Archive: DIDS 2020

• Position: CTO
• Organisation: ICANN
• Website: www.icann.org

• Position: Policy Advisor
• Organisation: CENTR
• Website: www.centr.org
• Twitter: @CENTR_Polina, @CENTRnews

Polina Malaja is the Policy Advisor at the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR), leading its policy work and liaising with governments, institutions and other organisations in the internet ecosystem. She holds an LL.M in International Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Rights Law and is deeply interested in interactions between technology and fundamental rights and freedoms in the digital age. Before joining CENTR, Polina was responsible for the free and open source software advocacy work at the Free Software Foundation Europe, together with leading the FSFE legal team and coordinating the biggest network of legal experts in Free Software: the Legal Network.

• Position: CTO RNIDS
• Organisation: RNIDS
• Website: www.rnids.rs

Žarko Kecić is a CTO at the Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS) and is responsible for the stable and secure operation of systems that enable seamless functioning of the national domain names.

Prior to joining RNIDS, Zarko worked on deployment, consulting and scientific projects around the globe for more than two decades. He has substantial experience in the planning, implementation, provisioning, and evaluation of IT systems and infrastructure, helping large enterprises and government institutions build stable and secure systems and make the best use of new technologies to meet business needs and improve efficiency.

Besides operational activities, Žarko is active in international working groups, particularly within CENTR and ICANN community, and is a member of the ICANN SSR2 RT (the Second Security, Stability and Resilience Review Team).

• Position: Director, Cyber-security and E-diplomacy Programmes
• Organisation: Diplo Foundation
• Website: diplomacy.edu
• LinkedIn: Vladimir Radunović
• Twitter: Vladimir Radunović

Vladimir Radunović is a lecturer and Director of educational programmes in the areas of Internet governance, cyber-security and e-diplomacy at the Diplo Foundation, an international non-governmental institution.

He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise and was a member of the UN Multistakeholder Advisory Group for the Internet Governance Forum. His professional focus is on Internet and broadband access policies, cyber-security, net neutrality and openness, e-diplomacy and e-participation, education and capacity-building for institutions and Internet decision-makers.

He graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade and has a Master’s degree in contemporary diplomacy from the University of Malta, and is currently doing his PhD on cyber-security.

• Position: Creative Strategist, lecturer
• Company: Faculty of Media and Communications, Serbia
• Website: www.fmk.singidunum.ac.rs
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lazar-dzamic-278692

Consultant for European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Helped Google ZOO turn light into heat: Google’s data into compelling brand stories for client and agency partners. Built the ‘golden standard’ strategy team, including the new breed of ‘creative data scientists’ to transform how data powers creativity.
Lecturer at the Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade.
Lecturer in Direct Marketing for UK Marketing Agencies Association.
Planning director, brand/CRM strategist on award-winning accounts such as Visit Wales, Waitrose, GAP, Glenfiddich, Virgin Holidays etc.
First-hand experience in leading digital transformation, digital capabilities building and digital strategic enablement for agencies and clients.
Three times Top 10 digital player on Marketing Direct’s Power 100 list.
Long-standing group leader for the UK DMA Awards.
A specialist in digital training & coaching and a regular lecturer at conferences and seminars.

• Position: Designer, visual artist, writer and lecturer
• Organisation: Futro Design
• Website: https://www.futrodesign.com/
• Facebook: Slavimir.StojanovicFutro
• Instagram: @slavimir_futro

Slavimir Stojanović is the founder of Futro Design, Belgrade designer, visual artist, writer and university lecturer. His projects have earned more than 300 international, regional and domestic awards and can be found in museums and publications all over the world. He has been included in Taschen’s Contemporary Graphic Design as one of the most influential graphic designers of today.

He has worked for international clients such as Sony, Duracell, Mercedes-Benz, Michelin, Coca-Cola, Seat and many others.

He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Serbian Association for Market Communications. Slavimir has authored an award-winning series of illustrated books for children calledAvanture Singe Lumbe (The Adventures of Singa Lumba), as well as a best-selling novel with autobiographical elements called Devet (Nine).

He teaches Visual Communications at the Belgrade Faculty of Applied Arts.

Futro Design is a creative communication studio, tackling everything from logos, symbols, and trademarks, visual identity, packaging design and branding, all the way to slogans, campaigns and communicating the brand as a whole to the market.

