Simon’s career as a business developer began with tech monsters Cisco Systems and then Intel Corp. Later, Simon co-founded Attentio, a pioneer in social media analytics and ever since than have worked with software start-ups and scale-ups helping them define go-to-market strategies and executing on that.

With tech.eu, Simon moderates panels, takes on the role of master of ceremonies at fireside chats for major technology events and explain their value proposition to corporate clients.

Petr Ložek leads PwC Technology Consulting in the CEE region. He has worked as a consultant for over 20 years. He focuses primarily on financial services and technology consultancy. He has worked for most leading banking and insurance groups in the region of Central Europe and has been engaged in numerous technology transformation projects.

The main areas of his expertise include IT and digitizing strategies, multi-channel solutions, process automation and digitization, business intelligence solutions and core banking transformations.

Before joining PwC, Petr Ložek worked for Accenture as the Managing Director, where he was responsible for key accounts in the area of financial services in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary and Romania.

Petr Ložek believes that the principal advantage of PwC compared to classic technology suppliers lies in PwC’s ability to pair technical skills with in-depth knowledge of the individual sectors, commercial perspective and regulatory issues, data analysis skills and, where relevant, also legal and tax aspects, whereby it can provide its clients with a comprehensive service package.

Robert Skalina is a Czech Advocate as well as a Registered European Lawyer in Malta. He is based in Prague and works in Malta regularly.
He is financial services and corporate lawyer and provides advice to a wide range of investment managers, advisors and funds, including private equity and hedge funds. Robert also regularly advises clients in the gaming/gambling industries and has vast experience in the area of mergers and acquisitions and complex cross border transactions.

Robert has previously held the position of head of legal of a London based investment advisor active throughout the EMEA region. Prior to that, he served as legal counsel for the largest retail bank in the Czech Republic.

Robert graduated with an LLM cum laude from the London School of Economics. He holds a Master of Laws degree from the Charles University in Prague. He provides advice in English, Czech and Slovak.

Valentin Preobrazhenskiy is a top entrepreneur and speaker in the capital markets transition space. Mr. Preobrazhenskiy is the CEO and Founder of LATOKEN, a top digital assets exchange leading worldwide security token offerings and secondary markets with 400k+ users. He was a director of the Founder Institute tech incubator ($20B+ portfolio companies value) and Marcuard Spectrum (Marcuard group $3bn+ assets). He also managed Avega Capital hedge fund. As a 12x keynote speaker and host of LATOKEN forums visited by 2 presidents and $120bn funds, Valentin contributes to the financial system transformation agenda.   

Konrad Gill is Founder and Creative Director of ViARsys. Based in the City of Vienna, VIARsys develops Virtual and Augmented Reality systems and solutions for LBE and B2B resources.

Konrad has more than 18 years of experience in leading positions in the gaming and entertainment industry, where he has focused on implementing innovative ideas to land-based entertainment facilities and online gaming convergence.

As president of vrlab.at, the Austrian Association for the development of Virtual Reality and Edutainment, Konrad Gill is engaged on the forefront of implementing immersive worlds with all the possibilities of VR for education and for the preservation of cultural heritage.

Sergey Tkachenko is the CEO and Co-founder of HumanIT company and a TechHeaven startup participant with more than 12 years of experience in sales and management.

Currently, Sergey and his team are working on creating AR/VR solutions as well as Web platforms and mobile applications for customers all over the world. Besides the mentioned services, the company also focuses on the development of digital copies of humans.

Tomas is a Sales professional at IBM, based in the Central European region. He leads business development activities in the field of blockchain in Central. IBM is the current market leader in enterprise blockchain projects’ development and adoption with successful platforms such as TradeLens, FoodTrust, WorldWire.
After graduating from a European Highschool based in Slovakia, Tomas moved to the UK to gain his double master’s degree in Economics and Business Management. After that, he moved to Sweden to get a master’s in International Business. He is currently enrolled in the MSc program in Digital Currencies at Nicosia University. Tomas has years of experience from consulting and commercial director positions in the start-up and SME environment.

