Tomas Studeník is an urban hacker, innovator, and author of The Art of Failure. He is the founder of Blackout Prague, a unique project that blends applied sociology with immersive theatre to explore what happens when modern cities go dark. Tomas has organized dozens of hackathons in Europe and the US, created the world’s first […]
MICHAL ALTAIR VALASEK
Bard of Code
MICHAL ALTAIR VALASEK
Bard of Code
The only relevant formal education I got was in primary school, when they taught me to read and write. After then I discovered, that I’m unable to make anything by hands and that I don’t have the guts for politics, I started to live on programming, design, lectures and movie production. Presently I work as developmenr security consultant and a wisdom disseminator for hire in the area of Central Europe and adjacent countries. I’m longest serving Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for ASP.NET in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Also I’m founding member of the Society for prevention of cruelty on computers and for mutual understanding of silicone and carbon based forms of life.
JEDAI
Finance & code fault line
JEDAI
Finance & code fault line
Jedai is a systems thinker operating at the fault line between finance and code. He has spent years inside regulation—standards bodies, risk frameworks, and compliance systems—mapping how power concentrates in custody and discretion. He now focuses on designing alternatives: cryptographic, protocol-based systems that replace institutional trust with verifiable rules. His work centers on self-sovereign identity, decentralized finance primitives, and incentive design that removes the need for gatekeepers. Author of Unregulatable, he argues that the future of money will not be governed by permission, but by architecture.
