Simple beats clever
What almost broke MYCO. Why the simple thing won, not the cleverer one.
From a bathroom trial to a production line. Not a review of a trend.
For conferences, companies, schools.
Talks
Talks and workshops
I take on stage what I have been through. Not a review of a trend.
The TEDx recording is below. Click to load YouTube. Further proof is in the media list.
Why good science does not change anything
And how to fix the handover. Evidence in a paper does not make a decision.
Communication that reaches the table where decisions happen.
For science, universities, public administration.
Painter in a lab
Using art practice to build products. The same way of seeing, a different material.
Gesture, trial, constraint, composition — in the studio and on the line.
For design, deep tech, art schools.
Past talks and media
- TEDxPragueCountdown (2025) — ecological innovation
- Tech4Tomorrow Tyrol, Innsbruck (2025) — Technology Pitch, Myco 4Pack
- Rock for People (2023) — panel Life on mushrooms
- Talks for JIC and Brno University of Technology (2023) — turning an idea into a company
- Designblok (2022) — panel Nature and design
- Green Deal Summit (2022)
- Festival Hub, Slovakia (2023) — panel Mushrooms as the Material of the Future?
- Circular Economy in Practice II, Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade (2022)
- Business2Science Conference (2022) — elevator pitch
- Czech National Exposition at the International Engineering Fair in Brno (2022)
- 2026 — Cena Josefa Vavrouška · Jury shortlist. I did not win. I hold the nomination certificate.
- 2025 — Mycostories · Mycelium Is Disrupting the $30B Packaging Foams Market Mycostories
- 2024 — PrusaLab · From the cellar to the world #3 PrusaLab
- 2024 — TV Nova · Innovation Week — Breakfast with Nova
- 2023 — E15 · Mushrooms instead of plastics. South-Moravian Myco shows the way E15
- 2022 — Forbes Česko · Mushrooms instead of plastic. Czech start-up Myco won at the Energy Globe World Award Forbes Česko
- 2022 — DVTV · Interview: starting with mushrooms in the bathroom DVTV
- 2022 — Česká televize · Sama doma Česká televize
- 2022 — Hospodářské noviny · Nature has given us powerful weapons Hospodářské noviny
- 2022 — Forbes Česko · Mushrooms as the material of the future Forbes Česko
- 2021 — CzechCrunch · This is not naive ecology. We want to replace plastics at scale CzechCrunch
- 2004 — Lezec.cz · Nescafé Boulder Square: 5th place Lezec.cz
- 2004 — Lezec.cz · Results and photos, Nescafé Boulder Square Lezec.cz
David Šohaj Minařík (earlier: David Minařík) is a Czech artist and founder. MFA in painting, Royal Danish Academy. Co-founder and CEO of MYCO (2019–2026): Energy Globe 2022, Red Dot 2024. TEDxPrague speaker. Former head of communication at CzechGlobe.
Portrait and bio to download: the speaker kit. In older texts I appear as David Minařík. Download speaker kit · Portrait
