Speakers at PMI Forum 2025 (in alphabetical order)
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Tomislav Anadolac is an expert in project management with extensive experience in managing complex business and operational projects. Co-founder of Duh u boci (Old Pilot's) distillery, he successfully applied the principles of project management in the development and expansion of the award-winning Croatian craft brand. His work connects strategic planning, operational excellence and innovation in production. His focus is on sustainable growth and efficient processes that turn ideas into recognizable products. |
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Entrepreneur, innovator, visionary, mentor, lecturer, founder and director of CITUS. Participated in the founding of PMI Croatia. Expert in project management. He is the author of six patents in the field of ICT, and with his team he has won more than 120 international awards for ICT innovations. Tomislav has more than 25 years of experience in the profession, and is a multi-year holder of the honorary title of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, as well as one of the few holders of the title of Microsoft Regional Director. He is the author of a number of professional and scientific papers in the field of information technology, especially in the domain of software design and development, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality, innovation, project and risk management, entrepreneurship/startup development, etc. He is a regular lecturer at professional IT conferences, as well as a senior lecturer at Algebra Bernays University, and a mentor to many teams on various projects. He is one of the founders of the Microsoft Community in Croatia, and helped establish them in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Armenia and Moldova, and was also a long-standing member of the board of directors of INETA Europe – International .NET Association. He is the Vice President of the IT Association of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Executive Board of the ICT Association of the Croatian Employers' Association (HUP-ICT). |
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The author is, if you will excuse me, a retiree. After almost thirty years of work in the Croatian ICT industry, thirteen of which as one of the founders of the Microsoft Croatia office responsible for the adoption of Microsoft technology on the Croatian market. Which included working on encouraging the certification of the first experts, organizing and managing the work of training centers and launching technology conferences. Well, those were the times. After that, in 2010, he joined first Algebra, and then in 2012 TVZ, as a lecturer and head of career centers, connecting the ICT sector and academic institutions. When this also came to life in practice, in 2018 he received his doctorate from the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology in Zagreb on the topic of Information Literacy and Youth Employability, and on this topic, since 2016, he has been teaching the course Information Literacy and Critical Thinking for first-year students of Informatics at TVZ. When Chat GTP appeared at the end of November 2022, s1.I. He took a well-deserved state pension and began teaching at TVZ, FOI and Effectus. In early 2025, he published his first book, "In Search for Knowledge: Reskilling for Generative AI from the First Principle", which will certainly be discussed. |
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Milan Domazet is the founder and CEO of AIR-RMLD d.o.o., a company specializing in advanced unmanned aerial vehicle systems and AI-powered inspection technologies. He has extensive experience in the development and implementation of UAV solutions for gas leak detection (RMLD/TDLAS), critical infrastructure monitoring, automated DOCK systems and AI analytics for water supply and energy. Under his leadership, AIR-RMLD collaborates with leading institutions such as PLINACRO, HOPS, Croatian Roads and MZLZ, as well as partners in Austria, Germany and Slovenia, on projects that connect technology, safety and sustainability. |
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Marko Drenovački has been working in sales and marketing for over 20 years, with experience in managing relationships with large and medium-sized clients and developing new products and services. He is currently a Key Account Manager at Algebra Bernays University, where he builds and maintains client relationships, develops complex educational solutions, and connects sales and marketing. In addition to his business career, Marko has been nurturing a passion for music for 40 years. He is the founder and owner of Glazbena Klinika d.o.o., a company for individual and group lessons in playing and singing, which emerged from a project of free workshops at Špancirfest. Under his leadership, the Klinika has grown into a place of education, community, and cultural creation, with a special emphasis on collaborating with the local community and encouraging young people and adults to express themselves musically. |
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Brands and products fail not because of a lack of ideas, but because of complexity. Every day we are bombarded with thousands of messages vying for our attention, and business growth is proven to come from simplicity. Marko is a strategist who leads the Jedinica agency (part of the Val Group) whose focus is to find that simplicity and translate it into unique positioning of brands and products through strategy and creative. For seven years, he honed his craft in the media industry, where in 24 hours, as the head of strategic development and digital teams, he had the task of separating what sounds smart from what really works by defining value propositions. The projects he created and led won more than 40 industry awards in just three years, and today his job is to take complex challenges and boil them down to a clear message that people understand and believe. |
