Karel CHARVAT
Karel Charvat graduated in theoretical cybernetics, he is a member of International Society for Precision Agriculture, Research Data Alliance, vice president of Club of Ossiach, CAGI, and CSITA. He was in the period 2005 - 2007 President of European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture Food and Environment (EFITA). He is currently vice chair for Europe in OGC Agriculture DWG. He was organiser on many hackathons, where as most important were INSPIRE Hacks I and II and MEDHackathon. He works on implementation on national INSPIRE Geoportal. Now he is also active in Plan4all association charing group for research.
He has long time experience in ICT for Tourism, Environment, transport, Agriculture and Precision Farming. Now he is one of the promoters of Open and Big Data in Agriculture in Europe. He has expertise in project management of research projects, Evaluator of EC projects. Key qualification: strategic studies and management of projects in ICT and SDI. Participation in projects as project manager and senior researcher: Wirelessinfo, Premathmod, EMIRES, REGEO, Rural Wins, Armonia, a Bard, EPRI Start, Ami@netfood, AMI4For, Voice, Naturnet Redime, Mobildat, SpravaDat, Navlog, c@r, Humboldt, WINSOC, Study for DG AGRI Broadband in Rural Development, Plan4all, Habitats, Plan4business, SmartOpenData, FOODIE, SDI4Apps, AgriXchange, FOODIE, SDI4Apps, OTN, DataBio, EO4Agri, EUXDAT, SKIN and Enabling. Currently he is part of the project management team of project PoliRural and SmartAgriHubs.