CUTTING
EDGE OF
DIGITAL MIND
September 20, 2018

Fons Trompenaars
Founder at Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Consulting

Dr. Fons Trompenaars is recognised around world for his work as consultant, trainer, motivational speaker and author of various books on all subjects of culture and business.

He has spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 leaders manage and solve their business and cultural dilemmas to increase global effectiveness and performance, particularly in areas of globalisation, mergers and acquisition, HR and leadership department.

He joined Shell in 1981 and moved into the Personnel Division for Shell in Roterdam. From 1985, he worked in job classification and management development at the Shell Research Laboratories in Amsterdam. In 1989 he founded the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international management. Since 1998 they operate as Trompenaars Hampden-Turner. Fons Trompenaars has worked as a consultant for Shell, BP, ICI, Philips, Heineken, TRW, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Nike, Cable and Wireless, CSM and Merrill Lynch.

Enno Park
Cyborg, Author and Speaker

Enno Park is a Cyborg, Author and Speaker. He is a member of the research project “futurebody” at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and member of Advisory board of VALID research project on ethical aspects of digitalisation in the health sector at University of Applied Sciences, Furtwangen, Germany.

Leonhard Muigg
Industry 4.0 Coordinator at Siemens AG Austria

Leonhard Muigg has been working as Industry 4.0 Coordinator of Siemens AG Austria since 1 November 2015. He acts as a communicator between the Siemens divisions and the Industry partners to position and promote the topic of Industry 4.0. In addition, he coordinates the activities with those responsible for Siemens in the economic area of ​​Central and Eastern Europe. Previously, he had been working for Siemens as Enterprise Sales Executive since 2008, where he brought his expertise in digital manufacturing planning to clients across all industries. Prior to that, he had been with TECNOMATIX since 2002. His knowledge in the field of digital production planning and digital factory, he acquired in his many years of work in the industry – so he was able to build this topic in Austria and develop.

Fons Trompenaars
Founder at Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Consulting

Dr. Fons Trompenaars is recognised around world for his work as consultant, trainer, motivational speaker and author of various books on all subjects of culture and business.

He has spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 leaders manage and solve their business and cultural dilemmas to increase global effectiveness and performance, particularly in areas of globalisation, mergers and acquisition, HR and leadership department.

He joined Shell in 1981 and moved into the Personnel Division for Shell in Roterdam. From 1985, he worked in job classification and management development at the Shell Research Laboratories in Amsterdam. In 1989 he founded the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international management. Since 1998 they operate as Trompenaars Hampden-Turner. Fons Trompenaars has worked as a consultant for Shell, BP, ICI, Philips, Heineken, TRW, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Nike, Cable and Wireless, CSM and Merrill Lynch.

Enno Park
Cyborg, Author and Speaker

Enno Park is a Cyborg, Author and Speaker. He is a member of the research project “futurebody” at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and member of Advisory board of VALID research project on ethical aspects of digitalisation in the health sector at University of Applied Sciences, Furtwangen, Germany.

Leonhard Muigg
Industry 4.0 Coordinator at Siemens AG Austria

Leonhard Muigg has been working as Industry 4.0 Coordinator of Siemens AG Austria since 1 November 2015. He acts as a communicator between the Siemens divisions and the Industry partners to position and promote the topic of Industry 4.0. In addition, he coordinates the activities with those responsible for Siemens in the economic area of ​​Central and Eastern Europe. Previously, he had been working for Siemens as Enterprise Sales Executive since 2008, where he brought his expertise in digital manufacturing planning to clients across all industries. Prior to that, he had been with TECNOMATIX since 2002. His knowledge in the field of digital production planning and digital factory, he acquired in his many years of work in the industry – so he was able to build this topic in Austria and develop.

Peter Boras
CEO & Founder, RoboticsX Germany

EXPERIENCE

• CEO & Founder at RoboticsX
• TELE2 IoT Solutions, Germany
• Executive Board Advisor for IoT / Internet of Things and M2M at Si.mobil / Telekom Austria Group
• Global Sales and Marketing Director at Visionect d.o.o.
• General Director at Central Europe Digital Agency – CEDA

Marko Thaler
Head of Digital Labs at Kolektor

Marko is an entrepreneur with 13 years of advanced mechatronic systems design and development experience. After finishing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering he co-founded Airnamics that specialises in custom development of high-performance drones and industrial robotics systems. His core technical expertise are mechatronic systems design and artificial intelligence. After Airnamics became part of Kolektor, a multinational company in automotive, power, and civil engineering space, he also became Head of Kolektor Digital Labs. Labs is an industrial incubator focused on solving the challenges in the Industry 4.0 space by combining Kolektor’s industrial domain knowledge with AI, advanced robotics, and other digital technologies.

