Prof. Dr. Vladimír Bužek, DrSc. graduated from the Moscow State University (both MSc and Ph.D. in 1982 and 1985, respectively). His research interests have been focused primarily on theoretical quantum optics and quantum information sciences.  He is best known for his work on the reconstruction of quantum states and processes from incomplete experimental data, programmable quantum processors, quantum cloning, novel algorithms for quantum secret sharing and quantum voting protocols. Altogether he published more than 230 research papers and 15 chapters in books that were cited in the scientific literature more than 12 000 times. He works at the Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences. Over years he has been a visiting professor at…

He graduated from the University of Economics in Bratislava in the field of international business. Since 2004 he worked in the American Chamber of Commerce in the Slovak Republic, since 2007 in the company U.S. Steel Košice, and since 2015 at O2 Slovakia, as a public affairs manager. Throughout his working career, he has been dealing with regulatory issues at the national and European level with an impact on specific sectors of the Slovak economy and manages relations and communication of the private sector with public administration at all levels. He is a member of the Presidency of the Forum for Communication Technologies in Slovakia, a member of the Board of Directors of Slovakia.Digital and a member of the Subcommittee on Digital Ec…

Ing. Robert Gálik, MBA graduated from the Faculty of Management and Marketing at the University of Žilina. He received an MBA from The Open University in London. From 2012 until 2019 he held the position of Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO in the Slovak Post and later became CEO in the IT company Atos IT Solutions and Services s.r.o.  In the past he worked in various managerial  positions in the private banking, IT and insurance sectors.

Matej Michalko is a blockchain pioneer with 8+ years of Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency experience. Matej is the founder and CEO of DECENT. He founded ALAX, and organized China's first international Bitcoin Conference. As a blockchain advocate, he hosted, spoke and led many conferences, such as BitcoinExpo 2013, BTC2B, BitcoinExpo 2014, BitcoinExpo 2015 and more. Matej founded the first Bitcoin Marketing agency in the world. He also founded the first Cryptocurrency e-Gaming Consulting Firm and served as a consultant of the Isle of Man. Matej was recognized by Forbes Slovakia and given the 30 most talented people under 30 award for his accomplishments in making DECENT and DCore the amazing success it is today.

Juraj began his career at NASA in Houston (Johnson Space Center) in software research. He then worked in Silicon Valley for Hewlett-Packard in various managerial positions in production deployment and software applications. Juraj managed the worldwide preparation of applications for HP servers and later managed the introduction of new products for EMEA. Juraj is a US citizen. He was born in Slovakia and studied at the United States at the University of Texas, Austin. He holds an MBA in Information Systems and Bachelor and Master Diplomas in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin.

For more than two decades he has been working for the multinational company AT&T, which operates one of the largest shared services centers in Slovakia and since 2008. He has been the head of the Slovak branch as a country manager. He is the chairman of the Business Service Center Forum (BSCF), which unites and represents three dozen service and outsourcing centers in Slovakia. BSCF is part of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Slovak Republic (AmCham Slovakia). Gabriel is also the chairman of the board of the Center for Artificial Intelligence - CUI, an independent interest association of legal entities, whose ambition is to develop excellence and bring together experts and those interested in artificial intelligence. He graduated …

At the Ministry, she managed to build a strong professional team that manages the key task of identifying suitable investments, necessary for maintaining the status and developing the economic and social infrastructure of the Ministry of Defense of the Slovak Republic, including setting up financing models. The experience gained from the previous 18 years of working in management positions in public and state administration, primarily through work on investment and development projects financed from extra-budgetary sources, is also put to good use in the coordination of investment planning and project financing - not only in the departments of the Ministry of Defense, but also in his of subordinate organizations that have different fi…

Adrian Vyčítal is a successful entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the development and financing of renewable resources, energy and infrastructure projects. He is a co-founder and partner of the investment company IPM Group. Adrian actively participates in the creation and support of the research and innovative ecosystem in Slovakia, but also in the entire region of Central and Eastern Europe. He is a member of the board of directors of Tachyum. He participated in the creation and development of companies such as InoBat, InoCloud, IPM Chirana and other technology companies. In the past, he co-founded SynCo Group. At the same time, he worked in the executive of the consulting company IMPAC, based in the USA. In addition …