Google is doubling the price of Gemini 4 Argon on 1 December. For companies running agents in production, it is a reminder that the biggest variable in an AI budget is set outside the company, and that the ability to switch models is an operational capability.
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Enterprise AI in production.
Practical notes on governance, autonomous operations and what it takes to run AI agents inside a regulated company. Written by the people who build the platform.
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What Is an Enterprise Agent Inventory and Why Is It Essential for AI Governance?
An enterprise agent inventory is an up-to-date record of the AI agents operating within an organization. It captures each agent’s purpose, accountable owner, permissions, connected systems and review status. The record helps teams understand what agents can do, investigate incidents and maintain operational control.
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What Is Enterprise AI Observability and Why Is It Now a Control Requirement?
Enterprise AI observability is the practice of continuously collecting, analyzing, and acting on runtime data from AI systems, including agents, models, and toolchains, to ensure operational transparency, control, and auditability. In regulated enterprises, observability is now a baseline requirement for evidencing compliance, managing risk, and supporting incident response.
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Why AI agent controls must run outside the agent
If the rules for an AI agent run in the same process as the agent, they are only suggestions. In late September a chipmaker, enterprise software vendors and a US regulator confirmed it in practice. What that means for companies putting agents into production, and four questions to ask about where your control actually runs.
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What is private inference and when does an enterprise need it?
Private inference means running language models on infrastructure the customer controls, so prompts, retrieved documents and output never leave their perimeter. It is needed when regulation, data classification or supplier concentration rules out a commercial model API. This article covers when it is justified, how to size it from measured concurrency rather than user counts, and what a feasibility study actually found.
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What is AI agent identity and privilege management in the enterprise?
AI agent identity and privilege management refers to the policies, controls, and technical mechanisms that govern how autonomous AI agents are issued, authenticated, authorized, and monitored as non-human actors in enterprise systems. This ensures agent actions are attributable, privileges are limited to what is necessary, and all access can be audited, revoked, or escalated in line with regulatory and operational requirements.
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What is an AI agent control plane in the enterprise?
An AI agent control plane is a governance layer that manages permissions, monitoring, and auditability for all AI agents in an enterprise. It centralizes oversight, enabling organizations to inventory, authorize, and govern agent actions across systems and workflows. This article explains why control planes matter, addresses misconceptions, outlines operational risks, and describes what a practical operating model looks like.
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What is enterprise AI inventory and control?
Enterprise AI inventory and control is the practice of maintaining a unified, auditable record of all AI models, agents, tools, policies, and runtime events across an organization. This approach supports compliance, operational oversight, and risk management, especially in complex, multi-vendor environments. The article explains why this matters, common misconceptions, operational risks, practical operating models, and how Elevon frames the discipline.
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What are the AI Act transparency obligations for enterprise deployers?
The AI Act’s transparency obligations require enterprise deployers to implement controls and evidence for identifying, documenting, and governing AI-generated content in line with EU regulatory requirements. These obligations apply to organizations using general-purpose AI, not just model providers, and include user disclosure, record-keeping, and operational oversight.
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What is AI assurance? How it differs from AI governance in the enterprise
AI assurance is the ongoing process of verifying, monitoring, and evidencing that AI systems operate as intended and remain compliant in production. Unlike AI governance, which sets policies and controls, assurance provides continuous, auditable proof that those controls are effective in real-world operations. This article explains the distinction, why assurance matters for regulated enterprises, and what a practical assurance model involves.
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What is continuous compliance for dynamic AI systems?
Continuous compliance for dynamic AI systems is the ongoing process of ensuring that AI deployments remain aligned with regulatory, policy, and risk requirements as models, prompts, tools, and data change over time. This article defines the concept, explains its importance for enterprises, addresses common misconceptions, outlines operational risks and ownership, describes what a practical operating model looks like, and summarizes how Elevon frames this approach.
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What is agent identity and runtime control in enterprise AI?
