Meet the Shift Speakers

John Romero is an award-winning programmer, game designer and level designer whose work spans over 130 games, 108 of which have been published commercially. Romero is considered to be the "father of first person shooters" having led the design and contributed to the programming and audio design of the iconic and genre-defining games Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, Quake, Heretic and Hexen. Romero is also was also one of the earliest supporters of eSports and a professional-level DOOM and Quake player. To date, Romero has co-founded eight successful game companies including the likes of id Software, Gazillion Entertainment and most recently Romero Games in Galway, Ireland. He is considered to be among the world's top game designers, and his products have won well over 100 awards. One of the earliest indie developers, Romero began working in the game space in 1979 on mainframes before moving to the Apple II in 1981. He is a completely self-taught programmer, designer and artist. His memoir DOOM Guy will be released in July 2022.

Joyce is the head of developer relations at Postman, an API platform used by 20M+ people to access bazillions of APIs every month. She is a culinary magician who specializes in tacos and boba.

Milin Desai currently serves as the CEO of Sentry. Loved by more than 3.5 million developers and 85,000 organizations worldwide, Sentry is the leading developer-first application monitoring solution that tells you where and how your software is broken, in real time. The results are higher developer productivity, better quality and faster innovation. He joined Sentry from VMware where he helped build out multiple lines of business from networking (O->lb+) to multi cloud (O->IOOM+ SAAS). Earlier in his career, he held engineering and product roles at Veritas and Riverbed.

Eddie is an Open Source fullstack and DevRel expert, with experience in Javascript, Typescript, SQL, NoSQL, automation testing and DevOps. The foundation of Eddie's tech ethos is Open Source, as there is something in it for everyone. Eddie founded the EddieHub community to foster collaboration, communication and career development. Eddie received the GitHub Star of the Year 2020 Award, GitHub Community Growth Award 2021 and GitHub Teacher of the Year Award 2022.

James is a JavaScript Developer, Speaker, and Teacher with a passion for teaching developers through various mediums of content. He is a firm believer in work-life balance, the on-going pursuit of personal happiness, and empowering others to take control of their career. His personal philosophy of “Learn Build Teach” has blossomed into a growing community of aspiring and established developers focused on helping each succeed. His professional experience includes Software Development at Fedex and Developer Advocacy at Microsoft, Auth0, and PlanetScale. He is currently working as a full-time Technical Content Creator focused on growing his YouTube audience of over 150k subscribers, a weekly Web Development podcast called Compressed.fm, and an array of online courses. James has partnered with notable companies like Cloudflare, Microsoft, Fauna, Cloudinary, and more along his content creation journey. In his spare time, James plays co-ed soccer with his wife, spends time with his dogs, and can solve a Rubik's cube in under a minute.

Tejas Kumar is a gifted public speaker with an engineering background, who started his coding journey at age 8. Today, Tejas travels the world encouraging and inspiring developers to build great things with code.

Michael Cote studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He's been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. Cf. cote.io, and is @cote in Twitter. Texas Forever!

Adrienne Tacke is a Filipina software engineer, keynote speaker, published author of the book Coding for Kids: Python, and a LinkedIn Learning instructor who specializes in Cloud Development courses. Perhaps most important, however, is that she spends way too much money on desserts and ungodly amounts of time playing Age of Empires II.

Jesse Martin is a senior developer advocate at Hasura, and is on a mission to help developers build better products faster. With a diverse background from agriculture to APIs, a self-proclaimed quantified-self geek, and a dad of four, he's on a lifelong journey of learning and sharing what he discovers along the way.

Keren is a full-stack developer at Torii, who has been working as a software engineer for more than a decade. She has a M.Sc. in Computer Science and loves React and learning new technologies. Keren volunteers as a program manager at Baot, a community that helps women in tech in their professional growth. She is also a dev community leader and co-organizes meetups. And in her not-so-spare time, she studies psychology. Her hobbies include drawing, photography, and singing.

Sven Peters, former developer advocate at Atlassian and MongoDB - now at Manfred, has been studying trends in software development for the last 15 years uncovering the cultural and technical attributes to help development teams work effectively and drive innovation. He has 20 years experience in writing code, leading teams, and sharing his experience with thousands of developers at uncountable conferences in 25+ countries.

Eric is Chronosphere's Director Evangelism. He's renowned in the development community as a speaker, lecturer, author and baseball expert. His current role allows him to help the world understand the challenges they are facing with cloud native observability. He brings a unique perspective to the stage with a professional life dedicated to sharing his deep expertise of open source technologies and organizations. Follow on https://www.schabell.org.

