SEPTEMBER 26, 2022,
FRUSKE TERME HOTEL, VRDNICA TOWER

10:00 Registration of participants
11:00 Plenary session – Danube strategy, positive experiences and expectations

Welcoming words

  • Prof. Dr. Radovan Pejanović – President of the Program Council of the Danube Business Forum
  • Miloš Nenezić, President of the Assembly of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce
  • Dr. Nenad Ivanišević, Provincial Secretary for Economy and Tourism

Participants

  • Prof. Dr. Branko Kovačević, Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia
    Sebastian Šefer, general director of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe
  • Dejan Popović, President of the Council of the Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia, Energy Challenges…
  • Dušan Bajatović, general director of Srbijagas
  • Martin Bratanič, president of TERIS, experiences in the implementation of the Danube Strategy
  • Dr. Veselin Bojat, director of the Novi Sad Health Center
  • Vuk Perović, Port Management Agency
  • Frane Šesnić, director of the Zagreb Innovation Center
  • Prof. dr. Novak Jauković, ETF Podgorica, Desirable and possible sustainable development of the mountainous area of ​​the Southeastern Danube region
  • Nebojša Radmanović, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina

12:00 Chambers of Commerce, service of modern economic diplomacy, room 1/Gorocvet
moderator: Mihailo Vesović, Serbian Chamber of Commerce

  • Jože Tomaš, president of the Forum of Adriatic-Ionian Chambers of Commerce – video call
  • Ahmet Egrlić, President of the Foreign Trade Chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Branislav Mamić, Chamber of Commerce of Vojvodina
  • Marko Šantić, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Dragana Kokot, Director of the Department for International Cooperation of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Srpska
  • Goran Jović, director of the Leskovac Regional Chamber of Commerce, representative of Slovenia
  • Miroslava Babić, Panonreg Subotica
  • Predrag Mitrović, President of the Union of Employers of Montenegro
  • Mihajlo Vidić, Republika Srpska: Positive regional experiences

13:00 Agroindustry
moderator: Jonel Subić, Ph.D., Institute for Agricultural Economics

  • Aleksandar Bogunović, Serbian Chamber of Commerce
  • Nenad Budimović, Serbian Chamber of Commerce
  • Prof. Dr. Zora Dajić Stevanović
  • Prof. Dr. Cvijan Mekić
  • Prof. Dr. Zoran Keserović
  • MSc Dubravka Užar, Faculty of Agriculture, N.Sad
  • Prof. Dr. Dragana Latković, Faculty of Agriculture, N.Sad
  • Dr. Gordana Radović, director of “Dnevnik-Poljoprivrednik”
  • Momčilo Kokanović, owner of the company BSK Obrenovac

14.30 Lunch

16:00 Sustainable development and circular economy, hall 2/Sremuš
moderator: Dušan Vasiljević, Western Balkans consulting global

  • Borko Drašković, director of the Geodetic Institute of Serbia
  • Mile Bugarin, director of the Institute of Metallurgy Bor
  • Jaroslav Stupavski, Voli Montenegro Company
  • Vidoje Petrović, city of Loznica
  • Prof. Dr. Sanja Stanisavljev, University of Novi Sad
  • Prof. Dr. Novak Jauković, ETF Podgorica
  • Dražen Vrhovac, director of the Investment and Development Bank of the Republic of Srpska
  • Siniša Mitrović, Serbian Chamber of Commerce, head of the Center for Circular Economy
  • Dr. Rok Rupnik, Faculty of Accounting and Informatics
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022, FRUSKE TERME HOTEL, VRDNICA TOWER

OPEN BALKANS

11:00 Introductory presentation

Dr. Zoran Milivojević, career diplomat

Prof. Dr. Johann Sollgruber, Department for Trade at the European Commission

Robert Lichtner, Office for the Danube Strategy in Vienna at the European Commission

Open cities

moderator: Prof. Dr. Mirjana Kranjac

  • Nemanja Milenković, “Novi Sad – European Capital of Culture”
  • Foundation, representative of NALED
  • Peter Hanke, Executive Advisor to the Mayor of Vienna
  • Dr. Predrag Terzić, mayor of Kraljevo
  • Nikola Dašić, mayor of Kragujevac
  • Dr. Filip Zoričić, Mayor of Pula
  • Vidoje Petrović, mayor of Loznica
  • Darko Glišić, president of the municipality of Ub
  • Zoran Janković, Mayor of Ljubljana – video address
  • Petar Smolović, president of the municipality of Bijelo Polje
  • Marko Kovačević, president of Nikšić municipality

