AmCham Slovakia

As we do every month, we would like to inform you about some of the most important AmCham media appearances. 

Slovakia Vision 2030
During summer months, sixteen experts under AmCham auspices prepared a proposal for Slovakia's Vision 2030 and outlined the key engines of long-term sustainable economic growth. The document was subsequently addressed to the President, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. The initial press release on September 3 received significant media attention: ekonomika.sme.sk, e.dennikn, edennikn, euractiv.sk, teraz.sk, pcrevue.sk

The topic resonated throughout the month - Ronald Blaško and Ivan Mikloš wrote about it in eDennikN (online, print) and the initiative also resonated in articles in .týždeň (online, print), Pravda, and SME (online, print).

Vision 2030 was mentioned in several interviews with relevant signatories, including TV Markiza – Na telo (Ivan Mikloš), Rádio Expres (Ivan Mikloš), RTVS (Ivan Mikloš, Ronald Blaško), TREND (Ronald Blaško), e.dennikN (Ivan Mikloš) and e.dennikN (Štefan Rosina).

Women in Business Conference
The event and its key message - that the current pandemic has brought even more uncertainty to the workplace and worsened the employment position of women - was reported on by najmama.aktuality.sk, diva.aktuality.sk, TREND, PRAVDA, Nextech, openiazoch.zoznam.sk, SME, TASR, dnes24.sk. 

BSCF Conference
The media coverage of the 6th annual BSCF conference included TV Markiza, Euractiv, Nextech, edennikn, Trend, teraz.sk, Dnes24.sk, The Slovak Spectator. The press release emphasised that BSCs  have demonstrated a high level of flexibility and resilience to the external crisis during Covid19 pandemic.

Rule of Law
Michal Krčméry prepares at the beginning of September an overview of the business community’s efforts in improving the rule of law in Slovakia. His article ‘Quo Vadis – Rule of Law Initiative?’ was published in the Slovak Spectator (online, print). 

Others
The Slovak spectator prepared also the article saying that the pandemic has changed plans of American investors, where Michal Krčméry commented on the situation (online, print).

In the AmCham blog in the Slovak Spectator Ľudmila Majlátová wrote an article taken from our Connection magazine that despite the crisis there is a historic change for Slovakia.

On September 18 edennikn.sk published the extended interview with Richard Panek commenting on the results of the effort related to the initiative the Tax Manifesto prepared by AmCham and other business associations and chambers.  

On September 20, regional myzilina.sme.sk published the article that the summer school of machine learning helps, supports, and popularizes with new technologies. The partner of the summer school is also Slovak.AI. 

On September 21, Trend Barometer included quotes from of Ronald Blaško (online, print)

The magazine Break published on September 3 an extended interview about artificial intelligence with Martin Spano, which mention in positive way also the activities of Slovak.AI.