The Institute for Politcs and Society with partners invites you to VI. annual conference the Digital Czech Republic, which will be held on May 12, 2021.

Program: 

10:00 – 10:05 Welcome Speech

  • Jan Macháček, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Institute for Politics and Society (Czech Republic)

10:05 – 10:30 Keynote Speakers

  • Andrej Babiš, Prime Minister, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
  • Alena Schillerová, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
  • Karel Havlíček, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade and Minister of Transportation, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
  • Dita Charanzová, Vice-President, European Parliament, Renew Europe (Czech Republic)

10:30 – 12:00 Panel 1: Digital Transformation to Greater Economic Competitiveness

  • Karel Havlíček, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade and Minister of Transportation, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
  • Taťána le Moigne, Director of the Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Slovak branch of Google (Czech Republic)
  • Jiří Hlavenka, Entrepreneur and Investor in Information Technology, Councillor of the South Moravian Region for Science, Research, Innovation and IT (Czech Republic)
  • Vojtěch Petráček, Rector, Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)

The moderator of the first panel is Helena Horská, Hlavní ekonomka, Raiffeisenbank.

12:00 – 13:30 Panel 2: A Cashless Society as a Step Towards the Losing of Freedom

  • Alena Schillerová, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
  • Ondřej Kovařík, Member, European Parliament, Renew Europe (Czech Republic)
  • Marek Mora, Deputy Governor, Czech National Bank (Czech Republic)
  • Tomáš Sedláček, Economist and University Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (Czech Republic)
  • Sacha Polverini, Vice President of Government Relations in Europe, Visa (United Kingdom)
  • Eric Ducoulombier, Head of Unit, Retail Financial Services, DG FISMA, European Commission (France)

The moderator of the second panel is Aleš Rod, Economist, Director of Czech Economic Research Institute (Czech Republic)

13:30 – 13:45 VIP Talk: Is Digital Czech Republic Really Digital?

  • Vladimír Dzurilla, Chief Digital Officer, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)

13:45 – 15:15 ELF Round Table: Internet regulation, data collection and the role of AI

  • Dita Charanzová, Vice-President, European Parliament, Renew Europe (Czech Republic)
  • Jiří Prokeš, Vice-President, Office for Personal Data Protection (Czech Republic)
  • Tomáš Mikolov, Scientist, CIIRC Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)
  • Ondřej Ferdus, Director, Department of Digital Economy and Technology, Confederation of Industry and Transport of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
  • Hendrik Bourgeois, Head of Government Affairs for Europe and Russia, Apple (Belgium)

The moderator of the third panel is Petr Očko, Deputy Minister for Digitisation and Innovation, Ministry of Industry and Trade 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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