Pavel Cyrani is Member of the Board of Directors and Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer in the CEZ Group. His responsibilities include electricity and gas trading, electricity and gas supply to end customers, energy and engineering services as well as overall strategic development. Before joining Board of Directors in 2011 he was responsible for Generation Asset Management and Group Planning and Controlling. Pavel Cyrani is Member of Energy Committee of the Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic.

Before his engagement in ČEZ, a. s. he worked as a management consultant in McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in the energy industry. Pavel Cyrani graduated from the University of Economics, Prague, Department of International Trade, and obtained a MBA title in finance at the Kellogg School of Management in the USA.

Jan Konrád studied international relations at the University of Economics, Prague and the law at the Charles University Faculty of Law. In 1997, Jan started working as a Programmer at Unicorn Systems. Over time, he held several engineering positions, only to become involved in Unicorn’s sales activities in the energy industry and abroad. In 2013, he has been appointed a Member of the Board responsible for international expansion of Unicorn Systems. He has become the Chief Commercial Officer in 2016. Jan Konrád has been systematically developing the company’s business activities in the energy industry, taking a crucial part in setting up and implementing the business strategy in this area since 1999. 

Pavel Elis is Chairman of the Board of Directors, CEO of Pražská energetika and also since 2006 member of the Supervisory Board of PREdistribuce. During his career he worked in various managerial and professional positions within the company - from 2002 to 2004 as Director of Trading and Services Division and before as Head of construction department. He graduated from the Prague International Business School and the Czech Technical University with specialization in economics and energy management.

In April 2019, Tomáš Hüner was appointed Director of Siemens Operating Company Smart Infrastructure that merged the Energy Management and Building Technologies divisions. From December 2017 to June 2018 he held the position of Minister of Industry and Trade, during which time he interrupted his employment in the position of Director of the Energy Management Division for Siemens. Before he started working for Siemens in October 2015, he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Director of Energy Sources for Vršanská uhelna, a.s. Between 2006 and 2014 he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board for ČEPS, a. s., while simultaneously holding the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board of OTE, a.s. between 2011 and 2014. As Deputy minister of Industry and Trade he directed creation of legislation and concepts in the field of power engineering and industry (2006-2011). He was chairman of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of Severomoravská energetika, a.s. from 1994 to 2002.

He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Brno University of Technology and holds a diploma from the International Institute of Certified Studies in Strategic Management.

Since 2017, Vladimír has been working for ABB Electrification that produces and delivers products and solutions for the power distribution and control at low and medium voltage levels, e-mobility and wiring accessories. Prior ABB, he worked for electrical engineering and industrial automation companies in the Czech and Slovak Republics, where he held a number of management positions. He has a degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague with a focus on control and automation components. He also graduated from the Business Institute in Prague, where he obtained an MBA majoring in executive management.

Jan Hurt joined the management of Porsche Czech Republic in January 2019 from ŠKODA AUTO as, where he worked on the position of Director for International Fleet Trade Development and International Dealer Network Development. Prior to that, Mr. Hurt held several senior management positions within the VOLKSWAGEN Group. Among others, he was SEAT Sales Manager for Northern, Central and Eastern Europe; Regional Sales Manager of ŠKODA AUTO a.s. for Central and Eastern Europe and Director of Škoda Import Organization in Russia.

Petr Knap is the leading partner of the EY Consulting division in the Czech Republic, and the leading partner for the automotive sector in the regions of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and Central Asia. After working experience at Procter & Gamble, he has been a consultant since 1996, joining EY in 2002. His professional experience is mainly related to the automotive and manufacturing sectors, including consumer goods; in the past he also worked for clients in telecommunications and in the public sector. He has led management consulting projects focused on strategy development, organizational change, process optimization and cost reduction. Petr works and has worked for AutoSAP, Eberspaechaer, ŠKODA AUTO, Porsche ČR, Schaeffler and Witte among others. He is also actively involved in initiatives focusing on innovative trends in the future of manufacturing, such as digitization, Industry 4.0, autonomous vehicles, e-mobility and mobility services.

