Speakers

Miklos acts as the GM Prague, Talent Evangelist and a member of the executive team of Pond5, an online marketplace for stock footage and audio launched in 2006 and now the web's largest and fastest growing collection of royalty-free stock video. He was previously a co-founder of Lipa Learning and other technology startups. Fascinated with new media, Miklos sees no end to the new opportunities they introduce to storytellers and media makers around the world. linkedin

Alena has been at Avast for more than 5 years, working for most of that time as a software developer. Although she still considers herself to be C# developer, she's recently been favoring more functional languages over JVM (e.g. Scala). At Avast, she works on backend projects that serve content to millions of users. twitter / linkedin

"Looking for the great, trying for the best." Enjoy networking with great people and connecting them. Sarcastics philanthropist. web / twitter / linkedin

After studying at CTU and a few years of experience with customer development, Tomáš joined Avast in 2011 to apply his love for .NET, C#, and Microsoft technologies. At the moment, he's been enjoying working on large-scale backends and discovering that programming language doesn't always matter. Just write code for humans, not machines. web / twitter / linkedin

"Excellence always sells." Love to put together awesome teams and form business alliances to make this world a better place. twitter

Marek Beneš develops software (.NET and JVM) and has devoted the last 5 years to working on the development process over at Avast. He's proud to be a part of a team that has successfully been able to apply the principles of Continous Delivery and Kanban to help improve their development process. twitter / linkedin

Josef Holý has an experience with both corporate and startup environments. Throughout his career, he has been focusing on the user-centered design, personalisation and lean product development. He was a Java programmer long time ago, then joined Sun Microsystems (today Oracle) as an Interaction and Social Network Designer and finally co-founded his own mobile commerce startup proactify.com. He has been with MSD since May 2014 and has been leading the UX team here. He is also responsible for Emerging Platforms (focusing on a personalisation and knowledge management). twitter / linkedin

Josh Stein is the CEO and Cofounder of AdhereTech, a company that makes patented smart pill bottles to track and improve medication adherence in real-time. AdhereTech is currently being used by top pharmaceutical companies, health systems, and clinical researchers to increase adherence for specific medications and improve outcomes for patients. AdhereTech has received numerous awards from top healthcare organizations, including: The Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Jannsen Healthcare Innovation, Boehringer Ingelheim, The Henry Ford Innovation Institute, The LIVESTRONG Foundation, The NYCEDC, and more. Josh has been a featured speaker at TEDMED, The National Institute of Health, SXSW, Stanford Medicine X, Health 2.0, The Wharton Health Care Business Conference, and many more. Josh has an MBA from Wharton and a BA from Washington University in St. Louis. twitter / linkedin

Anu is the CEO at Mapmygenome, a molecular diagnostics company for people who are proactive about their health. Mapmygenome's products include prognostics and diagnostics tests. Before that she was CEO of Ocimum Biosolutions which is bioinformatics big data company. She was named a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum(WEF) for its class of 2011 and serves on the WEF's Global Agenda Council as a member of the Personalized and Precision Medicine. She also won several awards - Red Herring Magazine's list of “25 Tech Titans under 35″ in 2006, Biospectrum “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2008. twitter / linkedin

Chris Benko is the CEO of Koneksa Health which is focused on lifestyle and environmental data, their transformation and understanding of the factors that determine health. Chris is a part of leadership team for four years in roles supporting, R&D, commercial and M&A. Previously he gained his experiences (almost 20 years) as executive at Merck. He recived his MBA at Duke University and BA at Bucknell University. linkedin