Daniel Bilić Radio Host, Yammat FM, HR

Daniel Bilić started his radio host career at the morning programme of the Plavi radio, where he made sure his listeners started their day in great spirits for 15 years. In 2016 he moved to Yammat FM.

Along with his successful radio host career he’s a well-known TV personality. In 2012 he became host of Robert Knjaz’s TV show “Rekonstrukcija” (“Reconstruction”), in 2013 he joined RTL’s entertainment show “Kamikaze”.

In 2017 he joined the fourth season of the popular TV show “Tvoje lice zvuči poznato” (“Your face sounds familiar”) as one of the candidates.

In June 2018 he took over as the host of RTL’s game show “Pet na pet” (“Family Feud”).

He is a great fan of motorcycles and travel, and his dream is to travel the Azure coast down to Barcelona by motorcycle.

Ermin Preljević Radio Host, Otvoreni radio, HR

Born and raised in Zagreb, Ermin is a radio host and TV personality. When he does not live and breathe basketball, he watches movies obsessively, or spends his time doing anything creative – writing, talking, recording.

He works as radio host at the Otvoreni radio and also hosts the music show PopRock.hr on HRT2.

David Skerrett Founder and CEO, Think Go Digital, UK

“The only constant these days is change.” David is an independent digital consultant with over 140 awards, 20 years’ experience and an expert in customer experience, tech and marketing. He works with agencies, brands, ad techs and startups to crystallise and advise on their digital and experience strategies. He runs workshops and research’s the customer in new and innovative ways to unlock unique opportunities. He also guest lectures at Universities on topics such as Service Design and Disruptive Innovation.

He helps brands to adapt to the business opportunities presented by new technology and behaviours. David has worked in digital for all of his career, and been involved in mobile for 12 years.

He’s a “T” shaped marketer with depth of experience in CX & Mobile, and breadth in the world of cross-channel communications. He was named by the Drum in the Digerati 2015 & 2017, top 25 most influential people in digital.

He works with clients globally to deliver great work that works. And occasionally – that work wins awards (well 140 times in his career so far, he says he’s been lucky).

In this role running Nimbletank, the UK’s most creatively awarded mobile agency, David led media, client service, strategy and innovation. In doing so he worked with clients such as ASOS, Universal and the BBC.

Previously, David led R/GA’s Mobile Social Platforms offering for EMEA where he worked with Coca-Cola, Telefonica, Nike, Beats by Dr Dre, Diageo, Getty, Heineken and Unilever. He also developed the agency’s global mobile strategy framework.

David was also Head of Mobile & Social for Havas EHS, and has worked at agencies such as Syzygy, Proximity London and Agency Republic.

He has led many award winning projects with recognition from Cannes Lion, D and AD, One Show, Webby, MMA, and BIMA.

David has judged for the Drum, EMMA, AOP, and MMA Smarties Awards, and has also spoken at events such as IAB, OMMA Mobile Europe, MMA, TEN, Digital Travel, Cross Media, and IPEX.

He’s also been on the MMA EMEA Board of Directors, and is a guest blogger for Econsultancy.

Nick Bićanić CTO, RED6, USA

Nick is a filmmaker and a technologist who mixes left brain and right brain work on an ongoing basis – he is equally at home on an MMA fighting mat, a unix command prompt, a mast-high crushing north swell, behind the controls of a helicopter, convincing a board about strategic changes of direction, field-stripping a SIG 552 Commando blind-folded or inventing new paradigms in mobile phone user interface design.

At age 16 Nick’s high school project was selected by the Nobel Foundation for a Young Scientist Nobel award. After finishing his undergraduate work at Cambridge University. Nick was awarded a full PhD scholarship to use Laser Photoacoustic spectroscopy to discover why pipelines in Alaska rust.

He abandoned the PhD and returned the full scholarship because he solved the problem in the first few months which rendered him somewhat uninterested in continuing single-track academic study. He was 20 years old at the time.

Nick sold his first successful startup at age 25. He is a serial entrepreneur and is considered one of the leading Mobile Product visionaries in Silicon Valley.

He has successfully raised Venture Capital rounds as CEO and Head of Product from multiple Silicon Valley luminaries including Google Ventures, Bullpen and ProFounders.

