Schedule
Osijek, Hotel Osijek
April 14th - April 15th
| Tuesday, 04/14 | |
Geek Business Camp – Day 3 Venue: Lipa |
09:00 – 16:00 |
Brown Forum Check-in and Registration Venue: Conference Center Foyer |
14:00 – 18:00 |
Press Conference (for media only) Venue: Lipa |
17:15 – 17:30 |
Welcome Remarks Venue: Great Hall Gordana Deranja, President of Croatian Employers' Association Luka Burilović, President of Croatian Chamber of Economy Andrea Doko Jelušić, Executive Director, American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia Kenneth Merten, U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Gordan Maras, Minister of Entrepreneurship and Crafts of Croatia Ivan Vrdoljak, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Croatia Vesna Pusić, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia |
18:00 – 18:45 |
Key Note Address Venue: Great Hall Eveline Buchatskiy, Techstars Boston |
18:50 – 19:25 |
Brown Forum Welcome Dinner, Hosted by the City and the County of Osijek and Baranja Venue: Great Hall |
19:30 – 21:30 |
| Wednesday, 04/15 | |
Registration Venue: Conference Center Foyer |
08:15 – 09:00 |
Opening Remarks Venue: Great Hall Caron De Mars, Global Entrepreneurship Director, U.S. Department of State |
09:00 – 09:15 |
Geek Business Camp Pitching Competition Venue: Lipa Judges: Adrian Ježina, Chief Technology Officer VIPNet and President of the HUP ICT Eveline Buchatskiy, Director Techstars Boston Laszlo Czirjak, Co-founder and managing partner, iEurope Capital LLC Ivo Špigel, Co-founder Perpetuum Mobile/ZIP Incubator Jure Mikuž, Managing Partner, RSG Capital |
10:00 - 12:00 |
Session 1: Local Government Support - Growing ICT Venue: Great Hall Antonija Mršić, Head of Sector for International Cooperation and Innovation, Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts of Croatia Carmen Sandu, Managing Deputy Chief Information Officer for City of Chicago Matija Kopic, Osijek Software City Csongor Bias, Design Terminal |
09:15 – 10:45 |
Coffee Break Venue: Hotel Lobby |
10:45 –11:15 |
Session 2: Educating ICT Leaders Today for Tomorrow Venue: Great Hall Burton Lee, Stanford University School of Engineering Maja Ljubić, South East European Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning Mladen Radišić, University of Novi Sad and Vojvodina ICT Cluster Mindaugas Glodas, Nextury Ventures and Kaunas Technical University |
11:15 – 12:45 |
Networking Lunch Venue: Hotel Restaurant |
12:45 – 14:00 |
Session 3: Tech Transfer - From the Lab to the Market Venue: Great Hall Jacqueline Vanacek, Silicon Valley Cloud and Big Data Industry Executive Gordan Lauc, Founder and CEO, Genos Adrian Jezina, Chief Technology Officer, VIPNet Mersed Čamdžić, Founder and CEO, Mistral Technologies |
14:00 – 15:30 |
Coffee Break Venue: Hotel Lobby |
15:30 – 15:45 |
Session 4: Attracting Investment in ICT Startups Venue: Great Hall Julia Spicer, Mid-Atlantic Venture Association Vedrana Jelušić Kašić, EBRD Director for Croatia Jure Mikuž, RSG Capita, Ljubljana Andrea Di Anselmo, Vice President, META Group |
15:45 – 17:15 |
Presentation of Geek Business Camp Winners |
17:15 – 17:30 |
Closing Remarks |
17:30 – 18:00 |
