As Chief Sales Officer with SmartGuide, Vaclav helps nations, regions, cities, and attractions to digitize visitor experience, use smart data, AR and AI to improve sustainability and contribution of tourism to local economies. Vaclav combines a truly global perspective after living on 4 different continents with experiences from diverse multi-functional projects serving big private and public clients during his 8 years in management consulting spanning from McKinsey via freelance to boutique consulting outfits. Vaclav encourages and mentors founders and young talent in CEE to foster creation and adoption of innovative, smart technologies. His immediate goal, as graduate in paralel of FEL and VŠE, is to motivate students of technical and business universities to inspire each other in ideation phase and form inception of future founder teams.