Diana Aladzhova

CFA, Partner, Silverline Capital

Diana Aladzhova is a finance executive and entrepreneur, specialized in SMEs financial management and investments. She has more than 12+ years of experience in Private Equity, Venture Capital and Corporate finance in the CEE Region. Diana is Partner at Silverline Capital, mezzanine/growth Private equity fund. She is also a Founder of CFO Insights, cloud-based CFO-as-a-service company. Diana has worked with companies from 10+ industries, managing investment deal structuring, including equity, mezzanine, convertible debt and hybrid instruments for growth, buyouts and M&A. She holds an Msc in Finance and Private Equity from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has successfully completed the CFA Institute program.

Arsen Apostolov

Head of Data & Analytics, BNP Paribas Personal Finance

With over 15 years of experience in the field of data analytics, automation, and reporting, Arsen Apostolov currently holds the position of Head of Data & Analytics at BNP Paribas Personal Finance in Bulgaria. His primary responsibility is to develop the organization's data and AI strategy and build realistic roadmap to achieve it. His expertise in data science includes building targeting tools for the entire value chain using machine learning techniques, predicting the next best action on a customer level, extracting actionable insights from data, and conducting exploratory data analysis to identify the root causes of business problems.

Zoran Arsovski

Managing Director & Chief Growth Officer, VertoDigital

Zoran and his team focus on Digital Marketing Consulting for B2B growth-stage companies supported by the leading technology VC funds.

Patrick Bangert

SVP for data and AI at searce, former VP, Samsung SDS

Patrick is the senior vice-president for data, analytics, and AI at Searce, which provides the professional services for Google Cloud and AWS. He heads the profit center that is responsible for all projects with a data scientific character globally. His thought leadership on AI has won him several awards and makes him a popular speaker at conferences and events. Until recently, Patrick was the vice-president for corporate strategy at Samsung SDS where he led the AI Division from 2020 to 2023 bringing AI tools and services into Samsung Cloud for computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning with a particular focus on medical imaging.

Hristo Borisov

CEO & Co-Founder, Payhawk

Hristo Borisov is the CEO and co-founder of Payhawk. Hristo spent more than 11 years in Telerik (acquired by U.S. Progress Software), where he led the product development team of 180+ engineers that created some of the award-winning products of the company. Hristo has extensive experience leading product innovation and new market entry. In 2018, Hristo co-founded Payhawk alongside long-time colleague Boyko Karadzhov (CTO). Payhawk is a next generation financial system that combines credit cards, payments, expenses, cash management and pre-accounting into one integrated experience.

Claudia Cruceru

Business Development Lead CEE, VISA

Manager and senior professional with more than 15 years experience in payments, banking and consulting in Romania, Austria, Italy and CEE. Areas of expertise: Payments, Cards, Product development, Marketing, Project management, Business development, Credit processes, Risk Management, Business presentation, Team management.

Victor Francess

Internet Entrepreneur, Excitel

Victor Francess is a renowned serial entrepreneur in the internet and telecom sectors, recognized as one of the pioneering figures in the Bulgarian internet landscape. In 1997, Victor co-founded Orbitel, a trailblazing company that experienced meteoric growth over the span of eight years before being acquired by the Deutsche Telekom Group in 2005. Following this success, Victor continued his entrepreneurial journey by launching multiple innovative telecom and internet-related projects India, including Extreme Labs, and Excitel. His visionary leadership and passion for the industry have made significant contributions to the evolution of the internet and telecom space.

Stephane Gantchev

Partner, LAUNCHub Ventures

Stephane is focusing on enterprise software B2B and SaaS companies, covering Bulgaria, Greece and the SEE Diaspora on the US east coast. Prior to joining LAUNCHub Ventures, Stephane was working in Large IT system integrators and Orange - the leading telecom in France, where he was working with startups and investors identifying new innovative products and services.Stephane has been very actively developing the LAUNCHub Ventures investor network in Europe and the US. He is also co-organizer of DigitalK conference - the largest technology & startup conference in SEE. Vertical: Enterprise software, SaaS, IoT

Milen Genchev

Customer Engineer, Google Cloud

Milen is a Customer Engineer helping customers accelerate their digital transformation. He works with businesses of all sizes to get the most out of Google’s cloud.

Filip Genov

Co-Founder and Managing Director, F27

25+ years in banking, innovations and technology, Founder & MD of Sophia Lab, the leading digital transformation and acceleration think tank in Southeast Europe Founder & MD of the first banking & FinTech VC operation in the Southeast Europe ​Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the FinTech and InsureTech Summit, the biggest industrial forum in the Southeast Europe Member of the Vienna Initiative, CEE&lead expert on financial instruments for innovative and fast growing companies Co-Founder of the Strategic Center for Artificial Intelligence for Southeast Europe, based in Sofia Served on the Executive Committee of the Factors Chain International and Strategy and R&D aide to the Executive Committee of CEDEC Created and managed three 500+ million euro financial businesses MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics and Political Science and HEC Paris.

Svetozar Georgiev

Co-Founder, Telerik, Telerik Academy and Campus X

Svetozar Georgiev is a co-founder of Telerik, Telerik Academy and Campus X. After spending 14 years building a global software company, he is now dedicated to sharing his learnings with the next generation of Bulgarian entrepreneurs. As a co-founder and co-CEO of Telerik, Svetozar has been instrumental in steering the company from a bootstrapped startup to a global market leader, employing 850+ people in 11 offices around the world. Today, he is overseeing the development the educational institutions Telerik Academy and Telerik Academy Foundation, as well as the biggest private incubator in Bulgaria – Campus X. Svetozar is also an active mentor, advisor and angel investor, working with numerous startups and community organizations. His mission is to help the local tech and start-up ecosystems evolve and become strong bottom-up forces for positive change in Bulgaria. Currently he is Chair of BESCO – the Bulgarian Entrepreneurs’ Association, Vice Chair of “Teach for Bulgaria” Foundation and member of the Board of Trustees of the American University in Bulgaria.

Elvin Guri

Managing Partner, CEO, INVENIO Partners

Elvin Guri is an investor and entrepreneur with more than 15 years of successful track record in banking and private equity. As an investor and adviser, Elvin has been involved in deals in the financial institutions sector (Czech Republic, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Albania, Macedonia), in technology and biotechnology (Switzerland, Bulgaria), in healthcare and food industry (Bulgaria), and the real estate sector (USA). Prior to Empower Capital, Elvin and Ivan Hristanov co-founded JetFinance International, the largest independent consumer finance lender in SEE. JetFinance was sold to BNP Paribas Personal Finance in July 2007. Elvin started his career as an Auditor at Price Waterhouse in Sofia. Later he spent more than five years with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), both in London and in Sofia. At EBRD, Elvin worked mostly on financial institutions’ deals, but also contributed to deals in food processing, pulp and paper, and other industries. Elvin holds an Executive MBA from the University of Oxford. Elvin is fluent in English, Bulgarian and Albanian. He is also conversational in French and Italian. Additionally, Elvin supports several educational initiatives in Bulgaria and Albania, including AUBG, Teach for Bulgaria (“Zaedno v Chas”) and Junior Achievement.

Krasen Hinkov

Board Member, Portfolio Success Board Member, AlfaStar Ventures

Krasen has 20+ years of new product development experience in telecom and multimedia business. He is managing a company that develops new multimedia licensing services and technology solutions for the entertainment business. He is also a partner in venture capital investment fund focused on finding and supporting early-stage start-ups. His main interests and expertise are in innovation strategy, marketing strategy and products portfolio management.

Enis Hulli

General Partner, 500 EE

Enis Hulli is a General Partner at 500. Educated as an engineer he has a firm grasp of the technological aspect of the startup world and the ambition and knowledge to see the global potential in the regional startup scene. That is why, rather than venturing on the civil engineer path, he founded firstseed, a network of investors focusing on early stages investments. He aims to cultivate and grow the startup ecosystems in Emerging Europe, help talented entrepreneurs of the broader region and the diaspora in building explosive businesses that will integrate with Silicon Valley. His goal is to position 500 as the leading actor in the region in order to re-shape the future of innovation at Emerging Europe. 500 EE is an early-stage fund within the 500 Global network, a leading global venture capital seed fund and startup accelerator with over 2,600 investments in more than 75 countries and venture partners in more than 25 countries. 500 EE's mission is to back seed-stage technology companies targeting sizeable markets and help them scale globally. Launched in August of 2016, 500 EE has 60 portfolio companies that have collectively raised more than $1B from international investors.

