Dejan Ljuština
Dejan Ljuština is a leader of the PwC regional team for management consulting in charge of business management. In the South-East Europe region, Dejan is in charge of telecommunication and media sector within PwC, and in Adria region he leads the PwC energy sector. He belongs to highly-skilled personnel in the field of operational restructuring, strategy, market regulations, efficiency management and M & A (mergers and acquisitions), in large part implemented in complex business contents of regional blue-chip companies in the sector of telecommunications, media, energetics and retail. Dejan established a powerful international network of professionals on the grounds of his competencies, client management, and exceptional professional knowledge in the industry, and therefore he is a regularly sought-after guest-lecturer at key international business events in a wider region. Furthermore, he is a regular columnist of the leading regional magazines. Before joining the PwC team, he spent eight years in Deloitte, and three years as a project leader in the association Intel Corporation, where he lead the team of software programmers, working at the development of Intel’s “Itanium Family” processors. He started his career in Ericsson. After graduating from the Faculty of electronics and computer science in Zagreb, he acquired a master’s degree in economy and business management at IEDC, Management School (MBA) at Bled in Slovenia.

Goran Karadžić
For ten years (since 2004) he has been a member of the Republic Broadcasting Agency (RRA). He possesses a degree in media management, and started his professional career in 1984. After one year, he got employment at “Glas omladine” (“Youth voice”), which later grew to become a political magazine “Stav” (“Poise”). He worked for Novi Sad’s “Dnevnik” and its publications (Editor-in-Chief of the “Europreduzetnik”), and later he launched several editions in a privately-owned company. After just two issues of the “Status” magazine, Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was dissolved, thus the market fell apart, and “Status” ceased to exist. During a six-year period he published a weekly “NS Nedeljnik” (“NS Weekly”), local newspaper in Novi Sad, and later moved to the position of a director of Novi Sad’s television station “Apollo”. During his mandate, he completed an Irex course in management in TV stations, according to BBC standards. He worked as a trainer throughout stations in Serbia and elsewhere in the region. After his election to the RRA Board, he no longer works as a trainer with TV stations. His mandate at RRA Board will expire at the end of the next year.

Goran Milić
Goran Milić, director in charge of news and programme at Al Jazeera Balkans, is a long-time journalist, editor and director of many media houses, including TV Beograd, YUTEL, Mreža, OBN, HTV. He was a host and editor in over 1.000 television news programmes, and author of over one hundred and twenty documentary and travel shows. In 2007 he was proclaimed journalist of the year in Croatia, he received a “Sixth of April” award of the city of Sarajevo in 1992, and an award “Svetozar Marković” in Serbia in 1987.

Aleksandar Šapić
Aleksandar Šapić is a Serbian politician and former water polo player. He possesses a PhD degree in industrial management. He was born on June, 1st 1978 in Belgrade. He is regarded as one of the best Serbian water polo players ever. He won the gold medal at the World Championships in Montreal in 2005. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 he won silver, whereas he won bronze medals in Sydney in 2000 and 2008 in Beijing. After the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, he withdrew from the national team and became an assistant to the Mayor of Belgrade. He was elected President of the City board in the Democratic Party in Belgrade, on July, 3rd 2011. His role of Gangula in the legendary Serbian film “Kad porastem biću kengur” (“When I grow up, I’ll be a Kangaroo”) from 2004 is well-remembered. Starting from June, 27th 2012, he is a Vice President of the New Belgrade Municipality.

Dejan Turk
After graduating from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in marketing and finances in 1995, Dejan Turk was employed by McDonald's Slovenia where he began his career as a restaurant manager and finished as the CEO of the chain of restaurants in Slovenia and Croatia. He joined TAG in August 2004, when he became the head of marketing and sales at Si.mobil. In August 2006 he was appointed Member of the Board responsible for market operations and from March 2007 to February 2014 he was the Chairman of the Management Board of Si.mobil. He took over position of CEO/CMO Vip mobile as of March 1 2014. In May of 2014. In addition, in May 2014 he was elected the Member of the Supervisory Board of A1 Telekom Austria AG, a member of Telekom Austria Group. Dejan Turk is the winner of many prestigious awards for the 6-year successful management of Si.mobil (Excel 2009, Manager of the year 2009, Award for the Top Achievements in Slovenian Business and Economy for 2013). He is also a President of the Managers’ Association of Slovenia and Chairman of UNICEF Foundation in Slovenia.

