A joint opening speech presenting the innovation strategy of the Czech Republic as well as a technological development from the point of view of the capital city of Prague.

Digital society requires a strong backbone. A digital signature framework, as proven by the Estonian example, is its key element. If Czechia is to become the digital champion of the CEE, it has to build it, and fast. There is a challenge, however – this kind of backbone of digital society cannot be built only by government or one company, it has to be built by society itself. Can big banks, telcos, development companies and government all come together?

Work teams nowadays are often scattered in different locations. The possibilities for a physical meeting or face-to-face conversation in such teams are strongly limited, which can lead to delays and even a complete failure due to intercultural issues or simply because the team members feel isolated and demotivated. Peter Ivanov is an international manager and Virtual Teams Expert. His method “Virtual Power Teams” is proven in practice and has won multiple corporate awards. Using Peter’s techniques, you can deliver projects quicker, significantly reduce the costs and prepare your organization for the future!

The pace of change has never been as fast as now and technological advances are seen as the solution to our ever-changing world. People, as integral members of nature, have always relied on their natural surroundings to inspire innovative solutions. Humans as a species are not alone in using and developing tools to capture competitive advantage, although the marvels of some highly advanced tools and technologies may ironically threaten our source of inspiration. This begs for a holistic approach that supports humanity’s advancement within the context of our resource limitations. This talk will highlight some of CEITEC’s technological advances and showcase how the laws of nature, as well as nature’s diversity, are crucial drivers of our inspiration.

The Central European start-up system is clearly developing at a rapid pace with serious venture capital investments becoming more common. It has a set of unique challenges and opportunities which we will discuss with two prominent investors from this region.

Artificial Intelligence systems make more and more decisions and take over our responsibilities. Let’s talk about the limits of such automated decisions. Smart attacks on machine learning can change the decisions, alter the financial transactions and even kill people. Let’s fix our intuitions about what is safe and what is not.

Introduction to quantum computing and the journey to quantum advantage from the perspective of chemistry, AI, finance and logisticts.

The AR Cloud in basic terms is a Digital Twin of the entire planet. It is the enabler for a vast digital landscape of Augmented Reality experiences. 5G, Edge Computing, Computer Vision combined with LiDAR are some of the building blocks. The AR Cloud architecture will follow some of the same network protocols in use today. However, delivering contextualized AR content at the right time, in the right place to the right person poses a number of challenges. Let’s have look at how these technologies will converge to deliver seamless functionality for the next computing platform – Augmented Reality.

What are these three new food technologies and how will they feed the world? From some 7.7 bn today, the world population will rise to 8.5 bn by 2030 and nearly 10 bn by 2050. With finite global resources, how will we feed all those people? The good news is that these new technologies have the potential to disrupt the food industry and revolutionise food production and distribution, making safe, nutritious food available to everyone.

We will introduce a unique project of the composition From the Future World, which was created by artificial intelligence based on a fragment of the unfinished composition of Antonín Dvořák. The project was created in cooperation with Komerční banka as a supporter of classical music and PKF – Prague Philharmonia, a world-renowned Czech orchestra. The goal of the project was to demonstrate that artificial intelligence can be used creatively. The composition represents a piece of art intented for listeners to enjoy and, at the same time, a piece of puzzle which helps us answer many questions about the relationship between man and AI.

Somnium Space is following a bold vision of turning virtual into reality. It is creating an open, social Virtual Reality world and aims to build a world which will fully immerse its citizens into the parallel reality. But there are several important parts of the puzzle, which have to be gradually implemented in order to create a true alternative reality world, such as digital decentralized economy, stunning visuals and groundbreaking server technology.

Everyone with access to the internet and electricity can essentially print money today. Blockchain is quickly making its way into new areas, shedding light on hidden algorithms and systematic fraud in areas ranging from social media to financial markets and state administration. But what about negative aspects like energy consumption associated with cryptocurrency mining? Will electricity infrastructure adapt to these new requirements? Are we ready to move away from fossil fuels and other dangerous power sources to renewable ones? And most importantly, will blockchain find its feet as a safe and sustainable anchor in the energy world? Will physical kWh become the new gold standard backing cryptocurrencies? Let’s explore these issues from the perspective of the electricity market.

Bitcoin is disrupting how we think about money. But what is so magical about it and why should we care? Pavel Moravec is the co-founder of Braiins, one of the world’s leading companies in the bitcoin mining space. He operates a global computer network to create and secure this money for the future.