Software developer and technology passionate- I enjoy building and delivering quality, all the while trying to have fun as much as possible. I am a perceptive and innovative individual that's not afraid to exploit its best version and go the extra mile outside the comfort zone of conventional. This exact desire, of getting out of the comfort zone, led me in the last years to changing the context from full-stack, frontend, API design to technical leadership and architecture.

Sean Falconer is Head of Developer Relations at Skyflow. Sean spends his time building, writing, speaking, and connecting with communities about engineering and data privacy. He has a wide range of interests and expertise, including full stack development, developer experience, and API design. Prior to Skyflow, Sean led developer relations for Google's Business Communications product suite and was CTO and founder of a startup focused on mobile hiring tools. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer

Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) did Java before it had generics, DevOps before there was Docker, and DevRel before it had a name. He started DevRel at JFrog when it was ten people and took it all the way to a successful $6B IPO by helping engineers solve problems. Now Baruch keeps helping engineers solve problems but also helps companies help engineers solve problems. He is a co-author of the "Liquid Software" and "DevOps Tools for Java Developers" books, serves on multiple conference program committees, and regularly speaks at numerous most prestigious industry conferences, including Kubecon, JavaOne (RIP), Devoxx, QCon, DevRelCon, DevOpsDays (all over), DevOops (not a typo) and others. After a tenure of eleven years in JFrog DevRel, Baruch is the Principal Developer Productivity Engineering Advocate at Gradle

Shawn has worked on JavaScript, Serverless, and Cloud Developer Experience at Netlify, AWS, Temporal, and now Airbyte. He has started and grown communities for thousands of developers from /r/reactjs to Svelte Society and now mentors junior developers in the Coding Career Community.

Alexander Serebryakov, based in Croatia, works for 11 years with F5/NGINX as a Senior Solution Engineer creating app architectures on a daily base and driving digital transformation within his region. He is an expert in App Traffic Management and Proxies and focuses on production systems, scaling, and resiliency.

Matija is the CEO & co-founder of Wasp together with his twin brother. This is the second startup they started together, funded by Y Combinator and top deep tech funds in 2021. Matija's background is an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Zagreb. His previous work spans from a research institute in Singapore to top-growing startups in NYC and London, covering fields of bioinformatics, mobile, and web development.

Senior CX Consultant in Infobip who helps global clients with designing conversational experiences. Zeljka spent more than 15 years in Telco and IT industry and has rich experience with digital products and customer experience. She is certified conversation designer and is passionate about applying behavioral science to business challenges.

Banking software development as a day job, airlines and mathematics for the night one.

Started as a backend end developer in Java, continued as a Team Lead and currently working as a Technical Lead in Hrvatski Telekom. Loves to promote test-driven development, clean code, SBE (specification by example), good development, management and leadership practices. Lately, I have changed my favourite IDE with Jira and Confluence.

Robert joined ReversingLabs in 2012 as a reverse engineer, and from there continued to develop his expertise in malware analysis and threat research. He currently leads the threat detection department, which is in charge of malware and supply chain threat hunting, analysis, and detection, as well as detecting other compliance and security risks in software packages.

Talia Nassi is a Lead Developer Advocate at Akamai Technologies and international keynote speaker who delivers content on building in the cloud, testing, and Linode. She enjoys helping developers understand how to build efficient applications in the cloud seamlessly and at scale.

Ines Akrap is a Frontend Software Engineer passionate about making web faster and more usable for everyone. She also loves sharing her knowledge and passion for technology with others so she teaches coding as a part of Female Tech Leaders organisation.

Ante is a Senior Web Infrastructure Software Engineer at Infobip who is passionate about all things Web development. With a love for rubber ducks, JavaScript, React, and optimizing build processes, Ante is always looking for new ways to innovate and improve. When he's not coding, Ante enjoys discovering new music, taking long walks, and capturing the beauty of the world through his hobby of photography and travel blogging. An extrovert at heart, Ante is always eager to share his knowledge and make connections with others. Don't hesitate to say hi and strike up a conversation - he's always happy to chat and share his insights on the latest trends in Web development.

Boris Martinovic is a software engineer in Euroherc Insurance. Most the time, he is developing apps using various tech stacks. Besides that, Boris enjoys teaching and sharing knowledge so it's not a surprise that he is not only a lecturer at Algebra, covering Frontend technologies, but also an active member of the local developer community in Zagreb. He is one of the co-organizers in Google Developer Groups Zagreb and can be seen at local meetups, both as an attendee and a speaker. If you see him, feel free to come up and have a little chat. He'll sure love it!

Principal Architect at DataStax, engineering and product on Cassandra and Open Source. Beyond technology, crazy about snowboarding, rock climbing, trail running, skiing, surfing, and just anything awesome in nature.

Started as a full-stack software developer in 2002 and grown to a lead architect role since then. In these 20 years I've seen and used a lot of technologies.