An accomplished storyteller – he wrote, directed and produced the 4-time LEO award winning feature length documentary “Shadow Company” – a unique insight into the secret world of modern day soldiers for hire. He also produced “The War Against Boko Haram” for VICE News and published his first book – “Executive Outcomes” – a graphic novel based on his script of the same name.

While he continues to push the fields of storytelling forwards in Frameless Media (AR/VR/MR) his main focus today is as CTO of RED6 – an Augmented Reality Aerospace company.

Nick is a helicopter pilot, a ski and windsurfing instructor and holds patents in the fields of video streaming and VR.

Geneva Loader Head of Digital Planning and Transformation, RS components, UK

Geneva Loader has over 9 years’ digital marketing experience with a background in technology, social, web development, media strategy and marketing efficiency. She is a category specialist across retail, beauty, entertainment, eCommerce and youth marketing consulting global brands in multiple markets.

Geneva is a fiercely passionate digital ambassador with a thirst for knowledge and the first to try something new. She creates meaningful connections in her industry through her Australian down to earth approach and creative thinking.

Piotr Bombol CEO, Gameset, PL

Economist, winner of NBP President Award for the best master thesis in Poland. First in DDB& Tribal, he was responsible for digital strategy for McDonalds, PLL LOT, T-Mobile. After that in Delloite Digital he was responsible for digital transformation processes. Speaker on IAB Forum, DDB Academy, Esport Forum, Game Industry Conference. Winner of multiple Effie awards.

Scott Gould Author, The Shape of Engagement, UK

SCOTT GOULD is the author of The Shape of Engagement, and a popular speaker on how people engage with ideas, brands, organisations, and each other.
A former church pastor, amongst other things, Scott champions the cause of real connection in a world where so much is only skin-deep. As a consultant he has advised some of the world’s biggest brands and oldest organisations on nurturing highly engaged customers, employees, and community members.
His book deconstructs and demystifies engagement through a series of shapes, based on nine years of research and testing across a range of sectors and scenarios, spanning from aviation to education, and from sustainability to zoology.
Scott is also a poet, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and UK Chair of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance.

James Williams Founder & CEO, MrConnectivity, UK

James Williams is the Founder and CEO of MrConnectivity, a consultancy practice having Mobile Engagement as its principal focus. Clients include Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), content Aggregators, API companies, Messaging Hubs, Technology vendors and Enterprises. James founded MrConnectivity five years ago, leveraging over 20 years’ Telecommunications experience. Much of his time now is spent guiding MNOs globally and helping companies develop comprehensive Mobile Engagement strategies and multi-channel product suites that can be used for both Inbound and Outbound. Technology alone is not the ‘silver bullet’ and a holistic approach is required. Companies bring their brand and MrConnectivity helps with the rest.

Saša Tenodi Professor of social pedagogy, NLP Croatia, HR

Saša Tenodi is a professor of social pedagogy, the only regional NLP coach under the original licence, educated in the United States of America under Dr Richard Bandler, and the creator of the NLP community in Croatia. In 2016 he graduated from the Grant Cardone University, the most popular sales academy in USA at the moment.

He founded several projects with the goal of learning and networking: Dynamic presenters’ club, NLP Hooligans club, as well as NLP camps aimed at implementing various skills such as skiing and snowboarding in the winter and wakeboarding, windsurfing and sailing in the summer.

This prolific activity earned him the place among top 30 Customer Experience professionals from a British web portal in 2016.

In 2010 and 2011 he was awarded Superbrand certificates as one of the best service providers in Croatia.

Kristijan Gregorić Adriatic Region Managing Director and Partner, VALICON, HR

Kristijan Gregorić got his diploma and specialization from the Department of Economics at the Luigi Bocconi University in Italy, focused on marketing and international business.
After finishing his studies, he starts his career in marketing at Nestlé Italia, where he goes through all the steps, from Sales Promoter, Brand Manager, all the way to Director of Marketing, Sales and Distribution. Nestlé brings him to the Adriatic region as Regional Sales and Marketing Director.
Kristijan continues his regional commercial career in Adris, Heineken, Atlantic Group and Franck Group where he successfully positions brands and companies, and develops business and brand value.
This rich commercial experience provides him with excellent manoeuvring skills across multicultural environments. Although a passionate strategist, he is fore mostly motivated and guided by results.
Today he is the Executive Regional Partner at Valicon, where he is responsible for the entire business development, stronger positioning with strategic clients in countries of the region and management of Adria Region offices.