Matej Potokar
Executive Vice President at Cosylab

EXPERIENCE

• Executive Vice President at Cosylab
• General Manager – Customer Service & Support (CSS) Division – Western Europe at Microsoft
• General Manager – Services Division – Central & Eastern Europe at Microsoft
• Senior Director – Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) Division – Central & Eastern Europe at Microsoft

Fons Trompenaars
Founder at Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Consulting

Dr. Fons Trompenaars is recognised around world for his work as consultant, trainer, motivational speaker and author of various books on all subjects of culture and business.

He has spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 leaders manage and solve their business and cultural dilemmas to increase global effectiveness and performance, particularly in areas of globalisation, mergers and acquisition, HR and leadership department.

He joined Shell in 1981 and moved into the Personnel Division for Shell in Roterdam. From 1985, he worked in job classification and management development at the Shell Research Laboratories in Amsterdam. In 1989 he founded the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international management. Since 1998 they operate as Trompenaars Hampden-Turner. Fons Trompenaars has worked as a consultant for Shell, BP, ICI, Philips, Heineken, TRW, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Nike, Cable and Wireless, CSM and Merrill Lynch.

Enno Park
Cyborg, Author and Speaker

Enno Park is a Cyborg, Author and Speaker. He is a member of the research project “futurebody” at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and member of Advisory board of VALID research project on ethical aspects of digitalisation in the health sector at University of Applied Sciences, Furtwangen, Germany.

Leonhard Muigg
Industry 4.0 Coordinator at Siemens AG Austria

Leonhard Muigg has been working as Industry 4.0 Coordinator of Siemens AG Austria since 1 November 2015. He acts as a communicator between the Siemens divisions and the Industry partners to position and promote the topic of Industry 4.0. In addition, he coordinates the activities with those responsible for Siemens in the economic area of ​​Central and Eastern Europe. Previously, he had been working for Siemens as Enterprise Sales Executive since 2008, where he brought his expertise in digital manufacturing planning to clients across all industries. Prior to that, he had been with TECNOMATIX since 2002. His knowledge in the field of digital production planning and digital factory, he acquired in his many years of work in the industry – so he was able to build this topic in Austria and develop.

Peter Boras
CEO & Founder, RoboticsX Germany

EXPERIENCE

• CEO & Founder at RoboticsX
• TELE2 IoT Solutions, Germany
• Executive Board Advisor for IoT / Internet of Things and M2M at Si.mobil / Telekom Austria Group
• Global Sales and Marketing Director at Visionect d.o.o.
• General Director at Central Europe Digital Agency – CEDA

Marko Thaler
Head of Digital Labs at Kolektor

Marko is an entrepreneur with 13 years of advanced mechatronic systems design and development experience. After finishing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering he co-founded Airnamics that specialises in custom development of high-performance drones and industrial robotics systems. His core technical expertise are mechatronic systems design and artificial intelligence. After Airnamics became part of Kolektor, a multinational company in automotive, power, and civil engineering space, he also became Head of Kolektor Digital Labs. Labs is an industrial incubator focused on solving the challenges in the Industry 4.0 space by combining Kolektor’s industrial domain knowledge with AI, advanced robotics, and other digital technologies.

Matej Potokar
Executive Vice President at Cosylab

EXPERIENCE

• Executive Vice President at Cosylab
• General Manager – Customer Service & Support (CSS) Division – Western Europe at Microsoft
• General Manager – Services Division – Central & Eastern Europe at Microsoft
• Senior Director – Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) Division – Central & Eastern Europe at Microsoft

Miha Valentinčič
Director Innovative business models and Digitalization at Petrol

EXPERIENCE

• Director Innovative business models and Digitalization at Petrol d.d., Ljubljana
• Director at Geoenergo d.o.o., Oil&Gas production company
• Energy and Environment Development Director at Petrol d.d., Ljubljana
• Director of strategic activities at Petrol d.d., Ljubljana
• Procurator at Eltec Petrol d.o.o.

Roman Kužnar
CEO at RC IKT d.o.o.