Agent identity and runtime control in enterprise AI involve assigning unique, managed identities to AI agents and enforcing real-time monitoring, permissions, and policy controls. This ensures every agent’s actions are attributable, auditable, and governable, supporting regulatory compliance and operational oversight in enterprise environments.
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What is post-deployment AI monitoring and incident response?
Post-deployment AI monitoring and incident response is the ongoing process of overseeing, detecting, and managing incidents in AI systems after they are put into production. This article defines the concept, explains its importance for regulated enterprises, addresses common misconceptions, outlines operational risks and ownership, describes what a mature operating model looks like, and summarizes Elevon's principles for supporting this discipline.
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What is AI agent observability and why is it now essential for enterprise control?
AI agent observability is the systematic, real-time monitoring and tracing of AI agents’ actions, tool use, and decision paths in production environments. It enables enterprises to generate runtime evidence, enforce policies, and support auditability and incident response, which are essential for regulated operations. This article defines agent observability, explains its importance, addresses misconceptions, and outlines operational requirements and ownership.
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What is AI operability?
AI operability is the discipline of ensuring that enterprise AI systems can be reliably monitored, evaluated, traced, governed, and recovered in production environments. This article defines AI operability, explains its importance for regulated enterprises, addresses misconceptions, outlines operational risks, and describes what a practical operating model looks like.
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What is AI auditability in regulated enterprises?
AI auditability in regulated enterprises is the ability to reconstruct, evidence, and review the sequence of actions, decisions, and tool calls made by AI systems, not just their final outputs. This discipline is essential for compliance, incident response, and operational assurance, and requires explicit ownership, trajectory logging, and evidence capture across business, technical, and control functions.
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What is AI observability in enterprise operations?
AI observability in enterprise operations is the ability to trace, monitor, and reconstruct the actions, decisions, and outcomes of AI systems in production. It provides evidence for audit, compliance, and incident response by capturing detailed records of prompts, tool calls, context, outputs, and approvals. Observability is now a regulatory and operational requirement for many enterprises.
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What are agentic AI escalation protocols and why do they matter for regulated enterprises?
Agentic AI escalation protocols are predefined, auditable mechanisms that ensure autonomous AI systems escalate decisions or incidents to human oversight when risk thresholds, uncertainty, or compliance triggers are met. These protocols are essential in regulated enterprises to maintain accountability, prevent unchecked automation, and support regulatory compliance.
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What is embedded AI governance? From policy to runtime enforcement in the enterprise
Embedded AI governance is the practice of enforcing organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and risk controls directly within AI systems at runtime. This approach ensures that AI decisions and actions are automatically governed, monitored, and escalated according to predefined rules, supporting compliance, auditability, and operational resilience. The article explains why this matters, common misconceptions, operational risks, and what a practical operating model looks like.
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What is operational ownership and accountability in enterprise AI?
Operational ownership and accountability in enterprise AI is the explicit assignment of responsibility, authority, and escalation paths for the operation, monitoring, and outcomes of AI systems. This ensures every material AI decision can be traced to a named owner, with clear oversight, intervention, and auditability. The article covers why this matters, common misconceptions, operational risks, and practical operating models.
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What is the pilot-to-production gap in enterprise AI?
The pilot-to-production gap in enterprise AI is the persistent failure of most AI projects to progress from successful pilot to scalable production deployment. This article explains why the gap exists, the organizational risks involved, and what operational discipline is required to close it.
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AI Solutions Day Vienna: What Enterprise Teams Are Actually Asking About AI
Elevon.io joined AI Solutions Day in Vienna, hosted by weXelerate, to present autonomous AI operations to enterprise leaders from banking, telecom, defence, and regulated industries. Here is what we took away.
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Enterprise AI that runs your business
Most AI projects deliver demos. Elevon delivers production. Learn how enterprises deploy governed AI agents that run real operational work, with full auditability and control.
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What is data readiness for AI in the enterprise?
Data readiness for AI in the enterprise is the state where data is sufficiently clean, accessible, governed, and integrated to support reliable, compliant, and scalable AI deployments. This article defines data readiness, explains its importance for regulated industries, addresses common misconceptions, outlines operational risks, and describes what a practical data readiness operating model looks like.
