Speakers

Michael Lopp

VP Engineering Slack

Business

Michael Lopp is a Silicon Valley-based engineering leader who builds both people and product at companies such as Borland, Netscape, Palantir, Pinterest, and Apple. While he's not worrying about staying relevant, he writes about pens, bridges, people, poker, and werewolves at the popular weblog, Rands in Repose. He works as the VP of Engineering in San Francisco where he’s furiously working on helping teams reinvent work.Michael has written two books. His first book "Managing Humans, 3rdMore Edition" is a popular guide to the art of engineering leadership and clearly explains that while you be rewarded for what you build, you will only be successful because of your people. His second book "Being Geek" is a career handbook for geeks and nerds alike. Less
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Harry Roberts

Consultant Front-end Architect

Development

With a client list including Google, Unilever, and the United Nations, Harry is an award-winning Consultant Front-end Architect who helps organisations and teams across the globe to plan, build, and maintain product-scale UIs. A Google Developer Expert, he writes on the subjects of CSS architecture, performance, and scalability at csswizardry.com; develops and maintains inuitcss; authored CSS Guidelines; and Tweets at @csswizardry.
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Peter Morville is a pioneer of the fields of information architecture and user experience. His bestselling books include Information Architecture (the "polar bear book"), Ambient Findability, Search Patterns, and Intertwingled. Peter is a co-founder and past president of the Information Architecture Institute. He advises such clients as AT&T, Cisco, Harvard, IBM, Macy's, the Library of Congress, and the National Cancer Institute. His work has been covered by Business Week, The Economist,More NPR, and The Wall Street Journal. You can learn more at http://semanticstudios.com and http://intertwingled.org. Less
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Mark Boulton

Design Director Monotype

Design

Mark is a typographic designer who found his place on the web sometime in the late 90's. He is the Design Director at Monotype following the acquisition of his small studio, Mark Boulton Design. Previously he's worked with global media companies such as ESPN and Al Jazeera; small brands with great ideas like Hiut Denim and Sugru; technology organisations such as Drupal and Alfresco; and home to the greatest scientic experiment on earth: CERN.Living in Wales with his wife and two small children,More Mark likes nothing better than riding up the numerous hills on his bike, trying to cook Japanese food, and consistently moaning about the design of bathroom taps. Less
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Rachel Andrew is a web developer, speaker and writer. She is co-founder of the company behind Perch and Perch Runway CMS. Her most recent books include Get Ready for CSS Grid Layout published by A Book Apart and she is an Invited Expert to the CSS Working Group and a Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies.
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Evan Luthra

Serial Entrepreneur, Innovator and Angel Investor

Business

If you’ve got ideas for your own product or company, Evan will be a welcome inspiration.According to Ondra Bartoš, we’ll love hearing from this young startupist for his fiery energy. He’s both a motivational and entertaining speaker.Evan describes himself as a miracle of nature. He claims to have the recipe on how to take ideas and successfully execute them. He made his money thanks to several of his own projects, and at the moment, he invests in another nine.“Using creativity, ideasMore and magic, he builds products in a way you’ll never forget.” –evanluthra.com Less
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Martin Charlier

Product and service designer, Co-author Marcharlier

Design

Martin is design generalist with wide-ranging experience across design strategy, design research, interaction & industrial design, interactive art and critical design. He has worked at Frog, Fjord, Method and Random International and now consults businesses in UX and service design. He’s a co-author of ‘Designing Connected Products’ and a co-founder of Rain Cloud (which is a project exploring ambient connected products).
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Marcy Sutton

