At INAT Summit 2018, Stefan Salom will speak on behalf of Digital Serbia Initiative.

Digital Serbia Initiative aims to create a business environment that serves digital innovation by strengthening the education system, supporting entrepreneurial companies in the initial and growth phases, strengthening those branches of the economy with the potential for immense growth and initiating public dialogue on the advantages of digital transformation.

Digital Serbia is united by a desire to make an important contribution to progress and a better future for Serbia over the coming decade. This organization wants to make use of the current global Industrial Revolution 4.0, to turn its challenges into opportunities and come out as winners. To make this happen, DSI initiates social changes we will all be proud of.

Stefan Salom the director of development and one of the founders of the company Infostud. He was born in 1981 in Belgrade, where he graduated from the Mathematical Gymnasium and Theoretical Physics after that.

Here you can see insights on Stefan’s career in ICT sector,  ‘‘My dilemma of whether to deal with a science or business was long lasting, until finally I realized that I could get more meaningful things done in working with people and creating a new and useful business. Then I’ve finally abandoned doing business and science in parallel, quit my PhD studies in biophysics and fully devoted myself to working at Infostud. Since I was part of building the business from its very beginning, the focus of my work mostly depended on the needs of Infostud.

Ever since the founding of the company in 2000 to this day, I have been dealing with various tasks – setting up software bases, assembling sales systems and sales teams, and working on the strategic development of the entire company, its systems and individuals.

Also, among other things,  I am currently in charge of developing the site www.helloworld.rs, which is fully dedicated to employment in the IT sector. I believe that IT and digital has a strong potential not only to improve lives of people from our industry, but to improve Serbia as a whole.’’

Ilija was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. He finished Fifth Belgrade Grammar school next to legendary Tasmajdan stadium. In 2000. he has moved from the grammar school, few hundred meters down the street, to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, where he graduated in 2005. on the Chair of Telecommunications and Computing.

In 2005 Ilija started working in Siemens, later Nokia Siemens, working with some of the best people in the industry, growing as a professional and watching mobile operators in Serbia, Balkan and Europe grow and introduce new technologies and services. Ilija has worked  as an engineer, and after  few years, as a project manager on some of the biggest and most interesting projects done for different mobile operators in the region.

In 2014 Ilija has decided to make a slight shift in his career and decided to join TeleSign as a Technical Product Manager. Ilija is now Team Lead in TeleSign, where, together with his co-workers, he helps the creation of new products and features. Primary goal is to make sure TeleSIgn customers are communicating effectively with their end users. Whether customers are looking to acquire new end users or engage more with existing ones, TeleSign Product team is there to help that process with the ideas brought to life. Ilija wrote this short bio while listening to Partibrejkers band and promising his two sons that he will play with them, if they give him 10 more minutes to finish up on this.

How do you define E-migration and Digital Transformation? 

Let me define both terms together. E-migration and Digital Transformation are long-term initiatives that help application of new technologies. Terms are recognized in different industries, but also in many aspects of our social lives. Many risks and open questions are related to these initiatives, so it is important to understand what is to be achieved with them.

Starting his career as software developer during the period that could be considered “golden age” of the discipline, Igor Đurić obtained early exposure to innovative ways web applications and related services revolutionized not just the IT but our lives and societies themselves.

Riding the wave further, focus of his career started to switch from technology-oriented roles to those having greater focus on people crafting the technology we all appreciate and use. Being a software engineer, architect and developers’ leader over decades, he was always astonished with the massive role psychology plays in creation and maintenance of software solutions and other seemingly strictly technical systems.

In his actual work nowadays, he sees current trends of digital transformation, innovation, IoT, AI as continuation of systems and thoughts devised generations before and an opportunity to blend machines and humans in a way that will enable humans to become even more human than before.

What is E-migration for you?

Thanks to modern ICT, e-migration is a kind of immigration which does not necessarily lead to integration into new society – and consequent dissolution of ties with the country of origin. Hence, we finally got “citizens of the world” recipe for the masses.

What is Digital Transformation for you?

Another attempt to make use of the ever-elusive chance for people to be employed – less in robotic jobs, but more in jobs focused on human prosperity.

