Honza has been in the IT world for 17 years, during which time he has worked in both garage start-ups and large corporations. Honza has worked in many roles – from a project manager over analyst, consultant to architect. He has experience with projects managed according to agile, waterfall and completely punk principles.

For the last 7 years he has been working at ČSOB, where he first participated in the digital transformation of the bank’s paper processes. However, he gradually moved into the field of artificial intelligence and now focuses on implementing AI in the banking environment. Together with Tomáš Votruba, he launched Kate, a unique virtual assistant, within 10 months, which he continues to develop in the System Architect role.

Tomáš and Honza Zubíček are one of the founding members of the Kate Project/Agile Train. Here, in just 10 months, they managed to introduce cloud services into the regulated environment of the bank and developed the first version of the Kate virtual assistant. Tomáš is still working on its all-round development.

Tomas started as a freelance analyst, developer and tester in one – in the garage working on small projects. By now, he has been managing projects and programs in the banking sector for 8 years. During his time at the bank, he has worked his way through a number of roles – from a trainee over project manager, line manager to program manager and Release Train Engineer. Some of the most interesting projects he has worked on include the implementation of the new CEB corporate banking system, the introduction of robotics into the CSOB group and, most importantly, the implementation of Kate, a virtual assistant. In his practice, he has managed both traditional waterfall and agile projects, and has been largely involved in the introduction of both methodologies into the corporate organization.