Martin Gajdoš acts as the head of strategy and business analysis at the Unipetrol group for which he works since 2015. His team mostly deals with questions of the company’s potential future directions and searches for suitable development opportunities, apart from others also in the area of hydrogen and circular economy. He has been awarded a master’s degree in the field of international and security studies at the University of Birmingham.

Aleš Laciok is responsible for coordination of research and development activities in the ČEZ Group which covers a broad spectrum of segments from nuclear and fossil-based energy production to renewables, energy savings and energy storage incl. hydrogen. Simultaneously, he is director of the Czech energy technology platform, an association of industry, engineering, research and academic organizations. Aleš is member of many scientific bodies of various institutions and advisory groups. He has vast experience from many international research projects.   

Martin Záklasník studied economy at universities in Prague and Vienna. He was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the energy company E.ON at the end of 2016. Before that he worked as the vice-president for B2B marketing and sale to big customers at T-Mobile in Prague and he also worked in T-Systems for nearly six years.Before 2008, he held various senior management positions in the Czech Republic as well as abroad.

Jan Železný is an eMobility expert with a focus on battery technology. At ŠKODA, Jan is developing innovative battery-related business models including energy storage systems, smart grid integration and new battery recycling methods.

Ondřej Synek works as the sales director of the product division at Unicorn Systems. In addition to responsibility for entrusted products in the areas of e-mobility, fintech, regtech, e-learning and healthcare, he is involved in marketing and business process optimization. After graduating in ICT Management at Unicorn College, he held various business and management positions at SAS Institute, Brand Embassy (NICE) and Unicorn Systems.

During his time supporting Hubject´s Consulting Unit as a Senior Consultant, Maximilian has conducted various projects that incorporated charging infrastructure ramp-up planning on national and municipal level. Further projects included the strategic positioning and business development for companies from the automotive and energy sector, as well as setting up an extensive employee charging service for a German Premium OEM. Maximilian is passionate about new (digital) mobility concepts and facilitating people´s ambition towards a more seamless and sustainable future. 

Maximilian has graduated from EBS University (GER), IIT Madras (India) and with a M.Sc. in Consulting & Change Management from the University of Maastricht (NL). Before joining Hubject, he has worked for various German OEMs and Automotive Consulting.

Tom Veit is working for several years as European Head of Procurement at Asahi Breweries Europe Group headquartered in Prague. He gained experience in the past as Head of Procurement at Plzensky Prazdroj or as Head of European Transformation responsible for integration of local and regional teams into global procurement organization. Currently the Procurement team at Asahi is working on expansion of the value, the procurement team can bring to the business including environmental sustainability, where the Procurement is responsible for 3 areas where one is reduction of the CO₂ emission footprint.

Jaromir is the Chairman of the IT and Smart City Committee and a member of the Prague City Assembly, elected in 2018 as a candidate of the Czech Pirate Party. His main focus is developing and implementing the Smart City concept for the City of Prague. He closely cooperates with the Mayor of Prague, Mr. Zdenek Hrib. Jaromir is shaping the city's plans in e-mobility, setting up a user-friendly, economically sustainable and long term viable network of charging points. Jaromir is also in charge of creating innovation strategies and development projects like Smart Prague or Prague Innovation Marathon. He represents the city's interest in the "prg.ai" association, a body created to promote Prague as the future Superhub in Artificial Intelligence.

Jaromir holds a Master's degree in International management from the University of Economics and in Law from the Charles University in Prague. He is experienced in finance, telco, innovations and startups. He is the leader of the board of the Pirate Party in Prague.

Stanislav has been with PREdistribuce since 2010. First he worked in network development and in 2013 he became a head of Communication at CDS and Smart Grid Unit. Since 2015 he has been heading the Network Conceptual Design Unit. During his university studies he already co-operated with E.ON and RWE. He graduated from RWTH University in Aachen, Germany, where he completed M.Sc. course in electrical engineering.

