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:// Jasna Matić Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society: Jasna Matić was born in Belgrade, where she studied and received a degree in civil engineering from the Faculty of Civil Engineering. She has completed postgraduate studies and earned an MBA from the Washington University in St Louis, USA.
At the beginning of her professional career Ms. Matić worked for five years as a construction engineer and project manager in Belgrade, where she designed and coordinated implementation for a number of industrial, business and public facilities.
She has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank in Washington D.C. where she coordinated analysis of ICT readiness, i.e. Digital Gap for more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.
From 2001 to 2002, Ms. Matić was special advisor to the Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister. She coordinated implementation of several complex projects and conducted negotiations with the European Commission, the World Bank and other international financial institutions.
Between 2002-2004, Ms. Matić was engaged as the chief national competitiveness advisor for Booz Allen Hamilton on the USAID project aimed the improving competitiveness of Serbian economy.
From 2004 to 2007, she was the Director of Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA). During that period SIEPA was recognized by several international organizations as one of the best promotion agencies among the developing and countries in transition.
In May 2007 Ms. Matić was appointed to be the State Secretary for International Economic Relations at the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development. She was in charge of foreign trade, multilateral and bilateral international economic relations, as well as competitiveness and quality infrastructure. She was Serbia’s lead negotiator for the WTO membership.
With more than fifteen years of experience in public service, international organizations, Serbian and international business and political environment, in July 2008, she was elected Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society.
She speaks English and Italian fluently, and has a basic knowledge of German.
:// Alex Sass Renegade Media, Head of Digital: Alex Sass has 11 years experience managing global online projects including a number of the best known dot coms. Early projects included providing services to Lastminute.com and Nokia Europe. For five years Alex has focused his skills on social media, deploying online communities in the lifestyle, pharmaceutical and trade sectors. His theory "Social, Spatial, Self theory for building cult networks" has been used many times as the foundation for major launches including work for The Arts Council of England and The DTI.

At Renegade he fused his seeding, SEO and social media marketing expertise with traditional PR, to create international digital PR campaigns for leading international brands ensuring they had a presence across influential blogs and forums. As co-founder of JakeTM, he launched and managed the world’s largest social professional network within a lifestyle group and introduced lifestyle targeting through social media to companies including Levis, Micorsoft, Cap Gemini and UBS. In 2010 he launched the world's first free airline funded by marketing alone.
:// Jure Šusteršič Nokia, Business Development Manager: Operating from Espoo, Finland, Jure manages business development activities in Forum Nokia EMEA. He acts as a mediator and consultant to (innovative) companies in their Nokia related go-to-market activities. He focuses on both business and technology support in getting companies their Nokia/Ovi based products to market successfully. In addition, in his role he has helped many startups reach their goals by developing win-win relationships that included Nokia and it's network of partners and coops (Mobile Operators, Brands, VCs and others). His latest area of activity is centered around areas like Augmented Reality (AR), Near Field Communication (NFC) and Mobile Web among others. His history with Nokia began as a developer offering product manager for the S60 platform. Before settling at Nokia he was involved in several internet startups and also spent some time as an independent consultant in the SME space. He holds and MBA in High Technology management at Helsinki School of Economics.
:// Jan Kobler RSG Capital, Venture partner: Jan Kobler (31) is the managing director of Levana capital management, a company advising a regional VC fund looking to invest capital in SMEs in the region. Jan has 8 years of operational experience in finance and investments, and has been cooperating with numerous companies in the field of business development, sales, organization and finance. He is active in several entrepreneurial ventures, which he started either on his own or in a partnership. He gained some experience in internet investing with the company Pravi klik d.o.o., which operates a real estate vertical search engine in 6 countries of the region, where Jan served as a supervisory board president from January 2008 until June 2009. He also started 2 projects on his own recently – an on line publishing business SerbiaDaily.rs and portal MalaPlaneta.rs. Prior to that, Jan was a partner in a regional VC fund Poteza Innovation and Growth Fund B.V. and board member in the company Ocean Orchids d.o.o. Jan studied economics in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Leipzig, Germany.
:// Kristjan Mar Hauksson Nordic eMarketing, Founder and Director of Search & Online Communications: Kristjan Mar Hauksson is the Founder and Director of Search & Online Communications at Nordic eMarketing. The company specialises in multilingual online communications, organic search engine optimisation and marketing through several verticals such as tourism, finance, government and pharmaceuticals. Nordic eMarketing assists companies to gain international visibility online and to use the Internet as a communication channel, as well as providing consultation in web content management systems and analytics solutions.

