

Velvet Innovation
Ambition (Un)locked
Thank you for making this year's Velvet Innovation Conference unforgetable.
See you next year at VIC which will take place on 13th November 2025!
Speakers and hosts

John Elkington
Founder & Chief Pollinator, Volans

Mairéad Roche
Associate, Act Venture Capital

Erinch Sahan
Business and Enterprise Lead, Doughnut Economics Action Lab

Elisabeth van Holthe tot Echten
Senior project manager, Female Founders

Karin Fuentesová
CEO & Founder, Digitoo.ai

Matthew DiFranco
Health Tech Innovation Expert

Kaija Pöysti
Angel investor & Business coach, Aldanella

Jindřich Fáborský
Founder of Marketing Festival & Digisemestr

Miloš Dendis
Angel Investor & Founding Partner, Dendis Capital

Jana Sedláková
Founder, Sedláková Legal

Jindřich Fialka
CEO & Lead Designer, Qdesigners

Kamila Zahradníčková
CEO, Lakmoos AI

Alžběta Králová
Founder & Managing Partner, IPM Consulting

Milan Šimek
CEO, Sewio

Lenka Novotná
Founder, Plastia

Cyril Klepek
CEO and founder, Cyrkl.com

Stan Markov
CEO, Runecast

Julie Dobrovolná
CEO & Co-founder, Entrant

Petr Přidal
CEO, Maptiler

Gabriela Takáčová
Chief Business Officer & Co-founder, Recombee

Zuzana Zamborská
Co-founder, Lumus Investment Collective

Petr Bittner
Journalist, podcaster

Dudu Gencel
Startup Services Teamleader, Vienna Business Agency

Jan Bittner
Economist, analyst, podcaster

Jakub Henni
CEO for Czech market, Munch/Nesnězeno

Karoline Strobl
CEO & Co-founder, Foolproof Skin

Michal Nešpor
Partner, Crowdberry

Vojtěch Koval
Podcast Producer

Tomáš Kelar
Creative Director, Pop Messe

Antonín Ferdan
Co-founder, Rebalance

Petr Žabka
Program manager, Caelestinus Health Tech Incubator

Lukáš Loun
Founder & CEO, Maia Labs

Vratislav Kalenda
frontman, CEO and co-founder, Applifting

Martin Bednář
Co-founder & CEO, Health Monk, Joy Bucket

Jan Dvořáček
FAB25 program leader, FabLab Brno

Markéta Filipenská
Startup specialist, JIC

Kristýna Tmejová
Reporter, Forbes CZ

Libor Hoření
Entrepreneur, consultant, JIC