The Industrial Council meeting brought interesting practical suggestions

The exchange of information between academia and industry is also supported by the Industry Council at the Faculty of Information Technology. The advisory working group meets at least once a year with the participation of nearly two dozen representatives of the faculty's corporate partners. The most recent meeting took place on Thursday, October 30, 2025, shortly before the start of the important Žijeme IT conference at the FIT.

The opening remarks of the meeting between faculty management and representatives of major IT companies were given by the Vice-Dean for Marketing and External Relations, Vítězslav Beran, who emphasized the importance of such meetings. The essence of the partnership with the faculty lies in preparing students for the job market in the best possible way. The dean of the faculty, Petr Hanáček, followed up with a presentation of FIT's strategic goals, highlighting two key projects: the development of supercomputing technologies and the Czech AI Factory consortium, in which FIT experts play a key role; and a fresh major impetus in the form of quantum informatics and the Quantum Innovation Center association, which can be considered a key project for the future of the Czech Republic in the field of quantum computers and post-quantum cryptography, and whose members also include BUT.

The most significant part of the Industry Council meeting was taken up by a discussion in which representatives of corporate partners participated. Kamila Zahradníčková, CEO of the successful startup Lakmoos, highlighted the support for startups and the transformation of communication with the university environment in general over the last 10 years. The quality and professional preparedness of FIT graduates was praised by the CEO of Phonexia, Ms. Markéta Lőrinczy, who particularly appreciated the close cooperation with faculty "speech therapists" led by Professor Jan Černocký. An interesting debate followed the contribution of Vojtěch Filip from Tescan Group, who highlighted semiconductors as an important area of preparation for future graduates. This was followed by a discussion on motivating students to take an interest in hardware topics in general. Of course, more topics were discussed, as evidenced by our press release here.

We would like to thank all participants of the meeting and look forward to future ones.