Andrej Babiš
Keynote Speaker
Czech Republic
Andrej Babiš has been the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic since December 2017. He served from 2014 to 2017 as Czech Deputy Prime Minister and...
Věra Jourová
Keynote Speaker, Future of Government and Democracy
Czech Republic
Věra Jourová is currently Vice – President of the European Commission. She is responsible for Values and Transparency. In the previous Juncker’s Commission, her portfolio was Justice,...
Hans Van Baalen
Keynote Speaker
Netherlands
Hans van Baalen was elected President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party on a two-year mandate on 21 November 2015 at the...
Alena Schillerová
Cashless Society and its Role Nowadays
Czech Republic
Alena Schillerova is the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. After graduating from the Faculty of Law at Masaryk University in Brno she worked in...
Dita Charanzová
Keynote Speaker, VIP Talk: Future of Mobility in the EU
Czech Republic
Dita Charanzová studied at the University of Economics in Prague and later at the Academy of Diplomacy in Madrid. In 2001 she successfully defended her dissertation...
Vladimír Dzurilla
Keynote Speaker, AI for Citizens Safety
Czech Republic
Vladimir Dzurilla graduated from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, also studied as an exchange student in Netherlands and at the British Open University. After completing his...
Josef Středula
Keynote Speaker, Future of Jobs, Companies and Social Contract
Czech Republic
President of Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (CMKOS). He completed Secondary Industrial School in Opava, after completing his studies began working with in the technical profession in Vítkovické...
Karel Havlíček
Innovation Republic? How to Reach it?
Czech Republic
Karel Havlíček is the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Industry and Trade and Minister of Transport of the Czech Republic. He graduated from the Faculty...
Panelists
Jana Brodani
Future of Jobs, Companies and Social Contract
Czech Republic
Ing. Mgr. Jana Brodani LL.M., MBA. Before joining the Association in 2008, she worked in the area of legal and tax consulting. Since 2009, she has been...
Jiří Hlavenka
Future of Jobs, Companies and Social Contract
Czech Republic
After graduating from vocational school, Hlavenka studied thermal and nuclear power at the Brno University of Technology (VUT). Upon graduation in 1989, he went straight into...
Tania le Moigne
Future of Jobs, Companies and Social Contract
Czech Republic
Tania le Moigne has been Country Director for Google Czech Republic since 2006. However, she has been working in the IT industry and Internet for over...
Simona Kijonková
Future of Jobs, Companies and Social Contract
Czech Republic
She is a well-known business woman, visionary and start-up investor. She is considered as the first lady of e-commerce in the Czech Republic. She graduated with...
Katarína Kakalíková
Cashless Society and its Role Nowadays
Czech Republic
Katarína joined company Mastercard in June 2012. Now she works as a Director, Government Engagement. From this position she supports governments in digitization of public sector...
Karel Řehka
AI for Citizens Safety
Czech Republic
Karel Řehka has long been engaged in the topic of military information operations and hybrid warfare. In the army, he has been promoted to the rank...
Ondřej Vlček
AI for Citizens Safety
Czech Republic
Ondřej Vlček graduated from Mathematical Modelling at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Through books he found his passion for...
Rudolf Urbánek
AI for Citizens Safety
Czech Republic
Since 1 March 2018, Rudolf Urbánek is managing the Czech and Slovak branch of Microsoft. He joined Microsoft after 16 years at T-Mobile Czech Republic and Slovak...
Eviatar Matania
AI for Citizens Safety
Israel
Eviatar Matania is a professor at the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel-Aviv University, where he is also heading the MA of...
Raul Rikk
VIP Talk: Security in the Age of Cyber War
Estonia
From 2019, Raul Rikk is the National Cyber Security Policy Director and leads the Estonian cyber security policy and strategy development and implementation. He is the...
Radek Mátl
Digitalized Transport System as the Key to the Competitiveness
Czech Republic
Radek Mátl has been the General Director of the Road and Motorway Directorate of the Czech Republic since October 2019. He graduated from the Czech Technical...
Martin Russ
Digitalized Transport System as the Key to the Competitiveness
Austria
Martin Russ has been Managing Director of AustriaTech since 2011. He is the visionary heart of the company. Under his leadership, AustriaTech’s areas of responsibility were...
