Nancy Bocskor, tagged a “Democracy Coach” by a major German newspaper, teaches citizens in the United States and internationally how to communicate with passion to affect change in their communities.

For her service as a Senator Robert J. Dole Institute Fall Fellow, where she moderated panels on “Women, Democracy and Global Politics”, Newman’s Own Foundation recently recognized her as a “Newmanitarian.”

Nancy is the former Director of the Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX, where she launched its programs to promote civic engagement and leadership in public service, and created a gallery celebrating the history of women leaders from Texas.

She also secured a partnership with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s legacy project, www.iCivics.org to promote civic education; iCivics is developing a specific game and curriculum about Texas state government for all school students.

The author of “Go Fish: How to Catch (and Keep) Contributors: A Practical Guide to Fundraising,” Nancy Bocskor is an adjunct professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management where she teaches both online and classroom fundraising courses. She also taught a class on “Women, Democracy and Global Politics.”

Nancy is on the board for Running Start, an organization that encourages young women to run for office, an advisor for Veteran’s Campaign, a program that encourages Veterans to enter public service, and serves on the boards of Lone Star Parity in Texas and the LBJ Women’s Campaign School at the University of Texas.

She also served on the board of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale for seven years, where she chaired the school’s Curriculum Committee for five years. Chosen as “Mentor of the Year” by PLEN (Public Leadership Education Network) for her work advising college women interested in careers in public service, Nancy is now a member of their national board.

In 2016, she was selected by the Washington Academy of Political Arts & Sciences as one of the “Top 12 Women Changing the Face of Political Communications in Latin America.”

Nancy was the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio for “her passion to affect change in national and international communities, training and consulting with the nation’s and world’s political leaders, and commitment to educate others, particularly women, around the world.”

Nancy Bocskor spreads democracy throughout the world…..the lively American travels from one country to the next coaching candidates on how to win elections, especially encouraging women to make it into parliament.

Khouloud Jabloun is a curious polymath and a dedicated techophile. She started her career at 17 years old, leading sales and PR operations for a tunisian startup.

She later moved to France to pursue a poly-technical engineering degree. As a technical engineer, she successfully led several projects such as inventory automation, carousel system design and implementation and robots’ performance enhancement. At the same time, she co-organized events such as TEDx, Model UN and Young European Council.

After 3 years, she decided to specialize in IT, AI and data in particular. She is now a cloud architect and project manager with a demonstrated experience in information technologies. As an AI expander, she is assisting companies to achieve their digital transformation by providing advice and creating custom solutions.

She has a good understanding of cross-border challenges as she worked in France, Tunisia, USA and Belgium interacting daily with international teams. Since her teenage years, she has been socially active, participating in her free time in deeds to protect the environment and to empower youth. She held multiple roles in international youth organizations such as AIESEC and Young European Leadership.

Jacek is a non-stop learner, and technology passionate. Started his career as Freelance Web-Developer, while working also on 3D Graphics algorithms and embedded electronics.

Later continued in Corporate Bank/Insurance landscape helping KBC & AXA on Regulatory Technologies for large scale deployments and global service teams, working with teams in multiple countries. He moved from Poland to France, and soon shifted into Bigdata. Soon after found great friendship with Apache Spark & Apache NiFi.

Since nearly 3 years his helping Sodexo in Digital Transformation Journey as Senior AI/ML Cloud Solution Architect in AI & Advanced analytics team. Analyzed many existing framework’s and startup’s providing MLOps tools, that gave him very good view how to successfully build an AI Platform for Sodexo.

Following Lean principles, fan of TQM(Deming) and Evolutionary architectures approach, pursuing for adoption of DevOps culture in organizations.

Founder of Helios Vision, an AI and Computer Vision software prototyping company. Intel Top Software Innovator. Technology speaker. Research and development background in machine learning and applied computer vision, developing solutions in areas such as: Well-being, Customer experience understanding, Automotive safety, Assistive tech, Surveillance, Activity recognition, Automatic document classification, Fitness and Real-time object reconstruction with RGB-D cameras.

Emilia is a product enthusiast and a marketer with 5+ years of experience in SaaS and content marketing.

Having run several startups herself, Emilia has had a lot of entrepreneurial experience before falling in love with SaaS. Apart from heading marketing at Userpilot, a product adoption platform for SaaS businesses, she’s been also involved in building SaaS products like Postfity.com, Backlinkmanager.io, and FindInChina.cn

As a serial product launcher, she will be sharing her lessons on how to launch a successful (SaaS) product.

