start-up DAITABLE. Academic and professional background in Sales and Business Administration. Currently focused on his company which operates in developing a Smart Energy Management unique in using AI for predictions and data analysis. Goal is to help companies in energy-intensive industries such as metallurgy, automotive or chemistry to save costs for energy consumption and therefore also help the planet.
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Jozef Griač
Member of the board of the civic association Imobilio
More info Member of the board of the civic association Imobilio Jozef Griač is a member of the board of directors of the civic association Imobilio, which aims to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities into society. His suggestions in the field of mobility of the disabled are also a great contribution to the research and development of the modular construction system CUBSY. Therefore, he became the godfather of the first barrier-overcoming ramp made of the CUBSY modular construction system, which can remove architectural barriers and many construction defects with ease. The system is simple and the structure can be designed and assembled by an informed layman using intuitive tools.Jozef Griač
Dušan Okleštek
DORPS s.r.o. (Slovak Republic), co-founder and executive director CUB.SYSTEMS s.r.o. (Czech Republic), co-founder and sales director for Eastern Europe DORPS s.r.o. (Slovak Republic), co-founder and executive director CUB.SYSTEMS s.r.o. (Czech Republic), co-founder and sales director for Eastern Europe He focuses on the areas of innovative software development, process optimization, system integration and digitization. Since 2017, he has been involved in the development of the DORPS-DEX software toolkit, which uses mixed reality technologies with the support of artificial intelligence. He participated in the research and development of the CUBSY modular construction system, which combines construction elements and a unique configuration system. It is possible to assemble many types of purpose-built structures from the CUBSY modular construction system, such as ramps for overcoming barriers, racks, carts, stages, stands, walkways, etc.
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Milan Oselský
AMELIA Slovakia AMELIA Slovakia Milan manages the Slovak branch of AMELIA Slovakia, a leader in the field of research and development of artificial intelligence. AMELIA, defined as "The most human AI," is an indispensable helper in banking, healthcare or insurance and is a unique artificial intelligence that creates artificial intelligence. Milan is unstoppable in combining the seemingly uncombinable and finding solutions that no one else sees. In addition to the "boring" artificial intelligence, it also has more humane interests. He is a passionate conservationist. He deals with the handling of poisonous, dangerous animals. He educates people about the need to protect wild animals and reptiles, participates in their preservation, and at the same time dispels the nonsense myths that circulate about these fascinating animals. No one would probably expect that a person working with artificial intelligence, would be a passionate herpetologist at the same time.
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Marek Mocik
Blockchain Slovakia Blockchain Slovakia Marek is an experienced entrepreneur and founder of technology and media companies such as CREANET a.s. or CHATR.tv (a second-screen platform for television and content creators), with which he won the "Business Idea of the Year" award. He is the president of the "Blockchain Slovakia" association, which helps develop blockchain technologies in Slovakia.
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Marek Pavličko
eIot eIot Marek is Marek, who is always smiling. He likes challenges and this is one of the main reasons why he decided to take the eIoT project into his hands. Using modern IoT technologies, the goal of the project is remote smart-monitoring with complex energy management and financing, for which he has full responsibility as a project manager. Already during his studies as an FEI at TUKE, he began to gather many years of experience in the field of telecommunications networks. He was at the birth of the first metropolitan optical network in Poprad. Subsequently, he went to expand his knowledge in Košice, only to return later. He is also integral part of this amazing conference Metro ON Line.
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Lukáš Hatala
CTO Eastern Europe in DXC.technology CTO Eastern Europe in DXC.technology Lukas currently serving as CTO responsible for Eastern Europe in DXC.technology as his main job, because of his curiosity and strong believe in positive technology impact on humankind he is helping BlockChain Slovakia as Director of International Affairs and founded own project called Neuromorphics Europe where he acts as CEO. Lukas have experiences from HP Labs, European Commission in Brussels and Big international GtM projects where he pioneered technologies like IoT or Edge compute, Blockchain and AI in previous years.
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Mgr. Silvester Krčméry, PhD.
CIVITTA CIVITTA Mgr. Silvester Krčméry, PhD. is a project manager for the CIVITTA consultancy company, which focuses on supporting start-ups and their growth, helping research institutions commercialise research, stable companies to bring world-class innovations, and public institutions to prepare effective innovation policies with a positive influence on innovations´ ecosystems. He is the manager of Slovak EIT Urban Mobility RIS Hub, which supports innovations and strives to reach integration with the most significant European urban mobility innovation community. As a coach in Challenger Accelerator, he is dedicated to start-up support. He is a member of several national and international research, scientific capacity, and awareness-raising projects for different target groups.
