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N100 AREAS

N100 AREAS

CHARTING THE FUTURE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

INTERNET OF THINGS

AUTOMATION, AUTONOMIZATION AND ROBOTICS

FUTURE MATERIALS & NANO

COMMUNICATION, TECHNOLOGY

ENGINEERING

FLOWS OF DATA & INFORMATIONS

MOBILITY

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TECHNOLOGY

GLOBAL ORDER & DIPLOMACY
 

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS & GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
 

HUMAN RIGHTS

DIPLOMACY & INTERNATIONAL LAW

DEFENCE, SECURITY, WAR

TECHNOLOGY & GOVERNANCE

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POLITICS

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN TRADE & COMMODITIES

& IN FINANCES & MARKETS

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AID  & COOPERATION

ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE IN A FLUID WORLD

INTERNATIONAL  ECONOMY & FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE

MONOPOLIES & REGULATIONS AT A GLOBAL SCALE

PARALLEL & SHARED ECONOMIES

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ECONOMICS

FUTURE OF LABOUR

THE WAY WE LIVE

MIGRATION

SOCIAL  ASPECTS OF TECHNOLOGY/FUTURE OF WORK

CIVIL SPACE  & TECHNOLOGY(MEDIA, EDUCATION)

URBANISATIONS & SMART CITIES

INFRASTRUCTURE:

TRANSPORT & MOBILITY

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SOCIETY

COMPLEX SCIENCE/

SYSTEMS

MEDTECH /

HEALTH SCIENCE

QUANTUM COMPUTING

OPEN ACCESS SCIENCE

APPLIED MATHEMATICS / FUZZY LOGIC

SPACE EXPLORATION

ASTRONOMY

SATELLITE IMAGERIES

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science &

INNOVATION

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& ENERGY

SDG 2030 AGENDA

SMART GRIDS

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

WASTE

PEOPLE & PLANET

ENERGY

SUSTAINABILITY

RENEWABLE ENERGY

ENERGY STORAGE

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ENVIRONMENT

& ENERGY

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Security

& Defence

GLOBAL SECURITY, DEFENCE & WAR IN A TECHNOLOGICALLY TRANSFORMED WORLD

AI & AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS IN DEFENCE & WARFARE CAPABILITIES

SECURITY IN A CYBER WORLD

NON-STATE ACTORS

NEW TECHNOLOGIES & DATA SCIENCE IN ANALYSING SECURITY ENVIRONMENTS

DEFENCE INNOVATION

SPACE DEFENCE

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

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Jim Balsillie

Founder & Chair, Centre for International Governance Innovation

SPEAKERS 2019
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Tomáš Petříček

Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs

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Jeffrey Sachs

Economist, Columbia

Earth Institute

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Martina Dlabajová

Member of the European Parliament

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Shmuel Bar​

Founder and Director, IntuView

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Frederick Bordry

Director of Acceleration & Technology, CERN

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Tim Palmer

Research Professor, The Royal Society

Oxford University

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Holger Hoos

Initiator, CLAIRE

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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)

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Patrick Van der Smagt

Director of Fundamental AI Research, Volkswagen Group

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Teresa reiter

Policy Advisor for Foreign Policy, European Affairs, Defense and Development Cooperation

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JP Kloppers

CEO, BrandsEye

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Tony Curzon Price

Associate Editor, openDemocracy

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Sarah trippl

NEOS

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Filip Šebok

Project Manager / Research Fellow, Association for International Affairs

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martin tolar

Founder, President & CEO, Alzheon

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Robert-Jan Smits

President, Eindhoven University, Former Director-General of Research & Innovation, European Commission

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Iain begg

Professor, London School of Economics (LSE)

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petra Moravcova

Interaction designer, Avast Software in Product Discovery Team

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Josef Urban

Principal Researcher, CIIRC

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Tomasz Waszkiewicz

Regional Market Leader, Signify

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Monika Brusenbauch Meislová

Assistant professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Masaryk University

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Jan Lukacevic

Research Assistant at the Department of Space Physics, New Europe 100 Challenger​

