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1to1 Administration s.r.o.

www.1to1.sk

Tailor-made administrative solutions developed by us – a team of experienced, passionate and approachable experts. Company 1to1 Administration s. r. o. provides complex portfolio of administrative services such as accounting and reporting, processing of HR and payroll agenda, corporate-secretarial services, records keeping, optimization of internal process and other services based on client’s ...

3M Slovensko s.r.o.

www.3m.sk

3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products. Our culture of creative collaboration inspires a never-ending stream of powerful technologies that make life better. 3M is the innovation company that never stops inventing. With $30 billion in sales, 3M employs about 88,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 70 countries. 3M’s diversifie ...

3PLUS s.r.o.

www.3plus.sk

Distribution of PSA systems (adhesive tapes & similar) produced by the leading US & Asia - Pacific based producers to industrial clients in the Central Europe, Post-Soviet territory, and Turkey. The three US-based producers account for approximately 50% of the 3PLUS’s sales.

ABB Solutions Slovakia, s. r. o.

www.abboptical.com

ABB Optical Group in the United State is a leading provider of optical products, services and business solutions in the eye care industry. ABB operates through three business pillars: ABB Contact Lens, ABB Labs and ABB Business Solutions and is focused on the future of eye care professionals, helping them succeed by making practices more efficient and assisting providers to effectively navigat ...

ABB, s.r.o.

www.abb.sk

ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a pioneering technology leader in electrification products, robotics and motion, industrial automation and power grids, serving customers in utilities, industry and transport & infrastructure globally. Continuing a history of innovation spanning more than 130 years, ABB today is writing the future of industrial digitalization with two clear value propositions: b ...

Abbvie s.r.o.

www.abbvie.sk

We are becoming a new, global biopharmaceutical company, and we have the stability of Abbott’s 125-year heritage as a foundation on which to grow. That means we have the best of both worlds – the expertise of a proven pharmaceutical leader and the focus and passion of an entrepreneur and innovator. As a result, we have the ability to discover innovative therapies and meet the health needs of p ...

ACCA

www.accaglobal.com

ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is the world’s leading body for professional accountants, with over 110 years of experience, innovation and excellence. We champion opportunity within accountancy, demonstrate excellence through our qualifications, and act as a driving force within the accounting profession to constantly improve working practices. ACCA supports over 20 ...

Accenture

www.accenture.com

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Ope ...

ACCEPT AUDIT & CONSULTING, s.r.o.

www.acceptaudit.sk

ACCEPT AUDIT & CONSULTING, s.r.o. is an audit company with the license of Slovak Chamber of Auditors number 124. Our auditors provide audit since 1991 with experiences from manufacturing and trading companies, budgetary organizations, investment funds and investment companies, foundations and other organizations (about 1000 audits since 1991). The seat of the company is in Prešov, the comp ...

ADECCO Slovakia, s.r.o.

www.adecco.sk

The Adecco Group is the world's leading provider of HR solutions. With more than 34,000 FTE employees and around 5,100 branches, in over 60 countries and territories around the world, we offer a wide variety of services, connecting more than 7000,000 associates. ADECCO Slovakia s. r. o. has been present in the Slovak market since 2002 as a co-founder of the Association of the HR services provi ...

Adient Slovakia s.r.o.

www.adient.com

Adient is the global leader in automotive seating. With 77,000 employees operating in 202 manufacturing/assembly plants in 32 countries worldwide, we produce and deliver automotive seating for all vehicle classes and all major OEMs. Slovakia with more than 3,000 employees and 6 locations plays a key role in our operations – beside the production, the business center in Bratislava supports the ...

"Connection" magazine: 4/2020 issue

Deadline for submitting all materials for "Pillars of Good Society" issue of Connection magazine.

Richard DeWitt Arbitration Conference

in cooperation with Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Law.  

"Connection" magazine: 3/2020 issue

Deadline for submitting all materials for "Regional Development" issue of Connection magazine.

HBRP Webinar: The Heart of Business

in cooperation with Harvard Business Review Press

Slovak Matchmaking Fair 2021

organized by the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO)

General Assembly

Come and be the first to hear the election results and meet the Board Members!