Senior Front-End Engineer Deque Systems

Development

Marcy Sutton is a Senior Front-End Engineer at Deque Systems, where she works on the aXe-core team focusing on accessibility test integrations. Marcy is passionate about making the web accessible for everyone. She’s an active contributor to Angular, where she regularly brings her accessibility expertise to the table. Her blog, Accessibility Wins, highlights accessible user interfaces and tools, bringing a positive voice to web development.
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It was 1998 on a large desert island in the middle of everyone’s other-side-of-the-world. The Sydney Olympics and the Y2K bug were coming, rave culture was disappearing, and breakdancing didn’t know where to turn. The only sane thing to do was to start a hip hop magazine and call it Stealth.In-between magazine insomnia, Mark has worked at Leo Burnett, TribalDDB, McCann, and Big Spaceship for Levi’s, Canon, Samsung, AXE, Kleenex, Amstel, and Audi. He’s done UX, brand and digital strategy,More social media and content.Listed in the AdNews Top 40 under 40 and as one of Sydney’s Top 100 Creative Catalysts, he’s also spoken at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, TEDx, AIGA HOW Design, and he’s taught on Skillshare and at Miami Ad School.Currently alive in New York, he’s turned people-watching and deep conversation into a career. Maybe desert islands and magazine insomnia do that to people. Less
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Adrian Zumbrunnen

Freelance UX Engineer Google

Design

Adrian Zumbrunnen is a UX designer, writer, and coffee enthusiast living in Zurich. At present, he is design tinkering at Google where he’s worked on products like AdWords, Maps and more recently conversational design. Prior to being independent, he was at iA where he worked for various clients in the industry.
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Marco Pivetta

Software Consultant Roave

Development

Marco "Ocramius" Pivetta is a software consultant at Roave. With over a decade of experience with PHP, he is part of the Zend Framework CR team, Doctrine core team, and is also active in the community as a mentor and supporter. When not coding for work, he usually hacks together new concepts and open source libraries, or simply provides Q&A on IRC.  
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Tom Giannattasio

Director of Product InVision

Design

Tom has 20 years of experience designing and developing for the web. He founded Macaw, creator of a code-based design tool, which was acquired by InVision in January 2016. Tom is now director of product, helping InVision create advanced design and prototyping tools. Previously, Tom designed products for Apple, Oracle, Twitter and MIT.
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Nina Zakharenko

Software Engineer Braintree

Development

Nina has been working as a full-stack developer for over 8 years, with experience in several programming languages, most recently Python and Javascript. In her spare time, she skis, snowboards, climbs, and mountain bikes from her home base in Salt Lake City, UT.
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Martin Michálek

Freelance Front-end Developer

Development

Martin Michálek is a freelance front-end designer, specializing in modern front-end web development. He writes the blog Vzhůru dolů and has authored the ebook Vzhůru do CSS3. He's also the co-founder of the community Frontendisti.cz.
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Johannes Schlüter

Lead Developer Oracle

Development

Johannes Schlüter is leading the development teams for PHP, Python and Node.JS connectors for MySQL and main implementor of the new Node.JS connector. In the Open Source community he is, among other contributions, well known as release manager of the 5.3 series of the PHP programming language. 
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Ram Almog is a founder at RED-INTERACTIVE, a digital agency that creates products and services from concept to implementation. He consults start-ups on business strategies, marketing, digital products, and technology. Ram's main focus is on Ed-Tech, and he has created educational products that are used all over the world. In 2014, he took on another role as CEO of ToBe Education, a company that turns lessons into exciting role playing games.Ram's work can be seen at www.red-id.com, andMore to-be-education.com. Less
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Lukas has been developing websites for the past decade and has a passion for helping other creatives. He joined Apiary as its very first employee and has been leading its engineering team ever since.
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Ondřej Zahradník

Cloud Architecture Director Avast Software

Development

Ondra graduated with a degree in computer science and led a team of Android developers, helping to build the mobile apps development studio Inmite, which was acquired by Avast. He focuses on market segmentation, business intelligence, and creating tools that support Avast sales folks using machine learning.
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Jan Kvasnička

UX designer

Design

Honza keeps himself busy with UX, usability, increasing conversion rates, and designing, as well as building and testing web applications. He works with top companies, particularly those in the e-commerce market. He’s a supporter and promoter of the idea: “Don’t make me think”. He’s also actively involved in the education community - he’s crazy about continuous self-education and practical approach.
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Tomasz Ducin

