Aleksandar Mastilović

Research Assistant at the University in Novi Sad and IEEE Publications Services and Products Board Member

Aleksandar is employed at the University in Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences. He received Maria Curie Fellowship from EU for Ph.D. studies.

Alen Piljak

Founder and President of Edulab

Informatics engineering, assistant and Edu Lego coach of Creative Center, a longtime Lego fan. 2014th FLL program coordinator in Serbia. At this time engaged in the development of teaching through Lego Edu teaching resources and digital tools.

Andrej Šarić

Cofounder of Enum Software

Andrej is a cofounder of Enum Software startup company where he gained experience working on a number of smart city projects that integrate IoT in our everyday life. He graduated from RIT Croatia’s IT program where he now works as a lecturer.

Đorđe Đorđević

President of BEUM Association and Project Manager of Smart City Challenge Serbia

Đorđe is the Project Manager of Smart City Challenge Serbia and the president of BEUM Association. He has over 6 years of experience in event and project management across 5 countries. He holds an MA degree in International Relations from University of Malmö.

Dušan Damjanović

Executive Director of PALGO Center

Dušan, M. Arch. (Master of Architecture, Paris, France, 2003), as the Executive Director of the think tank non-profit organization PALGO Center, since 2006, is in charge of the overall programmatic development and organizational orientation of PALGO as the policy institute.

Ivan Despotović

Smart Cities Agitator

Young politician, inspired with freedom, led by innovation and creativity, willing to change our cities for the better. Devoted last 3 years to empower relations between politics and startups in the Western Balkan region.

Kosta Andrić

Managing Partner, ICT Hub

Kosta devoted his career to managing projects and organizations whose common features are innovation and powerful impact on the community. His expertise extends to connecting private, civil and public sectors. He has created and implemented variety of such programs.

Marko Stojanović

Development Director at Western Balkans Institute

Marko Stojanović is double-degree economist, specialist on EU and Asia-Pacific regions. He has 10 year of professional experience in civil society sector in Serbia, Western Balkans region and the EU. Fields of education, employment and youth policy constitute the areas of Markos expertize in which he made a mark. He is a member of several professional bodies and societies.

Vuk Guberinic

CEO CAR:GO

Vuk has brought together the team CAR:GO, along with the technicalmagic, creative spark, and drive to get things done. He studied in America and Italy and has worked in startups for more than six years. Vuk is passionate about investment.

Sandra Nesic Ph.D

ICT Hub

Dr Sandra Nesic is Program Coordinator at ICT Hub and Program Advisor at ICT Hub Venture. She got her PhD in Economics and lectured in the fields of Economics and Management over last 12 years.

Solagro Team

Smart City Challenge Serbia 2016 winners

Solagro Team is a company made by the group of young engineers in Belgrade, Serbia. Our field of action is ecology and environmental protection. With the main goal: creating solutions for recycling available to everyone!

Vladimir Nikolić

CEO LimundoGrad

Vladimir was born in 1981 in Belgrade, lived a good portion of his life in Berlin. His entrepreneurial parents seeded his wish to be an entrepreneur himself, which culminated in his biggest entrepreneurial endeavor so far: LimundoGrad.com

Nasiha Pozder Ph.D

Urbanist

Employed on Architectural Faculty, on Urban planning and urban design Department. Chief Architect on Institute for Architecture, Urbanism and Spatial Planning Sarajevo, Member of Sarajevo Green Design Festival since 2010 as Sub-coordinator and Coordinator of international workshops, consultant at Green Council. Vice president of Naša Stranka – political party.

Jonas Lindemann

Hafven GmbH & Co. KG

Jonas Lindemann is Co-Founder and CEO at the Hafven Coworking and Maker Spaces. For the last years he has been dealing with the concept of Co-Everything – the collective access to knowledge, things, and services of the crowd. As advisor he helps organizations to redesign and transform their business model, to reposition their brands and to develop digital products.

