After studies and business, Emil Fitoš spent more than 20 years of his working life at Siemens and later at Atos. In 2014, he became CEO of Atos Slovakia and Czech Republic. Under his leadership, Atos was one of the leading companies on the market with a significant innovative contribution. On 21 June 2017, he was elected President of the IT Association of Slovakia and will defend the position in 2019, 2021 and 2023. He serves as an advisor to the Slovak Government and Deputy Chairman of the Slovak Government Council for the Digitization of the Public Sector and the Digital Single Market. He also influences the digitalisation of Slovakia through his involvement in the activities of the Digital Coalition and the Centre for Artificial Inte…

A director of the Institue of Informatics SAS and a head of a Modelling and simulation of discrete processes department. Her research interests include discrete systems modelling and simulation, multi agent systems, artificial intelligence, and complex systems. She is oriented on application of bio-inspired methods on various domains, e.g. manufacturing, production lines optimizations, supply chain management, control and coordination of a group of mobile agents. Recently  she works on problems conneted to swarm intelligence and swarm robotics. She is an author and co-author of more than 100 research papers with above 120 citations on them. She is a supervisor and a consultant for PhD study at the Slovak University of Technology in Brati…

Tomáš Vinař works as a university teacher at the Department of Applied Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava. He completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University in the USA. He is the guarantor of the Data Science study program and participates in the teaching of subjects in the fields of bioinformatics, algorithms and data structures, and machine learning. His research focuses on bioinformatics and the use of machine learning and probabilistic modeling in this area. He is the laureate of the ESET Science Award - outstanding university teacher from 2019.

Matej Pecháč works at Tachyum as an AI software developer. Currently, he focuses on optimizing the AI frameworks PyTorch and Tensorflow on the Tachyum platform. He specifically deals with the quantization and compression of neural networks for image recognition, object detection, text and language processing. As part of his doctoral studies, he studies decision-making and control in AI and internal motivation.