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Slovaks are changing how companies operate with AI agents. Elevon aims for the global market
Featured in Forbes Slovakia: Companies today face a fundamental question: how to delegate routine work processes to AI without risk and without losing control. Elevon.io founders explain how their platform enables enterprises to build and manage autonomous AI agent teams.
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What are human escalation paths for autonomous AI in regulated enterprises?
Human escalation paths for autonomous AI are documented processes that ensure certain AI-driven decisions in regulated enterprises can be reviewed, overridden, or escalated to qualified human experts. These paths address operational and regulatory risks, clarify accountability, and support auditability in sectors such as banking, telecom, and insurance.
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What is multi-agent orchestration in enterprise AI?
Multi-agent orchestration in enterprise AI refers to the coordinated management of multiple autonomous AI agents, enabling them to collaborate, share context, and execute complex workflows under defined governance and oversight.
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In the media
Elevon in New York: What We Learned About Scaling AI in the U.S.
When we landed in New York as founders of Elevon, we did not come as observers. We came to test our assumptions about scaling governed AI for enterprise in the U.S. market.
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What is agentic AI? Understanding the accountability gap in autonomous enterprise systems
Agentic AI refers to autonomous systems that can perceive context, set goals, and execute tasks with minimal human intervention. In enterprise settings, this introduces new accountability challenges.
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Maximizing ROI with agentic AI calculators: ROI calculation tools for AI
AI projects involve significant costs. Agentic AI calculators help quantify benefits, guide smarter decisions, and accelerate growth by measuring the real return on investment from AI initiatives.
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Understanding AI agent platform pricing models: an AI platform cost analysis
Navigating the world of AI agent platforms can feel like decoding a complex puzzle. Pricing models vary widely, and understanding them is crucial for making smart investments. Let's dive into the essentials of AI platform cost analysis.
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What is dynamic access control for AI agents in regulated enterprises?
Dynamic access control for AI agents is a governance approach that grants, limits, and revokes agent permissions in real time based on task context, data sensitivity, and operational risk, rather than relying on static roles or persistent credentials.
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What is end-to-end monitoring and incident response for AI agents in regulated enterprises?
End-to-end monitoring and incident response for AI agents refers to the continuous, real-time oversight of agent behavior, performance, and compliance, combined with structured procedures for detecting, escalating, and remediating incidents or failures in regulated enterprises.
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What are escalation pathways in enterprise AI? Why failure handling defines operational trust
Escalation pathways in enterprise AI are documented procedures that specify when and how control of an AI system is transferred from autonomous operation to human oversight in response to failures or anomalies. They are critical for operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and building trust in AI-driven processes. This article defines escalation pathways, addresses common misconceptions, outlines operational risks, and describes effective operating models for enterprises.
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10 practical ways brAIn helps telco and banking teams work smarter
brAIn is a continuously updated, sector-specific knowledgebase for telco and banking in Slovakia and Czechia, turning fragmented market intelligence into a competitive advantage.
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AI in healthcare and customer service: the line between resilience and collapse
Healthcare faces 4 million missing workers by 2030. Customer service demands 24/7 AI support. Countries and companies that adopt AI will survive. Those that don't risk collapse.
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How AI agents transform companies: real results from banking and corporations
AI agents deliver tangible outcomes in finance, marketing, product development, and HR. Real project results: 100% reporting cost savings, 40% marketing savings, 30% faster time-to-market.
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AI agents for project updates: strategic clarity with Elevon Platform
How the Elevon Platform orchestrates AI agents to transform Jira and Confluence data into structured, executive-level project updates, replacing hours of manual reporting.
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Case study: can AI agents save millions? Real-world impact of Elevon.io in enterprise delivery
How Elevon's AI agents automate progress reporting across Jira and Confluence, saving up to 80% of reporting time and €400K–€1.5M annually for large organizations.