Nenad Milosavljević
Nenad Milosavljević is one of authors from the satirical internet portal Njuz.net, and takes part in the scenario team within the television show “24 minutes with Zoran Kesić“. He is a journalist by profession, but has earlier engaged in economics and music related journalism. He acquired professional experience in the “Biznis” daily newspaper, “Ekonom: east” weekly, and a number of other online and offline magazines. Completely out of the blue, he found himself in the satire genre. He adores music and internet, and beside Njuz, he spends time around his two blogs and collaboration with the economics magazine “Nova ekonomija”. He graduated from the Faculty of political sciences, and later discovered that you do not learn about journalism at faculty, but in the journalists’ office.

Marina Kosanović
Marina Kosanović was born with an Aquarius zodiac sign, the same year when Rocco Granata conquered the world with the song bearing the same name. Behind her, there are almost three decades of professional life in journalism. During that period, she has thoroughly become acquainted with editorials, and business side to the “last spiritual adventure”, as her journalism professor Sergej Lukač once described journalism. She graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, and started her career at the publishing house “Politika”, the “Bazar” magazine, where she worked for a number of years as a journalist and editor. Her texts have been published in the “Student”, “Politika” daily, magazines “Ana”, “Pop rock”, “Rock”, “E magazine”, FAAR... For over ten years, she was an executive organizer of the “Lice godine”, national final of the competition “The Look of the Year”. She is the author of titles and concept of the oldest fashion award “Bazart”, which is nowadays granted at “Belgrade Fashion Week”. She is the author of the book “Naš takozvani život: fenomeni devedesetih” (“Our so called life: nineties phenomena”), which represents somewhat of a testimony of tilted reality, which was lived by the Serbian society over the last decade of the twentieth century. In the year 2004, she participated in launching of the new publishing house, which was started on the Serbian market by the Finnish-Dutch media company ”Sanoma”, with the aim to launch planetary popular licensed magazines in Serbia. The first title launched by “Sanoma” was ELLE, the best-selling fashion magazine in the world, with Marina Kosanović Stefanović – the first Editor-in-Chief of the Serbian version of ELLE. Four years later, from editorials she moved to the business side – at the publishing house “Adria Media Serbia” working as a director for editions such as ELLE, “ELLE Dekor”, ”Sensa”, ”Gala Style”, ”National Geographic”, ”Lisa”, ”Mama”, ”Moj stan”... She gained further professional development in London, where she finished a MBMC course at the prestigious FIPP. Mother of two teenagers, she is living in Belgrade, exercising power based hatha yoga. She works as a freelance media expert. With absolute respect to digitalization, she still believes in magazines.

Lea Stanković
Lea Stanković works at the agency Communis DDB as a digital creative manager. Beside cooperation with international and local clients, such as Knjaz Miloš, Bambi, Heineken, Amstel and others, this year Lea completed the Berlin School of Creative Leadership. She is the author of a number of articles on the subject of digital communications, whereas her texts have been published at internet portals Media Marketing, Forbes.com and Huffington Post.

