Data & AI Strategist
David
Bednar
I build future-ready insight ecosystems, agentic workflows, and autonomous data products. I bring 18+ years of experience in analytics strategy across pharma, banking, and technology sectors. Based in Prague.
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About
I am a data and analytics leader with a strong background in designing and scaling enterprise insight platforms and intelligent solutions across organizations. Recently, my focus has shifted towards AI-powered insight ecosystems, agentic workflows, and the next generation of autonomous data products.
My passion lies in building future-ready insight experiences that bridge technology, business value, and human context — from scaling data products, through orchestrating API-driven intelligent pipelines, to prototyping agentic environments for modern data consumption.
Education
MSc. Information Technology, Software Engineering
VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2007 — 2010
Bc. Information Technology
VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2004 — 2007
Experience
Associate Director, Strategy Architecture
MSD Czech Republic
Associate Director, BI Custom Solutions
MSD Czech Republic
Independent Entrepreneur
Freelance — Data, AI & IoT
Information Architect
Komercni banka
Business Intelligence Specialist
Tieto
Technologies & domains
Certifications
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- TIBCO Spotfire 7 Certified Professional
- Teradata 14 Certified Professional
- ITIL Foundation
- IBM Cognos 10 BI Administrator
- IBM Cognos TM1 Developer
CV
Languages
Selected work
Experience & Publications
Agentic Insight Ecosystems
Defining vision and architecture for autonomous AI systems within MSD's Data & Analytics landscape, shaping how agentic capabilities support data-driven decision-making.
BI Custom Solutions Platform
Led a team building reusable custom solutions for BI platforms across all Merck divisions -- custom visuals, extensions, automation, and integration for complex analytics ecosystems.
Freelance: Data, AI & IoT
End-to-end solutions from data foundations and analytics to intelligent automation and connected devices, including robotics-oriented prototypes with aerial platforms and sensor systems.
Reporting Architecture at KB
Responsible for reporting architecture in the Reporting Competency Center at Komercni banka. Set direction, defined standards, and performance-tuned large BI environments.
Publications
Data Analytics Initiatives: Managing Analytics for Success
O. Bothe, O. Kubera, D. Bednar, M. Potancok, O. Novotny
CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group
Efficient Computation of SOM for Outage Database
P. Gajdos, M. Kratky, D. Bednar, R. Baca, R. Gono, J. Walder
ELNET
Flexible Cache for Database Management Systems
R. Baca, D. Bednar
DATESO
Index-based n-gram extraction from large document collections
M. Kratky, R. Baca, D. Bednar, J. Walder, J. Dvorsky
IEEE
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