Vladimír Šucha has been the Head of the European Commission Representation in Slovakia since 2022. In 2021, he was sent by the European Commission to UNESCO in Paris and before that, since 2012, he had managed the European Commission's Scientific and Knowledge Service - Joint Research Center. From 2006 to 2012, he worked as the Director of the EC's Directorate-General for Education and Culture. Prior to joining the European Commission, he held several positions related to European and international politics. In 2005-2006 he founded the Agency for the Support of Research and Development in Bratislava. In the years 2000-2004, he was a member of the Slovak team that negotiated Slovakia's accession to the EU in Brussels. At the same time, he…

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 …

Dr. Radoslav Danilak  is co-founder and CEO of Tachyum, which is disrupting data center, HPC, and AI markets by providing the world’s first Universal Processor, with industry leading performance, cost and power, across all three computational domains, while, at the same time, enabling data centers to exceed the capacity of the human brain. Danilak has over 25 years of industry experience and over 100 patents designing state-of-the-art processing systems. He serves on the Slovak government's Innovation Advisory Board. He is a member of the IDC Technical Computing Advisory Panel, the Forbes Technology Council, a contributor to TechTarget, and a member of IEEE.

Doc. PhDr. Michal Vašečka, PhD. is a sociologist, studied at Masaryk University. Since 2017 he is the Programme Director of the Bratislava Policy Institute in Bratislava. He focuses on issues of ethnicity, migration, populism, extremism and civil society. Previously, he worked at Masaryk University (2002-2017), Comenius University (2006-2009), Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (2015-2023). Academically, he has been a visiting scholar at the New School University in New York (1996-1997), the University of London (1998), Georgetown University in Washington DC (2008-2009), the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (2015), as an ISGAP Scholar-In-Residence at Oxford University (2016), and at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa College i…

Richard Prokypčák has been the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of SPP since June 2020. He has been with SPP since 2018, when he held the position of Director of the Sales Division. From 2011 to 2016, he gradually held the position of sales director and general director and member of the board of directors of MET Slovakia, a.s. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as the financial director of TRANSLOGISTICS, a.s. and from 2017 to 2018 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Danu Transport GmbH, Vienna.