Vladimír Bednár works as the General Director of the Information Technology Section, Ministry of Finance. At the same time, he serves on several supervisory and administrative boards of entities within the competence of the Ministry of Finance. He is the main leader in the reform of departmental IT management. Since 2018, he has held several managerial and expert positions at the Ministry of Finance, the City of Bratislava and the National Agency for Network and Electronic Services. He previously worked in the private sector as a consultant for the public and private sectors, especially in GIS and Financial IT Systems. He studied International Relations and Geodesy and Cartography and Cadastre.

Tomáš Hrozenský has been working as a researcher at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna since 2018. He is the author of several ESPI publications on European space policy and space security and regularly collaborates with the European Space Agency, the European Commission and other actors in the European space sector during his time at ESPI. Tomáš is a graduate of the master's and doctoral program in international relations at the MBU in Banská Bystrica. In the past, Fulbright completed a stay at the Space Policy Institute (George Washington University) in the USA, he was also a member of the research project Space Security Index 2017. In Slovakia in 2015 he co-founded o.z. Slovak Society for Space Policy (SSPA), which s…

Jiří Šilha is an astronomer, researcher at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of the Comenius University in Bratislava. He is engaged in space waste research and space security.

Matej works as a member of the air traffic team of the International Space Station, specifically the European module Columbus, at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The scope of his work is to monitor and control the Columbus module and ensure the smooth running of research and work of astronauts on board the station. Prior to that, he worked in Slovakia in the field of robotics, artificial intelligence, and nanosatellites. He completed the Young Graduate Trainee program at the European Space Agency's (ESA) ESTEC technical center. He is also a co-founder of the GroundCom startup, which is dedicated to providing infrastructure for satellite communications and which is incubated by ESA. In addition to his work, he is independently engaged …