Speakers

Volta helps people make the world simpler and access information that would otherwise remain lost in a seemingly unrelated amount of corporate data. Currently, he is the Business Intelligence Director at Rockaway. However, Volta still says his most interesting job to date was running his own bar in Prague, which opened a few years ago (and then closed). web / twitter / linkedin

Thomas was playing with computers since childhood. He put together the first Web in the mid-90s, but he started to make living with programming with the advent of Web 2.0, when he switched from PHP to Ruby on Rails. Since then, he's fascinated by cutting-edge frameworks, which he usually learns quicky just to abandon them one moment later in favor of even newer and better. Thomas works as a freelance developer and consultant. His favorite stack is Node.js and React, which he considers to be the platform of the future. At least the nearest future. web / twitter / linkedin

Jan is the co-founder of Modgen and the architect behind the company’s prediction engine. He earned his master’s degree in informatics at CTU in 2010, followed by a PhD. During his doctorate studies, he realized that many of the coolest scientific things achieved at the university were often thrown into drawers and never put to good use. At the same time, he noticed many companies were stuck with out-dated technology simply because they had no idea there were other options. This was a turning point for him and one of the main reasons he founded Modgen - he wanted to dedicate himself to using the latest technologies to make the world a better place. linkedin

Nik has been designing websites and interfaces in San Francisco and Prague since the early 90s. As a result, he’s witnessed how the role of design has gradually changed. Designers are no longer simply tasked with making interfaces for ordinary people. The main goal nowadays is not only to create a beautiful and engaging interface, but more importantly, an interface that supports business objectives. Today, Nik is the Head of Experience Design at Česká Spořitelna, where he promotes the philosophy that experience design is the art of turning a casual visitor into a regular and happy customer. twitter / linkedin

Mathematical physics background, longtime banker, successful and unsuccessful businessman, corporate punk, “innovator”, creative, demolisher of preconceptions, and professional eye-opener. Gálik is an enthusiast, who through the production of motivational posters managed to land himself the position of attempting to shift the thinking of 10,000 people 15 years ahead, and finds himself working his dream job among similarly insane visionaries in an unexpected place. twitter / linkedin

Honza Sechovec is an innovation evangelist at Česká Spořitelna. During his more than 15 years of experience in IT, he’s held various positions in the Czech Army and NATO. His background ranges from designing and running large data networks to mobile application development and IT innovation. twitter / linkedin

Karel is an Agile coach and programmer. He mainly works with large companies, helping them to improve transparency and humanize their software development processes. He gets rid of the old carpet and helps sweep any old buildup from over the years out the door. In his spare time, he builds with Legos and programs with his kids. web / twitter / linkedin

Jiří started programming more than 20 years ago. In 1998, he started with PHP and a little while later, he added JavaScript and MySQL to his roster, which has kept him busy for the better part of 15 years. In the last 2 years, he’s started using programming languages to build applications, which facilitate parallelism. When he’s not helping software firms to improve the efficiency of their development, you can find him working on his personal startup InteLoad, a quick, easy, and inexpensive loading testing solution for testing application functionality. web / twitter / linkedin

Project manager, creative, and gamification evangelist. Petr combines 13 years of experience in international corporations with practical training he gained working in the non-profit sector and running his own independent business, Court of Moravia. He takes the best of all these worlds and applies them to managing new projects, building communities, and leading teams. He’s taken on the fight against sloppiness and slipshod, cheap paperback truths, and lousy working relationships (usually called HR), as his own. web / twitter / linkedin

Pavel has 12+ years’ experience in Software Quality Assurance and overall 20+ years in SW development and testing. He has been working for GMC Software Technology for more than 15 years, currently taking the role Head of QA. His specialty is application of best practices based on CMMI® models for software development, recently also TMMi. linkedin