Michal Ilko currently works at the Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic. Before holded the position of Director General of the Social Insurance Agency. He is a long-time expert in the field of IT services. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing new information solutions or modernizing original systems. He has implemented several strategic projects at the national and international level. In the period from 2020 to 2022, he held the position of Director of the Section of Informatics in the Social Insurance Agency. His target was setting up an investment plan to remediate the technological debt of the IT infrastructure of the Agency as well as creating a data office to i…

I graduated in 1989 at STU Mechanical faculty with interdisciplinary focus on applied electronics and robotics. One year of postgraduate study I spent with study of Expert system with objective of measuring the technological aspects of construction. I applied energy as universal measurement considering the technological value of construction. I also co-own (with my father and brother) PATENT of explosive metal shaping. Patent was used in building the fountain at Sqare of freedom in Bratislava. Then after I jumped into pioneer era of building small and medium business companies.  I started at company Tecton as programmer programming internal ERP system for them and after two years I wanted more professional job. My next job was Sales man…

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Industrial Innovation Cluster and the Slovak Centre of Digital Innovations. He is also the Director for Research and Development of IP servis s.r.o. His domain is software development for measurement and control technology, development of new control technologies and preparation of research project plans for private companies. It is engaged in consulting in the preparation of research strategies. He has served as General Director and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Welding Research Institute and as Head of the Research and Development Department at Železničná společnost Slovensko a.s. (Railway Company Slovakia a.s.). He was a member of the Slovak Government Council for Resear…

Since 2017, he has been working on the topic of social economy and social entrepreneurship at the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family. Co-author of the Act on Social Economy and Social Enterprises. From 2018 director of the department of social economy and from 1.5. 2024 general director of the social economy section.