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Ludovic Sinet

Researcher, Good Tech Lab

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odessa primus

Executive Director, GARI

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martin Chovančík

Assistant professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Masaryk University

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Alberto Levy

Innovation, Art & Technology

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Ronen palan

Professor of International Political Economy, City University of London

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Thomas Roca

Data Strategist, Microsoft & LinkedIn

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Michal Kořan

President of the Board, GARI

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henrike brandstötter

Member of the Austrian Parliament

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Jan Lipavský

Member of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

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Jiří Drahoš

Senator, former Presidential forerunner 

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JIŘÍ ŠEDIVÝ

 Former Assistant Secretary-General, NATO

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Vladimir Mařík

Scientific Director, CIIRC

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Tomáš Strazay

Director, SFPA, Slovak Foreign Policy Association

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Matthew Oh

Chair of the Board, CEO & Founder, Forefront Charity

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Adéla Denková

Research Fellow, AMO Research Center

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Ondřej Šrámek

Public Affairs Director Eastern Europe, Knauf Insulation

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job henning

Partner, Auxano Strategies

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Mitchell belfer

President of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre

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Petr Rokůsek

Founder & Scriptwriter of sustainable businesses

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Susanne Schröder

Founder, CFO and Head of communication, MOSECON

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bill shipsey

Founder, Art for Amnesty, Amnesty International

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Luboš Kreč

Hospodářské noviny

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Bob kartous

Head of Communications and Analyst at EduIn

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yan st-pierre

CEO and Counter-Terrorism Advisor, MOSECON

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Max haarich

Ambassador, 

Embassy of the Republic of Užupis

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karel Řiha

Deputy Director, CEITEC

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Jan Švejnar

Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia University, USA | Director, Institute for Democracy & Economic Analysis (IDEA), CERGE-EI 

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Slavoj musilek

Universal Robots General Manager - Central & Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS

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Jan bizik

Vodafone Foundation

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Arthur de liedekerke

External Affair Officer, CERT-EU

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Daniel spichtinger

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Taraka Ramji Moturu
Researcher at CEITEC MU 

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Andor david

Director, International Visegrad Fund

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Patrizio pelliccione

Associate Professor at DISIM, University of L’Aquila/University of Gothenburg

JIM BALSILLIE

Former Chairman and co-CEO of Research In Motion (BlackBerry), a Canadian technology company he scaled from an idea to $20 billion in sales globally.

Time Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Influential People and three times Barron’s list of "World’s Top CEOs.”

 

Co-founder (with George Soros), Institute for New Economic Thinking, Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI), Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), CIO Strategy Council.

Only Canadian ever appointed to US Business Council. Sole private sector representative, UN Secretary General’s High Panel for Sustainability.  Only Canadian member of the US Council on Competitiveness and an internationally renowned voice on innovation strategy, competitiveness and international economic policy.

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JIM BALSILLIE

Former Chairman and co-CEO of Research In Motion (BlackBerry), a Canadian technology company he scaled from an idea to $20 billion in sales globally.

Time Magazine’s World’s 100 Most Influential People and three times Barron’s list of "World’s Top CEOs.”

 

Co-founder (with George Soros), Institute for New Economic Thinking, Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI), Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), CIO Strategy Council.

Only Canadian ever appointed to US Business Council. Sole private sector representative, UN Secretary General’s High Panel for Sustainability.  Only Canadian member of the US Council on Competitiveness and an internationally renowned voice on innovation strategy, competitiveness and international economic policy.

JIM BALSILLIE

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JEFFREY SACHS

jeffrey sachs

Private sector representative, UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel for Global Sustainability/ Director, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network & SDG Advocate.

Joint recipients of the first World Sustainability Award.  Blue Planet Prize for contributions to solving global environmental problems. Named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by the Time. Also named one of the "500 Most Influential People in the Field of Foreign Policy" by the World Affairs Councils of America.

University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, frm. director the Earth Institute.

He has been advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

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This event was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 857306.

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