Madalina Ilie

Founder & Communication Specialist, Manna Foods Solutions and Co-Founder, Eleon Energy Systems

Madalina Ilie is a Founder & Communication Specialist of the Romanian agri-food start-up, Manna Foods Solutions (https://www.mannafoods.eu/about-us/) and the co-founder of green-tech start-up Eleon Energy Systems. She has started these start-ups because she truly believes that we have to start rethinking the way we use all our resources in the context of the challenges and changes we are living today. At the core of all my projects stays the component of social impact and how my start-ups' innovative projects can help people globally especially when they face harsh living conditions. The innovations we brought through these two startups are connected with future food, dry food-new concept, 3D food printing and clean energy. Together with my team, we have won knowledge at European level and prizes, among which I can mention: 2nd place European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) - Food Innovation Prize, 2020, Romania finals, 3rd place Women Start-up Competition powered by Avon & Partners, Romania finals, 2019 Edition, Bucharest, Romania and I was nominated by https://therecursive.com, The Online Tech Media of Central and Eastern Europe, to be among Romanian women in tech, a map with 10 verticals and 30 female founders-(https://therecursive.com/who-are-romanian-women-in-tech-a-map-with-10-verticals-30-female-founders/). I also have multiple media appearances in which I promote my projects and the need of food innovation in the context of accelerated technology development, climate change, accelerated growth of world population, agricultural resources and food consumption in space expeditions (https://www.mannafoods.eu/media/). Her professional background is also related to: business and political communication, telecommunications, food innovation and technologies and media relations. She is also a passionate advocate of encouraging and motivating young people to make changes in the world through education, critical thinking, courage and following the inner voice.

Bogdan Iordache

General Partner, Underline Ventures

Bogdan is the solo General Partner of Underline Ventures, a venture capital firm that partners at the earliest stages with Eastern European founders building high-growth startups with global ambitions. Also, founder of the How to Web Conference, one of Europe’s leading startup and innovation events, Bogdan is advising early-stage startups on raising capital, building useful products, or crafting great pitch decks. Previously Partner with Gecad Ventures, entrepreneur (founded and exited Conectoo, an enterprise email marketing service), he was involved with MVP Academy, MVP Angels, TechHub Bucharest, and 3TS Capital Partners.

Rossen Ivanov

Managing Partner, BlackPeak Capital

Prior to establishing BlackPeak Capital, Rossen Ivanov co-founded Entrea Capital in 2007 and subsequently established it as the leading independent Bulgarian investment banking firm and exclusive affiliate of Rothschild for the country. He successfully executed multiple M&A, corporate finance, and strategy advisory projects with Bulgarian and global firms. Prior to establishing Entrea Capital, Rossen worked at McKinsey & Co. in New Jersey/New York, where he focused on consumer goods, industrial, and private equity clients. He worked on multiple strategy, operations strategy and post-merger integration studies. Prior to McKinsey, Rossen worked in London as an investment associate at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, where he was responsible for structuring debt and equity investments across Eastern Europe. Rossen started his career at Procter & Gamble Balkan Markets in Bucharest, where he was responsible for evaluating new product launches across South-East Europe for the Company’s largest product category. Rossen holds an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School and a BA degree in Economics from the American University in Bulgaria.

Georgi Kadrev

Co-Founder & CEO, Imagga Technologies & Kelvin Health

Georgi is co-founder of the Bulgarian technology company Imagga Technologies, which is recognized as a pioneer and global leader in the area of image recognition based on artificial intelligence. The company is named as “Global Innovator in Image Analytics” by IDC in 2016 and is heading multiple global rankings for precision of AI technology. Shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020, Imagga Technologies co-founded Kelvin Health - now an award-winning spin-out company for analysis of thermal images based on artificial intelligence. Kelvin Health has set the ambitious goal to make the screening and monitoring of socially significant medical conditions accessible, efficient, and harmless. This enables massive preventive and prophylactic care that assists in the early discovery of unexpected health issues as well as the efficient monitoring of chronic or long-lasting diseases and therapies.

Kamen Kanchev

Digital Strategy Manager, UniCredit Bulbank

He graduated from Svishtov Academy of Economics with a degree in Business Informatics. He has extensive technological experience in the design, implementation and subsequent support of scalable IT solutions and systems. In his professional career he has held various roles as System Administrator, IT Architect and IT Architects Manager in the Bank. He has been involved in a number of digitization projects for banking services. He teaches students at TU-Sofia in the newly formed discipline - Digitalization in Banking.

Radosław Kędzia

VP CEE & Nordic Europe Region, Huawei

Radoslaw Kedzia was appointed as Regional Vice President of Central Eastern Europe and Nordic Region in H2 of 2019. He was the first European manager to be appointed as Huawei General Manager. He has been working for Huawei since 2008. Mr. Kedzia began his career in Huawei Kenya as Chief Operating Officer, then as a Regional Technical Director for the Eastern and Southern Africa Region, in 2013 he became a Chief Executive Officer in Uganda Representative Office and in 2015 was appointed as the CEO of Czech Representative office. Before his career in Huawei, Mr. Kedzia worked in Poland for PTC and TPSA and later, since 1999 in international, technical and managerial posts for Ericsson, Safaricom and Siemens in various countries such as Kenya, Israel, Great Britain, Spain and Czech Republic. His hobbies are music, art and reading.

Andrew Keen

Executive director

Named as one of the “100 most connected men” by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world’s best known broadcasters and commentators. He produces and presents KEEN ON, the popular daily online podcast. He is the host of the long-running show, How To Fix Democracy and directed and wrote the eponymous 2020 movie. He is the author of four acclaimed books: Cult of the Amateur, Digital Vertigo, The Internet Is Not The Answer, and How To Fix The Future

Orlin Marinov

Co-Founder, Partner & Principal Consultant, ITCE

Orlin is a very well-known name in the IT and Management circles in the region due to his extensive experience as a consultant for numerous large scale and complex projects in the field of IT Service Management and Security. He is a highly respected ITIL® trainer, known for the high success rate of certification of his students and has trained thousands of professionals so far. In the recent years, Orlin has been also specializing in Scaled Agile and helped leadership teams on how to successfully utilize best-practice frameworks in their transformation and modernization efforts.

Federico Menna

Chief Executive Officer

Federico is EIT Digital’s Chief Operations/Finance Officer as well as interim Chief Executive Officer since November 2022. He is responsible for the overall management of the organization, including the development and implementation of strategic objectives and directions. He is also in charge of EIT Digital’s operational and financial processes as well as the supervision, coordination and management of EIT Digital support functions such as IT, HR, Communications and legal. In addition, he is driving the acquisition of new EU-wide private and public activities, partnerships and income streams. Federico joined the organisation in 2015 as innovation analyst and from 2017 to 2019 he led the Innovation and Education Operations team responsible for supporting the key EIT Digital processes related to the EIT grant cycle as well as the operational activities of the Innovation and Education pillars. From to 2020 to 2022 he acted as EIT Digital’s Head of Staff and Operations. Prior to joining EIT Digital, Federico worked for several years for Vodafone Group where he was in charge of new technology transfer from trials and pilots to commercial deployment; in his most recent assignment, he led the pre-commercial pilot and the subsequent commercial launch of the 4G technology into some of the main Vodafone markets in Europe, including Italy and the UK.

Lubomir Nokov

Co-Founder and CEO, Harmonica Foods

Lubomir Nokov is an entrepreneur with a mission. He is one of the founders of the popular organic food brand Harmonica and Biomag stores, with a keen interest in the ecological transition in the food and agricultural sectors.

