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Azfar Shah
- Chief Strategy And Data Officer
In his role as Chief Strategy and Data Officer, Azfar is responsible for Yettel Serbia’s AI agenda. His focus is to develop solutions that empower individuals and businesses, setting a new standard for impactful and purpose-driven technology. Azfar is passionate about using technology and AI to simplify lives, enhance productivity, and drive meaningful impact across communities. Azfar has been in the telco industry since 2006 in various roles but always working diligently to create practical, people-centered solutions that address real-world challenges and the needs of customers.
Journey to AI driven company
Azfar Shah
- Chief Strategy And Data Officer
Brian Wagner
- CTO
Brian is a seasoned expert in cloud technology and security, with over 20 years of experience in the industry, particularly in the global financial services sector. He has held senior leadership roles, including Head of Security and Compliance at AWS Financial Services EMEA, Director of Cloud and Security at a Silicon Valley analytics company, and CTO of a UK-based cyber security services provider. As CTO at Revenir, Brian leverages his expertise to build innovative products that meet the unique demands of the financial services industry, combining security, scalability, and reliability.
Brian Wagner
- CTO
Karen de Sousa Pesse
- Senior Executive
Karen De Sousa Pesse, a fervent advocate for diversity and inclusion, globally recognized for her leadership in STEM. Encouraging women to surpass norms, she is a sought-after international speaker, addressing various topics such as diversity, inclusion, data, and artificial intelligence. A graduate in nanotechnological engineering and holding a master’s in sustainable materials engineering from Ghent University, Karen has received nearly 20 awards for her outstanding contributions.
Karen de Sousa Pesse
- Senior Executive
Tom Van de Wiele
- Hacker | Speaker
Tom Van de Wiele is a cyber security authority, speaker, ethical hacker, advisor and consultant.
With over 23+ years of authentic, international consultancy experience in cyber security, his career has taken him from hacking power plants and ATMs, uncovering international industrial espionage rings, remotely taking over ships and mainframes, and training companies, law enforcement and journalists on how hacker techniques work – and how to defend against them.
As founder of Hacker Minded and drawing from his background as an ethical hacker for hire, Tom is on a mission to help create and develop cyber security culture within organisations that goes beyond compliance and technical solutionism, but through a better understanding of cyber security by givin talks, training and advisory work.
AI As The New Hacker Frontier
Tom Van de Wiele
- Hacker | Speaker
Brinnae Bent
- Executive in Residence
Brinnae Bent, PhD, is a faculty member in Artificial Intelligence at Duke University, a Responsible AI research scientist, and a startup advisor. She is a leader in bridging the gap between research and industry in machine learning, having led projects and developed algorithms for the largest companies in the world. More importantly, she has built algorithms that have meaningful impacts – from helping people walk to noninvasively monitoring glucose. Brinnae is an accomplished researcher and ML practitioner, with over 30 publications and a breadth of experience developing algorithms across domains including health/wellness, sports, privacy, interior design, and energy. Her research on digital biomarkers is world-renowned and her emerging work on Responsible AI strives to solve important problems in the application of AI to real-world problems.
Developing Responsible Digital Biomarkers
Brinnae Bent
- Executive in Residence
Amadeusz Andrzejewski
- Partner & AI & Data Leader for Poland
Amadeusz Andrzejewski is a Partner at Deloitte Poland, specializing in Data & AI transformations. With over 12 years of experience, he has led numerous large-scale projects across industries such as retail, telecommunications, and banking. Before Deloitte, he co-founded QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey Hub in Central Europe, driving AI-driven solutions for clients. Amadeusz has extensive experience in designing and implementing customer value management programs, with a focus on AI-driven segmentation, pricing optimization, and personalized product and offer strategies. He has successfully executed numerous transformations that have included recruiting tech talent, developing data science models, conducting business pilots, and scaling solutions to achieve full business impact.
Proficient in Python, R, Tableau, and Power BI, he leads data model development for both cloud and on-premise systems. He holds a Master’s in Finance from the Warsaw School of Economics and a Bachelor’s in Capital Markets from the University of Economics, Poznan.
Proficient in Python, R, Tableau, and Power BI, he leads data model development for both cloud and on-premise systems. He holds a Master’s in Finance from the Warsaw School of Economics and a Bachelor’s in Capital Markets from the University of Economics, Poznan.
Amadeusz Andrzejewski
- Partner & AI & Data Leader for Poland
Ido Engel
- Microsoft Cloud & AI GTM lead, SouthEast Europe
Jan Hejtmanek
- Partner, Deloitte CE
Jan is the Deloitte CE Intelligent Automation Lead and a member of the Deloitte Global Intelligent Automation Steering Committee. He is at the forefront of building innovative business-technology solutions and introducing them to major global organizations. With over 18 years of experience in business efficiency and technology adoption, Jan works closely with clients to re-imagine their processes for digital-first and end-to-end transformations. Jan also spearheads the Generative AI Market Activation in Deloitte CE, aiming to excite people about generative AI and identify the best applications for this groundbreaking technology. He is a public speaker and advocate for the ethical and reasonable use of AI. Jan has led several significant transformative projects with clients, demonstrating the profound impact AI can have on business operations.
