Latest Speakers


Niklas Modig

Niklas Modig is a researcher, lecturer, trainer, fitness instructor and one of the leading world speakers in the field of lean management. He is widely known as the author of the bestseller in the field of lean – “This is lean – Resolving the Efficiency Paradox” that made a strong impact on processes in many industries. Read more→


Ole Haslestad

Ole Haslestad is a doctor of manual medicine and owns Naprapatlandslaget, one of the leading chains in Scandinavia with over 40 clinics. He is responsible for the business development of the company and is also one of the leading experts in systemic health in Scandinavia. Ole holds workshops, gives motivational speeches and writes articles on Read more→


Hrvoje Veselko

Hrvoje Veselko holds Master of Science from FER, University of Zagreb, and MBA from IEDC Bled School of Management, Slovenija. He started his career as copywriter, producer and sound engineer, and for the last fifteen years he works in sales in ICT. Last six years he is a Sales Director in Vipnet. He is representative Read more→


Scott Bybee

Scott Bybee is the Head of Avnet’s European Cloud and DevOps practice. He has 15+ years of experience working in Operations helping organizations gain efficiencies in their software development lifecycle through automation  He is the original author of the WebSphere Installation and Configuration Automation (WICA) Framework which was later bought by IBM and to became Read more→


Peter Brabec

As the Appliance (Expert Integrated Systems) Leader  for CEE Peter Brabec is part of the IBM CEE Leadership team. Peter is an IT professional since he started as PL/I programmer in 1986 and has spent his years in the IT Industry as technical expert as well as in sales and sales management roles. He has Read more→


Manuela Sailer

Manuela Sailer advises Enterprise Customers on IBM License Management Issues since 2012. ARS is a consulting organization and systems integrator based in Munich, Germany, specialized in IBM Software and underpinning technologies. The company has been awarded the Premier Business Partner status for IBM software for 19 years in sequence. Manuela Sailer joined ARS in March Read more→


Ivo Smerda

Ivo has been involved with PureSystems since this new group of products has been introduced by IBM. PureApplication System and it’s patterns are his daily fellows. He helped customer onboard this new platform into their datacenters and provided multiple key IBM Business Partners with detailed insights for embedding PureSystems in their projects and proposals. He Read more→


Goran Kruljac

Goran Kruljac is a SW architect manager with years of experience in different aspects of IT in banking and government sectors. Over the course of his career, he has worked on implementation of portal technologies, service oriented architecture and business process management. He is a leader of an international team of architects working on projects Read more→


Paul Collins

Paul is the CTO of Orbital Integrated Solutions, a UK IBM Business Partner focused on delivering Integration and Connectivity solutions. He has been working with IBM and clients of IBM technology for over 20 years, and is currently exploring new Integration opportunities using solutions in the API Management, Mobile Integration and Internet of Things space.


Tihomir Cirkvenčić

As a Sales Leader for IBM Collaboration Solutions, Tihomir Cirkvencic is responsible for developing and growing the IBM Software business in South East Europe, helping customers and prospects to solve their business problems with the application of IBM Collaboration Solutions. Prior joining IBM in 2011. Tihomir gained more than a decade of experience in the Read more→


Jasmina Nikolić

Jasmina Nikolić is a Vice-President of the Higher Education Reform Expert Team at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. She is Project Manager for the TEMPUS REFLESS project that aims at Reforming Foreign Language Studies in Serbia. She also teaches Spanish literature at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, Read more→


Zvonimir Križ

Zvonimir Križ has 15 years experience in software development in military and the banking industry. For the last seven years he works as a team leader (10 + developers) on enterprise level online banking and teller application solutions. With a strong development background, he is very skilled in team leading, coordination, coaching and software architecture. Read more→


Ivica Črep

Ivica Črep is a program manager in Raiffeisen bank in Zagreb. Currently, he is managing the development of the new version of bank’s internet banking system. As a coordinator and project manager he has been working for RBA for fourteen years. Before working in RBA, he worked in Zagrebačka banka on various IT projects. Presentation summary: Agile Read more→


Goran Novak

Goran Novak is a Solution Architect and developer in Vipnet. He has years of experience in coordinating and developing web and other service in telco sector. For the last couple of years he has specialized in coordinating and implementing services based on Liferay portal technology.


Slobodan Jovanovski

Slobodan Jovanovski is a long term Iskratel employee, where he works on various management positions for number of years. Besides Iskratel he worked in University of Skopje and also spend some time in Siemens Munich. During his career in Iskratel he dealt with sales, logistics, development and product management processes. Because of his wide experience Read more→


Luka Podobnik

Luka Podobnik is a project manager, working in CROZ. Before managing projects, he has worked as a team leader and developer. He has specialized in web development area and development of solutions based on Liferay portal.


Dejan Novak

Dejan Novak is a project manager, working in CROZ. As a long time CROZ employee, he started working as a developer, than as a tim leader, getting to project manager position while being familiar with most aspects of software development. He is passionate about anything related to mobile applications. In the last few years he Read more→


Luka Stepinac

Luka Stepinac is leader of CROZ’s Business Intelligence Services department. Since the beginning of his career he is in love with any kind of game which includes data or metadata, from relational databases design, to warehousing, reporting and predictive analysis. Over the last couple of years he is focused on Big Data & Open Data Read more→


Vedrana Miholić

Vedrana Miholić is Sales Director at CROZ. Previously she has worked as a Director of Education and Consulting at CROZ. Her professional background includes more than 17 years of successful and efficient work as respected software development methodology and project portfolio consultant and project manager and system analyst in financial and information technology industry. She Read more→


Krešimir Musa

Krešimir Musa is Director of consultancy and implementation services in CROZ. During his career he’s been deeply involved in software development projects in different roles, from development engineer to project portfolio manager. He has a deep practical experience in applying agile and iterative software development methods. A great part of his career has been focused Read more→


Mihael Sedmak

Mihael is a experienced software architect and team leader with numerous successfully delivered projects over the last 9 years. His latest work includes delivering the architecture for LikeMyIdea – CROZ custom made lean management offering (based on IBM Connections and IBM BPM), as well as leading a 12 person team delivering a large national customs Read more→


Goran Kelečić

Goran Kelečić, a long time CROZ consultant and key account manager, for many years editor of the QED conference. After CROZ Goran turned his career towards human resources management as a communication skills trainer and business coach. He continues his cooperation with CROZ as a soft skills trainer in CROZ educational center. Presentation summary: Stress Read more→