Lea (Kosović) Stanić
CEO & Founder @ LOL Event Management
Lea is the owner of the LOL Event Management agency, which deals with the planning, organization, and realization of (mostly business) events and conferences. She started her journey of organizing events in 2014. She graduated from the Faculty of Communication Management, and entered the world of entrepreneurship during her studies. At the end of her fourth year of college, she started her own company and has been enjoying the benefits of entrepreneurship and Event Management ever since. During the corona crisis, she launched events aimed to connecting, empowering and popularizing the event industry - Eventualno. and eventfest. In her 8 years of organizing events, she has participated in the organization and realization of numerous events such as Weekend Media Festival, RESET conference, Digital Takeover 2020, The Ladies of New Business, RockPaperStartups, CRO LinkedIn MeetUP, The Art of Feminine Leadership conference, Tech Breakfast, Pop Up Summer Garden and Pop Up Winter Garden, Sport Festa Poreč, ELFS fashion shows, Floraart and many others. She has passed the CPD certificate for Event Management, and she is happy to transfer her knowledge and experience about events on examples from the experience.
Marija Zeljković
CEO & Founder Alternative Serbia
Marija is a PhD student at the Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade. During her undergraduate and master's studies, she specialized in the field of tourism, and thanks to her scientific achievements, she was named a student of the Faculty of Geography's generation, with an average grade of 10.00. After obtaining formal education, Marija launched the innovative project Alternative Serbia, with the aim of encouraging the development of tourism in Serbia and enabling foreigners to participate in local, authentic experiences through which they will learn about Serbian culture, history, traditions and lifestyle. It strives to promote Serbia, contribute to the domestic economy and local community, and help tourists understand, love and retell this destination. As a reflection of many years of efforts on the academic level and the development of her own business, Marija was declared the Best Young Leader in Tourism in 2021 at the MEKST conference. She participated in numerous conferences in the country and abroad, held lectures and workshops in the field of tourism, public speaking and business development and published several scientific and research papers. In her spare time she travels, writes and dances.
Dr Rob Davidson
Director of MICE Knowledge
Dr Rob Davidson is the Managing Director of MICE Knowledge, a London-based consultancy specialising in research, education and training services for the meetings and events industry. His main area of expertise is business tourism, and he has written seven books on this theme, including his latest publication, Business Events (https://www.routledge.com/Business-Events/Davidson/p/book/9781138735767). He is regularly invited to speak at international conferences on topics linked to business tourism, in particular to present the results of his ongoing research into conference industry trends. Rob also teaches as a Visiting Professor in three European universities, where he educates and inspires Events Management and Tourism Management students every year. In 2015, he was awarded a Doctorate from the University of Greenwich for his thesis, entitled ‘Technological and Demographic Factors as Agents of Change in the Development of Business Events’. In 2016, he won the Best Conference Speaker award at the Global Event Awards. In 2017, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the IBTM WORLD exhibition in Barcelona.
Adem Braco Suljić
Zagreb - Croatia MEETEX Co-Founder and Director | GM at Innovative Events Ltd.
Adem's - in the region better known under the nickname Braco - extensive international career in the world of MICE lasts for 30+ years. It included executive positions in MICE support and organization companies in Croatia and Spain - taking part in events with over 20.000 participants – as well as management roles in Meeting Infrastructure projects in Europe, Africa and Asia. Adem's list of references is pretty long and counts with clients such as IOC, WB, IMF, UN, NATO, EU, EC, OSCE etc. Since 2011 he focuses on Business and Market Development, and since 2016 on Destination Marketing and B2B events management, as well as on MICE Consulting, including special niches like connections between technology, humanity and behavioral economics, naturally in MICE environment. Braco owns the license of a popular event app, he is regular and CCMEP Certified member of CMPA Croatian Meeting Professionals Association, a member of SKAL International, and is a frequent speaker at industry gatherings. In free time passionate about sailing and gastronomy.