Davor Bruketa Creative Director, Bruketa&Žinić&Grey, HR

Davor Bruketa is the Creative Director of the advertising agency Bruketa&Žinić&Grey, which serves as a digital shopper hub and brand, product & retail design hub within the international network of Grey ad agencies.

The agency has won over 500 prizes for advertising and design.

Before entering the Grey group, Advertising Age has pronounced the agency as the international small agency of the year 2013, and Campaign listed them as one of the leading independent agencies in the world in 2014.

It was ranked the second most efficient independent agency on the global Effie efficiency index in 2012.

Bruketa is a permanent jury member for the New York Crest Awards and was in the jury for other prestigious contests in the field of market communication, such as Red Dot, D&AD London, New York Festivals, Graphis, Young Guns, Hiiibrand. Additionally, he was the first south-European jury member for the London International Awards.

He regularly teaches students of design and market communication in Croatia and the world.

Nikola Žinić Chief Creative Officer, Bruketa&Žinić&Grey, HR

Nikola Žinić is the Chief Creative Officer of the advertising agency Bruketa&Žinić&Grey, which serves as a digital shopper hub and brand, product & retail design hub within the international network of Grey ad agencies.

The agency has won over 500 prizes for advertising and design.

Before entering the Grey group, Advertising Age has pronounced the agency as the international small agency of the year 2013, and Campaign listed them as one of the leading independent agencies in the world in 2014.

It was ranked the second most efficient independent agency on the global Effie efficiency index in 2012.

Nikola has worked for major Croatian advertisers and brands, such as Podravka, Ledo, Ožujsko Pivo, Kraš, Zagrebačka Banka, Tele2, Atlantic Grupa, Hrvatska Pošta, PIK Vrbovec, WWF and many others.

Nikola held the position of the Creative Director of Brlog, specialized digital agency that was part of Bruketa&Žinić OM from 2010 to 2015. Since then, he also holds the position of the Creative Director at Zagreb Be There mobile app, which won the Tourism&Strategy award for the best digital communication project in Paris. He was a jury member for Euro Effie and Effie Croatia, as well as many other national and international competitions.

Tajana Belina Head of Creative, ClickAttack, HR

Tajana has been at the head of ClickAttack’s Creative team for 5 years, delivering highly engaging mobile campaigns to mobile users in the entire region and creating digital strategies for ClickAttack’s clients. Her creative team delivers integrated mobile campaigns which follow the mobile user throughout the entire marketing cycle.

She has a Master’s Degree in journalism from the University Department of Croatian Studies at the University of Zagreb. However, instead of working in the media, Tajana’s path lead her to the world marketing, where today she has over 10 years of experience. This has equipped her with a wide arsenal of techniques which she employs to get users to engage with campaigns – enticing copy, engaging visuals and breath-taking interactions.

Her creativity extends through all areas of her life – creative campaigns are just a part of it. The proof can be found in the second season of Croatia’s The Voice, where Tajana finished as a semifinalist.

She’s been with the NTH Group for over 7 years, which has allowed her to expand her knowledge to various digital technologies, from connectivity, to affiliate and digital marketing.

Ivan Skender Senior Business Transformation Director, A1 Croatia, HR

Ivan has over 17 years of international experience in the telecommunications and IT industry in Central and Eastern Europe.

Before joining A1, he held various executive positions at Deutsche Telekom Group, the last one of which was Marketing Director for Slovak Telekom’s B2B and Cloud/ICT segment.

At this position, he was responsible for the development of the B2B segment on the Slovakian market and the telecom’s transformation into a Cloud/ICT service provider.

Ivan graduated from the University of Zagreb in 2001 with a degree in electrical engineering, obtained an MBA in 2006 at the IEDC-Bled School of Management, and completed business education programmes at European business schools such as the ESMT Berlin, RSM Erasmus and others.

Mario Lovrić Managing Director, UM Zagreb & UM Ljubljana

Mario Lovrić is a an experienced media agency professional with over 12 years of experience in agencies and media. He is driven by great enthusiasm and passion towards media business and he is a big fan of team work. He’s focused on results and giving great attention to relationships with teammates, clients and partners.

During his career he gathered experience in all segments of the business, from media negotiations & sales, team management, client service for some of the biggest clients in the SEE region, analysis & research to strategic & tactical planning.  He has been using that experience to efficiently lead UM teams in Zagreb for the last 4 years and Ljubljana for the last 2 years.

Ilija Brajković CEO, Kontra digital agency, HR

Ilija Brajković has been active in the Internet scene for years, and has devoted himself to digital marketing for the past 9 years. A geek in his soul, his life took him down the path he enjoys even more. Today he’s a partner in the Kontra digital agency, where he manages clients and fans.

He worked as community manager for the most famous Croatian start-up, ShoutEm, where he managed a community of users from all around the world. After that, he worked with major clients, such as Microsoft Croatia, Zagreb Tourist Board, Suzuki and Renault.

He regularly talks at conferences and seminars in the country and abroad, and is always among the best rated speakers.

Relja Jović Chief Digital Officer, I&F Group, RS

Relja worked at I&F Grupa for four years as Director of MRM Worldwide, before deciding to test his great digital knowledge and managerial skills abroad. He was regional director at Wunderman-Menacom in Jordan, which employs 170 professionals and operates throughout the Middle East. There, he fundamentally contributed to its’ rapid development into the largest digital agency in that part of the world.

Relja has extensive experience in working with international teams and a deep knowledge of strategic processes. In I&F Grupa Relja is in charge of Drive agencies in all the countries in which they operate or will operate, as well as for the overall digital transformation of I&F Grupa. Together with colleagues from Drive, UM, Initiative and McCann, he will work on further integration and digitization and the development of innovative services.

Boris Rogan Managing Director, Luna\TBWA Zagreb, HR

Boris was educated and graduated in the field of International marketing, communications and advertising. He additionally specialized in numerous educational programs like FCB Rising stars, NLP for business, Ciceron public presentation skills, Building a successful brand at Prague business school, etc.

After graduation, Boris joined 2 A.M. / FCB Zagreb where he worked on Renault, Dacia, Volvo, Grawe and OMV, both locally and regionally. He moved to Grey Worldwide Zagreb in 2011, where acted as team leader for VIPnet, Erste, Wiener Insurance, Pepco, Telekom Austria Group, Kraš, Huawei, Barilla, OVS and other brands. Boris currently runs the Luna\TBWA Zagreb office as Managing director.

With almost 20 years in advertising, Boris follows digital trends in advertising and the impact of new technologies on communication platforms. He is curious in how the future will shape our everyday life. And advertising, too.

Gordan Kreković Management Advisor, Visage Technologies, HR

Gordan Kreković is a management advisor at Visage Technology, a company specialized in the computer vision technology that is a leading provider of face tracking and analysis solutions. Gordan has a PhD in Computer Science and more than 8 years of experience in managing software products, teams, and departments

Before joining Visage Technologies, Gordan worked in NTH Group, AdCumulus, and Bellabeat. Gordan started his professional career as a Product Manager in NTH Group and became a Head of Product Management after two years. The next step was a CEO position at AdCumulus, a company within NTH Group focused on developing software for mobile and online advertising, where he managed various strategic and operational aspects and scaled the company from the first customer to the break-even point. While leading the Data Science team in Bellabeat, Gordan created a concept of an AI-powered chat-bot for health and worked on multiple machine learning algorithms for smart devices.

Gordan is also an active independent researcher with 16 published scientific papers and continuous engagement in the scientific community.

Amila Prašljivić Digital Promotion Channel Manager, BH Telecom, BIH

Observer, analyst, visionary. For the past 4 years, Amila has been working as the Manager for digital promotion channels in BH Telecom, telecom operator with over 2 million users. She first entered the telecommunication industry 13 years ago, and since then has been learning and developing her knowledge and skills. She truly grasped her love for data and the industry by working as marketing research manager for nearly 5 years. After that, she moved to promotion, with the focus on digital communication channels.
Today, she concentrates on following industry development and the implementation of new ways of communication with the end user, which undeniably places the focus on using new digital solutions with the goal to achieve the best connection with the market and users. She considers the question of user experience to be the frame of future marketing communication.