12:00 Science and female entrepreneurship
moderator: Prof. Dr. Sanja Podunavac Kuzmanović, President of the Association of Serbian Women Scientists “SRNA”

  • Ivana Beara, Ph.D., co-founder of Herb Elixa, Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Novi Sad
  • Dr. Mirjana Ljubojević, Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad
  • Dr. Ivana Pajčin, co-founder of the company Nsoilab, Faculty of Technology in Novi Sad
  • Sanja Melkus, co-founder of Truff Truff
  • Nataša Došen, founder of the company Bacillomix, PhD student at the
  • Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad
  • Amela Greksa, master engineer in landscape architecture, PhD student at the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad

12:00 Tourism and culture, bridges that improve cooperation and ennobles people, hall 2
moderator: Dr. Nataša Pavlović, director of TO Vojvodina

  • Dragana Milošević, Provincial Secretary for Culture and Public Information
  • Marina Balaban, Deputy President of the Municipality of Bač
  • Rujana Bušić Srpak, director of the tourist community of Vukovar-Srem County
  • Nemanja Milenković, director of the foundation “Novi Sad 2021-
    European capital of culture”
  • Aleksandar Peković, director of the Ilija M. Kolarc Foundation
  • Milovan Popović, director of the Umag tourist community
  • Zdenka Mitić, director of TO Sombor
  • Vladimir Adžić, marketing director of Aquastar Danube Hotel, Kladovo ZOOM inclusion: Urška Dolinar, president of ISKRIVE, Ljubljana

13:00 Women’s entrepreneurship, creative framework for new solutions, hall 1/Gorocvet
Moderator: Dr. Sanja Popović Pantić, President of the Association of Business Women of Serbia

  • Dr. Jasmina Knežević, director and co-owner of Aci Badem Bel Medic
  • Ljiljana Karaklajić, director of Dexpress courier service and owner of Daily invest
  • Ivana Radić, president of the International Network of Croatian Entrepreneurs
  • Dženita Zirdum, Regional Association of BiH Business Women, entrepreneur and journalist-editor at BH TV1
  • Dragana Kokot, Director of the Department for International Cooperation of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Srpska
  • Danijela Maletić, member of the Council for Pres. under the Government of the Republic of Serbia

13:30 Tesla technology, the chance of the Western Balkans?
room 2, moderator: Vlado Markanović, director of Media inventa

  • Mirjana Prljević, Serbia’s New Algorithm
  • Goran Marjanović, Virtual reality and new reality
  • Luka Lopin, Tesla’s ideas of the present
  • Martin Bratanič, New concept of education
  • PhD Luka Tomažič, Alma Mater Europea
  • Prof. Dr. Milun Babić, president of the Nikola Tesla Foundation
  • Nenad Šijaković, MA, Head of the Sector for International Regulatory Affairs
  • Goran Janković, Inmold, Experiences of education and practice

14:30 Lunch

16:00 Energy challenges and solutions, room 2/Sremuš moderator: Dejan Popović, director of the Energy Agency (Serbia)

  • Jelica Putniković, journalist and editor of Portal Energija Balkana
  • Martin Bratanič, president of the association for regional cooperation TERIS, Opportunity for decentralized energy development through the Green Deal
  • Gregor Novak, co-founder of Suncontract – cheaper energy for the Danube region
  • Milenko Milinković, president of Milinković Co
  • Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Gajić, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Belgrade, Secretary General of AINS
  • Prof. Dr. Miodrag Mesarović, President of the Serbian Committee of the World Association for Energy Efficiency
  • Dušan Bajatović, general director of Srbijagas
  • Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Jovović, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade
  • Prof. Dr. Milorad Kuraica, Faculty of Physics, Belgrade
  • Dr. Miroljub Adžić, prof. emeritus, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

16:00 The role of the media in building and strengthening prosperity
moderator: Prof. Dr. Vladimir Borović

  • Dr. Milica Kostić Stanković, FON Belgrade
  • Dr. Besim Spahić, Faculty of Political Sciences, Sarajevo
  • Dr. Jelena Dobrić, PR Serbia water
  • Ladislav Lazić, Head of the Department for Managing the Media Network of the Danube Countries
  • Dženita Zirdum, editor of BHT1 Sarajevo
  • Dr. Dejan Pralica, Belgrade media expert
  • Milan Srdić, Radio Television of Serbia
  • Danijela Davidov Kesar, Politics
  • Dijana Đurić, V-media Budapest

18.00 Danube ball, joint dinner and awards ceremony