Bodies of the association

Doc. Ing. Milan Edl, Ph.D.
President

Associate Professor Milan Edl studied industrial engineering and management at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň. He currently works as the Dean of this faculty (The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the University of West Bohemia). He actively works as a visiting professor at foreign universities. He is also a member of the Scientific Councils of faculties in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Milan Edl is an associate professor in the field of Mechanical Engineering at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (UWB), the Faculty of Engineering and Management. He is the guarantor of the prepared study program Intelligent Production Systems at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the UWB. He has been the Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the UWB since 2014. In his professional scope of interest, he focuses on sustainable production systems, the implementation of modern technologies of the 4.0 phenomenon in industry and education for educational purposes, and deals with the issue of the circular economy. As part of his international work, he is or has been a visiting professor at three Polish universities. He is a member of editorial boards in several international professional journals.

Ing. Radek Lucký
Vice President

Ing. Radek Lucký is the Vice President of the Association.

Zdeněk Židek
Member of the Executive Committee

Zdeněk Židek heads the leading Czech electrical installation company OMEXOM GA Energo, which he co-founded in 1993 and still holds a co-ownership stake in. However, he has devoted his entire professional life to energy. He has been interested in Smart City since 2010. According to him, the awareness of the importance and benefits of Smart City in the Czech Republic is still very low, although the situation is gradually improving. As such, he is actively trying to work in the field of promoting and popularizing Smart City technologies and his efforts culminated in 2017 with the launch of the unique Smart City Polygon technology project. The aim of the project is to show the public what a “smart city” looks like in practice. He is also one of the founding members of the Clever Plzeň Region Cluster, where he understands a Smart City not as the technology itself, but is a new, responsible way of managing the public infrastructure that the technology uses.

Ing. Petr Kaněra
Member of the Executive Committee

Petr Kaněra graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague, majoring in automation and robotization of technological processes. He has been an executive at KAPEX s.r.o. Since 2008, which he founded. He has devoted almost his entire professional life to the environment, especially project management in waste management. He considers the Smart City field to be crucial not only in terms of the changes in environmental legislation, the transition to a circular economy and the introduction of low-carbon technologies, but mainly in the preparation of specific projects for cities and municipalities where this issue is often seen. The Czech Smart City Cluster considers it an ideal platform for sharing experiences and exchanging views between academia, the public sector and businesses.

Ing. Petr Simandl
Member of the Executive Committee

Jozef Regec
Chief Executive Officer

At its meeting on 30 January 2017, the CSCC Executive Committee appointed a new Chief Executive Director. As of 1 February 2017, Jozef Regec, a successful Czechoslovak cyclist and Olympian, became a senator of the Parliament of the Czech Republic from 2010-2016. Jozef Regec graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport from Charles University in Prague and worked as a national team coach in road cycling. He was a member of the ČOV Executive Committee and in 2010-2014 a representative of Černá Hora. He has been the official advisor to the President of the Republic for sports since 2014.

Mgr. Radka Sýkorová
Cluster Manager

She has worked in energy almost from the beginning of her career when she graduated from the Metropolitan University, majoring in International Relations and European Studies. She was part of the project office of unbundling Jihočeská plynárenská into the E.ON Czech group, in the KKCG group, together with its fellow geologists, it applied for a grant title for the construction of an underground gas storage facility. Then she spent some time in business and gained interesting experience in publishing a life-style magazine. She got back to the energy industry to be part of the team focused on implementing digitization, where she organized a social team. Smart City is another challenge she has faced in her work life.