Schedule

8:30 – 9:00

Opening of the festival gates, welcome coffee for participants

9:00 – 9:30

Introductory words to the Smart Business Festival CZ

Introductory words:

Daniel Všetečka, Acting Director General of the Digitization and Innovation Section, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic

Malgorzata Nikowska, Head of Unit A4, DG CONNECT, European Commission

9:30 – 9:45

Basic premises of the Smart Business Festival CZ

Keynote – where do the Czech enterprises stand in security and resilience:

Tereza Šamanová, Executive Director (CzechInno Association) and EDIH Cybersecurity Innovation Hub Coordinator (CyberSecurity Hub CZ)

9:45 – 11:15

Panel I: Security and resilience in the AI age: where are we and where are we going?

How are Czech companies doing with security and what are the new challenges:

·       Current form and structure of attacks and how to effectively tackle them

·       Who and how helps companies

·       New technological and process challenges

·       Security paradoxes

Daniel Všetečka, Acting Director of the Digitalisation and Innovation Section (Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic)

Luboš Fendrych, Head of Research, Development and Innovation Unit (NÚKIB)

Leoš Boháč, CZ Project Coordinator  (Faculty of Electronics, Czech Technical University in Prague)

Ondřej Beránek, AI Matters TEF (Czech Technical University in Prague)

Martin Duda, EDIH Ostrava + LUMI AI Factory (Technical University in Ostrava)

Jan Hrdlička, EDIH Brain4Industry (Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences)

11:15 – 11:45

Networking break

11:45 – 13:00

Panel II: SME sustainability – who, what and where can strengthen and threaten it?

What’s new in Czech companies and what hasn’t reached them yet in the following areas:

·       Shifting their digital maturity and addressing the expected and unexpected consequences of digitization

·       Pretty new possibilities for rapid technological development

·       Data dependencies or independence and perspectives for more efficient work with data

·       European chips’ independence and national semiconductor strategies

Václav Stupka, NCC-CZ Project Coordinator (CyberSecurity Hub)

Martina Le Gall Maláková, DevelopDataExchange Project Coordinator (Industry Innovation Cluster, SK)

Andrea Faltusová, EDIH Northern and Eastern Bohemia Coordinator (Agency for Regional Development of the Liberecký Region)

Tomáš Pitner, Coordinator of ACDRC Project (CyberSecurityHubCZ)

Veronika Večeřová, EDIH-DIGIMAT Coordinator (Intemac Solutions)

Michal Leština, PR Manager (Misterine)

13:00 – 13:15

Formulation of conclusions and end of the Smart Business Festival CZ 2024 conference program

13:15 – 15:00

Practical part – Smart Business Exhibition

Exhibitions with programme topics related to projects and organisations and their activities to support the development of the public and private spheres

Exhibition and consultation points of actors represented in the programme of the event