Igor Petriska

Igor Petriska is the Head of Development and Infrastructure at Petit Press, one of Slovakia’s most prominent media houses and the publisher behind the leading news portal SME.sk. A key figure in the company’s digital transformation, Petriska has been instrumental in modernizing the publisher’s legacy systems and moving operations toward a cloud-first infrastructure. He notably spearheaded the development of an innovative, open-source Digital Asset Management (DAM) system in partnership with the Google News Initiative, a project aimed at streamlining content production and distribution for newsrooms. Through his leadership in technical development, Petriska focuses on building flexible, interoperable platforms that enhance productivity and ensure the economic sustainability of independent journalism in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.