Juraj Hošták is the director of the Department of Innovation and Smart Agenda of the Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic. Since 2015, he has been working in the field of supporting innovation and the Smart Agenda at the national and regional level. In the past, he held managerial positions in the private sector and specialized in the management and implementation of technological and process innovation projects, analysis and design of innovative forms of financing, smart solutions in public administration as well as strategic consulting in the preparation and implementation of conceptual and strategic materials at local, regional and international level. At present, he prioritises th…

Currently Senior Executive for the Public Sector at Microsoft, where he is responsible for strategic and innovative projects within the digital transformation of public administration in Slovakia. Former director of the retail regional network of branches and director of the department of organization and process management in Tatra banka, later advisor to the state secretary for informatization at MIRDI. Graduate of the University of Economics in Bratislava, Faculty of Business and Economics in Košice. He set the governance of the management of IT activities and projects, was responsible for the implementation of process management, data quality management as well as RPA as a Service. He also led digital transformation projects, whether…