Challenges & Winners
Event Agenda & Timing
Speakers & Mentors & Jury
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CITYTHON 2022 in Košice (SK)

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Thank you all for being a part of this great event.

3 x 3,000€ in CASH prizes were given for the best solutions
+ E-move scooter and bikesharing voucher
+ various GARMIN gifts

We would like to introduce you the winners:

Challenge 1:
TEAM 18 – The Pedals – Jakub Kinlovič, Tomáš Lapšanský, Bianka Rujáková
Presentation (PDF including links)

Challenge 2:
TEAM 3 – StorePredictor – Ales Jandera, Janci Svantner, Roman Dadulak, Kristina Hoblakova
Presentation (PDF including links)

Challenge 3:
TEAM 19 – Vychodne pobrezie – Verana Dobal, Ludka Žoldakova, Miso Hudak
Presentation (PDF including links)

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City of Košice

The city of Košice, the second largest city in the Slovak Republic, is located in the eastern part of Slovakia, near the borders with Hungary (20 km), Ukraine (80 km) and Poland (90 km). In the past, the advantageous location made Košice an important point on trade routes, today it is a key economic agglomeration, an innovation ecosystem but also a crossroads of transport routes, to which the railway junction and the international airport contribute.

Technical University of Košice

Technical University of Košice (TUKE) was established in 1952. The content of education and research at University includes the entire complex of sciences, economics and Art. The Technical University of Košice was established with the aims to satisfy the needs of Eastern Slovakia in engineering education and research. The development and transmission of knowledge –in its broadest sense – is continuously the University’s major concern.

The TUKE seeks to maintain a cohesive and interdependent relationship between their teaching, research and service activities with accordance to European state of Art. TUKE has  9 faculties with 10 000  students  and  1600 staff. The TUKE has been the first university in Slovakia to meet the criteria of the international standard EN ISO 9001:2000 and it received the quality certificate in the area of providing educational and research processes and enterprise activities within a public university. The progress of the research and development at TUKE was substantially supported with the structural funds resources allocated from the EC.

Challenges

All three challenges should contribute to SUSTAINABILITY

CHALLENGE 1
CHALLENGE 2
CHALLENGE 3

WINNER:
The Pedals
Jakub Kinlovič, Tomáš Lapšanský, Bianka Rujáková

Urban data

Data based decision-making is the key for improved and smarter urban living. Although the data available for urban planners, city officials and the private sector to use and analyse is gradually increasing, in many cases the challenge is that the data collected requires expert knowledge for analyses and interpretation.

For purposes of improving overall quality of life in the city, we welcome new ideas on applications that transfer mobility data into useful and valuable information in a user-friendly way and have a real commercial potential. 

These could include mobile services based on combined data sets from different sources that enable new ways to perceive the mobility in the smart city, supports better mobility planning and management, advocacy, user participation, co-creation, and performance evaluation.

WINNER:
StorePredictor
Ales Jandera, Janci Svantner, Roman Dadulak, Kristina Hoblakova

Smart mobility & urban planning

Key to this challenge is the development of smart mobility solutions that are environmentally sustainable, convenient, and attractive to citizens.

We welcome ideas on how to design and offer a citywide travel system, that provides smart guidance to travellers, based on real-time information about transport options and conditions with focus on green and sustainable travel choices. 

Promote citizen mindset changing towards greener and cleaner travel choices.

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Citython KOŠICE 2022

WINNER:
Vychodne pobrezie
Verana Dobal, Ludka Žoldakova, Miso Hudak

Crisis management through urban mobility

Building smart mobility in the context of extreme weather, humanitarian emergencies, pandemic, traffic incidents

Make smart mobility resilient for civil protection and the management of extreme events.

Combine smart mobility with measuring atmospheric variables or enhance the overall resilience of the city with co-designing nature-based solutions (e.g., trees and other green infrastructure) to reduce air quality issues and impacts of extreme weather events. Solutions should also seek to consider the possible impact of climate change on the urban mobility in the city and the disturbances it may cause based on Copernicus Climate Change Service data.

