Start-up entrepreneur, innovation project manager and digital transformation, Smart city, Smart mobility & IoT consultant. CEO and co-founder at InnoConnect.net, a company providing geodata analytics & visulisation in the fields of smart cities, smart mobility, and IoT.Chairman and co-founder of Digital Resilience Institute, an association that connects government, academia and practitioners to create sustainable futures.Co-founder and business adviser of RoadTwin, a startup providing urban traffic modelling software to cities and regions in Europe.Successful track record in securing EU research & innovation funding.Project manager of multiple EU-level innovation projects: BIPED - creating positive energy districts, CompAir - improving air quality through citizen engagement, DUET - building local digital twins of cities, PoliVisu - innovative IT tools for better policy making, bIoTope - smart IoT systems, ECIM - smart mobility, CITADEL and EPIC - Open Data and Smart Cities, OpenTransportNet - open geodata, MAGHRENOV - sustainable energy, SSEDIC - electronic identity Thematic Network.Jiri previously worked at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic dealing with the EU internal market and competitiveness agenda, was responsible for the implementation of the Services Directive (2006/123/EC) in the Czech Republic, and as a co-author of the Czech Republic`s Competitiveness Strategy for 2020, formulated cross-cutting national policy reforms in the field of R&D, innovation and trade promotion.