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Case study: AI-driven employee growth & evaluation system by Elevon AI Platform
How Elevon's AI agents replace repetitive HR review cycles with data-driven growth orchestration, saving 60–70% of HR evaluation time and up to €2M annually.
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What is agentic AI? Definition, enterprise risks, and governance requirements
Agentic AI refers to AI systems that can plan, execute, and adapt actions autonomously. In enterprise settings, it introduces new risks and governance requirements.
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What is shadow AI? The hidden compliance and security risk for enterprises
Shadow AI refers to the unsanctioned use of AI tools by employees without IT, security, or compliance oversight, creating significant risks of data leakage and regulatory non-compliance.
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Banking and AI: why up to 15% annual revenue growth is on the line
McKinsey research shows AI and analytics can add up to 15% in additional annual revenues for banks. Generative AI adds another 9–15% profit potential. The question is how fast banks will act.
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Global AI agents market: why you need a system, not another tool
By 2030, the global AI agents market will exceed €47 billion. The shift is from AI as a tool to AI as an operating model. The Elevon Platform connects agents into coordinated workflows.
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Navigating competitive landscapes with AI
The Competitive Intelligence AI Agent delivers real-time insights into pricing, product offerings, and promotional campaigns for banking and telco, enhanced by brAIn integration.
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AI agents for immediate cost control
Finance teams are reducing costs, regaining visibility, and doing more with less, without hiring and without chaos. AI agents unlock 3 key cost levers for immediate impact.
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brAIn: AI-powered market knowledgebase for telco and banking
brAIn is the largest AI-ready knowledgebase focused on the Slovak telco and banking market, turning fragmented data into instant, contextual, and reliable market intelligence.
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Agentic AI ROI timeline: what regulated enterprises should realistically expect
The real ROI timeline for agentic AI in regulated enterprises is typically 2–4 years, significantly longer than traditional IT projects. Here's why, and how to plan for it.
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What is data governance for enterprise AI? (Definition, risks, and operating models for regulated industries)
Data governance for enterprise AI is the set of policies, processes, and controls that ensure data used in AI systems is accurate, traceable, secure, and compliant.
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Human-in-the-loop AI: a game changer for enterprises
Human-in-the-loop AI enables graduated autonomy by combining automation with human oversight, helping regulated enterprises scale AI safely.
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What is operational AI governance? Definition, enterprise requirements, and real-world models
Operational AI governance embeds real-time controls and oversight directly into agentic AI systems, enabling enterprises to manage risk and ensure compliance.
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AI trends 2026: from pilot to production with governance and agentic ROI
Enterprise AI has entered its industrial phase. Competitive advantage is now driven by the ability to govern, scale, and optimize AI systems with measurable ROI.
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Building Elevon: a founder's story about building a million-euro startup from a simple realisation
By Martin Horváth, Founder & CEO. Elevon emerged slowly from years of seeing how work was being done inside large corporations, and how much potential was being lost every single day.
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In the media
SLOVAK INDUSTRY VISION DAY 2025: What Slovakia Needs To Compete In The AI Era
Slovak Industry Vision Day 2025 highlighted a clear message. Slovakia can benefit from the AI-driven industrial shift, but only if it closes critical gaps in skills, regulation and technological readiness.
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In the media
Slovak Startup Awards 2025
Elevon.io reached the Top 3 Digital category at the SASK Startup Awards Slovakia 2025, standing out among more than 150 startups.
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In the media
Elevon at Startup Awards Slovakia 2025: From Last-Minute Application to the Finals
Sometimes, the best stories don't start with perfect timing. They start with a decision, and a deadline closing in.
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In the media
From Prompts to Real Designs: Elevon.io at TUKE
Elevon.io joined the Faculty of Economics at TUKE for a hands-on session introducing students to AI image generation, Canva design, and practical prompting techniques.
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In the media
Pontis Foundation Coaching Session: Practical AI for Real-World Impact
Elevon.io joined Nadácia Pontis in Žilina to lead a coaching session on practical and responsible AI adoption.