Event Agenda & Timing & Organisation

Day 1 / Friday, 1st July
Inauguration ceremony

15:30 – 16:05 Registration/ Acreditation

16:05 – 16:15 Intro

16:15 – 16:20 Welcome Speech from – Gerard Dominguez (remote)

16:20 – 16:25 Welcome Speech from University representative – Stanislav Kmeť, rector

16:25 – 16:30 Welcome Speech from City representative & Partners – Martin Džbor, DT IT Solutions, Martin Mudrak, Plenipotentiary of the City of Košice for Innovation & Economic

16:30 – 16:50 Kosice city of opportunities – Presentation of challenges – Martin Mudrak (City of Kosice) A brief overview of what the City of Košice has to offer to the world and the challenges that hinder its inevitable ascension to an intrnational tech hub.

16:50 – 17:05 Smart City Solutions making your city smart together + Q&A – Milan Varga (DT IT Solution) In the session I will give you a short walk through over the topic of smart city solutions and how we approach them. This will be beneficiary for your better understanding and I will also give you a few examples of how to identify what is needed and what kind of solutions are already on the market. I hope this session will help focus your ideas and creativity in the right direction.

17:05 – 17:20 ANTIK shared fleet – results, plans and sustainability – Matus Digo (Antik) Introduction to the ANTIK Fleet Shared devices and system operations. Results and statistics of shared devices in past years with graphic visualization. Spreading of shared devices in Slovakia and the possibilities of outputs for urban planning. Planned add-ons to the system and new services under ANTIK SmartWay application.

17:20 – 17:35 Inspirational talk Challenge 3 + Q&A – Martin Tuchyna (Ministry of Environment) Citizens are aware of the challenges triggered by the climate change. If we want to support urban mobility transformation in order to reflect crisis management aspects, we need to help people better understand the options, how they can change their mindset and way they live their lives.

17:35 – 19:00 Θ Buffet dinner & Team networking & Ideation

19:00 – 20:20 Presentations of Open Data platforms (15+5 mins each)

Kosice Open Data Platform – Zofia Sincakova (CIKE) The presentation will introduce the Open data portal of Kosice, its features, and its usage. The open data portal was launched in January 2022, and it is one of the main outcomes of the project Kosice 2.0. Currently, there are 37 datasets published on the Open Data Portal on various topics such as votes of city deputies in the city council, cycle lines and points, orders, invoices, and surveys. Few datasets are updated daily. The goal for the future is to expand the dataset collection, provide real-time and up to date data and ensure the sustainability of the portal.

Geoportal of Košice Self – governing Region – Peter Serfozo (KSK) Geoportal KSK is a platform for integrating, storing and publishing data viewable on a map (spatial information). The target groups of the platform users are the public (for the transparent provision of broad spectrum information on the region), Košice self-governing region (for quality decision-making based on spatial information and appropriate setting of policies in several areas of life – regional development, health care, social area,…), business sector (to monitor and analyze demographic and economic indicators in space and then make decisions based on this information), academic sector (for studying and researching various facts and phenomena in the region, for using maps in seminar or final theses).

Data available for environmental applications through the Copernicus services – Francesca Di Giuseppe (ECMWF) TBD

Introduction to Antik Data Platform – Matuš Digo (ANTIK) TBD

20:20 – 21:00 Team pitching (2 mins per team)

21:00 – 21:10 Tech. Intructions for day 2 – mentoring/agenda

21:00 – 23:30 Hackathon Continues

Day 2 / Saturday, 2nd July

Hackathon

8:30 – 9:00 Θ Welcome coffee & breakfast

9:00 – 9:05 Intro – day agenda

9:00 – 9:45 Mentoring session I (15 mins per group)

9:45 – 11:15 Hacking Begins (Ideation)

11:15 – 12:15 Morning workshops session

Satellite services as critical asset for smart solutions – Daniel Sagath (Slovak Space Office) (10 + 5 mins) TBD

Hackathons that change our cities – Anna Pastorekova (Civitta) (10 + 5 mins) Success story of Climathon Bratislava. The cooperation between the city and its citizens leads to solutions that make a true impact in our lives. The winning teams from Climathon corporate with the municipality of Bratislava until today.

How to create a solution for hackathons without writing a single line of code – Mirek Binas (TUKE) (30 + 5 mins) In this presentation we are going to introduce you to a tool, that can help you create a prototype quickly and easily. We are going to show you, how to easily create a standard app for hackathons, using data from open source REST API, edit, visualise, and present them on your own website. And all this without writing a single line of code! The only limit is the time and length of this presentation.

