After graduating from university in Italy and completing his PhD studies in Russia, he returned home to Slovakia, where he has been working in information technology for over 13 years. He is married, has 2 children and among other things enjoys ethical hacking and using state-of-the-art technologies to combat cyber attacks. As a philanthropist, he also supports activities outside of his profession, such as building a life-size bronze statue of Bratislava's great W. Kempelen in Bratislava. With over eight years of experience in owning and managing COGITANS, a company he founded in 2016 focused on AI-driven solutions, he has a profound understanding of how to leverage sophisticated technologies, skilled personnel, and proven outcomes to so…

Pavel Karel graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava and also completed postgraduate studies at the prestigious Ecole des ponts ParisTech in France. After working at the Institute of Technical Cybernetics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences as a system specialist, he joined Tatra banka, where he spent a significant part of his career as the director of the IT Department and was a member of its Board of Directors for several years. As a business consultant, he worked for IBM, where he managed many international projects. For the last 10 years, he has provided consulting services at his own company Fairdyne. Thanks to his many years of experience in building, op…

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.

Peter Kopáč has been working at the Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization since March 2022 as the general director of the Information Technology Section of the Public Administration, which is responsible for the direction of state IT in Slovakia. Before joining the civil service, he worked in public administration since 2007, initially in technical, later in managerial positions. In the past, he held the position of president of the EUNIS SK association and at his level created several cross-cutting groups that opened communication and cooperation between IT communities at universities in Slovakia. He was involved in the creation of the national academic identity federation safeID and its involvement in the wo…

Patrik Plachý started as a developer in C and later in C ++, Pascal and Python. He later programmed modules for Oracle Database and moved on to code design for Backends. He has helped customers deploy Enterprise systems and in recent years has focused on Linux, Clusterware and High Availability. He is currently a Senior Solution Architect at Red Hat, where he specializes in container development and its deployment on customer side in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.