Programme

Moderator

WELCOME

Prezident DTIHK

executive board member DTIHK

OPENING REMARKS

Petr Pavel

President of the Czech Republic (tbc)

KEYNOTE 1: Competitiveness

Prof. Dr. Rafaela Kraus (tbc)

• Professor at the Bundeswehr University in Munich

• Specialised in Startup innovation and Dual-Use

PANEL 1:
Competitiveness - DTIHK Premium Annual Partners

How do you remain and strengthen your competitiveness in these challenging times?

Speakers are the CEOs / Board members of:

• ŠKODA AUTO

• BDO

• T-Mobile CZ

• AKKODIS

• BOSCH CZ

• AIMTEC

KEYNOTE 2: Dual-Use Technologies

Executive Vice President Programmes
at Airbus Helicopters, Managing Director of Airbus Helicopters GmbH

PANEL 2:
Focus on dual-use technology - Automotive & Defence security

Suggestion for speakers for panel:

• Christoph Heinen, Head of TechHUB SVI, Bayern Innovativ

• Leoš Mauer, CzechInvest – responsible for the DIANA (Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic) program, aimed at promoting dual-use technologies in the Czech Republic, more here - DIANA

• BDSV – Bundesverband der Deutschen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungsindustrie

• Kristýna Helm - Vice President of the Association of Defence and Security Industry of the Czech Republic (AOBP), expert on strategies of companies entering the defence sector

• Companies: Hirsch Defense (tbc), with a focus on dual use (Automotive-defense company)

Evtl:

• Ondřej Vodička, Industrial Cooperation Section of the Ministry of Defence CZ

Awarding Ceremony “Deutscher Wirtschaftspreis”

• Czech companies with 500 employees, that are high performers for the competitiveness of the Czech economy

• Jury Members – CEOs of Premium Annual Partner

• 3 categories
  
  1. Dual-Use Startups from the Czech Republic
  - Innovative startups, dual use
  - Search: through research and recommendations
  
  2. Production companies from the Czech Republic 
  - SMEs with up to 500 employees, also non-members
  - Frontrunners in change / transformation capability / AI implementation in recent years
  
  3. German-Czech cooperation
  - Research institutions, but also cross-border company cooperations
  - For example, research institutions such as Fraunhofer or ČVÚT

Planned:

Cross-industry matchmaking

hosted within the framework of the GCEF „Automotive meets Defense“.

• Czech and German companies - suppliers, mechanical engineering, automotive – for whom is dual-use a topic

• a possible contact person - Anna Joy Beck (who is responsible for organizing delegations of companies to and from abroad at the Czech Association of the Defence and Arms Industry

• Suppliers companies & OEMs