Guests

Gordon Bajnai

Gordon Bajnai, CEO and Chairman of the Management Committee, Campbell Lutyens

Peter Balík

Former Minister of Slovakia for Investments, Regional Development and Digitalization

Byron David Bridges

Vice President for the Enterprise Innovation Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures

Sally Bundock

News Presenter and Journalist at BBC

Steve Clemons 

Contributing Editor at The National Interest and Co-Chair of GLOBSEC US Initiative

Mathias Cormann

Secretary-General at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

Thierry Déau

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Meridiam

Vladimír Dlouhý

President of Eurochambres

Juraj Droba

Governor, Bratislava Region

Tomáš Drucker

Minister of Education, Research, Development and Youth of the Slovak Republic

Ladislav Frűhauf

Leader of think tank Czech Priorities working with public institutions

Marian Gazdík

Founding Partner at G-Force

Csaba Gondola

Chief Advisor to the Minister of Energy of Hungary and the Executive Director of the Institute for Energy Strategy

Jenny Hasu

Manager, Microelectronics and Quantum at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Sabine Herlitschka

CEO of Infineon Technologies Austria AG

Mark Hicken

Senior Vice President and Managing Director Mid-Sized Markets EMEA at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Mario Holzner

Executive Director at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

Vazil Hudák

JP Morgan Member of the Advisory Council for EMEA

Ivan Ivančin

State Secretary for Informatization at the Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization

Natalie Jaresko

Former Minister of Finance of Ukraine

Beata Javorcik

Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

Jakub Jaworowski

Minister of State Assets of Poland

Kyriacos Kakouris

Vice-President of the European Investment Bank

James Kanter

Founding Editor of the EU Scream Politics

Zuzana Kaparová

Head of the EIB Group Office in Slovakia

Alex Kava

Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine

Karlheinz Kopf

Secretary General of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

Ivan Korčok

Former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Oleksandr Korniyenko

First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Péter Lakatos

CEO of Videoton Holding Zrt.

Wilhelm Molterer

Former Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister of Austria and Chairman of the Austrian People’s Party

Marek Mora

Deputy Minister of Finance of Finance of the Czech Republic

Katrina Mulligan

National Security Policy and Partnerships at OpenAI

Danuše Nerudová

Economist and Former Rector of Mendel University in Brno

Razvan Nicolescu

Member of the Governing Board at EIT

Pavel-Casian Nițulescu

State Secretary within the Ministry of Energy of Romania

Olga Nowicka

EU Policy and Partnerships Lead at OpenAI

Anita Orban

Vice President of International Affairs at Vodafone

Andrei Radulescu

Senior Researcher at Institute for World Economy and Romanian Academy Member of the Bretton Woods Committee

Oliver Röpke

President of the European Economic and Social Committee

Radomír Šalitroš

Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic

Kamil Šaško

State Secretary at the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic

Maithreyi Seetharaman

Founder of Facultas Media Limited

Robert Šimončič

Chief Executive Officer at Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency

Martina Slabejová

Executive Director at AmCham Slovakia

Martin Smatana

Research Fellow, GLOBSEC

Michal Štofko

State Secretary at the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic

Maria Tadeo

European Correspondent and Journalist

Tomáš Taraba

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Environment of the Slovak Republic

Ida Tin

Co-founder and Chairwoman of Clue

Sébastien Treyer

Executive Director at the Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI)

Jiří Valenta

Deputy Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic

Vladimír Vaňo

Associate Fellow at GLOBSEC

Róbert Vass

Founder and President of GLOBSEC

Margrethe Vestager

Executive Vice President of the European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Commissioner for Competition

Susan E. Walton

Special Adviser for New Markets at ODI

Maciej Witucki

President of the Polish Confederation Lewiatan

Miroslav Wlachovský

Former Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Werner Wutscher

Founder and Managing Director at New Venture Scouting

Davor Zoričić

State Secretary at the Ministry of Finance, Republic of Croatia