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In the media
MoneyFest 2025: AI Isn't Taking Your Job. It's Taking Your Company.
At MoneyFest 2025, Elevon CEO Martin Horváth shared a powerful message: AI isn't just another technology. It's a new operating model.
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In the media
Innovation Week Prague 2025: AI Is No Longer "Nice to Have." It's Infrastructure.
From Innovation Week Prague 2025, our team came back with three key insights: AI is now core infrastructure; autonomous companies will interact directly; and innovation appears in the most unexpected places.
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In the media
Innovation Where It Matters Most: Reflections from the Engaged Investment Conference in Prague
At the Engaged Investment Conference in Prague, Elevon.io explored the intersection of innovation, purpose, and resilience in Central Europe's startup ecosystem.
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In the media
FinTech Talks Bratislava 2025: Slovakia
At FinTech Talks Bratislava, Martin Horváth (CEO, Elevon.io) moderated a panel on The Future of Payments: Trust, AI, and Technology Trends.
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In the media
BizBuilders Podcast: 24 hodín na úspech
Martin Horváth, CEO of Elevon.io, joined Tomáš Török on the BizBuilders podcast 24 hodín na úspech to discuss why companies are increasingly turning to AI.
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In the media
SlovakiaTech 2025: Košice, Slovakia
At SlovakiaTech 2025, Matej Ferencik led a hands-on workshop "Create Anything: Visuals and Video with AI," guiding participants through practical ways to use AI for imagery and videography.
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In the media
CEO Fórum Slovensko 2025: Pezinok, Slovensko
At the CEO Forum Slovakia, Elevon.io joined top business leaders to explore the future of autonomous companies powered by AI Agents.
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In the media
CODECON 2025: Bratislava, Slovakia
Elevon.io participated in CODECON 2025, a leading developer conference connecting technology with real-world practice.
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In the media
Transforming Business Processes with Element AI and BrAIn
Elevon.io enhances business efficiency through Element AI and BrAIn, enabling organizations to automate and streamline operations with AI agents and a dynamic knowledge base.
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In the media
FinTech Roadmap 25: Prague, Czech Republic
Elevon.io joined the largest Czech-Slovak fintech conference at the ČNB Congress Center in Prague, presenting the Elevon Platform for building AI Agents.
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In the media
Innovations Forum 2025: Bratislava, Slovakia
Elevon.io participated in the Innovations Forum organized by the British Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with ASAI, sharing practical insights on AI Agents.
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In the media
Forbes Business Fest 2025: Bratislava, Slovakia
At Forbes Business Fest 2025, Martin Horváth (CEO, Elevon.io) delivered a talk on how AI Agents are reshaping industries by cutting costs, accelerating product development, and creating measurable impact.
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In the media
Fintree.cz Interview & Podcast
Martin Horváth spoke with Fintree.cz about how banks and telcos can adapt their services to today's users, why simplicity is a true competitive advantage in digital services.
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In the media
SlovakiaTech 2024: Košice, Slovakia
At SlovakiaTech 2024, Martin Horváth joined Martin Renner (ČSOB) in a panel on Revolution in Customer Experience: Innovations That Change the Game.
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In the media
HealthHub Startup Days 2024: Bratislava, Slovakia
At HealthHub Startup Days, Martin Horváth led a workshop on Problem Validation in Healthcare Innovation, helping startups refine ideas focused on real patient needs.
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In the media
Jesenná ITAPA 2024: Bratislava, Slovakia
At Jesenná ITAPA 2024, Elevon.io contributed to the national dialogue on digital healthcare with a workshop on How AI Can Transform Patient Care.
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In the media
FINWEEK 2024: Bratislava, Slovakia
At FINWEEK 2024, Zuzana Brendzová represented Elevon.io with a keynote on Generation Alpha: The Future Generation of Customers.
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In the media
Golden Drum International Festival of Creativity 2024: Portorož, Slovenia
At Golden Drum 2024, Elevon.io explored how creativity and innovation intersect, highlighting the importance of emotions in digital communication and the human role behind every idea.
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