Jacek Wosz is the Lead Specialist Solution Engineer of VMware's modern application portfolio responsible for CEMEA. He started six seven ago as a Solution Engineer covering Poland, where was a face of several Digital Transformation Project, then moved to Specialist Role for Modern Apps. Prior joining VMware he helped several Polish ISP to start offering virtual services based on MPLS technology. JCNIE-SP certificate holder.

With an experience of over 10 years in global tech companies and fast scaling international start-ups, Daniel Rizea is Director of Engineering in Google. Presently, he is managing a team of 90 engineers from the Bucharest and Mountain View offices, overseeing the development of features such as Sleep, Activity , Mental Health, Nutrition and Health Experiences on Google wearable devices. Daniel has also contributed strategically to the Fitbit App Strategy in the broader Google ecosystem. His team's most recent accomplishments are launching a new Body Response sensor and experience with the Fitbit Sense 2 smartwatches and an innovative way of visualizing sleep patterns with the Sleep animal feature.

Kevin is a software engineer and developer advocate at Red Hat who is on a mission to supercharge developer joy and productivity using Open Source as the guiding light. He is a frequent conference speaker, talking mostly about Java, Quarkus and Cloud Native Development & Deployment practices. Kevin previously worked as a (Lead) Software Engineer at a variety of organizations ranging from small startups to large US enterprises and even the Belgian public sector. In his free time you can find Kevin somewhere in the wild hiking, gravel biking, snowboarding down mountains or packrafting (up and) down WW rivers.

Chris Bach is Chief Strategy and Creative Officer and co-founder of Netlify, launched in 2015 and today is one of the most popular web development platforms. He is on the Board of the MACH Alliance, is an avid investor in the modern web ecosystem, and sits on a number of executive and advisory boards. Before Netlify he spent 14 years in the agency world as a founder, CEO and Chief Digital Officer. He started Denmark's first hybrid production agency and won 20+ awards including Cannes Lions, New York Festivals, and Eurobest. He is also one of the originators of the Jamstack term.

Co-Founder of Koyeb, a company delivering a next-generation serverless platform, Yann spent the last 10 years building cloud service providers in the infrastructure space from scratch. Passionated by cloud computing, he has an excellent understanding of the industry and all the underlying infrastructure, from datacenters to the software stack running on hypervisors. After building Scaleway, which started as a serverfull IaaS provider with BareMetal ARM servers, Yann decided to go serverless :)

Amanda is a developer advocate for Wix and Open Source enthusiast supporting the EddieHub Community. She had worked previously in web and software development all over the stack. At her core, she is a creative problem solver and passionate developer hype squad. Seeing developers win is her primary motivation. In her free time you can find her spoiling her dog, cycling, and testing new recipes.

Sohan is a Developer Advocate at Fermyon, based in the Netherlands. He started his career as a developer building bespoke mobile apps and has worked in the developer relations space since 2013, in companies such as Amazon, Gupshup and InMobi. His interests outside work include visual arts, trivia, and playing frisbee.

My name is Adrian Bolonio. I currently work as an Accessibility Software Engineer working on making the Internet a better and more accessible place for everyone. When I'm not at the office I enjoy a good read, working my way through any delicious recipe, and indulging my love for travelling to new places.

Toma is a Software Developer at Daytona where he's part of the Core company team. He enjoys giving conference talks, especially on topics about remote development.

Jonan Scheffler is a computer nerd from Berlin that likes to build silly robots and teach them to make mayhem. Lately he spends his days programming by the canal and thinking about freeing the internet from the cloud. You can find him online as @thejonanshow in the usual places.

Suzanne's passion is finding ways to help developers and engineers get the tools and skills to do what they do best: creating the software this world runs on while trying to innovate and make sense of buzzwords at the same time. Before she went into Developer Relations, she was an advisor for organizations on digital transformation, software development and adoption of (cloud)technologies. Suzanne emcees/hosts at events and is a speaker on both technical topics and more in general on transformation & innovation. Also, she organizes meetups and events.

"Mario Pavic is a senior product manager with over 10 years of experience in the tech industry. He is currently working at Happening, where he leads product development for a social network for betting fans used by over 1 million customers. In this role, Mario has defined the product strategy, set the product roadmap, and worked with cross-functional teams to deliver on product goals. He has also conducted market and user research and analyzed user feedback to inform product decisions and prioritize features. Prior to joining Happening, Mario worked at Endava for 3 years as a product and program manager, where he was responsible for setting product strategy for clients, participating and leading product discovery workshops to understand user needs, and prioritizing work to achieve product goals. Mario also has experience as a project lead and project manager, where he managed the full life cycle of multiple implementation projects, maintained relationships with clients and third parties/vendors, and developed internal procedures to ensure ISO standards. He started his career as a software engineer at Netgen, where he worked on software development

Aleksandra is a full-stack developer based in Wrocław, Poland. She was previously a tech lead for the Hasura Console and a lead maintainer of Blitz.js. Deeply passionate about open-source, TypeScript and dedicated to staying up to date with the JavaScript ecosystem.