Kristina Milinčić
CEO of Sava Center
CEO of Sava Center, DeltaHolding Since 2020, Mrs. Kristina Milinčić is the CEO of Sava Center, the congress center owned by Delta Holding, one of the leading companies in the SEE region. As such she is responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, managing employees and preparing the facility for a thorough reconstruction, after which she will be in charge of setting operational policy, creating and maintaining the budget as well as all other business and commercial activities of the congress center. Furthermore, she is responsible for congress center’s business strategy and for the implementation of all the plans related to further development and improvement. Previously, she was the Chief of Staff of the President of Delta Holding for eight years. She holds a bachelor’s degree at Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management. She’s a mother of a two-year old daughter.
Nevena Blanuša
Winner of SURVIVOR ’22
She comes from Zagreb. She has a master's degree in kinesiology in education with a focus on sports management. She currently works as a fitness instructor. She is an active field hockey player and a member of the Croatian senior national team. She is the winner of this year's television show Survivor Croatia/Serbia.
Vladimir Stanković
Founder and host of “Business stories” podcast
Graduated engineer of information technologies and unsuspecting programmer Vladimir Stanković founded Petguards, the first platform for keeping pets, during his studies. Through photography, he entered the world of Instagram and launched Instarocket, a service for marketing automation, from which VLADSDIGITAL was born. He is the founder of the most watched business podcast in the region called "Business stories". Characteristic of all his projects is that they were launched with minimal financial investments. Vladimir, aikido master 1st day.
Veselin Vladimir Zvekić
Influencer (veseleen)
He comes from a small town near Zrenjanin, but has been living and working in Novi Sad for almost a decade. Previously skilled in the kitchen, now in the field of digital marketing & influence. Through several stormy, dynamic and high-quality years, he managed to create an impression about his industry that he wants to share with everyone who wants to hear.
Milan Maglov
Specialist and educator in the field of marketing on social networks
More than 140 thousand people certainly know a lot about him because they follow his private profile on Facebook and Instagram (@milanmaglov). On his profiles, you can often see private things that reveal a side of his life, yet many people don't know what he has been doing professionally so far. Marketing is the field for which he was educated, and then very quickly started working in marketing agencies. He collaborated with the largest companies in Serbia, working on large and significant campaigns. Clients with whom he had the opportunity to cooperate are Japan Tobacco International, Telenor, Maxi, Tempo, Adidas, Samsung, GSK, Vojvođanska banka, Aleva and many others. In 2011, he began to pay more attention to digital, more precisely to community management, when he launched the Facebook page Daily Dose of Creativity. He is currently one of the leading freelancers in this field in the region, with over one million and three hundred thousand fans on the pages he manages. Even today, it is a challenge for him to cooperate with large and small clients, to improve one's business and to find new ways to attract people's attention for clients and achieve common goals. With his team, he currently manages Facebook pages and Instagram profiles for more than 20 clients. For more than seven years, he has been educating people who want to learn how to present their product, service or themselves on social networks. He thinks that what sets him apart from others in education is the fact that he is "on the subject" every day, that he can try new things, new techniques every day and pass that on to the people who come to the courses. You can find more information about this course on the website www.maglov.rs.
Marina Maljurić
MICE director, Montenegro Tourist Service DMC Special Advisor, MEKST Conference
Marina started her career in the meetings industry during her studies by joining the MEKST conference organisation team, which led her to the position of the program director and special advisor of few conferences in different fields. Firstly, working as a manager for the promotion and development of tourism product at Novi Sad Tourism organisation, and then being in charge of development and promotion of Novi Sad as a MICE destination, helped her gain more experience in destination development and promotion, as well as organisation of B2B events, FAM trips, festivals, etc. From the beginning of this year, Marina has started her work in the MICE industry of Montenegro, as MICE director at Montenegro Tourist Service DMC. Marina’s favorite quote: “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen”, Conan O'Brien
Dolores Milošev Erdeg
Journalist and author of the show and Instagram blog Zdrave Priče
Journalist and author of the show and Instagram blog Zdrave Priče, where she explores the topics of parenting and growing up, which is followed by ~25,000 people. Since 2014, she has her own company that offers various marketing services, and since 2 years ago, she started another business with her husband, i.e. a production company engaged in video production. He bases his knowledge of marketing on 10 years of working in the media, as a TV personality, author and presenter in various TV formats. She is convinced that there is always work to do, and it turned out that this was a useful attitude for her in life. He thinks that today's generation of students and young people will completely turn the market of jobs and business, we have already seriously stepped into it in practice, we just need to exclude the beliefs about entrepreneurship that were valid 50 years ago.
Maša Kuprešanin
entrepreneur and SURVIVOR 2022 participant
She is 25 years old and comes from Novi Sad. After finishing high school, she received a full sports scholarship at California State University-Sacramento. There she had a great rowing career and graduated with a degree in Family and Consumer Science-field Nutrition (for a Nutritionist) with an additional course in Coaching for a coach. After returning from America, her dream came true and she participated in the show Survivor. As a professional trainer before Survivor, after it, she focused her profession on children. As the founder of the sports association and brand Survaizveri, she started a series of polygonal races for children. Now he's working on a big project on the Nova S, which you'll be able to see soon.
Martina Anđelković
Head of Marketing (Tomorrow Conference)
Martina Anđelković, better known as Snajka, is a pioneer of digital marketing in the Balkans. Martina built her career through successful campaigns of the most visited music festivals in the region. She is the owner of the Snajka De Madre agency and is currently engaged in the music industry - as a public relations manager for the most popular musicians of the younger generation. Since recently, she has been the marketing director of the largest European conference for crypto, NFT and metaverse in Europe - Tomorrow Conference. Humanist through the action #nahranipsa. Initiator of guerrilla campaigns to help abandoned animals. Blockchain lover.
Bojana Bolović
Talent Development Manager at the Coca-Cola HBC company
Bojana is a graduate psychologist with 10 years of work experience in various international companies. Bojana has diverse experience in different segments of HR, primarily in recruitment and selection for positions of different seniority, then in identifying talent, developing employees, empowering employees and leaders in further development and realizing career aspirations.
Ena Rajić
spoken word poet, comedian and entrepreneur
Ena Rajić is a spoken word poet, comedian and entrepreneur. Combining performance art and entrepreneurship in the last 8 years, she has directed over 200 video films, held dozens of spoken word poetry performances and created the VIDEO START online course. She is the author of the poetry collection "Razmrljane boje nevremena" and the comedy-poetry show "Bez dlake na jeziku", and her most significant performances so far have been at the United Nations and at TEDx.
Lea (Kosović) Stanić
CEO & Founder @ LOL Event Management
Lea is the owner of the LOL Event Management agency, which deals with the planning, organization, and realization of (mostly business) events and conferences. She started her journey of organizing events in 2014. She graduated from the Faculty of Communication Management, and entered the world of entrepreneurship during her studies. At the end of her fourth year of college, she started her own company and has been enjoying the benefits of entrepreneurship and Event Management ever since. During the corona crisis, she launched events aimed to connecting, empowering and popularizing the event industry - Eventualno. and eventfest. In her 8 years of organizing events, she has participated in the organization and realization of numerous events such as Weekend Media Festival, RESET conference, Digital Takeover 2020, The Ladies of New Business, RockPaperStartups, CRO LinkedIn MeetUP, The Art of Feminine Leadership conference, Tech Breakfast, Pop Up Summer Garden and Pop Up Winter Garden, Sport Festa Poreč, ELFS fashion shows, Floraart and many others. She has passed the CPD certificate for Event Management, and she is happy to transfer her knowledge and experience about events on examples from the experience.
Marija Zeljković
CEO & Founder Alternative Serbia
Marija is a PhD student at the Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade. During her undergraduate and master's studies, she specialized in the field of tourism, and thanks to her scientific achievements, she was named a student of the Faculty of Geography's generation, with an average grade of 10.00. After obtaining formal education, Marija launched the innovative project Alternative Serbia, with the aim of encouraging the development of tourism in Serbia and enabling foreigners to participate in local, authentic experiences through which they will learn about Serbian culture, history, traditions and lifestyle. It strives to promote Serbia, contribute to the domestic economy and local community, and help tourists understand, love and retell this destination. As a reflection of many years of efforts on the academic level and the development of her own business, Marija was declared the Best Young Leader in Tourism in 2021 at the MEKST conference. She participated in numerous conferences in the country and abroad, held lectures and workshops in the field of tourism, public speaking and business development and published several scientific and research papers. In her spare time she travels, writes and dances.