Masterclass: How to Launch a Successful Product? Key metrics for a successful product launch & lessons from a serial product launcher
Having failed at several product launches, as well as working on a few successful products, has taught me a lesson or two that I want to share here. From making the right (and wrong) assumptions to testing them (and what happens when you don’t – which I see with 99% of product launches), to building MVPs and choosing the right features to build – all has an impact on the success of your product.

Conclusion: you have to approach your big and small product launches in an analytical way to succeed. And we’re gonna look at the exact steps you need to take and metrics you need to take into account for here – with examples from my personal experience.

Aleksandar Mastilovic is a former EU Marie Curie Fellow, 5G and telco scientist, cybersecurity industry expert, and policy agitator for smart solutions and digital transformation. Mr. Mastilovic works in the community and he is the Ambassador of the EU Code Week in Bosnia and Herzegovina and actively promotes modern education for kids as the country’s highest priority. As an active member of the IEEE managing bodies, he works on progressive policies, strategies, and smart tech solutions for the modern world’s challenges. He is a co-founder of several Smart City initiatives and start-ups in the Western Balkans region. Mr. Mastilovic works as the external consultant and expert for the BEREC – EU national electronic communications regulatory body association and ITU – International Telecommunications Union, the UN body for telecommunications.

The Road to Society 5.0: Smart Technologies for Smart Society in the 21st Century
The smart tech solutions are not the purpose or goal. Humanity needs technology to improve our Quality of Life and to optimize our resource allocation. From urban areas to villages, we want to improve the living experience, to improve living quality in suburban and rural areas motivating people to deaccelerate the global urbanization process. Using tech solutions means that we need to build the affirmative legislative and regulatory framework to enable many new applications. It is not only about technologies, but it is important to consider the ethical and social impact side of the massive tech presence and applications. The key point is trust, we need to be sure that privacy and cybersecurity issues will not cause demotivating issues for the broader population. In this talk, we will learn how to observe the challenge from a multistakeholder perspective and how to successfully finalize the process of the digital transformation of the society – to Society 5.0 we name Smart and Sustainable Society.

I am one of the product managers from the MVP Workshop, a blockchain product research, and development studio driven by the exploration of disruptive technologies and their application in real-life scenarios. As a part of this company, I had a chance to discover, define, and develop products while trying to solve different problems and needs using web3 technologies. During my bachelor’s studies, I joined a student organization – ESTIEM, where I fell in love with project management. Later I used to work for a marketing agency while in parallel exploring strategic marketing applications within the IT sector as a part of master studies. All of the above directed me into product management, and that is how I joined the MVP Workshop. At the MVP Workshop, I was responsible for bridging the gap between clients and a dedicated team of software engineers and product designers, understand the client’s ideas, and shaping them into a product. In the meantime, I joined our newly established R&D department (Incubator), which validates Web3 problem/solutions fits.

In the world of Video Games & Esports, Bill Le Voir-Barry works with clients on improving ROI – through Agile / DevOps, SCRUM, Motivational Game Mechanics, Efficiency in Architecture, Event Services / Arena Technologies for Esports and Cognitive & Cloud Patterns. As an IBM Award Winner in 2014 & 2015 for Eminence & Excellence, Bill strives to put his clients up front and unites with IBM / Client Teams to “Get it Done!” Bill’s work with diverse technologies include such as BigWorld, Unreal, Unity SDK, Various Streaming Packages, Bluemix/Watson, Cognos TM1, and various Cloud Patterns. Outside of client time, you will find Bill exploring the rocky shores of the Pacific Northwest in the United States, Getting “Beat-up” as a Newb in a game of StarCraft II; Midlane or Tank in League of Legends, or perhaps walking the Strand in Manhattan Beach, California. Winter activities also include exploring the great lakes region during a beautiful “polar vortex.”

I joined our company, first as a student and later on as an employed member of ethical hacker’s group. My passion are cybersecurity and public speaking, in my free time I love to solve some CTF challenges. Right now I’m working towards new certifications and to broaden and grow my skills in cybersecurity field.

How is cloud changing or challenging cybersecurity?