As a Blockchain expert and advisor, Dean Rakic accompanies customers in their digital transformation processes. He looks back on many years of experience in architecture for the processing of large amounts of data, especially in the healthcare environment. His professional focus is on project management, lead with respect to the entire project life cycle including project initiation and project handling. Besides, his additional personal strength is in acting as a specialist in business liaison/stakeholder management. Overall previous experience is on top of Strategy and Innovation development during all development phases. More than 25 years of detailed knowledge of IT and software architecture, project monitoring and project controlling with the identification, analysis, measurement, and control of project risks as well as the regular analysis of the impacts makes his personal stamp. Particularly important is his contribution to the promotion of science and the implementation of innovative achievements through lectures, mentoring and counselling in different vertices, ranging from standard industrial to non-governmental and sustainable projects.

Before taking on the future of automated software development as the founder and CEO of Supernova, Jiří Třečák put more than 70 mobile development projects under his belt for leading global companies. Most recently, Supernova became the first Czech company to go through the prestigious YCombinator program in the W19 batch. As a self-described need-to-know-everything geek, his passions span startups, open source, leadership, and beyond.

Senior manager in EY’s Financial Services Advisory team based in Prague with a main focus on innovative business digital solutions, digital business strategy, and innovative data usage for business and risk purposes.

Jakub has led and deployed a number of large scale implementation projects across the CEE region focused on the development of end-to-end digital sales solutions, covering all relevant workstreams incl. regulatory, credit risk, business and IT.

Vojtěch is an experienced advisor with broad expertise in intellectual property and information technology.

Vojtěch is the head of the Intellectual Property Group in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Vojtěch specialises primarily in intellectual property and competition law. His expertise covers both contentious and non-contentious aspects of various intellectual property rights, including copyright, trademarks, designs, patents, unfair competition, information technology, domain names, trade secrets and data protection.

Besides frequent advice on numerous intellectual property (IP)/ information technology (IT) matters, he also regularly assists clients in connection with various antitrust matters, including anti-competitive practices, abuse of dominance, merger clearances and state aid. He represented clients in proceedings at the Czech Competition Authority as well as European Commission.

Vojtěch has significant industry expertise in a number of sectors, including aviation, electronic consumer products, media, life sciences, public transport and software.

He joined us in June 2009 having previously worked in Allen & Overy for five years. In 2007, he was admitted to the Czech Bar. Before starting a career in advocacy, Vojtěch worked in a Czech copyright collecting society.

Vojtěch belongs among the elite and internationally recognised experts in the intellectual property law in the Czech Republic. He was repeatedly awarded the Managing IP Star, gained the ILO Client Choice award in 2014 and 2015, was named as the WIPR Leader 2016 & 2017, recognised by Who’s Who Legal and is listed in Gold tier as an individual at the World Trademark Review.

Vojtěch gained a degree of Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford (St. Peter’s College). He also studied law at Charles University in Prague and theatre management at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

He is fluent in Czech and English.

Manel Muñoz (Barcelona,1996) is a Catalan perceptual artist based in Barcelona, best known for developing and installing a cybernetic sensory organ to perceive changes in atmospheric pressure in his body. The barometric organ allows him to perceive the arrival of cyclones and anticyclones via beat frequencies transmitted through the skull. Depending on the input perceived, he can predict weather changes as well as feel at what altitude he is in.

Muñoz studied contemporary photography in Barcelona and became Cyborg Foundation’s artist in residence in 2016. In 2017, he co-founded the Transpecies Society, an association that gives voice to people who do not identify as being 100% human and raises awareness on the issues they face. The association, based in Barcelona, offers workshops specialised in the design and creation of new sensory organs.