Developer Advocate for YugabyteDB, distributed SQL database using PostgreSQL query layer. Franck has a passion for learning and sharing in blog posts (blog.pachot.net), articles, conferences and tech communities (AWS Data Hero and Oracle ACE Director)

Joseph Katsioloudes and his team at the GitHub Security Lab work at the forefront of Open Source Security that they shape every day through research and education. Joseph chose this career path because from a very young age, security was his own way to provide ethical and dedicated service to organisations and the society as a whole. He holds two engineering degrees, a Bachelors of Engineering in Computing from Imperial College London and a Masters in Cyber Security Engineering from the University of Warwick. His most recent contributions include video content made specifically for software developers interested in growing their security skillset, where he offers tips and simplifies security. Previous highlights include a combined of 20 talks and workshops in 2022 as a first-time speaker, a zero-day vulnerability for a Top 10 Cryptocurrency in 2018 as part of his university Thesis and open-source contributions to OSINT & Blockchain.

Devlin Duldulao, originally from the Philippines, is a full-stack cloud engineer in Norway. As a Microsoft MVP, he is a prolific trainer, conference speaker, and published book author who has dedicated his career to sharing his extensive knowledge. As a chief consultant at Inmeta, Devlin is passionate about staying current with the rapidly evolving tech industry. This has led him to delve into cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, GPT, and prompt engineering. Through his unwavering commitment to learning and empowering others, Devlin continues to impact the global technology community significantly.

It's never easy to describe oneself, especially when one is interested in so many different topics and fields and I guess that says something about who I am afterall. I find it fun and entertaining to teach difficult subjects through exotic methods and stories and people seem to also have fun while I do so. I believe in the union between science and human values (read fun) and I often work and participate in non-profit organization and projects which aim to bring culture and scientific knowledge.

Martin is a web developer working with the Jamstack approach. He is one of the maintainers of Decap (ex NetlifyCMS), the open-source git-based CMS. He also builds websites at the PM TechHub digital agency.

American expat living in Spain, author of Redux Form, Final Form, and currently building the best customer service bot for hardware products at Mavenoid.

CEO @ Mindstone, turning daily learning into quantifiable skills employers recognizes. VP @ Emerge Education. Ex CPTO @SuperAwesome (Acquired by Epic Games). Comp Sci Engineer, Angel Investor.

Tomislav Bronzin is Microsoft Regional Director & Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (19th year in a row!) - M365 Apps & Services/Business Applications and founder of CITUS, a Microsoft Silver Partner Company specializing in software development, consulting, and training. He is leading CITUS Team, and managing projects focused on Microsoft365, Power Platform, Mixed Reality, AI, Big Data & Cloud Computing. Tomislav is a trainer and speaker at Microsoft conferences like TechEd Europe, WindDays, NT Konferenca, MS NetWork, CrisCon, Weblica, KulenDayz, Init Conference, etc. He teaches at several universities and mentors student teams for Imagine Cup Competition. Tomislav organized the http://www.mobilityday.com conference (10 years in a row!) and is helping to organize one of the largest MS Community Conferences in the region - KulenDayz. Tomislav is one of the founders of MS Community in Croatia and the Croatian Chamber of Economy IT Association Vice President. He is also an entrepreneur and innovator that (with his team) has won over 90 international awards for his invention in IT, five patents, and many other recognitions. Tomislav has led CITUS Team in developing numerous innovative software products based on propriety innovations in mixed reality, artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing.

Denis joined ReversingLabs in 2015 as a software engineer building Python services and REST APIs. He currently leads the Cloud Algorithms team, which is responsible for algorithms used in classification of tens of millions of files each day. His current project is a website powered by the same technology, used for evaluation and discovery of supply chain attacks and other security risks in open source software packages.

As a firefighting CTO and lead due diligence auditor, Steve Tauber knows what makes startups succeed or fail. He joins companies to help them through troubling times as they reshape and prepare for the future. In his free time, Steve enjoys reading and writing sci-fi, playing and designing tabletop board games, and spending time with his amazing wife and family. Originally from the US, he now lives in Croatia.

