Startup Weekend Belgrade

Past event…

Mar 22 2013 Event Ended

Prince Alexander Foundation for Education

How about finally realizing that startup idea of yours in 54 hours?

How about finally meeting that designer, that developer and that marketing guy/girl you always wanted/needed…

And how about having fun in the process!

Get ready for a weekend of meeting new people, exchanging ideas, building teams, sharing and collaborating on the next big thing!

That is what the 1st Belgrade Startup Weekend is all about!

We give you everything you need, great venue (The Royal Palace at Bulevar kneza Aleksandra Karadjordjevica 96), awesome food & drinks and most importantly, experienced coaches to answer all your questions no matter how simple they are.

We’re also packing several nice prizes for the winners-that is, the best startup ideas as seen by our judges.

Registration is closed, let’s have a great weekend!

For any info, feel free to call at 011-3064012.
The address of the venue is The Royal Palace at Bulevar kneza Aleksandra Karadjordjevica 96.

To learn more about startup weekend globally, watch a short video trailer here. For a longer version, click here.

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Schedule

Friday

Mar 22

5:30pm Registration Starts
6:30pm Welcome & Speakers
7:20pm Pitches Start
8:30pm Attendees vote for the top ideas
9:00pm Dinner & Networking
9:15pm Teams start forming and discussing ideas
10:00pm Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Saturday

Mar 23

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
9:30am Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
4:00pm Startups & Creatives meetup
7:30pm Dinner
10:00pm Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Mar 24

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00am Call for help (this is self motivated, so don’t be shy)
12:00pm Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
13:30pm Lunch
3:00pm Gut check. Start prepping for presentations
5:00pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS
7:00pm Judging & awards
7:30pm Wrapup
8:00pm Dinner & Networking
9:00pm Go home!

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Speakers

Slobodan Djinović

CEO at Orion Telekom

Slobodan Djinović is one of the pioneers of the wireless Internet market in Serbia and founded Media Works in 2000, which became one of the leading alternative Internet service providers in Serbia. Media Works built the first WiMax network and launched wireless Internet services in 2004. In 2010 Media Works merged with two other large ISPs, Sezampro and Neobee.net to create what is known today as Orion Telecom, the second national fixed phone operator and leading alternative telecommunications provider in Serbia.

Stefan Lazarević

State Secretary at Ministry of Foreign and Internal Trade and Telecommunications

Up to July 2012 he worked in the Ministry of Finance, Cabinet of the Minister, where he was engaged in the creation of the Ministerial strategy, cooperation with international institutions and promotion of e-commerce.

In the period of 2008-2011 he worked in the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society as an advisor for European Integration and International Cooperation Minister’s office.

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Judges

Aleksandar Čabrilo

Co-founder at SBAN

Aleksandar is a co-founder and president of Serbian Business Angels Network (SBAN), one of the leading venture capital/private equity organizations in Serbia that brings together investors, successful entrepreneurs and other relevant stakeholders. Since May 2012, SBAN represents SEE region in a Board of Directors at EBAN (European Business Angels Network).

Hercules Fisherman

Business Angel in London

Hercules is an award winning artist as well as technologist and entrepreneur.

He has been speaker, judge or guest at the WebSummit, DevTank, 3DS, Mobile World Congress, LeWeb and at the Universities of Middlesex, Nottingham and Manchester as well as LCP and LaSalle – Barcelona.

These days Herx is dividing his time between arts on the one hand, and mentoring & investing in technology start-ups on the other. He’s collaborating with other Business Angels to create an start-up accelerator for innovation in central London, he’s also mentoring at a number of institutions and colleges, and he’s working closely with promising start-ups Lectrio, Amoo, GiniCam and Foodity. His last company Fizzback exited for nearly $100m where he was the founding CTO.

He is a member of London HackSpace and a regular participant at hackatons in and outside UK.

Branislava Gajić

CEO at Infostud

Branislava Gajić Stanojević is CEO and Co - owner at Internet company Infostud. Graduated from Faculty of Political Sciences in Journalism and Comunicology, in 2000 she founded Infostud with a group of enthusiast, at that time, mainly students. Today, Infostud develops and leads its own websites in 4 areas of e-business: recruitment and employment, education , cars and tourism and employs around 90 people.

Vladimir Prelovac

CEO at Manage WP

Impressive credential: Successfully brought an Eastern European company to the global market, growing it from 4 to 40 employees in one year.