Kristjan is on the board of directors for SEMPO.org, the founder of the Iceland SEO/SEM forum and a published author on the topic of Internet marketing.

Kristjan studied electrical engineering at Reykjavik Technical College in Iceland and has a degree in Systems Analysis from the Computer and Engineering Schools of Iceland and an Internet marketing degree from the University of British Columbia.

Kristjan has been involved in developing Internet solutions since 1996, and involved in search engine optimisation and marketing since 1999.
:// Vladimir Milisavljevic Front, General Manager
:// Damjan Arsovski Blueliner, interactive marketing consultant: Damjan Arsovski is Interactive Marketing Consultant at Blueliner Marketing (http://www.bluelinerny.com), one of the industry’s fastest growing internet marketing agencies. With offices in New York, Bangladesh, and India, Blueliner follows "The World is Flat" business model of efficient, 24/7 implementation and ROI-centric Internet marketing methodologies.

Damjan Arsovski is also a Co-Founder of IWM Network (http://www.iwmnetwork.com), mix between interactive agency and consulting company that operates from Macedonia. Through this company Damjan serves as interactive marketing and e-business consultant for many local and global businesses. He is also the Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of the Macedonian portal for information technology IT.com.mk with mission to educate, promote and support the IT potential in the region.

Damjan specializes in interactive marketing, branding, viral/buzz marketing, web development and analysis, user experience (UX), internet communities, social and online media, e-commerce, SEM/SEO and online market development.
:// Dejan Cvetković EkspertLink, CEO: Dejan Cvetković (33) is the director of start-up ExpertLink, innovative Internet service that aims to mediation in contract work. ExpertLink facilitates the procedure for connecting employers and contractors, and encourages competitiveness..

Dejan Cvetkovic has developed numerous projects for clients of which some Adriatic Cruises, Uni traffic, Kepler Institute, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, Rijeka Tourist Board.

Looking for new ideas, during the past year, he worked on the development of internet services EkspertLink.
:// Ivan Trajković SAM Information Technologies, CEO: Ivan Trajkovic, 30, after graduating from Nova Southeastern University in Florida, leaves for Europe where he settles for four years working as a Software Engineer for well known Internet based businesses such as Monster.com and BWIN.com. Late in 2008 he moves to Belgrade where he employs his vast experience in developing and designing fast, secure, and scalable Enterprise Web Applications into a Web startup business under the name of SAM Information Technologies (http://www.enginee.rs). His established reputation places sound clients to the company's portfolio, such as Austrian Chamber of Commerce and Austrian National Television. Today, he is leading SAM IT team of developers and designers who pride themselves on using modern agile workflow and industry best practices to craft modern solutions that are as elegant as they are enjoyable to use.
:// Dušan Uzelac Kamatica.com, CEO: Dušan Uzelac (32), founder and CEO of Dubes doo involved into bringing top quality IT solutions to its clients. With experience gathered while working for the clients he went from idea through realization to the visited and profitable website in Serbia. Financial website Kamatica.com, with which they have achieved considerable success, rised up as a practical use of knowladge gathered while working for clients. Kamatica brought all-in-one website to the serbian internet scene, which gives full respect to the concept of web as an independent business platform.
:// Srba Jovanović IPRA Board member: Srba gives lectures on Public Relations and Media Relations at five Faculties of three universities in Serbia, as a guest lecturer by invitation: at the post-graduate studies at the University of Arts, Faculty of Economy, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Faculty of Management, Faculty of entrepreneurial management, as well as on numerous PR seminars. He is also a speaker on international PR conferences.

Srba has a proven experience in full-servicing major international clients. His last two positions were: Managing Director for Serbia of the regional PR agency with offices in Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia, and before that, the Executive Director for Serbia of the pan-European PR consultancy based in Austria, with affiliates in Croatia, Czech Republic, Latvia, and Serbia.

He was a first President of the Public Relations Society of Serbia, and until 2008 member of its Managing Board and Court of Honor. He is now Board member for the term 2010-2011 of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA) and was National Chair for Serbia of IPRA in two terms, by 2009. He was member of the Public Relations Society of America as of 1998.

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