Joanna Suau is a Developer Educator at Infobip. She's a part of the DevRel team, helping developers achieve the most effective and smooth developer experience using Infobip products. She's passionate about content strategy and documenting APIs. In her spare time, she's a true bookworm and loves all things fantasy, especially if the plot happens on Discworld, Middle Earth, or in Cosmere. Read her musings on all things docs on https://medium.com/@joannasuau

A seasoned software engineer, computer scientist and serial entrepreneur. Most recently, he co-founded airt, an Artificial Intelligence platform as a service specialized for event data - one of the most common formats in business applications. Prior to that, he co-founded DRAP in 2008, one of Croatia's most awarded digital agencies, acquired in 2018 by Imago Ogilvy. In 1997, he co-founded PlayMedia Systems, the leading provider of AMP MP3 playback technology on the global market. He invented and led the development of several DRM based and DRM free systems for digital audio distribution based on AMP® MP3 decoding engine for clients including AOL, STMicroelectronics and Napster. As a PhD student working with Dean Rosenzweig and Yuri Gurevich at Microsoft Research, he applied the interactive Abstract State Machine thesis to multiprocessor/multicore programming. He designed, implemented and transferred technology to a product group of a system for the execution of programs with structured concurrency, later named the Task Parallel Library of the .NET framework. He received the SSCLI and Phoenix 2005 award from Microsoft Research as one of the best 16 research projects in international competition. He's the author of 15 publications in theoretical computer science, two granted and several pending international patents.

Zlatko Horvat is the co-founder and CTO of Leapwise, a boutique software development company building solutions in MNOs, MVNOs, Security Engineering and IoT domain, with 18 years of experience in different roles as backend software developer, software architect, technical product manager, mentor, and entrepreneur. Aside from strong dedication to naming conventions and minimization of technical debt, he is a true believer in the human side of software development – building software starts by building great people and their skills. When not working, he enjoys stargazing with his telescope, calisthenics, and travelling.

Evangelina Ferreira is a Front-end developer and teacher. She currently works as a UI Developer and has been teaching web technologies at the National Technological University of Argentina for more than five years.Throughout her career Evangelina has been deeply involved in the Argentinian web community. She enjoys giving workshops and talks and since 2015 she has been organizing CSSConf Argentina, an international non-profit event that brings experts from all around the globe to speak about web technologies. In her spare time she loves reading W3C drafts as much as Harry Potter, creating animations and playing with her cats.

Gordan Krekovic is the CEO of Visage Technologies, a computer vision company developing algorithms for automotive applications (driver assistance and self-driving), and developing technology for face analysis. With a PhD degree in Computing and 13 years of professional career in managing software products, teams, and companies, Gordan has a broad experience that interconnects research, engineering, and management. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 scientific papers and still an active researcher.

Alexandra Spalato is a Developer Relations engineer at Storyblok and a specialist in JAMstack and headless architecture. With a background in freelance development and entrepreneurship, Alexandra has a unique perspective on what it takes to build successful web projects. As a member of the team at Storyblok, a company that champions the power of headless architecture, she helps developers around the world bring their visions to life. Whether she's speaking at a conference or collaborating with a team, Alexandra is always seeking out new ways to innovate and drive progress in the tech industry.

Ivan co-founded Codeanywhere, a pioneer in cloud development back in 2009. Concurrently, he established Shift, a premier developer conference in SE Europe, which was later acquired by Infobip—a worldwide communications cloud giant—in 2021. Following the acquisition, Ivan served as the Chief Developer Experience Officer at Infobip, overseeing global developer-oriented operations. Recently, he embarked on a new journey by co-founding Daytona, a platform dedicated to standardized development environments, reigniting the mission initiated by Codeanywhere over a decade ago.

Vedran Cindric is the founder and CEO of Treblle, a SaaS company that helps Engineering, Product, and DevOps teams build, ship & maintain REST-based APIs faster. With more than 15 years of dev experience, Vedran has specialized in PHP and Laravel. Before founding Treblle, he had a development agency that developed software solutions for clients from all over the world, with the greatest focus on the US market.

Srdjan is a Co-Founder and CEO at Orqa, World's #1 First Person View (FPV) video headset company. Orqa is on a mission to advance the state of art in the fields of unmanned technologies and remote vision. In his previous life, Srdjan was a senior finance professional, with more than 10 years experience in financial industry, specifically asset management. He was a Chairman of the Management Board in Croatia's €150m sovereign equity fund, and a Head of Risk Management and Compliance in Croatia's largest asset management company. Srdjan earned academic degrees from University of Oxford (MSc in Mathematical Finance) and University of Zagreb (dipl.ing. in Mechanical Engineering). He is a Certified Pension Fund Manager and Certified Investment Advisor.

An ex-banker and an engineer. All things fintech. An aspiring VC fund manager. And everything in-between.

