JUMP IT 2018

It's advisable to come early, as there are 300+ delegates to be registered. The conferences will commence at 09:00 sharp, in order to meet the event schedule.

Location: In front of the main Conference Hall Beethoven

Who runs the show?
Jasna Strajher ∙ Chair Iva Sulentic ∙ Announcer

Jasna Strajher is an award-winning CEO, entrepreneur and business woman, with more than 20 years of experience as IT Consultant and expert in Excellence in Leadership, Innovation & Technology.
Iva Sulentic is an acclaimed actress, popular TV & Radio host, Master of Ceremony and Announcer.

dr. sc. Drazen Lucic

Drazen Lucic earned his PhD in Telecommunications at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) in Zagreb. He started his career at Ericsson's Institute for Research and Development. For Ericsson, he has worked for more than twenty years in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Sweden, Italy and Israel, mainly in managerial positions, as a senior sales director for global telecommunications operations. After returning to Croatia, dr. Lucic received the position of HAKOM's Director for Public Contracts, successfully completing the four-year mandate in February 2013. He was then appointed President of the HAKOM Council by the Croatian Parliament in 2013. He is a member of the governing bodies of the regulatory bodies of the European Union in the field of electronic communications of BEREC and IRG. Dr. Lucic is a member of the National Council for Cyber Security and the National Council for Digital Economy. He is a lecturer at postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb and a visiting lecturer at some faculties and polytechnics in Croatia. He is a well-known presenter and moderator at numerous conferences and professional events in Croatia, Europe and the world.

Panelists:

Moderator:

Candid & controversial - not "just another" round-table

About the Speaker:
JP Hanson
JP Hanson is a global keynote speaker and the CEO of Rouser, an international brand development consultancy firm headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with intense focus on the brand building aspects of business strategies, primarily pertaining to marketing.

At the very core of Rouser is a firm belief in critical thinking and freedom from hype. The approach, which has led to the firm perpetually and fearlessly analyzing fundamental truths and new ideas alike, mirrors the style of public speaking that JP has become known for. Never one afraid to step on toes, expect a thought-provoking speech guaranteed to make you see the world differently.

Presentation focus:
∙ The relationship between brand and innovation
∙ Defining innovation in a digital world
∙ Positioning, price and product
∙ Technology vs behavion
∙ Employees and innovation - the fear of negative vs the desire of positive
∙ Modern innovation strategy

Overview:
Despite massive investments, innovation remains an often-frustrating pursuit for many companies and brands. Innovation initiatives frequently fall flat, while successful legacy and startup brand innovators alike find themselves unable to sustain performance. Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate in today’s digital world? The answers are commonly rooted in the absence of a true-to-brand innovation strategy and lack of understanding of growth drivers.

Without objectives that align the business, different parts of an organization can easily wind up pursuing conflicting priorities that are not only counterproductive, but harmful to potential market share gain and long-term survivability.

A well-defined innovation strategy, whether routine, disruptive, radical or architectural, can not only ensure a brand that remains relevant to its target audience, but offers value to customers, company and employees alike. In order to develop it, companies must understand growth drivers, balance technology and psychology and recognize both the fear of the negative and the desire of the positive.

In this keynote, CEO of Rouser and international brand strategist JP Hanson will delve into the depths of strategy, technology and human behavior to provide the keys to innovation success and a thought-provoking perspective on business in the digital age.

Key take-aways:
1. Innovation is the key to sustained brand relevance
2. Without an innovation strategy, innovation can be directly harmful to chances of market share increase
3. Companies must understand both technology and behavior to successfully innovate in a digital age

The coffee-break makes for a great occasion to mingle around some 300 delegates, share instant feedback about presentations you enjoyed the most, engage in casual chat and naturally visit the sponsors exhibition area.

Location: Tech Expo in front of the main Conference Hall Beethoven

Presentation focus:
· What Banks need to do to compete in digital arena?
· What FinTech's need to have in mind when delivering apps for Banking industry?
· What happens if they don't?

Overview:
There are numerous examples through the history of warfare and sports when outnumbered and technically inferior teams beat the odds and claimed the victory over the favorites. Digital arena is no different. "Digital" is not technology. It's corporate culture and way of doing business. Some industries realized it years and decades before banks did - so, why don't we learn from them?

Key take-aways:
1. Digital is not technology – it is the way of doing business.
2. What Banks can learn from “masters of transformation” in other industries?
3. What happens if you do "digital" with traditional mindset?

Speaker: Davor Gasparac · Head of Org & IT Group · Erste Group IT International

Presentation focus:
∙ How AI is impacting Human?
∙ Pros and cons from this impact
∙ What are the roles for a Leader here?
∙ Which new skills are on demand due to this?
∙ Are we ready for the Future of Work?

Overview:
After having a risk of 4.6M blue-collar jobs in the USA due to AI, the jobs of white-collar (including MBAs) start impacting due to AI-based EAAS as well.
"AI is not going to replace rather transform a job", this is the belief of most of us, in fact from many experts. But what will happen if it starts effecting like this?
This is a huge problem and there has never been a greater threat to democracy. This will lead to inequality.
AI is an opportunity for us to evolve rather than a threat. And it should be in the safe hands!
New skills are arriving in the market to the sustain the demand caused by AI and Machine Intelligence.

Key take-aways:
1. Using of AI to transform and enhance the Future of Work
2. Leadership plays vital role in the impact cause by AI
3. Rising of new skills to sustain the influence of Machine Intelligence

Speaker: Soumyasanto Sen · Co-Founder & Partner · People Conscience

Presentation focus:
· CHAGWA - Product-defined methodology Vs. PMO-defined methodology
· Using project management triangle for making right decisions
· Make the right decisions by keeping your DISTRANS level low

Overview:
In the past years many organizations have been drastically replacing Waterfall with Agile. The truth is that it is your PRODUCT that defines the methodology, not your PMO.