12:00 – 13:30 Θ Lunch

13:30 – 20:00 Hacking Continues (Prototyping)

14:30 – 15:00 Θ Coffee break / snack

16:30 – 18:30 Mentoring sessions II (30 mins per group)

18:30 – 20:00 Θ Dinner

20:00 – 20:45 Evening workshops session (10 + 5 mins each)

How to pitch your solution? – Anna Pastorekova (Civitta) Many solutions are good but when not presented well, the audience does not understand it. During this workshop, you will learn what is an effective structure of presentation to catch the attention of the audience and make them care about what you have to offer.
This workshop will last 45 minutes and you can find some inspiration on how to design your presentations.

Privacy – Safe Growth – Dominika Oratorova (Promiseo) TBD

20:45 – 23:30 Hackathon Continues

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Day 3 / Sunday, 3rd July
Hackathon & Announcements

8:30 – 8:55 Θ Welcome coffee & breakfast

08:55 – 09:00 Intro

09:00 – 12:00 Hackathon Continues (Proposal preparation)

09:00 – 10:30 Mentoring sessions III (15 mins per group)

11:30 Final Countdown

11:30 Deadline for Presentation Submission

11:30 – 12:30  Θ Buffet Lunch

12:30 – 13:00 Workshops session (10 + 5 mins each)

Secure funding for your digital solutions from Horizon Europe – Tomas Pavlik (CVTI SR) The research and innovation programme of the European Commission called Horizon Europe, has an astronomical budget for innovative solutions that can drive the EU’s economy forward. One of the priorities is to improve digitalisation in Europe. In this brief workshop, Tomas will introduce you to the basics, how to join the programme, and will also talk about the current open calls.

Does your coffee machine have a twin? – Karol Grülling (NESS) A short, foward-looking and a bit speculative prediction on how digital twins will shape our next decade and why industrial workers are about to spend their working days in metaverse.

13:00 – 14:30 Pitches (max. 5 mins)

14:30 – 15:00 Jury deliberation

15:00 Winners announcement

Θ Drinks + snacks to celebrate

 

End of RIS Citython

Oranisational Info

Registration is now CLOSED. Organizers will follow up with all participants via email and will provide a link to online platform.

Online participants will have a possibility to follow all presentations and workshops using this platform and will also have a possibility to interact with speakers.

Speakers presenting online will connect using the same link and their talk will be streamed in the main meeting room as well as online. Both in-presence and online participants will be allowed to ask questions. More specific instructions will be provided before the event.

Dedicated Slack workspace will be also available to all participants and will be used as the main communication channel before and during the event. Online participants will also have a moderator available who will facilitate the communication with the organizing team and mentors. We encourage participants to login and regularly check the slack channels divided into thematic groups (general talks, logistics, challenges, etc.).

Online participants will be requested to sign up for mentoring sessions available on Saturday and Sunday and use a platform offered by each mentor. Online participants are excepted to deliver their final presentations pre-recorded respecting the same deadline as in-presence participants (will be communicated during the event).

All important information will be disseminated in advance on Slack and via email.

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Speakers

Miroslav Biňas

Dept. of Computers and Informatics
Technical University of Košice

About Enthusiac teacher and mentor. Wants to be Batman someday 🙂

Peter Serfözö

Head of Division of planning and environment department of Regional development of Košice self-governing region

About Peter Serfözö has a university degree in architecture and urbanism at Technical university in Košice and Politecnico di Milano. He has 10+ years of experience in designing investment projects, elaboration of zoning plans and their amendments. At the moment he works as head of Division of planning and environment department of Regional development of Košice self-governing region, working mostly on digitizing regional spatial planning and turning the form from forecasting to GIS analysis.

Martin Mudrák

Plenipotentiary of the City of Košice for Innovation & Economic Development

About Martin drives the Košice City Hall’s Economic and Innovation agenda as a Plenipotentiary for Innovation & Economic Development. He graduated from the P. J. Šafárik University in Košice as a master in Translation and Interpretation for European Institutions and Economy. For several years he worked in the field of IT and Project Management. Between 2015 and 2022, he was responsible for leading the AmCham (American Chamber of Commerce) Slovakia’s regional presence as the director of its Košice Office. His main focus was aimed at supporting regional economic development and cross-sector collaboration, bolstering local innovation ecosystem and promoting innovative entrepreneurship in the region.