Liisi Org is an experienced community builder. Her startup journey started in NY where she worked with edtech companies at NYU Edtech Accelerator, also organized the biggest Edtech Festival managing over 300 speakers. It continued in Startup Estonia, where she led a startup community and built a database that has over 1400 Estonians startups. She is the CEO of Latitude59, the flagship startup and tech conference of the world's first digital society, welcoming 3000+ people in Tallinn every year. Liisi is part of The Better Fund - the only fund in CEE that focuses on investing in female-led teams, and she's Estonia's National Expert at WSA. Liisi is passionate about diversity and impact. She knows how to bring the community together and what's the value of doing so.

Building the biggest EdTech Accelerator in the world. 1,000+ Companies by 2025 (SuperCharger Ventures) and building a market-defining platform to improve founders mental health & wellbeing (Founders Taboo). Previous track-record is only indicative. In FinTech his accelerator had 3 unicorns out of 49, his companies raised over $650million, his academic research is the top 1% globally and his courses & books have been used by over 250,000 people.

Rebecca Martin is an experienced leader in strategy, content creation and community building with a specialism in FinTech and startup ecosystems. Rebecca is Co-Founder and Head of Strategy at Elevandi, an initiative of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Prior to setting up Elevandi, Rebecca worked for the Fintech Group within MAS, responsible for the FinTech Investment portfolio and international FinTech development. She was previously the Head of Content at Money 20/20.

Albert Gajsak is a 23-year-old technology entrepreneur from Croatia. At 18 years of age, he has dropped out of college and founded CircuitMess, an ed-tech startup designing and producing radically different educational STEM toys. The company was founded alongside the launch of the first product called MAKERbuino, a DIY game console. In 2018, CircuitMess released an educational mobile phone called MAKERphone, and in 2020, a STEM toy subscription called CircuitMess STEM Box. CircuitMess Batmobile is the latest product Albert is working on which is an educational AI-powered robotic car developed in collaboration with Warner Bros.

Driven by innovation and progress, I dare to discover value in tech ideas on their way to transform the world. With the power of storytelling, I support startups on their journey from crafting a compelling go-to-market strategy to attracting awareness among regional innovation communities.

Trainee Business Psychologist and Wellbeing Associate at Founders Taboo. Drawing upon her experience working in clinical mental health, Dani combines the disciplines of psychology, therapy and business studies in her approach to working with founders. Exploring the psychology of entrepreneurship and start-ups is at the core of her work. Aligned with the humanistic and positive approaches to psychology, Dani illuminates the power of harnessing your own mind for excellence at work.

Engineer turned into an enterpreneur. For over 20 years I've been trying to build or guide people to building useful and cool stuff with technology. From seriously hands-on projects to strategic planning of companies. Today I'm all about listening to new ideas by new people and helping them succeed.

Daniel Bodonyi is the founder of MotivatingManager, a cohort-based online peer community and mentorship program for people managers. Previously, he led product teams and software startups in Budapest, Berlin, and Tokyo, and taught team management, organization management, and project management in an MBA program. He is a certified organizational coach, a certifiable people and product nerd, and an avidly unaccredited ecological farmer and piano player.

Tunya is an Associate Investor at 500 Emerging Europe, a €70M VC fund investing in early stage companies from CEE and Turkey. She was graduated from Bilkent University, with a BSc degree in Industrial Engineering. Prior to joining 500, she was working at an Angel Investor network based in Istanbul.

Infobip's CTO and cofounder Izabel Jelenic started his business career as a developer, but he soon became the visionary and leading force of what has become one of the world's top-performing communication platforms. Implementing new solutions on the Infobip platform and nurturing the rapidly growing Infobip development team is instrumental in his everyday work while creating the most productive and rewarding working environment for employees.

Josip Stuhli has been involved with computers for the better part of his life. He started with web development back in high school in Đakovo. Since then, he's moved to backend and DevOps. Loves security stuff and is obsessed with optimizing everything. Today, Josip works as CTO in Sofascore, tackling daily challenges of how to deliver a top product to millions of users worldwide.

Filip is the Founder and CEO of a new venture, Entrepreneurs for Global Change, launched in NYC that works globally with young founders. He was the Managing Director for Southeast Europe at Network 20/20, a NYC-based organization where he managed an incubator program in the U.S. for tech-focused ventures from Southeast Europe. He mentors and supports future founders in their customer discovery, value proposition development, and building traction towards their MVPs. He also is the Founder of SEED (Southeast Europe Entrepreneurship & Development), an organziation based out of Serbia. NYC, Southeast Europe, and the Adriatic are his home.

David is a Principal at J&T Ventures who has lived, worked and studied in 4 different countries. Prior to joining J&T Ventures in 2020, he gained his experience mainly in the consulting group Ernst & Young in Zurich with a focus on the financial sector. David is looking for hidden gems with outstanding founders in the SEE/CEE region to help them reach their full potential and to build investor relationships mainly in the DACH region. He holds two master degrees from Tilburg University and the University of Economics in Prague. In his spare time he likes to climb mountains.