Since 2013, Dr. Roman Kužnar is managing technology park RC IKT, d.o.o., a daughter company of Iskratel. He is responsible for Iskratel’s corporate start-up program and other operations and initiatives related to entrepreneurships, start-up investments, technology park infrastructure and services offerings for SMEs and start-ups, with the goal to facilitate the cooperation between innovative, globally oriented hi-tech start-ups, SMEs and Iskratel, a leading EU telecommunication vendor and info-communication solution provider. He received Bachelor degree and Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Ljubljana, respectively in 1990 and 1996. He joined Iskratel in 1996, after completing PhD study as Young researcher at University of Ljubljana. Within Iskratel, he took engineering roles and management responsibilities in RD, product and innovation management, and business development. From the beginning in 2005, he is also the Director of Sintesio, the internationally recognized interoperability test laboratory for information and communication technologies. Under his leadership and in cooperation with global standardization bodies and leading ICT industry forums, Sintesio laboratory co-organized and hosted several global interoperability test events and provided consultancy services to regulators in Africa and Gulf countries in the area of electronic communication services, next-generation networks and 3GPP networks.

Julij Božič
Chief Innovation and Digital Officer at BTC, d.d.

Julij Božič is distinguished by years of experience and achievements in information and communications technologies, and long-standing experience in marketing, sales and management. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics (Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana), having upgraded his knowledge and was awarded the MBA title at the University of Warwick, UK. Julij joined IBM in 1999 as a product manager, continued to work as key account manager and later assumed the position of a software sales manager. From September 2013 till May 2016 he was in a position of IBM Country leader for Slovenia and Bosnia.

From May 2016 he took new challenge as a Chief Innovation and Digital Officer at BTC, d.d. company, responsible for digital transformation and innovation of BTC core business segments.

In his work, he remains focused on ideas that go beyond frameworks. About himself, he says that he is an “out of the box thinker”, who is successfully leading his team in achieving business goals. His personal motto is: “If you don’t go, you don’t have a story”.

Julij is a member of numerous business and economic interest groups in Slovenia, such as AmCham Slovenia, the Manager Association and ABC Accelerator, where he uses his experience and knowledge while consulting as a mentor many young talents –  future representatives of the Slovenian economic environment.

Fons Trompenaars
Founder at Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Consulting

Dr. Fons Trompenaars is recognised around world for his work as consultant, trainer, motivational speaker and author of various books on all subjects of culture and business.

He has spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 leaders manage and solve their business and cultural dilemmas to increase global effectiveness and performance, particularly in areas of globalisation, mergers and acquisition, HR and leadership department.

He joined Shell in 1981 and moved into the Personnel Division for Shell in Roterdam. From 1985, he worked in job classification and management development at the Shell Research Laboratories in Amsterdam. In 1989 he founded the Centre for International Business Studies, a consulting and training organization for international management. Since 1998 they operate as Trompenaars Hampden-Turner. Fons Trompenaars has worked as a consultant for Shell, BP, ICI, Philips, Heineken, TRW, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Nike, Cable and Wireless, CSM and Merrill Lynch.

Enno Park
Cyborg, Author and Speaker

Enno Park is a Cyborg, Author and Speaker. He is a member of the research project “futurebody” at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and member of Advisory board of VALID research project on ethical aspects of digitalisation in the health sector at University of Applied Sciences, Furtwangen, Germany.

Leonhard Muigg
Industry 4.0 Coordinator at Siemens AG Austria

Leonhard Muigg has been working as Industry 4.0 Coordinator of Siemens AG Austria since 1 November 2015. He acts as a communicator between the Siemens divisions and the Industry partners to position and promote the topic of Industry 4.0. In addition, he coordinates the activities with those responsible for Siemens in the economic area of ​​Central and Eastern Europe. Previously, he had been working for Siemens as Enterprise Sales Executive since 2008, where he brought his expertise in digital manufacturing planning to clients across all industries. Prior to that, he had been with TECNOMATIX since 2002. His knowledge in the field of digital production planning and digital factory, he acquired in his many years of work in the industry – so he was able to build this topic in Austria and develop.

Peter Boras
CEO & Founder, RoboticsX Germany

EXPERIENCE

• CEO & Founder at RoboticsX
• TELE2 IoT Solutions, Germany
• Executive Board Advisor for IoT / Internet of Things and M2M at Si.mobil / Telekom Austria Group
• Global Sales and Marketing Director at Visionect d.o.o.
• General Director at Central Europe Digital Agency – CEDA

Marko Thaler
Head of Digital Labs at Kolektor

Marko is an entrepreneur with 13 years of advanced mechatronic systems design and development experience. After finishing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering he co-founded Airnamics that specialises in custom development of high-performance drones and industrial robotics systems. His core technical expertise are mechatronic systems design and artificial intelligence. After Airnamics became part of Kolektor, a multinational company in automotive, power, and civil engineering space, he also became Head of Kolektor Digital Labs. Labs is an industrial incubator focused on solving the challenges in the Industry 4.0 space by combining Kolektor’s industrial domain knowledge with AI, advanced robotics, and other digital technologies.