Matej Sandor is a Deputy Chairman of the Board and Project Management and Funds Section Director for Prague public company Operátor ICT (OICT). Aside from managing the company, in OICT he focuses on project management of big IT projects as well as the Smart City agenda, where belongs development of e-mobility in Prague. OICT was entrusted by the Council of the city of Prague with preparing a “Generel of development of charging infrastructure in Prague by 2030”.  Before his engagement in OICT, Matej Šandor he has worked in different managerial positions, for example for the Czech-Moravian Guarantee and Development Bank or Czech Television. Matej Sandor is a graduate of the Masaryk University Faculty of Law. Then he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Economics, Prague.

With experiences across the automotive and utility industry, Petr Füzék stayed always focused on the eMobility topic. Supporting its development and growth in the European markets, he is working as Head of eMobility and Alternative Fuels at EUROWAG. EUROWAG is a leading European integrated mobility solution provider, in eMobility focusing on unique fleet management, navigation and payment services for electric cars drivers and operators. 

Petr was previously responsible for the charging infrastructure and eMobility software integration business at innogy SE. At SKODA AUTO a.s. he was in the lead of the global eMobility business development strategy, but also working in the European sales department same as in the technical development for electric vehicles and the CO­₂ strategy.

His vision is to create a self-sustainable and profitable eMobility environment bringing automotive, energetics and IT worlds altogether.

Jan Sommer works as Product Manager for Unicorn Solutions, where he specialises in issues of Smart Mobility and eMobility. Jan used to work as Project Manager for the energy industry and now he draws from his experience from software design and development of previously designed solutions, such as B2B portals, eCommerce for end customers, or automotive service centre systems. However, what he is keen on is the systems communications, a field which provides further knowledge necessary to design today’s comprehensive integration solutions.

Marek Trešl is a graduate of the University of Economics in Prague. He earned his first serious work experience in the Czech IT company Software602, where he was responsible for desktop applications. Subsequently, he began working in the world of cars that are from childhood his hobby. In 2007 – 2013 he worked in Ford Motor Company as Brand Manager for larger passenger cars on Czech market. Since 2013 he has been working as Product Manager of all model series at Hyundai Motor Czech. His team is responsible for specifications, price lists, product materials, comparisons and non-technical trainings of all Hyundai models available on the Czech market.

Tomas Chmelík graduated from the University of Economics in Prague, with a main specialization in Economic policy and Minor specialization in Environmental policy. He achieved Ph.D. in 2010 at the Czech Technical University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Dept. of Economics, Management and Humanities. Since 1999 he has worked for the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic as an expert in the Unit of Economic Instruments, dealing with issues of economic instruments used in water, waste and the air quality sector. In 2003 he became the Head of newly established Climate Change Unit and his responsibilities included the EU ETS implementation and drafting the first Czech national allocation plan and its negotiation with the European Commission.

Tomas left the Ministry of Environment in 2006 and joined Czech utility company CEZ, where he currently works as a Head of Clean Technologies department, being responsible for installation and operation of EV public charging infrastructure within CEZ /E/MOBILITY program.

Jan Staněk is an author of ElectroDad.cz a a most watched Czech YouTube channel specialised on popularization of Electric Vehicles. He bringe weekly in-depth EV reviews and interviews with independent experts.

Stanislav Cingroš specializes in the development of new directions in the field of energy. In The IBG Česko, its primary focus is on projects combining various energy solutions, including the implementation of innovative elements that reduce the environmental burden. At the same time, it actively addresses the future direction of the company and the area of circular use of battery systems.

More than 14 years of experience in automotive industry in various positions. At the beginning of his career he started as a Sales Manager for General Motors dealership in South Bohemia and help to create a greenfield dealership, which became the number one in its region.  After successful almost 4 years, he took the opportunity to become the part of second world biggest automotive industry supplier Magna International. He spent 3 and half years as a Quality engineer in Magna regional unit in Czechia. After this period, he became the part of Magna Europe Head Office in Germany as a Resident Engineer for Skoda Auto and spent there next 7 years. As automotive market is dramatically changing, he decided in 2018 to took the challenge to lead the e-mobility for E.ON Czechia with main focus to establish the completely new business.

