The Institute for Politics and Society invites you to the VII. Annual Conference of the Digital Czech Republic 2022, which will be held online on May 13.

Digitalization represents a crucial opportunity for the Czech Republic, thanks to which it can move among the most developed countries in the world. To achieve this goal, the international conference has traditionally helped Digital Czech Republic organised by Institute for politics and society.

Vice-President of the European Commission Dubravka Šuica, Vice-President of the European Parliament Dita Charanzová, Minister for Regional Development Ivan Bartoš, Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies Karel Havlíček, MEP Ondřej Kovařík, Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights Michael O’Flaherty, Professor of Economics Jan Švejnar, Director General of the Finnish National Agency for Education Minna Kelhä, will talk about Digitalisation, Erika Piirmets, Digital Transformation Advisor at the e-Estonia Briefing Centre and many other Czech and foreign guests.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE CONFERENCE WWW.DIGITALNI-CESKO.EU

Program:

08:00-09:45
eCommerce, Where is it Going and What is it Building? (INVITATION ONLY)

Dita Charanzová, Vice-President and Member of Parliament, European Parliament, Renew Europe (Czech Republic)

František Štrupl Head of Retail, Google (Czech Republic)

Oliver Dlouhý, CEO, Co-founder, Kiwi.com (Czech Republic)

Jitka Dvořáková, CEO, CZC.cz (Czech Republic)

Tomáš Braverman, CEO, Heureka Group (Czech Republic)

Moderator: Zdravko Krstanov, Editor-in-Chief, Forbes.cz (Czech Republic)


10:00-10:05

Welcome Speech

Louis, Robot, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)


10:05-10:30

Keynote Speakers

Dubravka Šuica, Vice-President of the European Commission for Democracy and Demography (Croatia)

Timmy Dooley, Senator and Vice-President-designate of ALDE (Ireland)

Eva Pavlíková, Executive Director, Česko. Digital (Czech Republic)


10.30-11:30

PANEL 1: Democracy and the Digital Society 2.0

Timmy Dooley,Senator, Vice-President-designate of ALDE (Ireland)

Michael O’Flaherty, Director, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (Ireland)

František Vrábel, Founder and Director, Semantic Visions (Czech Republic)

Tereza Bartoníčková, Scientist and Founder of the Internet Institute (Czech Republic)

Marcus Ryder, Journalist and Academic, Birmingham City University (UK)

Moderator: Roman Máca, Analyst, Institute for Politics and Society (Czech Republic)


11:30-11:55

VIP Talk: Digital Security in the Age of Cyber Wars

Karel Řehka, Director, National Cyber and Information Security Agency (Czech Republic)

Jeff Bullwinkel, Associate General Counsel and Regional Director of Corporate, Legal & External Affairs, Microsoft Europe (USA)

Moderator: Sara Polak, Artificial Intelligence Archaeologist, Paioneers (Czech Republic)


11:55-12:45

Lunch


12:45-13:45

PANEL 2: The Digital Age of Education

Ivo Vondrák, Governor, Moravian-Silesian Region, Member of Parliament, Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)

Minna Kelhä, Director-General, Finnish National Agency for Education (Finland)

Vojtěch Petráček, Rector, Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)

Barbora Bühnová, Co-founder of Czechitas; Vice-Dean of Masaryk University (Czech Republic)

Petr Jonák, Member of the Board of Directors, Confederation of Industry and Transport (Czech Republic)

Moderator: Bohumil Kartous, Director, Prague Innovation Institute (Czech Republic)


13:45-14:45
PANEL 3: eHealth

Tanel Kiik, Minister of Health and Labour, Government of the Republic of Estonia (Estonia)

Morten Elbæk Petersen, Director, Sundhed.dk (Denmark)

Martin Zeman, Director of IT and Computerization of Health, Ministry of Health (Czech Republic)

Veronika Oudová, Ambassador, European Innovation Council (Czech Republic)

Jiří Pecina, 1st Vice-President, Alliance for Telemedicine, Digitalisation of Health and Social Services (Czech Republic)

Moderator: Tomáš Doležal, Director, Institute for Health Economics, Co-founder, Medevio (Czech Republic)


14:45 – 15:00

Closing ceremony


DUE TO LIMITED CAPACITY IT MUST BE REGISTERED IN ADVANCE. PARTICIPATION IN THE EVENT IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT CONFIRMATION OF REGISTRATION BY THE ORGANIZER.

Praha