For more than 10 years, Nyíri has held the position of CTO for IND Group, creating The Banking Front-Office Technology. He participated in successful multi-channel banking and branch front-end projects at banks in Europe and the Middle-East. His responsibilities are innovation and pre-sales which means a lot of evangelist internal and external communication.

Mr. Andreas Eliasson, Security Architect Manager EMEA of Gemalto, holds a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. Chalmers is one of the world’s most well-renowned universities when it comes to Computer Science and Mr. Eliasson’s pinnacle expertise is found within the IT Security area.

Mr. Eliasson has extensive experience of developing and designing IT-security solutions. His broad competence has led to a proven track record of successful implementations, as well as high-level conceptual system architecture and project management. He has worked closely and on-site with several leading European banks on their eBanking security projects and also holds hands-on experience from pioneering eCommerce security projects.

Current Role
Petar Kočović is country manager of Gartner for Serbia territory. He is responsible for sales operations as well as for promotion of all Gartner products.

Mr. Kočović has more than 25 years of experience working in the IT industry in management and technical positions for end-user organizations and software companies, as well as software developer. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr Kocovic was co-owner of company Tehnicom for 14 years, where he worked in the field of telecommunications, Internet providing and web development. He has experience in all Internet related technologies, as well as mathematical foundation for CAD/CAM. On this project he worked in company Energoprojekt-Energodata. He has worked in system management, account management, marketing, consulting and systems support, as well as in developing communication and commercial software.

• 4 years in total with Gartner
• 24 years in IT Industry

• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), since 1988
• Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), since 1989
• Member of New York Academy of Science (NYAS), since 1998

• B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering
• M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering
• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Geometric modeling and applied mathematics

Ms. Galic has more than 15 years of professional experience in consultancy and advisory. Currently, Ms. Galic is Director in Business Advisory Services at Deloitte Belgrade. She is also FSI practice leader for Serbian cluster in the Adria Region (Serbia, Republic of Srpska, Macedonia, Montenegro).

Her service line focus is on strategy development, process optimization and change management. Before she joined Deloitte (2007), she was the Executive Director of the Economics Institute in Belgrade. During her 15 years of professional experience, Ms. Galic had taken a leading role in number of projects performed for private sector clients in the area of strategy and business development.

Beside this experience, mainly during her engagement within the Economics Institute, she has been active in providing advisory services to the government in the area of economic policy and private sector development. In this area, she led number of projects, governed by international development agencies (EC, WB, IFC, USAID, UN, etc.) and performed for the government as a beneficiary. She attended many domestic and international conferences as invited speaker and published more than 40 working papers.

She is member of the Board of the Serbian Association of Managers and member of the Academic Society of Serbian Economists (ASSE).

While gaining her professional experience, in parallel she has been active also in the field of scientific research and further specializations. Her PhD thesis has title Public Private Partnerships in the Infrastructure Financing in the Balkans and she defended it in February 2010 at the Faculty of Economics of University of Belgrade. At the same faculty, she defended her master thesis in 2006 with the title The Role of the European Investment Bank in the Development of Serbia. She is active in publishing and presenting papers at the scientific conferences in the country and internationally.

She had specialization in the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg in 2007, and in Tokyo International Centre, Japan, in 2004, as a young researcher in the field of public private partnership and economic development policies respectively. The fields of her interests and research are: international economy, contemporary economic systems, long term financing, financing the development, public private partnership.