Future Port Prague
Main Festival Stage
Novartis Stage
Space stage
Side Program
Festival Program
Two days. Four stages. All about future & exponential technologies
Sept 10, 9am-8pm | Sept 11, 9am-7pm
Outside of Industrial Palace, Prague Exhibition Grounds
Main Festival Stage | Novartis Stage | Space Stage
Program runs in any weather. We've got the stage (and you) covered.
Welcome by our moderatorsEnglish Welcome
Alžběta Trojanová
Simon McDermott
Business Development Director, Tech.eu
Alžběta Trojanová (CZ)
Alžběta launched her gaming journalism career in 2004 working for Gamestar magazine. She would go on to write for gaming websites like hrej.cz or hratelne.cz. Alžběta began hosting a game-focused TV show Re-Play in 2011, taking over the role of chief editor four years later. In 2019, she and her colleague started a new gaming show New Game +. Twitter
Simon McDermott (IRL)
Simon started his career as a business developer with Cisco and Intel, later building his own companies as a co-founder/director in social media intelligence, publishing and market research. Through the years he's attended hundreds of events on entrepreneurship and the future of technology and now speaks, moderates or hosts for the best of these conferences with tech.eu. LinkedIn
Innovation Strategy of the Czech Republic and city of PragueEnglish Talk
A joint opening speech presenting the innovation strategy of the Czech Republic as well as a technological development from the point of view of the capital city of Prague.
Karel Havlíček
Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic
Vít Šimral
City Council Member at Magistrát hl. m. Prahy
Karel Havlíček (CZ)
Besides his ministerial post, Karel Havlíček is also Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy and a member and Deputy Chairman of the Government Council for Research, Development, and innovation. He's also been active in the academic world for some time, building the Economic Studies Faculty at the University of Finance and Administration where he designed the economics and management study program. He's written several erudite books about small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as dozens of articles published at home and abroad. He was also the executive director of the SINDAT group within the Association of Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses of the Czech Republic, which he built into a respected investor into small- and medium-sized industrial companies and new technologies.
Vít Šimral (CZ)
Digital signature is the backbone of the digital society. It can be built only together.English Talk Opero Q&A
Digital society requires a strong backbone. A digital signature framework, as proven by the Estonian example, is its key element. If Czechia is to become the digital champion of the CEE, it has to build it, and fast. There is a challenge, however – this kind of backbone of digital society cannot be built only by government or one company, it has to be built by society itself. Can big banks, telcos, development companies and government all come together?
Margus Simson
Estonian E-government Advisor, Chief Digital Officer at KB
Margus Simson (EE)
Margus Simson has been working in the field of digitalization for the last 20 years. He has been involved in practically every aspect of the digitalization in Estonia – the banks, telecoms, utilities, healthcare, government. The focus of his work is always on the radical simplification of services and processes and strong customer orientation. In addition – digitalization is more about business model change than the implementation of cool technology in IT team. Combining the customer orientation with change in business model means, usually a complete change in the company's culture and positioning. LinkedIn
Virtual Power Teams – How to Deliver Projects Quicker, Reduce Cost and Prepare your Organization for the Future!English Talk
Work teams nowadays are often scattered in different locations. The possibilities for a physical meeting or face-to-face conversation in such teams are strongly limited, which can lead to delays and even a complete failure due to intercultural issues or simply because the team members feel isolated and demotivated. Peter Ivanov is an international manager and Virtual Teams Expert. His method "Virtual Power Teams" is proven in practice and has won multiple corporate awards. Using Peter's techniques, you can deliver projects quicker, significantly reduce the costs and prepare your organization for the future!
Peter Ivanov
Expert on Virtual Teams
Peter Ivanov (BG)
Peter Ivanov is a manger and businessman who created a new approach to leading virtual teams – teams in separate locations connected by technology. His Virtual Power Teams method provides smooth project management and reduces costs. Virtual teams led by Peter have won several prestigious awards, including Best of the Best and the Global IT Connect Award. He also speaks about and coaches people in new methods of leadership. LinkedIn
Sensing Nature for Technology SolutionsEnglish Talk
The pace of change has never been as fast as now and technological advances are seen as the solution to our ever-changing world. People, as integral members of nature, have always relied on their natural surroundings to inspire innovative solutions. Humans as a species are not alone in using and developing tools to capture competitive advantage, although the marvels of some highly advanced tools and technologies may ironically threaten our source of inspiration. This begs for a holistic approach that supports humanity's advancement within the context of our resource limitations. This talk will highlight some of CEITEC's technological advances and showcase how the laws of nature, as well as nature's diversity, are crucial drivers of our inspiration.
Markus Dettenhofer
CEITEC Executive Director
Markus Dettenhofer (UK)
Markus is the executive director of the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) headquartered in Brno, which associates 550 researchers focused on the natural sciences, advanced materials, and technologies. Before joining CEITEC, Markus was a project leader in pre-clinical development of viral vaccines and antibody research at Crucell (Johnson & Johnson). He studied genetics and evolutionary biology at Harvard Medical School. LinkedIn
Central European Startup EcosystemEnglish fire-side chat
The Central European start-up system is clearly developing at a rapid pace with serious venture capital investments becoming more common. It has a set of unique challenges and opportunities which we will discuss with two prominent investors from this region.
Ondřej Fryc
Venture capital investor, managing partner at Reflex Capital
Ondřej Bartoš
General Partner at Credo Ventures
Ondřej Fryc (CZ)
Ondřej is a combination of venture investor and one of the most successful Czech businessmen active today. He built and managed MALL.cz, one of the largest internet retailers in the Czech Republic, which he sold in 2012 in the largest Czech e-commerce transaction to date. He invested the proceeds into Reflex Capital, which became his main focus since then. LinkedIn
Ondřej Bartoš (CZ)
Ondřej currently focuses on investments in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria. His main interest is seeking out and supporting talented businesspeople just starting out. In the past, he founded a Czech branch of the First Tuesday platform, which was later transformed into the TUESDAY Business Network and stood at the beginnings of the Czech and Slovak startup scene. LinkedIn
Fooling the AI - Attacks on Machine LearningEnglish Talk
Artificial Intelligence systems make more and more decisions and take over our responsibilities. Let's talk about the limits of such automated decisions. Smart attacks on machine learning can change the decisions, alter the financial transactions and even kill people. Let's fix our intuitions about what is safe and what is not.