Sebastian Geschwill started his career in the IT Sector of a software company in Germany back in 1998. After finishing his study he was employed as a SysAdmin and Software Developer by the same company. During this time he mainly worked as a SysAdmin for the need of the company itself but also middle tier customer in the surrounding area, while continuing to develop software in C++ and Visual Basic.

In 2010 Sebastian was hired by Elsys Eastern Europe and relocated to Belgrade. His new assignment included the support of a Wireless R&D community within a large telecommunication equipment company. He climbed the ladder from employee to Team-Lead in 2011, and in 2012 took over the project lead in Belgrade. During this time Sebastian developed a deep understanding of the designers needs in large software projects. His favorite tool at this time was IBM Rational Clearcase, but also many internally developed tools and of course GIT with it surrounding software products like Gerrit and GitLab. From 2011 on Sebastian was often facilitated by the customer to provide trainings on the development environment to the designers and loadbuild teams on site. When in 2017 Avisto Eastern Europe opened internally the DevOps Domain, Sebastian was placed as its lead.

When he is not busy with his customer projects, Sebastian enjoys fitness, listening to music, creative cooking and gaming.

What is E-Migration? The migration of people to other countries due to job assignments in the IT sector.

What is Digital Transformation? The continued impact of the evolution of digital technology and its impact on the society…

Sebastian’s Workshop:  DevOps Culture and our success Story

• A short bio about the speaker and his walk of life in the IT world.
• The Speakers story related to the project he was working on including the expansion of assigned tasks within the project as well the evolution of the team

What Avisto Eastern Europe does is completely explained in the speech (workshop). We want to promote the good practices we have discovered and in general want to state how advanced we are with the relatively new topic DevOps.

Armin Konjalic is often referred as a “super networker”. He mad a career out of the creating meaningful connections: Currently he works as a “Startup and Investors Relation Manager at Humaniq, blockchain solution for a financial inclusion of the Unbanked Armin.

What is E-migration for you?

In one word: Borderless

And what is Digital Transformation for you?

Digital transformation is a transition from slow heavy bureaucratic paper-stamp based system to the fast easy-to-access digital footprint system. What will you learn from Armin during his talk, workshop and unusual networking at INAT Summit? 1. About blockchain renaissance in Africa. How Humaniq is changing the life of unbanked, undocumented and people below the poverty line. 2. About startup Investment and Innovation Ecosystem in Emerging Europe. Insights from cee.ewdn.com 3. About networking like a pro 4. About different approaches of hacking communication with customers, corporations, investors and media

Giovanni Vaia graduated in business economics at the University of Naples with honors. He gained his Doctorate in Organisation and Technology in Italy. He is Professor with tenure at Ca’ Foscari University Venice at the Department of Management where he teaches Digital Management and Global Sourcing and Digital Human Cloud.

Giovanni Vaia’s interests include organization design and general management with a specific focus on digital transformation, information systems, network governance and outsourcing, performance management.

He published with Springer the book “CIOs and the Digital Transformation. A new Leadership role”, and Giovanni’s research works are published in the following journals: Journal of Information Technology, Management of Information System Quarterly Executive, Journal of Information Technology TC and others.

Today he is the founder and the Scientific Director of the Digital Enterprise Lab (DEL) at Ca’ Foscari Venice. Digital Enterprise Lab (DEL) was founded to contribute to the scientific development in the digital area, where a strong integration of ICT, business strategy, marketing, organization and innovation are required. DEL supports companies in their exploitation of new technologies, and stimulates their process of innovation through the offering of educational courses and possible experimental instruments. Topics addressed at DEL may be applied in all kinds of business areas, e.g. Healthcare, Finance and Insurance, Consumer Goods and Retail, Fashion, Manufacturing, Multiutility, etc.

Giovanni is responsible of the digital transformation and organization optimization in public and private companies.

Rafael is a Lead Developer at Budapest-based Emarsys and a frequent conference speaker. As a founding member of Emarsys CraftLab – the dedicated coaching team of Emarsys – he has taught university courses, talked at numerous conferences and visited multiple companies as an external consultant.

