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what's next

Milenko Markov is a network engineer who has been employed at Hewlett Packard Enterprise since 2011, working in the position of engineer in the sales process. He is responsible for the Central and Eastern European region. He holds a degree in electrical engineering with a major in telecommunications, is the holder of several industry certifications (HPE MASE Networking, Aruba Certified Mobility Professional, Cisco CCIE, Prince2), and is a member of the Serbian Chamber of Engineers. In addition to his focus on generic networking, he is also interested in embedded system development, IoT, and indoor positioning technologies.

ISG Technical Sales Manager SEE, Three decades of experience in the IT world, mostly in IBM and Lenovo. The first director of Lenovo in Slovenia, since 2011 Tehnical Sales Manager for the Infrastructure Solutions (IBM System X, Lenovo ThinkSystem) segment for South East Europe.

Jacint is an IT professional with more than 20 years of experience. He started focusing on storage and data at the very beginning of his career and strongly believes that data is the most important part of the datacenter. He spends most of his time in virtualization and cloud native environments.

Ivan Štrbac is a Lead Security Engineer at Check Point Software Technologies. Throughout his career, he has focused on protecting cloud environments, cloud-native architectures, and modern digital platforms, and today he actively works on topics related to the secure deployment of artificial intelligence in business environments. He has more than 20 years of experience in information technology and cybersecurity, with particular focus on protecting critical infrastructure, cloud services, and AI technologies. He holds numerous professional certifications from leading global technology companies and independent expert organizations. Through his work with organizations of various sizes, he helps implement strategies for the secure adoption of AI solutions, protecting AI agents, AI applications, and AI infrastructure, applying Zero Trust security principles and modern cybersecurity practices.

Mladen started his professional career working with hardware, various data storage systems, and servers. Today, he focuses on software-defined data centers — the capabilities unlocked by new technologies and the ways they're reshaping and transforming IT, while solving the everyday problems and challenges that come with running an IT system. He has worked on numerous projects, from simple to highly complex, for a wide range of clients across the region.

Veljko is working as Senior Technology Consultant for all products and services in Dell Technologies Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG). Since joining this role in 2018, he is actively working on infrastructure solution designs with customers from different market segments and different countries in Adriatic region. With his 20 years long professional experience, product specific knowledge and industry best practices he helps customers to properly choose and design traditional, converged or hyperconverged infrastructure solutions either for their Datacenters or on the Edge.

Vedran Franjić is technical lead for Croatia & BiH at Palo Alto Networks. He was born in Osijek, Croatia and holds a Master's degree of “Science in Electrical engineering and information technology, Computer Engineering” from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Osijek. With over 10 years of experience and numerous projects in the IT cybersecurity industry and working for various cybersecurity vendors, Vedran represents deep knowledge of security architectures and is driving cybersecurity innovation for customer environments in the region, helping them to overcome existing threats and tailor better response to future attacks. Having deep knowledge and working with both partners and customers helped Vedran to become recognised by partners and customer as Trusted Cybersecurity Advisor in the region.