Niki Lauda in Bratislava

"Inspirational ideas of life and business, which shared Niki Lauda with special guests at Orange Business Forum left an incredible impact. I am very pleased that Niki Lauda accepted our invitation and we could listen to his story at the seventh conference Orange Business Forum ", says CEO of Orange Slovakia Pavol Lančarič.

 Niki Lauda is an Austrian businessman, aviator, founder of the airline Lauda Air and Niki, who is also a triple world champion Formula 1. The story of Niki Lauda is very unusual. Although his racing potential at the beginning nobody believed surprised excellent achievements have to be very young - in season, the 1972nd His star was rising, Niki and her speeding and took very good performance of Enzo Ferrari, with which in 1974 signed a contract. The Ferrari team won the 1975 F1 world championship in the first place and got on top F1 drivers. The same success came in the years 1977 and 1984. Niki Lauda could not stop anything - even a tragic collision during a race in 1976, which caused him serious injuries and long-term consequences.

Niki Lauda racing career with a farewell to the year 1985. In the period 1992 - 1997 he worked as an advisor to the Ferrari team. Later he devoted himself mainly to business and aviation. His first airline Lauda Air was sold in 1997, Austrian Airlines and Lufthansa German. In 2003 he founded another airline named Niki, known as flyNiki, which is today the leading European airlines. Niki Lauda is a successful entrepreneur who is well aware of the strength of his personality. "The Austrian phenomenon" is also a successful writer. So far, he wrote and published five books already on the world motor sport and his career.

Orange Business Forum is a unique and extraordinary series of meetings with key figures that are global business icons in their field. In the last years of this event through a Slovak audience Speakers Ltd. presented a famous names as co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak, a respected marketing wizard Sergio Zyman, Steve Forbes, famous forecaster and one of the most influential publishers of the world, Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, inventor and author the idea of ​​World Wide Web, Joan Laporta, former president of one of the world's most successful football clubs FC Barcelona and Mark Messier, one of the most respected living legends of world hockey.