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Dr. sc. Siniša Krajnović has been the President of the Management Board of Ericsson Nikola Tesla since November 1, 2025. From 2022 to 2025, he was a partner at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company and a key member of the global team for technology, media and telecommunications. Thanks to his broad technological knowledge and rich business experience, he specializes in the telecommunications industry, product research and development, and digital transformation. Before joining McKinsey, from 2018 to 2022, he served as Executive Vice President of Ericsson for Northeast Asia, where he was responsible for the software and cloud services business in China, Japan, and South Korea - markets at the forefront of innovation in telecommunications networks. He began his career in 1994 as an engineer at the Ericsson Nikola Tesla Research and Development Center, where he spent ten years working on the development of new technologies. He spent most of his career at Ericsson Corporation, where he held a number of senior management positions, including leading the Development Unit Networks — a global research and development organization with more than 15,000 engineers. He has extensive international experience in leadership and technology, having worked in Croatia, Sweden, China, Japan, Ireland, Hungary, and the United Kingdom. Dr. sc. Krajnović is also actively involved in academia. Since November 1, 2025, he has served as President of the Economic Council of the University of Zagreb. He teaches at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM), Luxembourg School of Business (LSB), and Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and is a member of the program councils of ZSEM and LSB. From 2013 to 2025, he was the co-chair of the international conference IEEE SoftCOM, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences on technology, innovation, and leadership. Throughout his career, he has been an experienced board member and president, participating in the work of supervisory and management bodies of various Ericsson companies, joint ventures, chambers of commerce and professional associations. He received his master's and doctoral degrees from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, and further advanced training at numerous prestigious universities worldwide. He was born in Zagreb, is married and has three children. |
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Gordan Krčelić is an experienced project manager, certified PMP expert and Six Sigma Black Belt, with many years of experience in leading digital transformation projects and implementing AI solutions. Throughout his career, he has managed complex projects with the aim of optimizing business processes, integrating new technologies and creating measurable value for organizations. In June 2021, he founded the company P4BE, where he works as a freelance PM, consultant and expert in improving business processes. He is particularly active in the EU project EDIH Adria (European Digital Innovation Hub Adria), which he promotes as a key platform for supporting digital transformation for organizations from the public and private sectors in the Republic of Croatia. Within the framework of EDIH Adria, he contributes to "Test before Invest" services, education and consulting in the development and implementation of AI micro-solutions for business optimization and the development of new products or services. In addition, Gordan is a lecturer at the Faculty of Informatics of the Juraj Dobrila University in Pula and is an external collaborator in educational programs focused on project and process management. He is a member of the organizing and program committee of the PM consultation at the MIPRO conference held in Opatija at the end of May and actively participates in working groups for the development of qualification standards in Croatia, thereby contributing to the development of the professional and scientific community. He is the author of scientific and professional papers in the field of telecommunications network management, digital maturity and business innovation. As a prominent member of PMI Croatia, he has participated in various functions within the association and continuously promotes the professionalization of project management in Croatia. |
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With many years of international experience in the field of marketing, communications, PR, human capital management, employer branding, development of new products/services/brands, brand management and project management, she introduced new products, services and technologies and led multidisciplinary teams. Thanks to many years of work in international and technologically advanced companies and the FMCG industry, she has gained extensive experience and many skills while working on many projects, as well as insight into the trends and effects of the implementation of new technologies. She was a member of the national team in the process of standardization within the EU (before the entry of the Republic of Croatia into the EU). He is a member of the Thematic Innovation Council for Transport and Mobility as part of the Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) of the Republic of Croatia. He is the author of a number of professional and scientific works. She is a lecturer at Algebra Bernays University, and a mentor to many teams on different projects. |
