Conference programme 2021
Find out more about this year's Digital Czech Republic 2021 programme
Organized by the Institute for Politics and Society with Partners
Panel 1: Digital transformation for greater economic competitiveness
The coronavirus pandemic has fully demonstrated that digitalisation is a fundamental pillar of long-term competitiveness.
10:30
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12:00
Karel Havlíček – Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade, Minister of Transport, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Taťána le Moigne – Director of the Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Slovak branches of Google (Czech Republic)
Jiří Hlavenka – Entrepreneur and investor in the field of 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)
Moderator:
Helena Horská – Chief Economist, Raiffeisenbank (Czech Republic)
Panel 2: A Cashless Society as a Step Towards the Losing of Freedom
The coronavirus pandemic has become an impetus for the development of digital services and accelerated the transition to a cashless society.
12:00
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13:30
Ondřej Kovařík – Member, European Parliament, Renew Europe (Czech Republic)
Marek Mora – Deputy Governor, Czech National Bank (Czech Republic)
Lenka Dupáková – Deputy Minister of Finance for International Relations (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)
Moderator:
Aleš Rod – Economist, Director of Czech Economic Research Institute (Czech Republic)
VIP Talk: Is Digital Czech Republic Really Digital?
13:30
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13:45
Vladimír Dzurilla – Government Commissioner for IT and Digitization, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
ELF Round Table: Internet regulation, data collection and the role of AI
At the end of last year, the European Commission presented a package of legislative proposals called the Digital Services Act, which attracts particular attention on the part of both supporters and opponents.
13:45
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15:15
Dita Charanzová – Vice-President and Member of Parliament, 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)
Moderator:
Petr Očko – Deputy Minister for Digitisation and Innovation, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
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Organiser is the European Liberal Forum with the support of the Institute for Policy and Society
Welcome Speech
10:00
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10:05
Šárka Prát – Member of the Board of Directors, European Liberal Forum (Czech Republic)
Keynote Speakers
10:05
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10:30
Robert Plaga – Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Government of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Mariya Gabriel - Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, European Commission (Bulgaria)
Věra Jourová – Vice-President, European Commission (Czech Republic)
Panel 1: The crisis as an opportunity to develop eHealth
Artificial intelligence itself offers enormous potential for significant improvement of the current healthcare system in the Czech Republic with the help of the latest technologies.
10:30
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12:00
Martin Zeman – Digital Commissioner, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Petr Smejkal – Physician and Chief Epidemiologist, IKEM Institute (Czech Republic)
Daniel Klimeš – Head of Data Centre, Institute of Health Information and Statistics (Czech Republic)
Vladimíra Těšitelová – Deputy Director for Legislation, Institute of Health Information and Statistics (Czech Republic)
Julia Margarete Puaschunder – Postdoctoral Fellow, Interuniversity Consortium of New York (USA)
Florian Marcus – Digital Transformation Advisor, e-Estonia Information Centre (Estonia)
Moderator:
Tomáš Doležal – Director, Institute for Health Economics (Czech Republic)
Panel 2: A Step Forward, Two Backwards - What Lesson Did the Year of Digital Education Teach Us?
However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, schools were closed in a very short period of time and classical teaching was transferred to the online environment.
12:00
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13:30
Karel Kovář – Deputy Member of the Government (Czech Republic)
Gunilla Svantorp – Member of the Swedish Parliament, Chairperson of the Committee on Education (Sweden)
Juho Helminen – Education Advisor, Finnish National Agency for Education (Finland)
Tiia Rüütmann – Professor, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)
Moderator:
Bob Kartous – Executive Director, Prague Institute of Innovation (Czech Republic)
VIP Talk: How to minimize the impact of coronavirus on the digital economy
13:30
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13:45
Rebecca Christie – Visiting Fellow, think-tank Bruegel (USA, Belgium)
Panel 3: Intelligent Urban Mobility for the 21st Century
Speed and comfort are among the most frequently mentioned priorities in urban mobility without emissions.
13:45
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15:15
Martin Kolovratník – Member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Vice-Chairman of the Economic Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Railway Administration (Czech Republic)
Franciszek Sterczewski – Member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Member of the Infrastructure Committee in the Polish Sejm (Poland)
Bohdan Wojnar – Former President of the Automobile Industry Association of the Czech Republic, Member of the Board of Directors of the Confederation of Industry and Transport of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
Miroslav Svítek – Member of the Scientific Board of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC), Dean Emerite of the Faculty of Transport of the Czech Technical University (Czech Republic)
Moderator:
Rut Bízková – Former Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic, former Chair of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)
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