Ing. Ondřej Smíšek

Head of department and Deputy Vice-Dean of the Czech Technical University in Prague – Faculty of Transportation Sciences in Děčín, university teacher and entrepreneur in the field of IT. Now also Deputy Mayor in charge of City Development and IT. He has been professionally engaged in sustainable transport for many years. He works on many joint projects with foreign universities. In the position of Deputy Mayor, he works on the development of a city that is friendly to citizens and visitors.

An active athlete who loves the outdoors. He is an enthusiastic cyclist (primarily dedicated to offroad riding), skis, is a passionate climber and ski mountaineer. He's made several high-altitude climbs, mostly in South America. He also encourages his two children to play sports. Apart from sports, his great passions are travelling and technology.

Ing. Radmila Velnerová, MPA

Head of the Department of Analysis, Management Support and Control of the Regional Office in Hradec Králové Region, she coordinates the region's open data activities, and implements hackathons for open data application proposals for secondary school and university students. She leads the activities of the region's data portal Data KHK, coordinates data reports in the region's data warehouse, ensures data visualization in BI tools, shares good practice in the field of open data, work with data sources in data warehouses, data portals with other public administration entities.

She cooperates with the University of Hradec Králové in the field of research, cybersecurity and the creation of applications with AI.

RNDr. Roman Matoušek, Ph.D.

Advisor to the Minister for regional development

Advisor to the Minister for evidence-informed policy making, regional development and housing. Long-term experience with consultation on changes to municipal and regional social and housing policies. Co-author of an index of social exclusion used to target state policy and professional publications on housing policy, energy poverty and regional development.

Ing. Jiří Zeisek

He studied logistics and management of transport processes at the Faculty of Transportation Sciences of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Employee of the Faculty of Transportation Sciences focused on solving transport problems with a focus on parking in densely populated areas. .

Ing. Martin Špaček, Ph.D.

He deals with strategic approaches to decision-making also with regard to the transformation of coal regions. He is also involved on a long-term basis in projects dealing with the evaluation of public spending programmes and with the analysis of payment systems for ecosystem services. He has been involved in a number of international research projects.

Currently, he works at the Faculty of Social and Economic Studies of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem and also cooperates with the Innovation Centre of the Ústí Region.

Ing. Roman Vaibar, Ph.D.

A proud native of Ústí who studied applied mathematics in Plzeň and has a doctorate in applied mechanics. 28 years of experience in IT. He was a scientific-technical worker at the research centre in Rossendorf near Dresden, then a researcher at the Technical University of Dresden, a production manager at a company dealing with 3D technologies, head of the computer science centre at UJEP and is currently a co-creator of the Portabo data platform.

Mgr. Zuzana Schwarz Bařtipánová

Mayor of the town of Bílina (in charge among other things of Smart City activities). Member of the Committee for Transformation, Science, Research and Energy of the Ústí Region.