Martin Rehak
CEO & Founder of Bulletproof AI
Martin Rehak (CZ)
Privacy. The ultimate topic which touches the lives of everyone. Bulletproof AI builds solution for security of machine learning and statistical techniques applied to credit risk scoring, fraud detection, anti-money laundering and biometric authentication, as well as other AI application domains in finance and security industry. LinkedIn
Can Quantum Computers Change the Way We Live?English Talk
Introduction to quantum computing and the journey to quantum advantage from the perspective of chemistry, AI, finance and logisticts.
Miroslav Iwachow
Quantum Computing Ambassador at IBM
Miroslav Iwachow (CZ)
IBM Q Ambassador for Czech Republic and Slovakia. Working with Universities and other institutions in the region to enable, evangelize and develop Quantum Computing. Industry Sector Technical Leader driving strategy for IBM and clients in CEE with leading Industry Solutions and Client Business transformation. Thought leader and Executive Architect with a strong international background as Global Client Technical Advisor for large T&T Clients and experience with Watson IoT solutions. Recognized as an Industry expert with deep knowledge of IoT and Industry 4.0. LinkedIn
What Exactly Is The AR Cloud and Why Should You Care?English Talk
The AR Cloud in basic terms is a Digital Twin of the entire planet. It is the enabler for a vast digital landscape of Augmented Reality experiences. 5G, Edge Computing, Computer Vision combined with LiDAR are some of the building blocks. The AR Cloud architecture will follow some of the same network protocols in use today. However, delivering contextualized AR content at the right time, in the right place to the right person poses a number of challenges. Let's have look at how these technologies will converge to deliver seamless functionality for the next computing platform – Augmented Reality.
Amy Peck
CEO at EndeavorVR
Amy Peck (US)
Amy is an evangelist for AR/VR development in the commercial arena. Her personal mission is to see VR/AR fundamentally improve every aspect of our lives and change the way we work, learn, communicate, and play. LinkedIn
Three New Food Technologies: Can They Save the World from Hunger?English Talk
What are these three new food technologies and how will they feed the world? From some 7.7 bn today, the world population will rise to 8.5 bn by 2030 and nearly 10 bn by 2050. With finite global resources, how will we feed all those people? The good news is that these new technologies have the potential to disrupt the food industry and revolutionise food production and distribution, making safe, nutritious food available to everyone.
Food scientist, Futurist
Tony Hunter (AUS)
Tony Hunter is a Global Futurist and consultant specialising in the Future of Food. He is a passionate believer that AgriFood Tech offers massive opportunities to solve the problems of sustainability and feeding the growing global population. Tony travels the world using his combination of scientific qualifications and business experience to convey how new technologies will influence Food Industries. He wants the world in 2050 to look back and thank, not condemn, the Food Industry for its actions. LinkedIn
Welcome by moderatorsEnglish Welcome
From the Future WorldEnglish Talk Performance
We will introduce a unique project of the composition From the Future World, which was created by artificial intelligence based on a fragment of the unfinished composition of Antonín Dvořák. The project was created in cooperation with Komerční banka as a supporter of classical music and PKF – Prague Philharmonia, a world-renowned Czech orchestra. The goal of the project was to demonstrate that artificial intelligence can be used creatively. The composition represents a piece of art intented for listeners to enjoy and, at the same time, a piece of puzzle which helps us answer many questions about the relationship between man and AI.
Richard Stiebitz and Filip Humpl
Creative directors of Wuderman Thompson agency
Orchestral Academy Quartet PKF
Prague Philharmonia
Richard Stiebitz and Filip Humpl (CZ)
Richard Stiebitz and Filip Humpl are the tandem of creative directors of Wuderman Thompson agency, which focuses on linking creative creation with new technologies. Richard and Filip, after years of working in ATL agencies, decided to develop new types of communication based on the exploration of human insights and data analyses. Thanks to their innovative procedures, they have won a number of local and international awards. They both love classical music and they wonder if it is possible for artificial intelligence to enrich human creation with new emotions. LinkedIn Richard LinkedIn Filip
Orchestral Academy Quartet PKF (CZ)
Šárka Petříková – First Violin Jan Palouček – Second Violin Daniel Menhart – Viola Dora Hájková – Chello The PFK Orchestral Academy Quartet – Prague Philharmonia was created in 1998 as the first scholarship program of its kind in the Czech Republic, offering opportunities to 12 young classical musicians each year. They spend a year studying orchestral composition with the leaders of the PKF – Prague Philharmonia orchestra and artistically participate on a number of PKF's projects, including tours abroad. Members of the Orchestral Academy also work with chamber music and are included in individual educational programs. Web
Parallel Virtual Reality Universe Powered by BlockchainEnglish Talk Opero Q&A
Somnium Space is following a bold vision of turning virtual into reality. It is creating an open, social Virtual Reality world and aims to build a world which will fully immerse its citizens into the parallel reality. But there are several important parts of the puzzle, which have to be gradually implemented in order to create a true alternative reality world, such as digital decentralized economy, stunning visuals and groundbreaking server technology.
Artur Sychov
Founder & CEO of Somnium Space
Artur Sychov (DE)
Artur is a Founder and CEO of Somnium Space. He has worked as an investment trader for many years before becoming a VR evangelist and an architect of virtual worlds. Artur strongly believes in the ultimate future of Virtual Worlds which will bring society to the next evolutionary level. At Somnium Space Artur connects all the necessary dots to make that vision a reality. LinkedIn
Do we have the energy to stop destroying our planet?English Talk
Everyone with access to the internet and electricity can essentially print money today. Blockchain is quickly making its way into new areas, shedding light on hidden algorithms and systematic fraud in areas ranging from social media to financial markets and state administration. But what about negative aspects like energy consumption associated with cryptocurrency mining? Will electricity infrastructure adapt to these new requirements? Are we ready to move away from fossil fuels and other dangerous power sources to renewable ones? And most importantly, will blockchain find its feet as a safe and sustainable anchor in the energy world? Will physical kWh become the new gold standard backing cryptocurrencies? Let's explore these issues from the perspective of the electricity market.