Irina Obushtarova

Co-founder & CEO, The Recursive

Irina Obushtarova is the CEO and co-founder of the innovation media The Recursive. She spent over 10 years in Austria, graduating from the University of Vienna with a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. To fund her studies, she worked as a waitress for the first few years. Irina began her professional career in media at popular Viennese transcultural magazine Biber. Later on, she joined the sales team of Kobza Media, formerly one of the largest groups of media & communication agencies in Austria. In 2016, Irina makes her first attempt as an entrepreneur and co-founds WelcomeBuddy, a platform serving the needs of expats when relocating to Austria. In the course of her work, she observes more closely the migration trends in Europe resulting in massive brain drain in Bulgaria and Romania and decides to switch directions. In the same period, Irina develops her passion for the startup world and new disruptive business models. Irina gained experience in digital marketing and sales working for various tech product companies in DACH. In 2018, Irina decides to move back to Bulgaria and the media sector, founding the first international outlet of Trending Topics in Sofia. Later on, she launches her own media project The Recursive. As an aspiring leader, Irina is currently responsible for the long-term vision of The Recursive as a sustainably growing media for the innovation ecosystems and emerging new economy in Southeast Europe.

Vivi Papassouli

Regional Mandate Manager, European Investment Fund

Vivi is a Regional Mandate Manager at the European Investment Fund, overseeing EIF equity regional mandates in Greece, Bulgaria and Cyprus. The EIF’s main objective is to support SMEs’ access to finance through innovative and inclusive financial instruments. Vivi is working closely with national and regional partners on the ground to design and implement equity initiatives that help boost VC / PE ecosystems in EU’s less mature markets. She is also part of EIF teams cooperating with EC services on horizontal issues including state aid, the MFF, regulatory frameworks (e.g. Structural Funds, the RRF, InvestEU etc.). Prior to joining the EIF, Vivi worked for more than 14 years in both the private and public sectors on a number of European programmes and projects, covering a wide range of initiatives focusing on regional development, EU cohesion, ICT, etc. She is a certified Project Manager, has a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a bachelor degree in Finance & Accounting.

Lilyana Pavlova

Vice President, EIB

Mrs Lilyana Pavlova is currently Vice-President of the European Investment Bank responsible for Cohesion policy; Advisory services; IT and data governance; Relations with the Vienna Initiative; Strategy for the Danube region. She is also responsible for the activities of the Bank in Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and the Western Balkans. Before that Mrs Pavlova has been a Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria. In the period May 2017 – December 2018 Mrs Pavlova was Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2018. Lilyana Pavlova was Minister of Regional Development and Public Works for two mandates (2014 - January 2017 and 2011 – 2013) and a Deputy Minister in the same Ministry (2009 – 2011). She has a long experience in the field of management of European funds and projects since 1997. In the period 2002 – 2009 she was Head of Department at Ministry of Finance, National Fund Directorate (Financial Management, Control and Certification of the Structural and Cohesion Funds of the European Union and pre-accession funds and programs). Lilyana Pavlova has a PhD in Economics, a Master’s degree in Public Administration and European Integration and a bachelor degree in International Economic Relations. She is fluent in English and Russian.

Mark Pollard

CEO, Sweathead

Mark runs Sweathead, a strategy training company with a community of 18,000 strategists and a podcast with over 1.4 million listens. In recent years, he's consulted and trained companies like Wall Street Journal, Twitter, Complex Media, EA Games, The Economist as well as agencies around the world. In 2020, he published his Kickstarter-funded book "Strategy Is Your Words". It's a 400-page dive into the minds of strategists and builds around a framework he uses called The Four Points. Additionally, Mark is conducting a masterclass in communications strategy on the 19th of May and you can sign up here: https://sweathead.com/products/bulgaria-strategy-masterclass-with-mark-pollard/

Nina Prodanova-Iozeva

Co-Founder, Managing Partner & Principal Consultant, ITCE

Nina is a highly qualified consultant and leader, specializing in Scaled Agile, DevOps, Enterprise Architecture and IT Service Management. She has been part of the design, strategical planning and realization of numerous large scale Agile transformations and ServiceNow digital transformations. Nina has coached and consulted the leadership teams of many organizations in these crucial moments. A speaker at conferences, author of thought leadership articles and publications, nominee for business awards, and recognized as the fastest female CEO, Nina is a leader striving for continuous improvement and growth.