Milica is Master Psychologist and Constructivist Psychotherapist in training, with experience in the field of human resource management. She gained experience in the areas of recruiting, assessment and development centers, as well as in team and project management, finally focusing her career on HR consulting and professional development. Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator and Manager as Coach.

Enjoyment as the key factor of career success!
Dale Carnegie once said that people rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. Do you agree with him?
Join us and find out which theory of human behavior supports this statement, and how you can use this theory to achieve success in your career and for your organization.
Understand how personality, interests, work preferences, work values, interpersonal skills, attitudes, motivations, and employment preferences influence your job behavior and use this information to bring your career and your company to business success.

Larisa Halilović is a professional development expert, TEDx speaker and executive trainer and mentor with over 20 years of experience in leadership, management and training. Over the course of her career, Larisa has led international teams and projects in Education, Culture and Digital Industry in eight countries of the world, including two global pilots: Blended Learning and Digital Cities.

Larisa holds qualifications from Cambridge University, UK and Auckland University, New Zealand, in the area of Adult Education, Linguistics and Psychology.

Her current research focuses on the role of Emotional Intelligence and Values-Based Leadership in the times of digital transformation. Her current engagements include working as a Team Leader for British Council in Western Balkans, a National Mentorship Consultant for UN Women as well as a senior training, coaching and mentoring consultant for a number of international organisations, IT companies and executives globally. Larisa is a member of Institute of Leadership and Management, International Society of Qualified Coaches and Creative Mentorship Advisory Board.

Marketing Scientist with a wealth of agency and academic experience. In the previous 10 years as a research executive, I have been involved in more than 60 large research projects for clients in 27 different countries with a focus on Tech, Finance, Cryptocurrency, Energy, Property Management, Consumer and FMCG industries.

My primary experience is in advanced quantitative research and applied statistics. My typical projects involve market segmentation and statistical modelling. I enjoy innovating, using novel technologies and scientific breakthroughs to deliver in practice. I am particularly proud of the fact that 6 years ago I started blending big data and survey data to ensure high validity insight for my clients. By nature, I am very curious and speak of complex ideas and concepts using plain language. I am genuinely passionate about my work and enjoy finding the answers to the most challenging research problems corporations, political parties and individuals may face. My most recent project involved developing a model of reputation measurement for an affluent MENA country which was highly commended by its Government. I was ranked as 8/12,058 market research experts and 32/6,472 statisticians by Upwork.com. Occasionally, I speak about research and data at conferences such as TEDx, ESOMAR, Data Leaders, Data Science Conference Europe.

In 2020 I have successfully raised seed capital with a group of colleagues and have co-founded Questionardo, a London based AI start-up aiming to revolutionize research and data-driven marketing. Please do approach me if you would like to discuss research/data innovation and collaboration opportunities.

With over 20 years of experience as a leader in technology & impact businesses, Keith Ippel has accelerated the growth of both small and large companies and raised over $80M in angel investment and venture capital. As a global keynote speaker, teacher, and advisor, he has an unparalleled ability to collaborate with entrepreneurs, employees, and investors to grow businesses and change the world. Keith now leads Spring, a global incubator and accelerator that empowers entrepreneurs and entrepreneur ecosystem organizations to build better businesses and change the world. To date, its global advisory work has supported entrepreneurs in over 40 cities across 5 continents while its impact programs have helped over 750 entrepreneurs launch 350+ businesses, and raise over $25M in early-stage capital.

Ammar has been in the software industry for over a decade, assuming different positions as system administrator, software developer, software architect, engineering manager and product lead. He is passionate about technology, software industry standards and music. In his free time, Ammar loves playing chess, but thinks of himself as a lousy chess player, and probably should give up on that hobby. During off-hours, he loves travelling to exotic destinations with his family.

Safety nets for developers: you are not alone when you code

Professionally raised in global powerhouse Siemens where he gained interdisciplinary corporate experience, including expertise in sustainable solutions for city infrastructure. Proven record in taking part to create one of the most efficient public enterprises in the country, JP Sarajevo, where he was both CFO and CIT. Consultant on management systems, innovation, and smart cities; certified chocolatier and passionate smartivist.
Proud Vice President of Operations at Sarajevo-based Ministry of Programming, an award winning software design, development and investment studio focused on start-ups. This fast-growing firm serves a wide range of verticals from FinTech and HealthTech to not for-profits. It boasts a diverse, high-end (and often quirky) product portfolio including social networks, search engines, crypto trading systems, mobile apps and hardware devices. Ministry of Programming, a tech company based in Sarajevo that specialises in building world-class start-ups.
The Company is recognised by the Financial Times (FT1000), Deloitte (Fast50 CE, FAST500 EMEA), PWC (top 1% of salaries in the Bosnian ICT sector).
This unique and proud ministry is also the winner of the UNDP SDG Business Pioneers 2020 in the category “People” .