Petr Rokůsek
Founder & Scriptwriter of Sustainable Businesses
Petr Rokůsek (CZ)
Petr is a visionary businessman, an investor into modern forms of energy generation, and the founder of Nano Energies, a respected firm on a number of markets. He's currently developing energy sharing and flexible aggregation technologies using blockchain as a transparent accounting ledger. The goal is to allow people to invest into their own sources of energy and sell part of their power or send it to their family and friends for free. His approach is built on an innovative combination of natural resources and technologies. LinkedIn
Mining. The Beating Heart of BitcoinEnglish Talk
Bitcoin is disrupting how we think about money. But what is so magical about it and why should we care? Pavel Moravec is the co-founder of Braiins, one of the world's leading companies in the bitcoin mining space. He operates a global computer network to create and secure this money for the future.
Pavel Moravec
Co-founder & Co-CEO at Braiins
Pavel Moravec (CZ)
Bitcoin is changing how we think about money. But what is so magical about it and why should we be perhaps paying more attention to it? Pavel Moravec is the co-founder of Braiins, one of the world's leading companies in the bitcoin mining space. With a team of other bitcoin enthusiasts, he operates a global computer network which helps create and secure this money of the future. LinkedIn
The Battle of Future Traffic - Winners CooperateEnglish Talk
In mobility, 'the winner takes it all' tactics works only for a limited period. Adding more cars and couriers to boost growth in ride-hailing, food-delivery, e-commerce delivery or sharing only works up until the moment our streets get clogged. Making all the mobility businesses cooperate towards a more suistainable city traffic is the key to livable cities. So where is the money in cooperation?
Ondřej Krátký
CEO and Co-founder of Liftago
Ondřej Krátký (CZ)
Ondřej is the co-founder and leader of Liftago, which operates the highest-rated app for shared travel on the planet. Customers can choose offers from licensed drivers differentiated by prices and other factors. Liftago wants to create a free market using its auction-based system that would integrate today's providers with future technologies. The company's goal is to enable smart cities where people will not be dependent on their own cars and to reduce problems with parking. LinkedIn
Delivery Drones and the Autonomous RevolutionEnglish Talk
The Autonomous Technology revolution is at our doorstep, and flying drones seem to be the most exciting part of it. Today, drones are mostly carrying sensors that record and scan the earth's surface, but soon enough they will be used for delivering physical objects from place to place, faster and cheaper, with a great impact on our lives, improving medical aid and other time-critical supply, reducing traffic and actually boosting up the pace of the logistics supply chain, from the factory's production lines all the way to our homes. The amazing future is just around the corner.
Ran Kleiner
Co-Founder at Gadfin ltd
Ran Kleiner (IZL)
Starting his career in the drone industry 25 years ago, Ran has been involved in some of the most innovative and exciting drone projects world-wide, as a pilot, designer, product manager and entrepreneur. Ran is a leading figure in Israeli commercial drones' ecosystem, as an expert in Israeli and international drone flights regulation, the owner and manager of the Israeli Drone Academy and the founder of the conference The Drones People. For the last year, Ran is leading Gadfin, an Israeli start-up that develops unmanned aerial delivery networks for the Logistics market. LinkedIn
How to Scale Up a Startup?English Talk
Changing the world & challenging the status quo is not for the faint-hearted. If you have an amazing product, your company needs to grow to a size where it withstands the opportunity. Take the example of Kiwi.com. Its journey to the top was exciting, but also painful. What can you learn from the experience? What is essential when you aim to win the scale-up race? Come join the presentation and you will leave the room with the enhanced mindset for building your unicorn organisation.
Lucie Brešová
Former Managing Director of Kiwi.com
Lucie Brešová (CZ)
During her four years at the reigns, Lucie guided Kiwi.com through an exemplary period of exponential growth, expanding from 10 employees to 2,000 while income exploded from zero to €1 billion. Kiwi.com became the name for technology that makes travelling easier and connects flights from airlines that do not cooperate. Lucie is now leveraging her experience to advise executives and their teams to help them achieve their ambitious goals. Her methods are based on a measured combination of supporting individuals and visions of projects while constantly improving productivity and effectiveness. LinkedIn
Time is LimitedEnglish Talk Launchpad Opero Q&A
Time is Ltd. is a 21st-century productivity analytics company. Companies are placing too much overhead on employees with too many meetings. Which means they have trouble doing their job. We help companies assess how teams communicate with one another. We use internally public data such as calendars to understand companies' heartbeat better. Businesses get the best results from people who have the time to get the work done.
Jan Řežáb
Founder at Timeis Ltd. and Socialbakers
Jan Řežáb (CZ)
Jan Řežáb is a Czech businessman and international speaker. He built his first enterprise at the age of 12 and Forbes magazine repeatedly included him on their list of the 30 most interesting businesspeople under 30. His interest went far beyond personal productivity and began to focus on corporate productivity, time as a resource, and effective communication. Jan's talks that concentrate on social networks, digital technologies, and business have been enthusiastically received at events like TEDx and CMO Forbes. Prestigious higher learning institutions such as the Harvard Business School and Stanford University have also invited him to speak at their events. LinkedIn
Can AI help one of the least developed industries in the world, construction? English Talk
Even though construction represents 10% of the global economy and $10.6 trillion and , it is the second least digitized industry in the world. How artificial intelligence can help drive efficiency in construction is still in its very early stages with very few commercial applications world wide. ArtificiaL Intelligence Construction Engineering, or ALICE for short, was born out of PhD research at Stanford University and has developed the first artificial intelligence parametric simulator for construction that can generate millions of valid ways to build a given project. It is being deployed on some of the worlds largest projects by top construction companies such as AF Gruppen in Norway and DPR in the USA. ALICE typically saves 14.7% of construction labor costs and 17.3% of construction duration.