His passion for short feedback loops drove him to create Lean Poker, a workshop where developers have the opportunity to experiment with continuous delivery in an safe environment. He is also the creator and host of the Morning Commute YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm27Xuroww1AxPdR3Zz_5jA) inspiring the next generation of developers to broaden their knowledge. His previous talks can be viewed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLssqJVvKKY4mJG3i5AMVjNcOxOzLJ1F28

For the very first time in his speaking career Rafael will deliver a Bootcamp: protecting the engineering culture during hyper growth

The engineering culture of a company might be a key to it’s success, yet as hyper growth kicks in it becomes hard to keep it while doubling the number of engineers every year. So the question becomes: is there a way to protect the culture, and if so, how? In this talk I will summarize my experiences of leading the Bootcamp at Emarsys. Every engineer who joins Emarsys spends the first few weeks in this team until they learn the tricks and practices that we think were essential to the success of the company.

Rafael, what do you do at Emarsys, in which programming languages and for which technologies and type of clients?

Emarsys is the largest independent marketing platform company in the world. Our software enables truly personalized, one-to-one interactions between marketers and customers across all channels — building loyalty, enriching the customer journey, and increasing revenue. This enables companies to scale marketing decisions and actions beyond human capabilities.

Founded in 2000, Emarsys began as an ESP built to provide an email solution for the European market. From there, it rapidly evolved into the global marketing platform it is today. We believe our technology truly is the answer to scaling personalization and revolutionizing the role of the modern marketer. Our approach to AI marketing allows marketers to leave the data management to the machine so they can focus on what they love: strategy, content, and creative. To create the best solutions for our clients, we invest 25% of all revenue back into the development of our products.

Rafael, What is E-migration for you?
How we run our business. Emarsys is a truly global company, we have 3.2 billion customer records from over 200 countries and 37 languages spoken in our 15 offices worldwide.

What is Digital Transformation for you?

Constantly challenging the status quo, just like at Emarsys. We are revolutionizing the Marketer’s role. The promise of marketing is to deliver truly personalized one-to-one interactions. But so far, that promise has gone unfulfilled, because human-driven personalization does not scale. Customers are interacting with more channels and creating more data than ever before. There are too many choices and too much data in today’s marketplace for the modern marketer to aggregate, analyze, interpret, and apply it all. We bring together machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence in an innovative, easy-to-use integrated platform that allows the marketer to bridge the gap between data and true personalization.

Lidija M Rosati is an unconventional entrepreneur, global transformational leader, who travels the world coaching budding entrepreneurs to take their ideas off the ground, empowering and supporting women globally to live authentically and with integrity, inspiring them to nurture their dreams, to enjoy building their businesses, while cultivating the magical art of hustling gently.

She is a fully accredited NLP Trainer (Classic and New Code), International Speaker, Business Coach, Hypnotherapist. A wealth creation and wellbeing specialist, she helped co-create Momentum Method – a set of tools designed for the 21st century living and beyond, covering wealth creation, weight loss and thriving relationships. Lidija is the Amazon No 1 bestselling author of Gaining While Losing – The Gentle Art of Transformation.

Corporate hippy and a curious nomad, Lidija left the corporate world to pursue her many passions. Born in Eastern Europe, lives in Western Europe and works across the globe. The world is her playground and her mission is to leave a legacy of wealthy empowered women globally.

This is why Lidija thinks of E-migration as ”sharing ideas, embracing new values and breaking away from the tradition. E-migration is also conscious productivity, or a productivity 3.0.”

Likewise Lidija believes that digital transformation is transforming the way we think, we live and the way we run business. ”The sharing of ideas and information has never been easier and we haven’t seen the full benefits of it yet. I love the subtlety of it and how it doesn’t even give us time to decide whether we want it or not.”

www.momentum-strategies.com
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Moshe Sarfaty is founder and co-owner of Krypton VC – with a Dual degree in Economics & International Studies from Yale University. Mr. Sarfaty has accumulated years of experience in investment banking, trading, business valuation & strategy and equity funds.