Nuray Gokalp

Founder AmsterdamTech.City & GlobalTech.City

Nuray is focusing on tech trends such as Blockchain, Internet of Things, Big & Open Data, and Artificial Intelligence. She organises and moderates monthly tech events every first Monday of the month in Amsterdam and other cities around the world.

Maja Hadžiselimović

Robotics engineer at MRK Systeme GmbH

Maja is a mechatronic/automatization engineer and robotic software developer in MRK Systeme Gmbh in Augsburg, Germany. She is working mostly on human-robot collaborative applications and development of first industrial Exoskeleton. Her team with “Robinco” application was in top 6 finalist for KUKA Innovation Award 2016 on Hannover Messe.

Ricardo Ferrer Rivero

Co-Founder, CIO at Hafven

His reputation as a successful entrepreneur is confirmed through the Exit of Doctape to Atlassian and as a co-founder from the Coworking and Makerspace Hafven. Ric is often a speaker at conferences like the Hub-Conference, Cebit Global Conferences, Open! Conference, Hannover Finance Symposium, TEDx.

Valerija Spasojević

CEO & Founder at HLT Studio, Robotics Teacher at Laboratorija Znanja

As a little girl Valerija loved to took apart her toys to see how they function. Later she became interested in robotics, programming and design. That’s why front end development was an option for her. In 2014. with 20 years Valerija starts her own creative agency for innovative web solutions and few years later she got award from NASA.

Vladimir Bataev

Smart & Circular City Innovation Funding Expert, Zaz Ventures

Vladimir Bataev is the smart & circular city expert at Zaz Ventures, the top EU innovation funding consultancy. His focus is on integration of ICT, transport, energy & infrastructure in smart urban solutions with clearly-defined citizen benefits. His additional interests are in applications of biotech & social sciences to solving urban challenges.

Olja Vučićević Gaković

Regional Manager Serbia at PRODYNA D.O.O.

After spending 14 years in Silicon Valley, working on projects for major IT companies such as Intel, HP, eBay, Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, Olja Vučićević Gaković currently lives in Belgrade and leads an energetic team of software engineers at PRODYNA Belgrade office. At the moment, Belgrade office has the highest percentage of female engineers.

Jelena Spasović

President of Libero

Jelena believes that the progress is made by young people and through fresh ideas and that is why she is devoted to supporting them to "make a move and liberate ideas" through her work in Libero and many other international and national institutions that she has been working for many years now.

Milutin Folić

City Architect

The author and co-author of various projects, including a number of business and commercial buildings, of which the most important are: "Green Hill Dedinje" apartment complex of 11,000 square meters in Belgrade, production and office building "EuroBravo" in Belgrade, preliminary design for Ho Chi Minh Tower of 65 floors and 120,000 square meters in Saigon, Vietnam, urban designs for several buildings in Belgrade etc.

Andrea Novaković

Former Director od the Dubrovnik Development Agency DURA

Andrea works in international environment fostering different sustainable projects and initiatives for cities. She has a vast years’ experience on fund raising and jointly with her team is leading Smart City Dubrovnik project for the past three years.

Isabel Airas

Advisor in the Centre for Circular Economy at Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia and the project lead for Climate-KIC Serbia

Veronika Tomova

Co-Founder of the youth-led NGO and SCO 'Smart-Up, Social-Innovation Lab

As a Master of Sustainable Development and Co-Founder of the CSO 'Smart-Up', Veronika merges together her social understanding and interest for innovation and technology, into social entrepreneurial projects incorporating the youth of today as leaders of tomorrow.

Vladimir Urošević

Development Manager of Belit

Vladimir has an MA degree in Industrial Design from Belgrade University of Arts, and over 16 years of industry experience in all stages of software and product development, from requirements and system analysis, to software architecture, programming, optimization and development team management.

Aleksandar Macura

Co-funder of RES Foundation

His work is focused on improvement of public policies on local ,national and regional level in the area of energy and climate change with the aim to enhance renewable energy usage and energy efficiency and reduce energy poverty among population.

