SAPIE Forum celebrates the creative power of innovation and demonstrates the strength and potential of the local innovation ecosystem. The forum’s agenda will focus on various pressing topics of today, including Europe’s ambition to become a global innovation powerhouse, the potential of AI to accelerate business growth of European SMEs, current trends in cybersecurity and e-commerce or the ways to boost funding to European innovations.

SAPIE in cooperation with partners such as Slovak Embassy in Tel Aviv, IT Valley Košice organizes business missions to inspiring countries all around the world (Israel, USA, Taiwan). Our member companies have the chance to join them and get to know innovation ecosystems, network and build connections.

SAPIE’s Regional Innovation Tour came to Lučenec, Banská Bystrica, Žilina and Košice.

For our members, we already organized two informal offsite events called Chatovačka. The event is held at the cottage in a very informal atmosphere, where our members could share their success, and news and mainly rest from daily work duties. 

In 2014 SAPIE was established by 11 members. 2020 was the year we achieved the first hundred (109) in number of members. In 2024 SAPIE consists of almost 200 members from all around Slovakia and fields such as marketing, gaming, software development or cybersecurity.

The Innovation Map Slovakia provided a comprehensive overview of the key players fostering an innovation-friendly environment in Slovakia.