Keynote: Sara Polak at GSV 2025 Will Show How to Implement AI Effectively and Get Rid of Fear

The 24th annual traditional and popular professional-social conference YMS will take place on Thursday and Friday, 25 and 26 September 2025 at the Sitno Hotel in Vyhne. For the 24th time, we invite you to step into the strong circle of partners, colleagues, and friends with whom you annually share experiences and exchange views on your key systems. You can look forward to the intelligent and inspiring company of people who understand electronization in depth.
We have a prehistoric brain, medieval institutions and divine technology. What to do with that?
What this means will be explained to us by Sara Polak, an award-winning archaeologist, Oxford-educated interdisciplinary researcher and innovator featured in Czech Forbes 30 under 30. She studies and explains how technology changes humanity and how each significant new technology — from fire to artificial intelligence — has triggered amazement, fear and unexpected consequences.
Sara helps organizations navigate digital transformation by connecting ancient civilizations with modern innovations. From stone tools to artificial intelligence, she reveals how humanity has always faced technological changes and how it survived them. She will speak exclusively as a keynote speaker, and you can look forward to her unique knowledge on:
Historical parallels of technological innovations and social changes.
Practical strategies for effective adaptation to AI and digitalization.
Overcoming fears of technological changes.
How AI helped discover a lost Mayan civilization.
Let’s be inspired, because in every sector there are stories worth telling
We will open the conference with birthday wishes, as YMS will celebrate 35 years in the IT market in September.
The program will begin with the story of the Slovak National Accreditation Service and the new generation of the Accreditation Information System (AIS). After 10 years, we completely rebuilt the AIS system from the ground up — the new generation is more secure, more flexible and more intuitive. Its technical foundation is our yAgenda platform for a modern electronic organization, giving users and administrators much more freedom and control over how they work with the system.
Representatives of Lesy SR, state enterprise will continue with the completely new WebGIS 6.0 in forestry edition. The new design, refined ergonomics and redesigned functionality have transformed our map portal into a modern, intuitive and functionally rich geospatial information system. It is suitable for any organization that manages territories, infrastructure, technologies, natural resources or assets.
Following this, the Central Control and Testing Authority of Agriculture CÚR will present top services, clarity and the scope of their new system. CÚR now has nearly a hundred running electronic services, placing it even ahead of the eSlovensko portal. Despite the challenging agenda and its initially unconnected state, the CÚR system is today an example of a well-electronized state institution.
Another digitized organization is the State Veterinary and Food Administration of the Slovak Republic (ŠVPS SR) with the KVEPIS system. Like CÚR, ŠVPS SR manages a demanding nationwide agenda — specifically the health of farm animals and food. Representatives of IT at ŠVPS SR will show how the modules of the system are being rolled out into use and how electronic services are being published.
We will continue with the presentation of the European project FOCAL. We are working in a strong consortium of partners on an intelligent platform for modeling the impacts of climate change with forestry and urban focus. We will show how we work with data, models and artificial intelligence so that foresters and urban planners know exactly what to do on their territories to protect us from the negative impacts of climate change.
The state of EU fund utilization in today’s tense times will be explained by the President of Partnerships for Prosperity, Milan Ištván. You will learn how things look with the funds, where calls are being cancelled, where projects can still be submitted, and how to orient yourself in it all.
The official program will close with a walk through Slovakia, in the story from the notes of the Slovak geological giant Dionýz Štúr. Thanks to digitization and the enthusiasm of contemporary Slovak geologists, Slovak geological heritage is not only preserved but also brought to life.
Informal atmosphere and team IT OlympiCS
The conference, as usual, will be held in a spirit of friendly, informal atmosphere. You will gain inspiration and relax in the company of great people.
There will also be the IT Olympics, which for many years has concluded the busy work program. You can look forward to your favorite disciplines, competition, results and nice prizes.
We are looking forward to seeing you again traditionally at Hotel Sitno in Vyhne!