Muñoz has shared his experience as a cyborg artist by performing and speaking in conferences and festivals in Germany, UK, Romania, Spain and The Netherlands among others.

Maria (Masha) Prusakova is a French attorney and a PR specialist working with blockchain startups and crypto conferences. Masha started her journey in crypto in 2014 working on an early bitcoin algorithm trader ExGate with a former Lehman Brothers financier. In 2017, Masha joined M&A PR Studio, consulting ICOs and blockchain startups on public relations. In 2018, she co-founded Crypto PR Lab. Before her entrepreneurial career, she worked as an attorney in M&A for Clifford Chance LLP and Gowling WLG. As a private banker for Ultra High Net Worth individuals, Masha gained experience at UBS, LGT and HSBC private banks in Switzerland and Monaco.

The former right hand of Prime Minister of Kazakhstan at the World Economic Forum, Masha together with Sasha facilitates the participation of individuals and startups at the elite Davos Conference Week.

Masha is also an accomplished snowboarder. As a professional athlete, she represented Russia in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as the youngest participant in the snowboarding halfpipe event.

Masha holds three Master’s degrees (Sorbonne, UC Berkeley) and speaks 4 languages: Russian, French, German and English.

Speaker at conferences:

“The Next Big Money Maker“, “Breaking Down The Opportunities in Cryptocurrencies: Where Are The Women?”, San Francisco, USA. June 2018

Blockchain Seattle 2018 on Gaming on Blockchain and Marketing for blockchain startups, Seattle, USA. September 2018

Discon Blockchain Conference on Regulatory and Legal, Boulder, Colorado. August 2018

XBlockchain Summit on Women in Crypto, Bali, Indonesia. October 2018

Crypto Invest Summit on Regulatory and Legal, Los Angeles. October 2018

Masha is a contributing writer for blockchain media Distributed.com, BTC Media Group.

Alexandra is the CEO of Crypto PR Lab, the top blockchain and cryptocurrency public relations firm. She has eight years of experience in leadership roles in blockchain, finance, real estate, luxury concierge management, and marketing in New York. She managed a real-estate rental agency as well as founded Millennium Communications. She worked for top brands Morgan Stanley, CITI, Douglas Elliman Real Estate and luxury concierge LVH Global. Alexandra brings her knowledge of business and an extensive network of high-net-worth individuals eager to invest in new projects to Millenium Communications. She holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and economics from Baruch College, NY.

Top Achievements:

• Moved to the US alone in the age of twenty as a student, got accepted to college and self-financed her education while working full-time as an assistant property manager at a mid-size building management company out of NYC
• Got accepted to a prestigious three-year finance analyst program at Citi Bank post-Baruch graduation
• Sold her first condo as a real-estate agent within the first few months of work (with no prior experience)
• Ran a sales team at a prestigious luxury concierge agency (lvhglobal.com) with sales up 30% after joining in the first month
• Built a boutique airbnb rental business with five properties under management
• Avid-traveler, been to 35+ countries, advanced open water scuba diver with true passion for adventure

Speaker at conferences:

Voice of Blockchain on Gaming & Marketing for blockchain startups, Chicago. August 2018

XBlockchain Summit on Women in Crypto, Bali, Indonesia. October 2018

Crypto Invest Summit on PR and Marketing, Los Angeles. November 2018

Webcast “How Will Blockchain Technology Transform Dealmaking”, New York. November 2018.

A Bit Cryptic Podcast on PR in Crypto, Miami. December 2018

Dushan Spalevich is a Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, and Startup  Advisor.

With only 25 years, Dushan became the youngest manager responsible for a country business operation of an FMCG multinational company SC Johnson, managing Slovenian market.
Dushan co-founded a self-funded startup project in Russia and managed it as a CEO to become the biggest segment company with more than 250 employees.

Today, he is a founder of iBlock Capital  – Global Fundraising And Advisory Network, and Founder & Host of iBlock TV –  YouTube, specialized in covering tech startups ecosystem.

