The European Liberal Forum with the Institute for Politics and Society invites you to the VI. annual conference the Digital Czech Republic 2021, which will be held online on May 13.

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Program: 

10:00 – 10:05 Welcome Speech

  • Šárka Prát, Member of the Board of Directors, European Liberal Forum (Czech Republic)

10:05 – 10:30 Keynote Speakers

  • Věra Jourová, Vice-President, European Commission (Czech Republic)
  • Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, European Commission (Bulgaria)
  • Robert Plaga, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
  • Petr Arenberger, Minister of Health, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)

10:30 – 12:00 Panel 1: The Crisis as an Opportunity for Development of eHealth

  • Petr Arenberger, Minister of Health, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
  • Petr Smejkal, Physician and Chief Epidemiologist, IKEM Institute (Czech Republic)
  • Florian Marcus, Digital Transformation Advisor, Information Centre for e-Estonia (Estonia)

The moderator of the first panel is Tomáš Doležal, Director, Institute for Health Economy (Czech Republic)

12:00 – 13:30 Panel 2: A Step Forward, Two Backwards – What Lesson Did the Year of Digital Education Teach Us?

  • Robert Plaga, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
  • Gunilla Svantorp, Member of the Swedish Parliament, Chairperson of the Committee on Education (Sweden)
  • Juho Helminen, Education Advisor, Finnish National Agency for Education (Finland)
  • Tiia Rüütmann, Professor, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)

The moderator of the second panel is Bob Kartous, Executive Director, Prague Institute of Innovation (Czech Republic)

13:30 – 13:45 VIP Talk: How to minimize the impact of coronavirus on the digital economy?

  • Rebecca Christie, Visiting Fellow, think-tank Bruegel (USA, Belgium)

13:45 – 15:15 Panel 3: Intelligent Urban Mobility for the 21st Century

  • Martin Kolovratník, Member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Vice-Chairman of the Economic Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Railway Administration (Czech Republic)
  • Franciszek Sterczewski, Member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Member of the Infrastructure Committee in the Polish Sejm (Poland)
  • Bohdan Wojnar, Former President of the Automobile Industry Association of the Czech Republic, Member of the Board of Directors of the Confederation of Industry and Transport of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
  • Miroslav Svítek,  Member of the Scientific Board of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC), Dean Emerite of the Faculty of Transport of the Czech Technical University (Czech Republic)

The moderator of the third panel is Rut Bízková, Former Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic, former Chair of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)

The conference will be held in Czech and interpretation services will be provided.

More information about the conference can be found on the official conference website
https://www.digitalni-cesko.eu/
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