Entrepreneurial Talents Fair

organized by Junior Achievement Slovakia (JA Slovakia)

HBRP Webinar: Sales Management That Works

in cooperation with Harvard Business review Press

Data in Transatlantic Area: Free Flow, Cooperation or Competition?

workshop organized by EURACTIV Slovakia

Women in Business Conference

Untold Stories of Women in Science and Technology

Investing in Real Estate

organized by Crowdberry

AmCham Regional Project: Modern Manufacturing

A Project Under The Regional Inititative of AmCham Slovakia and AmCham Czech Republic

Women can have as successful a career in science and technology as men

In order for women in Slovakia to focus more on work and careers in the field of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), motivation is needed at home and at school, as well as the capture of talent at a young age. The more favorable working conditions that employers can offer their employees also contribute to this. The participants of the third year of the Women in Business ...

Slovakia Inevitably Needs Successful and Efficient Implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan

We are convinced, that top representatives of the public administration, in close co-operation with the European Commission (EC), should fully embrace their capacities on fulfilling the meaning and goal of the document, which should modernize the Slovak economy and re-launch closing the gap between Slovakia and other European Union member states in terms of living standards. The Chamber calls ...

XTech Global Challenge in Artificial Intelligence

The DoD is seeking robust, AI-enabled capabilities to manage, integrate, and process, and reason on disparate data/information sources for rapid decision making. This is particularly challenging due to severe constraints of resources such as computing power and bandwidth at the point of need. Of particular interest are the following AI/Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and software tools to ena ...

Slovak.AI is now AIslovakIA

All people in Slovakia at any age have now a unique opportunity to take the course Elements of AI and take off on a new wave that would form our lives and our economy in the years to come. Join more than 620 000 people, who already know the new IT trend and enter the course with us: https://aislovakia.com/elementsofai/

Lucia Raimanová promoted to Partner

Lucia leads the firm’s arbitration practice within Central and Eastern Europe, and is based in the Bratislava office, having previously worked over a decade in London and seconded to the firm’s Hong Kong and Moscow offices. Lucia’s extensive experience in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration spans many jurisdictions and sectors, and includes disputes arising out of vario ...

Open Call: Join the Challenger Urban:Creative Acceleration Program

The call is intended for teams and starting companies developing an innovative product or service that will improve the city's inhabitants’ quality of life. What is the Challenger Urban:Creative acceleration program? The Challenger Urban:Creative acceleration program is a tool that will provide business education for start-up teams and companies and at the same time bring an opportunity for a ...

26th Annual Entrepreneurial Talents Fair presents over 500 high school students from all over Slovakia

The Fair will take place online on May 4th, 2021. Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jaslovensko and the Fair website www.firma.jaslovensko.sk/veltrh for more information. Join our students, teachers, business partners and professional jury and experience the inventive and creative atmosphere of young Slovak entrepreneurial talents.

AmCham in the Media - March 2021

On March 2, Ronald Blaško wrote a commentary in SME (print & online) about leadership, outlining that the country is not a company, but successful leaders are somewhat similar. On March 2, teraz.sk and mzv.sk informed about meeting of AmCham representatives with Ingrid Brockova at the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic. On March 11, aktuality.sk informed ab ...

AmCHAT - Podcast series for business community

We aim to cultivate and transform the local business environment through the power of best knowledge and practice exchange, reflecting the exclusive company brands, talents and innovative technologies represented by our members. BECOME OUR ACTIVE LISTENER! AmChamSpotify PodBean Soundcloud Google podcast TALK ABOUT YOUR TOPICIf you have an interesting topic to talk about, contact AmCham ...

Slovakia needs a major reform of the health care system. The Recovery and Resilience Facility could be the trigger.

The discussion generated the “Expert Opinion on the Recovery and Resilience Facility & National and Integrated Reform Plan”, a consolidated document which presents a joint position of experts and points out the most relevant areas that should be integral to any reform documents. Experts agree that Slovakia needs a health care reform, and resources from the RRF represent one of the greate ...

Candidates for the AmCham Board of Directors 2021

At the General Assembly, AmCham Slovakia will announce the outcome of this year´s elections for the Board of Directors. To ensure that you are able to make an informed decision when casting your ballot, AmCham Slovakia has prepared a special election brochure with detailed information about each candidate for the Board of Directors that you can download here:/download.tom?ID=5835&hash=qHfxU ...