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Vedran Rakinić (1981. Zagreb) has been training various sports and various martial arts since early childhood, which resulted in his life's calling. He graduated from the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb, majoring in athlete conditioning, and during his studies he wrote a book and recorded a DVD called "Medicine Ball Exercises for the Development of Strength, Endurance and Mobility in Martial Arts". He collaborates with top athletes and national team members, various experts in the field of martial arts and physical training. He studied at the Military Police Training Center of the Croatian Armed Forces "Major Alfred Hill" and completed specialist training for a military policeman with the award of a military rank. He holds the title of master in aikido and taekwondo. He was introduced to aikido at an early age and in 2006 joined the KNKAI aikido organization under the leadership of Kenjiro Yoshigasaki Sensei and opened the first aikido dojo in Sesvete for the youngest, children, youth and adults. Traveling the world, he intensively studied and practiced with various legendary aikido teachers (some of whom are Giuseppe Ruglioni Beppe, Koretoshi Maruyama, Christian Tissier, Paolo Corallini, Shigemi Inagaki, Shirakawa Katsutoshi, Mitsuteru Ueshiba, Doshu Moriteru Ueshiba). By going to Japan, at the very source of aikido in Iwama (Iwama dojo), he studied and practiced a skill that laid new foundations for him and inspired him, which enriched his entire work. Today, he follows and studies aikido from Ryuji Shirakawa Shihan. With a great passion for nature and the response of a large number of participants, he founded aikido summer and winter camps for children and adults in the wider area of Croatia in the heart of national parks. His idea of gathering all aikido clubs that work with children inspired the national event “Aikido for Children of Croatia”, the only one of its kind in Croatia, which once a year gathers all Croatian aikido clubs and their leaders in Zagreb. He builds a specialized aikido center for children and adults, located in Sesvete, where he still operates today. Even today, he transmits the challenging aikido skill and its understanding through a simple and accessible teaching method, showing that aikido is one of the paths to a peaceful, humble, dedicated, spiritual and happy life. He is the author of the system “Aikido for the Children of Croatia”, which emphasizes that true skill is not in how to defeat others – but in how to overcome oneself. |
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Mirela Stanić – Popović, completed postgraduate studies in Business Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Split, and obtained an Executive Master of Business Administration/Global and International Management at the Swiss School of Business and Management Geneva. She is employed as the Executive Director of Krijesnica – an association for helping children and families facing malignant diseases and is the owner of the business consulting business Certus consulting & business coaching. She is engaged as a lecturer at the Petar Zrinski Open University, in programs for acquiring qualifications in Project Management financed from EU funds. Since 2021, she has been a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)® and a certified solution-focused coach. With more than 25 years of experience, she specializes in project, program and portfolio management, which she has upgraded with skills related to individual and team coaching. She has successfully coordinated several studies, developed policy guidelines in the field of public health, led advocacy campaigns and multidisciplinary teams for the implementation of housing and integration policies, as well as policies focused on health and social issues. Her knowledge includes a wide range of business consulting, fundraising, monitoring and evaluation, stakeholder management, media relations, and occasionally organizes professional events and moderates panels. She is a member of the Commission for the Protection of Patients' Rights of the City of Zagreb and the City Council for Social Welfare. She is a volunteer in PMI Croatia, currently engaged as the Vice President of the branch.
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I will use the description that a colleague wrote: "As his colleagues know him, he is a veteran PMP who was once the president of the Croatian PMI branch and also the regional mentor for Central and Eastern Europe at PMI Global. If you want knowledge, skills and experience combined with heart, humanity and a good dose of humor - look no further." |
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Kristina Šorić received her doctorate from the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics, University of Padua, Italy, master's degree from the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb, and graduated from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Department of Mathematics, majoring in Mathematical Informatics and Statistics, profile graduate engineer in mathematics. Her main areas of scientific and professional interest are optimization of business processes and supply chain management. She is employed at the business school RIT Croatia, Zagreb, and is the owner of the business consulting firm Luyouma and the portal www.luyouma.com, which popularizes supply chain management and the application of analytical methods for optimization. She published scientific papers in several international journals in the field of operations research and optimization, and was a guest lecturer at several institutions abroad (University of Udine, Italy, Departamento de Engenharia e Gestao, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, Information and Operations Management Department, Marshall School of Business, USC, Los Angeles, USA). She has held many trainings in business practice, on the topic of supply chain management (Konzum d.d., Bambi d.d., Vivera d.o.o., Podravka d.d., SDA Croatia d.o.o., Atlantic Trade d.o.o., Tokić d.o.o., startup Ani Biome, various open seminars), and on the topic of inventory management, business processes and financial assets, in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. She is the owner of the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certificate and a certified trainer for The Fresh Connection simulation. |
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CTO and co-founder AIR-RMLD
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PMI Forum 2025