Looking for EUR 1-3m early stage and growth investment opportunities in fintechs and related enabling technologies in Central and Eastern Europe.

James Roycroft-Davis is an exited founder and host of the Vulnerable Podcast, the UK's leading startup and entrepreneur mental health podcast. With experience living and working with type II Bipolar Affective Disorder, James uses his voice to educate, inspire and drive a movement towards a healthier and more sustainable startup ecosystem.

Bogdan is the solo General Partner of Underline Ventures, a venture capital firm that partners at the earliest stages with Eastern European founders building high-growth startups with global ambitions. Founder of the How to Web Conference, one of Europe's leading startup and innovation events, Bogdan is advising early-stage startups on raising capital, building useful products, or crafting great pitch decks. Previously Partner with Gecad Ventures and entrepreneur (founded and exited Conectoo, an enterprise email marketing service), he was involved with MVP Academy, MVP Angels, TechHub Bucharest, and 3TS Capital Partners.

Lucija Reic, professionally known as Luce, is a startup and disruptive technology enthusiast and the backbone of Infobip Startup Tribe. With years of experience working on different consultation projects, she knows all the tips and tricks when it comes to business development. Her current mission is to use this knowledge to help young startups navigate the rough sea of entrepreneurship. Whatever the Q, she has an A. If she wasn't this she would be a proofreader or a professional chinchilla rescuer.

Bernard Ivezic organized the 1st mapping of Croatian scaleups, soonicorns, and unicorns. He also kickstarted the 1st mainstream publication on startups in Croatia, STARTUP REPORT. The quarterly magazine is published by Croatia's most prominent daily newspaper, Jutarnji list. Bernard has extensive experience in the media and communications industry. He co-founded two startups. He's an active organizer, host, and speaker at events dedicated to startups, tech, the maker community, and SF&F.

Journalist, former television host, sociologist, PR expert, columnist, event manager and founder of the agency for public relations and event organization - Prime Time Komunikacije. Also, she is a mother of three girls, a runner and a world traveler.

Tea is the content part of the Infobip Startup Tribe team, in charge of spreading the gospel about the program and bringing its startups into the spotlight. A keen note taker, aspiring wordsmith & anthropologist at heart. Role models include Indiana Jones, Del Boy Trotter & Michael Gary Scott.

Vedran is a Principal at South Central Ventures (SCV), a leading SEE venture capital fund. At SCV, Vedran works on deal sourcing, screening, and advising portfolio companies. He also sits on the Board of Directors of several SCV portfolio companies. South Central Ventures is a VC investor with a long and enduring presence in the Adriatic region. Operating out of four offices – Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade, and Skopje – the team has invested in about 40 early-stage tech companies and has been an integral part of the local start-up community. With a strong base of international investors, South Central Ventures is the go-to-investor for regional tech companies competing in global markets.

Menna Shahin born in 1987, is an Egyptian entrepreneur, awards winner. She's a pharmacist, founder of She Travels, and cofounder of application to fight food waste, called Tekeya. Shahin is a graduate of the faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. She majored in Pharmaceutical Industries. She holds a regional executive in a multinational pharmaceutical company in Dubai, UAE.) Shahin is a pioneer; in that she is among the first Egyptian women who started a Travel Business Exclusively for women, where she organized her travels in collaboration with certified life coaches to incorporate self-development coaching in the travel plans. Menna aspires to empower women to build new connections with other women and discover more about themselves through travel. She is actively involved in social and community work and active member in Giza horizon Rotary Club. She has more than half a million followers on her various social media platforms. As a co-founder, Menna launched TeKeya in Egypt in 2020. TeKeya is an application designed to fight food waste and to decrease CO2 pollution. Since its launch, the app saved thousands of surplus meals, either donated to charity organizations feeding the needy or sold at reduced price to customers whilst reducing the CO2 footprint. Menna is an experienced public speaker, gave a Tedx Talk in 2019, featured in more than 20 TV interviews,featured in world economic forum and Reuters , spoke as a keynote speaker at the World Youth Forum and held several coaching sessions, including a master training about food waste for future chefs in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism. Lastly, Menna has been featured in over a 100 articles written about her initiatives in the Middle Eastern , Europe, China and African press.

Mario Stoev is an Associate at LAUNCHub, based in Sofia, looking for startups in CEE/SEE. He focuses on enterprise software, developer tools and AI/ML applications, among others.

Born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, with tenure in Tanzania and Japan. Nikola has worked in the public sector for the UN which is how he originally arrived in Japan in 2011. He has worked in tech for a long time - he ran startups and worked with Nikkei in Tokyo. Nikola is currently leading the Developer Experience department at Infobip and supporting tech ecosystems around the world.