Marek Benio
Digitalized Transport System as the Key to the Competitiveness
Poland
Marek Benio – lawyer, PhD in Economics. Vice-President of the Labour Mobility Initiative Association. Honorary Member of the Polish Social Security Association. Associate Professor, Department of...
Miroslav Svítek
Digitalized Transport System as the Key to the Competitiveness
Czech Republic
In 1996, he received the Ph.D. degree at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. Since 2008, he has been Full professor in engineering...
Martin Kolovratník
Digitalized Transport System as the Key to the Competitiveness
Czech Republic
Martin Kolovratník graduated from the Jan Perner Transport Faculty – University of Pardubice and he is a transport expert. In his capacity as Vice-Chairman of the...
Robert Plaga
Future of Education in the EU
Czech Republic
Ing. Robert Plaga, Ph.D. was born on July 21, 1978 in Ivančice. He is married and has two children. Since 2017 he has been serving as...
Judith Tielen
Future of Education in the EU
Netherlands
Judith Tielen was born in Arnhem in 1972. Judith Tielen has been a member of Parliament for the VVD since October 31, 2017. Before that she...
Rebecca Christie
Future of Education in the EU
USA, Belgium
Rebecca Christie joined Bruegel as a visiting fellow at Bruegel between March 2019 and February 2020. Prior, Rebecca was a political correspondent in Brussels for Bloomberg...
Michael Šebek
Future of Education in the EU
Czech Republic
Professor of Cybernetics and Head of the Department of Control Engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague. He held research positions at ETH Zurich, Twente Universiteit,...
Péter Kréko
Future of Government and Democracy
Hungary
Péter Krekó is a social psychologist and political scientist. He is the executive director of Political Capital since 2011. Currently he is a Europe’s Futures Visiting...
Benedetta Berti
Future of Government and Democracy
Italy
Dr Benedetta Berti is the Head of Policy Planning in the Office of the Secretary General at NATO.An Eisenhower Global Fellow, a Foreign Policy Research Institute...
František Vrábel
Future of Government and Democracy
Czech Republic
František Vrabel is the founder and CEO of Semantic Visions, a Czech company that analyses 90% of the world’s online news in real time. He deeply...
Michal Feix
Future of Government and Democracy
Czech Republic
Michal Feix is businessman and lobbyist in IT, founder and executive partner at Chronos Consulting and former CEO of Seznam.cz. Michal spent 14 years working for Seznam...
Moderators
Martina Dlabajová
Keynote Speaker, Future of Education in the EU
Czech Republic
Martina Dlabajová (ANO/Renew Europe) has been a member of the European Parliament since 2014. She is a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs...
Helena Horská
Future of Jobs, Companies and Social Contract
Czech Republic
Helena Horská is Chief Economist at Raiffeisenbank in Prague, and since 2019 has been a member of Raiffeisenbank’s Supervisory Board and Committee for budgetary forecasts at...
Aleš Rod
Future of Payments: Cashless Society
Czech Republic
Aleš Rod is Research Director at the Center for Economic and Market Analyzes (CETA). He received his Doctorate in Economic Theory from the University of Economics...
Petr Očko
AI for Citizens Safety
Czech Republic
Graduated from Information Management and European Integration at the University of Economics in Prague and from Ph.D. studies of Information Economics at the Faculty of Arts...
Jan Edlman
Digitalized Transport System as the Key to the Competitiveness
Czech Republic
Since 2017, he has been working at ŠKODA AUTO DigiLab, a subsidiary of ŠKODA AUTO, focusing on digitalization and new mobility services. Jan Edlman is responsible for integrated...
Ivan Hodač
VIP Talk: Future of Mobility in the EU
Czech Republic
Ivan Hodač is a Founder and President of the Aspen Institute Central Europe. He was Secretary-General of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) from 2001 until...
Daniel Kaddik
Future of Government and Democracy
Bulgaria
Daniel Kaddik is the Executive Director of the European Liberal Forum (ELF), the political foundation of the European Liberal Party, the ALDE Party. Together with 46...