Speakers 2025

Zuzana Čaputová

Former President of the Slovak Republic

Dominik Hašek

Founder | Hasek's Heroes

Dalibor Dědek

Founder | JABLOTRON

Kryscina Šyjanok

Director | Office of Belarus Democratic Forces in the Czech Republic

Karim Pedersen

Head of International Communications | Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Nataliya Gumenyuk

Founder and Co-Founder | Public Interest Journalism Lab, The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies

Jeremy Druker

Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief | Transitions

Dmitri Teperik

Co-founder and Director-General | Resilient Ukraine, Estonia’s National Centre for Defence & Security Awareness

Zsuzsanna Szelenyi

Research Affiliate, Program Director | CEU Democracy Institute

Adam Dolník

Negotiator | vyjednavame.cz

Eva Bordos

Executive Director | DemNet Hungary

Gazela Pudar Draško

Director | Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

Pavlína Louženská

Founder | TrendBrews

Bára Stárek

Executive Director | Díky, že můžem

Alexej Fulmek

CEO | Petit Press, a.s.

Marek Mach

Chairman | Mladí, o.z.

Ivan Antala

CEO | Bauer Media Slovakia

Lukáš Fila

CEO | N Press Publishing (Denník N)

Peter Gažík

CEO | Markíza Group

Vladimír Šucha

Visiting Professor | European University Institute, Florence

Mária Bieliková

Founder | Kempelen Institute for Intellinget Technologies

Lucia Gröneová

Managing Director & HR Head | Swiss Re Slovakia

Andrej Zaťko

CEO | 365.bank

Silvia Hroncová

Exucutive Director | Film Europe Media Company

Julia Sherwood

Translator and Promoter of Slovak Literature

Ľuba Lesná

Journalist and Writer

Zuzana Kovačič Hanzelová

Host of the ZKH Interviews | SME Daily

Jolana Kusá

Advisor | Alliance of Slovak Women and League for Mental Health

Dominika Hajdu

Program Director | GLOBSEC

Martin Slosiarik

Director | FOCUS Centre for Social and Marketing Analysis

Martin Hanus

Editor in Chief | Postoj

Martin Staňo

Moderator | Rádio_FM

Elena Gallo Kriglerová

Director | Centre for Research on Ethnicity and Culture (CVEK)

Maroš Chmelík

Executive Director | Center for Community Organizing

Jakub Goda

Publicist and Communications Consultant

Lucia Kubíny

Statutory Representative | Tanana Civic Association

Iva Mrvová

Researcher at the Counter Extremism Project | Masaryk University

Michal Hvorecký

Writer and Publicist

Lucia Okšová

Editor-in-Chief | Forbes Slovakia

Martina Kolesárová

Lukáš Onderčanin

Head of Foreign Desk | SME Daily

Zuzana Papazoski

Resident Senior Director | National Democratic Institute for International Affairs

Pavol Szalai

Director | Reporters Without Borders Prague