Programme Board

Programme Board's role is to make decisions that are strategically important for TEDxZagreb event, and to supervise that TEDxZagreb event is organised in accordance with TED principles and terms of TEDx license. The members of the Programme Board are involved with TEDxZagreb event personally and as volunteers, i.e. in the Programme Board they do not represent the organizations or institutions they manage or their respective employers.

Programme Board members:
Ankica Mamić, Zagreb
Bojan Hadžihalilović, Sarajevo
Goran Radman, Zagreb
Ivana Nikolić, Zagreb
Nenad Maljković, Zagreb
Predrag Pale, Zagreb
Saša Vučinić, Singapore/Belgrade
Stojan Pelko, Ljubljana
Veran Matić, Belgrade

Ankica Mamić - the owner and Director of the company IM&C d.o.o., an agency for integral marketing and communication from Zagreb. As a communication expert, she led some of the most important communication projects in Croatia, such as the privatization process of Croatia Insurance, the creation and implementation of the communication strategy for the Varaždin County, the merger of Erste & Steiermarkische Bank and Riječka banka, the introduction of mediation as an alternative means for solving disputes in USAID Croatia, the creation and implementation of communication strategy for the Croatian textile company Varteks and many other projects. She is member of the Croatian PR Association - HUOJ, EUPRERA, IPRA, CIPR, ECD. She graduated from the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy, and has completed a host of seminars and training seminars, such as the CIPR programme and Corporative management for supervisory board members (EFZG).

Bojan Hadžihalilović - co-founder and creative director of the Fabrika agency from Sarajevo, the largest independent home agency dealing with design, computer graphics, TV animation, production of TV clips and marketing communication. Twenty years ago, he founded a graphic design studio in Sarajevo, called Trio, together with a team - and, following the war, in 1996, he founded the Fabrika agency together with his partners. Fabrika and Trio are design authors of some of famous regional magazines, such as: Mladina (Slovenia), Globus, Nacional (Croatia), Vreme (Serbia), Dani, (BiH). He lectures on graphic design as an associate professor at the Visual Arts Academy in Sarajevo, and visual communication as a guest lecturer at the Performing Arts Academy and the Faculty of Architecture.

Goran Radman - the founder and Director of the company NAUTAR, dealing with business counselling, was elected this year Dean of the VERN college. He started his professional career in 1984, as advisor for international relations for the Presidency of the Republic, and was director of the Croatian TV afterwards. In 1992, he becomes director of the company MicroLAB, and enters Microsoft Corporation in 1996, and founds and initiates Microsoft Croatia. He was general director of the Adriatic region first, followed by South-East Europe. He was nominated President of Microsoft for South-East Europe in 2004, and President of Central and East Europe in 2007. Since 2008, he is a non-executive president of the partner company SenseConsulting. He is a graduate student of International Integration Theories at the Faculty of Political Science, and has also studied at Wharton School MBA, INSEAD and the London School of Economics.

Ivana Nikolić - graduate painter and director of two companies: Indigo plavo and Indigo komunikacije. She has rich experience in development and coordination of communication projects in the fields of fashion, culture, training, art, cosmetics, interior decoration, government projects. She also has long years of experience in employee coordination, projects and business, as well as in creating and implementing communication strategies and strategic counselling in the communication area. She is President of the MRAK association - a network for development and creativity, and assistant lecturer at the Textile-Technological Faculty, lecturing the Presentation Practical Skills. She is member of the Croatian Designer Association, the Croatian PR Association, the Croatian Association of Businesswomen KRUG and AmCham.

Nenad Maljković - organizer and curator of the TEDxZagreb event. He is a social entrepreneur, translator and personal development workshops facilitator; he lives and works in Zagreb. He has by now led a number of social-entrepreneurship projects, collaborating with different civil society organizations: he was the founding director of the leading Croatian business organization for environment protection (the Croatian Business Council of Sustainable Development), and one of the founders of youth entrepreneurship training in Croatia (Junior Achievement), principal coordinator for the organization of Dalai Lama's visit to Zagreb, and Head of development of the first Croatian organization for financial education and consumer debt counselling (Život u plusu). He initiated and organized the civil initiative Urban Group Household. He is member of the Croatian Coaching Association, and is one of trained teachers of corporate social responsibility as member of the Association of Management Consultants. He is President of the Creative Livign Society, a cultural and educational not-for-profit association that is organizing the TEDxZagreb event.

Predrag Pale - conceived and constructed the Croatian Internet during its first ten years. He initiated the projects of the Croatian Academic Research Network - CARNet, and the System of Scientific Information - SZI in 1994 and the National Information Library System - NISKA in 1998. He participated in design and implementation of the system for the Croatian Reporting News Agency - HINA, and in the programme and communication part of the first Croatian online transaction credit card system. He is co-founder of the Central and Eastern European Networking Association - CEENet, a regional association of national academic computer networks. He teaches at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb, and is member of several national groups for the application of IT in public systems. From 1993 to 2000, he was assistant to the Minister of Science and Technology, in charge of IT science. He was awarded the medal of Danica Hrvatska with an imprint of Ruđer Bošković and the State Award for science.

Saša Vučinić - a TED member and curator of the TEDxZagreb event. He has been Managing Director of Media Development Loan Fund since he co-founded the organization in 1995. Prior to that, he worked as a media consultant to the Soros Foundations Network (which later became the Open Society Institute), advising the national foundations on strategy for development assistance to their respective independent media sectors. From 1990 to 1993 he served as General Manager and Editor-in-Chief of the independent radio station B-92 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He also served as the station's first Director. He began his journalism career in 1980' as a reporter at the political weekly Non, and he eventually became Non's Editor-in-Chief. Sasa is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, and was also educated at Harvard Business School. He is Ashoka Senior Global Fellow. He was speaker at the Oxford TEDGlobal conference in 2005; his TEDTalk is available here.

Stojan Pelko - State Secretary to the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia. He received his MA and PhD in social science from the University of Ljubljana, and a degree in audio-visual research (D.E.A.) from the Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III. He was editor-in-chief of the film monthly Ekran, and currently lectures on film theory at the Department of Sociology of Culture of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana. During the accession of Slovenia to the EU, he was Creative Director of the project 'Slovenia - Home in Europe.' In 2000, he founded the agency for communication counselling Korpus, and specializes in political marketing. From 2000 to 2005, he was President of the supervisory board of the Film Foundation of the Republic of Slovenia and member of the National Culture Council. He published several books on film theory and the relation between film and architecture, while his latest, the Podoba misli, delves into the relation of film theory and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.

Veran Matić - Director and editor-in-chief of the leading Belgrade radio and TV station B92, consisting of a radio station, TV, online services, publishing and cultural activities, as well as the concert agency and cultural centre REX. He has been in journalism since 1984, in alternative and youth media in Belgrade, Zagreb and Ljubljana. In May 1989, he founded the Radio B92, the first independent radio station in Serbia. The station was banned on several occasions, but managed to broadcast up until the point when it was illegally taken over by a group affiliated with governing structures in April 1999. Following democratic changes, the Radio and TV B92 continue to develop independent professional journalism. He is winner of a number of prestigious international awards for his work in the past ten years.