How can failure fuel innovation?

About me

INNOVATOR | FOUNDER | AUTHOR | HACKER

Tomáš Studeník (*1976) is a Czech radical innovator, founder, author and urban hacker. Tomas helps global companies as well as European cities unleash their technology innovation potential while seeking new growth opportunities in the post-digital era. He holds MBA from the University of Liverpool and MSc in Innovation from HEC in Paris. He completed management courses at INSEAD, Oxford University as well as University of Cambridge. Tomas is the founder and CEO of management consultancy Insane Business Ideas.

In addition to organizing FuckUp Nights, where failure stories are shared publicly, Tomáš organizes CEE Hacks innovation marathons, where hackers and students from around the world gather to solve challenges in sustainability, energy, healthcare and urban development. In 2018, Tomáš published the Big Book of Fuckups, where he had collected over forty failure stories from Czech personalities. Tomáš was nominated for Esquireman 2019 award. Computerworld Magazine named Tomas TOP Czech IT Personality of 2020.

Tomas is the author of THEaiTRE project celebrating 100 years of the word “robot”. For the first time in history, artificial intelligence wrote a full-blown theatre play that was performed by human actors. It was premiered in Švanda Theatre in Prague on 26 February 2021. 

In 2022, Tomas launches  Caelestinus – a Central European Healthtech Incubator and produces a new artistic man-machine collaboration project PLaiPRAGUE that toured European cities.

Together with the Dean of Faculty of Computer Science and Management of University of Hradec Králové Prof. Josef Hynek, Tomas teaches one-semester course in Science of Failure. Their new book, the Art of Failure, was published in Czech in March 2023. 

In November 2023, Tomas was awarded a special prize for his support of healthcare innovations at Czech Effective Hospital Conference.