Are we ready for the coming HR challenges of the next few years?
Accept the invitation to the 8th annual HR conference, which is about you. It brings real HR life in Slovak companies.
We invite you to a conference where we will not just theorise about HR.
SOFTIP HR DAY 2026 was built on the experience of people who influence the direction of Slovak business, legislation and technology.
The conference is organized as an expert in the field of digitalization of HR processes with 35 years of experience and is designed for leaders and experts looking for answers to the challenges of modern HR.
Modern Management and Agile Transformation
How to grasp agile transformation so that it doesn't end up just renaming departments.
Transparent remuneration
The last 30 days to pay transparency: How to communicate differences and avoid lawsuits?
Ethical issues in AI
The legal and ethical framework of AI in the hands of the HR manager.
Legal aspects in HR
News and highlights from the legal area of HR processes.
Personal resilience and motivation
In a time of constant change.
Negotiation as a skill in HR
Techniques from the crisis and business negotiation environment.
Our conference speakers are long-standing experts not only in the HR field who bring valuable information to our forum for your inspiration.
Martin Kluson
Owner and CEO, Symphera
He has 30 years of experience in management, agile management and strategy. He has trained and certified more than 10,000 managers and leaders. He has mentored numerous business owners and senior executives. He is the founder of the Chamber of Project Managers and Transformation Summit. Author of numerous leadership methods and the Leadership Spiral framework.
Miroslava Benediková
Legal Counsel, SYNTECA
Attorney-at-law with extensive experience in the field of employment law, who for many years has been providing practical advice to HR managers and HR teams on the implementation of legislative changes into everyday corporate life. She was one of the few Slovak lawyers who had a direct influence on the shaping of European legislation - during the Slovak EU Presidency.
Juraj Surma
Leader´s creator
It creates leaders, guides individuals, teams and shapes organisations. Focuses on long-term sustainable change that positively impacts performance at all levels of management.
Anežka Oravcová
Head of People and Culture, SOFTIP
HR has been Anežka's floor since 2006. It connects people, ideas and meaningful work. At SOFTIP, she co-creates an environment where talent grows, authenticity remains, and technology serves people.
Zoltán Demján
Coach, lecturer and photographer, Demján s.r.o.
One of the most successful Slovak high-altitude climbers, trainer, merited master of sport. Later a top manager in Holcim, today a coach and lecturer. Dedicated to landscape photography.
Terézia Maxinová
CFO and Chief Financial Officer of MAXINS GROUP
Terézia focuses on financial management, strategic planning and growth support for individual companies in the MAXINS GROUP. In her work, she combines precise financial management with a business perspective on the development, efficiency and long-term stability of companies.
Mário Bajs
Professional Negotiator & Mental Coach
Mário Bajs is a professional negotiator and emeritus police crisis negotiator. He translates his experience from extreme situations into the business world today, focusing on strategic, crisis and business negotiation in the context of consulting, mentoring and training.
Martin Strižinec
Expert in communication
For almost two decades he worked in the media as a presenter of news and journalistic programmes in Radio Expres, TA3 and RTVS. Later he worked as a spokesman for the only female president Zuzana Čaputová.
Roman Roth
Career diplomat, professional advisor, lecturer
Career diplomat with over 20 years of experience in international relations and representation at the highest level at home and abroad. He now passes on his experience, knowledge, expertise and skills translated into practice to people, institutions and companies that want to grow and increase their value.
Katarína Hošalová
HR Product Manager, SOFTIP
Katarína has been working with HR solutions at SOFTIP for more than 20 years and together with her colleagues she has encountered almost every type of customer requirements of top HR management and expert users of HR solutions.
Martin Vlčko
Chairman of the Board and CEO, SOFTIP
In addition to the entire SOFTIP as CEO, he is responsible for the ESS Division and some back-office processes.
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Miroslav Solárik
Project Manager, SOFTIP
He has been with SOFTIP since 2019. Years spent as an analyst have taught him to see processes in depth - today, as a project manager, he translates this knowledge into innovations that change the everyday HR reality. He manages projects at the intersection of AI and digitalization because he believes that technology only makes sense when it actually makes life easier for the people who use it every day
Kamila Birnstein
Conference moderator
Coach, facilitator and consultant in the field of training and development. Kamila has many years of experience working in major international corporations as HR Manager and L&D Consultant. She uses her knowledge and experience to develop leaders, managers and especially young talents as well as entire teams.
SOFTIP-ers
Throughout the conference, you will have the opportunity to consult individually on your questions from any area within our HR systems. Almost all of our HR consultants and HR product specialists will be at your disposal.
150 HR professionals
Secure your place in a great HR community
Current topics and practical experiences and solutions. The eighth edition of the HR conference, where we only cover the most important and up-to-date topics for the work of top HR management and especially what has really helped specific Slovak companies.
09:00 - 10:35
Block 1 - Modern management in a time of constant change
09:00 - 09:10
Opening of the conference
Opening remarks by the conference host
Kamila Birnstein - Conference moderator
Martin Vlčko - Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, SOFTIP, a. s.
09:10 - 09:35
AI will replace humans, but it must not replace humanity. This is the new mission of HR.