Why people think he is insane: Multitasking three startup companies (Manage WP, Prelovac Media and Supersonic Parachute), while still managing to travel 2 months every year and maintain a private pilot license. While being a dad to a baby girl.

David Schoch

President at Serbian Private Equity Association

David Schoch has more than 13 years experience working in the emerging markets of Europe, and over 18 years experience working in technology and investments. He currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Orion Telekom

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Coaches

Andre Pier Buzdum

Founder at Ursus Lab and the City

Finished MSU (Moscow State university) and HEC (Haute ecole commerciale de Paris). Worked at Morgan Stanley and Gazprom later moved to the IT industry.
Currently he is the founder of two project Ursus Lab and the City, Shareholder and VP in the Russian Siberian Gas Inc and external consultant to a number of Russian companies.

Christen Bradley Farmer

Founder at MACH IV Consulting

Christen Bradley Farmer, founder of MACH IV Consulting, brings more than twenty years experience in business development, sales, management consulting, and PR and communication advisory. His extensive experience from the United States, Saudi Arabia, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong, and Serbia allows him to understand the diversity of needs in international business as well as the subtleties called for by international communications. Based in Serbia since 2002, he has worked with the largest and most significant investors in the Serbian market, creating and implementing communication strategies, business assessments, as well as positioning and reputation-management strategies.

Patricia Gannon

Managing Partner at Karanovic & Nikolic

Patricia Gannon is an Irish/ UK qualified Solicitor who is Managing Partner of Karanovic & Nikolic, a leading regional commercial law firm. With over 20 years legal experience in Dublin, Brussels, Munich and Serbia, she has advised many entrepreneurs on their legal needs. This experience and the belief in educating the business community on options for finance and development led her to establish the Serbian Private Equity Association where she is a Member of the Board.

Danilo Goliani

University professor of management and marketing

Prof. Danilo Goliani, PhD is a management consultant, a university professor of management and marketing and a franchise owner of FranklinCovey USA.

His clients are the World Bank, European Agency for Reconstruction, Swiss Agency for Development, Government of Serbia and prominent companies in Serbia. He founded Oivivio LLC, a firm that owns and manages several fairs, conferences, contests and other events.

After receiving a Ph.D. from University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles in solid-state physics, specializing in nanotechnology, his business and banking family’s background steered Dr. Goliani toward the high level business world. He was a President and CEO of a high-tech company in the Silicon Valley, CA.

Vuk Guberinić

Executive Director at Serbian Private Equity Association

Vuk Guberinić graduated in Finance at Greensboro College and got MBA in St. John’s University in Rome, both with Cum Laude. He started his career in Columbia Partners, Fund of Funds and from Moses Cone Health System/LeBauer Healthcare and SEAF Balkan Fund through Surikati Ltd got to Serbian Private Equity Association where he holds a position of Executive Director. He also works in Orion Telekom as a Business Analyst.

Aleksandar Gvozden

CEO at Casetrek

Alex has BSc. in Computer Science. He has been developing for web more then 10 years and has experience in leading software projects with up to 10 people. Alex had success with previous start-ups Getcu3er and he's working on a new one, that is set to transform legal industry Casetrek. Alex is very passionate and hard working guy.

Zoran Ilić

CEO at Biomelem

Zoran Ilić was born in Serbia and has been an entrepreneur since age 20. He founded Biomelem a manufacturer of herbal remedies and cosmetics with his wife Zorana and the company is one of the premier businesses of this sort in Serbia. He was a co-founder of Borislav Stankovic, the first college of basketball in the world, as well as the NGO Moj Heroj.

Biomelem is proud to utilize centuries of tradition based on natural remedies that both Zoran and Zorana inherited from their families. Having firsthand experience of the benefits of these products they decided to market them and share their natural goodness with the wider public.

Panos Kalatzantonakis

Entrepreneur, Software engineer, Data Analyst

Panos Kalatzantonakis has more than 19 years of experience in programming, and for the past 8 years he is actively involved in the European startup ecosystem.

He boasts for well rounded skills ranging from initial requirements gathering to delivering full implementations of products. He has played a significant role in various awarded and acclaimed startups.

He specializes in web and internet technologies, with a twist on data analysis, and is frantic about hacking around data integrity and security issues.

