Radoslav Repa
Radoslav Repa started his career at the Government Office of the Slovak Republic (2004), where he worked as the Director of the Department of Information Systems and Electronic Services (2006-2008). He was responsible for the governmental network and for the central public administration portal providing first electronic services for citizens and businesses.
For the next ten years (2009 – 2019) Radoslav worked at the Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the European Union in Brussels as a digital and cyber diplomat. During the Slovak presidency in the Council of the EU in 2016 he chaired two working groups, one in the field of telecommunications and digital agenda and the other in the field of cyber affairs. In this exposed period he achieved a strong mandate for the newly created EU Council´s working group focused on all horizontal aspects of cyber issues. During the intensive diplomatic year of Slovak presidencies in 2019 he was in charge of the flawless run of digital negotiations in the OECD Council of Ministers, in the OSCE and also during the Visegrad4.
In 2019 Radoslav moved to Bratislava and took a position of a Director General for the Digital Agenda Division, which he helped to create, focused mainly on European digital agenda, novel technologies at the Office of Deputy Prime Minister, later transformed into ministry. He drafted the Strategy of Digital Transformation of Slovakia by 2030, the digital chapters of the Programme Slovakia 2021-2027 and of the Resilience and Recovery Facility. Radoslav also helped to establish the innovative platforms in Slovakia such as the Digital Coalition, AISlovaKIA, the National Supercomputing Centre or the National Centre for Quantum Technologies. He also finalized the new National Broadband Access Plan and worked on a better reflection of the DESI index in national policies.
From September 2021 Radoslav Repa has been working for the National Security Authority. First as a head of the Institute for Security Studies he dealt with the horizontal assessment of cybersecurity policies, implementation of the National Cyber Security Strategy, and the evaluation of hybrid threats. Since November 2022 he has been performing a diplomatic mission again as a Cyber Counsellor representing Slovakia in Brussels. His focus is aimed now at legislation, strategies and cyber diplomacy.
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1on1 interview
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Opening speech
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Chairman speech
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Discussion
Discussion of invited guests:
Andrej Doležal, Minister of Transport and Construction of the Slovak Republic
Peter Čapkovič, Orange
Milan Ištván, PPP
Rafal Jaczyński, Huawei
Ivan Marták, Office for the Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services
Peter Šebo, PS:Digital
Radoslav Repa, MIRRI
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National plan of broadband access and broadband goals of Slovakia
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Annual Round Table
The presentation offers a complex view of the cohesion policy after 2021. In this contribution, you will learn more about the negotiations of the MFF, what kind of simplifications you may expect and what are the upcoming events in the negotiations. You will learn about the objectives and priorities of the European Commission and the possibilities for cumulative funding.
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Introductory speech
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Financing IT in future
Digital projects in a different light or what is the future of public investment in the ICT industry in Slovakia after 2021? It is clear that support for investment from EU funds under shared management has a declining tendency. On the other hand, the EU also offers other opportunities to finance the IT industry and digital transformation projects through the so-called directly-managed programs. As an example could be served the Digital Europe Program, which supports the strengthening of Europe's capacity in high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and advanced digital skills, or the Connecting Europe Facility 2021-2027, which promotes investment in transport, energy and digital infrastructure.
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Introductory speech of chairman
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DISCUSSION: Round table
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Digital transformation of Slovakia
The presentation will follow the opening speech of the Deputy Prime Minister for Investments and Informatization and will focus on key aspects and priority activities / topics of the Government of the Slovak Republic approved 7 May 2019. Strategies for Digital Transformation of Slovakia 2030 is a supra-governmental government strategy that defines policy and specifically Slovakia in the context of the ongoing digital transformation of the economy and society under the influence of innovative technologies and global megatrends of the digital era.
The strategy covers the period from 2019 to 2030 and was created in the framework of the ongoing and partially managed digitization processes and the Digital Single Market agenda of the European Union, as well as in the context of global digital transformation priorities. The strategy puts emphasis on current innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, 5G technology, big data and analytical data processing, blockchain and supercomputers that will become the new engine of economic growth and competitiveness.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Investment and Informatization as the central state administration body for the area of informatization of society, including the creation of single digital market policies, is the main coordinator of this strategy and is responsible for its implementation in coordination and cooperation with other central state administration offices.
The topic of digital transformation of Slovakia will continue with the discussion panel Digital Transformation of Slovakia, where a number of top Slovak experts will discuss specific areas / individual priorities of the implementation of the presented strategy.