Amila has a Master’s Deegree in Economy, specialized in marketing.

Vlaho Kaminski Director of Business Development, NTH Group, HR

Klod Kolaro VP and General Manager, Comtrade System Integration International, SI

As well as holding the position of VP and General Manager at Comtrade, Klod is a professor at the Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration – FEFA with the University of Belgrade, where he teaches “Strategy of Digital Transformation” and “Big Data and advance analytics”.

Before Comtrade, he was the Senior Director, Country Manager at Oracle for Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro, a position he earned after 10 years at Oracle, and held for 8 years.

He is currently attending Data Science specialization at the Johns Hopkins University program and holds an Executive MBA from the University of Edinburgh Management School.

Hajdi Cenan COO, DRAP, HR

Hajdi Cenan is the COO of DRAP, the most-awarded digital marketing/tech/innovation agency in Croatia. For the past year and a half, they’ve been actively promoting and implementing AI in Croatia, by holding free educations in machine and deep learning, co-organizing meetups and AI conferences, and working closely with clients on their specific problems. She is also the co-founder and COO of vHealth Lab, a HealthTech startup that uses artificial intelligence to help save lives of cardiac patients, as well as one of the co-founders of the non-profit association PWN Zagreb, which is part of the larger global network that works on promoting gender-balanced leadership.

Jan Snajder Associate Professor, FER, University of Zagreb, HR

Jan Snajder is an Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb and a member of Text Analysis and Knowledge Engineering Lab (TakeLab). TakeLab specializes in natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, text analytics (aka text mining), and data mining. TakeLab’s mission is to help people make sense of often large amounts of unstructured data expressed in natural language. Many of TakeLab’s research efforts involve cooperation with partners from the industry and academia, including cross-disciplinary collaborations with humanities and social sciences, as well as work with many enthusiastic students. Jan’s research focus is on lexical semantics, information extraction, and social media mining. He has been a visiting researcher at Heidelberg University, Stuttgart University, NICT in Kyoto, and University of Melbourne.

Ejub Kučuk CEO, MITA Group, BIH

Throughout the 25 years of his professional experience, Ejub has been a Sales Agent, Marketing Manager, TV Producer and the youngest Publicis Groupe country manager (at 28). He successfully managed 4 big advertising networks under one roof (Publicis, Saatchi&Saatchi, Leo Burnett and ZenithOptimedia) for over 10 years.

Ejub worked with the biggest international companies – Procter&Gamble, Nestle, L’Oreal, Renault, Toyota, HP, Nokia, Samsung, T-Mobile, Sc Jonson Wax, etc.  He successfully ran 4 winning election campaigns in 6 years (2010-2016). He has invested in tens of companies in the last 20 years – production, print, publishing, digital media, web publishing.

Today, Ejub is a strategic consultant in advertising, PR, social media, crisis communication, political advertising and reputation management. He’s passionate about startups & entrepreneurship helping. For the last 7 years he has been focused on social media advertising and investing in different platforms.

Amar Čusto Print International Director, Studio Moderna d.o.o., SI

Goal oriented and highly motivated Print specialist with more than 9 years’ experience in sales and marketing. Skilled in marketing management, advertising, sales, leadership, database marketing and sales management. Amar has remarkable experience in Print and SMS advertising and strong sense for business development.

Marko Črne Head of Digital, OMG, HR

Marko is the Head of Digital in Omnicom Media Group Croatia, with 12 years of experience in online media and advertising. He started his career in media, beginning as a journalist and soon making the switch to sales. He joined OMG in 2010, and his experience also includes leading marketing and user acquisition in the fast-moving mobile gaming industry.

During his career he worked for clients such as Renault, Beiersdorf, Henkel, McDonalds, A1, Kaufland, Hewlett Packard, Molson Coors and many others.

Sanja Đekić Head of MBA, Mediacom CE Zagreb, HR

Since entering the world of digital marketing 14 years ago, Sanja has been holding senior management positions in international companies Adlink Media Croatia, Publicis Group Zagreb and Mediacom CEE Zagreb, part of WPP group.