Maryan Rizinski

Manager of Technology & Business Consulting, Bosch Digital Bulgaria

Maryan Rizinski is a leading the Technology & Business Consulting team at Bosch Digital Bulgaria. With over a decade of experience in the software field, he is currently responsible for driving innovation and digitalization across the Bosch Group. In his current role, he oversees a team of skilled experts who provide tailored consulting services in diverse domains, enabling the organization to stay ahead of the curve in the fast-evolving technology landscape.

Plamen Ruskov

Тeam Leader, eCommerce&Web Solutions Team, A1

Plamen Ruskov has extensive experience in the telecommunications industry, with a particular focus on customer value management and digital transformation of business models and online sales. As a Team Lead at A1 Bulgaria, he has refined his skills and knowledge in these areas by effectively managing teams and projects. Plamen is also deeply interested in leveraging modern technologies to enhance real-world business environments. His primary goal is to optimize business processes, improve user experience, and enhance online sales

Atanas Simeonov

Founder & Owner

Atanas Simeonov is a well-known entrepreneur, investor, and healthcare ambassador with solid experience, successful business strategy, and a drive to contribute to a positive change in the startup ecosystem in Bulgaria. Through his family investment holding, Ocean Investments, he focuses on investing in and developing startup ideas and young companies in the fields of cybersecurity, healthcare technologies, future food, and real estate. Defining Ocean Investments as a leading vehicle, directly focused in investing and developing of cyber-health-tech ideas, and by partnering with other funds, investment companies, associations, his mission is to interfere and change the business ecosystem and the quality of life in Bulgaria

Svetoslav Spasov

Executive Director, KPMG IT Service

Svetoslav Spasov is the Executive Director of KPMG IT Service. He is a leader with almost 20 years’ experience in the IT industry and a member of the team that in 2015 envisaged and hands-on led the company from a start-up to a technology leader in the KPMG global network of Member Firms and their clients. Eight years down the road for him there is no greater satisfaction than to look back and reflect on what he and his team have achieved together. He is currently leading the strategic development of the company and manages and develops a team of 500 highly qualified professionals, most of them senior specialists in software development and IT consulting. The large-scale introduction of artificial intelligence will further accelerate the digital transformation processes and affect every business. The big question, according to Svetoslav Spasov, is how prepared are we for the upcoming new technological revolution. He is convinced that in the dynamic world of the IT industry, leaders should contribute to the development of the IT ecosystem by discovering, training and developing talent across the board.

Gergana Stancheva

Co-founder of LAM’ON, Founder of Rikoandthehuman

Alumni of EIT Climate-Kic Journey 2018 and Climate Launchpad 2017. Forbes Bulgaria 30 under 30 class 2017. Co-founder of LAM'ON - a biodegradable and toxic free laminating film for the printing industry. Illustrator at Stereofox. Graphic designer and illustrator, founder of the brand RIKOANDTHEHUMAN, producing prints, cards, games and a variety of printed media.

Victor Stoyanov

Director Alternative Channels, UniCredit Bulbank

Viktor Stoyanov has many years of experience in the banking system, mainly in retail banking. His professional experience includes digital channel development, payments and innovations, product and business development, project management, leasing business development, risk assessment and customer segmentation.

Simeon Stoychev

VP, IT Infrastructure & Operations, Progress

Simeon Stoychev is a technology and business leader with 18+ years of global experience in startups, middle-sized companies and public corporations. His professional experience has been focused on driving business innovation and building highly scalable innovative technologies that create a unique user experience, improve business processes and lead to a competitive advantage. Prior to the Telerik acquisition from Progress, Simeon served as the Chief Information Officer at Telerik. Simeon is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria (AmCham). As part of the leadership team of the organization, he is focused on improving the overall business climate and investment environment in Bulgaria and encouraging the sharing of best practices across industries. Simeon has an EMBA from Oxford Universityw in the UK as well as specializations in “Strategy and Innovation” and “Management and Leadership” from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US. He actively supports and works with startups as a mentor.

