Toolkit for a 5-day workshop
on innovative product and service development

Ondřej Brém

Ondřej is an UX designer and educator. With master degree in HCID and entrepreneurship from Aalto university and KTH he is designing product and service development courses and HCID study program at Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague. To give high school students the taste of design and IT he organizes Design Sprint summer school with the Faculty of Information Technology.

Vardan Gevorgyan

is a physics PhD with expertise in commercializing scientific innovations and managing startups. He has organized seminars on entrepreneurship and acted as a business mentor since 2009.

Vardan holds PhD in Physics and is also specialized in commercialization of scientific innovations, technology transfer and management of startup companies. He has organized many seminars for students and researchers about commercialization of scientific innovations and new technologies, as well as about entrepreneurship. He acted as a business mentor and coach in various trainings on entrepreneurship.

Irina Tsagareishvili

Knowledge Transfer and Innovations Specialist at Tbilisi State University, co-founder of Fundraiser.ge, 5 years' experience in technology transfer and innovation.

Irina is the Managing Director of Axel - Georgian business angel network. Previously, she worked as a Knowledge Transfer and Innovations Specialist at Tbilisi State University which is the biggest university in the Caucasus region. Irina was also involved as a mentor in several  acceleration programs for SMEs and Startups. She also is a Co-founder and Portfolio Manager of the Georgian crowdfunding platform "Fundraiser.ge”.

Jiří Navrátil

Head of Ventures & Partner at UNICO, specializes in creating and advising early-stage technology spin-offs and startups.

Jiří is the Chief Science officer in IP Lab Ventures. Beginning with Imperial Innovations in London, Jiří has obtained extensive experience in creating and advising early-stage technology spin-offs and startups, particularly those originating from IP developed at universities. Jiří holds two doctorate degrees, one in Organic Electronics and second in Biophysics.

Emil Podwysocki

Head of Lab of Databases and Business Analytical Systems, experienced in ETL/ELT, data warehouses and business intelligence.

Emil is the Head of the Laboratory of Databases and Business Analytical Systems at the National Information Processing Institute. He has ten years’ professional experience related to ETL/ELT, data warehouses, and business intelligence. His areas of interest include Oracle technology, big data, business intelligence, data visualization and low-code.

Vojtěch Kadlec

Founded UNICO.AI to help academia-business colaboration by focusing on data-driven technology scouting and decision-making in R&D.

Vojtěch holds PhD in regional innovation systems from the Charles University in Prague. He is one of the co-founders of UNICO and responsible for its business part which provides services related to innovation management of private companies. Before UNICO, Vojtěch worked as a Technology Scout at the Charles University and as a Technology Transfer Officer at the Czech Technical University.