IT Secretary of the Association of Slovakia and former manager of Microsoft Slovakia have been working on the development of IT industry in Slovakia since 1991. In the beginning of his professional career he worked in the field of forecasting studies. He has been involved in the development of modern and innovative IT to improve business and user business. He contributed to the development of modern Internet technologies in customer solutions and hybrid Clouds. Since 1994 he has worked at Poštová banka at various executive and management positions. He was in charge of running IT services, setting up and developing a bank's Internet business, and then worked as CEO of the Bank's IT division. In 2001 he joined Microsoft's branch office in …

Vice President of IT Association of Slovakia for eGovernment. In 1986, he finished his university studies at the Department of Computers of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, SVŠT in Bratislava. After completing his studies, he continued to work at the university and in 1995 defended his candidate's dissertation in the field of artificial intelligence. He developed several new subjects and actively lectured in the field of artificial intelligence and software engineering. In 1995, he began to devote himself fully to work at DITEC. He worked as the director of the Information Systems Division. In 2000, he was appointed to the position of Vice President for Strategy. In this position, he manages the company's development projects and…

Milan Ištván studied journalism in Bratislava and Paris. In the years 1998 to 2002, he was the youngest member of the National Assembly of the Slovak Republic, dealing with topics such as Internet for schools, liberalization of the telecommunications market, and the law on electronic signatures. Since 2002, in the civil association Partnerships for Prosperity (PPP), he has been dedicated to supporting the informatization of society. He is a member of the Government Council of the Slovak Republic for the digitization of public administration and the single digital market and several working groups dedicated to eGovernment, Broadband and the implementation of EU funds in the digital field.

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.

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.

Radoslav Repa started his career at the Government Office of the Slovak Republic (2004), where he worked as the Director of the Department of Information Systems and Electronic Services (2006-2008). He was responsible for the governmental network and for the central public administration portal providing first electronic services for citizens and businesses. For the next ten years (2009 – 2019) Radoslav worked at the Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the European Union in Brussels as a digital and cyber diplomat. During the Slovak presidency in the Council of the EU in 2016 he chaired two working groups, one in the field of telecommunications and digital agenda and the other in the field of cyber affairs. In this expo…

After graduating from university in Italy and completing his PhD studies in Russia, he returned home to Slovakia, where he has been working in information technology for over 13 years. He is married, has 2 children and among other things enjoys ethical hacking and using state-of-the-art technologies to combat cyber attacks. As a philanthropist, he also supports activities outside of his profession, such as building a life-size bronze statue of Bratislava's great W. Kempelen in Bratislava. With over eight years of experience in owning and managing COGITANS, a company he founded in 2016 focused on AI-driven solutions, he has a profound understanding of how to leverage sophisticated technologies, skilled personnel, and proven outcomes to so…