Jasminka Young

Co-founder of RES Foundation

Jasminka has a significant professional experience in public sector, international organizations and civil society. She worked with Government of Serbia as policy advisor. She worked with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and United Nations Development Program.

Sanela Klarić

PhD architecture

Activist and Independent architect, sustainable and energy efficient architecture consultant, Vice Rector for International Relation and Scientific Cooperation and Assist. Prof. dr. at Department for Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies International BURCH University, President of Association “Green Building Council”.

David Solomon

Founder Thinking Cities & wearebarcelona.org

After a career in international conflict resolution diplomacy, David has spent the past decade working with cities in South America, Asia, Europe & the Middle East on city internationalisation, city diplomacy and international PPP fund-raising and management for smart city technology start-ups between Korea & Israel. Launching in 2017 wearebarcelona.org and other citizen-centric initiatives globally he works and lives between Barcelona and Belgrade.

Aurélie Salvaire

French social impact entrepreneur based in Barcelona

She has been working for the past 10 years in the social innovation field, collaborating with Oxfam, Ashoka, Unreasonable Institute and Impact Hub. She founded and curated different TEDx events including TEDxBarcelonaWomen, TEDxBarcelonaED and TEDxBarcelona Change.

William Carbone

Cognitive Solutions and Watson Leader at IBM

Enthusiastic Italian, William is leading Cognitive Solutions in IBM Bratislava. Early in his studies in UAS Technikum Wien he explored Smart Grids and their primary role in energy innovation, coupled with ICT, that significantly impact technology and markets.

Ana Lojić

President of Association of Inovetors Banja Luka, Association of Inventors Republic of Srpska

Motivation, proactivity, personal responsibility all of us who create programs and activities, but also of young people whom we want to build foundation of quality content are the goal of modern ways of developing the innovation and entrepreneurship for future generations.

Sazan Ibrahimi

Director of Association of Kosovo Municipalities

Member of the Board for Language Policy.

Marko Trifković

President of Novi Sad Cycling Initiative

Urban cycling activist educated in law, sustainability & goal oriented change caster. Representative of cycling community in the working group for bicycle traffic in Novi Sad.

Ilija Gubić

Advisor at the United Nations

Architect and urbanist worked on post disaster projects and programms for United Nations in Asia and the Pacific. Currently based in New York working for United Nations on implementation of the New Urban Agenda globally.

Mihajlo Anđelić

Web Programmer, CRTA

Interested in visual data presentation, interactive content and simple solutions. A big supporter of open source movement and technologies. He find Internet as a greatest achievement. Plays weiqi, read comics and graphic novels.

Željko Ožegović

State secretar – Ministry of public administration and local self-government

Željko Ožegović is a state secretar in the Ministry of public administration and local self-government of Republic of Serbia. He graduated on the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade. Former president of New Belgrade municipality in two terms.

Miodrag Gluščević

Head of Department for Communal Services, Urban Planning and Environment at the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities

Miodrag is a public sector and project management specialist with particular experience in local government affairs, sustainable urban development, municipal services, and energy and environmental related issues.

Ceco Gaković

Founder and CEO at CityOS

As a founder, CTO, BoD member and Advisor, Ceco has been part of many successful San Francisco Internet and mobile startups. Ceco and his teams have specialized on social networks and built web and mobile platforms for some of the world's largest brands. Recently Ceco has been focused on the CityOS Foundation, whose sole purpose is to bring knowledge to young people in cities and equip them with skills to improve their own cities using the latest technology.

Selma Hadžič

COO at CityOS

Master degree in Management and Organization from the University of Sarajevo. She started her career at the Institute of Metrology of BiH. She was working as a Program Coordinator at Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Management Centre, and has been actively involved in implementation of educational programs.

Željko Žugić, PhD

Project Coordinator for resilient development, UNDP Serbia

Zeljko completed Master in Civil engineering and Master and PhD in Risk engineering. His work is focused in innovations in urban risk assessment and monitoring. Most of his works is dedicated to vulnerability and susceptibility on landslide earthquake and flood hazards.