René Morkos
Founder, Lecturer, and Inventor
René Morkos (US)
René Morkos is a second generation civil engineer with over 15 years of construction industry experience that is divided between industry and academia. He is founder and inventor of the world's first Artificial Intelligence software application to optimize construction. His professional experience includes working as a project manager in Afghanistan, underwater pipeline construction, automation engineering for a $ 350 million gas refinery expansion project in Abu Dhabi, ERP system implementations, and various Virtual Design and Construction projects. LinkedIn
How to Radically Improve Our Brains and Save HumanityEnglish Talk
Augmenting our brains might be the best chance of saving humanity and the chance for the most significant jump in prosperity in human history. We can leverage brain plasticity and its ability to process information: read-and-write brain implants are on the rise, the timing is right. Brain-computer interfaces, such as processors in the 90s, are going through the exponential growth of the technology. Come and find out what Braingrade is working on and why BCI is the hottest tech ever.
Peter Schlecht
Entrepreneur, CEO & Founder of B2B Social Selling & Neuroscience
Peter Schlecht (DE)
After the exit of his AI sales company, He founded the social selling agency Artificial Link and the neuroscience project Braingrade. Happy that He had the opportunity to work with 100+ tech companies to scale their b2b sales incl. Microsoft, Twilio & Zuora. With Artificial Link, they build the digital presence of top executives to scale customer acquisition. With Braingrade, they try to provide direct access to our brain. Besides that, He supports the b2b sales community as a Mentor for Singularity University, Singa, Startupbootcamp, Betahouse and Founder Institute, Lecturer at the BITS University, German Ambassador of Sales Hacker and Chapter Officer of AA-ISP Germany. His charitable activities include Mensa, Sandbox & Founders Pledge. LinkedIn
How Neuroscience Contributes to Better (Artificial) Intelligence Systems and DesignsEnglish Talk
Off late, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown great promise in problem solving. However, there are still many open-ends in today's state-of-the-art algortihms. Can we be inspired by biology and bring the essence and design of efficient neuronal computations into our algorithms? How can principles of biological memory be abstracted for algorithmic learning? Neuroscience and AI can benefit from each other by a closer exchange between the experts thereby developing stronger algorithms based on biological logic.
Prateep Beed
Prateep Beed (DE)
With a background in engineering and systems neuroscience, Prateep is interested in combining the strengths of algorithms and biology. He is a senior research scientist at the Charité Berlin and working currently on decoding how neurons encode and store memory during a night's sleep. LinkedIn
Medicine: A Context in ContextEnglish Talk
The medicine should not be seen as an individual health service helping today's patient to survive, but as a discipline dynamically extending its potential to identify and fight challenges and threats of tomorrow. Contemporary (bio)medicine is the crossroad of cell and molecular biology, material science, medicinal chemistry, mathematics, bioinformatics, imaging methods, telemedicine, artificial intelligence, etc., but also a meeting field with humanities and social sciences. Thus, the integration of technological, ethical and economical ways and means can provide keys for "sustainable survival" of both the individual patient and the community as a whole.
Aleksi Sedo
Dean of the First Medical Faculty and Head of the Institute of Biochemistry and Experimental Oncology
Aleksi Sedo (CZ)
Aleksi is a Czech physician, biochemist, and biochemical pathologist. He worked as a visiting professor in Pisa, Italy and as a researcher at the Curie Institute in Paris. He is currently the dean of Charles University's First Faculty of Medicine, the head of the Institute of Biochemistry and Experimental Oncology, and head of a group of neuro-oncologists. He is also the author of a number of scientific publications. Web LinkedIn
Advanced Strategies in Cancer Therapy Using Micro- and NanorobotsEnglish Talk
What are the most innovative strategies in the therapy of cancer that are currently being developed and how are they related to nanotechnology? What are micro- and nanorobots and how are they capable of drug delivery into tumor tissue? What is their potential in clinical practice?
Michaela Fojtu
Biochemist and Molecular Biologist
Michaela Fojtu (CZ)
Michaela is a biochemist and molecular biologist. She did her Ph.D. from Physiology and Pathological Physiology at Masaryk University in Brno. She spent part of her doctoral study at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in Martin Pumera's research group. Her research is focused on cancer biology, testing of novel anticancer compounds, nanocarrier-mediated targeted drug delivery and nanomaterial toxicity. She is now working as a postdoc in Advanced Functional Nanorobots laboratory at UCT in Prague. In 2019 she received Werner von Siemens Award. LinkedIn
Open Source in HealthcareEnglish Talk
The Open Artificial Pancreas System project is a free and open-source project that aims to make basic artificial pancreas system technology available to everyone. Andrew will guide you through his journey towards open-source healthcare.
Andrew Warrington
Digital Therapeutics project leader at Novartis
Andrew Warrington (SUI)
Andrew Warrington is a patient, health hacker, and member of the #WeAreNotWaiting open source diabetes care movement. He has contributed to the AndroidAPS artificial pancreas system. In his day job, he works on Digital Therapeutics. LinkedIn
Opportunities and Challenges in Digital SurgeryEnglish Talk
Aging population and economic prosperity increase the pressure for the digital transformation of healthcare. Surgery is the most analog service provided in that segment, and Brainlab will demonstrate how cloud computing, AI, robotics, tracking, and augmented reality can impact the lives of patients. We can aggregate digital anatomical models of the patient and merge the digital world with the physical world. And even more important, digital surgery can become an opportunity for startups to beat the giants.
Stefan Vilsmeier
Brainlab President & CEO
Stefan Vilsmeier (DE)
Stefan wrote a book about 3D software at the tender age of 15 and its reception catapulted him to success in innovation. His ambition to improve medical magnetic resonation imaging led him to found Brainlab in 1989. The company became a world leader in medical technologies with 1,400 employees all over the world, focusing on digitalizing surgery and radiation therapy that combines intelligent software and intuitive hardware. This technology integrates digital operating rooms to expand a surgeon's abilities and options while increasing the safety and precision of procedures. LinkedIn
Current and Future Space Business Opportunities: Made in Space vs. Made for SpaceEnglish Talk
The ongoing and future private space industry resources and products vary. From satellites to launching systems, from pharmaceuticals and energy to tourism and entertainments. Some products enable the space travel (spacecraft), others are made in space for the earthly use (pharmaceuticals, energy). Some could even be used both in outer space and on earth (efficient gadgets etc..). Is now the best time to get on board and how soon can investors make profit?
