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, 3rd…
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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,…
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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
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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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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, ideas… More
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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 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
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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 "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 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 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 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 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, and… More
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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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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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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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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
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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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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 sets… More
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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`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 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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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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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 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 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'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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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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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 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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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
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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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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 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
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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 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 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). She… More
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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 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 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 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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Andrej is co-founder of Represent.com and Prizeo.
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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 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 from… More
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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 services… More
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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 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 community… More
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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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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 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.
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 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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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
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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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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,…
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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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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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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.
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.
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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