When Jyoti Guptara dropped out of school at the age of 15 to become a full-time writer, teachers couldn’t imagine they’d be inviting him back three years later to speak as a bestselling author. Despite being a professional novelist, Jyoti did not appreciate the value of storytelling in business until he was a Fellow at a United Nations partner organisation. There, he realised that some of the best content came after and between presentations, informally – when people told stories. Guptara was quickly able to apply his decade of experience with fiction to executive education, helping business leaders find and tell stories to give better talks, pitch ideas and influence meetings. Of British and Indian descent, Jyoti lives in Switzerland with his wife and consults internationally. He has spoken and lectured on four continents.

I’m a software engineer & AI enthusiast with mixed experience in product development, machine learning, and software engineering.
Also, I’m the founder of LazyBrain, an organization focused on raising the general public’s awareness of Artificial Intelligence, and one of the 2 official ambassadors for DeepLearning.ai for south-east Europe. Incredibly structured and precise, with strong business acumen and a talent for connecting business-technology dots. Experienced in envisioning innovative solutions and leading product & engineering teams into successful execution.

A true global citizen, creative multi-tasker, and long time nomad, Leilani has called Thailand her home-base for the past 20 years. She indulged her love of art and design as a Bangkok-based fashion/textile designer, and refined her creative stills as a studio based teaching-artist. Her latest adventures have had her living and working from the road as Unsettled’s Chief Design Officer where she connects seemingly mismatched elements into transformative new experiences.

How to best approach work-life balance as a fully remote team? What have we learned from creating virtual and in-person communities spread out around the world? How can we design our lives for more growth, meaning, and adventure… even from behind multiple screens? 

Founded in asking big questions, Unsettled is a global community of creative professionals seeking to break out of their routine and redefine the future of work, life, and adventure. Join us for a friendly fireside chat with Unsettled’s Chief Design Officer, Leilani Franklin-Apted, and Unsettled Global Experience Leader, Clara Mastronardi, two digital nomad colleagues who spend their lives and work thinking about how we can create meaningful hybrid experiences.

Macroeconomist. Ten years of work for state institutions Statistical Office and Ministry of Finance. Follow macroeconomic trends in the region and globally. Preparation of analysis and projection. Focused on the evaluation of investments and their impact on the domestic economy. At the end of 2019, he became the CEO for the territory of EMEA East in the Chinese company TOJOY.

For the last year, he has been working on establishing this office, promoting and building a network of partners, identifying projects and launching them on the Chinese market.

A true global citizen, creative multi-tasker, and long time nomad, Leilani has called Thailand her home-base for the past 20 years. She indulged her love of art and design as a Bangkok-based fashion/textile designer, and refined her creative stills as a studio based teaching-artist. Her latest adventures have had her living and working from the road as Unsettled’s Chief Design Officer where she connects seBorn and raised in Argentina, Clara Mastronardi is a nomadic soul with a love for adventure. As a Global Unsettled Experience Leader and a practicing mindfulness coach, she brings intention and energy to her community building work, helping to guide people on meaningful journeys of self-discovery.emingly mismatched elements into transformative new experiences.

How to best approach work-life balance as a fully remote team? What have we learned from creating virtual and in-person communities spread out around the world? How can we design our lives for more growth, meaning, and adventure… even from behind multiple screens? 

Founded in asking big questions, Unsettled is a global community of creative professionals seeking to break out of their routine and redefine the future of work, life, and adventure. Join us for a friendly fireside chat with Unsettled’s Chief Design Officer, Leilani Franklin-Apted, and Unsettled Global Experience Leader, Clara Mastronardi, two digital nomad colleagues who spend their lives and work thinking about how we can create meaningful hybrid experiences.

