Ivan Bartoš
Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalisation; Minister for Regional Development, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Ivan Bartoš is a long-time chairman of the Czech Pirate Party, he was already at its inception in 2009. Since autumn 2017 he has been a member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, this mandate he defended in 2021. For four years he held the position of Chairman of the Committee on Public Administration and Regional Development in the Chamber of Deputies, in addition to this area he also dealt with the issue of digitization. Ivan Bartoš was born in Jablonec nad Nisou, North Bohemia. At the age of seventeen he went to study in the United States of America, where he successfully graduated. Subsequently, he also passed the Czech school-leaving examination in his hometown at the U Balvanu Grammar School. At the age of nineteen he began studying at two universities in Prague: theology at the Hussite Theological Faculty and information studies and librarianship at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. Eventually, he decided to focus more on information studies, in which he also received a major doctorate. During his studies, he also returned to America once again, where he spent one semester at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans. He has worked professionally in several Czech and multinational companies in the field of information technology, for example for Newton IT, Monster Worldwide, T-Mobile and started the Job Portal Air Jobs. He is married and has two children. He is fluent in English, French and Russian.
Speaker agenda
Keynote Speakers
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12. 5. 2022
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarusian Opposition Leader and Politician (Belarus)
Dita Charanzová, Vice-President and Member of Parliament, European Parliament, Renew Europe (Czech Republic)
Ivan Bartoš, Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalisation and Minister for Regional Development, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Karel Havlíček, Vice-President, Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
The Czech Republic on the Way From the Assembly Plant to the Brain Room
The digital transformation of the economy represents an opportunity to move the Czech Republic among the most developed countries in the world. However, its successful achievement is conditional not only on close and intensive cooperation between the public and private sectors, but also on significant investment in research, development and innovation.
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11:45
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12. 5. 2022
Ivan Bartoš, Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalisation; Minister for Regional Development, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Karel Havlíček, Vice-President, Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Vladimír Dlouhý, President, Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Jan Švejnar, Chairman of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI and Director of the IDEA think-tank, Director of the Center for Global Economic Policy at Columbia University (Czech Republic)
Moderator:
Ondřej Houska, Reporter, Hospodářské noviny (Czech Republic)
Digital Economic (R)evolution
10:30
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11:45
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24 May 2023
Ivan Bartoš, Deputy Prime Minister for Digitalisation; Minister for Regional Development, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Karel Havlíček, Vice-President, Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Vladimír Dlouhý, President, Czech Chamber of Commerce (Czech Republic)
Jan Blažek, Chairman of the Board, Bankovní identita, a.s. (Czech Republic)
Simona Kijonková, Founder and CEO, Packeta Group (Czech Republic)
Moderator:
Markéta Přenosilová, Chairman of the Board, Europe Startup Nations Alliance (Czech Republic)
