Chris Skinner is known as an independent commentator on the financial markets and fintech through his blog, the Finanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank and its new sequel ValueWeb. In his day job, he is Chair of the European networking forum: the Financial Services Club. He is on the Advisory Boards of many companies including Innovate Finance, Moven and Meniga, and has been voted one of the most influential people in banking and fintech.

Matteo Rizzi has been actively engaged in the FinTech space for over 20 years. He knows how to bridge traditional banking with new or disruptive technologies, because he understands both. He is the founder of swiftcommunity.net and the Innotribe Startup Challenge and the co-founder of Innotribe and www.FinTechStage.com. For three years in a row (2014-2016), Financial News nominated Matteo as one of the “40 most influential FinTech executives in Europe” and Bank Innovation named him one of the “30 Innovators to watch shaping the industry” in 2014.

Nenad Bakić is a Croatian entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist, currently mostly focused on digital transformation in education – founder of IRIM, the leading organisation in introducing STEM education in the region. Mathematician, with careers in science, digital media, finance and human resources. Serial founder, with multiple successful exits. Companies he founded and still owns are the market leaders in their respective markets. As investor in public companies, he is the most prominent deep-value, long-term activist investor in Croatia.

Maurice works at the crossroads of Intesa Sanpaolo foreign banks where business strategy, technology, consumer marketing and service design get together and he deals with defining the entire Banking Digital strategy and coordinating the implementation of multichannel projects across the International Subsidiary network of 10 countries. He collaborates with different Banking Innovation communities within European area.

Dinko Lucić has been a member of the Management Board of Privredna banka Zagreb since 2009. He is the Head of the Retail Division and is responsible for coordinating the companies of the PBZ Group in the areas of retail banking and credit card business. Over the course of his business career, Mr. Lucić has held several functions at Privredna banka Zagreb and the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, and has also served on the Management Board of another Intesa Sanpaolo Group member, the Slovak VUB Bank, from 2007 to 2009. He was born in 1971 and graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb. He has completed the General Management Program and obtained the Certified International Retail Banker qualification from the Retail Banking Academy.

Mario Jurišić has been a member of the Management Board of PBZ Card since the beginning of 2008. He is responsible for card business development, issuing and acquiring domains, including new product development, sales and marketing. He began his career in 1998 in Privredna banka Zagreb and from the beginning played active role in establishing and development of card business with MasterCard and Visa card payment schemes. In the beginning of 2003 he became Deputy Director in Card Business Development, responsible for acquiring and product development. With the integration of PBZ Group card business into PBZ Card, on January 1, 2006 he became the Executive Director of Product Development, Marketing and Sales Division in PBZ Card. He was born in 1971 and graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb and is currently finishing Presidential MBA Programme at IEDC Bled School of Management. He has completed the Strategic Management Programme in organization of Management Centre Europe and many others.

During his 16-year professional career, Andrej gained extensive experience in card business, working both for the bank and its card processing centre, serving as well several other banks on the Slovenian market. Initially, he contributed significantly to the launch of some first of a kind products related to card payments on the market. Most recently he is dedicated to the implementation of the bank’s digital agenda thru its distribution channels, currently focusing on smart payments.

Davor is Agile Coach and Enterprise Architect with 20 years of experience in software development industry. He went through every stage of the process, from software development to software and system architecture and even project management. Always close to end customers, he often took actions in business development, sales and presales.

Evgueny has been with BIR from 2006 as the head of e-channels covering Retail, SME, Corporate, e-fraud management, e-commerce, etc..He is a PhD holder in Technical sciences and a MBA with distinction from Warwick Business School (England).

The main task of Multichannel Office is to provide customers with functional and contemporary banking services through the internet and mobile channels. Being in charge, Helena is also responsible for Intesa Sanpaolo multichannel project implementation in Privredna banka Zagreb. The opportunity to combine her respective experience in traditional retail banking with the recent achievements in digital technology, makes her current position one of the most interesting business challenges.

Inga is lead software engineer on reporting systems and administration applications for Intesa Sanpaolo multichannel internet banking project. Her main interest is in the area of business inteligence and machine learning.

Ivan is software developer with more than four years of enterprise software experience under his belt. He enjoys playing with mobile and web development, and learning about functional and reactive programming.

Ivan Krnić is Agile Coach and Software Development Technical Manager at CROZ. His specialities are banking and insurance systems, as well as portal and ECM solutions. Hopeless sucker for startup ideas. In love with agile approach, he is helping teams unleash their full potential. His secret superpowers include fixing remote controls and assembling Ikea wardrobes.

Graduated on University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. A senior software developer in PBZ bank since 2011, he started working as Java developer, supporting and developing internet banking. Currently, he's developing in Java, the new generation of internet banking for the banks of Intesa Sanpaolo Group.

Matej is a software developer with nine years of experience of working on several large scale retail applications in PBZ. He enjoys reading about new languages, frameworks and technologies and spends way too much time on Hacker News.

Peter is dreamer who wants to change the world around himself. He is responsible for the digital transformation of a major Hungarian bank, CIB Bank, member of the Intesa Sanpaolo group.CIB Bank was the first to launch the new concept mobile app of Intesa Sanpaolo, winning Best Mobile Banking App prize in MasterCard Bank of the Year Awards. Peter is enthusiastic about helping the new generation to implement their ideas.

Prije nego što je postala članica Intesa Sanpaolo Banke Bosne i Hercegovine 2015. godine, Rialda je stekla bogato iskustvo u dvije velike banke u Bosni i Hercegovini. Njezin prvi zadatak u Intesa Sanpaolo Banci BiH bio je u Odjelu za affluent i private klijente, a bila je i koordinatorica za implementaciju projekta novog organizacijskog modela za poslovanje karticama ISBD-a.

Responsible for the strategy definition and managing business development and maintenance of Bank’s Multichannel solutions, she has managed a number of projects within the bank including launch of the mobile banking. She has been involved as a jury member and mentor in a number of events within Albania promoting young entrepreneurs such as Competition of Young Entrepreneurs, Regional Innovation Camp organized by Junior Achievement and Startup Live Tirana. Xhilda holds a Master Degree in Public Administration but strongly believes that the best results comes from experience, will and the right attitude.

Zorana has over 14 years of experience in digital banking and is one of the pioneers of e-banking in Serbia. She spent the first 12 years of banking experience in IT, successfully leading numerous projects in the digital banking area. She introduced the first Mobile banking app on Serbia in 2010 and the first Digital wallet in 2016. With a strong IT background and wide business knowledge, she is also a member of e-government association, working actively with other professionals from banking and corporate world on the digitalization of Serbia.

20+ years of experience in software development. Currently a team leader at project Digical in PBZ. Zvone is an agile guy. Until now, he trained 200+ people to adopt agile and lean development.As a Novathon mentor, he will try to keep you on track and help you out to deliver your ideas.