Dr Rob Davidson
Director of MICE Knowledge
Dr Rob Davidson is the Managing Director of MICE Knowledge, a London-based consultancy specialising in research, education and training services for the meetings and events industry. His main area of expertise is business tourism, and he has written seven books on this theme, including his latest publication, Business Events (https://www.routledge.com/Business-Events/Davidson/p/book/9781138735767). He is regularly invited to speak at international conferences on topics linked to business tourism, in particular to present the results of his ongoing research into conference industry trends. Rob also teaches as a Visiting Professor in three European universities, where he educates and inspires Events Management and Tourism Management students every year. In 2015, he was awarded a Doctorate from the University of Greenwich for his thesis, entitled ‘Technological and Demographic Factors as Agents of Change in the Development of Business Events’. In 2016, he won the Best Conference Speaker award at the Global Event Awards. In 2017, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the IBTM WORLD exhibition in Barcelona.
Adem Braco Suljić
Zagreb - Croatia MEETEX Co-Founder and Director | GM at Innovative Events Ltd.
Adem's - in the region better known under the nickname Braco - extensive international career in the world of MICE lasts for 30+ years. It included executive positions in MICE support and organization companies in Croatia and Spain - taking part in events with over 20.000 participants – as well as management roles in Meeting Infrastructure projects in Europe, Africa and Asia. Adem's list of references is pretty long and counts with clients such as IOC, WB, IMF, UN, NATO, EU, EC, OSCE etc. Since 2011 he focuses on Business and Market Development, and since 2016 on Destination Marketing and B2B events management, as well as on MICE Consulting, including special niches like connections between technology, humanity and behavioral economics, naturally in MICE environment. Braco owns the license of a popular event app, he is regular and CCMEP Certified member of CMPA Croatian Meeting Professionals Association, a member of SKAL International, and is a frequent speaker at industry gatherings. In free time passionate about sailing and gastronomy.
Kristina Milinčić
CEO of Sava Center
CEO of Sava Center, DeltaHolding Since 2020, Mrs. Kristina Milinčić is the CEO of Sava Center, the congress center owned by Delta Holding, one of the leading companies in the SEE region. As such she is responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations, managing employees and preparing the facility for a thorough reconstruction, after which she will be in charge of setting operational policy, creating and maintaining the budget as well as all other business and commercial activities of the congress center. Furthermore, she is responsible for congress center’s business strategy and for the implementation of all the plans related to further development and improvement. Previously, she was the Chief of Staff of the President of Delta Holding for eight years. She holds a bachelor’s degree at Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management. She’s a mother of a two-year old daughter.
Nevena Blanuša
Winner of SURVIVOR ’22
She comes from Zagreb. She has a master's degree in kinesiology in education with a focus on sports management. She currently works as a fitness instructor. She is an active field hockey player and a member of the Croatian senior national team. She is the winner of this year's television show Survivor Croatia/Serbia.
Vladimir Stanković
Founder and host of “Business stories” podcast
Graduated engineer of information technologies and unsuspecting programmer Vladimir Stanković founded Petguards, the first platform for keeping pets, during his studies. Through photography, he entered the world of Instagram and launched Instarocket, a service for marketing automation, from which VLADSDIGITAL was born. He is the founder of the most watched business podcast in the region called "Business stories". Characteristic of all his projects is that they were launched with minimal financial investments. Vladimir, aikido master 1st day.
Veselin Vladimir Zvekić
Influencer (veseleen)
He comes from a small town near Zrenjanin, but has been living and working in Novi Sad for almost a decade. Previously skilled in the kitchen, now in the field of digital marketing & influence. Through several stormy, dynamic and high-quality years, he managed to create an impression about his industry that he wants to share with everyone who wants to hear.
