18. 9. 2026 / Martina Fojtů

How can we tackle cybersecurity legislation and AI with confidence while keeping a sense of perspective? That was the theme of this year’s TechForum, one of the Czech Republic’s largest IT conferences dedicated to the latest technologies. The event brought together IT managers, specialists and representatives of the companies and organisations driving technological progress. While most attendees appeared to have accepted the requirements of the new Cybersecurity Act as a reality and felt able to adapt to them, cybersecurity in an era of widespread AI adoption is an issue causing concern across the entire industry.

28. 5. 2026
Fewer defects, optimised production, or the prediction of machine damage and the related downtime. These are the challenges faced by every manufacturing company, and their managers deal with them on a daily basis. Today, new artificial intelligence tools are being gradually deployed across the industry and are already capable of addressing all of them, or pushing results significantly further. Here is what that looks like in practice.

14. 5. 2026
Tamara Ksandrová leads the team of recruiters at Aricoma and is one of the most prominent figures in Czech HR. When she talks about her work, you listen with interest, even if you are not normally interested in HR. Her energy is contagious, her laughter sincere, and her approach simply different. “Recruitment is a sinusoid. Sometimes there are more candidates, sometimes fewer, but you can never let up,” she says with insight.

23. 4. 2026
You probably see them every day. People who stand out from what others perceive as “normal”, but who are also capable of coming up with or doing incredible things. Gifted individuals. Psychologist Šárka Portešová, associate professor at Masaryk University, has devoted her entire professional life to supporting these people. Together with her colleagues, she has developed a software program for diagnosis. Additionally, she openly argues that we as a society should finally stop trying to fit individuals into any norm.

16. 4. 2026
When individual companies began merging under Aricoma years ago, they had one clear purpose: to grow stronger together, enhance one another, provide more complex services, and support larger and international clients. And this is one of them. PFNonwovens, a Czech manufacturer of nonwoven textiles and one of the world's top three producers in the industry, is gradually handing over the global management of its IT systems to Aricoma specialists.

9. 4. 2026

Until recently, quantum computers sounded like distant science from laboratories. Today, however, they are becoming a serious tool. IBM alone operates several dozen quantum computers in the cloud, and more will rapidly emerge from other vendors. The decisions being made right now will determine who manages to adopt the new technology and who gets left behind. Europe is trying. But will it be enough?

15. 7. 2025 / Pavel Dvořák, Head of IT Support in the Digital Team at Aricoma

In 2019, I dusted off my long-held dream of seeing Europe's northernmost road, the legendary Nordkapp. Unfortunately, I had very little time for vacation, so I didn't even tell anyone else, as I wouldn't dare force anyone to grind away most of the days. So I decided to treat the journey as the destination and enjoy the ride itself rather than the experiences in the surrounding area. At the same time, I was tempted to clear my head a little and rely only on myself and my machine along the way. I had never done a solo trip like this before, and you have to try everything, right?

2. 7. 2025

What AI tools do you use? Do you know what tools your colleagues use? Do you know where the data you put into them ends up? Let's be clear, this article is not meant to scare you. But we also know that when managers are asked the previous three questions, many of them become uncertain. And because the use of artificial intelligence will only continue to grow, now is the right time to set boundaries so that a great tool does not become a security threat.

22. 5. 2025 / Martina Fojtů

Digitalization, efficient state, simplified communication with authorities. In technology circles, these words are more frequently used than the absence of snow among ski lifters. But the digitisation of state administration keeps failing to arrive. Why? Where is the problem? And don't we sometimes have unreasonable and unrealistic expectations? Tomáš Rutrle talks about all this in this interview. He is in charge of the digital solutions for the modern state section at Aricoma and has a great deal of experience. Because he was already on the topic of digitalization at a time when the Czech Republic was just beginning to use the Internet en masse.

11. 2. 2025

David Sibřina has something at work that I'm sure none of you have. It's a 3D print of a liver with all its protrusions and projections, and it's a bit of a symbol. The researcher, who works at IKEM as head of the augmented and virtual reality surgery planning group, actually started working on incorporating virtual reality tools into the surgical process the moment it became clear that even modern planning techniques using just 3D prints weren't enough.

7. 1. 2025

The need to adapt, to deal with server and database capacity, to scale. When you say charity, you don't associate any of those words with it. But David Procházka, the founder of Donio, the largest and well-known donation platform in the Czech Republic, doesn't tend to think that way. On the contrary, he talks about Donio as a technological tool that facilitates help. In the interview, he explains what it entails and what has made it so popular. He and his team have managed to solve old problems much more efficiently using new tools.

30. 12. 2024

It is pretty hard to imagine a job, a school day or life in general without computers, phones and technology in general. But daily exposure to them has an impact on people and contributes to shaping their lives. How can we make the most of them, the positive side, and not be influenced by the negative side? This is what psychologist David Šmahel has been researching at Masaryk University (MU) for years. In contrast to others, you will not hear apocalyptic scenarios from him. Instead, he speaks engagingly about all the consequences of the digitalisation of life that we are still unaware of.