10 September 2019
Crowne Plaza, Belgrade, Serbia

Johannes Maurer
General Manager, IBM South East Europe

Prior to this current role, Johannes was a Sales Leader for Industrial in Germany. He has a broad sales track-record at IBM, coupled with extensive business and IT transformation experience, contributing to his success working with large enterprises, and helping to develop a strong client-centric reputation amongst customers, colleagues, senior management, and partners. As the General Manager for IBM SEE, he will continue the strategy already underway, drive local business ecosystems on their digital transformation journey, and helping shape market opportunities by capitalizing on partnerships leveraging disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, IoT, blockchain and security.

Thomas Francis Anglero
Head of Innovation, IBM Norway

Thomas Anglero is the Director of Innovation at IBM Norway and is renowned for his powerful and inspirational presentations on artificial intelligence and innovation. Thomas has over 25 years of IT/Telecom experience, hosts the popular “Soul of Innovation” podcast, and is well known for his TEDx Talk on artificial intelligence called, “Don’t fear technology, fear yourself”.

Mr. Anglero is a Puerto Rican/American who has lived 20+ years in Norway. He is married with 3 athletic children. Thomas is a level-2 FIBA certified champion basketball coach with 10+ years of championship coaching experience.

Thomas is available for presentations, consultations, workshops and one-on-one executive coaching, in-person and online.

Milorad Mažić

Milorad Mažić (Born 23rd of March 1973.) is a Serbian international association football referee.

He became a FIFA referee in 2009. Besides working in the Serbian football league system, Mažić officiated numerous matches in the UEFA Champions League (including the 2018 Final game) and the Europa League, as well as the 2016 UEFA Super Cup.

He refereed matches at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2016, 2017. FIFA Confederations Cup (including the final match). He was selected as a referee for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

He was awarded a Silver Medal for Merits of the Republic of Serbia.

He was selected the best Serbian referee nine times in a row.

Namik Hrle
CTO for Analytics Hybrid Cloud Platform

Namik Hrle is IBM Fellow, the ultimate distinction of IBM technical career, the title given to a small number of individuals who demonstrated the highest level of technical leadership, innovation, business impact, social eminence, talent building, … He is IBM’s Master Inventor, Member of IBM Academy and Technical Experts Council. Holder of numerous patents, outstanding technical achievements, author recognition and corporate awards, Namik has a world-wide reputation as the ultimate expert in the area of intersection between enterprise applications and data analytics technologies.

His current global role is CTO for Analytics Hybrid Cloud Platform. He is the chair of IBM Analytics Group Technical Leadership Team.

Achilles Georgiu
Technology Support Services Director at IBM

Achilles Georgiu is the Program Director of MSc in Technology Management & Innovation and the Industrial Director of MSc in Business Analytics program at the Department of Economics and Business in CEU. He is also a Senior Adjunct lecturer of Digital Transformation and Leadership courses at the various MSc programs of the school. Besides MSc degrees in Computer Sciences and Informatics Management, he has around 20 years of international and multicultural experience from the field and ample knowledge of standard IT management and control frameworks with special focus on personalized human motivation, team building and performance management. He worked for several international companies and he is currently working at IBM as the Technology Support Services Director and being a Subject Mater Expert of solution sales and cross industry specializations. As an Opinion Leader, his personal objective is to burn pictures in people’s mind via metaphors and visual stories in order to transform them to future e-Leaders, who understand technology evolution and the adaptation to everyday business environment.

Zoran Hrustic
Vice President, IBM Cloud & Cognitive SW
Central & Eastern Europe

Zoran Hrustic is the Vice President, IBM Cloud & Cognitive SW for Central & Eastern Europe. In the role he drives IBM’s entire Cloud business consisting of Hybrid Cloud SW, Cognitive SW, services related to it as well as Cloud Platform business in CEE.

Zoran has held number of executive positions within the company. Prior to his current assignment he was responsible for Hybrid Cloud SW for IBM on European Level. In this role, he oversaw teams focused on specialty areas like Cloud innovation and Runtime platform (PaaS), DevOps, IT Service Management, API management/Mobile APIs, Application Integration, Business Process Management.

Prior to that Zoran was VP of Analytics business for Asia Pacific. Responsibility included execution and management of IBM’s industry-leading data and analytics portfolio. That included analytics solutions tailored by industry; analytics and data management platforms; cloud data services; advanced solutions and services that combine cloud, analytics and mobile technologies. Prior to that he served as Vice President, Information Management Software Sales, Growth Markets. Previously he held numerous Software Leadership positions, including Software Business Unit Executive for CEEMEA and Tivoli Storage Software EMEA.