Milan Maglov
Specialist and educator in the field of marketing on social networks
More than 140 thousand people certainly know a lot about him because they follow his private profile on Facebook and Instagram (@milanmaglov). On his profiles, you can often see private things that reveal a side of his life, yet many people don't know what he has been doing professionally so far. Marketing is the field for which he was educated, and then very quickly started working in marketing agencies. He collaborated with the largest companies in Serbia, working on large and significant campaigns. Clients with whom he had the opportunity to cooperate are Japan Tobacco International, Telenor, Maxi, Tempo, Adidas, Samsung, GSK, Vojvođanska banka, Aleva and many others. In 2011, he began to pay more attention to digital, more precisely to community management, when he launched the Facebook page Daily Dose of Creativity. He is currently one of the leading freelancers in this field in the region, with over one million and three hundred thousand fans on the pages he manages. Even today, it is a challenge for him to cooperate with large and small clients, to improve one's business and to find new ways to attract people's attention for clients and achieve common goals. With his team, he currently manages Facebook pages and Instagram profiles for more than 20 clients. For more than seven years, he has been educating people who want to learn how to present their product, service or themselves on social networks. He thinks that what sets him apart from others in education is the fact that he is "on the subject" every day, that he can try new things, new techniques every day and pass that on to the people who come to the courses. You can find more information about this course on the website www.maglov.rs.
Marina Maljurić
MICE director, Montenegro Tourist Service DMC Special Advisor, MEKST Conference
Marina started her career in the meetings industry during her studies by joining the MEKST conference organisation team, which led her to the position of the program director and special advisor of few conferences in different fields. Firstly, working as a manager for the promotion and development of tourism product at Novi Sad Tourism organisation, and then being in charge of development and promotion of Novi Sad as a MICE destination, helped her gain more experience in destination development and promotion, as well as organisation of B2B events, FAM trips, festivals, etc. From the beginning of this year, Marina has started her work in the MICE industry of Montenegro, as MICE director at Montenegro Tourist Service DMC. Marina’s favorite quote: “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen”, Conan O'Brien
Dolores Milošev Erdeg
Journalist and author of the show and Instagram blog Zdrave Priče
Journalist and author of the show and Instagram blog Zdrave Priče, where she explores the topics of parenting and growing up, which is followed by ~25,000 people. Since 2014, she has her own company that offers various marketing services, and since 2 years ago, she started another business with her husband, i.e. a production company engaged in video production. He bases his knowledge of marketing on 10 years of working in the media, as a TV personality, author and presenter in various TV formats. She is convinced that there is always work to do, and it turned out that this was a useful attitude for her in life. He thinks that today's generation of students and young people will completely turn the market of jobs and business, we have already seriously stepped into it in practice, we just need to exclude the beliefs about entrepreneurship that were valid 50 years ago.
Maša Kuprešanin
entrepreneur and SURVIVOR 2022 participant
She is 25 years old and comes from Novi Sad. After finishing high school, she received a full sports scholarship at California State University-Sacramento. There she had a great rowing career and graduated with a degree in Family and Consumer Science-field Nutrition (for a Nutritionist) with an additional course in Coaching for a coach. After returning from America, her dream came true and she participated in the show Survivor. As a professional trainer before Survivor, after it, she focused her profession on children. As the founder of the sports association and brand Survaizveri, she started a series of polygonal races for children. Now he's working on a big project on the Nova S, which you'll be able to see soon.
Martina Anđelković
Head of Marketing (Tomorrow Conference)
Martina Anđelković, better known as Snajka, is a pioneer of digital marketing in the Balkans. Martina built her career through successful campaigns of the most visited music festivals in the region. She is the owner of the Snajka De Madre agency and is currently engaged in the music industry - as a public relations manager for the most popular musicians of the younger generation. Since recently, she has been the marketing director of the largest European conference for crypto, NFT and metaverse in Europe - Tomorrow Conference. Humanist through the action #nahranipsa. Initiator of guerrilla campaigns to help abandoned animals. Blockchain lover.
Bojana Bolović
Talent Development Manager at the Coca-Cola HBC company
Bojana is a graduate psychologist with 10 years of work experience in various international companies. Bojana has diverse experience in different segments of HR, primarily in recruitment and selection for positions of different seniority, then in identifying talent, developing employees, empowering employees and leaders in further development and realizing career aspirations.
Ena Rajić
spoken word poet, comedian and entrepreneur
Ena Rajić is a spoken word poet, comedian and entrepreneur. Combining performance art and entrepreneurship in the last 8 years, she has directed over 200 video films, held dozens of spoken word poetry performances and created the VIDEO START online course. She is the author of the poetry collection "Razmrljane boje nevremena" and the comedy-poetry show "Bez dlake na jeziku", and her most significant performances so far have been at the United Nations and at TEDx.
