N100 AREAS

what WAS discussed...

NEXT100 POLITICS

• Globalizing World and Political Backlash: Overcoming Anxieties, Securing Identities, Innovating Polities Around Global Challenges Tomáš Petříček, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic, Tony Curzon Price

• Impact of Data Mining on Politics (Users vs Uses): Tony Curzon Price

• Foreign Influence in the Balkans, Teresa Reiter, Filip Šebok, Tomáš Strážay

• Will China Rise? Why we worry about the wrong 'Thucydides Trap’, David Welch, University of Waterloo

• BREXIT AT TIFFANY'S (Brexit Breakfast Briefing) Monika Brusenbauch Meislová (Masarykova Univerzita, Tony Curzon Price

• Africa and Europe: Language of opportunities instead of Crisis, Henni Brandstötter (Austrian Parliament)

NEXT100 SOCIETY

• Innovation for social good, Jan Bizik, Vodafone

• Making robots usable in everyday life, Patrizio Pelliccione

• Education for the digital 21st century - the story of Czechitas, Barbora Buhnova (Czechitas, Masaryk University)

• The Harmonious Relationship between People & Tech, Mathew Oh, Forefront Charity

• Automation and Society: Between politics, business and technology, Martina Dlabajova (MEP), Thomas Roca (Microsoft)

• Knowledge Triangle in the 21st Century, Jiri Drahos (Czech Senate), Barbora Buhnova (Czechitas, Masaryk University)

• No Future (book presentation) Bob Kartous (EDUIn)

• Personal Freedom and Technology, Shmuel Bar, Jan Lipavský

• Integrating Segmentation through People, Mathew Oh (Forefront Charity)

NEXT100 ECONOMY

• Key Note on Global Sustainability: Jeffrey Sachs (online)

• American First’ and the problem with the battle against corporate tax abuse, Ronen Palan, City University, London

• Why does Europe "punch beneath its weight? Iain Begg, London School of Economics

• Analysing the data-flow of stories, Tony Curzon Price

NEXT100 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

• Climate Change: Is the Science Done and Dusted? Tim Palmer, Oxford University

• AI and Climate Change, Ludovic Sinet, Good Tech Lab

• Renewable Energy in the Visegrad Countries: Policy Discussion, Adéla Denková (Evropa v Datech)

• Beyond energy efficiency and its role in the future energy system, Ondřej Šrámek Tomasz Waszkiewicz (EU-ESA)

• Electricity as the cryptocurrency of the future, Petr Rokusek (NANOEnergy)

NEXT100 TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATIONS

• AI applications are not even nearly intelligent—we can solve this, Patrick Van Der Smagt, Volkswagen Group

• Spotlight: Jim Balsillie on Innovations

• Global challenges to automation, Sarah Trippl (NEOS), Jan Svejnar (Columbia University), Slavoj Musilek (Universal Robots), Barbora Buhnova (Masaryk University)

• RICAIP: An Ecosystem for Future AI, Vladimir Marik (CIIRC, CUT)

• The state of AI across Europe: analysis, Thomas Roca (Microsoft)

• International Visegrad Fund and Recharging Central Europe: IVF and Innovations, Andor David, Director of the International Visegrad Fund

NEXT100 SECURITY AND DEFENCE

• Counter-Terrorism - How Mass Data Collection Technology and Good Old HUMINT Complement, Shmuel Bar (Intuview), Yan St. Pierre

• From Kinetic to Virtual and Back Again: The Evolution of Conflict in the Wider Middle East Mitchell Belfer, Arthur de Liedekerke

• What future for Technology in War and Conflict? Shmuel Bar, Jiří Šedivý, David Welch

• The future of Central and Eastern European defence industries, Martin Chovančík

NEXT100 SCIENCE 

• Open Science: are we walking the walk, Robert-Jan Smits, President, Eindhoven University

• Beyond the Horizon: what future for EU research funding beyond 2020? Daniel Spichtinger

• Jan Lukačevič on Space and Science

• Key Note: Frederick Bordry on the Fundamental Science of Physics and its Impact on the Future of Humanity

• Dialogue between Climate and Physics: Overcoming boundaries searching for the impossible: Frederick Bordry (CERN), Tim Palmer (Oxford University)

• European AI: Global Contender? Holger Hoos

• The State of Art of Alzheimer Research, Martin Tolar (Alzheon)

• AI & Reasoning: A View From the Trenches, Josef Urban (CIIRC)

• Will the future of research be open? Daniel Spichtinger

BEYOND N100

• The Unbelievable Truth: Panel Show Game JP Kloppers, Bill Shipsey, Tony Curzon Price, Michal Koran, Odessa Primus

• Art and Artists and the Fluidity of Our Times, Bill Shipsey, Art for Amnesty

• BrainArt, Alberto Levy

• Conference Cliché Pop Roulette – Next100 Band Improv Show

• Arts, Technology, and Ethical AI. Exploring the Unthinkable with the Republic of Užupis. Max Haarich

• OXFORD-STYLE DEBATE: The voice of the audience

2019 speakers

Barbora Buhnova

Associate Professor, Masaryk University

Co-Founder of Czechitas

David Welch

Professor of Political Science, Chair of Global Security, Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA)