Corporate Innovation Conference

Nowadays, most corporations take innovation seriously. Everybody talks about innovation – we do innovation.

Individuals - purchase tickets via Eventim

About the Conference

Corporate Innovation Conference is a central annual event and meeting ground for all those who are interested in the subject of corporate innovation in Serbia.

This year’s Corporate Innovation Conference revolves around the slogan „Innovation Means Business“, which sends a clear message for the businesses and individuals that wish to use innovation and transform it to measurable business results, eater with the assistance of new technologies, finding new business models or lean and agile development of digital solutions.

Corporate Innovation Conference is much more than a one-day event. By attending the conference, you are becoming a part of growing Serbian innovation ecosystem, which brings together people, communities, business and technologies.

ICT HUB Corporate Innovation Conference is supported by the the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the ICT Hub as part of the Playground of Innovations project.

Individuals - purchase tickets via Eventim

Companies - purchase via invoice

Who should attend?

If you are the one responsible for innovation and growth in your company, this is the place to be.

Corporate innovators
Innovation teams
Products managers
HR professionals

Startup founders
Innovation Consultants
Investors

Benefits for participants

Learn about corporate innovation from global experts and though leaders

Gain insights about trending topics and the best cross-industry practices

Get familiar with the best innovation practices in Serbia

Connect and network with innovation experts, technology geeks and your peers

Engage in an open and honest discussion about innovation challenges

Conference topics

Corporate Innovation Conference is envisaged as a mix of the best global and local practices related to corporate innovation. Content-wise, three key pillars of the conference are:

“Startup way”

Corporate innovation inspired by methodologies, tools, culture and agility of tech startups. How can we help corporations “innovate like startups”? Speakers in this segment are keen practitioners of lean methodologies in corporate world.

Innovation Strategy

Strategic approach to corporate innovation: why and how should corporations define their innovation strategies, model of innovation management and tools for proper implementation of innovative projects (innovation practice). Speakers will be innovation strategists and consultants with proven track record of setting up innovation strategies within corporations.

Intrapreneurship

How to build innovation-friendly culture within organization, which will enable and empower intrapreneurs to become the driving force of internal innovation. Speakers will be innovation practitioners in corporations with success stories stemming from the change in organizational culture.

Speakers

Elliot Susel

Lean Startup | Product and Technology | Innovation and Growth

Elliot is a senior faculty member at Lean Startup Company, where he coaches executives and teams around the world on the implementation of Lean Startup principles. When coaching, Elliot pulls from his experience as head of product, technology, research and development, and growth across both startup and enterprise environments. Elliot's keynote:The nature of work has changed, but the structure of our organizations hasn't. Learn how to design your organization to deliver meaningful innovation

Marius Starcke

Partner, WhatAVenture Austria

Experienced Partner with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry.Skilled in Business Planning, Analytical Skills, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Planning, and BusinessDevelopment. Strong entrepreneurship professional.

Sonja Kresojević

Sonja Kresojevic is the co-author of The Lean Product Lifecycle; co-founder of Spinnaker, NY-London based consultancy and a former Senior Vice President at Pearson. She is a strategist, change agent and problem solver, passionate about transforming businesses by focusing on growth, innovation, cultural change, and digital transformation.

Sonja’s Keynote: Large enterprises facing disruption struggle to transform quickly enough—from becoming more innovative to improving processes, culture, and ways of working. In this talk, Sonja will be sharing her experience working with Fortune 500 companies and important role innovation strategy and supporting innovation ecosystem have to their ability to drive long-lasting change.

Héloïse Ardley

A former travel writer and editor in France, Héloïse fell into Digital a bit by accident when she was asked to lead the first Penguin Digital programme. From there, she has held a variety of roles across Technology, Digital Transformation, Product and Customer Experience, in Media, Publishing, Education and FinTech.

Héloïse's Keynote: Realising that they need to innovate to survive, corporations are setting up innovation programmes of all nature - the approaches might differ, but the goal remain the same: Get to market faster, without the weight of the legacy entreprise that slows innovation down. But without the right culture, innovation efforts will not deliver on their promise. Building the right culture, sparking the mindset change, changing leadership's attitude towards risk, and fostering talent and ideas are some of the softer, less tangible elements though they are critical to success. This session will mix a number of practical tips to hack Corporate cultures in order to encourage innovation, as well as a few good and bad examples to learn from.

Dušan Vukanović

Innovation and Business Development Manager @ICT Hub

Dušan Vukanović is innovation consultant, entrepreneur and lecturer. He has more than 15 years of experience in implementing various consulting projects in areas of human resources management, organizational development, strategic communications and innovation. In ICT Hub, which he joined in 2015, Dušan is in charge of designing and delivering programs that support large Serbian corporations on their innovation journeys. Dušan lead ICT Hub in transforming its deep experience and expertise in working with tech startups and the overall tech ecosystem, to become innovation partner to traditional companies and corporations.

