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With geopolitical expert Vladimír BAAR from the University of Ostrava, we'll explore nearly the whole world, promising an adventurous ride for the bold, curious, and adventurous. He'll take us primarily to unstable regions such as China, Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan, or the Middle East, focusing on current threats, opportunities, and perhaps solutions to sometimes seemingly unsolvable conflicts. In the discussion about the impact of critical markets on business and procurement, he'll be joined by Peter Majtán from the multinational MOL Group.

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The novelty of this year's eBF is the Start-up stage, where interesting and even more interesting projects will be presented throughout Wednesday and Thursday! Therefore, we recommend marking this scene in the program and not forgetting the special inspiration (June 12th) from ADEOS, pioneers in the field of digitalization and modernization of financial management. Thanks to their application APOLLO, ADEOS offers a wide range of tools for improving planning and reporting in financial, business, manufacturing, procurement, and other industries. This time, we interviewed Vladislav Hanák in the eBF studio and asked him a few simple questions. Enjoy watching and we look forward to meeting you at the eBF Procurement Festival.

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Every festival is only as good as the people who contribute to it - speakers, partners, moderators, and behind-the-scenes staff. That's why it's amazing that we can surround ourselves with the best in the market, thanks to our expert partners. Semantic Visions is a purely Czech company specializing in risk detection using artificial intelligence and state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques for analyzing data from global electronic media. Every day, they collect and analyze information from over 1.1 million articles in 12 languages, identifying events related to specific activities, events, or companies. They can track trends and identify potential risks or opportunities for businesses.

When the terms category management, category strategy or risk management are mentioned, everyone immediately thinks of Peter Majtán. It won't be any different after this year's festival, when Peter took over the dramaturgy of the "Strategy & Risk Management" stage at the MOL Group / Dun & Bradstreet Stage on Wednesday 12/6.

After last year's success (the original scene in the drained pool of the Imperial Hotel), the permanent fixture of the festival program, the Amazon stage, prepared another big surprise. The dramaturg of the entire scene, Michal Kristiňák, invited Miroslav Singra to the finale, with whom he will discuss economic forecasts from the perspective of financial institutions and predictions for the procurement world, prospects for new markets and a replacement for China or Euro 7.

"You have to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you don't have to get there." Petr Dovolil (CBCSD) borrowed the words of Yogi Berri, a former American professional baseball player, for his introduction. This course module dedicated to sustainability and ESG in public procurement was the decoration of the semester course and opened up a topic that these days resonates with the professional and layman public, arouses general polemics and passions and will influence the lives of all of us in the future.

The traditional conference space of the Imperial Hotel will be complemented by the eBF festival town in Dr. E. Beneš park and the new pride of Ostrava, Boutique Business Incubator Ostravica. Especially the last place always brings a smile to our face, because after years of sadness looking at the crumbling iconic building, we the Ostrava people are cheering.

It is obvious that the strategic approach to public procurement will increasingly be influenced by the competitiveness of the Czech economy, not only on a European scale. The national strategy of public procurement in the Czech Republic for the years 2024 to 2028 can be a milestone that will move public procurement into its new stage. Assess the ambitious scope and goals of this strategy for yourself.

If you are a fan of automation and robotization, you must like Zdenek Pytlíček (GasNet CZ). In this module dedicated to the topic "Purchase to Pay and eCatalogs", together with Michal Lehar MCIPS took us into the world of the P2P process and its optimization, robotization, catalogs and got us excited about robots in procurement.

Different country, different culture, new personalities, first experience and yet managed to convey the uniqueness of the concept, create a friendly atmosphere and enjoy the enthusiasm of sharing and networking together. We from Ostrava did not hide our pride and enjoyed how our Polish colleagues managed it. Many congratulations to Piotr Matysik and Marketplanet and we look forward to joint success. For all of you who haven't been, we have great news. At the celebration of the 20th birthday of eBF in Ostrava, we are preparing a selection of topics at the Polish scene, where you can be inspired by trends and the best of Poland. See you in June in Ostrava.

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