Senior Software Consultant Cybercom Group

Development

MoreTomek is an advocate of modern JavaScript solutions. Experienced in both frontend and backend, he's keen on designing interfaces and APIs for long-living enterprise systems. Tomek aims to provide a truly scalable architecture, solving both technical and organisational issues. He considers software development as a challenge of creating small and maintainable pieces of code that provide big business profit. Tomek takes part in international financial and data analysis projects in Cybercom Group. Less
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Peter Jakuš

Web Analyst ui42

Business

Peter is interested in web analytics, Content Management Systems, e-commerce solutions, accelerating e-shops, UX, Agile development management and methods, time management, and more. He enjoys traveling. Peter studied film and audiovisual culture, and he’s a Google Partners Certified Trainer for web analytics. He works as a Product Manager for the e-shop system BUXUS, and he’s also the Analytics Lead at ui42. You may also know him as the organizer of the analytics unconference MeasureCamp inMore Bratislava and the e-shop accelerator MastersGate. Less
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Ondřej Machulda

Web Developer & QA Engineer LMC (Jobs.cz)

Development

Ondřej is a web developer who is friends with blue elephants and penguins. He likes when things are well done and function perfectly - so also interested in testing and QA in general. He is also gaining new ideas at meetings of Prague PHP Symfony framework community that helps organize.
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Marko Iskander

Senior Computer Scientist Adobe

Development

A Cleveland-based software engineer and technical leader, Marko has worked for companies all over the United States, most recently serving as a Senior Computer Scientist for Adobe Typekit. Marko is focused on how to best use technology to achieve business goals, working with teams to achieve both high velocity and long term sustainability. Marko loves to find the right tool for a job; most recently he's been using Elasticsearch to make applications with highly normalized data setsMore faster and more scalable.  Less
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Jan Tichý leads the analytics and consulting company, Medio Interactive and the training agency, Medio Akademie. He's an official Google Partners Certified Trainer and his company is a Google Analytics Certified Partner. As a consultant, he mainly deals with Google Analytics, data analytics, business intelligence, optimizing the business performance of websites, SEO, link building, and general internet marketing. 
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A Prague native, Jakub lives with his family in San Francisco. His work on Adobe Typekit is driven by the passion for open ecosystems and appreciation for typography. He has spearheaded the integration of Typekit into a wide array of Adobe applications, and dreams of a future where beautiful fonts are readily accessible on every screen. He loves to contemplate the design of RESTful APIs while riding a motorbike or fly fishing in the mountains.
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Jan Pospíšil

Sr. Technology Evangelist Microsoft

Development

Jan`s passions are IoT gadgets, IoT solutions, Big Data, Machine Learning, Cognitive Services, New Technologies (even bleeding edge), e-commerce, robotics, automation, coding, … He'd like to meet you for a chat about those topics and how you use them together with Azure services to boost your business.
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Nik Page

Experience Strategy Consultant

Business

Nik has worked in UI testing and design since UIs were distributed on floppies and CDs. He has been part of their evolution from those very first days of a public internet in San Francisco. He’s worked for start-ups and global corporations where he always pushed for better user experience focussed design. Currently he promotes user and customer experience design & strategy as one of the keys to business success.
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Ever felt limited by the lethargy of centralized IT and wondered how “data democratization” and cloud solutions like Microsoft Azure can help? Afraid of bad data quality and information overload leading rather to “data anarchy”? Then this presentation is for you. Torsten is a well-known thought leader in the data governance field, working with clients across Europe to grasp the importance of their data and transform it into well-grounded decisions.
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Ondřej Mašek

Frontend Developer Avast Software

Development

For the past 10 years, Ondra has been developing large-scale, REST-driven JavaScript applications. At Avast, he currently focuses on platform independent Avast UI architecture. Because he is extremely lazy, he is a strong advocate of modular and reusable code components.
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Jan Strnad

Software Developer Avast

Development

Honza graduated with a degree in computer science and since then has worked at Avast, where he primarily develops backend applications. His interests include functional programming and programming in general. Lately, he's been especially interested in big data.
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Marek Sacha