Ljubiša Egelja

Executive Director Marketing, Societe Generale Srbija

After ten years of project management for local and regional brands, as a manager and director of a marketing agency, in 2016 he becomes part of the team that leads the digital transformation and redefinition of the traditional approach to financial services in Societe Generale Bank. He sees the advantage in resolutely turning to innovations, developing digital channels and in the necessary simplification of financial products and services of the bank in order to provide the best possible experience for clients.

Janez Križan

Director of Digital Transformation & Innovations @ A1 Slovenija & Vip mobile

Entrepreneur and challenge seeker at heart, who believes in turning ideas into reality. Responsible for digital transformation and innovation in A1 Slovenija & Vip mobile Serbia.

Ivana Mihajlović

Group HR Director, Direct Media

HR developer & enthusiast, dedicated to improvement of regional HR practice. She has a strong passion to innovate and is driven to pursue solutions, with a personal mission to help, inspire and positively influence development of people, organizations and HR industry.

Tatjana Jovanović

Director HR South East Europe at Philip Morris International

Tatjana is a psychologist with extensive experience in contemporary HR practices gained through numerous roles in an international environment. She is leading the change of organizational culture and implementation of new working models based on start-up way of thinking in order to support the company in further utilizing full potential of its employees. Tatjana's case: FastForward is our new way of working and mindset to tackle current and future business challenges in an increasingly connected and unpredictable world where we no longer know everything. A world in which digitalization has changed the face of business and where customers must be at the fore-front of everything we do. FastForward is a customer-centric and experimental approach, which will help corporation to be more innovative, stay more relevant and bring them the agility of a Start-Up.

Nebojša Bjelotomić

CEO Saga

Nebojsa graduated from Boston University with engineering degree (biomedical). In the past, he worked for IBM and Fujitsu-Siemens. Nebojsa started with engineering and sales positions and moved onto various management roles including regional positions. In the past couple of years Nebojsa lead Saga's management and helped the company focus on new technologies and products. Chatbots and AI are prominent in that effort and he is proud to say Saga has great technology solutions in production.

Đorđe Filipović

CEO at 30Hills & CTO at Buildcon

Đorđe Filipovic is the founder and CEO of digital studio 30Hills.com, which handles development of unique solutions for Web and Mobile through UX / UI, Development and Data Science. In his career he participated and developed over 30 startup projects, 6 of which evolved to successful companies. In addition to the startups, Đorđe also worked for a large corporation PPR Group with more than 30 e-commerce web sites around the world. Now, through 30Hills, it cooperates with large corporations in the digitization process such as SoGe Bank, PwC, LafargeHolcim, Mozzart, NELT, NIS, Alkemy and FashionCompany.

Milica Jović

CHRO at Nelt Group

As CHRO of Nelt Group, Milica manages all aspects of human capital management for more than 3,000 people across multiple markets in the Balkans and Africa. Her personal goal is integrating analytics into traditional HR and growing HR into an important decision maker and strategic partner to the business. Prior to joining Nelt in 2017, Milica was a management consultant at McKinsey, working on engagements in pharmaceutical industry across Western Europe and the United States. Milica is a graduate of Yale University.

Conference agenda

9.00 – 9.30
Registration

9.30 – 10.00
Conference opening

10.00 – 10.45
Keynote #1 LIVE STREAM by Elliot Susel, Lean Startup Co.

Startup Way – what corporations can learn from tech startups

10.45 – 11.15
Coffee break

11.15 – 12.15

Keynote #2: Aligning Innovation with Corporate Strategy by Sonja Kresojević Co-Founder | Advisor | Strategist | Innovator | Speaker | Author

12.15 – 13.00
Presentation: Building Intrapreneurship Culture by Héloïse Ardley Digital Product, Technology and Customer Experience expert

13.00 – 14.00
Lunch

14.00– 14.10
Announcement of the research: State of Corporate Innovation in Serbia

14.10 – 15.15
Panel: How corporations in Serbia Innovate with Ljubiša Egelja, Executive Director Marketing, Societe Generale Srbija, Janez Križan from A1 Slovenia and Vip Mobile, Ivana Mihajlović, Group HR Director, Direct Media Moderated by Dušan Vukanović

15.15 – 15.40

Case #1: How To Gain Conversions Within Your Bot’s First Month Of Deployment, Nebojša Bjelotomić, Saga Beograd

15.40 – 16.00
Cofee break

16.00 – 16.25
Case #2 Innovation in practice: Nelt case study, Milica Jović, CHRO at Nelt Group and Đorđe Filipović, 30Hills, Serbia

16.25 – 16.50
Case #3: Innovation in practice: Fast Forward case study, Tatjana Jovanović, Philip Morris International

16.50 – 17.30

Experiences of an Innovation Consultant – Marius Starcke, Partner, What a Venture, Austria

17.30 – 17.45
ICT Hub conference wrap up and closing

Nowadays, most corporations take innovation seriously. Everybody talks about innovation – we do innovation.

