Lecturers – QED

Ivan Krnić

jgaspar — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 07:41:23 +0000

Ivan Krnić is leading software development and technical presales at CROZ. His specialities include 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 dusty remote controls and assembling IKEA wardrobes.

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Petra Založnik

jgaspar — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:02:50 +0000

Petra is a facilitator, host, graphic facilitator, educator and trainer, evaluator, »story activist«, storyteller. She supports sessions by using a variety of visual tools, such as, templates and drawings. Petra also works as a graphic recorder and create a (live) visual documentation and summary of a workshop, conference, lecture, etc

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Josie Zec

jgaspar — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:25:44 +0000

Josephine Ida Zec known by her nickname #Josie is a 17 year old soprano singer, songwriter, author and community organizer. She has been performing since the age of 4. At 11, she won 3rd place with her startup up idea for an app called Animingles. Within a year, she turned the app idea into a children’s storybook of the same name. At 13, she represented Croatia in Junior Eurovision in Malta with an original song. At 14, she won a grant by the US State Department and put on 4 events for girls to learn about STEM through her project Pyxie Dust Project running in Zagreb, Osijek and Zadar from 2014 to 2016. She has been a member of the famed girls choir Zvjezdice since 2013 and has performed in top venues in Croatia including Lisinski and Croatian National Theatre as well as on tour in the US. She attends two high schools Bishops Classical high school in Zagreb and Art School Frane Lucic in Velika Gorica for solo singing.

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Matej Meštrović

jgaspar — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 19:45:29 +0000

Matej Meštrović is one of the most sophisticated Croatian artists and musicians. He spent his music career facing classical music, but hasn’t hesitated in going out of the box.

Meštrović had numerous collaborations, recognition’s and accomplishments, and his album “The Sounds of Velebit” was sold out in a 45,000 copies, which is exceptionally large not only for the album of classical music in Croatia.

Matej’s recent album “My Face Music Book”, an experiment of creating a piano album via Facebook, was recognized by the influential t Solopiano.com portal from Nebraska, as the best classic music album of the year. In April of this year, in New York Carnegie Hall he played his “Danube Rhapsody”.

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Piotr Muszyński

jgaspar — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 07:41:07 +0000

Piotr is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Wrocław and the Advanced Management Program organized by IESE Business School / University of Navarra. In September 2008 he was appointed Member of the Management Board in charge of Operations, in November 2009 – Vice President in charge of Operations. Since 2016 he is Vice-President of the Management Board in charge of Strategy and Transformation at Orange Polska.

At Orange Polska (former Telekomunikacja Polska) from 2001, initially as Director of Customer Care, between 2005 and 2006 as Director of Sales & Service, 2006-2008 as TP Group Executive Director in charge of Sales & Service.

In recognition of his career achievements he was awarded, among others: Golden Antenna Award -twice in the category of Manager of the Year, in 2010 and 2011 with the Golden Antenna Award of the World of Telecommunication and with the Gold Cyborg Award during the National Symposium on Telecommunications and ICT in 2011 – for his outstanding contribution to the development of information society.

He is a Chairman of the Programmatic CIONET Poland and a member of the Foundation for the Development of Radiocommunication and Multimedia Technologies at the Warsaw University of Technology, Electronics and Telecommunications Committee of Sciences and of the Council PIIT.

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Suzanne Crumb

jgaspar — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:49:37 +0000

Sue Crumb is responsible for developing the Global System Integrator channel for IBM’s Application Discovery solutions. Application Discovery is a strategic offering enabling our Partners to help mainframe customers leverage their rich data in order to transform, modernize and improve agility in order to respond to changing business challenges.

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Paul Pilotto

jgaspar — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:47:52 +0000

Paul Pilotto started his career in 1983 as a COBOL programmer and ever since he has worked closely focused on IBM Mainframe engagements. In 1995 he started his own Services Company working around CSP, VisualAge Generator and Rational Business Developer. The last 10 years he was heavenly involved in DevOps for z Systems implementations helping Clients evolve.

Since the EZSource acquisition in 2016, Paul joined IBM as a Worldwide Solution Architect. In this role he supports the IBM System Integrators on their Modernization engagements as they leverage IBM Application Discovery with their customers. His focus is very API, Microservices and DevOps driven as he translates customer requirements around these topics to the IBM z Software portfolio.

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Zlatko Hrbud

jgaspar — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 07:44:09 +0000

Zlatko Hrbud graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. At the beginning of his career he became one of the first Microsoft Certified Trainers and System Engineers in Croatia. He wrote 4 books in the field of information technology and gained engineering experience in projects within the INA Group. Upon his arrival in Allianz Zagreb, he worked as IT support manager and the Director of Development and bacame the IT Director and the Head of several projects.

Zlatko gained his experience in the IT sector while being a member of the IT management of Comminus company, and has experience in running an international IT organization gained at the position of a regional IT director at Atlantic Grupa. For the last 3 years he has been working as director of information technology at Zagrebacka Banka.

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Steven Thomas

jgaspar — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:30:57 +0000

Steven Thomas is Chief Technology Officer at SMT Data; a Danish company specializing in applying business intelligence tools and methods to capacity and performance data for large IT installations.

Steven has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and 30 years’ experience from IBM, Fidelity Information Services and Saxo Bank prior to joining SMT Data in 2011.

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Jan Vilstrup

jgaspar — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:29:23 +0000

Jan Vilstrup is Chief Commercial Officer and Partner / Owner at SMT Data; a Danish company specializing in applying business intelligence tools and methods to capacity and performance data for large IT installations.

Jan has been with SMT Data for 10 years and held positions as CCO and CEO. Prior to joining SMT Data, Jan worked 17 years for US based companies like Kodak, SiliconGraphics (SGI), StorageTek and Sun Microsystems

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