Amira Medunjanin
She was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on April 23rd 1972. From the beginning of her career, she has been looking for appropriate approach to interpretation and presentation of traditional music of the South-East Europe, aiming to focus on that part of our art from the perspective of a modern world surrounding us. Her admiration to the beauty of the region’s oral tradition made her devote herself to creating a specific artful expression, which does not belong to music trends, or compromises, in order to fit in the current music schemes. Through her work with professional music bands, and many concerts, she has successfully represented this region’s culture, namely traditional Balkan music, at the World Music scene. Her excellent command of the English language eased the presentation of a unique concept of projects in the Western Europe and elsewhere. Music journalist Garth Cartwright called her “Bosnian Billie Holiday”, thus comparing the way that Amira plays with “sevdah”, finding new context and form in a years-old tradition. She was awarded with a prestigious award “La plue belle voix feminine 2012” (The best female vocal in 2012) by the Orange Foundation (France, Marseille, Babel Med Music festival). She was a guest vocalist at Bal-Kan album: Honey and Blood, by the famous Catalonian artist Jordi Savall, with whom she actively cooperates and performs around the world. In the previous ten-year period, by her own assets, she published four albums, encompassing music heritage of Bosnia-Herzegovina, with regional perspective. After making a guest appearance at “A Secret Gate” album by Mostar Sevdah Reunion, Amira Medunjanin recorded her debut album “Rosa” for “Snail Records”, in 2005. The album received rave reviews in Great Britain and around Europe, appearing among the nominees and winners of “the album of the year” selections. The album was proclaimed album of the year by music critic (Clive Davis, The Sunday Times) in Great Britain. Above all, the album contributed a lot to promotion of regional countries in the Western Europe, and their music tradition worldwide. Furthermore, publishing the album in the Western Europe, made an easier approach to the world music scene for other musicians from this region. The aim was fully reached, with focus on promotion of a unique artful expression for South-East European countries. In April 2009, Amira published an album “Live” for “Gramofon”. The album contains recordings from her concert held at the Bosnian Cultural Centre within Jazz Fest Sarajevo in 2008. The same year, she made another step forward, by publishing already recorded studio album “Zumra”, prepared in collaboration with internationally acclaimed accordion player Merima Ključo. The album represents innovative approach to the regional music tradition, connecting applied accordion with arrangements of traditional melodies, verses and vocal performance style. The album was recorded in CMP studio, the sound being recorded by Walter Quintus, which gave it a unique touch. The album “Zumra” received Bosnia-Herzegovina’s music award “Indexi”. The famous publishing house “Harmonia Mundi” published it for the entire world. The album “Amulette”, also published by the same publishing house “Harmonia Mundi”, was done in collaboration with the following artists: Bojan Zulfikarpašić, Bachar Khalife, Nenad Vasilić, Kim Burton, Walter Quintus and Vlatko Stefanovski. The album “Amulette”, realized in 2010 / 2011, received rave reviews in distinguished magazines around the world, such as The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, Observer, etc. It was proclaimed Top of the World music publication internationally, by the distinguished British magazine “Songlines”. The latest album, “Silk and Stone”, published by “Aquarius Record” for the region, was recorded in a studio of a small concert hall “Vatroslav Lisinski”, and published in May 2014. It was the result of collaboration with Bojan Zulfikarpašić, who is at the same time the album’s producer, and also Boško Jović, Nenad Vasilić, extraordinary Turkish instrumentalists, Hakan Gungor - kanun and Yurdal Osman Tokcan - oud. Excellent young contrabass player from Croatia, Stjepan Horvat, appeared as a guest on the album. Yet again, “Harmonia Mundi” recognized high-quality, and published the “Silk and Stone” album internationally.

Dragana Đermanović
Dragana Đermanović is an international PR practitioner and lecturer. She owns a consulting firm PRpepper and is an honorary member of the jury for granting the prestigious SocialMedia Awards for 2011, on behalf of the European Public Relations and Research Association (EUPRERA) and Euroblog Association, jury member for granting the ICT awards for Europe in Luxembourg, as well as honorary ambassador of the WebIT board of Internet practitioners of the South-East Europe. She is an advisor for strategic online communication and a researcher in the field of implementing Internet communication platforms in corporative communications.

Jovana Gligorijević
Since 2002 Jovana Gligorijević (1983) has been a journalist in the weekly “Vreme” (“Time”), where she covers a wide range of subjects, including new media and a freedom of speech on the Internet. In the “Vreme” magazine, she edits certain sectors of the Web site www.vreme.com, and is at the position of a community manager on social networks. In the period from 2008 until 2010, she was at the position of an editor of the section on European integrations on the Web site b92.net/Srbija2020. In addition, she is holding the position of the assistant to the editor in the business magazine “CorD”, the only publication of such kind which is published in Serbia in the English language. Since March 2014, she has been a member of the Executive Board of the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia. Since 2012, she has been among the alumni at the INTAJOUR Academy, Academy of journalism in the digital world, where she specialized in Web journalism and multimedia. She has undergone this programme as one of thirty-six scholarship bearers around the world, scholarships provided by the Bertlesman foundation. She collaborated with the media such as Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), Elle, the Croatian Forum Tjedni Magazin and 24sata.hr, Danas, and others. As a journalist-researcher, or a co-author, she has worked on many documentary films, produced by “Vreme Film” and “Medija Centar Beograd”.

Zoran Torbica
Executive of Twitomania. Has earned livelihood from the Internet since 2001.

 

Dražen Mavrić
President of the Management of Nova TV. Dražen Mavrić has been on the leading position in the first Croatian commercial television since 2005. Before managing the media group, he built his career in KMPG Croatia, as a consultant and financial advisor in big privatization projects, and as a member of the crisis management in one of the leading companies of the industry, where he was in charge of supervision of financial consolidation and company restructuring. Nova TV Group with Dražen Mavrić as its leader, has undoubtedly become a leader on the Croatian media market: making the informative and entertainment programme with the widest audience, and successfully launching contents of its own production to the international market. It launched a specialized channel, which currently draws most viewers, and dictates trends in the field of online media.

Istok Pavlović
Istok is an expert in internet marketing and so far he has achieved tremendous results in this field. He is a cofounder of the Agency for internet consulting “Like Media”, and possesses rich experience in consulting and fabrication of internet strategies for some of the best – known brands in Serbia. Currently, he is involved in a big marketing and presentation project for the company “Mainframe 2” from San Francisco. He launched several internet sites on domestic and global market. As a promoter of the idea of viral marketing in Serbia, he created several successful viral campaigns, which gained media attraction. In 2011, he was proclaimed the most influential blogger in Serbia, voted by readers at the BlogOpen event. He graduated from the Faculty of Electrotechnics in Belgrade, but has never used that diploma.

Branka Maletić
Since 2006, she has held the managing director position with the agency Media S Starcom MediaVest Group in Belgrade. During 16 years of professional experience, and while working on markets throughout the region – she has cooperated with clients such as P&G (HAOR for Slovenia, and Croatia for a period of time), Toyota Adria, Gorenje, Samsung, GSK, Atlantik grupa, Knjaz Miloš, United Serbian Breweries, and many others. She is a lecturer for specialized studies at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. She holds a degree from the Faculty of Electrotechnics.

Bojan Rendulić
Bojan Rendulic is a CEO of media agency Initiative FB. He has had perennial experience in all aspects in the digital media business: he has lead an internet portal, worked on clients' side, and as of 2009. he is the head of one of the leading digital media agency. Bojan has participated in numerous projects in Internet advertising, from the stage of communication strategies development to the analysis of return on investment, for clients such as: The Coca-Cola Company, L’Oreal, Carlsberg, and many others. He is acknowledged professional lecturer and regularly participates in many significant conferences in the field of the digital industry

Slobodan Djinović
Slobodan Djinović is a founding shareholder, member of the Board of Directors and the current CEO of Orion Telekom. Orion is a telecommunications investment holding vehicle set up and funded by an investment consortium lead by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to facilitate the consolidation of the alternative telecommunication sector and capitalize on telecommunications liberalization in the western Balkans. Additionally, Mr. Djinović is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ada Ciganlija, a municipally owned parks and recreation conglomerate in Belgrade that can receive up to 500,000 visitors daily in the peak times of the summer. Mr. Djinović is one of the pioneers of the wireless Internet market in Serbia and founded Media Works in 2000, which became one of the leading alternative Internet service providers in Serbia. Media Works built the first WiMax network and launched wireless Internet services in 2004. In 2010 Media Works merged with two other large ISPs, Sezampro and Neobee.net to create what is known today as Orion Telecom, the second national fixed phone operator and leading alternative telecommunications provider in Serbia. Prior to becoming a technology entrepreneur in the Balkans, Mr. Djinović was one of the student leaders of the resistance movement known as OTPOR, which initiated the protests and created the overall political movement that was responsible for toppling Serbian autocrat Slobodan Milošević and democratizing Serbian political life. The group’s success led to feature articles in the Western press and a lead role for OTPOR in the Steve York documentary, ‘Bringing Down a Dictator’. Mr. Djinović is the co-author of two books: ‘Non-violent Struggle, 50 Crucial Points’ and ‘Non-violent Struggle – Curriculum for SNVC’ published in 2006 and 2007 in both Serbia and the United States. He is the co-author of the graduate course – ‘Strategies and Methods of Non-violent Social Change’ at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, and a lecturer and visiting scholar at Colorado College, Grinnell College and the Fletcher School of Tufts University. In the past Mr. Djinović was engaged as a consultant on various projects with the World Bank, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Justice and the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia. During his professional career, he has repeatedly participated in numerous humanitarian and human rights activities. Mr. Djinović holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Department of Naval Architecture at the University of Belgrade, and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, from the Fletcher School of Law of Tufts University in the United States. Mr. Djinović speaks native Serbian and fluent English, and he was born in Zagreb in 1975. He is married, has a daughter and lives in Belgrade.