Dominika Oratorova

PPC Specialist
PROMISEO

About Dominika is graduated in Master of Science with major in Business Administration, International Marketing at Jönköping University, Sweden and has several accomplishments in Strategic Marketing and Project Management: four won case competitions out of more than 120 participants with collaboration with following companies -Separett AB, Rosendahl Design Group, SAB Miller and Green Building Council. Dominika currently pursue her career within PPC marketing, specialising in Google Ads, paid online advertisement, price comparators, feed and data management. As PROMISEO has a prominent status of a Google Premier Partner, she is currently involved in a Digital Championship Program and she is acquiring exepertise in the most recent digital solutions provided by Google. Therefore, she will elucidate the newest Google’s solutions in the time of customer privacy-safe regulations touching upon data collection and measurement.

Tomas Pavlik

National Contact Point for Horizon Europe (CVTI SR)
Founder grantUP

About Working at Technical University Košice for more than 9 years, where he is involved in the development of international innovation and research and development projects and leads the RIS Hub under EIT RawMaterials. He founded the online magazine and podcast grantUP, which communicates grant topics in an understandable way. Since 2022, he has been working as the National Contact Point for the Horizon Europe in Slovakia program in the area of Digitization.

Milan Varga

Lead of Innovlab Startup Center
DT IT Solutions

About I’m happy that I can share my 12+ years of managerial experience in IT industry mainly with R&D projects and software engineering services for UK and US clients with startups and young entrepreneurs. In Innovlab we focus on the latest technologies and trends in the areas of Telco and Health. This enable us together with partners to create perspective and meaningful innovations. We are connecting startups with our B2B partners for the co-creation of the innovative solutions and business opportunities for all involved parties.

Žofia Sinčáková 

Researcher, Citizen Experience and Well-being Institute
Creative Industry Kosice, n.o. 

About After completing her PhD at the Department of Regional Sciences and Management at the Economic faculty of the Technical University of Kosice, she started to work as a researcher at the newly established Citizen Experience and Well-being Institute in Creative Industry Kosice, n.o. She is responsible for composing and establishing surveys focused on well-being and quality of life in the city of Kosice. She and her colleagues are together trying to use various experimental research methods to give answers to the local administration on how to improve the well-being of citizens. She also closely works with the local public administration, and she is part of a team that “brought to life” the Open data portal of the city of Kosice.

Matúš Digo

Business Developer
ANTIK Telecom s.r.o. & Antik Technology, s.r.o.

About Ing.Matúš Digo currently works at ANTIK as a manager of the shared fleet structure in Slovakia and a project manager for the development of private shared fleets. He is in charge of preparing, developing and establishing sharing in various regions in cooperation with cities and private companies. He also manages the sales network of Super Soco e-motorcycles in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Karol Grülling

Senior Engineering Director
Ness Digital Engineering

About Karol is a Senior Engineering Director at Ness Digital Engineering where he manages software delivery for customers operating within Manufacturing & Transportation industry. He and his teams deliver public transit solutions that facilitate travel in some of the largest metropolitan areas across the globe. An engineer at heart and manager at soul, he also leads a Center of Excellence that researches and implements current trends and advanced technologies in the Manufacturing & Transportation space.

Daniel Sagath

International Cooperation Manager
Slovak Space Office

About Expert on science commercialization, diversification of entrepreneurship and innovation. Specialized in the space industry & business incubation. Skilled mentor in start-up and scale-up initiatives, including company portfolio and strategy preparations (e.g., business model canvas, identification and solutions to business obstacles), including the analysis of entrepreneurial competences, cost structure, and revenue streams. Experienced with business incubation in high-technology industries, including business environment and entrepreneurial practices analysis or project management.

Francesca Di Giuseppe

Principal Scientist / Project Manager
ECMWF

About Francesca leads the development of the Fire Forecasting system at ECMWF. The system provides operational predictions to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) under the umbrella of the European Copernicus Emergency Management Services. EFFIS is also being expanded into the Global Wildfire Information System to create an integrated system that provides access to all fire related available information on a global scale. Since joining ECMWF in 2011, Francesca has worked extensively on seasonal and sub-seasonal forecasting for sectoral application related to drought, fire and health, with a focus over Europe and Africa. Before this she was team leader at the Servizio Meteorological of Emilia Romagna region leading the diagnostic and remote observation team. Franccesca has a background in atmospheric modelling and PhD in cloud – radiation interaction.