A geek by heart, besides being a mentor and developer, he is a proud lover of maths and algorithms. He runs on huge amounts of coffee.

Sinisa Komlenic

Co-founder at Themes Kingdom

The entrepreneur with two active and profitable start-up behind him and an inexhaustible source of new ideas concepts. Interface designer, publisher, start-educator, mentor and speaker. He lives and launches in Novi Sad.

Vladimir Nikolić

CEO at Limundo.com

Vladimir Nikolić was born in Belgrade, Serbia, roughly 29 years ago. With 4 years he left with his family to Berlin, Germany. In Germany he learned the great advantages of freedom and a multicultural environment. After high school he decided to move back
with the family to Serbia.

During studies in Serbia, he worked as a DJ in Germany and as a translator in Serbia. Since he comes from an entrepreneurial family, he started together with his brother Nenad the internet company Limundo. The goal was to give people in Serbia the great possibilities the internet and especially
e-commerce was able to deliver in other countries.

The company hast two most visited e-commerce sites in Serbia: Limundo (auctions) and Kupindo (marketplace).

In 2009-2010 the company, with Vladimir as chairman, was able to
attract investments of 1mil EUR, having now over 30 employees.

Alex Petrovic

Partner at JSP law firm

Alex Petrovic graduated from the University of Buckingham Law School and completed postgraduate studies in applied information technology at the Information Technology Institute in Toronto.

Mr. Petrovic specializes in information technology (IT) law which includes software licensing and development, maintenance, outsourcing, internet and e-commerce, e-banking, e-government, e-gaming, digital intellectual property and rights management, digital data protection, service level agreements etc.

He acquired extensive international experience in the IT industry as a project manager and legal advisor in Canada, England and Slovenia. Mr. Petrovic is involved in the drafting of various e-laws in cooperation with the Serbian and Belgrade Chambers of Commerce, AmCham Serbia and the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society. He is founder of the Serbian Canadian Business Network and works with US Aid, the US Commercial Service, SAM (Serbian Association of Managers) and SIEPA (Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency) on IT related matters.

Vladimir Prelovac

CEO at Manage WP

Danny Stefanić

CEO at ExitReality Inc

Danny Stefanić is CEO of the 3D internet company ExitReality Inc, founder of the International Virtual Reality Association and chairman of the recently acquired games social network Koinup. Called a "visionary" by his peers and deemed by Wall Street CIOs and Silicon Valley VCs to be "one of the pioneers in his field", he has been creating ground breaking 3D businesses for over 20 years.

He has assisted companies with angel investment, international licensing, acquisitions, exits, managing distributed teams and has personally closed IP acquisitions valued at $85M.

Danny actively works with young businesses to share his experiences

Danica Radišić

Partner at Krazy Fish Media

Managing partner at Krazy Fish Media - New media, online PR and CRM consulting, community management, event management. Writer, translator, copywriter with 14 years experience in various fields. Interpreter, writer, copywriter, old-school poet, blogger, webmaster, new media addict & consultant, art loving information junkie of relatively questionable sanity. Native languages are English, Serbian and Portuguese. Also fluent in Spanish, Italian and French.

Ivan Rasić

CEO at CaseTrek

Ivan Rasic holds a double master degree in Finance Law from University in Nis and Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

He is a founder and CEO of CaseTrek, an online legal case management software for solo lawyers, small and mid-sized law firms.

Ivan Rasic constantly seeks ways to redefine mindset.

Alexandros Theofanidis

Software Engineer & Startup Architect

Startup addict and entrepreneur since web 2.0 became mainstream. Software engineer for more than 14 years with an endless passion for entrepreneurship. At a recent Startup weekend in Athens, he was coaching the team (FR8), which actually won the event. In addition, Mediterranean College in Greece invited him to guest speak on a subject "How to start a startup?".

Petar Vojinović

Owner at Tango Six

Journalist, blogger, entrepreneur and a life-long aviator. Owner of the Tango Six aviation media consulting, author of the most read regional aviation news portal TangoSix.rs.

With a BBA in management and with courage in his heart, was the owner of three small business ventures in the field of aviation. Now focused exclusively on new media and the internet, he is building, for four years now, a multiform media and publishing business centered on aviation. Having minimum three impossible ideas at any giving time, always willing to give back to the most courageous of communities - the startup one.

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