Fourth B2B event within GIVE project – Belgrade, Serbia

On 19-20 June 2019 Serbian Automotive Cluster organized the fourth B2B event in the framework of Green ICT Development (GIVE) project in Belgrade, Serbia. The first day happened at GIZ premises in Belgrade, where the project partner meeting was held. Also, during the first day presentations were held by clusters coming from Croatia, Egypt and France, which are potential GIVE partners.

The main event took place on the second day at the Science Technology Park in Belgrade, where the opening session started with welcome speech by Mr. Igor Vijatov, Cluster Manager at Serbian Automotive Cluster and Mr. Tomislav Knezevic, GIZ. After the opening session Ms. Anna Naydenova, Executive Director of ICT Cluster Bulgaria presented the GIVE project.

Next on the agenda was the keynote speaker, Mr. Pierluigi Ghione, General Manager SEE, MAGNA Seating Division with presentation on the main topic: Digital Future of the Automotive Industry. In the following presentation Mr. Filip Mrdak presented the Center for Digital Transformation: national response to global trends and needs.

In the third session of the event four companies presented their innovative solutions, services and best practices. Starting with representative from Mitsubishi Electric who presented the Factory Automation Platforms in the company. The second presentation was focused on the Sensor Technologies developed by the Serbian company Novelic, following with presentation by representative from the company Festo on the subject: Automation of Production Processes. In the last presentation by the companies, representative from the company Andromeda Holding presented their unique products and services.

The event ended with short company pitching and B2B meetings between the participants in order to establish networking and discuss present activities, products, services, joint projects, partnerships, exchange of experience and market information.

Stay up to date with all the future activities within the project by following the GIVE Facebook page and GIVE LinkedIn group. The next GIVE B2B event will be organized on 24-25 September 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria.