His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander officially opened the “Southeast Europe Innovation Summit“, as the patron of this conference dedicated to innovation and development. For all managers in the field of innovation, this is an opportunity for networking, creating useful business connections and launching of topics of great importance for business improvement, digitization, new technologies and investment in new businesses.
“Southeast Europe Innovation Summit is a great event, with the aim to initiate the dialogue on technological society development. That is necessary for the economic growth and progress of the south eastern Europe region, as well as for attracting new investments and fresh capital for the development of Serbia. I am glad that the representatives of state institutions, the European union, corporations, investors, academia and the start-up founders have gathered here today. I hope they will all contribute to raise the awareness of the start-up ecosystem development importance. We all have to present Serbia and the Balkans as a region that has many benefits for investments in this line of business. We have to keep pace with the world and bring our society in accordance with the most modern standards. On that path, you can always count on my full support”, said the Crown Prince in his speech.
The representatives of the most successful companies, institutions and brands spoke at the conference about the progress and technological development of the country and the region, while the European Startup Showcase presented the most innovative start-up company in Europe.
Panel discussions opened some of the key issues in this area: will Belgrade in the near future become the centre of innovation in the Southeast Europe? What is the concept of Smart Living and how the world is changing with smart technology; how the state and the community can foster innovation and how the digitization process contributes to it.
The conference was also addressed by Mr. Mirko Tadic, founder of Bridgeway Accelerator, Mr. Amir Raz, director of Hi-Tech Group Shenhav & Co, Mr. William Carbone, cognitive solutions manager at IBM, Matt Kuppers, CEO in the Startup Manufactory, Mrs. Marika Mazzi Boehm, H2020 expert from the European Commission, Mr. Zeljko Petrovic, Senior Manager of NFR Sourcing from Ahold Delhaize, Mr. Aneesh Zutshi from NOVA University, Mr. Alexandar Rapatz, Member of the European Super Angels Club, Ms. Isabel Airas, representative of Serbia in Climate-KIC Serbia.