Mila Taneva

CEO and Co-Founder, iUX

Natural born risk killer.International Business Consultant specialized in Risk Analytics and one of the most dedicated and skilled executives in the FinTech world. Led numerous successful teams and projects in data science, political analysis, effective project governance and new product development for international markets. Passionate about delivering facts, truth, and rational decision-making. iUX is the risk intelligence startup to watch in 2023. Delivering unmatched depth of user-friendly risk intelligence to clients. Endorsed by EIB in its first fintech investment in the CEE. Making risk controllable & transparent. Partner with IBM. Born international, Born in the cloud. Reduces notification periods in the economic environment by 90 times.

Edward Tian

Building GPTZero, Princeton University

Edward is a CS and journalism student at Princeton, building GPTZero, an AI detection solution with a mission to foster an internet where authentic human content can thrive. He previously worked as an investigator at the BBC and open source researcher at Bellingcat.

Petar Tsankov

Co-Founder & CEO, LatticeFlow

Peter Tsankov is co-founder and CEO of LatticeFlow, a company which diagnoses and fixes AI models. So far LatticeFlow has attracted 15 million dollars in venture capital. Tsankov has graduated ETH-Zurich university and already has one big exit, after PwC bought the blockchain security company ChainSecurity, co-founded by him, in early 2020.

Alexander Tzonev

Co-Founder and CTO, IRZ Solutions

With the pandemic going away it left behind changed consumption models and purchasing habits. Consumers are relying more on eComerce, but the process of deciding can be time consuming and frustrating. AI powered assistants are doing a great job at bridging the gap, but the personal interaction and provided service are still playing significant role in making one’s mind. Come to Digitalk Conference 2023: Breakthrough to find how the phygital stores can help in this new normal from Alexander Tzonev. He is co-founder at IRZ Solutions, a technology partner for A1 Video Store, and a technology leader and investor with more than 25 years of experience in building software products and engineering teams. Alexander’s leadership positions at technology giants such as Johnson Controls, Cisco, and Google gave him experience with the latest technology and Critical User Journeys at scale.

Danijel Višević

General Partner of the World Fund

Danijel Višević is a General Partner of the World Fund. Before co-founding Europe's largest climate tech VC, he worked for Project A, Angela Merkel and as a journalist for Deutsche Welle. As a wide-ranging thought leader in the fields of climate tech and venture capital, he seeks to raise awareness about the climate crisis and the technologies we can use to prevent the worst consequences.

Ivan Vlaevski

Head of Software Engineering and Manager of Architecture, KPMG ITC

A Solution Architect and software engineer with 20+ years of professional experience. A board games aficionado and D&D Game Master An AI whisperer

Alex Yochev

Application Innovation Lead, CEMA Microsoft

Alex Yochev is an engineer with more than 20 years of experience in software development. Code, Architect, Project Management, Automate, Optimize processes, Manage Teams, Pre-Sales and Go-To-Market Strategies – he has been there and done that.Alex has worked for several big names in the IT sector. He joins Microsoft in 2016 to talk about and work with customers adopting Azure services using Open Source tech stacks. Currently he’s into DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Native, large scale Web Apps and content creation.

Deyan Yordanov

Business Development Executive, ITCE

Deyan Yordanov is a valuable member of the ITCE Business Development team and has great experience with the development of tailored training solutions and simulations for businesses with different needs. As a gaming enthusiast who supports gamification in education he has been actively involved in co-facilitating and delivering business simulations to ITCE's customers that give them the chance to explore and implement Agile, ITIL, and DevOps practices.

Yoan Zapryanov

Journalist, Capital Weekly

Yoan Zapryanov has been following technology issues, trends and companies for Capital since 2016

Ivo Zimbilev

Managing Partner & Commercial Director, Cloud Office

Enabling companies to unleash their full potential through Google Cloud Solutions. Previously I was wearing a few hats - Service delivery leader, Cloud partnerships enabler and business development. All dots connecting at "customer - centric" station, building and delivering meaningful business solutions driving enhanced value add.True believer in “if there is a will, there is a way”.