His achievements in digital transformation include:

• Leading a multinational financial group with more than 300 employees and 6 branches worldwide as Global President
• He co-founded and managed a company in Belize which recognized the promise of river logging in the country and its “Green” potential. He oversaw the project in its pilot stage while forming business relationships with the highest echelon of Belizean officials and its business community. He guided the project until it made an exit.
• Before that he was an Investment Banker in Bank of America Merrill Lynch in NYC a part of investment grade capital markets division. As part of his job there, he conducted financial and market analysis for corporate clients with investment grade ratings, focusing on their debt structure and overall market performance. In addition he developed ideas and solutions for clients, using a broad array of capital market products and used peer comparison analysis to help clients raise capital and choose their preferred financing alternatives.
• He was a part of various transactions teams, including TLGP secured offerings, strategic capital raisings, debt restructures and recapitalizations.
  He now uses his large skill set, experience and qualities to invest, mentor and transform small promising businesses into independent profitable ones.
• Moshe also served as the first ever Israeli varsity captain at Yale University and earned 4 varsity letters as part of the Yale Squash Ivy League Champion (2006) team. Moshe is a former president at Shabtai Society (formerly the Eliezer / Chai Society) and active member since 2006.

From Moshe you may obtain the following exeprtise:

How To Build a Successful Business When Everyone Thinks Its Impossible

If You Can Dream It You Can Do It – How to build The Company of Tomorrow in 90 Minutes Today

What is E-migration for Moshe?   Taking your personal future in your hands by perusing better future in another territory

And what is Digital Transformation? Stop using old methodologies and replacing them with electronic ones.

About Moshe’s company:

Krypton VC 4.0 focuses on seed tech and internet ventures in initial revenue stage, across various verticals.

The sole purpose of the fund is to launch the product to the outside world without wasting time and capital on unproven and costly due diligence processes.

Krypton achieves this standard through an intimate working experience, marketing expertise, and a “hands on” approach – the game changing Krypton Investment Mechanism. We see the startup world as a massive boxing match. You find yourself in the ring facing heavyweight champions.

Many VCs want you to exchange swings for 12 rounds to see who the last standing is. Krypton will provide you with the iron gloves to throw a haymaker.

Lazar Dzamic is the former Google ZOO Head of Brand Planning NACE, a creative strategist, writer and academic. He is an award-winning Planning Director in several integrated agencies, and lectures at the Faculty for Media & Communications at the Singidunum University in Belgrade.

Lazar will delivered the talk during an interview by a surprise guest:
How to Deliver Results to People and Algorithms in The World of Distraction?

Lazar Džamić is back to INAT Summit with his talk on delivering results in 24/7 operating world. Technology changed forever how we do business and how we communicate. Algorithms run what we experience and many people feel overwhelmed with their daily tasks.

In this Q&A Lazar and our surprise moderator will make you reconsider everything you know about artificial intelligence, marketing and working with people. Have no FOMO, you can implement what we will talk about immediately.

For Lazar, ‘‘Emigration is the arrival in the new fiction that you need to decode.’’ He thrives in digital transformation and through his books, lectures and community work he inspires young talents and entrepreneurs to do the same.

His latest book The Definitive Guide to Strategic Content Marketing: Perspectives, Issues, Challenges and Solutions will be published in July, 2018.

After graduting at the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry and a decade of experience in both Process and Life Science Industries as chemical engineer working in Logisitics, Manufacturing, Quality and IT departments, Franco moved to the Information technology business.

In 1997 Franco founded MHT, an ERP & CRM global system integrator company that he ran until 2017. After a brief experience in a primary e.procuremnt business company, Franco now professionally supports primary global firms for Industry 4.0 and digital economy evolution projects.
His business and cultural proposition has always been focused on interaction and integration of technology, society, humans and manufacturing organisations.

Franco’s achievements in digital transformation include:

• Since 1997 Franco is heavenly involved in global initiatives with Confindustria and other think tanks, like SDA Bocconi and University of Padua, aimed to develop and diffuse digital culture and to breathe them to life in business and social organizations.
• 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, Fracno developed a wide experience on IT technology global providing.
• Recently, 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.
• One of Franco’s peculiar competences is an almost wide knowledge on adopting and evolving with digital technologies in highly regulated and demanding global environment, like life science, aerospace, human care, banks, tax agencies etc.
• 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.