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Marek Lóderer
Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies Marek is a researcher at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies. He applies machine learning, ensemble learning and metaheuristic optimization algorithms to explore various microgrid- related problems in energy economics, with a focus on prediction, optimization, and anomaly
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detection in energy consumption. In recent years, Marek has participated in several national and international research projects, such as Newton H2020 and ICERISE, as well as industry projects focusing on the energy sector. In 2021, he obtained a Doctoral degree in Informatics from the Technical University of Košice.
Peter Vilhan
VNET a.s. VNET a.s. For the past 10 years, I have been working mainly, but not exclusively, as a system administrator at VNET a.s. I enjoy creativity in thinking, freedom in decision-making, and efficient solutions with a high level of added value. In addition to system-related challenges, I am involved in company activities related to cybersecurity and obtaining international certifications.
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Ivan Tochev
entrepreneur, physicist, inventor, product designer, robotics engineer, university lecturer entrepreneur, physicist, inventor, product designer, robotics engineer, university lecturer Ivan is a founder and CEO of GENERAL LASER OG/GMBH, with specialization in cm-accurate RTK GNSS positioning, IMUs –inertial measurement units, lidar sensors and mobile robotics, in product development and system integration, soft-and hardware solutions, UAVs and USVs.
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Ivan is co-founder and CEO of ALPHA WERKE GMBH, with specialization in mobile robotics and auto pilots for agricultural machinery, in product development and system integration, soft-and hardware solutions.
He also co-founded ARENUM e.V. and is member of the board - technical director, Arbeitsgruppe Energie und Umwelt e.V, Schwarzbach, Lausitz.
2002-2022 Lecturer at the University for Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, teaches CNC Computer Numeric Control and Digital Prototyping
Ivan has a few other patented inventions.
Martin Baloga
Slovak Smart City Cluster expert Slovak Smart City Cluster expert Martin Baloga studied and works as an architect - urban planner and as an external trainer at the Institute of Management, Department of Spatial Planning, STU Bratislava. He is a member of the executive committee of the European Council for Spatial Planning, based in Brussels.
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Michal Jášek
Project leader at Orange Slovensko, a.s. Project leader at Orange Slovensko, a.s. He focuses on the field of IoT solutions for corporate clients. He uses his focus to find help for customers in the area of effective operation and facilitation of daily activities, where he covers the entire life cycle of projects from initial communications with the customer to the final delivery of a complex solution.
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Miloslav Eis
Presales Engineer at 2N Telekomunikace a.s. Presales Engineer at 2N Telekomunikace a.s. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. He has been working as a Presales Engineer in the field of telecommunications, IT and security throughout his professional career.
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AI is certainly a hot topic, but also a big challenge. He can become a good servant but also a bad master. It only depends on us...
Mikuláš Levkut
Managing Director of ICT Solutions Managing Director of ICT Solutions Mikuláš is an experienced network specialist with broad technical know-how and a rich professional background. With more than 19 years of experience in the field of networks and communications, he is known for his expertise in the design, implementation and management of large-scale telecommunications and corporate networks. Mikuláš is a passionate innovator and technology enthusiast who constantly strives to improve and contribute to the success of the projects he works on.
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Michal Hudák
More info Mišo is a filmmaker and one of the founders of the "East Coast" organization, which brings together all creative people on its shore to develop culture and events in Košice, following the example of European capitals. He is also the author of the non-traditional book guides of Košice – KSC and KSC KÓD/CODE, which will delight even the locals with their wit, satire and insight!Michal Hudák
Peter Wolf
More info Peter Wolf graduated from Ján Ámos Komenský University with a degree in andragogy. He later continued his education at the University of Trnava, where he studied law. Mr. Wolf has previous work experience in OSSR, ecoTRADES SLOVAKIA and BWSS. As the mayor of the city, he currently administers the city, represents the city in relation to state bodies, legal entities and its people. Decides on all matters of city administration that are not reserved to the city council by law or the city statute, and as the mayor of the city of Dubnica nad Váhom, he has experience in by implementing innovations.Peter Wolf
Marek Engler
Slovanet Marek Engler - has been working at Slovanet for 18 years, where he has successively held several technical, project and managerial positions. He currently holds the position of head of the innovation, individual solutions and strategy department, where he and his team are in charge of analyzing internal and market needs, identifying new solutions and their design, deploying them in pilot operation and putting them into operation.
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Róbert Ťavoda
APKT APKT He has been working in the cable industry for 30 years. After graduating from the SVŠT Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1976, he joined the Radio Communications Administration and built radio relay routes in Slovakia. Since 1993, he has focused on cable television, until 2014 he worked at Kabel Plus Bratislava, a.s., and then at UPC, s.r.o. until retirement. He still works at APKT, the association of cable telecommunications operators.
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