Her career focuses on digital media, digital communication and digital brand management. Her client portfolio is a mix of tourism, where her roots are, telecom, finance and FMCG brands, and Sanja helps them integrate digital into their marketing strategies.

Amer Kadić Managing Director, ClickAttack/NTH Mobile, BIH

Every brand has stories to tell – stories that will not only engage, inform, surprise, delight, and impact their audience, but that will also deliver on measurable business goals. Amer is the conduit between the brand and the consumer.

His specialties include digital media, mobile advertising, premium SMS and SMS marketing.

He holds the position of Managing Director of NTH Mobile and ClickAttack in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 2018 he started his own influencer marketing agency, SEE digital, where he’s the CEO. At SEE Digital, they are not only specialists in different types of digital marketing – they know how to bring it together by working with influencers directly.

Davor Gerbus Managing Director @SEEDigital / Native Digital Influencer

Davor Gerbus is one of Central Europe’s most popular influencers and YouTube vlogger known for the joint channel thelazyWAVE that he shared with his friend Petra.

He now posts vlogs and lifestyle videos to more than 450K followers.

He first made his entry into the social media world with Instagram in the summer of 2012, two years before the creation of his own YouTube channel. Throughout his YouTube career he’s been traveling the world, acting in online teen series, recording songs and hosting live shows and events.

As Managing Director in a Digital Marketing agency, Davor helps brands and businesses combine the influencer strategy with other forms of social media.

Ana Stamenković Social & Community Manager, NYX Professional Makeup / L’Oreal Adria-Balkan HUB

Ana was born in analog and has been growing up in the digital world. While studing Public Relations and Corporate Communications, she became a digital native which gave her wideness and opportunity for combining formal education with personal interests. As a marketing and communication specialist, Ana believes that quick adaptation of new trends is the key asset for brand success.

At this moment, Ana’s every day story is Social & Community Manager of NYX Professional Makeup, well known leader in the makeup industry with headquarters in Los Angeles. As the brand belongs to L’Oréal S.A. company, Ana is part of L’Oreal Adria-Balkan HUB, covering 9 countries of SEE region.

NYX Professional Makeup is known as a pure digital brand and their whole strategy is built on influencer marketing, so Ana will tell us how exactly strong relationship with influencers and following social media trends can drive a retail business.

Before joining L’Oréal S.A. company two years ago, Ana was working for more than 20 brands in various fields as copywriter, idea maker and communication manager. Samsung Electronics, Aura Kozmetika, The Coca Cola Company, Serbia Broadband, Mondelez International, Drina Plastic are just some of clients that can be found in her portfolio.

Ivan Brezak Brkan Founder, Netokracija, HR

Ivan is the founder and editor of Netokracija who started his tech-journalistic career writing for TechCrunch and various Croatian tech/business magazines but also advising companies like Microsoft and Kolektiva on their internet presence. Forbes has called him “The internet aristocrat” in its special “Generation 2013” issue. Ivan has also been a startup mentor and advisor at Hubraum, Seedcamp, Eleven, Shift Split, How to Web and others, as well as being the director of Netokracija’s own RockPaperStartups and OMGcommerce conferences. As a speaker, Ivan has talked in front of audiences of 500+ people; at both tech and business conferences. Ivan is a member of the new media commission of the Croatian Olympic Committee.

Igor Vukasović Corporate Communications Director/Manager, Addiko Bank, HR

Igor Vukasović has been performing the role of Addiko Bank Croatia’s Corporate Communications Director/Manager since 2011. During 2015/2016 he also had an extended role, and as Head of the Group Corporate Communications oversaw the communication operations in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Austria, and was in charge of the communication aspect of the Group privatization and rebranding. He has an extensive PR agency experience consulting some of the biggest Croatian and international companies.

He graduated journalism from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb, completed a leadership and management program at IEDC BLED and a communication management program at London School of Public Relations.

Igor is a published author of several academic papers and articles dealing with the topic of corporate communications, brand, reputation and destination management.
Since 2009 he is a permanent guest lecturer at the Faculty of Political Sciences, and as of 2014 a professor at Edward Bernays College.

Iva Ančić Marketing Manager, Addiko Bank, HR

Iva has, for the past couple of years, been running the marketing department of Addiko Bank Croatia and has been working in banking for more than 15 years. During this time she worked on 100+ campaigns and has 2 big re-branding projects under her belt.

She graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubrovnik, Croatia, where she got a degree in Management, while she got a master degree from Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb where she studied Marketing. Currently, she is working on her PhD which focuses on strategic repositioning of international financial institutions.

Iva is also an assistant lecturer at the Edward Bernays University College where she teaches about brand and reputation management.

Marko Lukičić Co-founder, Acquaint / Board member, Jadranka d.d., HR

Marko Lukičić is co-founder of Acquaint, an AI based company. Amenity Recommender, based on a proprietary AI platform, is at the core of Acquaint’s offering – helping hotels to increase revenues by intelligently identifying guests’ interests and matching it with hotel amenities.

He is also a Board Member of Jadranka Group – the fifth largest hospitality group in Croatia – where he is responsible for digital transformation and technology.

Daniela Ivanova Business Development Manager, Viber, BG

Daniela Ivanova is a Business Development expert with over 6 years of experience in the start-up and tech industries. Currently she works as Partnerships Manager for Central and Eastern Europe at Viber, working to develop a holistic ecosystem of partners across the region to serve millions of users with the best content and valuable services they love.

Previously,  Daniela worked as Marketing Manager for SoundCloud’s global operations in Berlin. Heavily influenced by the start-up community and entrepreneurial spirit, Daniela returned to Bulgaria to support the development of local businesses. As a young professional, she participated in different projects about innovation in the digital space, the last one in South Korea in 2012: New Media in Youth Culture.

Daniela has graduated with honours from The Hague University in the Netherlands, with degree in International Business and Management, and later she specialises in Digital Strategies for Marketing at New York University in the USA.

Ana Tkalac Verčič Full Professor of Marketing communications and Public Relations, University of Zagreb, HR

Ana Tkalac Verčič, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Marketing communications and Public Relations at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Throughout her career professor Tkalac Verčič has received numerous awards, most recently – Mijo Mirković, the award for her public relations textbook and GrandPRx, the award for the development of public relations as a profession. She has published more than 100 scientific papers in various academic journals. She has authored, co-authored and edited numerous books including Public Relations Metrics: Research and Evaluation (with B. van Ruler and D. Verčič; Routledge 2008). Professor Tkalac Verčič is also a member of the editorial committee of the „International Journal of Strategic Communication“, “Journal of Public Relations Research” and regional editor of „Public Relations Review“. She is a former Fulbright scholar and the recipient of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations diploma. Professor Tkalac Verčič has participated in several national scientific projects such as “Development of strategy for building the image of the Republic of Croatia”.

Juraj Hrvačić Consultant at BCI Group GmbH & Co. KG, HR

Juraj Hrvacic is a consultant working for multiple radio stations all around Europe. He is an expert on all things radio.

In 2007 he led the team that created Antena Zagreb – first formatted station in Croatia. From 2008 to 2012 he was responsible for the program of Antena, Narodni and Totalni FM.

From 2012, in Croatia, he is consulting for Otvoreni radio and across Europe for more than ten different radio brands from Germany, over Czech Republic to Serbia.

He has hands-on experience in program, sales, and management. The only thing he didn’t do was to stand in front of the microphone.

Lately, his main work focus is helping radio brands transit into the digital audio era.

Nikola Kapraljević COO, Infinum, HR

Infinum is an independent design and development agency. The company helps funded startups and established brands build digital products. Nikola Kapraljević acts as the Chief Operating Officer at Infinum.

After graduating at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, he started his career as a software developer at Infinum, where he’s been involved in delivering mobile and web solutions for a wide array of clients. As the company grew, he transitioned to project management, and currently holds a COO role where he’s in charge of company-wide planning and delivery.

In his free time, he likes spending time with his daughter Nika and dog Nera; he’s a fan of sports cars, champagne sabering, and salsa.

