Matěj Štefánik

Matěj Štefánik is AI Officer at Kentico. He was originally heading for an academic career; artificial intelligence was the topic of his dissertation. In the end he went into business, where he went through almost the whole cycle of a company: from developer to analyst, product manager and head of development teams, all the way to Head of Product and Head of Product Marketing. For the past ten years he has focused on product strategy, positioning and how to explain a product's value clearly to customers.

When AI gained momentum again, he returned to the topic that had fascinated him since university. Today he helps companies adopt AI, and he sees that 90% of the problem is not in the tools but at the organisational and strategic level: where to start, and what it means for the company's structure, processes, culture and strategy. With an overview of how a whole company works, he sees AI not as a tool for one team but as a transformational change across the organisation.