AmCham calls for clear & predictable communication towards employers

AmCham continues to closely monitor these developments and maintains an open communication channel with affiliated employer associations, chambers of commerce and industry, as well as relevant public institutions. We firmly believe that the introduction of a harsh economic lockdown would be detrimental to both short and long-term interests of the Slovak Republic and would be a cause of irre ...

R&D in Slovakia: Peanuts and Monkeys

When it comes to innovating the economy the rest of Europe and the world is trying much harder than us. This creates significant hurdles for the future of the economy: 1) no clusters where the economy can increase value added are created; and 2) causes brain drain, where the talented and ambitious move abroad, with the risk of Slovakia being left behind by global competition. Stuck in second ...

HC Košice - starting a new journey

The name of the club gained worldwide reputation thanks to names such as Ladislav Troják, Bedřich Brunclík, Vincent Lukáč, Igor Liba, Peter Bondra, Ladislav Nagy, and many others. U. S. Steel Košice (USSK) has been a general partner of the local hockey team since 2000 following the partnership of Východoslovenské železiarne Košice since 1967. USSK has also been a key partner of Steel arena o ...

Cloud First is not just an approach to technology, it is a mindset

The future leaders are technology leaders Let me start with a recent observation. During the past year, leading enterprises achieved something remarkable. They were able to squeeze a decade of digital transformation into less than two years, and on top of that they are now growing revenues five times faster. Tomorrow’s leaders will be therefore those that put technology at the forefront, showe ...

Technology helping food businesses survive the pandemic

Quarantine, social distancing and strict hygienic guidelines have fundamentally changed the way restaurants, cafés and other food services operate. Many establishments converted their spaces to accommodate the need for fulfilling takeout and delivery orders, as opposed to seating customers. These businesses started utilizing many modern innovations and moved their unique experiences and entire ...

How flexible is our future?

If you were to pick the biggest effect of Covid-19, what would it be? I would say that businesses have learned how important the right environment is to doing your best work. It’s not just individuals who have taken a hard look at life. We’ve seen over the last year just how quickly businesses have reappraised their operations. The experience is creating the foundations for a more flexible wor ...

The value of big data

However, technological development has brought not only an improvement of the Internet connection, but also the availability of modern mobile equipment and smartphones: 3,5 billion users use smartphones and over 50% of global traffic comes from smartphones. If we add up data transfers from computers, data centers and everything else connected to the Internet, we end up with an enormous amount ...

Innovative use of open-source data in sales and marketing

In Imper, we put together inhomogeneous and often poorly processed data from dozens of open sources. Thanks to state-of-the-art machine learning and artificial intelligence that take care of the data collection, cleaning and classification, we are able to use them as a solid base for our applications that are used by thousands of companies all over the world. We have been operating in Slovakia ...

Moving beyond the “Moderate Innovator” category

What is the main mission of SLORD? The main mission of SLORD, which was established back in 2014, is to bridge the gap between the EU institutions and the Slovak Republic, namely to stimulate the cooperation between the European and Slovak subjects of the research and innovation ecosystem. Our main focus is on monitoring the European policies and various instruments to support research and in ...

The dangers of safely working from home

Do you think the amount of cybercrime has increased over the past year? Cybercrime has grown by more than 100 % on a year-on-year basis. In fact, to be precise, over the last year it grew by more than 400 %. Last summer, the US Department of Homeland Security published information that showed a dramatic increase in the number of cyber-attacks from the beginning of the pandemic. This represen ...

Remote work and cybersecurity

The speed at which this change is being implemented varies across industries and companies, with the main drivers being the appetite for change, the size of an entity and the competitive pressure. Over the last few months, the Covid-19 pandemic has forced many companies to accelerate their remote work initiatives. As office closures and travel restrictions compelled everyone to adopt a remote ...

Diversifying the automotive industry to the mobility sector

Unlike any other industry, the automotive offers Slovakia an unprecedented opportunity to become a technology champion in such a massive and global market. Slovakia is the world leader in terms of cars produced per capita, but R&D and innovation activities within the automotive industry remain underdeveloped and disconnected from the manufacturing base. In combination with autonomous drivi ...

Overcoming the challenges in regulating disruptive technologies

According to Investopedia, disruptive technology is an innovation that significantly alters the way that consumers, industries, or businesses operate. This simple definition captures tangible technologies (such as drones), intangible content (e.g. online streaming platforms), innovative services (e.g. Mobility-as-a-Service) and new ways of using existing technology (social media content and ta ...