Dr. RADOSLAV RAKOVIĆ graduated from the University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering. At the same school he finished fir Magister studies., on the Department of Telecommunications. He finished his Doctorial dissertation on Faculty of Organizational Sciences, in the field of Software Engineering. He published more than 140 scientific papers and 8 books. He is employed in company Energoprojekt Entel. Primarily he was employed as project management consultant for telecommunication systems in the sector of energy in Serbia and abroad. Today he is chief of the IMS Department. Seven years he worked as a leading researcher in the Military Technical Institute. Four years he was a professor at the VSPM school in Belgrade. He is a member of the board of FQCE, STK D2 CIGRE Serbia and YUPMA. He is member of the Engeneering Academy of Serbia and secretary of the Department for Electrotechnic.

Milovan Matijevic has an exceptional knowledge on Serbian IT market, information and consulting on ICT market status, analysis and anticipation of technological trends (assistance to clients in making strategic decisions about business operation, procurement and use of IT equipment and services).

He has worked as an analyst and consultant in the field of information technology since 2004, and has conducted a large number of research projects. He is the author of more than 10 reports on the subject of the Serbian IT market, such as annual studies: “Scope and structure of Serbian IT market - sito”, “Serbian IT industry – Sector analysis” and “Serbian companies as IT users”. He worked for two years for IDC, the primer global market intelligence and advisory firm in the information technology and telecommunication industries, as the Country Manager for Serbia and Montenegro.

Before his analytical work, he spent 5 years in the development of telecommunication systems at Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade in the field of computer simulation of digital telecommunication systems. In the following 14 years, he was engaged in entrepreneurial work in the Serbian IT environment. He was General Manager of the company “Adacom” and then Business Development Manager of company “Cores”. Both these companies were between the top 5 Serbian IT companies in their time.

Milovan Matijević is the co-founder and director of the company Mineco Computers which is the only local company in Serbia which deals with market and technology trends in the ICT field. The company has stable growth for over 20 years.

Milovan Matijevic graduated on Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade.

Aleksandar Mijatović, born in 1996 in Leskovac, final year student at School Of Electrical Engineering from University of Belgrade.

As he learns about new technologies, his hunger and eagerness for absorbing them and combining their use in the best way there is, keeps growing exponentially. Thus, he found the Computer Engineering and Information Theory module to be the right one for him. He took part in numerous programming competitions (hackathons) and won several prizes. As a student-mentor, his goal is to give freshmen students necessary guidance during their first year of study and help them settle into university life.

Product of his interest in emerging Artificial Intelligence application was a chatbot. Since it became recognized, he decided to Co-Found alphaHoo, a B2B startup that offers best artificial agent services to companies. His current role is CEO at alphaHoo, helping companies acheve more with their customer support.

Igor Franc, born in 1981 in Pančevo, PhD in Computer Sciences from Singidunum University of Belgrade.

Became a specialist in the security of information systems and e-business specialist postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Business Informatics, Belgrade, 2005.

Master's degree at the Faculty of Business Informatics, Singidunum University, Department of Security of Information Systems and e-business in 2007, entitled "Electronic Student Index"

PhD at the Faculty of Business Informatics, Singidunum University, Department of Security of Information Systems and e-business in 2013, on "Modeling, analysis and design of 3D educational environments for digital forensics"

Mr. Ivan Vasic is CIO in Delta Holding company from Belgrade from 2012. He was in the same position in Komercijalna banka Belgrade. He started his professional career as Instructor at the University of Belgrade, School of Mechanical Engineering, where he earned his Bachelor and Magisterium diplomas. He was the author of books from IT and columnist on the same topic. In Delta Holding company his role is optimization of business processes and project management and innovation.

Pawel Rybczyk has almost 20 years experience in information Security / Cybersecurity. He has experience in providing and implementing cybersecurity projects across Europe. His main domain of interest are identity and access management, intrusion detection solutions. Since 2016 he mainly operates on the CEE/CIS territory working closely with end-customers, integrators, distributors and service providers. He is a strong advocate of Made in Europe IT Security. Prior to GATEWATCHER, he worked for Stormshield, Expereo and Wallix.