The creative mantra they hold to at all levels of a project is Complicate Simply.

They have offices in Belgrade and New York and work for clients such as The Big Favorite, West 65, PSP-Farman Holding, Telekom Srbija, the United Nations, Matador Jeans, Montecali, Label Kings, Cacotec, Mona Hotel Management, Mona Plaza, Mona Man, Dr Colić, eFront, Nelt, Hemofarm and many others

• Position: Deputy Chief of Party on the Cooperation for Growth project
• Organisation:  USAID
• Website: https://saradnja.rs/

Dragana has more than 20 years’ professional experience in commercial law and reform in Serbia, as well as 15 years’ experience as an advisor in the areas of state policy, facilitating public/private sector dialogue and capacity-building in various government bodies. As Deputy Chief of Party on USAID’s Bankruptcy and Enforcement Strengthening Activity, as well as on USAID’s Business Enabling Project, of which she later became Chief of Party, she served as the main liaison between USAID and Serbian institutions. She has led and organised teams up to 25 members strong and headed the complex regulatory reform that these projects implemented, such as reform of inspection oversight, reform of building permission and reform of the bankruptcy and enforcement procedure. She is now Deputy Chief of Party on the Cooperation for Growth project, to which she contributes her knowledge, expertise, experience and positive energy.

• Position: Entrepreneur
• Organisation: Anđeli
• Website: www.andjeli.rs
• Facebook: andjelikolaci
• Instagram: andjelikolaci

Milica Čalija is an entrepreneur, business mentor, TEDx speaker and activist. She is the co-founder and director of a small family business producing a range of oatcakes branded Anđeli (Angels). Milica has a career spanning twenty years working in PR and marketing in large companies, and in 2019 founded a school of entrepreneurship with the idea to empower and train small business owners. In 2019 she was the only entrepreneur from Serbia to speak at the EU’s Western Balkans Summit on the topic of entrepreneurship.

• Position: Entrepreneur
• Organisation: Home Health Care Service ,,Mobilna sestra“ (Mobile Nurse)
• Website: https://www.mobilnasestra.rs/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MobilnaSestra/
• Instagram: @mobilna.sestra
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/10465546/

Žaklina Nedeljković is a graduate in health management and a licensed medical nurse. She is the proud mother of two grown-up children and grandmother to Zara. In 2015, at the age of 47, she set up the „Mobilna sestra“ (Mobile Nurse) Home Health Care Service, which provides medical nurses for on-call home visits. After 26 years working in the state and private sectors, where she gained experience leading a variety of medical teams, Žaklina decided to invest her knowledge in launching a home health care service. Mobile Nurse provides care to clients in their own homes, from newborns all the way to the most elderly.

In 2016 Žaklina was presented with the prestigious „Žena zmaj“ award, and in 2019 with the Balkan Oscar. Through her work and achievements she hopes to inspire and help people around her. One of the nicknames she has acquired whilst working with clients has been the Lady with the Healing Smile. She hopes to replace terms like “home care” and “health visitor” with the term “mobile nurse”.

• Position: Entrepreneur
• Organisation: Domaccini
• Website: www.domaccini.rs
• Instagram: @domaccini_rs
• Facebook: domaccini

Marija Slović – entrepreneur and owner of a store, Domaccini, owner of a small business producing cheese and kajmak (a type of full-fat cream traditional in Serbia), and first and foremost a food technologist. Marija is also one of 700 leading IFS auditors in the world, tasked with evaluating food safety. In her shop, apart from handmade products made by her own business you can find a variety of non-industrial products made by small businesses from all over Serbia. She is a mother of four.

• Position: Entrepreneur
• Organisation: Mingle
• Website: http://www.mingle.rs
• Facebook: mingle.namaz
• Instagram: @mingle_namaz

Dragan Fras is the founder and creative director of the full-service marketing agency Domino Communications.

During a career spanning many years he has run campaigns for brands such as Société Générale Bank, Delhaize, Delta Holding, Honda, Štark, Droga Kolinska, CBRE and Balkan Bet.

His love for setting good ideas in motion and for growing quality brands have helped him recognise the importance and potential of locally-made products such as a completely natural jam from the foothills of Mount Golija. Thus the Mingle brand was born.