Dushan graduated at Natural Science and Mathematics High School and holds a bachelor’s degree of Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Dushan lived and worked in several countries and can communicate in 7 different languages.

Martin is heading the compliance services section of OSM Solutions. He has filled a lot of different roles within his 17-year spanning career in IT Security. With a solid technical background, he has proven invaluable for the security management, design, implementation and evaluation work that he is focusing on today.

The type of projects Martin has taken part of range from penetration testing of large international banks, designing and implementing anti-spam solutions for ISPs, technology migration withing high-risk security areas, design & creation of security departments to market entries in newly created, highly regulated legislative environments and a lot more.

In the last few years of his career as Head of Security for an international B2B gaming-platform provider, his main focus was the compliance and security of the complex solution offering, the coordination between internal & external stakeholders and the management of audits for regulated gaming markets.

As a side project, Martin has designed and implemented a compliance product which will be launched by OSM Solutions shortly.

JP is the Managing Director of ARQ Economic & Business Intelligence, a specialized unit that applies economics to consumers, firms, and policy. He is currently the Lead Director on blockchain and cryptocurrency at ARQ Group. JP is specialized in resilience-building strategies and was a Technical Consultant to The Commonwealth Secretariat and acted as advisor to 9 governments across 3 continents. Prior to joining ARQ Group, JP was the Group Board Secretary of a London and Helsinki listed mining company. He also formed part of the private secretariat of the former Prime Minister and of the Governor of the Central Bank of Malta. An economist by profession, JP followed post-graduate studies in economics and political economy at the University of Malta and the London School of Economics. He is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta.

Capt.L.C. Arrigo GARIPOLI is a Financial Banking Consultant on Maritime Industries and the founder of BlueQbit. The technology developed for BlueQbit dispatches as a blockchain solution provides a transparent, integrated, without permission and decentralized base data layer for the process of the trust agreement.
The BlueQbit company with the dedicated project aims to implement a
“blockchain based” ecosystem to revolutionize the traditional Shipping Section with its shipments and Naval Brokerage, aware that the platform thus created can also be used for the Departments where yachts registered in BlueQbit can be marketed or rented all over the world

André Xuereb is physicist from Malta. He read for an undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Malta, a PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Southampton in the UK, and a master degree in entrepreneurship at the University of Malta. He is professor of atomic and quantum physics at the University of Malta, is Science Policy Officer of the Malta Chamber of Scientists, represents Malta on several European research networks, and was recently elected as the first Maltese member of the Global Young Academy. André has an active career in science, having established and leading the quantum research group at the University of Malta, and co-owns an educational software startup.

Experienced leader and new technologies enthusiast fascinated by fintech and neuroscience. Profoundly passionate about combining his technological and people skills in the IT world. Prior to joining Nethone, he developed his technical and soft skills as a leader of PISAK project (an initiative stimulating the social inclusion of heavily disabled people through technology) and a coordinator of multiple projects at American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
 At Nethone, Aleksander is responsible for business and product development, workflow management and ensuring comprehensive operational excellence at the company.
 Aleksander studied Neuropsychology and Neuroinformatics at the University of Warsaw.

Jaka Repansek LL.B, MBA, is the founder and partner at RePublis d.o.o., providing legal and business counsel to several Slovene and international TIME (telecoms, internet, media & entertainment) companies and organizations. After graduating from MSU’s Greenwood High School (Springfield, Missouri), Repansek graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He gained his graduate degrees from Cambridge University in England & Faculty of Law in Ljubljana (Diploma in European Community Law) and completed MBA study at the University of Kansas (CIMBA). Repansek is a lecturer at the Faculty of Information Studies and permanent lecturer at the Department of Photography at Faculty of Applied Sciences. Repansek is a member of several international organizations and an active panelist at various business and educational seminars and conferences. His passions include sports and flying airplanes (PPL licensed pilot).