In the 2018/2019 school year, the Department of Information Technologies organizes a separate cycle of professional lectures on current topics in the field of Information and Communication Technologies. Out of a total of ten lectures offered, two are in English (for students of English majors and other interested parties). The next cycle of lectures will take place in ZS (period October to December).
The main goal is to enrich and supplement the standard teaching, support the competitiveness of graduates on the labor market and further deepen the department's cooperation with practice.
In addition to the lecture's own thematic content, participating companies can also offer students cooperation in the form of professional internships, BP or DP topics, participation in projects, etc.
The chosen target group in LS are students of the field of Informatics, as well as students of the economics and management fields of Business and Administration and Operations and Economics, 2nd years of bachelor's and 1st years of subsequent master's studies. The lectures concern the subjects Operating systems and computer networks, Operating systems and computer networks, Business information systems, Markup languages, Markup languages, IS security, IS/IT security, Electronic business and business, E-business and commerce, ICT for managers, IT for e‑business.
Students are required to attend at least one specialist lecture (or two, if specified in the subject) of their own choice from the given cycle (credit condition). Of course, a student can also register for more lectures. Login takes place through the forms on the wp website (see below). The series of lectures runs from February 27, 2019, every Wednesday from 4:30 p.m. until the end of April 2019, the capacity is limited by the size of the available auditorium, which is the LS auditorium EIV (approx. 65 places). Because of the great interest in the lectures offered in selected cases auditorium provided TAND, EIII (approx. 140 places).
Students can register for lectures from February 13, 2019 via the department's website:
Date | Topic of the lecture | Lecturer | Company, position | Room | |
27. 2. 2019 | Product Management |
Václaviková Barbora |
SAP Concur Ltd |
EIV | RECORD |
What was behind the success of some of the world's most famous products? How to get from an initial idea to a successful product? What is the role of the Product Manager in this process and what should he know? |
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6. 3. 2019 |
Central banks and innovation: open banking, instant payments and crypto-assets |
Vodrážka Michal |
Czech National Bank |
EIV | RECORD |
How do central banks deal with innovation in the financial market and beyond? Can the market be forced to innovate by regulation such as the new European payment directive PSD2? Or is it enough to simply prepare the infrastructure, with the market and competition ensuring its meaningful use? And when and how to respond to (allegedly revolutionary) innovations such as crypto-assets and blockchain? |
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13. 3. 2019 |
Enterprise Design Thinking |
Loud Jan |
IBM Czech Republic s.r.o |
YOU | RECORD |
It also happened to you that you were saying, "Who invented this, for it is useless!" ? How to avoid these people telling you about your applications and solutions? One of the answers may be to use "human centered design" approaches - a user-centric design. We'll show you the methodology you use to build an IT solution, but you can use it in any of your projects – whether you design your own application, service, space, or just a web page. |
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20. 3. 2019 | Advanced cybersecurity solutions |
Jeleník Andrej |
CISCO Systems (Czech Republic) Ltd |
EIII | RECORD |
You will get to know why interoperability of security solutions is so important, what kind of security features do we currently use in the enterprise world and how we can make them more efficient by using machine-learning or behavioral analytics. |
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27. 3. 2019 |
IT management in forests |
Peter Dvořák |
Military forests and estates of the Czech Republic sp |
EIV | RECORD |
What is Enterprise IT? How does a CIO push IT needs into the business? What is IT governance? What are the tools, methodologies and best practices in IT management? Where do requirements for IT infrastructure and IT services arise? What are the specifics of managing IT in a public university as opposed to managing IT in a state-owned enterprise? IT is the engine of innovation. The position of IT in the company is still not clearly defined and it depends on the erudition of the organization's management whether it will use IT for its competitive advantage, take a neutral stance towards it or tolerate it as a necessary evil (inevitable standard). |
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3. 4. 2019 |
Oracle database and autonomous data management |
David Krch, Rastislav Janči |
Oracle Czech s.r.o |
EIV | RECORD |
The Oracle database has been on the market since 1979. It has always been the leader in relational databases and forms the basis of a large number of key information systems, mainly of state administrations, financial institutions or telecommunications companies. Among other things, behind its high performance and scalability is the continuously improved query optimizer, thanks to which this database is successfully used both in the field of transaction systems, data warehouses and in the processing of extremely extensive data sets. Today, the Oracle database can also be used in the form of platform or autonomous services in the Oracle public cloud. Come and hear how to work efficiently with the Oracle database and what possibilities Oracle Cloud offers today, not only in the field of databases. |
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10. 4. 2019 |
HPE SAP HANA infrastructure and high availability solution |
Josef Kačín Radek Novotny |
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, s.r.o |
EIV | RECORD |
SAP S/4 HANA brings much needed speed, flexibility and performance to enterprise IT today. Do you know how the chassis of this platform works? Are you interested in how HPE implements SAP HANA databases? How is cluster for SAP HANA different? What is unique about us and how do we help achieve not only high availability, but above all secure operation of HANA system replication? Come to this lecture and you will learn much more. |
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17. 4. 2019 | Oracle reference architecture for modern data management | Vít Hlaváček, Martin Patočka | Oracle Czech s.r.o |
EIV | RECORD |
What are the modern trends in the field of corporate data management? Do you know the Oracle reference architecture that appropriately combines Oracle databases with technologies from the Big Data family? The lecture will be focused in more detail on approaches to obtaining and storing data flowing over time (e.g. continuous measurement or monitoring data) and on the cooperation of the relational and Big Data worlds when processing batch jobs. Both of these categories of data together represent a comprehensive database for analysis, the so-called Data Lake. The use of all available data sources, their timely processing and obtaining new interpretations is the main goal of the discussed data management platform. |
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24. 4. 2019 | Fake news |
Katerina Hrubešová |
Company for Internet Development, zspo |
EIII | Registration |
Do you really know what fake news is? What does it look like, where do you find them and what do they cause? Is it just an overly shared topic or a thorn in the side of Brussels officials? And isn't deleting fake news, or at least what we think is fake news, an infringement on the right to free speech? |