Antoine Faddoul
Space Architect & Strategist
Antoine Faddoul (US)
Antoine combines elements of astronomy with disciplines like architecture, history, art, and linguistics in a futuristic way. He believes in the need for a revolution in space flight that in his view will be enabled by a mix of cosmic architecture, innovative economics, and future technologies. Antoine has authored several publications on the topic, and he's compiled a list of hundreds of design aspects necessary for deep space flight. His company Tony Sky Designs Group provides strategic planning and management of specific development projects.
Reimagined Fashion = A Billion Beautiful Strides!English Talk Opero Q&A
Fashion as status symbol has always contributed to the way on how we perceive ourselves and convey our inside to the outside. In traditional means fashion was considered art, designed to convey a certain lifestyle that was linked to exclusivity. The more we have the possibility and freedom to re-invent fashion, through technology, new business models, shifting the position along the value chain, the more power is in the hands of the customer. Customer focus is not limited to convenience, personalized designs and uniqueness, but also a way on how the shopping, renting and service can be bridged to the increasing isolation in the cities. Circular economy of fashion and 'on demand' creates another challenge and opportunity at the same time on how to link both worlds. The rise of rental and second hand fashion platforms, solves the problem only to a certain extend. While solving one problem of waste, overproduction and introducing circular economy models to fashion, we are creating another gap, which is castrating our cities culture, economy and the quality of life. The lack of real-life social contacts and the castration of cities, demands for new business models and solutions and the combination of how to bridge on- and offline. When fashion stores disappear restaurants, bars will follow. In my talk I'd like to take the audience on a journey on how this future of fashion is multidimensional, provides a huge potential for service offerings in future mobility and can transform our society.
Danny Laker
Founder of fashionXact and MealMatch
Danny Laker (DE)
According to Danny, fashion is one of the key motivators in our lives, for better or worse. Her company fashionXact wants to transform the fashion industry by making high-quality fashion available to everyone while adapting it to ever-changing urban cultures and societies. Danny examines how the fashion sharing economy contributes to transforming urban environments and creates new service models. LinkedIn
Evolution of CryptocurrenciesEnglish Talk
Bitcoin was the first truly decentralized cryptocurrency. But the story of digital currencies began many years before Bitcoin. The freedom to transact might be the most impactful implication of the blockchain technology as a whole and it may drastically reshape our world.
David Stancel
Expert on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain
David Stancel (SK)
David is a co-founder of Blockchain Slovakia, a non-profit organization that educates people about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. He lectures about cryptocurrencies at the University of Žilina and regularly speaks at conferences, seminars, forums, and universities. He also provides his experience to several nascent cryptocurrency initiatives in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Visit David's website. David's LinkedIn
Why Smart Cities Need Even Smarter PeopleEnglish Talk
With sensors collecting data on everything – weather, pollution, traffic flow, energy use and personal data too (where you buy things, who you hang with, even the gait of your walk as you wander your local streets) – the smart city revolution promises to transform our lives. But as the data-goldrush gathers pace, is civil society keeping up? Do we need an 'equitable deal' to guarantee a fairer future for everyone? And, crucially, who will own the collected data?
Rory Olcayto
Chief executive of Open City
Rory Olcayto (UK)
Rory is chief executive of Open City, the charity behind Open House London, the world's biggest architecture festival and the centerpiece of a year-round public events programme exploring architecture, cities and urban design. An award-winning critic and journalist, Rory was previously editor of the Architects' Journal. Rory studied architecture at the University of Strathclyde, has worked in practice in Glasgow, Liege and Istanbul, and as a designer and developer in the videogames industry. Open City's newest programme is Citymaking Sessions, a new platform exploring how we make cities today. Search Open City on Google and citymaking sessions on Youtube. LinkedIn
Shipvio & SWCSummit - The Story of the First WinnerEnglish fire-side chat
Václav Pavlečka will interview the CEO of expanding Czech startup Shipvio. Among other things, they will talk about how to break through a competitively charged business, why startup competitions sometimes make sense, but also how to combine family life and startup work into something more better than just a 24/7 work mode.
Václav Pavlečka
Managing Partner at Air Ventures | SWCS co-founder
André Dravecký
Founder at ShipVio
Václav Pavlečka (CZ)
Vaclav is bridging the gap between the worlds of marketing & innovation. In his marketing career he has consulted businesses across the globe. In 2013 Vaclav has brought Leo Burnett's Chicago innovational hub Farmhouse to Prague to foster the innovation within ad business. He also co-founded a brand-tech consultancy Kliché Killers in NYC and in 2016 he co-founded Air Ventures fund with Michal Nydrle. Vaclav is also a partner and creative head of the biggest startup clash in Europe, Startup World Cup & Summit. LinkedIn
André Dravecký (CZ)
André founded ShipVio in late 2015 and launched year after. He is passionate about startups and mobile technologies in general. He loves to work with talented people. He is currently based in Prague. He holds a Master's degree (with distinction) in International relations and Diplomacy. LinkedIn
Future of SpaceEnglish Talk
Space industry itself is a future for a lot of people. But it is? Our company is trying to really make the space industry futuristic – by driving down the cost of sending satellites to space, by making the industry more commercial, by promoting new ideas and technologies – like onboard data processing or the use of blockchain in space.
Petr Kapoun
CEO at S.A.B. Aerospace
Petr Kapoun (CZ)
Petr is a technology startup enthusiast that wants to change today's society for the better. His space-focused startup S.A.B. Aerospace has developed cosmic technologies since 2014 and it is initiating the opening of the Tech Nest technology center, a facility rumored to have the potential to develop teleportation technologies. He also founded Cape Free, which invests into startups. Petr popularizes space-related topics in the Czech Republic, as well as investment and financing. Over the years he has helped build dozens of companies and continues to be a player on the startup scene. LinkedIn
Start Running the Smart Way with MiomoveEnglish Talk Launchpad
Miomove is developing technologies to promote active lifestyles. The company has developed a smart insole prototype for step analysis, based on pressure nanosensors, which can evaluate the correctness of running technique during any training via the miomove app in runner's cell phone. The app can alert the runner to errors caused by incorrect movement habits. It evaluates the bodyweight distribution and balance and helps the user run and walk better and healthier. miomove = a personal trainer, helping with every step, anytime, anywhere. Start to run smart with miomove!
