Gorica has extensive expertise in the area of business process analysis, product management, sales, and marketing. As an entrepreneur, Gorica co-created Taqoo advertising platform with a prediction engine with its own advertising channel. The whole solution includes different technologies starting from hardware infrastructure, mobile communications, last-mile content delivery, web applications, storing data, taking care for privacy, etc. Taqoo reinvented itself many times to pack technology complexity behind intuitive and well optimized user interfaces.

That was a more technical description. The most significant accomplishment came with implementing the product in the actual business ecosystem. Connecting the dots between the product, the market, and all stakeholders is a complex process. Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Ivan Livić is a Vice President in Apigate, a startup funded by the Asian largest telco group – Axiata.

Apigate is a telco middle-ware provider that enables APIs such as Direct Carrier Billing, SMS, Authentication, location based services, etc. He is responsible for product management of self-service platform, and building go-to-market strategy for startups and developers. Prior to that, he was working in Amazon Web Services as Marketing Manager for SE Asia, region of 800M people. Ivan graduated at FER in Zagreb in 2011, and soon after moved with his wife to work as an engineer in Kuala Lumpur. In 2013 he raised seed round for his 1st startup and moved to Bali. For the last 5 years he’s been based in Singapore where he lives with his wife and a newborn baby girl.

So far he was involved in 3 self-funded business ventures, where he learned through his successes and failures. He’s passionate about learning and mentoring startups in the areas of Product management, B2B Marketing, Business Development, Data driven decision making.

In free time, Ivan plays guitar, trains for marathons and triathlons and plays futsal.

Ivan commented on INAT spirit and how it shaped his personal life and professional career, ”As I was growing up in a small town of Kutina in Croatia, I wanted to change things for the better for young population. So we organized Punk and Hard Core festivals, graffiti yams, exhibitions – all out of INAT and to prove others positive changes can be done even at age 15. In the same spirit I founded a tech startup when others were seeking secure government job. And out of INAT I accepted the job in Malaysia as a graduate student to jump into unknown and grow the carrier the harder way.”

Uri is consulting companies who want to add AI capabilities to their services\products. Uri has worked with consulting companies and organizations and helps them to choose and implement the best AI solution for their needs. In addition, Uri has founded the biggest AI community in Israel called “Machine and Deep Learning Israel”. The community has more than 13,000 members who are the leading AI talents in Israel.

Uri also loves to share his knowledge and give lectures and workshops which talks about many different aspects of AI.

When did you show your INAT spirit / Innovation attitude spirit in your personal life or professional career? 

I wanted to prove that AI can create new tools and be used for many cool things and that’s why I created AutoHash – an app that gives your the best hashtags to any photo. In the beginning, none thought that people will use it or that the AI is strong enough to understand the content of the photo but I showed them otherwise! AutoHash because a great success with almost half a million photos analyzed each month! And the best part is that AutoHash is growing organical without spending 1$ in marketing. In that moment I knew I should alway listen to myself and trust my insticts.

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.

Filip plays a leading role in the firm’s information technologies sector and transactions. He advised internet incubator and VC fund on investment rounds and acquisition of tech startups. At the same time, he is also a safe pair of hands for tech startups and joint ventures, providing legal support and advice from their incorporation through development and expansion phase until execution of a successful exit strategy.

Likewise, Filip developed his legal skills and pragmatic approach in various M&A and due diligence projects and transactions in a wide range of industries including private equity, TMT, energy, IT, retail and healthcare.

Filip advises local and international clients on compliance and regulatory aspects of their business operations. Besides his bachelor of law degree from University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, Filip holds a joint Master of Law and Business degree from Bucerius Law School (Hamburg, Germany) & WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar, Germany) where her learned that to provide the right legal advise a good lawyer must know and understand his client’s business. When he is not busy doing “the regular lawyer staff” he is always up for an ultimate frisbee matchup.

Filip explained how he showed his INAT spirit / Innovation attitude spirit in his personal life and professional career. ”Whatever one is striving for, one needs to be innovative in finding a way to get there. Every success story has a drop or two of INAT in it.” 

Dr Ivana Kostić is the Co-Founder of Health Tech Lab, created for making an impact in the local, serbian and global health tech ecosystems. HTL emerged after her initiation and organization of the 1^st MIT Medical hackathon in Belgrade, in collaboration with MIT hacking medicine. She is also the Technology Transfer Associate at the Innovation Fund and MASHAV alumni.

Ivana earned her PhD degree from the MIT Portugal Program / Bioengineering Systems in collaboration with Portuguese lab –Biomaterials & Stem Cell-based Therapeutics Lab– and –Karp Lab– at MIT together with Brigham and Women’s and Boston Children’s Hospital. These joint efforts were oriented towards developing minimally-invasive and more effective therapies for ischemic organs. The collaboration is still ongoing.

Her initial interest in this area was sparked by Physiology studies at the University of Belgrade and an additional rich practical knowledge gained through the IAESTE internship in Brazil and the First BSRT Summer School for Regenerative Medicine in Berlin.

Milos Jovanovic is a founder and design technology director at Geometrid Asia, Singapore based digital design and technology practice for architecture, engineering and construction.

Completed bachelor studies in 2013 at the University Union Nikola Tesla, Faculty of Building Construction Management, Department for Architecture and Urban Planning in Belgrade.

Joined MERO-TSK International in 2015, a specialist space frame and façade design, engineering, manufacturing and construction company based in Germany, at its Construction Systems office, team for geometry development and computational design in Würzburg.

Later that year moved to Singapore to join a regional branch MERO Asia Pacific as a computational design specialist on the project Jewel at Changi Airport (2015 – 2018). Meantime completed Bukit Jalil National Stadium project at Kuala Lumpur Sport City in Malaysia (2016 – 2017).

Currently at Geometrid leading project development from design to fabrication, as well as product development of digital tools and applications for building construction industry clients.

Marko is the founder of Zamphyr, free school of technology. Pioneer of Free Education, and Education 2.0 movement. Works on moonshots and invests in extraordinary humans. Gave up consulting startups and venture capital funds from Silicon Valley to Hong Kong, returned to Serbia to work on the vision of crowdsourced, universal school accessible to entire humanity. As a free culture and free education activist advocates for a fundamental shift of paradigm in education and for a post-scarcity society.

When did you show your INAT spirit / Innovation attitude spirit in your personal life or professional career?

I was bad at school because of inat, I was out of my comfort zone because of inat, and now I hope I will make something great because of inat.