Gabriela Bar

Gabriela Bar, doctor of law, Attorney at Law, managing partner at Szostek_Bar i Partnerzy Kancelaria Prawna. Enthusiast of new technologies, with particular emphasis on Artificial Intelligence. Experienced expert in the field of electronic contracts, e-commerce, legal aspects of IT systems implementation, and privacy protection. Member of the IEEE Legal Committee in the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems project; member of the New Technologies Law Association, FBE New Technologies Commission, and Women in AI. Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Silesia University in Katowice (Poland) and member of the legal team in the Multi-Agent Systems for Pervasive Artificial Intelligence for assisting Humans in Modular Production Environments project – MAS4AI (HORIZON 2020). A graduate of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wrocław and the Kozminski University.

Božidara Cvetković

Božidara Cvetković began her work on artificial intelligence 10 years ago at the Jožef Stefan Institute, where she also received her PhD. For the past three years, she has led the team of data scientists at BE-terna and worked on the development and implementation of artificial intelligence methods in existing business processes. The team’s development work is focused on end-to-end optimization and automation of processes in the fields of logistics, manufacturing, personalized marketing and predictive maintenance.

Mitja Jermol

Mitja Jermol is UNESCO Chair holder for Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning and the head of the Centre for knowledge Transfer at the Jožef Stefan Institute, the national research institute in Slovenia. He is also a member of the management team of IRCAI – International Research Center on Artificial Intelligence under auspices of UNESCO, being responsible for projects that are addressing global challenges related to SDGs with AI (AI in Smart Cities, Circular Economy, Environment, Intelligent Transport, Smart Energy Grids, Factories of the Future, Cyber Security, Technology Enhanced Learning, Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence). He has a long track record in setting up and managing large projects like videolectures.NET, Science Atlas, Analytics framework for fighting against corruption and more. Mitja is a member of the management teams of Knowledge4All Foundation and MyMachine Global. He is also involved in the European Complex System Society, Open Education Consortium, Opencast and European current research information systems (CRIS) community.

Mitja Kovač

Mitja Kovač graduated law with “cum laude” at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law. He gained his LL.M. and PhD in the field of comparative contract law and economics at Utrecht University, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Netherlands. In 2006 he also became a member of the Economic Impact Group within the CoPECL Network of Excellence (European DCFR project). Currently he is a full-time professor of civil and commercial law at the University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, a visiting lecturer at the University of Ghent, Belgium, at the University of Turin, Italy and at University of Vienna, Austria. He publishes in the fields of comparative law and economics, new institutional economics, consumer protection, artificial intelligence, contract theory, intellectual property rights and competition law and economics.

Aleš Pustovrh

Aleš Pustovrh is an assistant professor, researcher, and lecturer in the field of economics and entrepreneurship at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana. He is researching the new forms of innovation, emerging innovation systems and business models connected to them at this University. His papers have been published in well-known scientific journals and he has been regularly attending domestic and international scientific conferences. His activities are not limited to academic research of the topic as he is also systematically working with startup companies and large corporations trying to achieve accelerated growth. As such, he has been one of the founders of ABC venture accelerator in Slovenia and a partner at a venture capital fund in Croatia. Both in his academic and other activities, he remains closely connected to the regions of Southeast-, East- and Central Europe, using the diverse environments and experiences as inputs for his research.

John Soldatos

John Soldatos holds a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (2000) and is currently ICT & Business Consultant and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK. John Soldatos is an expert in Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and applications, including applications in smart cities, finance (Finance 4.0), and industry (Industry 4.0). He has played a leading role in the successful delivery of more than seventy(commercial-industrial, research, and business consulting) projects, for both private & public sector organizations, including complex integrated projects. He is co-founder of the open-source platform OpenIoT. He has published more than 200 articles in international journals, books, and conference proceedings. He has recently coedited and co authored six edited volumes (books) on Artificial Intelligence, BigData and Internet of Things related themes. He is the author of the book “A 360o Degrees View of IoT Technologies”, which was published by Artech House in December 2020.

Miha Škerlavaj

Miha Škerlavaj, PhD, is a vice-dean for research and a professor of management at the School of Economics and Business University of Ljubljana and an adjunct professor of leadership and organizational behavior at BI Norwegian Business School. He is also active as a member of the Scientific council to the Slovenian research agency. Scientific community values him as an awarded researcher who published in prestigious international research journals including the Academy of Management Journal, the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Leadership Quarterly and the Human Resource Management. He is involved in several international research collaborations with colleagues from top global business schools. For his research in the field knowledge and innovation management he received prestigious Zois recognition by the Republic of Slovenia in 2020.

He also published and edited and a book Capitalizing on creativity: Fostering the implementation of creative ideas at work as well as Outfit7 case study at renowned business school INSEAD. His research received attention in global media such as The New York Times. Professor Škerlavaj is also an active research disseminator as a radio co-host, podcast creator, op-ed and blog writer. He has extensive practical experience through workshops, trainings and consulting assignments for clients in Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe, and China. He teaches PhD, EMBA, executive, and master of science programs in Europe and Asia and regularly facilitates workshops with practitioners on cross-cultural management, organizational development and change, leadership development, human resource management, creativity and innovation management-related topics.