HONORARY GUESTS:

Government:

H.E. David Lee NAN-YANG
Taipei Representative Office in Bratislava, Slovakia

MSc. Ingrid BROCKOVA, CSc., MIPP
State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Prof. Hong WEI-YEN
Ministry of Science and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic

JUDr. Marcel VYSOCKÝ, PhD.
Director General for Higher Education Section, Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic

JUDr. Zoltán HÁJOŠ
Mayor of Dunajská Streda

JUDr. Peter BROČKA, LL.M
Mayor of Trnava

Rectors:

Anna Plechatá Krausová, DPhil.
Rector of the Newton University, Prague, Czech Republic

Prof. Steve O. MICHAEL, Ph.D.
Rector of the Danubius University Galati, Romania

Prof. Ing. Ján ČELKO, CSc.

Rector of the University of Žilina, Slovakia

Prof. Ing. Peter MESÁROŠ, PhD.
Rector of the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Deans:

Hon. prof.  Stefano CAVAGNETTO, Ph.D.
Dean of the School of Business, PraqueCity University, Czech Republic, Honorary Professor of Teesside University, England

Dr. h. c. prof. MSc. Michal CEHLÁR, PhD.
Dean of the Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. MSc. Olaf CISZAK, PhD.
Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Assoc. prof. MSc. Oleksandr G. GUSAK, PhD.
Dean of the Faculty of Technical Systems and Energy Efficient Technologies, Sumy State University, Ukraine

Assoc. prof. Liviu-Mihail MARINESCU, PhD.
Dean of the Faculty of Communications and International Relations, Danubius University Galati, Romania

Prof. JUDr. Mgr. Andrea OLŠOVSKÁ, PhD.
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Trnava University in Trnava, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Miloš POLIAK, PhD.
Dean of the Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Róbert ŠTEFKO, PhD.
Dean of the Faculty of Management and Business, University of Prešov, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Michal PILÍK, PhD.
Dean of the Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic

Prof. dr. sc. Neven VRČEK
Dean of the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Dr.h.c. Prof. MSc. Jozef ZAJAC, CSc.
Dean of the Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the seat in Prešov, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

Dr. Inž. Michał ADAMCZAK
Director of the Department of “Zarządzania Operacyjnego Przedsiębiorstw”, Poznan School of Logistics, Poland

Assoc. prof. MSc. Michal BALOG, PhD.
Ambis.University, Prague, Czech Republic

MSc. Miroslav BALOG, PhD. et. PhD.
Research and Innovation Authority, Bratislava, Slovakia

M.A. Mária BEDNÁRIKOVÁ, PhD.
Bratislava the Capital City of Slovakia

MSc. Jiří BEJTKOVSKÝ, Ph.D.
Director of Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic

Assoc. prof. MSc. Juraj BENIAK, PhD.
Vice-dean for PR, Cooperation with Practice and International Relations, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

M.A. Bc. Michal BEŇO, PhD.
School of Business, PraqueCity University, Czech Republic

Assoc. prof. MSc. Janka BERESECKÁ, PhD.
Coordinator of Science and Knowledge Transfer, Institute of Management, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava

M.A. Miroslava BLÁZYOVÁ
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

MSc. Cristina BORZAN, PhD.
Faculty of Machine Building, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Dr. Victoria BOZHENKO
Faculty of Science, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

Dr. Markus BRILLINGER
Pro2Future GmbH, Austria

Prof. M.A. Dagmar CAGÁŇOVÁ, PhD.
General Chairwoman of the EAI Mobility IoT and Smart City conference, Academic Ambassador for Internationalisation and Innovation, Newton University, Prague, Czech Republic

RNDr. Vladimír CAMBEL, DrSc.
Director of the Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. Pei-Yin CHEN
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Ing. Kristína CSOLLEIOVÁ
Project Manager, MEDIREX GROUP ACADEMY n.o., Slovakia

Dr. Ivan CVITÍC
Head of the Laboratory for Modelling and Optimizing Information and Communication Networks and Services, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Assoc. prof. Pedro Filipe do Carmo CUNHA, PhD.
Director of the Centro de Integração e Inovação de Processos, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal , Portugal

Dipl. Ing. Marián ČVIRIK, PhD.

Department of Marketing, Faculty of Commerce, University of Economics in Bratislava

Prof. MSc. Milan DADO, PhD.
Director of the Department of Communication Technologies, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Dr. Ludmila Filina-DAWIDOWICZ
Faculty of Maritime Technology and Transport, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

Assoc. prof. RNDr. Alena DUBCOVÁ, CSc.
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia

Prof. Susane DURST
The School of Business, University of Skövde, Sweden

Prof. MSc. Zuzana DVOŘÁKOVÁ, CSc.
Czech Technical University in Prague, CIIRK (Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics), Czech Republic

Assoc. prof. MSc. Milan EDL, PhD.
Vice-dean for Development and External Relations, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