Martin Tuchyna

GeoICT & Environmental infrastructure coordinator
Ministry of Environment SR

About After PhD studies in Landscape ecology at Technical University in Zvolen, started to understand the potential of geographic information systems and spatial data infrastructures in Slovak environment agency. This allowed him to get closer insights, working as national detached expert on data specifications framework for INSPIRE directive at the Joint Research Centre of the EC. Last decade supports INSPIRE implementation and use in synergies with the Open Data and eGovernment initiatives at the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic. Where possible, he keeps trying to stimulate innovations, link people and ideas and remains curious.

Marcel Gibóda

Deputy Mayor
City of Košice

Mentors

Miroslav Michalko

IT expert & Researcher
Head of Computer Networks Laboratory
Technical University of Košice

About Expert in field of ICT, creative thinker and experienced project manager. He is expert in multimedia technologies, computer networks and cybersecurity solutions. Now he is Head of Computer Networks Laboratory at Technical University of Košice. And he is passionate about technology and innovation.

Ondrej Kainz

Computer Scientists
Technical University of Košice

About Has got his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Technical University of Kosice. He’s currently an assistant professor at the same university, teaching Computer Networks courses. Being a member of the Computer Network Laboratory, Ondrej is also a qualified instructor trainer (ITQ) of the Cisco Networking Academy program. Over the years has mentored, both as supervisor and consultant, almost 100 final theses. Ondrej has been involved in several international and national research projects (H2020 MIDIH, EEN, IT AKADEMIA, TECHNICOM, …). His scientific research interests include computer vision, e-learning, computer networks, and the design of educational materials.

Alica Nárožná Gold

Business Development
Manager DTIT s.r.o.

About An executive member of innovation center of Deutsche Telekom IT Telecommunication Slovakia s.r.o. Experienced professional focused on innovation strategies and business development. Alica worked with several StartUps, universities, local municipalities on different challenges to help them achieve most potential values of their products. Alica’s areas of expertise include: validation of potencial product, legal backround of developing and protecting rights of product,market research, customer feedback and expectation.

Peter Šoltés

CEO of Promiseo

About Peter Soltes is a CEO of Promiseo. Promiseo is a digital agency, Premier Google Partner since 2015 and the only member of Assosiation of Digital and Marketing Agencies of Slovakia that is based in Kosice. Peter is active also in several different companies and is also investor in several start-ups. He was listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 and is Board Member of Kosice IT Valley. He combines skills in marketing with business knowledge.

Milan Varga

Lead of Innovlab Startup Center
DT IT Solutions

About I’m happy that I can share my 12+ years of managerial experience in IT industry mainly with R&D projects and software engineering services for UK and US clients with startups and young entrepreneurs. In Innovlab we focus on the latest technologies and trends in the areas of Telco and Health. This enable us together with partners to create perspective and meaningful innovations. We are connecting startups with our B2B partners for the co-creation of the innovative solutions and business opportunities for all involved parties.

Miroslav Biňas

Dept. of Computers and Informatics
Technical University of Košice

About Enthusiac teacher and mentor. Wants to be Batman someday 🙂

Martin Pukančík

Head of GIS department, Košice Self-governing Region

About Graduated as a landscape engineer at the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra with a focus on landscape planning and GIS. After completing his university degree, he worked for 9 years in a private geodetic company with responsibility for landscape planning, land consolidation, GIS Analysis and also as an authorized expert for Territorial systems of ecological stability. Then he used his experience as a GIS Analyst and landscape planner for the State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic. Currently working as Head of GIS department at Košice Self-governing Region where he is in charge of creation and operation of the regional Geoportal (Regional Spatial Data Infrastructure).

Daniel Sagath

International Cooperation Manager
Slovak Space Office

About Expert on science commercialization, diversification of entrepreneurship and innovation. Specialized in the space industry & business incubation. Skilled mentor in start-up and scale-up initiatives, including company portfolio and strategy preparations (e.g., business model canvas, identification and solutions to business obstacles), including the analysis of entrepreneurial competences, cost structure, and revenue streams. Experienced with business incubation in high-technology industries, including business environment and entrepreneurial practices analysis or project management.