Founder, CEO Revere Care

Business

Marek is an entrepreneur and investor who focuses on overlooked opportunities in “boring” or complicated industries from healthcare to groceries. He is the CEO and co-founder of Revere Care, a digital marketplace for home care (UK); the past CEO and co-founder of Rohlik.cz, the online grocery delivery service (CZE). Formerly, he was a consultant at McKinsey and competitive basketball player.
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Tomas Jasovsky

Product Manager and Designer InVision LABS

Design

Tomas Jasovsky leads a team at InVision LABS best known for its free suite of tools for creative professionals called Craft. InVision LABS focuses on experiments in the product design industry with the intent to solve the challenges designers face creating the screens and digital products of tomorrow. Previously, Tomas served as a product designer for several startups while working on a variety of personal projects.
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Adam Hazdra

Business Owner in the area of ​​flexible forms of work LMC

Business

Adam's goal is to find out how the work will look in the future. He believes that we will have more control over what, when and how we are working and we will make better use of our talent. He identifies and describes trends, new ideas , and tests what people need . He is responsible for development of services as marketplace Easytask.cz or Workio.cz.
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Tomáš Weiss

JavaScript developer Salsita

Development

Tomas is a passionate JavaScript developer at Salsita Software. His work on front-end libraries has been heavily inspired by great ideas originating in the back-end world. Tomas has a lot of real-world experience building production software using React/Flux/Redux.
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Jana Moudrá

Web & Mobile Developer Juicymo

Development

Co-founder of the company Juicymo and Google Developer Expert on web technology. Jana is a passionate developer, who enjoys new web and mobile technologies. She likes helping developers to learn new things and spreading awareness about these technologies. At Juicymo, she works on developing “juicy” applications.
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Tereza Kosnarová

Head of Research & Design Proof & Reason

Design

Tereza Venerová currently leads a team of analysts and designers at the digital agency Proof & Reason. Their main focus is research, user testing, and designing user-friendly interfaces for web applications, information systems, and commercially successful websites. Tereza has acted as a professional jury member in the competition WebTop100, lectured at Czech universities and conferences, and is actively involved in helping to develop the Czech design community. 
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Lubo Smid

Co-founder & COO STRV

Business

Startup-minded entrepreneur with deep technical background in software development and huge interest in cutting-the-edge technology, especially mobile. Lubo is co-founder & COO of STRV, the preferred software development partner of many successful startups and well established brands across the United States. His main duty is scaling the business and crafting the processes that help STRV to stay ahead of the game. Lubo lives in Los Angeles and constantly travels between other STRV’sMore offices in San Francisco, New York and Prague. He enjoys running, crossfit and high quality entertainment. His approach to lifestyle is often described as living on the edge, in other words taking the most of all the opportunities. Less
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Tomáš switched from his own development company over to agencies for several years, where he worked on FB applications and IS development. When he began to feel like agency work wasn’t enough, he joined E-commerce Holding as an architect, where the integration of twenty large e-shops into one platform proved that developing an e-shop doesn’t have to be boring.
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Josef Hertl

Java Developer ROI Hunter

Development

The speaker is a Java developer in ROI Hunter with passion for new technologies and languages, not limited to programming ones. After trying professions where he could use his information security and legal education and expertise to a greater degree he has finally realized that he is happiest with wild life of a developer in a small Java team.
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Marek Beniak

Software Development Director Heureka.cz

Business

Marek is already in his fifth year at Heureka and has led the entire @HeurekaDevs department since 2013. Although he’s had many years of experience, his enthusiasm for Agile methodologies grows with each day, and he gladly accepts any challenges of their implementation. In addition to his passion for Agile, he’s also known for his love of coffee and cooking. 
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Peter, in his third year at Heureka, is one of the best examples of the right path to a position - from software developer to Scrum Master, he’s now firmly fixed as the Agile Coach of development at the company. When he’s not busy in his role as “problem solver” and “happiness manager” of @HeurekaDevs, he devotes his time to floorball, primarily now as a judge of national competitions. He also occasionally helps smaller companies to steer their own Agile efforts in the rightMore direction. Less
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Vít Novák