He joined IBM Croatia in 1992, where he held various technical, marketing and sales roles. Zoran has worked in diverse cultures and over last 20 years has lived and worked in Zagreb, Vienna, Dubai, Singapore, Madrid and is currently living in Prague.

Zoran holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Zagreb, Croatia - Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Goran Ljubej
Distributed applications support team lead, Zagrebačka banka

Dealing with computers professionally over 15 years now. Started as a web developer, shapeshifted into a role of system admin in 2010 when started working in ZABA. Trying to get a grasp of DevOps practices for the last 5 years, currently working as a Distributed applications support team lead.

Nenad Vidak
Central system applications support team leader, Zagrebačka banka

17+ years in ZABA ICT. Working mostly on IBM System Z (as DBA and system programmer) and on Big Data platform (system admin). Also interested and familiar with other IT stuff like programming (Java and Python), Linux system administration, databases/SQL (mySql, DB2 ... ). For last four years working as a Central system applications support team leader.

Laszlo Popovics

Laszlo has more than 20 years of experience in the IT field. The current primary focus is managing a pipeline from R&D to production and leveraging state of the art new technologies like AI and Blockchain with the standard highly available technologies. The current team has more than 100 professionals. The last challenge was to build an IT Culture, which attracts the most competitive talents and ability to create such a performant team within a 1.5-year timeframe.

Goran Golubović
General Manager, NLB, Slovenia

Banking and IT expert, successful manager with 20 years of professional experience.

Tomaž Borštner
Technology division manager at Bankart

Tomaž Borštner is the Technology Division Manager of Bankart. Bankart is a processing center offering wide range of services to banks in the area of card payments, Sepa payments , e invoices, instant payments, managing domestic payment systems, PSD2, etc. The company established in 1998 is located in Ljubljana and is owned by the banks. Bankart is offering services to many different banks in the region of Ex – Yugoslavia.

Tomaž has spent over 20 years in banking, focusing on IT services and solution in above described business areas. After couple of years working for Nova Ljubljanska banka, he joined Bankart. In his role he is actively involved in customer relationship, business development, managing relationships with important suppliers of business solutions and services, managing ITSM, ….

Tomaž holds a degree in Informatics from the University of Maribor, Slovenia - Faculty of Organizational Sciences.

Aleksandar Ciric
Security Technical Sales Specialist SEE, IBM

Security technical sales specialist focusing on the security intelligence solutions and the threat detection. Working with the IBM's SEE clients on the integrated systems for the modern security operations centers. Over 10 years of IT/Telecom experience on the senior engineering and security positions, leading technology implementations and security compliance projects. Avid reader and consumer of all things security on both sides of the fence - complementing red and blue teaming knowledge.

Dr. Martin Svik
Chief Technology Officer for Central & Eastern Europe, IBM

Martin is the Chief Technology Officer for Central & Eastern Europe. In his role he drives couple of growth initiatives Cloud, Data&AI and Blockchain. Martin is as well responsible for bringing innovation to clients.

Over his 12 year career at IBM, Martin has held various positions. Martin was driving Enterprise Content Management client engagements and leading Analytics Platform Technical Team in the past. Martin founded and grew the IBM Watson iLAB based in Prague into a world class rapid prototyping team to provide innovation demonstrations to our clients. In parallel, for the past 4 years, Martin has been an essential member of the IBM WW strategy team , reporting to IBM’s Chief Innovation Officer where he drove innovation projects with IBM’s WW top clients.

Martin has MSc. in Computer Science focused on Visualisation and PhD. (CTU, Prague) in Economy focused on ROI of IT projects as well as MBA (Warwick, UK) where he focused on IBM Entrepreneurship.

Marina Sokol
SAP Consultant, Atlantic grupa d.d.

Marina Sokol is SAP consultant in Atlantic grupa with 14 years of experience on several SAP implementation projects. She also gained expertise on international implementation and integration projects as project lead and solution architect. Her current role includes also RPA Solution Architect which will be topic of her presentation on IBM Think.

Marina is executive president of Croatian SAP User Group since 2012. This group enables members to share their knowledge and experience in using SAP technology, supports the relationship between SAP customers and SAP, and serves as a communication channel with SAP.

