It is the afternoon of September 5th, the air is hot and heavy and we are in a former ice-cream factory complex in Brno. We enter the Industra Space, where the third Culture Rocks conference organised by the COCUMA portal and Rockaway Capital is just getting underway. There was no need to discuss the subtitle of the event: we are at the East Coast Edition.
Chytrý Honza has joined with tennis player Karolína Plíšková to help kids who need it the most by donating €200 for every ace that Karolína scores in the US Open in New York to the Paediatric Haematology and Oncology Clinic at the Motol University Hospital. The donations are being made via Karolína’s charitable foundation.
Most people probably do not feel completely at ease when they hear the word “presentation”, whether it involves preparing a presentation, public speaking connected with it or hours spent sitting and listening to a scripted demonstration. The Czech company PresentiGO is attempting to change that and is finding success in persuading large clients such as E.on, UPC, GE Aviation and Linet that it has the cure to “presentation phobia”.
On Thursday, 1 June, several hundred conference-goers packed Kino Lucerna to hear nine speakers talk about their experience with managing people across the broadest range of fields – from outfitting bathrooms to saving lives – and the atmosphere was electrifying.
A merger of game development studios has occurred within the Rockaway group’s start-up division. Dreadlocks Ltd, which to date has focused mainly on developing games for computers and game consoles, is taking the mobile studio Silicon Jelly s.r.o. under its wing. That latter studio now bears the name Dreadlocks Mobile.