Software Developer Heureka.cz

Business

Vítek has been a proud member of @HeurekaDevs for six years. He lives for what he does, and the only thing that puts him in a bad mood is enforcing “strict” principles, even when it comes to writing and solving code (and that time he broke his hip at a team building). Vítek has gotten into shooting videos with the help of drones —in his free time he directs and edits everything that he manages to catch on his film around Liberec. 
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Jan Habich

Product Innovation Rockaway Capital

Business

Jan is a generalist who helps define and execute product strategies, usually while drinking Chinese tea and munching on cashews. His scope of work includes helping companies and startups on UX and product planning. In his free time he likes to consult even more startups, ride his bikes and absorb knowledge about basically anything.
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Yovka Pencheva

Sr. Manager, Development Concur

Development

Yovka has been in software engineering for 15 years, started as Java developer, assumed different roles over the years like Team/Technical Dev Lead, Sustaining Engineering Lead, Principal Engineer, Test Automation Manager, Quality Engineering Manager, Cloud Services Manager. Started her career in Bulgaria, in biggest outsourcing company in Sofia (has been acquired by VMware), moved to Prague in 2007, worked in CA Technologies, Skype/Microsoft, Concur Technologies (an SAP company).  SheMore is very passionate about continuous deployment, DevOps practices, and testing in production practices.  Less
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Michal Špaček

Web Security, Performance & PHP development and consultancy

Business

Michael develops web applications and has a particular interest in their security. His goal is to help Czech developers be the best when it comes to developing secure websites and applications.
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Vu Hoang Anh

Co-founder & CEO Avocode

Business

Vu is the CEO and co-founder of Avocode, a collaboration platform for designers and developers. He also co-founded Made By Source, a company behind many Photoshop plugins like CSS Hat. Recently he became a member of the 500 Startups network.
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Ivana Marvanová

User Researcher MSD

Design

Ivana likes observing people. The results of her observations puts situations into context and allows her to draw appropriate conclusions. You could also say that Ivana conducts user research. After studying marketing and working in the field, Ivana became a UX designer. She has worked for O2 and is currently a user research specialist at MSD.
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Bruno Imbrizi

Head of Visual Development UNIT9

Development

Bruno is interested in beautiful things made with code. His work sits perfectly on the intersection between design and development. With over ten years of experience, he’s worked as a web developer in Brazil, New Zealand, Italy and the UK. Bruno is now Head of Visual Development at UNIT9 in London, where he often switches roles between technical lead and hands-on lead developer on projects that involve online experiences and physical installations.
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Business

Andrej is co-founder of Represent.com and Prizeo.
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Martin Švík

Executive IT Architect IBM

Development

Martin deals with long-term analysis of unstructured information and cognitive technologies. Currently, he works for IBM's WW Strategy team, which focuses on innovation and the application of research. He also leads the group of people who implement cognitive technology.
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Kevin Cheng

Design and Product Executive kevnull

Design

Kevin is the author of "See What I Mean: How to Communicate Ideas with Comics". He was the CEO and co-founder of Incredible Labs, the company behind a mobile personal assistant named Donna which was acquired by Yahoo. Previously, he was a product manager at Twitter, leading the redesign of the website; the director of user experience at the gaming social network Raptr; and the designer of Yahoo! Pipes. He also co-founded the user experience web comic OK/Cancel.He holds a master’s degree fromMore University College London in human computer interaction and ergonomics, and has presented about design, comics, and augmented reality at numerous conferences including Interaction, IA Summit, User Interface Conference, UXWeek, and South by Southwest. His workshop on using comics has been utilized by companies such as Adobe, McAfee, eBay, and Yahoo. Less
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Benjamin Keyser

Product Design Director Intercom

Design

Benjamin is a User Experience leader with an emphasis on combining product design and product management. Having started his career as a content strategist and writer working in companies such as IBM, Razorfish and Apple, Benjamin evolved into a product designer with an emphasis on messaging platform design, launching global messaging products and services in the UK, Argentina, Peru and Colombia. Most recently, Benjamin lead the redesign the Ubuntu mobile and desktop platforms, Scope servicesMore and payment platforms as Head of Apps and Platform. Less
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Petr Staníček