Attila Nagy
Technical Director at Hungaro DigiTel

Finished his studies as an economist in Budapest and MBA in Berlin. Worked in the past 20 years in IT/telco field at distributor, small and big system integrators (IT Services Hungary – member of T-Systems), a startup, the Hungarian Oil Company (MOL) and from 2016 Technical Director at Antenna Hungaria Zrt., which period included FINA WWC 2017. Since November 2018 Technical Director at Hungaro DigiTel Kft., which was the responsible role for IT security role at FINA Budapest.

Vladan Nikolić
Senior Managing Security Consultant, Security Testing Manager (EU) X-Force Red, IBM

Vladan Nikolic has been in the IT industry for more than 20 years as an engineer, system administrator and security expert. Experience includes different infrastructure technologies (networking, linux and windows), compliance with standards (SoX, ISO27001, PCI), software development, reverse engineering, penetration testing, application and wireless security, and a rich knowledge of digital electronics enabling him to successfully tackle most complex engagements. Since 2008 Vladan has worked as security consultant for IBM Professional Security Services taking part in various security related projects, mostly in energy, pharmaceutical, telco and finance sectors. He holds multiple industry certificates including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from (ISC)2, and Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE). Regular presenter at conferences (Defcon, Balccon, Recon...) on ethical hacking and security topics.

Filip Blazevski
Senior IT System Engineer/Administrator, NLB Banka, MK

Has over 11 years work experience in NLB Banka Skopje as part of the Information Technology Division with strong focus in networking and cyber security.

My main activities and reponsibilities in the Bank were:
- Planning, configuration, implementation and maintenance of network infrastructure and security;
- Design, configuration and maintenance of IP telephony;
- Monitoring, troubleshooting and root cause analysis of network connectivity, performance and security issues;
- Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of hardware and software issues;
- Web filtering and proxy administration;
- Design, configuration and maintenance of Wireless Infrastructure.

From December 2018 he is member of Security Operations Center established in NLB d.d Slovenia and is responsible for maintenance and configuration of QRadar SIEM system in NLB Banka Skopje, vulnerability scanning of IT assets and dealing with security issues in NLB Bank Skopje.

Ile Ristov
Sales Manager, InTec System

Ile Ristov has 15+ years of technical pre-sales and sales experience. Dedicated to Enterprise Security Solution Sales with focus on establishing ecosystem of cross-vendor partnership while engaging in digital transformation trough cloud technology adaptation mainly in Financial sector. His experience spans across various technology solutions, focusing on future-proof business operations with introduction of different platforms for costumers journey to Cloud & AI.

Iliyan Kotev
Head of Digital PMO in Eurobank Bulgaria (formally known as Postbank)

From more than a year, Iliyan is Head of Digital PMO in Eurobank Bulgaria (formally known as Postbank). Directly responsible for the execution of the multi-year Digital Strategy of Postbank. Postbank is one of the leaders in Bulgaria’s banking sector. The bank is a decisive factor in innovation, in shaping the country’s banking trends in recent years and award-winning for its innovation. Postbank occupies a strategic position in retail and wholesale banking in Bulgaria. Iliyan Kotev has more than 10 years’ experience in Banking area. He has lots of successful projects in all banking areas/domains. Big experience in Business Analyses and management of API and BPM teams.

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Jurica Jeličić
OSS/NMS Expert, T-Hrvatski Telekom

He is in telecom industry for over 8 years, all in the circle of analysis, development and quality assurance of users.
His current role from December 2016 in T-HT is NT/IT Systems Managment and Services QA Expert.
Working mostly on IBM NOI, on addition he works on development of solutions for monitoring the operation of systems and services.
He work on integration with other systems in NT / IT environment.
He has participation in the development of a system development strategy.
He administer and maintain network performance monitoring tools with help advanced analytics.
Analyzes, develops and creates reports from the NMS system, performs testing and training, and maintains and supervises the operation of the system.

Svilen Stanchev
Director of Sales at IBS Bulgaria

Svilen is acting as Director of Sales at IBS Bulgaria (IBS) - one of the leading IT companies in Bulgaria with a focus on the financial industry, analytics solutions, and system integration. Currently, IBS is executing key projects at leading banks related to digital transformation, PSD2 regulation, infrastructure upgrades, and information asset management. Svilen Stanchev has over 12 years of experience in the IT sector. His interests are related to infrastructure, API Economy and advanced analytics solutions that support the development of new digital business models.