Individuals - purchase tickets via Eventim

Companies - purchase via invoice

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Technology partners

Media partner

Partners

Institutional partners

Belexpocentar

Španskih boraca 74, 11070 Beograd

Multifunctional Hall Belexpocentar (size 2500m2), it is completely suitable for organizing fairs, congresses, celebrations and exhibitions with multiple and separated exhibitors. It can be easily divided to smaller halls, with easy barriers, and it is completely covered with electricity. phone and internet installations trough media channels over the whole floor surface. Direct connection with hotel and flexibility of the hall are the main benefits in events organization and advantages of Belexpocentar Hall.

Ticket price:

150€ + VAT

For 3 or more purchased tickets by one company/individual, we grant a discount of 10%

Individuals - purchase tickets via Eventim

Companies - purchase via invoice

Nowadays, most corporations take innovation seriously. Everybody talks about innovation – we do innovation.

About the Conference

Who should attend?

If you are the one responsible for innovation and growth in your company, this is the place to be.

Corporate innovators

Innovation teams

Products managers

HR professionals

Startup founders

Innovation Consultants

Investors

Benefits for participants

Learn about corporate innovation from global experts and though leaders

Gain insights about trending topics and the best cross-industry practices

Get familiar with the best innovation practices in Serbia

Connect and network with innovation experts, technology geeks and your peers

Engage in an open and honest discussion about innovation challenges

Conference topics

Corporate Innovation Conference is envisaged as a mix of the best global and local practices related to corporate innovation. Content-wise, three key pillars of the conference are:

“Startup way”

Innovation Strategy

Intrapreneurship

Speakers

Elliot Susel

Marius Starcke

Sonja Kresojević

Héloïse Ardley

Dušan Vukanović

Ljubiša Egelja

Janez Križan

Ivana Mihajlović

Tatjana Jovanović

Nebojša Bjelotomić

Đorđe Filipović

Milica Jović

Conference agenda

9.00 – 9.30 Registration

9.30 – 10.00 Conference opening

10.00 – 10.45 Keynote #1 LIVE STREAM by Elliot Susel, Lean Startup Co.

Startup Way – what corporations can learn from tech startups

10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break

11.15 – 12.15

Keynote #2: Aligning Innovation with Corporate Strategy by Sonja Kresojević Co-Founder | Advisor | Strategist | Innovator | Speaker | Author

12.15 – 13.00 Presentation: Building Intrapreneurship Culture by Héloïse Ardley Digital Product, Technology and Customer Experience expert

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00– 14.10 Announcement of the research: State of Corporate Innovation in Serbia

14.10 – 15.15 Panel: How corporations in Serbia Innovate with Ljubiša Egelja, Executive Director Marketing, Societe Generale Srbija, Janez Križan from A1 Slovenia and Vip Mobile, Ivana Mihajlović, Group HR Director, Direct Media Moderated by Dušan Vukanović

15.15 – 15.40

Case #1: How To Gain Conversions Within Your Bot’s First Month Of Deployment, Nebojša Bjelotomić, Saga Beograd

15.40 – 16.00 Cofee break

16.00 – 16.25 Case #2 Innovation in practice: Nelt case study, Milica Jović, CHRO at Nelt Group and Đorđe Filipović, 30Hills, Serbia

16.25 – 16.50 Case #3: Innovation in practice: Fast Forward case study, Tatjana Jovanović, Philip Morris International

16.50 – 17.30

Experiences of an Innovation Consultant – Marius Starcke, Partner, What a Venture, Austria

17.30 – 17.45 ICT Hub conference wrap up and closing

Nowadays, most corporations take innovation seriously. Everybody talks about innovation – we do innovation.

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Technology partners

Media partner

Partners

Institutional partners

Belexpocentar

Španskih boraca 74, 11070 Beograd

Ticket price:

150€ + VAT

Time left

9.00 – 9.30
Registration

9.30 – 10.00
Conference opening

10.00 – 10.45
Keynote #1 LIVE STREAM by Elliot Susel, Lean Startup Co.

10.45 – 11.15
Coffee break

12.15 – 13.00
Presentation: Building Intrapreneurship Culture by Héloïse Ardley Digital Product, Technology and Customer Experience expert

13.00 – 14.00
Lunch

14.00– 14.10
Announcement of the research: State of Corporate Innovation in Serbia

14.10 – 15.15
Panel: How corporations in Serbia Innovate with Ljubiša Egelja, Executive Director Marketing, Societe Generale Srbija, Janez Križan from A1 Slovenia and Vip Mobile, Ivana Mihajlović, Group HR Director, Direct Media Moderated by Dušan Vukanović

15.40 – 16.00
Cofee break

16.00 – 16.25
Case #2 Innovation in practice: Nelt case study, Milica Jović, CHRO at Nelt Group and Đorđe Filipović, 30Hills, Serbia

16.25 – 16.50
Case #3: Innovation in practice: Fast Forward case study, Tatjana Jovanović, Philip Morris International

17.30 – 17.45
ICT Hub conference wrap up and closing