Prof. MSc. Soňa FERENČÍKOVÁ, PhD.
Faculty of Commerce, University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Miroslav FIKAR, DrSc.
Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Jozef GAŠPARÍK, PhD.
Vice-dean for Science and Research, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Prof. Dr. Petia GENKOVA
Hochschule Osnabrück, University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Dr. MSc. Rafal GOLEBSKI
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland

Prof. Dr. Szabó Lajos GYÖRGY
General Vice-rector, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Prof. MSc. Cristian-Győző HABA, PhD.
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania

Assoc. prof. MSc. Michal HOLUBČÍK, PhD.
Director of the Department of Power Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina, Slovakia

MSc. Natália HORŇÁKOVÁ, PhD.
… Slovakia

MSc. Juraj HOŠŤÁK
Director of the Department of Innovation and Smart Agenda, Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic

Assoc. prof. Hsun-Ping HSIEH
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Dr. ShaoLin HU
Director of Economic Division, Taipei Representative Office in Bratislava, Slovakia

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph HUPFER
Hochschule Karlsruhe, University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Assoc. prof. MSc. Jozef HUSÁR, PhD.
Vice-director of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Informatics, Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the seat in Prešov, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. MSc. Vitalii IVANOV, Ph.D.
Vice-dean for the International Affairs, Faculty of Technical Systems and Energy Efficient Technologies, Sumy State University, Ukraine

Prof. MSc. Stanislav JACKO, PhD.
Director of the Institute of Geosciences, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Jozef JANDAČKA, PhD.
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina, Slovakia

MUDr. Pavol JANEGA, PhD.
Director of MEDIREX GROUP ACADEMY n.o., Slovakia

Prof. Dr. Sabine JUNGINGER
Director of the Competence Centre Design & Management, Lucerne University of applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland

MSc. Jakub KAŠČAK, PhD.
Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the seat in Prešov, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. MSc. Lucia KNAPČÍKOVÁ, PhD.
Vice-dean for International Relations and Mobility, Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the seat in Prešov, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Prof. RNDr. Dušan KNEŽO, CSc.
Director of the Department of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the seat in Prešov, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Prof. PCz. dr hab. inż Sebastian KOT
Scientific Discipline Coordinator Management and Quality Sciences, Faculty of management, Częstochowa University of Technology, Poland

Prof. MSc. Dražan KOZAK, PhD.
Vice-rector for Quality Assurance, University of Slavonski Brod, Croatia

M.A. Andrej KÓŇA, PhD.
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, CEO of Brand Institute, Member of Brand Council, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Pavol KRÁĽ, PhD.
Vice-director of the Department of Marketing and Social Sciences, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Dr. Brigitte KRECH
Economic and Environmental Affairs Adviser, Office of the OSCE Co-ordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities, Vienna, Austria

Assoc. prof. Msc. Peter KRIŽAN, PhD.
Director of the Institute of Production Systems, Environmental Technology and Quality Management, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Anna KRIŽANOVÁ, PhD.
1st Vice-rector and Vice-rector for Education, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. MSc. Iveta KREMEŇOVÁ, PhD.
Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Ivan KURIC, PhD.
Vice-dean for International Cooperation, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Radim LENORT, Ph.D., ALog., ING-PEAD IGIP
Director of the Department of Production, Logistics and Quality Management, ŠKODA AUTO University, Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

Assor. prof. MSc. Oleksandr O. LIAPOSHCHENKO
Vice-dean for IT and Media Technologies, Faculty of Technical Systems and Energy Efficient Technologies, Sumy State University, Ukraine

Prof. Tzu-Ping LIN
Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Prof. Rafael Hernández LÓPEZ
School of Architecture, Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain

Prof. MSc. Dr. Dorin LUCACHE
The “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi – Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering and Applied Informatics, Romania

Assoc. prof. MSc. Slawomir LUŚCINSKY, PhD.
Head of the Smart Production Systems Modelling Laboratory, Faculty of Management and Computer Modelling, Kielce University of Technology, Poland

Prof. MSc. Daniela MARASOVÁ, CSc.
Vice-director of the Institute of Logistics and Transport, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. Emanuel–Stefan MARINESCU, PhD.
Vice-rector for Foreign Affairs, Danubius University Galati, Romania

Prof. MSc. Peter MARKOVIČ, PhD.
Vice-dean for Research and Doctoral Studies, Faculty of Business Management, University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia

Invited Assistant Professor, Florinda Maria Carreira Neto MATOS, PhD.
ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Assoc. prof. MSc. Mykola MELNYCHUK, Ph.D.
Head of the Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Customs Affairs, Materials and Technologies, Lutsk National Technical University, Ukraine

MSc. Veronika MEŠKOVÁ
Research Centre, University of Žilina, Slovakia

MSc. Martina MICHALÍKOVÁ

Clerk at Department of implementation of operational programs, Bratislava Self-governing Region

MSc. Martin MIKESKA, Ph.D.

Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic

RNDr. Andrej MINICH, PhD.
Biomedical studies and project specialist, MEDIREX GROUP ACADEMY n.o., Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Peter Pavol MONKA, PhD., Ing. – Paed. IGIP
Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the seat in Prešov, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Katarína MONKOVÁ, PhD.
Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the seat in Prešov, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Ľudmila NAGYOVÁ, PhD.
Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia

Prof. Predrag, K. NIKOLIC, PhD. MBA
Graduate User Experience (UX) Design Program at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, the United States of America

Prof. Gabriele PALOZZI PH.D.
Ministry of Economy and Finance, Department of Management and Law, University of Rome, Italy

Dr. Dragan PERAKOVIC
Director of the Laboratory of Modelling and Optimizing Information and Communication Networks and Services, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Prof. Dr. MSc. Jozef PETERKA
Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

MSc. Peter PIŠTEK, PhD.
Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies, Bratislava, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Ján PITEĽ, PhD.
Vice-dean for Development and External Relations, Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the seat in Prešov, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Dr. habil. József POÓR, DSc.
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Szent István University, Hungary

MSc. Grigore Marian POP
Faculty of Machine Building, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Prof. Juliana POPOVA, PhD.
Coordinator of Interinstitutional Communications, Angel Kanchev University of  Ruse, Bulgaria

Prof. MSc. Richard POSPÍŠIL, PhD.
Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

Dr. Tena PRELEC
University of Oxford, England

Assoc. prof. Andy PUSCA, PhD.
President of Danubius University Galati, Romania

Dr. Alina Beatrice RĂILEANU
Vice-rector for Business and Administration, Danubius University Galati, Romania

Assoc. prof. PhDr. Martina RAŠTICOVÁ, Ph.D.
Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic

Assoc. prof. MSc. Katarína REPKOVÁ ŠTOFKOVÁ, PhD.
Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Jozef RISTVEJ, PhD., EMBA
Vice-rector for International Relations and Marketing, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. Mauro ROMANELLI
Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

Assoc. prof. MSc. Anna SANIUK, Ph.D.
Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Zielona Gora, Poland

Prof. MSc. Sebastian SANIUK, PhD.
Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Zielona Gora, Poland

Assoc. prof. Carmen SIRBU, PhD.
General Administrative Director, Danubius University Galati, Romania

Assoc. Prof. MSc. Daynier Rolando Delgado SOBRINO, PhD.
Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. MSc. Zdenko STACHO, PhD.
Institute of Management, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. MSc. Katarína STACHOVÁ, PhD.
Institute of Management, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia

Prof. RNDr. Beata STEHLÍKOVÁ, CSc.
Director of the Institute of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Pan-European University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Martin STRAKA, PhD.
Director of the Institute of Logistics and Transport, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. MSc. Zuzana ŠIMKOVÁ, PhD., ING.PAED.IGIP
Vice-dean for Science-Research Activities and Education in the Third Level of University Education, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. Daniela ŠPIRKOVÁ, PhD.
Vice-director for Education and Head of the Department of Economics Building Management and Department of Real Estate Engineering, Institute of Management, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

Prof. MSc. Jana ŠTOFKOVÁ, PhD.
Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Žilina, Slovakia

MUDr. MSc. Zuzana ŠTOFKOVÁ, PhD.
Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Žilina, Slovakia

Dr. Alberto Di TARANTO
Managing Director of TYTO srl, Trento, Italy

Prof. Volodymyr TONKONOHYI
Director of the Institute of Digital Technologies, Design and Transport, Odesa Polytechnic National University, Ukraine

Assoc. prof. Eduardo TOME
Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa, Portugal

RNDr. Miroslava TREMBOŠOVÁ, PhD.
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia

MSc. Justyna TROJANOWSKA, PhD.
Vice-dean for Cooperation with Industry, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Dr. inž. Piotr TROJANOWSKI
Faculty of Maritime Technology and Transport, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland

Prof. MSc. David TUČEK, Ph.D.
Vice-dean for Strategic Development, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic

Dr. Marina UTKINA
Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Warwick, England

MSc. Zuzana VACULČÍKOVÁ, Ph.D.

Faculty of Management and Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech

Republic

Prof. MSc. Iveta VASKOVA, PhD.

FMMR, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia

Dr. MSc. Igor VIJATOV
Cluster Manager of the Automotive Cluster of Serbia

Assoc. prof. MSc. Oleg V. ZABOLOTNYI, PhD.
Head of SD&TB “Innovation Park Lutsk National Technical University, Head of Board, NGO Growth Pole, Ukraine

MSc. Marco Salvatore ZAPPATORE, PhD.
Department of Engineering for Innovation, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy

Dr. Przemysław ZAWADZKI
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

M.A. Ľubica ZNAMENÁKOVÁ, PhD.
Junior Data Analyst, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia

Assoc. prof. MSc. Pavel ŽUFAN, PhD.
Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic

Assoc. prof. MSc. Krzysztof WITKOWSKI, PhD.
Chairman of the Board of Zielonogórskie Wodociągi i Kanalizacja Sp. Z o.o., Director of the Department of Logistics and Information Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Zielona Gora, Poland