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

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

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

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

Jiří became an entrepreneur when he was 20. Kick-started his career in finance and later moved on to expand a concept of self-service petrol stations. Currently he's committed to improving people's health and well being with his company Pillmo. Developing a medication organizer and an accompanying mobile application got him accepted into business accelerating programme StarCube sponsored by South Moravian Innovation Centre. On the side, Jiri and his team is finalizing a crowdfunding campaign to boost pillmo's progress. twitter / linkedin

Tomáš graduated from the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, specializing in information security and audit. He has extensive experience with building systems with enhanced security, network security, and application testing. He also is holds certifications as a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE). Tomáš is also a co-author of the last version of the OWASP Testing Guide V4 and is actively involved in IT security research - for instance, he came up with these essentials for preventing and avoid spyware infection from the popular Awesome Screenshot Chrome extension (e.g. http://bit.ly/1A9tAGf). linkedin

Ondřej entered the world of online marketing in 2006 as the editor-in-chief of an online magazine, where he was not only responsible for content, but selling advertising space as well. He decided to build on his interest at an international agency, where he started to explore SEO. Soon after, he was put in charge of an agency team in the UK. After returning to the Czech Republic as a freelancer, he accepted the challenge of learning and managing PPC campaigns for the company DATART. So began a successful career with a particular focus on paid advertising. Ondřej became a Google certified trainer and is a co-founder of the think-tank Young Heads. In 2011, he founded the agency INBORN, which is currently one of the leading agencies on the market specializing in programmatic advertising. twitter / linkedin