Since 2017, Tomas Pastrnak has been the CEO of Energon Advanced Energetics – an EPC Contractor Company based in the Czech Republic and operating across the whole EU in the field of large-capacity battery storage systems and complex EPC projects engineering, including photovoltaic, wind and hydroelectric power plants.

He has been working in the energy sector since 2006. In the past, he participated in the completion of the power plant in Ledvice (Czech Republic) and for several years he led the construction of the power plant in Turkey.

He is the author of the unique concept of the "all-in-one" battery container, which was introduced by Energon Advanced Energetics in 2018. At that time, with the capacity of 1,3 MWh, it was only the third battery storage of this size in the Czech Republic and the first one to be completely designed and assembled in the country.

Miroslav Kuželka graduated from the Technical University in Prague. In the past he worked in IBM in the area of IT, then in Siemens in the area of mobile telecommunication infrastructure. Since January 2009 he has been with ABB where he specialises on advanced technologies and solutions for e-mobility, particularly charging infrastructure for private and public transport associated with the Smart City concept.

Martin Šilar is the new main coordinator of e-mobility in Siemens, s.r.o. His main task is to coordinate all business activities related to the charging infrastructure and e-mobility solutions. 

He has linked his entire career with the energy sector. Since 2012 he worked in Teplárny Brno as an operator of electrical equipment and then as a manager of development and innovation. In these positions, Martin focused mainly on battery accumulation of electricity and electromobility. In 2019, Martin joined Siemens, where he currently works as a Head of e-Mobility Services. He specializes in charging infrastructure for electric vehicles and battery storage systems.

Martin graduated from the Brno University of Technology in electrical engineering and holds a diploma from the Cambridge Business School in Strategic Management.

Vojtěch Fried works at Pražská energetika as a Head of Department Emobility & Smart City. Task is to ensure that PRE is a partner in the B2G and B2B segments in innovative and elektromobility projects. He is mainly focused on the development of EV public recharging infrastructure, PREpoint. Before joining Pražská energetika team, Vojtěch gained his experience as a management consultant, where he has been focused on development of business strategies for clients in the field of energy and banking segments. He has worked for example for ČEZ, ČEPS or E.ON and from the banking sector he worked for Komerční banka or ČSOB.

Filip Vančura works in energy sector since 2013. In 2013-2014 he worked for LEEF Technologies s.r.o., which focuses on consulting and project development in “new energy”. In 2015-2016, as a CEZ ESCO commodity trading analyst, he specialized in business models for utilizing flexibility from distributed energy sources. His agenda at CEZ ESCO included the development of a virtual power plant based on the purchase of electricity from CHPs and RES. Since 2017 he has been involved in the development of battery accumulation and electromobility projects at LEEF Technologies.

Founder/director of LEEF Technologies, a cleantech advisory and investment firm based in Prague, Czech Republic. Formerly a director/board member of various companies of the Biomass Technology Group, Vertis Environmental Finance and the CEZ Group. Almost 20 years of experience in clean energy and transport. PhD from the Australian National University.

Nikita is a Prague based journalist for the largest economic daily in the Czech Republic - Hospodarske noviny daily (Economia a.s.) with six years of experience. He is currently the Deputy Editor in Chief  of the the daily, the position he has held since February 2017. Prior to this, he worked as a London correspondent and economic staff writer focusing on industry sectors, private equity funds and financial groups.

In the last ten years he has also worked extensively as a stage manager for Hip Hop Kemp, one of the largest festivals in the Central Europe.

 In January to 2015 he was elected president of The Bakala Foundation which helps talented students to reach their full potential by giving them the financial support they need to pursue a first-class university education abroad. His mandate ended in January 2016.