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Damir Cedic
Deputy Director General for IT, CROSO

Damir is Deputy Director General for IT, Information Security Manager, DevOps, in Central registry of compulsory social insurance - Serbian Government, since 2016.
His responsibility spans from managing, developing and supervising complex IT infrastructure to Information Security management. In his previous roles, he managed teams of developers and system administrators, and was involved in developing company's security policies. He holds Master Degree in Computer and Information Systems Security. His area of interest is around AI and Big Data, as well as DevOps and CyberSecOps.

Boris Ederov
Head of Retail Credit Risk directorate, DSK Bank

Currently the Head of Retail Credit Risk directorate of DSK Bank, Boris Ederov is a credit risk management professional who is nowadays focused on improving and optimizing credit risk assessment and lending processes by means of development and implementation of real-time decision making, but also keeping sustainable level of risk undertaking. Boris has about 10 years of experience now in the field of credit risk management, mainly focusing on model development, validation and implementation, as well as credit risk related reporting and analytics.

Stoyan Vankov
Head Of Credit Risk Management SME Department and Product Owner, Raiffeisenbank

As Head Of Credit Risk Management SME Department he is working on finding the right mix between hard core banking and agile practices. Aside from focusing on credit risk management he is also involved in Scrum projects as Product Owner, which gives him a unique experience and insight into all areas of contemporary leadership and innovation.

Miloš Milovanović
Co-founder, Blinking

Miloš Milovanović, PhD is an entrepreneur and associate professor at the University of Belgrade. He is a multiple award winning scientist in the area of information technology. Miloš authored more than a 100 highly regarded journal and conference papers and is a long-standing member of ACM and IEEE Society. He authored one of the most innovative biometric human gait recognition systems based on structured lighting.

Currently, he is a Head of Innovation center for information and communication technology development at the University of Belgrade.

Miloš is a co-founder of an IBM partner company called Blinking and co-author of Blinking system, one of the first DID (digital ID) solutions on the blockchain which also features GDPR-ready storage and enterprise KYC system. He is also a founder of ProudSource IT, a successful cutting edge software development company.

Bernhard Götze
CIO, APLEONA

- Born in Mannheim/Germany on August 8th, 1966, married, two children
- Master of IT – Management (International Business School - ZFU Zurich/Switzerland)
- State-certified Engineer focused on IT (FS Neustadt/Germany)
- Over 20 years IT and management experience
- International responsibility since 2005

Broad experience in case of IT based business process optimization, improving of processes in IT departments and implementation of support and business processes between companies in different countries.

Ionut Bardasu
Enterprise and Data - Team Leader, Raiffeisen Bank, Romania

With efficient communication and a positive attitude, every transformation or change can be successfully implemented.

More than 19 years of experience in IT industry and 9 in the banking industry, outstanding sales skills, technical leader in many innovative ambitious digital transformation projects, key technical resource in various extensive and critical projects, strong banking industry technical background.

Executive MBA Distinction - Thesis - Cognitive Computing in Banking.

Milorad Bjelogrlić
Direktor Sektora za IT planiranje i digitalnu transformaciju, Telekom Srbija a. d.

Rođen 1975. godine u Sarajevu. Diplomirao na Elektrotehničkom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu na odseku za Računarsku tehniku i informatiku. Trenutno na MBA studijama na Fakultetu organizacionih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu. Profesionalno iskustvo sticao na nizu projekata razvoja informacionih sistema, kao aktivni konsultant u procesu uvođenja fiskalnih uređaja, zatim na projektima razvoja i implementacije sistema za naplatu i provisoining telekomunikacionih servisa. Kao senior inženjer učestvovao na projektima podizanja IPTV i internet provajding linija poslovanja u Telekomu Srbija.

Na poziciji je Direktora Sektora za IT planiranje i digitalnu transformaciju koji je odgovoran za portfolio IT projekata u Telekomu Srbija, definisanje i sprovođenje IT strategije kompanije, kao i pružanje ICT integratorskih servisa krajnjim korisnicima. Zadužen je za IT projekte na nivou Telekom Srbija grupe i saradnju sa poslovnim ekosistemom na IT inovativnim projektima. Pre ove pozicije je bio Direktor Funkcije za IT razvoj i integracije, Direktor Sektora za IT planiranje i integracije, kao i Šef službe za OSS/BSS razvoj u Telekomu Srbija. Član je Nadzornog odbora IT sistem integratora „mts sistemi i integracije“.

Ilija Lazovic
Executive Director of System Integration, Ibis Instruments

Ilija Lazovic is Executive Director of Ibis Instruments System Integration business unit. With vast ICT experience handling complex projects, large teams and biggest accounts in CEE region, he helped company to significantly grow its business and market reputation. In his current role, his focus is further business development by leveraging vendor partnerships, new disruptive technologies and their application on market of SEE within different industry verticals and strategic customers.