Barbora Malaníková
CEO & CO-Founder at Miomove
Barbora Malaníková (CZ)
After 10 years spent in corporate companies in different roles, She decided to quit her job and started to implement one big idea of Smart shoe to reality. In miomove, She is responsible for business strategy, development of HW, SW and sensors, MKT, sales, building strategic partnerships and negotiations with investors and She is doing her best to make it happen. LinkedIn
Apps, not Drugs: Future of Chronic Disease TreatmentEnglish Talk Launchpad
Can digital technologies replace drugs and become a new class of medicine? Learn what is behind the term 'digital therapeutics' and how it revolutionizes healthcare. This talk will shed more light on successful applications and demonstrate how startup Vitadio uses data to treat type 2 diabetes.
Lenka Röhryová
Co-founder of digital health startup Vitadio
Lenka Röhryová (CZ)
Lenka works on developing an innovative concept of medical treatment known as digital therapeutics – specifically for type 2 diabetes. She worked as a business analyst at pharmaceutical companies and graduated in Economics at Charles University and in Management of Innovation at Rotterdam School of Management. LinkedIn
Advanced-Materials for New Generation of Evacuation, Security and Fire-Fighting DevicesEnglish Talk Launchpad
Security threats have become an omnipresent concern for administrations as well as civilians. The advancements of material science enable us to tackle both personal and professional evacuation and firefighting devices in an unprecedented manner. For the first time in civil space, we will be presenting a non-toxic, biodegradable evacuation suit intended for use in the rapid evacuation of environments affected by fire. When deployed, the special fire suit, impregnated with a patented solution, can withstand intense heat from a burning building for several minutes. It even proved to withstand direct flames for up to a dozen seconds.
Adam Lučaník
Founder & CEO of I&AAT
Adam Lučaník (CZ)
In recent years, Adam has developed firefighting equipment designed to help evacuate people from burning buildings. His research led him to using fascinating new technologies that further improve even the most advanced technologies in this field. The creation of a broad portfolio of these types of innovations could fundamentally resolve several technical problems in the field. Web
First world introduction of the "nanofiber-gun" FIBER FLOW at Future Port Prague 2019English Talk Launchpad
Fiber Flow looks like a handheld gun Phaser from Star Trek, but do not get confused! This is a prototype of the unique handheld portable device for the production of nanofibers from polymer solutions by centrifugal forces. The idea was brought by engineers from the Technical University of Liberec. Nanotech company PARDAM from Roudnice nad Labem is helping to finalize the design and introduce the device and nanofiber materials to the commercial sector. Fiber Flow is designed to produce and deposit nanofibers with special additives for application on the skin for cosmetic or dermatological purposes. Thanks to this unique and futuristic "nano-gun" it will be possible to safely deposit nanofibers on the skin without any special knowledge and to personalize nanofiber material to individual needs. You can look forward to personalized nano-cosmetic or nano-dermatology.
Jan Buk
CEO at PARDAM s.r.o.
Jan Buk (CZ)
PARDAM, the company that Jan leads, focuses on the development and production of materials made from nanofibers using centrifugal spinning technology. He is also the Vice President of the Czech Nanotechnology Industry Association and a member of the board of directors of the Czech Association for Applied Photocatalysis. Jan has extensive experience with electrostatic and centrifugal spinning of both types of nanofiber materials (inorganics and polymers), as well as an in-depth knowledge of how to produce, process, and apply these materials for commercial use. He is the co-author of several patents and commercial applications. LinkedIn
Outsmart your kid, be a contributor, not a tormentorEnglish fire-side chat
Parents would like to have their children always "under control" in the virtual world.
Be their trusted advisor instead!
And if you want to be a trusted advisor to your children in any sphere of life, you to know, need to be IN.
Gain the experience and educate yourself in the children's (virtual) world.
It is not as hard as it seems…
Lidija Zavoralová
Business consultant and author
Jan Müller
Journalist and author
Lidija Zavoralová (CZ)
Lidija works as a consultant and helped Alza.cz to make its strategy more effective, for example. She focuses on finding effective solutions to problems on the basis of facts and numbers. She previously worked at companies like Intel and AAA Auto. Lidija also authored the "SWICH – Z říše za monitorem" (SWICH – The World Behind the Monitor) educational books for children that use fairy tales to teach children and their parents how to maneuver in the world of smart devices and social networks, leveraging her years of experience in IT. LinkedIn
Jan Müller (CZ)
Jan Müller has been the head of online magazine Flowee since 2018 and he's been active in the media for years. He worked at daily Lidové noviny as the head of the Média a komunikace (Media and Communication) supplement and the magazines Pátek and Esprit. Jan also worked at Mladá fronta where he led weekly media and marketing periodical Strategie. He founded the trade publication Právo & Byznys (Law and Business), an "intelligent lifestyle" magazine called ZEN, and he led the periodical Formen. Jan also created the Chinese language publication Esence – Pražský magazín (Essence – Prague Magazine), authored the futurological book "Průvodce budoucností" (A Guide to the Future), and co-authored "Dítě v síti" (Children on the Network). LinkedIn
How to Use Data to Improve Workspaces?English Talk
What if we could breathe 20% cleaner air in the office? What if there was 50% less CO2? What if the room temperature dopped by 1° Celsia? How much more productive, healthier and happier could we be? Come and see the fresh data measured at Alza, Forbes, or directly at Future Port to reflect on how the work environment works.