Petar Kočović is ICT analyst and consultant of company Digital Dreams and full professor at Union University – “Nikola Tesla”.

Mr. Kočović has more than 30 years of experience working in the IT industry in management and technical positions for end-user organizations and software companies, as well as software developer. Prior to joining Digital Dreams, Mr Kocovic was employer of Gartner company and co-owner of company Tehnicom for 14 years, where he worked in the field of telecommunications, Internet providing and web development. He has experience in all Internet related technologies (including Internet of Things), as well as mathematical foundation for CAD/CAM. On this project he worked in company Energoprojekt-Energodata. He worked in system management, account management, marketing, consulting and systems support, as well as in developing communication and commercial software.

"There is never a dull moment in my professional career! It is a delight to work with customers who are constantly seeking out new ways to adopt technology to maximize their business benefit. I feel privileged to be part of that process."

He was invited speaker in few universities. He is full professor at the Union University – "Nikola Tesla" from Belgrade, and University of Belgrade-School of Organizational Science. He has around 100 scientific papers, and published 21 books.

Years of Experience

• 7 years in total with Gartner
• 32 years in IT Industry

Industry Awards/Accolades

• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), since 1988
• Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), since 1989
• Member of New York Academy of Science (NYAS), since 1998

Education

• Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering, Geometric modeling and applied mathematics

Started journalist's carrier as teenager drawing comics for Omladinske, a youth newsmagazine in Belgrade. Moved on to become a rock critic and correspondent at large, while studying physics at the Belgrade University. Worked for NBC News, Vreme newsmagazine and BBC World Service before becoming an anchor and editor at Radio Television of Serbia. Moderated presidential debates in 2008 and 2012. Awarded The Editor of the Year for 2009 by Serbian Journalist Association UNS and Anchor of the Year for 2016 by Press Vitez.

She created her work experience by working in domestic and foreign system integrator companies in various positions starting from engineering to management and executive positions. In his experience, he has a wide range of work with different teams and on different technological projects. He is currently serving as a Senior Delivery Manager in the Delivery & Service Department of Huawei.

Dr Srđan Krčo is a co-founder and CEO of DunavNET, a company designing turnkey IOT solutions for smart cities, agriculture and manufacturing. He has over 20 years of experience, working with large multinational companies and international collaborative research and innovation projects. Currently, he is coordinating a research and innovation H2022 project TagItSmart, creating IoT enablers facilitating improvement and transparency in the food supply chain and more general in the FMCG domain. Srdjan is one of the founding members of the International IoT Forum and is actively participating in IoT-EPI (IoT European Platforms Initiative) and AIOTI (Alliance for IoT Innovation) activities. In 2007, Srdjan won the Innovation Engineer of the Year award in Ireland. He has published over 15 patents and more than 70 papers at international conferences and journals. He is a frequent speaker at international events addressing IoT and its applications. Srdjan is a Senior IEEE member. Recently, he was awarded MVP (most valuable professional) status for IoT activities by Microsoft.

Srdjan Ognjanovic is acting Director of Mathematical Grammar School in Belgrade, and professor in the same school and on School of Mathematics at Belgrade University.

Mathematical Grammar School in one of the World Famous in this class. Pupils of this school are world champions on variety championships in Mathematics, including Mathematical Olympiad.

Mr. Ognjanovic received many awards for his work. Most important awards are October prize of the City of Belgrade (1992), Prize of the City Assembly – the City of Belgrade for the affirmation of the young talents (2004), Business Club Award for the investing in the education of the young talents.

He is the author of the 40 books or workbooks in the field of Mathematics, and few numbers of the papers in the specialized journals. He was a member of many professional teams in the field of the standardization of the education. He was panelist about the education.