Boris Smolek CEO, AdCumulus, HR

Zvonimir Pelko Senior Sales Manager, Tportal, HR

Zvonimir Pelko – Zvone is a young expert in the advertising industry, with a strong background in media strategy, media products and market-oriented communication. In past 10 years switching from traditional media TV and print to digital has given him a wider picture and understanding of communication processes and the customer behavior as well as understanding of advertising market and all ones included.
When talking about Media buying, he will stress out the importance of understanding the target group (not just who they are but why and how do they respond to advertising stimuli) and will say that there is no need for complicating things — we have to be simple, but we must not forget all of those things affecting Media Buying — from basic understanding of media to the creative solutions and their effect on efficient and effective communication.
He now works at Tportal as a one stop solution maker for his clients — weather they are media agencies or advertisers them self. He is known for his honesty and his clients know him as the one without hidden agenda. The one that always pushes the boundaries and brings challenging ideas on the table.

Luka Posedi Head of Online sales, UNIQA osiguranje, HR

Luka Posedi is head of online sales in UNIQA osiguranje with 13 years of experience in insurance. He is in charge of planning and managing the internet and social media campaigns. He successfully leads all corporate online activities – including web pages, intranet, microsite, B2B portal, social networks and much more.

During his career in UNIQA he was involved in all digitalization processes from the beginning, knowing that clients are looking for products that are available immediately, including insurance. He was the project manager for webpage redesign and last year he successfully managed a client portal. This year he launched the first insurance webshop for SME in Croatia. He is now working on new communication channels with clients, which will be introduced soon.

Luka graduated from The “Baltazar Adam Krčelić” College of Business and Management and gained extra education at Web marketing academy.

Paula Sikirić Instagram Influencer, HR

Paula attended the Health care institution in Zagreb, specialized in physiotherapy. After that she attended the University of Applied Health Sciences in Zagreb, furthering her specialization in physiotherapy.

She started her Instagram profile in 2012, and started actively working on it in 2017,when she reached 10k followers.

She has worked as a TV and radio host.

Today her profile has over 60k followers, while she has realized many collaborations and ambassadorships.

Andrea Pančur Digital Content Media Manager EMEA, FOREO, HR

Andrea Pančur is Digital Content Media Manager EMEA in FOREO, managing 17 countries in Europe with her great team. This required her to lead the team, be
creative and organizing, proactive, develop the strategy for the company and constant improvement.

Her creative team is producing as much content as they can with influencers, bloggers, publishers, music and video production.

She has over 6 years of experience in digital marketing with a background in pharmacy, sales, marketing agency, specialized in content creation, influencer marketing, bloggers. She’s a big fan of storytelling and native advertising.

Vanda Christ Web Marketing Manager, Emmezeta, HR

Vanda was born in Zagreb, where she finished the University of Economy Sciences. She has been working in retail for a long number of years, and in online for about 10 years.

In these 10 years she worked on various projects, developed and used different online channels for communication with customers, including social networks, which are where she is specialized.

As the most important project in her career, she mentions creating and leading one of currently largest and most awarded web shops in Croatia.

Sarah Josipović CEO, S2 group, HR

Sarah is the CEO and Managing Director of S2 group, whose main business area is event management. Their portfolio contains S2 PR, agency for public relations, Wall.hr lifestyle portal and projects such as Food Film Festival and Gastro Music Fest, of which she is the director and initiator.
With 14 years of work experience in event management and media relations, as well as project director for Fashion Week Zagreb, she has acquired many skills and abundant knowledge.
Her client portfolio mostly includes clients from the fashion, beauty, tourism, hospitality and FMCG industries, and could all be placed under the common denominator of “lifestyle”. However, in her career she has worked with client the likes of Hok insurance, Zagreb Bank, institutes such as IRMO and financial funds like Prosperus.
She has graduated from the University of Economy Sciences in Zagreb and holds a Master’s Degree in marketing. She continues to improve her knowledge and skills every day.

Lorin Nukic Instagram Influencer

Lorin Nukic is an Instagram Influencer that moved to Zagreb when she was 10, where she finished elementary school as well as high school. She also finished music school in Zagreb, and now she studies at the Zagreb University.
Lorin has been practicing gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics her whole life, as well as studying drama. Here lie the origins of her love for camera and recording.

Uniqabot Chatbot Assistant, UNIQAbot

UNIQAbot begins his long and fruitful career as a chatbot assistant on this year’s DAMconf. His primary job is to ensure everybody can participate in the prize game – sponsored by UNIQA.
If you see him, don’t be shy. Take a selfie together, wish him luck for his first day on the job and win a valuable prize!