Jindřich Fialka
CEO & Lead Designer at Greenest Company
Jindřich Fialka (CZ)
Jindřich builds innovators with a positive impact on people and the world. He leads the innovative Q Designers studio, which develops new products and services. He founded The Greenest Company, which combines nature and technology to improve the working environment. It is behind the Conscious & Craft brand that makes sustainable design. He reads, writes, lectures a lot. As a mentor I help startups in Impact HUB, ESA BIC and Google Launchpad incubators. LinkedIn
Sense of TimeEnglish Talk
Eyes are designed to see, tongues to taste, and ears to hear but we do not have an organ designed specifically for our sense of time. Until now. Meet Neil Harbisson, a cyborg developing an organ to allow him to feel the passage of time in his body. How does it work? Come and see.
Neil Harbisson
The First Officially Recognized Cyborg
Neil Harbisson (UK)
Neil had an antenna permanently implanted into his skull that allows him to perceive colors despite being colorblind from birth. He thus became the first human that was officially recognized as a cyborg. The technology he developed captures colors using a sensor and interprets them as sound. Not only did Neil acquire the ability to perceive and differentiate colors, but he can now "see" in the invisible part of the spectrum. Neil can even connect to the International Space Station and listen to the sounds of colors from space! He uses his ability to perceive colors in a completely different way to create astonishing works of art and his Cyborg Foundation defends the interests of people who decide to have pieces of technology permanently implemented into their bodies. LinkedIn
Short-term and Long-term Future of AIEnglish Talk
What is the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence research today? How close are we to building robots smarter than humans? Is AI the technology that will destroy us, or save us? Let's address these and similar popular questions from the perspective of a research scientist at Facebook AI Research.
Tomáš Mikolov
Neuron Award Winner, Researcher at Facebook AI Research
Tomáš Mikolov (CZ)
Tomáš currently works as a researcher at Facebook AI Research, but he first drew attention to himself as a university student when he achieved a breakthrough in how computers process natural language. He presented models of language based on recurrent neuron networks that describe the structure of language much more precisely than previous approaches. He worked at Google Brain where he created a model for transferring words to a vector map that dramatically improved speech recognition and automatic translations. Tomáš thus became one of the scientists that was able to dramatically improve the performance of Google's translation functions. His vision is that people in the future will be aided by efficient personal assistants built on artificial intelligence. LinkedIn
Beyond Teledildonics: The Future of SexEnglish Talk Opero Q&A
Technology has fundamentally shifted the way we engage with each other as humans. But what happens when technology enters the bedroom? How do we incorporate it into the way we fall in love, date and discover intimacy? How does technology impact all areas of sexuality, from identity to crime and violence? As a $30 billion industry, what can we discover about sextech beyond the obvious? How do we move beyond robots and VR to the true potential for technology to enhance our sexual lives? And who is driving this innovation?
Bryony Cole
Future of Sex CEO, Femtech & Sextech Expert
Bryony Cole (US)
The world's largest technology giants eagerly await Bryony's annual Future of Sex report where she predicts trends in combining technology and human intimacy. She attracted the world's attention with her Future of Sex podcast where she and other experts discuss modern sexuality and the role of technologies such as artificial intelligence, fertility tracking, and applications to prevent sexual abuse. Her talks about femtech and sextech, ie. technologies focusing on female health and sexuality resp., enjoy a huge amount of interest all around the world. Bryony also organizes sextech hackathons and fosters a platform to support sextech companies led by women. LinkedIn
Future Starts Now, Who is Ready?English fire-side chat
Technology has twisted the world with irresistible power. Many people are struggling to cope with the quickly transforming reality. The digital layer of human existence has created many traps and we are often unaware of them. Moreover, we have the responsibility to raise our children to become self-confidenct, adaptable, and able to control their existence. Firstly as parents, secondly as teachers, and thirdly as a generation which will have to hand over this world to its successors in good shape. Are we capable of doing it?
Susanna Bäckman
Teacher, school director, board member and consultant
Tomáš Hruda
Chief Learning Officer & Education Republic
Susanna Bäckman (FI)
Susanna Bäckman is a respected and accomplished teacher, school director, board member and consultant from Finland. She has over 20 years of professional management and leadership experience in the Finnish national education sector. Susanna is a specialist in the research and development of new models for pedagogy and educational working and leading practices and regularly works with both directors and teachers in these areas. Her leadership innovations have been successfully adopted by the Finnish national education sector and form the basis for their current operations. Susanna is passionate about education, shared and team leadership, learning environments and human development.
Tomáš Hruda (CZ)
Education Republic aims to facilitate the already ongoing transition from the educational paradigm of the 19th century to the next level ecosystem where learning is driven by never ending self-determined demand and facilitated by freedom of movement among various educational platforms and institutions. Tomas is heading the Adaptive Learning Team and is a passionate proponent of the principles of learning organizations. LinkedIn
A Sweet Spot for Cancer Diagnostics - Are We Living "La Dolce Vita"?English Talk
We all know that muscles are proteins, energy is sugar and fat is, well, fat. But what about glycans? Most people never heard of them, and still, they are as much an important part of our lives as the rest of these substances. They can tell us what blood group we have, what kind of flu are we susceptible to or where a cancer cell begins to metastasize. Are we able to use them to our advantage, let´s say for early cancer detection?
Tomáš Bertók
Co founder & CTO at Glycanostic
Tomáš Bertók (SK)
Tomas is a research scientist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and a co-founder and CTO of Glycanostics company. After receiving his Ph.D. in biotechnology, he focused fully on novel assay development for early cancer diagnostics. For his work, he won many national and international awards, such as Award from a president of Slovakia, Scientist of the year of Slovakia under 35 or Danubius young scientist award. He also aims to bring science to the general public, especially young people, by letting them in the lab and try things by themselves. LinkedIn
Powering the Genomics RevolutionEnglish Talk
Genomics shows a great promise of improving human lives: There will be more accurate diagnostics that can identify disease earlier (which means more opportunities for cures). Pharma is building a core science expertise to bring systematic therapeutics to market faster and more reliably. Medical centers want to improve clinical decisions by understanding more clearly what may be happening to specific individuals. The amount of data generated by the field is expected to grow into tens of exabytes in a few years, which introduces challenges in storage, analysis, and deriving insights. Let's take a look at how healthcare and life science organizations are retooling to prepare for the revolution.