Anna Pastorekova

Consultant and Accelerator
CIVITTA

About Anna Pastoreková is a consultant at Civitta. She plans and implements acceleration programs, hackathons and workshops. She studied international management in Bratislava at Comenius University and a second master degree, CEMS International Management, at the University of Economics in Vienna.

Peter Breyl

General Director of the Innovation Centre of the Košice Region

About Peter is the General Director of the Innovation Centre of the Kosice Region where he supports the creation, development and growth of the regional innovation ecosystems. He has extensive knowledge and experience in business design and support for startups and large corporates and worked on various projects that involved turning business ideas into successful products and services all the way through to securing investment from investors. He specialises in human centered design and actively applies this technique in the design of products and solutions. He returned to his home town Kosice after years working abroad on international projects and was one of the founding members of Innovlab at T-Systems and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT Health).

Miloslav Michalko

Geospatial Data Consultant
World Bank

About Research and geospatial data consultant focusing on open mapping tools and the use of GIS and OpenStreetMap in regional development. He holds PhD in Regional Geography and Regional Development at the University of Prešov, where he is trying to develop community-based GIS activities with an emphasis on regional strategic planning. While using tools such as Mapathons or other open tools to bring good quality spatial open data. Same, within the Catching-Up Regions project, he is engaged in deploying Spatial Data Infrastructure for two Slovak regional administrative.

Peter Džupka

Associate professor on faculty of economics
Technical University of Košice

About Peter Džupka works as associate professor on faculty of economics and at the same time he is the Head of department of regional science and management. He has long experiences in cooperation with public administration organizations on different levels. His research field is in application of different data based analytical methods for improving efficiency of decision-making processes in public administration organization. He was professionally responsible for development of several analytical studies focused on evaluation of efficiency of public investments mainly in the area of city and region mobility projects.

Martin Džodla

Global operation manager
DT IT Solutions

About Martin is an IT enthusiast since he was 10 years old. Therefore it was certain, that after studying Informatics and graduating from the Technical University of Košice, Faculty Of Electrical Engineering and Informatics he will work in IT. And so he does for the 9th year in Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia and 6th year as Operation manager – a bridge between our company and the customer, 3rd year as a Global Operation Manager, which means he is responsible for the whole operation we do for this customer. Currently, he is pursuing and broadening his knowledge with Agile methodologies – as SAFe, Scrum, OKR, etc. – and these experiences he is offering as a mentor for this event.

Maros Budaj

Solution architect
Ness

About Maros is a solution architect in Ness’s Manufacturing & Transportation (M&T) Center of Excellence and possesses 15+ years of experience in M&T-related domains and technical solutions. He is primarily focusing on research of current trends and emerging technologies and has a deep understanding of location data processing (HERE Platform) and IoT data processing. The depth of his research is proven by two joint patents that he holds in the area of visual map data processing. Maros analyses customer requirements, proposes solution architecture and works with development teams to achieve the goal using software development best practices and industry standards.

Richard Rovinsky

Human resources hacker

About Richard is an expert in building teams and team culture in organisations. As a human resources hacker, he works with organisations and individuals in different sectors to support them with their talent management and recruitment process. In simple words, he turns groups of people into functioning teams. He works with lots of national and international clients (Tieto, Deutsche Telekom Slovakia, RWE, Ceragon, Austin Detonator, NESS, LafargeHolcim), as well as public institutions.

Jury Members

Martin Mudrák

Plenipotentiary of the City of Košice for Innovation & Economic Development

About Martin drives the Košice City Hall’s Economic and Innovation agenda as a Plenipotentiary for Innovation & Economic Development. He graduated from the P. J. Šafárik University in Košice as a master in Translation and Interpretation for European Institutions and Economy. For several years he worked in the field of IT and Project Management. Between 2015 and 2022, he was responsible for leading the AmCham (American Chamber of Commerce) Slovakia’s regional presence as the director of its Košice Office. His main focus was aimed at supporting regional economic development and cross-sector collaboration, bolstering local innovation ecosystem and promoting innovative entrepreneurship in the region.