At INAT Summit, Franco will share in a workshop how to adopt a perfect digital solution and provide a practical guide for GDPR in your global business:

• Success for any creation of man is related to its adoption by the widest people community in a reasonable time. For digital creations, if you divide the reasonable time for one thousand and if you are able to do it in that time, you are probably too slow anyway.
• Software engineers and entrepreneurs often are convinced that adoption of technology is related only to intrinsic product characteristics, like innovative technology, coolness, ease of use, integration or low costs.
• Unfortunately, every single piece of digital culture dissemination is related to a lot of social and organisations peculiarity that can delay, or even quit, the adoption of a perfect digital solution.
• In his talk Franco wil deal with how to manage the digital adoption strategy in advance, tricks and opportunities related to external regulatory constraints or social uses, and how to be proactive since the first product design . With these strategies we can prevent issues and use rules to boost the success of a digital start-up or company.
• Because of a recently required compliance to GDPR in Europe, Franco will also emphasize application of it in global business.

Recently named as one of the UK’s top 50 SaaS sales leaders Dylan has leveraged the power of social media and personal branding to accelerate his career 5X faster than usual.

He currently runs UK business development for exciting tech startup Leadfeeder whilst travelling Europe as a digital nomad.

As well as this Dylan runs a Facebook community of over 500 founders and business owners, his LinkedIn content is regularly seen by over 1 Million people per month and he has had his work featured on many leading websites such as SalesHacker and Referral Candy.

All of this at the age of 23.

Dylan will deliver a powerful workshop on business leads and LinkedIn engagement: Linkedin as your Main Lead Generation Tool.

Gilad Uziely has a diverse background ranging from starting a traditional travel business through founding his own startup and all the way to policy making positions with Tel Aviv’s local government where he served in a few roles including the Director of Economic Development at Tel Aviv Global, a municipal initiative aimed at positioning Tel Aviv as a global city with significant economic and cultural importance.

Gilad’s main expertise:

• As Director of Economic Development, Gilad oversaw the cultivation and promotion of Tel Aviv’s startup ecosystem as a global center of innovation & entrepreneurship.
• He spearheaded a number of initiatives for Israel’s economic growth including city-to-city collaborations, attracting foreign investment into the city, supporting municipal hubs and accelerators, building relationships with foreign governments and multinational companies and helping them build R&D centers in Tel Aviv and of course Tel Aviv’s smart city vision and strategy, among other projects.
• Gilad lead and developed a cross-organizational effort aimed at improving the life of Tel Aviv’s citizen, businesses, visitors and municipal workers through the implementation of Smart City initiatives ranging from open data, injection of innovation to the educational system, improving internal processes through technology and better connecting the municipality to the thriving startup ecosystem of the city.

One of the opportunities to listen to Gilad will be at the panel:  IoT, AI and We; Mobility and 5G along with GDPR?

In this panel we will see case studies from smart vendors and smart cities. In particular trends in IoT, telco, and fintech industry will be tackled, as well as what GDPR frameworks bring to enterprise clients.

Silviu has a background in applied Computer Vision, Machine Learning and IoT, developing solutions in areas such as: automotive, healthcare, surveillance and activity recognition, intelligent traffic analysis, automatic document classification, smart camera and radar tracking.

Take an opportunity to listen to Silviu in a workshop Creating AI solutions for a safer future.

During the engaging workshops Silviu will cover several key IoT and AI technologies, together with lessons and use-cases from developing projects in this area – such as ASTRO – the robot office-mate prototype. He will share his domain expertise since his startup operates in the Computer Vision / Artificial Intelligence field.

What is E-migration for Silviu?

Adopting digital over paper in most, if not all, domains.

And what is Digital Transformation?

Optimizing businesses and public services via state of the art technology.

Martina Anđelković is the Internet entrepreneur, social media marketing strategist and online advertising expert.

She is the winner of the Hello! Award for The Person of the Year for the humanitarian campaign and the first guerilla action on social media in Serbia that helped abandoned animals in life danger #FeedTheDog  (#NahraniPsa)

Martina is in charge for online advertising as the member of EXIT Festival team.

Regularly she teaches social media marketing and branding at  the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia and in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of  Belgrade.