He heads the Digital Strategies Unit at the Digital Agenda Section of the Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic, where he is involved in human capital, especially with regard to digital skills, activities related to education and security in the online environment, as well as digital transformation of businesses and eGovernment. Already alongside his studies at secondary and university level, he has worked in the field of Public Relations, IT and later on publishing in the motoring media or preparing the Motoring show. He started to focus more intensively on digital skills during his work in the IT Association of Slovakia, where he has worked since 2006. He has been working at MIRRI since…

He is not only the first vice-president of ITAS, but also the first vice-president of the Republican Union of Employers and the chairman of the Digital Coalition - the National Coalition for Digital Skills and Occupations of the Slovak Republic. In 1988, he graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, majoring in cybernetics and control technology. Between 1991 and 2013, he led companies of the BaSys group, a distributor of premium consumer electronics in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Since 2000, he has been doing business in the field of control systems of intelligent (SMART) objects, and his company Media Control provides integrated design, complex implementation, and s…

Petra Fridrichová works as a university teacher at the Faculty of Education, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. Among the research topics she deals with are the issues of increasing the success of the reform of the basic education system in Slovak education, but also the innovation of educational practice through the professional development of teachers. She received her doctoral education at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. She worked as the director of the State Pedagogical  Institute.  She participated as a member of the working group in the creation of descriptors of the Slovak Qualifications Framework. She was an analyst at the That Makes Sence project, in which she was responsible for the content and form of education…

Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Žilina, dean He works as the dean of the Faculty of Management Science and Informatics of the University of Žilina. During his time at the faculty, he has so far led more than 90 projects of applied research in the field of development of information and communication systems, intelligent transport systems, control systems in railway transport, autonomous trains and security of information systems. He is the author of systems for automatic construction of train paths implemented on dozens of railway corridor lines in the Czech Republic. He devotes much of his energy to linking university education to practice. He is currently a member of nine Scientific Councils of Faculties…