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

Welcoming the event host: 

Radko Sáblík, Director of the Smíchov Secondary Technical School and Grammar School (host of the event)

Introductory words:

Petr Očko, 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 – 10:30

SME safety: 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

Representatives of CyberSecurityHubCZ, NÚKIB, EDIH CTU, EDIH DInO will speak and discuss with you in this block

10:30 – 10:45

Networking break

10:45 – 11:45

SME resilience: 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

Representatives of GAIA-X initiative, CyberSecurityHubCZ, CIIRC CTU, EDIH NEB and EDIH OVA will speak and discuss with you in this block

11:45 – 12:45

Sustainability of SMEs: Unnecessary Administration or Opportunity for Further Development? 

How digitalisation and sustainability are related:

• How to use digitalisation to be more efficient – and help yourself and the planet
• What unsuspected side effects digital manufacturing brings to manufacturers and consumers
• How to best greening and not destroying yourself
• What is ESG reporting and what has it given and taken away from companies

Representatives of CRA, EDIH Brain4Industry, EDIH-DIGIMAT, EDIH AI5Production, EIT Manufacturing Hub Czechia and Enterprise Europe Network Czech Republic will speak and discuss with you in this block

12:45 – 13:30

Safety, resilience and sustainability through the mouths of corporate players: what do we need and offer? 

What is really happening in Czech companies:

• Where are the cracks and what patch has companies found for them
• Which new solutions are on the Czech market and what they will help
• What daily problems companies deal with and whether help is in sight
• Where we are heading in terms of safety – resilience – sustainability

Representatives of the Czech small and medium companies will present their insights and discuss with you in this block

13:30

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

13:30 – 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 

14:00 – 15:00 

Practical part – excursion

Possibility to participate in a guided tour of the premises of the Smíchov Secondary Industrial School and Grammar School