Freelance UX expert

Design

Petr Staníček is a web and computer application interface designer, analyst, and consultant. He has extensive experience with order processing for systems of all types and sizes - from banking products and web portals via online and mobile applications to small businesses and product presentation. He is also the author of the book, A Good Designer Knows It All!
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Dana Cohen Baron

Strategic UX Designer Google Campus

Design

Dana Cohen Baron is a Strategic Product and User Experience consultant with over 15 years of experience, working with startups and enterprises to create products that people love. Dana is member of the prestigious Google Experts program, which incorporates international experts in the fields of development, product, marketing and designShe is a Google certified design sprint masterDana is a UX mentor at Google Lunchpad programShe’s co-founder of the Israeli chapter of XX+UX, a communityMore for women in UX with over 1,300 active members both online and offlineAnd she speaks about UX, teaches and mentors startupsThrough her experience, Dana has developed a keen eye for integrating tech, business goals and user needs. She has a wealth of experience in project management, consumer apps, and complex systems. She loves cracking problems and getting stuff done.Dana is a proud geek who enjoys talking about tech, design, food and loves her job.  Less
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Marek Prchal

Idea maker

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Idea maker. Marek has worked for agencies and negotiated with clients. He has worked for clients and negotiated with agencies. He has advised agencies on tenders and even built an in-house agency for a client. He intimately understands these situations. ANO, the City of Prague, Pepsi, Snickers, Nivea, Milka, Jameson, Agrofert, and Vodafone. 
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Robert Kerr

User Experience Designer IBM

Design

Rob Kerr is a user experience designer and inventor based at IBM, Cambridge. He currently works on products that assist with the visualisation and analysis of high volume data.   In previous roles Rob has worked at tech startups, digital advertising agencies and in the education sector. Rob's debut screenplay, 'The Republic of Frestonia', was awarded Best Screenplay (UK) at the 2014 London Independent Film Festival.
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Boris Khalkhal

Financial Services Senior Architect IBM

Business

Boris Khalkhal is a Financial Services Sector IT Architect at IBM in Nice. He currently works on cognitive and analytics solutions for Banking. In previous roles Boris has worked as a financial compliance Consultant,  and financial software Developer. Boris also co-founded Cyanea Systems Europe Ltd, V.C. funded application management software company in 2004.

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  Martin is a Breezy rider. He loves new technologies, which along with excellent service, he brings to his clients. As the co-owner of the digital agency Breezy, he was there for the launch of their in-house product, solidpixels, a platform for creating websites. He is a hard worker who always wants to follow through down to the tiniest detail. He enjoys design in all its form, not just for the web. 
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Steven van Vessum

Chief Customer Officer ContentKing

Business

Steven has been doing SEO for over 10 years. He’s worked for large companies active in the energy sector and the financial sector, including the incredibly competitive mortgages and insurances markets.  He’s been on both sides of the table: 3 years client side and 8 years of running a digital marketing agency. All of this knowledge and expertise culminated when he co-­founded ContentKing, a Content Monitoring and Optimization service.
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Andrej joined Credo Ventures in 2011 and became a partner in 2015. Previously he was with Benson Oak, an early growth fund and the first backer of AVG Technologies, which is the only Czech company to IPO at the New York Stock Exchange. Andrej graduated from University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce with concentrations in finance and management.
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Pavel Fuksa

Creative director and graphic designer

Business

A creative director, illustrator, and designer, who has worked for Facebook, Google, Marks and Spencer, Barack Obama, Fortune 500, ESPN, Mercedes, American Express, and Twitter. He earned a spot on the 2014 and 2016 Lürzer’s Archive list of best illustrators worldwide, and music groups from around the world want him to work on their packaging and posters. He's also worked for non-musical clients in ad agencies on three continents.
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Ondřej Vlček has served as our Chief Operating Officer since January 2014. Before that, he was from 2007 our Chief Technolog Officer. Mr. Vlček joined us as a software developer in 1995, and was made a chief developer in 2003, when he was part of the team that developed our first antivirus program for Windows. Mr. Vlček holds an M.S. in Mathematics from Czech Technical University in Prague and commenced post-graduate studies in non-linear optimization at Charles University in Prague'sMore Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. Less
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Šárka Štrossová