Stevan Ostrogonac is a data scientist at Poslovi Infostud, a job board which is a part of the Infostud Group, where he works on developing advanced automation systems that rely on natural language processing and machine learning algorithms in general. He obtained his PhD in the field of Electrical and Computer Engineering while working at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad as a research assistant. During his academic career, he explored the field of artificial intelligence (AI) while working on text-to-speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition systems for Serbian and other languages. His recent work in science has been more focused on developing language technologies for Serbian. In industry, he is dedicated to applying AI to real-world data in order to better understand how users can be offered the most relevant, personalized content. His interests include creating innovative and efficient ways of extracting relevant information from big data sets.

Milena Milićević helps companies achieve business growth and succeed in new markets with technologies of the future and building committed teams.

She works as a digital transformation consultant for diverse industries and business development consultant for IT companies.

Milena has significant experience in the following fields: using Augmented and Virtual Reality solutions in digital marketing and Industries 4.0; building online and offline communities for businesses, non-profits and alumni organizations; building destination branding and event management projects from scratch; and teaching university students at Bachelor and Master programs.

Also, Milena is the founder of INAT centre (Innovation Attitude Centre), a non-profit organization that enhances education and career development of IT professionals for jobs of the future. The organization’s main project – INAT Summit – has been gathering thought leaders, engineers and IT business people from 10 different countries in Belgrade since 2017.

Due to her education and professional engagements, Milena has lived and worked until age 25 in Belgrade, Berlin, Cambridge, London and Rome. Milena completed her MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Belgrade and an MPhil in Management from the University of Cambridge.

Born in Venice, Franco graduated at the Faculty of Chemistry. After ten years in Pharmaceutical Industries as chemical engineer, Franco moved to Information Technology business.

In 1997 Franco founded MHT, an ERP & CRM global system integration company he directed until 2017. Now he is supporting digital and economic transformation in evolving organisations.

Franco is now deeply involved in BIM [Building Information Management] in a DBA Group SpA project, supporting the digitalization of Infrastructure Lifecycle Management and taking part in global development and improvement of OpenBIM interoperability data Standard (IFC) also as a member of the BuildingSMART International Regulatory Room Steering committee.

Franco’s achievements in digital transformation include:

• Since 1997 Franco was heavenly involved in global initiatives with Confindustria, in Italy and Serbia, and other ecosystems aimed to develop, defend and diffuse human culture and business through digital, according to a post-digital approach, i.e.  The state of being in which you assume the digital instead of marveling at it (F.Speirs).
• As CEO of a primary global Microsoft partner, member of the Global Management Board of a global ICT a company based in Hong Kong, and through founding, developing and managing international branches, Franco developed a wide experience on IT technology global providing.
• In 2018 Franco designed and put in motion with Confindustria Serbia the DIGINDEC initiative, to bridge the Republic of Serbia and Italy in a win-win initiative to boost digital transformation in both countries.
• Franco has been involved in many digital transformation projects in highly regulated environments (construction, pharma, aerospace, healthcare, etc.). Thus, he has deeply studied the impacts of regulatory compliance and international laws on digital evolution.
• This allowed him to develop a huge experience about the pros and the cons of digitalization issues related to social and business environments, and of the impacts of law and regulatory requirements

Franco’s business attitude and personal interests in his own words:

”My global business made me work in many countries, but Belgrade has been the place where I founded my most successful international initiative in 2011, now named Engineering Balkan. But the best achievement of my Serbian experience has been to know and love this country and its people.”

”I’m a skier and a hiker and I love mountain wilderness, but the most I like to connect with people all around the world, and I’m keen on everything can help global cooperation and good relations, especially in Europe I consider our common country.”

How did INAT spirit / Innovation attitude spirit help you in your personal life or professional career?

Digital has been the innovative media I used to share my attitude to achieve more from our time, our business, our life.

My business and cultural proposition has been focused on interaction and integration of digital, humans and organisations in a global world. In doing this I’ve been perseverant enough to go live in 100% of digital transformation projects I managed with my team, rebel enough to overwhelm people was saying we can’t do it, I had the endurance to run a group of sometime wild race horses I called my company for 20 years and I got stamina enough to continue in innovative adventures with new companies in new businesses.

Smart Land In post-COVID New World

Stories & legends on the near future of citizens and cities

• How will pandemic impact on future buildings & infrastructures?
• Should we expect a counter urbanization surf or we’ll return more urban than ever?
• What built assets business is ready for a smart land (and what they should do)?
• What institutions are ready for a smart land (and what they should do)?
• Will open data move from access to process?