Companies that choose digital transformation face numerous challenges. However, we should not underestimate their ability to navigate these challenges and make the right decisions. Based on a survey conducted by the Slovak Centre for Digital Innovations (SCDI) with a sample of over 100 companies, we aim to identify the priorities of Slovak firms. We will examine what they have already invested in and what they plan to invest in the future. We will also explore their attitudes towards advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence. Additionally, we will look at how closely they associate digital technologies with green transformation. Alongside statistics, SCDI has gathered a wealth of opinions and perspectives that can shed light on how companies perceive their needs. We can compare these with the support offered from public resources, such as the Recovery and Resilience Plan or EU structural funds.

Kamil Šaško, Ministry of Economy SR (invited)

Each new set receives a lot of advice when starting. Officials and advisers point to important documents co-authored by them. Lobbyists show that they know how to help and generate ideas to wait. Those who felt left out point out that things need to be done differently. Someone has projects and measures in their drawer that were unjustly neglected in the past. Taking into account all possible goals and conflicting interests has led in the recent past to unrealistic promises, unfulfilled expectations, micro-management, but also to ignoring strategic matters, decisions to add gas and at the same time step on the brakes. A responsible manager should look at the capacities that will realistically be available to him, compare them with the demands placed on him and ask himself the question "WHAT NOT TO DO?". In his contribution, Emil Fitoš will talk about which priorities are not really priorities, which activities are a waste of energy and which promises are better not to make.

One of the goals of the Program Statement of the Government of the Slovak Republic, which recently ended its activities, was: "The Government of the Slovak Republic will introduce innovative forms of procurement in IT (agile procurement, open framework agreements - the so-called digital marketplace) in order to support competition, following the example of countries that are leaders in informatization .” From today's perspective, it is clear that the number of competitions has increased, but the number of companies that win them has decreased. We are witnessing a growing lack of interest of IT companies in public contracts. The reason is a combination of phenomena - procurement methods, the practice of setting preliminary contract values, irremovable or even growing bureaucracy. It was not possible to attract a large number of new companies to the public sector. It was not even possible to increase the competences of the customer state by fundamentally increasing the number of computer scientists on the state side. New phenomena are emerging here, such as predatory offers that aim far below the preliminary value of the order. The state is a high-risk customer, and IT companies that can establish themselves in other markets are increasingly doing so. The way out of this condition will not be easy. The first prerequisite for embarking on it is to stop transforming the relationship between the IT sector and public administration into politics, admit reality and start behaving in a managerial and professional manner.

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Leaders of Slovak artificial intelligence present interesting projects, cooperation, solutions in the field of artificial intelligence.

Emil Fitoš, AISlovakIA
Tomáš Vinař, Comenius University in Bratislava
Ivan Budinská, Slovak academy of sciences
Matej Pecháč, TACHYUM

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ERIK HEVESI, MIRDI: "Even in public procurement it is possible to achieve good results, only both parties have to want it."

Jozef Graňačka, Slovensko IT 
Erik Hevesi, MIRDI SR
Emil Fitoš, ITAS 
Peter Kubovič, Office for Public Procurement 
Marián Marek, ITAS

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Artur Bobovnický, SIEA 
Emil Fitoš, ITAS 
Marwan Oghli, TACHYUM
Juraj Rumanovský, FORTINET 

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