Vladica Tintor received the B.Sc. (2004), M.Sc. (2006) and Ph.D.E.E. (2009) degrees from the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He also received the Executive MBA and M.Sc. degree at the joint studies of the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Economics and École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) de Paris. Dr Tintor has been employed at RATEL since it was founded. He led or participated in the realization of numerous projects, both within the Agency and in cooperation with Serbian or international institutions. Prior to being elected Director, he held the position of Deputy Director of RATEL’s Logistics Sector. Dr Tintor has authored or coauthored numerous papers published in renowned international and national conference proceedings and magazines.

Dejan Markovic, born in 1975 in Pristina, electrotechnical engineer with graduate degree.

He started career as an intern in Electric Power Industry of Serbia. Having completed internship in Termoelektrana Kosovo B, he continued his work in the PE Elektroistok Izgradnja, current Elektromreza Serbia (EMS). In the very beginning of his career, he participated in projects regarding renewal of transmission grid and integration of latest technical and technological solutions in the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS). Later, through programs and projects, funded by EU countries in the field of energy, he had the opportunity to work on very interesting projects, together with his colleagues from the EPS whose goal was to improve and develop electrical and distribution system, along with increase of business capacities of the public enterprises.

He has been working in Schneider Electric Company since 2006, where he managed various projects, both in Serbia and in France. Upon his return from Grenoble, he took over management of projects in the field of oil and gas, as well as production of electricity within the company's operation at the territories of Serbia and Montenegro. Since November 2010, he has been part of the Company's management, first as a Manager for retail business, and since August 2012 as a Manager of the Energy Department. He has served as the General Manager of Schneider Electric since February 2016.

Values that he strives to achieve are those cherished at home, which he took from his family: education; work; respect and honour. Also, he has endless belief in the power of not giving up and in hard-work, even at most difficult times, because only at those times results must be achieved sooner or later. Pursuant to that idea, there is a sentence uttered by Thomas Edison, which guides him: "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

Saša Radovanović, born in 1974 in Peć, PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Twente, NL.

15+years industry experience. Started career as a Senior design engineer in National Semiconductor, with HQ in Santa Clara, USA growing to Technical project leader. After finishing Marketing & Leadership program in Rotterdam School of Management, NL, he started Marketing career in the same company as Senior Marketing Manager. From 2011 he worked with Texas Instruments, HQ in Dallas, USA as Marketing Team Leader being responsible for bring innovative products on the market world-wide as well as making revenue from existing products.

In 2014 he moved to Serbia, working with company Telenor. He was responsible for Mobile Broadband product line and Forecast. In 2015 he started B2B Analytics team helping Key Account Managers in bringing the right offers on the market. Also, he was responsible for KPI reporting and causal analytics. In 2016 he started Data Science team within B2B Analytics. Using math & advanced modeling to generated additional revenue within marketing department. Currently, he is working as a Team leader Data Science within Telenor and as a Consultant - Applied Data Science for company Qony.

Alex Zahariev started his career in 2000 as IT expert in Bulgarian Foreign Investment Agency. Over the years passed through different technical and management levels positions in one of the major Dell partners. Since 2006 Alex Zahariev participated as founder and business consultant in a number of companies and projects in the fields of web-based solutions, IoT and software distribution. In 2009 he joined Gartner in Croatia and served as a Sales Representative, responsible for developing the Bulgarian market.

Since 2017 Alex Zahariev is the Regional Manager for South East Europe of Forrester Research - one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world. Alex Zahariev is a sales professional with more than 13 years of experience in developing, managing and growing of new field sales market territory. In his current role, he is responsible for growing SE Europe market with main focus on Bulgaria, Serbia and Croatia by supporting leaders across business and technology roles with integrated research and tools, data-driven insights and consulting to maximize the value delivered by Forrester. Alex is passionate about the Digital Economy and the ways it transforming the market.