Lenka Tkacova

PR and Event manager
Slovak Space Office

About Lenka is a PR and Event manager at Slovak Space Office. She has previous working experience in the startup environment, as she worked for Slovak startup companies such as Itrinity and Slido. She is a graduate of Security studies at the University of Matej Bela, her master thesis has focused on the usage of satellite technologies for ensuring the state‘s security.

Miloslav Michalko

Geospatial Data Consultant
World Bank

About Research and geospatial data consultant focusing on open mapping tools and the use of GIS and OpenStreetMap in regional development. He holds PhD in Regional Geography and Regional Development at the University of Prešov, where he is trying to develop community-based GIS activities with an emphasis on regional strategic planning. While using tools such as Mapathons or other open tools to bring good quality spatial open data. Same, within the Catching-Up Regions project, he is engaged in deploying Spatial Data Infrastructure for two Slovak regional administrative.

Frantisek Jakab

Head director at TECHNICOM University Science Park
Technical University of Košice

About Completed university studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. St. Petersburg Institute of Electrical Engineering in 1984 in the field of Systems Engineering. Since 1984 he has been working at the Department of Computers and Informatics of the FEI Technical University in Košice, since 1999 as the head of the Computer Networks Laboratory (www.cnl.sk), which was built under his leadership and belongs to the top workplaces dealing with progressive network technologies. He specializes in computer networks and advanced network technologies. Since 1999 he has been working as the coordinator of the Cisco Network Academic Program for the Slovak Republic, and since 2010 as the program manager of Cisco Slovakia. In 2006, he received the IT Personality of the Year award in the Slovak Republic.

Viliam Podhorský

Senior State Councellor
Electronic Communications Department
Ministry of Transport and Construction (SK)

About He has been working for 30 years in the Ministry in various managing positions. He is actively involved in the preparation of the strategy documents for the telecommunications sector relating to DVB-T, T-DAB, 5G and the national frequency allocations. Mr. Podhorský represents the Ministry in the Working Parties and the Committees in OECD and European Commission. From 2003 to 2008 he worked at the Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the EU in Brussels being in charge of telecommunications, information society and the Galileo satellite system. Before joining the Ministry in 1993, Mr. Podhorský worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Bratislava, focused in the area of the telecommunications transmission systems and networks. He holds a master´s degree in Telecommunications from Faculty of Electrical Engineering (Slovak Technical University in Bratislava).

Anna Pastorekova

Consultant and Accelerator
CIVITTA

About Anna Pastoreková is a consultant at Civitta. She plans and implements acceleration programs, hackathons and workshops. She studied international management in Bratislava at Comenius University and a second master degree, CEMS International Management, at the University of Economics in Vienna.

Miroslav Biňas

Dept. of Computers and Informatics
Technical University of Košice

About Enthusiac teacher and mentor. Wants to be Batman someday 🙂

Jury Speaker

Daniel Sagath

International Cooperation Manager
Slovak Space Office

About Expert on science commercialization, diversification of entrepreneurship and innovation. Specialized in the space industry & business incubation. Skilled mentor in start-up and scale-up initiatives, including company portfolio and strategy preparations (e.g., business model canvas, identification and solutions to business obstacles), including the analysis of entrepreneurial competences, cost structure, and revenue streams. Experienced with business incubation in high-technology industries, including business environment and entrepreneurial practices analysis or project management.

Master of Ceremony

Viliam Vajda

Product manager
Deutche Telekom Systems Solutions Slovakia

About Viliam used to study Faculty of Economics at Technical University of Kosice, where he also made a PhD study and spent 12 years as an assistant professor and researcher. His research area was dedicated to applied research in IT, mostly focused on valuation of investment in IT and evaluation of implementation the new technologies/systems in companies within various business areas. Viliam currently works as a Product Manager at Automation Shared Service Centre. Previously in the company he worked as a Business System Analyst, Product Owner and also as a Head of Team at ASSC. Viliam also worked as a team member and lead coordinator of national as well as international multidisciplinary research and implementation teams for consortia formed from universities and mostly European companies. He is co-founder of Eastcubator – Co-working space for innovative companies and freelancers in Kosice and organizer of Startup Weekend in Kosice and T-Systems Slovakia Hackathon.

Organizers of Citython 2022 in Košice, Slovakia

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This project is funded by EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
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