20-24 May 2019 / Belgrade

SPEAKERS

DR. STANIŠA RASPOPOVIĆ

Professore assistente presso Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

DR. NIKOLAOS DIMITRIADIS

CEO at Trizma Neuro

VLADIMIR TRKULJA

Venture Fellow at UNICEF & Co-founder of Startit

BRANISLAV VUJOVIĆ

President at New Frontier Group

IVAN BJELAJAC

EY Innovation Entrepreneur 2018 I Blockchain I MVP Workshop

Ivan Bjelajac is a part of the technology industry for almost two decades. During that time, he was declared one of the most successful young entrepreneurs under 30, founded 4 startups and was the operational director of Go Daddy Europe. Together with his team at the MVP Workshop, Ivan works on a number of significant projects that implement blockchain technology in various industries. In March 2018, MVP Workshop successfully completed the ICO for Celsius Network - one of the world's leading blockchain companies, and on that occasion it successfully collected $ 50 million. Ivan Bjelajac and Mališa Pušonja won the "2018 EY Innovative Entrepreneur of the Year" as co-founders of MVP Workshop.

Ivan is the president and co-founder of the Serbian Blockchain Initiative (SBI) - an association that brings together national and international blockchain experts with the same goal: promoting the potentials of this technology and Serbia as an excellent destination for starting a business. He is a partner and member of the Serbian Venture Network Board that organizes the Belgrade Venture Forum - one of the largest VC investment events in the region. He is also a mentor and co-founder of the Startup Center in Belgrade, which under the auspices of the MVP Workshop and the Faculty of Economics provides education to all who are brave enough to step into the world of startups.

INBAL POLAK

CEO of NEOME Women Investing Club I Alternative Investments

Inbal is a fund analyst with diverse and high level expertise in investment solutions in the capital markets. Inbal lead the fund ranking business at S&P Maalot and worked as an investment fund analyst as part of the investment team at UBS Israel. She was engaged in creating a full scale, quantitative and qualitative fund rating for the first time in Israel. Over the years she has ranked most of the Asset Managers in Israel. In the last couple of years her focus is on Alternative investments, analyzing and rating Hedge Funds, Private Equity and Private Debt Funds.
She is the founder of NEOME -The Woman Investing Club, the first ever female angels club in Israel. NEOME is a collaborative community of women investors, encouraging women’s involvement as active angel investors who create far-reaching impact, together.

STAŠA STANKOVIĆ

McKinsey&Co Next Generation Women Leader 2020 | PhD student, Genomic Medicine at University of Cambridge

VESNA CRNOJEVIĆ-BENGIN

Associate Professor I Biosense I Biosystems

Prof. Vesna Crnojević Bengin is the co-founder of the the BioSense Institute – Research and Development Institute for Information Technologies in Biosystems, which focuses on multidisciplinary, game-changing and needs-driven research of advanced ICT technologies and its applications in biosystems, primarily agriculture.
She is the coordinator of H2020 project ANTARES, ranked as the first in the most prestigiouc H2020 call Teaming which aims to evolve BioSense Institute into a market-oriented Euroepan Centre of research excellence. Prof. Bengin is the recipient of a number of national and international awards including the special award granted by the European Commission at ‘’Marie Curie Actions for an Innovative Europe: Excellence, mobility and skills for researchers’’.