While agile project management gains momentum, organizations face the conflict if they need to organize their project management organization in a waterfall or an agile way. In practice there's also a third type of project management – change control driven projects – which makes the choice even more complex.

CHAGWA is a novel project management methodology that focuses on three key aspects: a set of processes that allow change, agile and waterfall projects in the organization, how management and governance is done for these projects, and how different types of projects are integrated. Clear and objective criteria are defined that help selecting of the right project management track, focusing on the Product instead of the organization.

CHAGWA comes with a number of templates that support the processes. The new concept of DISTRANS is defined, which helps in making choices on complexity and level of documentation in projects.

Key take-aways:
1. It's the product that defines how you run your project, not the PMO
2. Good managers keep a low DISTRANS
3. You can only run Agile projects if you trust your team

Speaker: Dr. Jurgen Van Gorp · Partner · The Bayard Partnership

A great opportunity to engage in a casual chat with speakers and your fellow delegates. Lunch will be served at the main hotel restaurant, providing a variety of specialties ranging from traditional Croatian specialties to best international cuisine.

Location: Ball-room Tomislav

Presentation focus:
∙ Strategy development
∙ Research & development
∙ Optimizing limited resources
∙ Cloud development
∙ Digital strategy and development

Overview:
After this speech, you will get insights from a 20 plus years experienced global Manager that describe how to make a long-term strategy and make sure with limited resources to achieve the objectives to support the digital strategy of the enterprise and be part of the success story.

Key take-aways:
1. How a digital strategy gets defined in enterprise environment
2. How to realize a global digital portfolio
3. How the change drive the technology

Speaker: Angelos Kirianes · International Key Note Speaker

Presentation focus:
· Overview of the current enterprise messaging patterns
· Future trend of the communication, shift to conversational messaging paradigm
· Chatbots idea and current status
· How prepare yourself (processes and infrastructure) for the chatbots evolution
· How Infobip can help you cross the gap

Overview:
Currently the A2P messaging is focused on transactional messaging, meaning sending notifications, promotional and authentication messages with minimal interaction with the end user. With the strong push from Amazon, Facebook, Google in the space of digital assistants two-way communication is becoming the norm. The presentation will give an overview of the current status and more importantly of the future trends as well try to explain how the enterprises should prepare and adapt to the new paradigm.

Key take-aways:
1. Transition from transactional to conversational messaging
2. Rise of chatbots
3. How to prepare yourself for the communication transformation

Speaker: Kreso Zmak · Global Products Development Director · Infobip

Presentation focus:
· What does 5G bring?
· What implications on industry and society we can see in the future
· Is there a winning player in all digital world?

Overview:
5G is not only an evolution of communication technology, but it is creating new opportunities to all industry segments and society in general. New technological advances will radically transform how we use technology and create a tectonic shift in how business is run. Strategies need to adjust and adapt new world enabled by 5G and related technologies.

Key take-aways:
1. 5G is not only a technology evolution, but a complete new business environment
2. New communication solutions will create new business segments/niches
3. Digitalization of industries, enabled by 5G will radically transform existing industries

Speaker: Hrvoje Hadzic · Innovation Strategy and Business Development Manager · Ericsson Nikola Tesla

The coffee-break makes for a great occasion to mingle around some 300 delegates, share instant feedback about presentations you enjoyed the most, engage in casual chat and naturally visit the sponsors exhibition area.

Location: Tech Expo in front of the main Conference Hall Beethoven

About the Speaker:
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez is the world’s leading champion of project management and founder of a global movement that has transformed a tactical topic such as project management, into one of the central issues in the CEO’s 2020 agenda. He is the creator of concepts such as the Hierarchy of Purpose featured by Harvard Business Review, or the Project Revolution; which argues that Projects are the lingua franca of the business and personal worlds from the C-suite to managing your career or relationships.

Antonio has influenced CEOs of leading organizations; preeminent business media, such as Harvard Business Review and The Economist; top business schools, like Duke CE; renowned thought leader conclaves, such as Thinkers50, Peter Drucker Forum and the World Economic Forum. His vision has impacted thousands of organizations, leaders and MBA students.

He is author of the bestselling The Focused Organization; currently working on his next book Hierarchy of Purpose. He teaches at some of the world leading business schools (including Duke CE, Skolkovo, IE, Solvay, Vlerick); and is a much in demand speaker at events worldwide.

He is one of the few thought leaders that holds a full time executive position, currently as Director of the Program Management Office at GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. Past chairman of the Project Management Institute, previously worked at BNP Paribas, Fortis Bank, ABN AMRO and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Born in Madrid, Spain, and educated in Germany, Mexico, Italy and the United States, Antonio has an MBA from London Business School and is fluent in five languages.

Antonio’s work and concepts have been recently recongnised by Thinkers50 with the exclusive award “Ideas into Practice”. He is the author of the “The Focused Organization” and visiting professor in leading business schools, including Duke CE, Instituto de Empresa, Solvay Business School, Skolkovo, Ecole des Ponts and Vlerick.

What will Antonio talk about?
Imagine a leader in your organization approaches you and ask you: “We’re starting a new project. It’s so secret, I can’t even tell you what that new project is. I cannot tell you who you will work for. What I can tell you is if you choose to accept this role, you’re going to work harder than you ever have in your entire life. You’re going to have to give up nights and weekends probably for a couple years as we make this product.” - would you accept the challenge?

The rest of the story...? Well, that will have to wait for now.

Closing
Sponsors & partners acknowledgements and drawing of valuable prizes and VIP Tickets for selected events

See you again next year!