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Material for the foundry industry? It isn’t hard to imagine a more attractive business than this. Yet it’s often the inconspicuous companies with no distinctive marketing that the innovative businesses in #brnoregion relies on. And LANIK is one of those, as it’s been carefully developing its own technologies in Boskovice for over 30 years.

Karel Novotný has been in marketing and advertising for over 20 years now. He spent some time working for agencies before starting his own business as a lecturer and consultant. He’s held workshops all over the world and, in addition to large companies, he’s been helping non-profit organizations with their marketing as well.

Despite having Afghani parents and being born and raised in Iran, the Czech Republic is the place Javad has been calling home for over a decade now. Javad Cihlář produces suits, coats, and trousers tailored to the needs of customers from #brnoregion as well as Vienna.

In just four years, this young company has proven its potential by gaining customers all over the world. Pekat Vision’s intelligent software provides automated product quality checks and saves a lot of routine manual work and, in a lot of cases, does a far better job. The best part? It can check virtually anything.

From a simple need to get a child’s chair decorated with dinosaurs to establishing a globally renowned company.

One hundred years ago, Karel Čapek published his drama, R.U.R. This major work is famous not only for the message imparted in it by the brilliant Čapek, but also because it was the first time the word robot was ever used. The apocalyptic tale of man-made humanoids that exterminate mankind probably resonates more today than it did when it was first published.

He came to Brno from Ukraine 20 years ago, and despite his university degree, his career here started with a shovel and a spade. He quickly worked his way up from there, though, and is now the owner of a successful construction company. He returns to the Ukraine regularly to visit his parents, but he says his beloved Brno will remain his home forever.

An interview with Lenka Požárová on life’s (un)certainties, tough as well as exciting moments in London, the Brno she returned to after long years, and on the fact that nothing in life is free.