Matej Potokar
Executive Vice President at Cosylab

EXPERIENCE

• Executive Vice President at Cosylab
• General Manager – Customer Service & Support (CSS) Division – Western Europe at Microsoft
• General Manager – Services Division – Central & Eastern Europe at Microsoft
• Senior Director – Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) Division – Central & Eastern Europe at Microsoft

Miha Valentinčič
Director Innovative business models and Digitalization at Petrol

EXPERIENCE

• Director Innovative business models and Digitalization at Petrol d.d., Ljubljana
• Director at Geoenergo d.o.o., Oil&Gas production company
• Energy and Environment Development Director at Petrol d.d., Ljubljana
• Director of strategic activities at Petrol d.d., Ljubljana
• Procurator at Eltec Petrol d.o.o.

Roman Kužnar
CEO at RC IKT d.o.o.

Since 2013, Dr. Roman Kužnar is managing technology park RC IKT, d.o.o., a daughter company of Iskratel. He is responsible for Iskratel’s corporate start-up program and other operations and initiatives related to entrepreneurships, start-up investments, technology park infrastructure and services offerings for SMEs and start-ups, with the goal to facilitate the cooperation between innovative, globally oriented hi-tech start-ups, SMEs and Iskratel, a leading EU telecommunication vendor and info-communication solution provider. He received Bachelor degree and Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Ljubljana, respectively in 1990 and 1996. He joined Iskratel in 1996, after completing PhD study as Young researcher at University of Ljubljana. Within Iskratel, he took engineering roles and management responsibilities in RD, product and innovation management, and business development. From the beginning in 2005, he is also the Director of Sintesio, the internationally recognized interoperability test laboratory for information and communication technologies. Under his leadership and in cooperation with global standardization bodies and leading ICT industry forums, Sintesio laboratory co-organized and hosted several global interoperability test events and provided consultancy services to regulators in Africa and Gulf countries in the area of electronic communication services, next-generation networks and 3GPP networks.

Julij Božič
Chief Innovation and Digital Officer at BTC, d.d.

Julij Božič is distinguished by years of experience and achievements in information and communications technologies, and long-standing experience in marketing, sales and management. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics (Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana), having upgraded his knowledge and was awarded the MBA title at the University of Warwick, UK. Julij joined IBM in 1999 as a product manager, continued to work as key account manager and later assumed the position of a software sales manager. From September 2013 till May 2016 he was in a position of IBM Country leader for Slovenia and Bosnia.

From May 2016 he took new challenge as a Chief Innovation and Digital Officer at BTC, d.d. company, responsible for digital transformation and innovation of BTC core business segments.

In his work, he remains focused on ideas that go beyond frameworks. About himself, he says that he is an “out of the box thinker”, who is successfully leading his team in achieving business goals. His personal motto is: “If you don’t go, you don’t have a story”.

Julij is a member of numerous business and economic interest groups in Slovenia, such as AmCham Slovenia, the Manager Association and ABC Accelerator, where he uses his experience and knowledge while consulting as a mentor many young talents –  future representatives of the Slovenian economic environment.

Klemen Zupancic 
CEO sciNote LLC, PhD Biomedicine:

Klemen’s scientific knowledge combined with his passion for cutting edge technology has been the drive behind sciNote LLC, USA based company whose product became one of the leading open source Electronic Lab Notebooks.

Alongside his business career, Klemen was focused on developing methods for diagnosing and treating cancer. He is also a cofounder of BioSistemika LLC, one of the top software development companies for life science laboratories.

Nino Pirtovšek
Head of Business Development at OriginTrail

Nino Pirtovšek is Head of Business Development at OriginTrail – a blockchain company enabling businesses to speak the same language with integrity. He is helping companies connect their supply chain data to the blockchain and run the next generation of business applications on top of it. Nino previously worked as a consultant at Deloitte and PwC, helping execute business transformation for over 30 companies.

Aleš Groznik
Full Professor at Faculty of Economics Ljubljana

Aleš Groznik is a full professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Business Logistics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana. He has published over 150 articles ranging from supply chain management to e-business. Prior joining the University, he worked for multinational companies in the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industry.