If you find yourself exploring the foundations of digital business, visualizing the future of a company through digital transformation lenses, look no further than Ales. As a Digital Strategist, Ales assists companies in developing effective digital strategies as well as developing a road-map for their realization. As Askit d.o.o. director and the head of Digital42, Ales has been integrating digital concept and digital methodology with project realization since 2016. Aleš holds an international certificate in digital business transformation (CXO Digital Business Transformation Management). Ales was a key initiator in the founding of the Digital Innovation Hub Slovenia.

Nikola was born and lives in Macedonia, throughout his career he has been in the most famous Macedonian to the company in various positions and services, mostly in the IT&T department. A big one experience in introducing innovations and technologies, especially in coordinating and managing projects both from the business and from the IT aspect. Several larger/more complex projects that are implemented, upgraded, supported .... corporate: PKIS ERP, BMS, DMS, CRM, SAP ERP, rollouts in 5 companies, SAP migration on S/4 HANA, AlkaCDS (LIMS part),AlkaT&T (serialization EU), AlkaRusT&T (serialization RUS), AlkaMES (actual Manufacturing Execution System) ...

Very proud to be part of the most successful Macedonian company, whose corporate mindset he greatly influenced him as well as several generations of Alkaloid employees. Last 15 year leads the IT&T service, whose dedicated team (as well as the company) ranks extremely high in IT circles of the region.

Still "infected" by sport, at one time as an active chess player, multiple champion and national team member of Macedonia, after that for several years also in the organization of the Chess Federation & representation, a for the longest time in the organization of the Alkaloid chess club (which is considered one of the most successful team in the history of Macedonian sports, and the holder of many championship titles, including European championship and vice-champion title).

He likes to be in the company of his colleagues and friends, while he is his main support, driver and the pride of his family.

Margie Gniech is a true believer that technology enables us to achieve impossible. Over the past couple of years, she was working in Microsoft where she was responsible for driving the consumer business in Central & Eastern Countries. Advanced technologies such as Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain are becoming an integral part of our daily life which she was observing while working with the Partners. In Tech Data she is driving the Analytics and IoT business in Eastern Countries where she sees great potential for growing this business. Experiences earned in Hospitality, Retail and Manufacturing gives her a great base not only to build advanced business solutions with Start Ups and ISV companies but also start a dialog with Clients on how to optimize their operational processes and scale their business.

Margie holds an MBA from Vlerick Business School and run projects in Peru, Vietnam, Belgium and Ireland. She is a constant learner, optimistic and open – minded. She works by the motto that change is the only constant in life.

Sanja leads EY Business Transformation Services in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro with 10+ years of experience in consulting services. During her career she was part of EY UK team for 2 years and has experience working with clients outside our region Sanja has experience in serving clients through their transformational journey and has role in enabling EY transformations through internal initiatives as CESA innovation ambassador, local consulting experience quality assessment lead and as member of the CESA Change Network for SAP implementation.

Stefan is a Senior Consultant in Business Transformation Services in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro with 5+ years of experience in Telecommunications and Business aspects of organizational transformation. Stefan has experience in projects related to digital transformation in management reporting, and supporting organizations to meet digital agenda - process change and improvements, risk and change management

Luka Milinković, born in 1984 in Belgrade, Msc in Electrical engineering and computer science from School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade.

Luka has experience in defining and improving the ITSM processes and IT controls, strategic IT management and IT risk management.

Luka has many years of experience in controlling and managing of IT security through the development of new solutions and performing IT security audits. Luka implemented both software and hardware various security algorithms – existing (DES, AES, RSA...) and some personally created, one way functions (SHA-2, SHA-3, Blake, JH, Groestl...), protocols (IPsec, PGP...) and authentication methods. Luka has participated in various projects such as IT security, digital payment, blockchain security, social engineering research, GDPR, ISO standards, implementation of models for the automatic detection of internal/external fraudulent acts etc.

Luka is the author of numerous scientific papers, which were published at the international conferences, and professional articles in the field of IT business and data protection.