Event manager: Iva Šulentić
Opening Addresses of Sponsors, Patrons and Guests, followed by the Awards and Recognitions for Outstanding Achievement |
| Plenary Round Table |
Strategy of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Environments in Croatia
Organizer: Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts of the Republic of Croatia supported by MIPRO
Coordinator: Darko Horvat, Minister (Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts of the Republic of Croatia)
Moderator: Slavko Vidović (Infodom, Zagreb, Croatia)
Panelists: Darko Horvat (Croatian Minister of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts), Nikola Miskovic (Vice dean for Research, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb), David Matthew Smith (Director of Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb), Neven Vrcek (Dean, Faculty of Organization and Information, Varazdin), Gordana Kovacevic, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, company President), Tatjana Skoko (Director of Microsoft's local office in Croatia), Richard Varos (Vice President of IBM's Government Market Segments), Vlado Rendulic (Board Member, APIS IT) |
| Plenary Keynote Lectures |
- The Present and Future of Open Science in Europe
Gergely Sipos (EGI Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- DataFlow SuperComputing for BigData DeepAnalytics
Veljko Milutinović (Department of Computer Science, University of Indiana, Bloomington, USA)
- Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity: Technology and Policy Perspectives
Paul Timmers (University of Oxford, UK)
- Artificial Intelligence in Marketing
Luiz Moutinho (University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK)
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| Cocktail for participants and guests |
| Plenary Keynote Lecture |
- Strategic Planning in Higher Education and Science
Blaženka Divjak, Minister (Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia)
This plenary lecture is a part of the presentation of project HigherDecision’s results. Project Development of a Methodological Framework for Strategic Decision-making in Higher Education – a Case of Open Learning and Distance Learning (ODL) Implementation – HigherDecision is financed by Croatian Science Foundation and lead by prof. B. Divjak, PhD. The project, whose implementation began at Faculty of organization and informatics, University of Zagreb in 2015 and ends in 2019, deals with the analysis of strategic decisionmaking in higher education (HE). Higher education’s key mission is to develop human potential with beneficial effects for social and economic development. HE as a system, along with HE institutions, must be innovative and strategically managed to be able to fulfill their mission. Therefore, the decision-making accompanied by an evaluation of its implementation in higher education is an issue of the highest priority. |
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