AI will soon take over a lot of the work of (not only) recruiters. Maybe so much so that we'll wonder if we need another HR department. Administration and processes will undoubtedly be taken over by tools. But that doesn't mean the end of HR - it means its „refocus“. Martin Klusoň, CEO of Symphera, will show how companies like SOFTIP are transforming. This is towards humanity, individual approach, agility and autonomy of people in line with the Leadership Spiral framework. So AI can be great news for HR and employees.
Martin Kluson - CEO, Symphera
09:35 - 10:00
Personal resilience and motivation in times of constant change
Each generation thinks that the changes are faster, more fundamental, for the worse, and that things were better when we were young. And every generation is right. Anyway, the nature of the changes is consistently the same. And the personal experience is constantly the same. Why can't humanity learn from this constant, and how does it affect the survival of leaders, teams, and organizations, and how to be or even not be resistant to change?
Juraj Surma - Leader´s creator
10:00 - 10:35
When technology stops being a burden
HR departments face the same challenges every day - an employee waiting for an answer, a payroll clerk retyping forms, a consultant answering the same question over and over again. Not because people aren't working well. But because the tools just aren't enough for them. We will present innovative projects that address these everyday pains in a concrete and pragmatic way.
This presentation is not about technology for technology's sake. It's about what happens when the right idea meets the determination to make it work. And what it means for payroll accountants, HR managers and the rank and file in their day-to-day work.
11:05 - 12:30
Block 2 - Challenges for the next few years, not only in transparent remuneration
11:05 - 11:30
Pay transparency is no longer a benefit. It is an operational necessity.
For many years, we have viewed pay fairness as a sign of good company culture - something that decent employers do voluntarily. From June 2026, the rules are changing. The law doesn't ask the question of whether you want to be fair. It asks whether you can even demonstrate it. Every job offer, every contract, every wage differential between a man and a woman - it will all be measurable, auditable and sanctionable. Wage secrecy is coming to an end. We are entering an era in which it is not enough to feel that you are being paid fairly. You have to be able to prove it.
11:30 - 12:30
Panel discussion: are we ready for the coming challenges of the next few years?
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Buffet lunch in the main hotel restaurant
Hotel Kaskády is famous for its excellent cuisine. We also think about vegetarians, vegans and food intolerances.
In case you suffer from food intolerance or have dietary preferences, please indicate this in the note when purchasing tickets. This information will help us to ensure that each type of dietary preference is sufficiently catered for.
13:30 - 14:55
3. Block - Inspiration and practical ideas for every day
13:30 - 13:55
My journey
Mountaineering has taught me to be aware of the power of the laws of nature - universally valid principles that influence the outcomes of our actions and are key to long-term, sustainable success. Those same principles have helped me successfully survive 18 years in top management without consequence. The experience of the highest mountains and of top management has been the foundation of my guiding top managers on their challenging journey of self-development and the development of the companies they manage.
13:55 - 14:20
Negotiation as a skill in HR
Strategic negotiation in modern HR practice provides the tools to handle critical conversations - from recruiting key talent with high expectations to difficult terminations. Mário Bajs will present techniques from the crisis and business negotiation environments that allow to keep control over emotions and achieve set goals even in borderline situations where normal communication meets resistance.
14:20 - 14:55
Is bad news good for anything?
None of us want to be the bearer of bad news, it's just part of the craft in HR. It's not just the IT sector that's going through the transformation that we thought only a few years ago would be upon us in the next decade. How do we talk to employees about this and how do we explain it to the world out there?
Martin Strižinec and Roman Roth join forces and with their unique insight show that even unpleasant news can be delivered professionally, honestly and above all humanely.
15:25 - 17:00
4. Block - Inspiration and practical ideas for every day
15:25 - 15:50
When people are absent: How we built a workable system for foreign employees
From workforce decline to redesigned HR, pay and adaptation - CASE STUDY
Theresa Maxine,
CFO and Chief Financial Officer of MAXINS GROUP
15:50 - 17:00
Interactive competition, raffle, final networking and informal discussions
First, we will have a competition and after the raffle for attractive prizes you will have the opportunity to interact with individual speakers in person and exchange your experiences with other conference participants. Are you interested in the solutions presented, use the space to take a closer look at them together with the presenters.
Program change reserved
The conference programme is a living organism, which we are constantly fine-tuning.
10:25 - 16:30
Personal consultations with product specialists - throughout the conference
Personal consultation window for all your questions
Throughout the conference, you will have the opportunity to consult individually on your questions from any area within our HR systems. Almost all of our HR consultants and HR product specialists will be at your disposal.
Our goal is to bring valuable information from the field of human resources management to the participants of the conference, which they will be able to use in their work.
Conference Manager
SOFTIP HR DAY
In order to take advantage of the discount, it is necessary to mention the promo code and the information that you are a participant of the SOFTIP conference when booking.
SOFTIP26
The discount applies to the list price of accommodation with breakfast.
Standard price
without VAT
Early bird price - until 17.4.2026
without VAT
Discounted price valid until 17.4.2026.
After this date, only standard price tickets are available.
Restriction notice
max. 4 persons from one company
Dear customers, due to the limited capacity of the conference venue is maximum number of participants per company limited to 4 persons.
Thank you for your understanding.
For the 8th time we will meet in a unique location that perfectly complements the character of our conference.
