Keynote speakers and chairs of the sessions

 

Section 1: Business Economics and Management

 Assoc. Prof. Włodzimierz Sroka, PhD. (WSB University in  Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland)

Associate professor Sroka is a member of the Management Department of WSB University in  Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland), extraordinary professor at North-West University (South Africa) as well as visiting professor at University of Johannesburg (South Africa). He specializes in theoretical and practical issues relating to the management and strategic management. He is the author of numerous scientific papers about strategic alliances, network organizations, strategy, restructuring of the company, CSR and business ethics, marketing and customer's behaviour, public management as well as innovations and entrepreneurship published both in Polish and international journals and also monographs published by well reputable publishers such as Springer Verlag, Shaker Verlag and London Scientific. He is Editor in Chief at Forum Scientiae Oeconomia (indexed in SCOPUS) and Deputy Editor in Chief at European Journal of International Management (Impact Factor 2,145; indexed in Web of Science and SCOPUS). He is also a member of Editorial Boards of numerous scientific journals, e.g. guest editor and Editorial Board member at Sustainability (Impact Factor 2,576; indexed in Web of Science and SCOPUS), associate editor at Amfiteatru Economic (Impact Factor 1,238; indexed in Web of Science and SCOPUS) and several other journals indexed in WoS and/or SCOPUS published in Czechia, Slovenia, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Ukraine. Currently he merges his scientific activity with being the CEO of a medium-size engineering company. He was previously employed in different managerial positions (Director, Member of the Management Board, Vice President of the Board and Managing Director) in both the steel and machine industries, running very large (over 10.000 employees), large (over 1.000 employees) and medium size enterprises. He was also a member of the Supervisory Boards at different companies, operating in steel, machine and chemical industries.

Pesonal website of doc. Sroka is available HERE or HERE

 

Section 2: Economics and Public Administration

Assoc. Prof. Petr Rozmahel, Ph.D. (Faculty of Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno)

Assoc. prof.  Rozmahel is a member of the Department of Economics at Mendel University in Brno. He guarantees subjects Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. He is an author of many papers in scientific journals, conference proceedings and monograps. He was a member of a research team within 7th Framework Programme and now Horizon 2020 (a guarant for the Czech Republic) and many other projects. He also co-operates with many foreign scientific institutions (WIFO Vienna, ZEW Manheim, IWH Halle, Policy Netvowork London etc.).

Personal website of doc. Rozmahel is available HERE.

 

Section 3: Informatics, Information Management and Operational Research

Dr. Robert Bucki (The College of Informatics and Management in Bielsko-Biała)

Rober Bucki, Ing., Ph.D. (The Institute of Informatics and Management in Bielsko-Biała)
Dr. Robert Bucki is the assistant professor at The Institute of Management and Information Technology in Bielsko-Biała. His major scientific fields of interest are simulation of discrete systems including logistics systems, algorithm tasks as well as information systems design. Moreover, he specializes in linguistic information systems. He has been the member of editorial boards of scientific journals and committees. Also, he is a peer reviewer for renowned journals and other publications.  He is the author and co-author of numerous monographs, papers in international scientific journals and conference proceedings.

Research profile of dr. Bucki is available HERE.

 

Section 4: Marketing

Assoc. Prof. Jana Majerová, Ph.D. (Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina)

 

Assoc. Prof. Jana Majerová is a member of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina (Slovak Republic) where she teaches Marketing, International Marketing, Strategic Management and Commercial Law. Her professional and research activities are focused mainly on the issue of the brand marketing management and insolvency law. Nowadays, she is a member of scientific or editorial boards of several scientific conferences and journals listed in SCOPUS database. To date, more than 260 indexed citations have been recorded for her publications. She was or is the researcher of 5 VEGA projects and 3 APVV projects. She is a national coordinator of EUFin ERASMUS KA2 Strategic Partnership Project 2018 to 2021 titled "Innovative integrated tools for financial literacy education across Europe".

 

Section 5: Finance and Banking

Assoc. Prof. Rajmund Mirdala, PhD. (Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Košice)

Assoc. prof. Mirdala is a vice dean for research and doctoral study. He guarantees courses Macroeconomics, Advanced Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, Monetary analysis and History of money. His major scientific fields of interest are exchange rates, monetary policy, fiscal policy, international capital flows, transition economies and global economic imbalances. He is an editorial board member and referee in many scientific journals. He led small teams in many research projects.

Personal website of doc. Mirdala is available HERE.