Irena Cerović

Portfolio Manager at UNDP Serbia

From a background in civil society, Irena joined UNDP in 2015 to lead the portfolio of public administration reform and rule of law. She explores innovative uses of technology to drive democratization and development and leads the Open Data initiative.

Darko Mandić

Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Playerhunter GmbH Vienna

Darko is a serial E(i)ntrapreneur and Co-Founder of BEUM and Smart City Challenge Serbia. Besides working as a CMO at Playerhunter which is a startup awarded as one of the Top 50 Most Innovative Sports Brands, Darko Co-founded a superfood startup from Serbia, Happy Honey.

Edin Mehic

Founder and CEO,Kolektiv Ltd; Co-Founder and CEO, Networks

DA serial entrepreneur, founder, proven business executive, angel investor/advisor, active motivational speaker and guest lecturer on several international universities, who set up his own company at the age of 19, Edin has built his career at the intersection of the technology, consumer Internet, recruitment services and entertainment sectors.

Mirko Tadić

Founding Partner at Bridgeway Europe Startup Accelerator

is an entrepreneur and angel investor who founded and runs the business accelerator Bridgeway. Prior to diving into innovation startup world was a founder of the New Materials Research Group pivotal for new methods, development and realization of research project portfolio in the field of Material Science and entrepreneur initiatives at Belgrade University, Faculty of Physics.

Jasmina Ristić

Program Director at Bridgeway Europe Startup Accelerator

Prior to joining Bridgeway, she was head of marketing department for FMCG, leading SEE food companies with more than 10 years of experience in management and marketing, led teams od product developers, media strategist, promotional and sale experts, for numerous food platforms and categories across South East Europe region.

Jelena Mitrović Simić, PhD

Assistant professor, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad

She works as an assistant professor at Department of Traffic Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad. The major field of scientific and professional interest is in the areas of transport planning, data analysis, four-step models, sustainable urban transport as well as behaviour processes in traffic engineering.

dr Darko Polić

President of the working group for cultural infrastructure projects, Novi Sad – European Capital of Culture 2021

After finishing his studyes on the Faculty of Architecture, Darko started working for public company Urbanism, department for urban planning of the city of Novi Sad, since 2004.

Predrag Vučinić

ABB D.O.O. BEOGRAD

P.V., rođen 1973. u Pakracu, Rep. Hrvatska. Dipl. inž saobraćaja beogradskog Univerziteta. Radio u kompaniji EXOR na projektima automatizacije tunela i inostranstvu i u Srbiji. Nakon akvizicije EXORA zaposlen u kompaniji ABB Beograd, radi na poslovima vezanim za električne automobile i stanice za punjenje.

Slobodan Jerotić

Mechanical Engineer and Energy Manager of Šabac municipality

Slobodan has a vast experience in local sustainable energy solutions. 

Nataša Dragojlović

Coordinator of the National Convention on the EU

With 10-year experience as a public servant in different Ministries, Natasa returned to civil sector. She consults and manages different EU projects, and is author of numerous publications on EU integration, regional cooperation, and foreign policy. 

Damjan Rehm Bogunović

Program Coordinator at the Heinrich Boll Foundation

Damjan is leading projects within Foundation that are dedicated to the environment and energy.

Darko Radicanin

On the halfway of his career, Darko still believes it is possible to trigger commitment, passion, will, wishful thinking, decisiveness, responsibility positive relation to changes, and the need to success. He thinks the joy is very important. He is Executive Director of Junior Achievement Serbia.

Bojana Jevtovic

Bojana Jevtovic from Belgrade Open School has extensive experience in the field of Career Guidance and Counselling, monitoring and evaluation of Education, Social and Economic Reforms, as well as harmonization of the education system with the needs of the labour market and employability.

Zlatan Halilovic

Zlatan Halilovic is program Director at Western Balkans Institute and consultant for the growth of SMEs and startups.