Martin Bednar
Product manager at DNAnexus
Martin Bednar (CZ)
Martin has invested his career into building and driving innovative products that improve people's lives. Currently with the Silicon Valley company DNAnexus, he has been making scientific data analysis efficient, secure, and user-friendly for clients in pharma, medical diagnostics, and research. Most recently, he has helped build a development and services center for DNAnexus in Prague. Web LinkedIn
The Boundaries of Eternal YouthEnglish Talk
Mankind's quest for the prolongation of life has led to amazing advancements. Christian and Valentin will share their vision on how digitalization in the medical realm will further extend the life expectancy of future generations. While several boundaries in the digital, regulatory and biological spaces exist, digitalization already provides an impactful avenue of the repurposing of existing technology, an often times ignored approach for advancement.
Dr. Valentin Langen
Skin Care Tech / Beauty Tech: Intrapreneurship, digitalization, innovation - smart cosmetics and skin cancer prevention
Dr. Christian Posch
Head of Dermato-Oncology at Klinikum Rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München
Dr. Valentin Langen (DE)
Valentin is founder and managing director of IONIQ, an award winning smart skincare company and heads the innovation lab of Swiss based WAGNER Group, world market leader in industrial surface coating. He is a lecturer, speaker, author and advisor in the fields of innovation, leadership and digital with focus on family owned business. Valentin holds a Ph.D. in corporate strategy and actively supports the Ugandan Hope Development Initiative LinkedIn
Dr. Christian Posch (DE)
A Harvard and UCSF-fellow, Christian is heading the dermato-oncology department at the Technical University of Munich and is the secretary general of the Austrian Society for Dermatology. He is a renowned scientist and scholar, practitioner and mentor, and serves as a board member of several medtech start-ups. Also holding a PhD in medical sciences, he has published in Cell, Nature Cell Biology and PNAS and is a twitter-ambassador for skin health. LinkedIn
How Can Hackers Save the World?English fire-side chat
Who is an ethical hacker? How do hackers hack? Ans can hackers make the world a better place? Meet the winning teams from the largest hackathon in Czechia, organized by CEE Hacks. Confirmed hackers: Team Guillever (developing an app for planning a journey based on the emotions of the consumer), Team RedCute (project Pralinka for making the entering and leaving the trains on subway faster).
Tomáš Studeník
Radical Innovator and City Hacker
Tomáš Studeník (CZ)
Can you turn failure into business success? Tomáš Studeník is a radical innovator and strategist with over 15 years of experience in marketing. He organized the first global CEE Hacks hackathon in 2017. Apart from consulting companies on innovation strategy, Tomáš holds monthly FuckUp Nights where lessons from failure are publicly shared by distinguished entrepreneurs, scientists and artists. LinkedIn
Cultured Meat: How Will it Change Our Relationship with the Planet?English Talk Opero Q&A
From the belly of a pig named Jessie, New Age Meats fed 40 people sausage that was "smoky, savory, and tasted like breakfast", according to the Business Insider. How did they do that? Was it expensive? Will it scale? What are the biggest challenges? How will cultured meat change our relationship with food and the earth? And, more importantly, did Jessie survive?
Co-founder & CEO of New Age Meats
Brian Spears (US)
Is lab-grown meat the future of how we going to eat? Let us challenge the way you see your lunch! Brian is a chemical engineer with 12 years of industry experience. His company is producing meat from animal cells instead of animal slaughter. Previously, Brian spent eight years as the co-founder of Sixclear, creating software and products to automate the research labs and production environments of customers such as NASA, Cisco Systems, Sandia National Labs, and GE Healthcare. LinkedIn
Can Insect Protein Feed Our Planet (and Beyond)English Talk
The first animal farm on Mars will be an insect farm. Find out why the cricket protein is the easiest improvement on the sustainability of our diet (and already available). Radek is a co-founder of the leading European cricket protein food brand and also the biggest cricket farm in the world.
Radek Hušek
Co-Founder at SENS Foods Ltd. & Cricket Lab Ltd.
Radek Hušek (CZ)
Instead of studying masters at London School of Economics, Radek (26) cofounded SENS, a leading European cricket protein brand, and decided to change modern diet into more sustainable one. Later, he co-founded as well the world´s biggest cricket farm and now is fully focused on making sustainable cricket protein the new normal. Radek lives in Prague and Berlin, where SENS mainly wants to grow its sales. LinkedIn
The future of urban mobilityEnglish Talk
Urban transportation affects the lives of billions of people daily. What will moving around your city look like in 10 years? And how can a European startup make a huge impact in this industry?
Since its start in 2013, Bolt grew from a small startup to a transportation platform with 25 million customers in more 30 countries. In this talk, we're sharing some of the learnings of a rare European unicorn, as well as our vision for the future of mobility.
Jevgeni Kabanov
Chief Product Officer at Bolt (Taxify)
Jevgeni Kabanov (EST)
Jevgeni is the chief product officer at Bolt, previously known as Taxify, which is one of the fastest-growing transportation platforms in Europe and Africa. Over 25 million people use the service in more than 30 countries. He is also the current president of the Estonian Startup Leaders Club and was named Estonian Businessman of the Year by EY in 2015. Jevgeni also supports other startups and sits on the boards of several of them. LinkedIn
Zuri: Building a Vertical-take-off AirplaneEnglish Talk
Airports are not pleasant places and a for a frequent travellet they represent a waste of time. Ever wondered if we can fly without them? Just take-off from a remote spot in your hometown's periphery or a skyscraper's roof? A Czech company is building a personal airplane which does exactly that. And in the future, it will be fully autopiloted, too.
Michal Illich
Founder & CEO of Zuri
Michal Illich (CZ)
Michal founded Jyxo search engine, Blog.cz, Testomato and other internet projects. These days his team works on an innovative airplane with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), called Zuri. The goal is to provide effective air travel from any place, without going to airport and ordered from a mobile app. Michal also invests, usually through StartupYard or directly (BudgetBakers, Pex, Brand Embassy, XTND and others). LinkedIn
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