Mark Torr is responsible for Advanced Analytics and IoT for Microsoft across the CEE region. Mark brings over 20 years of experience working with Big Data and Analytics with the majority of that spent in various senior roles at SAS. Mark has worked with customers throughout the world, and across all industries, helping them to see how they can transform data into a strategic asset through the use of Analytics and more recently various big data technologies. Mark is a TOGAF certified enterprise architect who holds a 1st class degree in Software Engineering from Hull University, England. He is well known in the field of analytics and big data having spoken on a wide variety of thought leadership topics at external conferences. He is an active blogger (www.marktorr.com), has over 17,000 Twitter followers and was recently named at #85 of the top 100 Big Data Experts and #62 of the top 100 IoT Experts to follow on Twitter. Mark is also very active on LinkedIn.

Mr.sci. Nerma Šečić-Haračić currently holds position of Deputy CEO for BS Telecom Solutions where she worked on numerous telecommunication and software development projects since 2002. For last few years she was actively involved in Intelligent Transport System (ITS) projects throughout the region.

Nedim Bijedić is Senior Software Developer in Software Design and Development Department at BS Telecom Solutions. He worked on application and system development for telecommunication, transport and utility industry since 2011. For last few years he was involved in toll systems, Intelligent Transport System (ITS) with accent on video incident detection.

Ivica Gašparić is Chief Network Technology Officer in Verso, the company committed to provide communication solutions, professional services and system maintenance for telecoms and enterprises. He brings more than 15 years of experience in telecommunication business where he went through all challenges from field engineer, data network expert to solution architect. As a CNTO he is responsible for technical strategy definition, innovation management, and business consultancy, focused on long term sustainable development of company. Ivica is leading team of 20 experts deploying IoT projects in EMEA, APAC and US. This is how he experiences major IoT challenges and obstacles firsthand.

Nebojša Stanojević is currently leading International Synergy Moon - Coalition of Dreams team to land rover on the Moon in Google Lunar XPRIZE competition. He is an Adventurer, Documentary Filmmaker and a devoted Explorer. He worked as a Producer, Director and Editor on numerous productions worldwide including Miss World 1993, HH Dalai Lama, Elton John, Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Bryan Adams, Natalie Cole, Gipsy Kings, David Copperfield, Africa Aids Concert, President Nelson Mandela's Inauguration Ceremony, etc... He produced more than 40 Commercials, Music Videos and TV series around the world, and worked as an Assistant Editor and Editor on several Feature Films. He is avid supporter of non-profit activities regarding Art, Children and Education. Neb combined his love of adventure, exploration and film making to produce a TV Series called “Around The World - First Bosnian Expedition.” He sailed from Croatia to Thailand, then Costa Rica, crossing the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean on a 30ft (~9m) sailboat, and stopping along the way to spend time with the local people and explore their lands. Nebojša produced 24 Episodes which aired on BHT1 (Bosnian state TV, PBS ). Neb started the Human Synergy Project as a way to bring others into his projects and continue what started with the “Around The World - First Bosnian Expedition.”

Dipl.Ing. Adela Mehic-Dzanic originally from Velika Kladusa, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is an IoT Solution Consultant at Tele2 IoT AB and responsible for Central and Eastern Europe (with a strong focus on Austria, Switzerland, Eastern Europe and Balkan region). For the last two years she has been working on numerous M2M/IoT projects throughout the Eastern Europe from connected, smart textile, utilities to telematics and fleet management solutions. She is very passionate about M2M/IoT and has been awarded for her customer engagement by IoT Love Award by Tele2 IoT AB.

Thomas Kanzler, originally from Austria, is responsible for the Central & Eastern European Region for the leading Internet of things Orchestrator Tele2 IoT AB. Together with an amazing team of regional experts and embedded in the global Tele2 IoT family, he supervises huge enterprises as well as startups on their unique IoT journey. Day by day and across 16 countries. In the last decade, Thomas held several management positions within telecommunication industries, built up / co-founded several start-up companies and nowadays holds several Executive Advisory Board and Stakeholder functions.

Matija Puskar is the CEO of Byte Lab. He gained experience in the development of integrated circuits on silicon, specialized measurement and test equipment for integrated circuits, as well as various automation systems. 

He completed numerous seminars concerning business, design of electronic systems, design and technology of making printed circuit boards, he also won several awards and recognitions in the field of innovation. Today, after many years of experience he handles the business, so that his clients would get the best service possible.

Ermin Prašović is Principal Technology Sales Consultant and he works for Oracle BH since 2004. His experience is closely related to projects based on Oracle technology, Oracle database, Oracle Exadata platform, and Oracle Fusion Middleware. He has over 18 years of experience in IT industry. Before joining Oracle he worked in privately owned IT companies in Bosnia-Herzegovina and abroad. He is certified Oracle Enterprise Architect (OEA) for Oracle Core Technology.

Sabin Posea is managing the Smart Business Unit, Controlling various projects in energy domain part of the steering committee. Business Development and partnership enhancement Management of Software Development for Energy Distribution SCADA Systems He was responsible with the overall project success of developing a virtual SCADA system that runs on IOx CISCO. The software implemented multiple communications protocols on ETHERNET, SERIAL communications providing a data aggregation and normalization to allow local processing as well as WAN communications when needed. He developed a SCADA system architecture for non-dispatchable renewable parks to be upgraded to controlled, dispatchable parks. The solution was implemented at 5 photovoltaic parks and 3 wind park, Designed the communications and hardware infrastructure needed to interconnect the Renewables Dispatched to the TSO National Grid Dispatch using IEC 60870-5-101 protocol.

Mensur Đogić is software developer and technology enthusiast with the special interest in IoT and mobile technologies. During his nine years' experience in IT industry, he worked on different jobs and quickly advanced from Junior Software Developer to Senior Software Developer and Team Lead. Because of his capabilities to adapt every situation, teamwork, and creativity, he worked on several special projects that involved developing and working with new technologies. He spends his free time working on DIY (Do It Yourself) electronics projects, participating in drone races and challenges and cycling. 

Admir Tuzović deals with programming for over 20 years. In his career, he passed the time of making MS-DOS applications in Borland C ++ to the planning system architectures based on Microsoft Azure services. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and he participated in organizing local events during their engagement as the Microsoft Technical Evangelist. Admir is organizer of the first major two-day IoT hackathon in March 2016 with over 50 participants. Currently, he is co-owner and CTO of the company's App Impact. In his leisure time, he prepares courses for online learning company Pluralsight. 

Fariz Saracevic is a member of IBM Internet of Things Product Management and Design team. He is working closely with other IBM leads to define and implement IBM Internet of Things vision. Prior to this role, Fariz was responsible for IBM Cloud Managed Services, IBM Rational solution for Agile ALM, JazzHub scenario design, IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) and he was part of Automated Software Quality Product Management team responsible for automated functional solutions. Fariz co-authored "Software Test Engineering with IBM Rational Functional Tester: The Definitive Resource" book and he is writer and co-writer of several articles. He is Agile thought leader and founder of the Bosnia Agile and Lean and Agile Middle East associations. Fariz is a speaker at a wide variety of world-wide conferences on the Agile topic. He holds a Master in Information Technology degree from Virginia Tech and Bachelor of Science degree from George Mason University.