Summary
Jiri Bouchal is a start-up entrepreneur and innovation leader with nine years of experience building and advising companies in smart cities, smart mobility and IoT. As CEO and co-founder of InnoConnect and co-founder of RoadTwin and the Digital Resilience Institute, he combines hands-on product strategy with successful EU research and innovation funding wins across projects like DUET, CompAir and BIPED. He brings a rare policy-to-practice perspective from his time at the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade, where he helped implement the Services Directive and co-authored the national Competitiveness Strategy for 2020. Comfortable operating at the intersection of geodata analytics, digital twins and citizen engagement, he focuses on turning complex urban data into actionable tools for cities and regions. Colleagues value his ability to bridge government, academia and industry to create sustainable, data-driven urban solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA), Master of Arts (MA) at University of West Bohemia Pilsen, Faculty of Law
Exchange student certificate, Exchange student certificate at University of Richmond
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble
Master of Arts (MA), Master of Arts (MA) at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences
English, Czech, French, German