Michal Kaliňák is a political scientist specialising in local government. In the past he worked as a spokesman, secretary of the Council of Experts and later as the central director of the office of the Association of Towns and Municipalities of Slovakia. He has been with ZMOS since 2010. He worked in local government as a municipal deputy, first in Medzilaborce and later in Prešov. In the meantime, he held the position of spokesperson for the city of Prešov and also head of the public communication department in the Bratislava - Petržalka Municipal District. He was assistant to the President of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, advisor and spokesman to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Knowledge Society, Eu…

Miriam Letašiová, Director General of the Business Environment and Innovation Section of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, is responsible for the smart industry agenda, better regulation and measures to improve the business environment. She also covers the Smart Cities agenda and is convinced that a better life in our cities will be achieved through a change of thinking and a common dialogue. At the same time, she is in charge of the Government Council's Working Group on Export and Investment Promotion, where she supports the expansion of Slovakia's pro-export policy. She gained experience in this field already in 2012 - 2016, when she worked as the Chief Executive Officer of EXIMBANKA SR. At the same time, she is the presi…

Ing. Pavel Nácovský: focus on innovation management and its economy     I support innovative processes and public administration projects in the Digital Transformation verticals (including eGovernment and Smart City) - from support of overcoming mental block, through the proper definition of public services to support for project implementation and subsequent operations. I define expectations of change, their economic and kpi / cpi expressions. Efficient creation of operation documentation. Legislative accuracy of projects. Projects of cooperation and work with communities.   Founder of the RASC Expert Platform - Council and Academy for Smart City and consulting firm Panatec s.r.o. RASC is a professional platform to support the corr…

Dr. Elena Szolgayová, an architect and urban planner with long-standing research experience, has been advising state and municipal housing and urban policy makers since the early 1990s. In 1999 she joined the state administration, recently acts as Director General, DG Housing Policy and Urban Development at the Ministry of Transport and Construction in Bratislava, Slovakia. For over two decades participated on shaping the visions of the global and European housing and urban development policies and was one of those steering the process toward formulation and adoption of the Geneva UN Charter on sustainable housing. She was a member of the Preparatory Bureau for the Habitat III conference and participated in the Policy Unit on Housing du…

Denisa Žiláková is the Director-General of the Section of the Central Coordinating Body of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Investment and Informatics. In the past, she held several key positions in the management of Eurofunds in the transport and IT sectors in the Ministries of Transport and Finance. Previously, she worked at the Ministry of Justice. For five years she worked in the European Commission, where she cooperated in important pre-accession negotiations of Slovakia into the European Union. She graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava and studied at universities in Paris, London, Berlin and Prague.