He has more than 10 years of experience working in state administration and the non-governmental sector. Currently, his mission within SAPIE is to implement and develop projects with a focus on promoting innovative and digital policies and strategies, building an innovative ecosystem and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in the implementation of digital and innovative solutions. Among other things, he is responsible for the implementation of the HOPERO project, which is the European center for digital innovations. Through its services, HOPERO helps small and medium-sized enterprises and public institutions implement digital solutions, especially with the use of artificial intelligence tools. In the past, he worked at the M…

Ivan Kotuliak is the dean of FIIT STU and at the same time acts as the expert representative of the Slovak Republic for the European Blockchain Partnership at the EC, as well as the Slovak representative of the Information for All program of the Slovak Commission of UNESCO. He previously received a PhD from the University of Versailles in Informatics, as well as from FEI STU in Telecommunications. Since 2002, he has been working as a researcher, later as an assistant professor, and since 2019 as a faculty professor. His research orientation includes communication network performance, NGN network architectures, mobile and wireless networks. His recent focus is on Blockchain and Content Delivery Networks (CDN), where he co-authored the …

Martin Takáč is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Informatics of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava, where he teaches within an international master program in cognitive science. He is a co-creator of an AI virtual baby BabyX. He is a member of the Standing Committee on Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence at the Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic, member of the Ethics committee for research involving human subjects at FMFI UK, member of the Ethics Board of Comenius University Bratislava and member of the scientific board of AIslovakIA - National platform for the AI development in Slovakia. He is a founding…

Martin Mihalec graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava and has been gathering experience in the world of management, startups and IT for over 10 years. In the past, he worked at Dell Technologies and later devoted himself to the implementation of ERP systems as well as his own start-up in the field of digitalization of psychotherapy processes. He currently works in the position of manager of strategy and IT in the first Nadpodnikové vzdelávacie centrum (NVC) Duálna Akadémia, where he leads the complex digital transformation of the institutions of Duálna Akadémia z.z.p.o. and Súkromna SOŠ Automobilová together with the implementation of artificial intelligence in their key processes.