Ing. František Baranec was born in 1967 in Čadca, Slovakia. After completing his studies in mathematical methods at the University of Economics in Bratislava, he worked as an assistant at the University of Transport and Communications in Žilina. He later transitioned to a private company focused on software development, where he served as an analyst and programmer. From 1995 to 2002, he worked at IBM Slovakia, progressing through roles as a product team member, sales representative for select major projects, and finally, manager of the Enterprise Systems Group team. Starting in 2003, he joined Cisco Systems, where he held several positions: initially as a sales representative for the public sector market, later as team leader of the pub…

Miroslav Kalinovský graduated on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, Department of automation and robotics. He works for HP since 2005. As Technical Consultant he was responsible for proactive services and deployment of storage solutions. Since 2013 he works in Technology Services division. As Service Business Manager is responsible for overall service segment management at the country level including development, implementation and governance of TS service solutions. He is also responsible for development and implementation of enhanced, custom service solutions utilizing delivery models such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Pay-per-Use or multi-vendor support solutions

Martin Sulík studied software design and programming at the Faculty of Management and Command of the Academy of the Armed Forces of General M. R. Štefánik in Liptovský Mikuláš. He has extensive experience in the banking sector, where he has held various positions for eleven years. He worked as a program analyst, integration architect, IT infrastructure architect, security or corporate architect and also participated in the development of mobile applications. He was responsible for the selection, implementation, integration and operation of information systems in banks. For nine years he worked for the consulting company Fairdyne, where he collaborated on projects related to IT management, business management, IT application architecture,…

Ladislav Kovár works as the director of the e-Government management department at the Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic. He spent more than 20 years in IT, starting in public administration. After completing his legal education, he mainly focuses on the intersection of information technology and law. He applied the law as a responsible person at the Comenius University, he also served as the chairman of the DPO club at universities, which he co-founded. He led the team for solving security incidents and ensured the cyber security of several projects.

Jiri Sven Sverak is IT Sales Professional with more then two decades career within largest global IT/ICT companies as British Telecom, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC, Infinidat and last two years he is serving public sector customers with AWS cloud computing services and transformational solutions to help both central and local governments, healthcare customers, universtites, state owned power & utilities and nonprofits with their digital transformation. He has well established contact network within CEE region and he is well connected to global ISV´s, global technology partners and local partners as well. Jiri Sven Sverak combines set of skills working as an enterpreneur leading his accounts directly with an experience how to b…

As a representative of VMware in Slovakia, he has been helping customers use IT resources more efficiently since March 2018. One of its goals is to increase awareness of the complex portfolio of solutions that VMware brings not only in the field of data centers, but also in the management of hybrid clouds, end devices, the world of modern applications, networks and security. He studied International Trade and Entrepreneurship at the Pan-European University and spent the last 2 decades in the IT sector mainly in business and technical positions. After 15 years at the HW manufacturer, he saw that the future of IT lies in software-defined data centers and moved to VMware, whose main goal is to provide a digital foundation for innovation.…