Technology reporting from Czechia and Central Europe, connecting software, cybersecurity, infrastructure and emerging technology companies with the investment, talent and industrial conditions behind them. This section complements the narrower AI and Startups beats and provides a stable home for technology stories that do not belong exclusively to either.
STRV says a year of using AI coding agents on production mobile codebases changed its view of software delivery. The important work is increasingly context, verification, planning and review rather than raw code generation.
Prague's AI Horizons gathering offers a useful snapshot of a market shifting from demonstrations to agents, internal workflows, customer service, governance and measurable operating results.
Czechia's semiconductor opportunity is spread across power devices, electronics, research, testing and an industrial customer base rather than one giant leading-edge fab.
Czech Business Review survey data show 73% rate automation and robotics as very important or critical to capex, while 77% expect more factory, automation or logistics investment.
Czechoslovak Group has become the Canadian satellite company's largest shareholder. Possible European manufacturing partnerships remain proposals, not completed investments.
A four-day mission links Dutch and Czech firms in robotics, precision engineering, automotive, aerospace and defence. The commercial test is whether cooperation survives beyond demonstrations.
Selection as a strategic supplier to Rolls-Royce SMR gives the Czech nuclear industry a valuable platform. Project approvals and deployment volume will determine the revenue.
A nearly €50 million technology-transfer fund backed by the EIF and Czech institutions is designed to finance spinouts before conventional venture capital is ready. Governance and follow-on capital will determine whether it changes commercial outcomes.
Czechia has recognised the Dutch provisional approval of Tesla FSD Supervised after months of review, but the system remains driver-supervised rather than autonomous driving.
The reservation represents about 58% of the planned 26MW base capacity at Czechia's largest proposed data centre and gives the project its clearest AI-cloud demand signal yet.
Czechia's semiconductor strategy targets power electronics, chip design and sophisticated production equipment rather than trying to recreate a leading-edge Asian foundry model.
CzechInvest says the country's semiconductor sector already includes about 80 companies and more than 11,000 specialists, making education and retraining a central bottleneck to expansion.
Brno combines chip design, semiconductor education and a world-class electron-microscopy industry, giving the city a role in the chip value chain that extends well beyond fabrication.
The ISIG Executive Summit is bringing semiconductor executives to Prague for three days focused on power electronics, AI, advanced manufacturing and Europe's chip strategy. The location matters as much as the agenda.
Silicon carbide and gallium nitride sit at the intersection of electric vehicles, grids, renewable energy and industrial automation, making them unusually relevant to Czech manufacturing.
Czech National Bank research finds 23.2% of occupational tasks are exposed to AI. We examine which Czech workers, cities and industries are most affected.
Prague's AI ecosystem is growing as Czech firms adopt generative AI rapidly. We examine what frontier-AI safety concerns mean for Czech startups, employers and digital sovereignty.
Prague hosts the ISIG semiconductor summit from 14 to 16 September 2026. We examine Czechia's role in chips, power electronics and European supply chains.
Nine CEE countries signed the Prague AI Declaration on AI policy and computing infrastructure. We explain the AI Gigafactory angle and what happens next.
Czechia Dealroom now maps more than 1,700 funded Czech startups and 650 investors. CBR examines the ecosystem's scale, investment slowdown and next growth bottlenecks.
Czech social media platform ZoomSphere is positioning itself as a broader operating layer for marketing teams, combining scheduling, approvals, workflow tools and AI-assisted content production.
Women were 12.9% of ICT specialists in Czechia in 2025, the lowest share in the EU, according to Eurostat.
CzechInvest and the Ministry of Industry and Trade briefed Czech organisations on the tenth wave of Digital Europe calls spanning AI, health data and cybersecurity.
A CZK 1.85bn Czech funding call targets industrial R&D in AI, semiconductors, quantum technology, biotech, clean tech and defence systems.
The Czech government backed participation in Europe's AI Gigafactory competition, opening a route to a specialised AI data-centre project with tens of thousands of accelerators.
The Year of AI 2026 initiative is taking practical AI guidance to Czech SMEs and sole traders as the country's adoption gap remains widest outside large enterprises.
NÚKIB recorded 12 cyber-security incidents in May 2026, with DDoS, phishing, ransomware, intrusion, malware and information leaks all represented.
NÚKIB published guidance for Czech public authorities on using AI safely and effectively, shifting the public-sector debate from experimentation toward governance.
Czech Semicon Days 2026 connected domestic semiconductor organisations with European and global industry participants across Prague, Brno and Ústí nad Labem.
CzechInvest's URBIS 2026 programme in Brno brought cities, innovation and business together around mobility and urban technology, highlighting public infrastructure as a technology market.
Taiwanese company i-TRANS Global is preparing a European logistics centre in the Ústí region for chemicals used by the semiconductor industry.
CzechInvest highlighted new Digital Europe opportunities for Czech companies and public-sector organisations in AI, software and advanced technologies.
The Czech National Semiconductor Cluster, Czech Semiconductor Centre and CzechInvest agreed to coordinate efforts to strengthen Czechia's role in semiconductors.
The Czech AI Factory launched in Ostrava as Czechia's node in Europe's AI Factory network, combining supercomputing, data and expert support for companies and researchers.
NÚKIB said Czechia again has a national cryptographic product evaluated at EU level, strengthening a specialised layer of sovereign security capability.
Prague's AI ecosystem combines software, cybersecurity, research and industrial customers as Czechia targets a larger Central European AI role.