GreenHack People – Mentors, Jury, Organizers
You can see profiles of the mentors who will help you with your hack as well as judges & organizers:
GreenHack Mentors
Jitka Čejková (Jury)
Researcher
Jitka Čejková is an associate professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Chemical Technology in Prague. Her research interests include artificial life and droplets as liquid robots. She is the editor of the book „Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life“, published in Czech under the title Robot 100.
Michal Sikyta (Jury)
Investment Director at Soulmates Venture
Michal seeks and supports driven founders with innovative approaches – always interested in discussing your ideas. He is an investment director at Soulmates Ventures, an accelerator and VC fund focused on sustainable innovations across the CEE region. In supporting founders and the sustainability community generally, he is involved in the Green Innovation Academy, a non-profit platform founded by Soulmates Ventures. Michal founded Flüchtlinge Willkommen Österreich and has been heavily involved in the expansion of the project throughout Europe. He was behind the development of the non-profit projects PROSA, HOME or work:in. Michal studied Political Science at the University of Vienna and International Relations at Oxford University.
Pavol Hejný (Jury)
Co-founder of the H-du and CollBoard.com
Pavol is the co-founder of the H-Edu teacher platform and online virtual whiteboard CollBoard.com. He has worked on projects for the Czech Ornithological Society and has also developed the online game Towns and many other projects in the past. He has spoken at various conferences such as DevConf, LinuxDays, OpenAlt, Czech VR Fest, Frontendisti, ITnetwork.cz, Jobs Dev, etc. He has organized several technology conferences himself, co-organized hackathons and participated in many startup competitions as a mentor and judge. He keeps up to date with technology events in the Czech Republic and sends a monthly email to people who are interested about the most interesting events on Czech.events.
Tomáš Studeník
Radical Innovator & City Hacker
Tomáš is a radical innovator and city hacker. Tomáš holds MBA from the University of Liverpool and MSc in Innovation from HEC Paris. He is the CEO of Insane Business Ideas (www.inbui.com), a consultancy that helps industry leaders and governments innovate. Tomáš organized the first global CEE Hacks hackathon (www.ceehacks.com) in 2017 and has since held numerous innovation events to improve mobility, sustainability, and health of European cities. Apart from consulting companies on innovation strategy, Tomáš holds popular monthly FuckUp Nights (www.fuckupnights.cz) where lessons from failure are publicly shared by distinguished entrepreneurs, scientists, and artists. In 2018, Tomáš published the Big Book of Fuckups (www.fuckupy.cz) that the world-renowned economist Tomáš Sedláček called the book of the year. In 2020, Tomáš is working with a team of artificial intelligence scientists and theatre production to stage the first play written by AI as a celebration of the centenary of the word ‘robot’ (www.theaitre.com).
Zuzana Drhová
Expert on sustainability and circle economy at Prague Innovation Institute
Filip Řehořík
Partner Development Manager
Filip has always been interested in information technology. Both the actual software development and architecture design, as well as who the customer is, how the product is used, where there is room for innovation and how it all works from a business point of view. After trying out several of my own projects and roles for Czech companies, he has been developing cooperation with Microsoft partners for the last 15 years. Recently, these have been mainly areas related to AI and the scaling of sales and shortening the business cycle.
Marek Miltner
Sustainable AI Pioneer
Marek is a trailblazing Sustainable AI Pioneer with extensive experience in academia and industry. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher of AI for Sustainable Energy Transformations at Stanford and Czech Technical University. Previously he spent several years as CTO and Head of Engineering at various international startups, leading the development of user-friendly products that harness the power of generative AI. His standout projects include heading the development of Czechia’s first autonomous racecar, introducing the world’s first text-to-UI-prototype tool, or leading the IT/AI transformation of a major European pharma company. With a passion for AI and GreenTech, he leverages his expertise to drive innovation and create a positive impact of AI for the world in the field of sustainability.
Tomáš Žídek
Head of Innovation and Scouting
Head of Innovation and Scouting at Škoda X. Tomáš leads a team of experts in developing and delivering digital solutions for the automotive industry and mobility sector.
Jan Železný
eMobility Manager
eMobility Manager at ŠKODA X. Jan leads projects focused on EVs, decarbonization and EV ecosystem helping to create a sustainable future for EVs.
Roman Gdovjak
Country Manager for Slovakia & Expansion Manager at Cyrkl.com
Country Manager for Slovakia & Expansion Manager at Cyrkl.com
Roman is a Country Manager for Slovakia & Expansion Manager at Cyrkl.com – green-tech start-up and trading platform with focus on circularity in waste management. In the European biggest recycling platform, waste of one company could be a wealth for another one and when using machine learning, Cyrkl can manage the right match. He has been focusing on the topic of circular economy for a couple of years now, in the start-up world, but prior to Cyrkl, also in public administration and NGO sector. In public administration in Slovak Environment Agency, he was responsible for the topic of Sustainable consumption and production, while also representing Slovakia’s circular economy activities in Brussels and organising an international conference for Eco-innovation. He is a graduate of the University of Economics, where he focused on International economic relations.
Tadeáš Kula
CEO and founder of Reknihy
CEO and founder of Reknihy
Tadeáš Kula is the CEO and founder of the startup Reknihy. It is a digital platform that allows people to efficiently sell books lying unused in their library. Tadeáš is a web designer, which, apart from UX, is his primary speciality. He started his business career very early – at the age of 13 when he managed and owned popular game servers. As a teenager, he was still creating websites or participating in the expansion of FaceUp abroad. Tadeáš gifted the creation of Reknihy as his 22nd birthday gift to himself. As he says, it was born out of his own need to send his books out so that someone else could be enriched by them and save the environment at the same time.
Radek Hartman
Member of the Board of Directors
Member of the Board of Directors
Graduating from the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague, Radek further completed an MBA program specializing in strategic and change management at the Sheffield Business School. He has held managerial positions at companies including Arthur Andersen, MONDI Štětí, Cap Gemini, CE WOOD, U & SLUNO, and Ernst & Young Czech Republic.