Jan Hejtmanek
- Partner, Deloitte CE
Dragan Tomic
- VP of Engineering and Site Lead, Belgrade
Amie Bright
- VP Enterprise Data & Insights
Amie is an accomplished leader in data and analytics with more than 20 years of experience. She excels in aligning data strategies with organizational visions and harnessing state-of-the-art cloud technologies throughout the data lifecycle—from ingestion to advanced analytics and BI. Currently, she is Vice President of Enterprise Data & Insights at GitLab, where her team is dedicated to converting data into tangible value for the organization. Under Amie’s guidance, her team specializes in data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, advanced analytics, data governance, and data quality.
Data-Driven Success: Securing Executive Buy-In for a Game-Changing Data Strategy
Amie Bright
- VP Enterprise Data & Insights
Tobias Zwingmann
- Author & Managing Partner
Rana Gujral
- CEO
Rana Gujral is an entrepreneur and CEO at Behavioral Signals, a Cognitive AI company building essential building blocks of AGI with its acoustics-based deep learning technology. As a thought leader in AI, Rana often leads keynote sessions at industry events such as the Leap, DeepFest, World Government Summit, VOICE Summit, TNW, Collision, and The Web Summit. His bylines are featured in publications such as FastCompany, Inc., and Entrepreneur, and he is a contributing columnist at TechCrunch and Forbes. Rana has been recognized as among ‘Top 40 Voice AI Influencers to Follow’ by SoundHound, ‘Entrepreneur of the Month’ by CIO Magazine, ‘Top 10 Entrepreneurs to Follow’ by Huffington Post, and an ‘AI Entrepreneur to Watch’ by Inc Magazine. In 2022, the CEO Monthly listed him among the “Most Influential CEOs”.
Rana holds management, finance, and engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan, the University of Massachusetts, and MJP Rohilkhand University. Rana founded TiZE, a vertical cloud software that used ML models to predict commodity prices, and held the CEO role until its acquisition in 2016. Before TiZE, Rana led the turnaround of Cricut Inc. from bankruptcy to profitability and its eventual IPO. Previously, Rana held leadership positions at Logitech and Kronos Inc., where he was responsible for developing best-in-class products.
Fighting AI with AI
Rana Gujral
- CEO
DATA & AI TALKS
Miodrag Pesovic
- Head of Data and Intelligence
Miodrag has over 20 years of experience in IT banking in several different roles. He now leads a team specializing in data governance and data processing. The main focus of the team is on supporting businesses with a strong emphasis on the use of AI and creating a new model of data management connected to Data Mesh paradigm, maximizing value of Data in a fragmented and regulatory environment to boost meaningful insights towards Business and Customers.
Miodrag Pesovic
- Head of Data and Intelligence
Vera Krajniker
- Product Marketer
Vera is a Product Marketer at Mily Technologies, where she leads positioning, messaging, and overall marketing efforts to ensure Mily Tech’s solutions resonate with the market and make a lasting impact.
Product Marketing in early-stage SaaS startups
Vera Krajniker
- Product Marketer
Tomislav Strgar
- Head of TIS.AI Department
Tomislav Strgar, TIS Group, Head of TIS.AI Department, Project Manager, with 17 years of experience in ICT across various roles. He started as Java developer, continue as technical consultant and IBM DMS & BPM certified specialist working on PoC workshops, systems analysis, architecture and Java development issues resolving, business processes/workflows modeling. Last several years has focus on business development and project management but without leaving IT and technology overall. Since 2019 is researching AI field, preparing and managing AI team and AI projects, such as TIS’s AI product in healthcare, SENDD, System for Early Neurological Deviation Detection and Vineyard Angel, AI solution in agriculture/viticulture, and other LLM GenAI projects in different enterprises.
Tomislav Strgar
- Head of TIS.AI Department
Miodrag Vladic
- Co-founder & Lead Software Engineer
Fifty shades of Data & Analytics Strategy and 5 of Its Most Underrated Components
Miodrag Vladic
- Co-founder & Lead Software Engineer
Miodrag Pesovic
- Head of Data and Intelligence
Miodrag has over 20 years of experience in IT banking in several different roles. He now leads a team specializing in data governance and data processing. The main focus of the team is on supporting businesses with a strong emphasis on the use of AI and creating a new model of data management connected to Data Mesh paradigm, maximizing value of Data in a fragmented and regulatory environment to boost meaningful insights towards Business and Customers.
Scalable and Sustainable AI Infrastructure (On The Seabed)
Miodrag Pesovic
- Head of Data and Intelligence
Martina Naumovska Necheska
- Partner & Head of Data Science
Building Sustainable, Efficient, and Highly Intelligent AI Factories in Europe
Martina Naumovska Necheska
- Partner & Head of Data Science
Jovan Paunovic
- Founder & CEO
Jovan Paunovic is an experienced entrepreneur and executive, founder, and CEO of TREESURY, an agri-food ecosystem hub connecting farmers with investors through regulated tokenized securities and blockchain markets, addressing food security and climate challenges. He is a consultant with GLG (New York) and AlphaSights (London), with expertise in medical technology and digital transformation. Formerly CEO at GE Holdings and GE Healthcare for the Western Balkans, Jovan also founded VisMedic, Eastern Europe’s first telemedicine platform, and JP ICG, a boutique consulting firm. He mentors and invests across three continents, holding degrees from Bocconi University and Stanford University.
Startup Funding Demystified: A Playbook from a Serial Entrepreneur –
Jovan Paunovic
- Founder & CEO
Igor Zivkovski
- Local Partner (Serbia)
Legal Aspects of Investments in Startups