Prior to his current assignment he was Chief Technical Officer of Ibis Instruments group, where he was responsible for defining and execution of strategic initiatives, overall management of technical teams and broad portfolio which covers: Integration and Automation solutions suite, ITSM, Big Data and Analytics, Cyber Security solutions and T&M program.

His professional experience has developed on different positions within Ibis Instruments, starting from sales engineer through various technical consultant roles, up to leadership and management roles.

Ilija holds MSc. degree in telecommunication from University of Belgrade, Serbia - Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Currently he is on MBA program of University of Sheffield.

Zorana Brankovic
Head of Multichannel, Banca Intesa, Serbia

Zorana Brankovic is Head of Multichannel in Banca Intesa Belgrade. Born in Backa Palanka and graduated from Faculty of Organizational Scineces. She has over 16 years of expirience in digital banking and is one of the pioneers of e-banking in Serbia. Spent first 12 years of banking expirience in IT and during that time successfully led numerous projects in digital banking area. She introduced first Mobile banking app on Serbian market in 2010 and first Digital wallet in 2016. She has strong IT bankground and wide bussiness knowledge. She is also a member of e-government associsation and works actively with other professionals from banking and corporate world on digitalization of Serbia.

Snezana Ostojic
Business Partner, Societe Generale, Serbia

Snezana Ostojic is the experienced Project Manager and Business Analyst with over 12 years a demonstrated history of working in the banking industry.
She joined Societe Generale Serbia in 2016, where she held various technical, BA and PM roles.
Previously, she worked for several banks where she got to know different cultures of implementation of new technical solutions, as well as different approaches to clients. She is highly skilled in leading cross-functional teams, in simplification, automation and dematerialization of processes through implementation of business process management, as well.

Aleksandar Grčić
Head of Information Security Department in HALKBANK Beograd

I am currently engaged as Information Security Manager at Halkbank AD Beograd, and I am responsible for various and common security activities such as Risk management, Data security, Policy creation and maintenance, Regulatory compliance, security related Incident/Problem/Change management, Business continuity/disaster recovery, System and application security and BAU operational security activities.
My efforts are mostly focused on development of proper Security architecture within established and regularly maintained ISO27k-certified ISMS, but essential activity is related to leading and coordinating PCI DSS certification in current company combined with efforts to make current company GDPR compliant.

Roberto Furesi
Chief Security Officer, Unicredit Bulbank - Bulgaria

Profile:
Overall Banking sector experience especially in Organization for change management activities.
Roberto walked through the whole UniCredit Group changes during the last 30 years, having the opportunity to work within all the Organizational layers, starting from Network up to Holding Company level, experiencing the different sensitivity and complexity of any layer of the organization and the new UBIS Factory as well on IT Security services.
His goal is to provide new visions following the market changes aimed at satisfying both internal and external customer needs.

Some specialization:
Roberto managed International Projects like exporting the Integrated Security model of UniCredit across 12 countries.
He built up the remote control system of UniCredit Network as head of Security dep in UniCredit Italy.
Coordinate the Integration project of IT Security and Physical Security in UBIS.
Built up the Advocacy management model in UBIS.

Anders Johansson
Director EMEA Distribution and Emerging markets, Milestone, SEE

Anders Johansson has over 30 years of experience within IT and IP security working. Being part of the IT boom in the early 80s and part of the IP video from the late 90s, Anders has a great insight into the trends and future of video, both in security and beyond security. Anders has been working at Milestone Systems for more than 9 years and is part of the EMEA management team.

Goran Pavlović
Industrial Services Operating Director, INA, Croatia

Having more than 2 decades of experience in leading IT and business teams to create value by implementing new technologies. Recently focused on how digitalization drives development and engagement of employees as one of the key pillars for successful business transformation.

Marko Savkic
Manager for applicative solutions in IT Department of Petroleum industry of Serbia, NIS, Serbia

Marko Savkic is Manager for applicative solutions in IT Department of Petroleum industry of Serbia (NIS). He has 9 years of experience in the field of asset management where he led and participated in various projects such as RBI, RCFA, MoC, RCM and SAP integration. His main expertise is in EAM implementation, specifically in Oil industry (Upstream & Downstream), based on IBM Maximo solution for which he has an expert knowledge. Apart from the engineering background he gained wide knowledge in business analysis, IT analysis, operational reliability, business processes development and management reporting.

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