Marin Šimurina
2001 do 2006: CEO of GREY WorldWide Belgrade, responsible for entire business of GREY WorldWide Belgrade, MediaCom and G2 offices in Serbia. Regional coordinator for Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania and Kosovo, for BAT and P&G. He built a fully integrated business with 124 workers on permanent basis contract. He provided new BTL and CRM/DM projects for international clients (BAT, P&G, VISA). He gained trust by important domestic clients. (HVB Bank, Imlek, Durex, Mobtel, Tuborg). He entered the short-list selection at tenders for Tetrapak, Emirates. He developed business from payments of approximately 0.1 million American dollars in 1997, to payments of services in four countries reaching over 32 million dollars. His senior officer is regional director of GREY Worldwide in Milan – Pietro Leone. As a CEO, he is responsible for all client relations and winning business deals at new markets. He performs coordination between Central marketing and local clients. He is responsible for central commercial contracts and overall profitability of client contracts. He is also responsible for all central marketing contracts and all creative projects. He has overall financial responsibility for all contracts. From 1997 until 2001: Deputy CEO at GREY WW Belgrade. Sent by GREY Düsseldorf to take control over a local franchise (Focus communication) and strengthen trust by international clients. He was responsible for closing the franchise, and founding, in difficult circumstances, a new agency in his own possession.

Milica Stefanović
She is a manager for corporative identity, public relations and communications at Coca Cola for Serbia and Montenegro. As of December 2007 she has been Corporate Identity, Public Affairs and Communications Manager for The Coca-Cola Company for Serbia and Montenegro, devoted to development of the social responsibility, brand communications and public relations programme. Prior professional experience includes three years on a position of a PR for Belgrade Mayor Nenad Bogdanović, in terms of planning and conducting public appearances of the mayor, and media relations; as well as public relations of Doncafe group during a two-year period. She is a member of the Serbian Public Relations Society and European Association of Communication Directors.

Brent Sadler
Brent Sadler is the Chairman of the Editorial Board of N1, the CNN exclusive news channel affiliate for Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. N1 is an impartial, high quality news service operating according to the highest news reporting standards from production centres in Sarajevo, Zagreb and Serbia, employing local journalists and technicians. Brent Sadler is an internationally renowned CNN broadcaster who was at the heart of world news coverage, especially from the Middle East, the Balkans and Africa for more than 20 years. Brent reported on many of the defining moments of world history during his distinguished career in international news and won widespread recognition for his work from the United States, Great Britain, and the Middle East. Sadler was a CNN bureau chief in Rome and Beirut. He joined CNN in 1991 after 10 years as a news reporter for the British network Independent Television News (ITN). During his career as a broadcast journalist Sadler received numerous accolades for his work including a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) statuette in 1991 for the Best Actuality Coverage of the Gulf War. In 1993 he won a U.S. Emmy award for reports from Somalia, a Citation of Excellence from theOverseas Press Club of America for reporting from South Lebanon, a National Headliner Award as a member of CNN's Investigation Team covering the 'Attacks on America,' a second National Academy of Television Arts and Science Award in 2001 for participation in television coverage of the fighting in Afghanistan during the year following the attacks against New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, a National Headliner Award in 2004 for Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event - 'Crisis in Liberia' and a Peabody Award for recognition for Significant and Meritorious Achievement in Broadcasting and Cable for the CNN win for the 2010 coverage of the Gulf oil spill.