Meade Kincke is a seasoned technical leader with over 16 years of experience in the industry. As a visionary and accomplished forerunner, he has consistently driven innovation, scaled organisations, and held pivotal roles in various high-growth startups and Fortune 500 companies. His passion for fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning has not only resulted in remarkable engineering achievements, but has also made him a sought-after speaker at industry conferences and corporate events. Meade's ability to bridge the gap between complex technical concepts and real-world applications makes him a unique animal. Meade has also been waving the Rust flag for years now. He authored and published, "A Practical Guide to Rust," has worked on the compiler itself, mentored countless numbers of students, and is a huge advocate for the language. Whether on stage or in the boardroom, he continues to leave a profound impact on the world of technology and leadership. Meade is colloquially known as the "Roving Rubber Duck" who is always up for a chat.

I am a software developer, venture capitalist, hacker and a lifelong pursuer of weird hobbies.

I'm an IT professional with more than 20 years of experience. Started to focus on storage and data in the very beginning of my career, and I strongly believe that data is the most important part of the datacenter.

Tomislav Biscan is Founder and CEO of Orangepill, serial entrepreneur with strong tech background. Passionate about cryptopunk, new finance and Austrian School of Economy, on a mission to make development for web3 easy and accesible to everyone. Participated as co-founder and ex. CTO in successfull paytech startup Minka building the modern real-time payments rails in LatAm. Follow him to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

In IT for 18 years, associated with mass storage memory for just as long. Co-founder of the Eastern European branch of Pure Storage, architect of solutions for data centers and public speaking enthusiast.

Pedja Predin comes with a dozen years of experience in VC investing, corporate strategy, business development and global expansion. Prior to co-founding Fifth Quarter Ventures together with Tihomir Bajic, Pedja served as Investment Professional at SC Ventures, and in various management roles at Norwegian growth stage company Gelato, including Global Expansion, China Country Manager and Head of Logistics, as Business Manager at Microsoft CEE (based out of Germany) and in research and recruitment roles at Egon Zehnder in New York. He is also involved in the regional startup community through mentoring and coaching and has executed 10+ angel investments. Earlier in his career, he obtained an MBA from INSEAD (France), and BS in Finance from St. Francis College (New York, US).

Marijan works as a Tech Community Manager at Infobip, leading global dev community events for this company. Project 'Infobip Developer Meetups in Africa', which he runs, recently won the award for the best Regional DevRel Program at the DevRelcon London 2023 Conference. Although he holds a Ph.D. in history and worked for several years in the Museum as a Curator, he is also engaged in various tech initiatives in Croatia.

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Chris Heilmann dedicated the last 25 years of his life to make the web work and thrive. As a lead developer on some of the largest web products he learned that knowledge is not enough without teamwork and good handover. He worked at Yahoo, Mozilla and Microsoft, building the web platform, browsers and developer tools. He strives to make code and coders work efficiently. He is the author of several JavaScript books and the Developer Advocacy handbook (http://developer-advocacy.com). He is currently director of developer relations at WeAreDevelopers and spends a lot of time pondering how machine learning and AI can aid humans and replace jobs we are too important to do.

With a background rooted in psychology, Annabelle works at the intersection of psychology, entrepreneurship and human performance, and most critically the relationships between these. Finding ways to better support current and aspiring entrepreneurs and working with experts, researchers, and key ecosystem stakeholders, Annabelle is driving for a healthier and more sustainable startup ecosystem.

Nina Sesto, PhD, MBA, serves as the CEO and co-founder of Megi, a digital health spinoff stemming from the Magdalena Clinic specializing in cardiovascular diseases. She is also an alumna of Singularity University and a co-founder of the AI4Health European Digital Innovation Hub. Committed to advancing AI in clinical practice, Nina actively empowers innovators and strives to reshape healthcare delivery, extending access to care for all those in need.

Stefan is an accomplished Sales Engineer, working in the communication space for the last 3 years. A convert (exchanged enterprises for startups), he now works with startups, making sure their wildest communication desires come true. Always ready to tackle any technical question with an elaborate answer, and help clients utilize Infobip products to the maximum of their capabilities. Jiujitsu practitioner, car enthusiast (an understatement) and a proud owner/servant of his bunny Semla.

Ivan is the founder and editor of Netokracija, the 'Techcrunch of the Balkans' which he founded at the age of 22. Forbes has called him “The internet aristocrat” in its special issue about “the digital generation that doesn't care for borders”. As a digital content consultant, Ivan has helped brands like Mastercard, A1, Microsoft and Raiffeisen bank with content marketing and employer branding.