Director WebExpo

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Šárka is the heart and soul of WebExpo. She’s been flitting around WebExpo since 2010 as part of its organizational team, but she officially began running the conference from March 2015. She studied international business at the University of Economics in Prague before taking a job at EduFórum, where she organized events. She loves charts, coding, high heels, and soft serve ice cream from Světozor. And yes, in that exact order.
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Founder of Jyxo, Blog.cz, Devel.cz and Wikidi.
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A successful businessman, consultant, venture capitalist, the founder of Credo Ventures, and you might also recognize him from Den D, where he stars as a private investor. He’s also the co-founder of a web application development company, a traditional mobile and marketing company, and a startup incubator.
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He's been with Kaspen since 2007 (so the true opposite of a "digital nomad" :)). He joined as an account manager, and afterwards became an account director and planner. He's been a partner since 2015 and is head of the agency, together with Slavo Marušinec. He spent seven months in 2014 as a planner in Jung von Matt in Berlin and the Swedish Forsman & Bodenfors. In the past, he's been responsible for brands like Budweiser Budvar (Pardál and Budweiser Budvar), IKEA, Kooperativa, Volkswagen,More Jagermeister, and more. Kaspen is owned by its Czech management and founders with a minority held by Jung von Matt, one of the most creative independent European agencies. Kaspen has a long-term reputation as an agency, which primarily works with Czech brands. However, they don't reject global brands, as long as they are willing to communicate with in Czech with Czechs (i.e. not only in terms of language, but also their way of thinking). They love working with challenges since being second, third or seventh means there is no possibility to rest on their laurels. Kaspen believes that each campaign can be a small revolution and perhaps due to their strong combination of local strategic thinking and creativity as well, they have significantly contributed to the rebooting of brands like Kofola (from 2003-2013) and Budvar (since 2003). Less
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Jaroslav Machaň

API&SDK owner & API evangelist

Development

Jaroslav is an API evangelist who fell in love with his team and work at Česká spořitelna. He enjoys proving to the world that when you really want something, you can achieve it - even in a bank. It’s his first experience in corporate, so he sees all the places where we need to push ourselves in order to work as hard as humanly possible. For example, a press release is a rap song to him. He writes stories that no one knows. 
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Jan Sechovec

Innovation evangelist

Development

Honza follows current trends and opens the eyes of others. He is a cross between a talented engineer and an innovator. More than 15 years of experience with hard work in corporate companies, his own business, and also several battlefields have given him energy so concentrated that an energy drink would turn green with envy. 
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Petr Michalík

Developer

Development

One of the intellectual fathers of WebAPI with the heart and soul of an innovative developer. He spends his spare time exploring the depths of space with his telescope and promoting (not only among his colleagues) the Society for Interplanetary Matter.

Development

Just like every car needs a motor, Paul needs WebAPI to make sense. He is the godfather of agile development at Česká spořitelna and a destroyer of corporate myths. When he’s not crushing code, he’s catching comets in the night sky with his brother.

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Guillaume joined Credo Ventures after obtaining his MBA from INSEAD. He first started his career with an internship at Goldman Sachs in the US, and then worked as a strategy consultant in Kaiser Associates' London office. Prior to obtaining his MBA, Guillaume also spent a year gaining experience in VC as an associate in newly established fund Athene Capital. Guillaume enjoys bouldering, kite surf, squash and board games.
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Having gained experience in the financial audit department at PwC, Ales initially joined Credo Ventures in 2013 for an internship. Afterwards, he spent a year working as an industry analyst at Google Czech Republic. In 2015, Ales returned to Credo as an analyst on a full-time basis. Ales graduated from Charles University in Prague where he studied international relations.
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