Belgrade is hosting a two-day boutique conference that will gather a versatile group of professionals from top tech companies in the Silicon Valley, joined by a common desire to constantly improve themselves, their working environments, and the world.
Want to hear behind-the-scenes stories of the projects they worked on,
and about the challenges they faced while building the products and services we love to use every day?
Curious about how Pinterest prepared for its IPO or how AirBnB and Facebook implement cutting-edge
technologies in their core products?
If so, this is the event for you.
Shakhina has launched numerous innovative products based on machine learning, NLP, search and discovery, and recommendation systems at companies such as LinkedIn, eBay and Eventbrite. She is currently on sabbatical, writing a mathematics textbook while traveling the world.
Nikola is a member of the finance and strategy team at Pinterest, where he leads investment strategy, financial operations, and cloud capacity management. Prior to joining Pinterest, Nikola was in charge of overseeing various operational functions and corporate investments at Zynga and Rackspace.
Dejana heads the Global Omnichannel and Demand Generation Strategy team at Cisco, which is focused on the company’s priority audiences and responsible for orchestrating customer experience across all channels and devices throughout the lifecycle. Dejana was previously in charge of channel communication for Hewlett-Packard.
Currently a group senior director of business operations at Zynga, Janice also worked as a senior manager of financial planning at EA. Her areas of expertise include business strategy development, financial planning and analysis, negotiations and partnership building, performance and process evaluation, as well as vendor, project, and risk management.
Dragan is a platform engineer at Netflix, working on its internationalization and localization infrastructure. He has been building applications to accommodate Netflix’s rapid international growth from an English-language-only company to include a number of Latin American and European languages, along with CJK and Arabic. Dragan also worked at LinkedIn and IBM.
Currently serving as the director of strategic finance at Shutterfly Inc., Nikola’s main area of expertise is corporate finance. He has considerable experience leading teams and entire companies through phases of rapid development by implementing strategic, financial, organizational, and operational processes in order to enable fast growth. Nikola is also the co-founder of the Exit festival.
Wren is an R&D engineer specializing in sensors and computer vision, who has built chemical and optical custom sensors at both early-stage startups and Apple. She was also a teaching assistant for courses in signal processing, circuits, and the physics of electrical engineering at Stanford. As an R&D team lead at Airbnb, Wren works on new products that combine classical and machine learning-based computer vision techniques with AR.
Nebojsa is currently the director of performance marketing at N3TWORK Inc., helping create a new type of games, media, and technology. He is an experienced mobile marketing leader in the entertainment and technology industry, who previously held roles such as senior media buying analyst at Machine Zone and marketing manager at Nordeus.
Natalia is the leading PM for the Artificial Intelligence group that builds products using deep learning, machine learning, NLP, and computer vision at Facebook. She previously led the AI team at Salesforce, as well as product teams at Samsung, eBay, and Microsoft. Natalia is also the founder and CEO of Parable, a creative photo network that Samsung bought in 2015. Business Insider recognized her as the Most Powerful Female Engineer in 2017.
Farzona is an experienced engineering manager with a strong track record in the internet industry. Prior to Uber, Farzona has led teams focused on building consumer-facing products at Orbitz/Expedia, while at Twitter, she was responsible for both engineering and product management.
Martin is a technical recruiter who has partnered with the executives at Facebook for the purpose of growing its teams and carrying out its mission to connect the world. After spending several years working in recruitment for multimillion-dollar brands and startups, Martin has come to believe that what truly drives successful organizations is finding people who excel at their work and gathering them into teams.
Marko is a seasoned software engineer focused on secure software design and product security. He is GPU Software Security Lead at NVIDIA, working on designing key security aspects for the core system software architecture, as well as driving offensive security practices for GPU system software.
This venue celebrates the peak of human endeavor; as such, it is a natural choice for a conference gathering speakers and attendants at the forefront of technology. The conference is hosted in a large room holding the museum's permanent exhibition, and as a special perk, guests will be able to join short tours during the breaks.
Our goal is to create a community of risk-takers, problem-solvers, and innovators. We will not tell you that our conference is for everyone, because it is not. We will not tell you that it targets a specific professional level or occupation, because it does not. It is an event unique in vision, and reserved for those who wish to learn from the very source of disruption. And while you will undoubtedly engage in meaningful discussions and exchange ideas, you will also have time to simply hang out and meet some cool people who are movers and shakers on the regional business and tech scene.
Each speaker will tell a story of a single project they have been working on, and discuss all the ups and downs that happened along the way, as well as share the methodology and approach for what worked out and what did not.
Did you ever attempt to approach a speaker after a lecture, but it was simply impossible to reach them through the crowd and people lining up? That won’t happen here. We are intentionally limiting our attendee list to only 200 people in order to create an intimate boutique conference experience, where all attendees and speakers will feel good and have enough time to exchange ideas and share experiences.
The tickets for the conference are sold out. Please email us to get on the waiting list, or to subscribe to the mailing list for all the future events and announcements.
English.
30 minutes, up to 15 minutes Q&A.
6 lectures per day.
No streaming.
No recording.
No photos, please.
Our event is exclusively reserved for our attendees, and we wish to respect the privacy of our speakers.
However, we always leave some room for unforeseen circumstances. And if any of those should arise, worry not – we have a few equally qualified and impressive speakers lined up to take their place.
Our good friends at Linemotion.