In mobility, ‘the winner takes it all’ tactics works only for a limited period. Adding more cars and couriers to boost growth in ride-hailing, food-delivery, e-commerce delivery or sharing only works up until the moment our streets get clogged. Making all the mobility businesses cooperate towards a more suistainable city traffic is the key to livable cities. So where is the money in cooperation?

The Autonomous Technology revolution is at our doorstep, and flying drones seem to be the most exciting part of it. Today, drones are mostly carrying sensors that record and scan the earth’s surface, but soon enough they will be used for delivering physical objects from place to place, faster and cheaper, with a great impact on our lives, improving medical aid and other time-critical supply, reducing traffic and actually boosting up the pace of the logistics supply chain, from the factory’s production lines all the way to our homes. The amazing future is just around the corner.

Changing the world & challenging the status quo is not for the faint-hearted. If you have an amazing product, your company needs to grow to a size where it withstands the opportunity. Take the example of Kiwi.com. Its journey to the top was exciting, but also painful. What can you learn from the experience? What is essential when you aim to win the scale-up race? Come join the presentation and you will leave the room with the enhanced mindset for building your unicorn organisation.

Time is Ltd. is a 21st-century productivity analytics company. Companies are placing too much overhead on employees with too many meetings. Which means they have trouble doing their job. We help companies assess how teams communicate with one another. We use internally public data such as calendars to understand companies’ heartbeat better. Businesses get the best results from people who have the time to get the work done.

Even though construction represents 10% of the global economy and $10.6 trillion and , it is the second least digitized industry in the world. How artificial intelligence can help drive efficiency in construction is still in its very early stages with very few commercial applications world wide. ArtificiaL Intelligence Construction Engineering, or ALICE for short, was born out of PhD research at Stanford University and has developed the first artificial intelligence parametric simulator for construction that can generate millions of valid ways to build a given project. It is being deployed on some of the worlds largest projects by top construction companies such as AF Gruppen in Norway and DPR in the USA. ALICE typically saves 14.7% of construction labor costs and 17.3% of construction duration. 

Augmenting our brains might be the best chance of saving humanity and the chance for the most significant jump in prosperity in human history. We can leverage brain plasticity and its ability to process information: read-and-write brain implants are on the rise, the timing is right. Brain-computer interfaces, such as processors in the 90s, are going through the exponential growth of the technology. Come and find out what Braingrade is working on and why BCI is the hottest tech ever.

Off late, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown great promise in problem solving. However, there are still many open-ends in today’s state-of-the-art algortihms. Can we be inspired by biology and bring the essence and design of efficient neuronal computations into our algorithms? How can principles of biological memory be abstracted for algorithmic learning? Neuroscience and AI can benefit from each other by a closer exchange between the experts thereby developing stronger algorithms based on biological logic.

The medicine should not be seen as an individual health service helping today’s patient to survive, but as a discipline dynamically extending its potential to identify and fight challenges and threats of tomorrow. Contemporary (bio)medicine is the crossroad of cell and molecular biology, material science, medicinal chemistry, mathematics, bioinformatics, imaging methods, telemedicine, artificial intelligence, etc., but also a meeting field with humanities and social sciences. Thus, the integration of technological, ethical and economical ways and means can provide keys for “sustainable survival” of both the individual patient and the community as a whole.

What are the most innovative strategies in the therapy of cancer that are currently being developed and how are they related to nanotechnology? What are micro- and nanorobots and how are they capable of drug delivery into tumor tissue? What is their potential in clinical practice?

The Open Artificial Pancreas System project is a free and open-source project that aims to make basic artificial pancreas system technology available to everyone. Andrew will guide you through his journey towards open-source healthcare.

Aging population and economic prosperity increase the pressure for the digital transformation of healthcare. Surgery is the most analog service provided in that segment, and Brainlab will demonstrate how cloud computing, AI, robotics, tracking, and augmented reality can impact the lives of patients. We can aggregate digital anatomical models of the patient and merge the digital world with the physical world. And even more important, digital surgery can become an opportunity for startups to beat the giants.

The ongoing and future private space industry resources and products vary. From satellites to launching systems, from pharmaceuticals and energy to tourism and entertainments. Some products enable the space travel (spacecraft), others are made in space for the earthly use (pharmaceuticals, energy). Some could even be used both in outer space and on earth (efficient gadgets etc..). Is now the best time to get on board and how soon can investors make profit?