Speakers

With LEEF since 2012. Participated or lead projects in renewable energy, electromobility  and hydrogen as a project manager or analyst. Formerly analyst and development manager at the Strategy department of CEZ.  A graduate of the Institute of Economics Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague. More than 15 years of experience in energy sector.

Petr Mervart is responsible for the creation and updating of the hydrogen strategy and its subsequent implementation at the Ministry of Industry and Trade. He has also been involved in the preparation of a Czech industry decarbonization study. Prior to joining the ministry, he gained extensive professional experience working in various international companies in the […]

Karel Tichý is a professional consultant with extensive experience in areas such as regional development (topics of coal regions, just transition, restructuring activities, business development and innovation), public administration and preparation, implementation and evaluation of European funds projects. Between 2016 and 2020, he was part of the national team preparing and implementing the Strategy of […]

Jan Krkoška (February 13, 1976, Olomouc) is a Czech politician, manager and governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region. In 2016, he became a representative of the Moravian-Silesian Region, and at the same time he was also elected deputy governor for regional development, European funds and tourism. He is a manager with more than eight years of […]

Mr. Marian Piecha, was born on 21 May 1982 in Třinec. He graduated in Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology. He graduated from doctoral studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Czech Technical University. He was awarded the Masters of Law at the University of New York in […]

M.Sc. Petr Holub studied professional physics at the Faculty of Science and environmental studies at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University. He founded the consulting company Budovy21 and was the director of Chance for Buildings, a professional union for energy-saving construction. In the past, he worked at the Ministry of the Environment as […]

Graduate of MBA – Energy and Climate Policy Management and Executive MBA diploma accredited by Apsley Business School – London. Master’s degree completed at the University of Szczecin majoring in economics. Since November 2018, he has been a member of the Board of the Wielkopolska Region, where he is responsible for the area of economic […]

He has been working in the position of business director of the Veolia group in the Czech Republic since 2020. In previous years, he worked as a business development manager for the energy division of the Veolia group in the Czech Republic and also in Slovakia, where he managed acquisitions of energy companies in the […]

Stanislav Mišák is an expert in the field of energy and director of the Research Center for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET), which is a recognized university institute at VŠB – TUO focused on the development of new technologies and materials for low-carbon and sustainable energy and environmental technologies in accordance with the principles of […]

Jakub Unucka is the 1st Deputy Governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region for Industry, Energy and the Smart Region. He is one of the leading figures in the Czech Republic, promoting the concept of “smart city” and “smart regions”, who also actively develops and participates in a number of projects, especially in the field of smart […]

Daniel Minařík has been working continuously in the field of hydrogen technologies for almost 15 years, since he joined the initial research activities in this field at VŠB-TU Ostrava, which were related to hydrogen mobility and student races of ecological vehicles at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, where it was developed several prototypes […]

Veronika Vohlídková graduated in International Trade with a specialization in Financial Management at the Faculty of International Relations of the University of Economics in Prague. Between 2011 and 2016, she gained work experience at ČEZ, a.s., where she specialized in the European agenda with an emphasis on financial legislation and regulation. Subsequently, from 2016 to […]

Daniel Kurucz is a Czech manager and basketball coach. In 2014, he was the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Czech Railways, and from the beginning of June 2018 to November 2019, he was the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vítkovice Heavy Machinery. In the years 2020 – […]

Environmental manager, Steel Union (CZ) Filip Hájek graduated from the Faculty of Science of Charles University – geography and biology. In 2012-2014 he worked as an advisor to the Deputy Minister of Finance on global climate policy. Until 2018, he was employed at the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic, for which he […]

The executive director of LIBERTY Ostrava, Pavel Šedivý, has extensive experience in the steel industry. He has been working at the Ostrava smelter for 39 years. He graduated from VŠB-TUO in Ostrava and joined what was then Nová Huť immediately after school. He started at the factory, where he went through several labor professions. He […]

Chairman at the Slovak National Hydrogen Association During his professional practice, he focused on renewable energy sources, photovoltaics, and small hydroelectric power plants. He completed the study program Renewable Energy Systems at the Technical University in Vienna. In 2018, he joined the Slovak National Hydrogen Association (NVAS). Currently, he is its chairman and a member […]

Director for European Funds (ORLEN Unipetrol RPA, s.r.o). Tereza Nislerová (1984, Beroun) is European subsidies director in the ORLEN Unipetrol group. She is in charge of securing subsidy financing especially for strategic, development and decarbonization projects of this group in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. She was very involved in the creation of the […]

Chairman of the Board of the Regional Chamber of Commerce of the Moravian-Silesian Region Ing. René Kolek is a member of the board of the Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic and chairman of the board of the Regional Chamber of Commerce of the Moravian-Silesian Region, where he is also a guarantor of the […]

Gabriela Nekolová is chairwoman of the Economic and Social Council of the Ústí Region, a non-profit organization that serves as a regional tripartite bringing together dozens of organizations and institutions in the region. She also coordinates the activities of the Hydrogen Platform of the Ústí nad Labem Region, which aims to develop a comprehensive hydrogen […]