Daria Hvížďalová and Matěj Kapošváry, FBA Graduates, Make Czech Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2023

Daria Hvížďalová

CEO, 42 Prague
MIM/CEMS VSE Graduate

Tech enthusiast with experience in software products and AI across different industries – from consulting to manufacturing. TEDx speaker, university lecturer, and Forbes columnist on data-driven parenting. She believes that 42 is the ultimate answer to the challenges of both digitization and education. 
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We changed education so you can change the world. Under this motto, Daria runs a tuition-free peer-to-peer coding institution for developers 42 Prague, which breaks down barriers in the world of IT with its unique curriculum. Through their educational model, students are trained to become qualified software engineers and design inclusive solutions for the challenges of today and tomorrow. Based on peer-to-peer feedback and gamification, the most important software programming languages will be taught practically, with an additional focus on continuous learning and strengthening social skills.

Launched in the spring of 2022, the educational institute is part of the international network École 42, its main partner in the Czech Republic is ŠKODA AUTO, and up to 450 future programmers are expected to graduate in the next five years. Daria Hvížďalová also teaches at the European School of Business and Management. She is an expert in artificial intelligence and worked for several years at GoodAI. Within the family engineering holding JHV, she founded the consulting firm JHV Solutions and the technology spin-off Mainware. She studied Sinology, International Management and IT.

Matěj Kapošváry

CEO, Shopsys
Management graduate

“Simplicity of shopping on the customer side is being redeemed by the ever-increasing complexity on the vendor side. Behind every order, there is a multitude of technologies, tools, applications, integrations and processes.”
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Big companies such as Sconto, Tescoma and Mountfield owe their successful online sales to him. Matěj runs the Ostrava-based company Shopsys, which creates e-shops for the biggest players on the market. As CEO, he holds the reins of a hundred-million-dollar business and manages a team of 70 people. Back at the CTU, he became vice president of JA Alumni Europe, a student organization with more than 10,000 members, and a co-founder of the ShopCamp e-commerce conference. That is why Petr Svoboda, the owner of Shopsys, noticed him at the early age of 21 and offered him a job as a marketing specialist. From there he worked his way up to marketing director and then CEO. He also founded the award-winning EXEC magazine, through which he tries to educate the e-commerce community.