In cooperation with STP Niš, HelloWorld will organize two events that will be held during the next week within the Science and Technology Park Niš!
The first event, on the more and more current topic of today – “How to Defeat Burnout and the Impostor Syndrome”, is scheduled for Tuesday, September 13 from 17h to 19h in the STP Niš Motorola Hall.
The panelists are:
- Mihailo Joksimović, Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Eddy Mugwiza, Software Engineer, Jagger
- Emilija Ranković, HR and Recruiting Specialist, Enjoy.ing
Since the topic of employee mental health is more prominent than ever, our interlocutors will share their experiences and knowledge, and some of the questions you will have answered are:
- What is burnout and how do you differentiate it from regular stress?
- What is the impostor syndrome and what is the cause of this syndrome?
- What is the panelists’ personal experience and how did they manage to fight it?
- How can we help ourselves, and how can we help the colleagues we notice are stressed out?
- In what way does psychotherapy help?
You can apply to attend the event at this link.
We approach this topic from the point of view of an effective mindset, what stops us, blocks us, slows us down, how to build a target structure, strengthen and set bigger and bigger goals, transform blockages into strengths, strengthen positive aspects, align ourselves in order to achieve goals in the fastest, easiest and safest way.
In the field of business processes, Duška Ignjatović works as a consultant on the introduction and maintenance of management systems according to ISO standards, collaborates with foreign companies on market research and connecting with producers from Serbia, and is also a mentor in a business incubator. In addition, she is a member and the vice president of the group in the international business network BNI.
Her specialty is business improvement through structuring and system solutions in the areas of:
- human resources – adjustment and optimization of mental processes, strategies, and communication (with teams and individuals),
- business processes and
- office space.
The goal that is imperative to her are the results that clients receive, and consulting, mentoring, and coaching are the ways in which she effectively achieves this in cooperation and synergy with them.
We have remembered that an inspiring goal and a broad perception give clarity, clarity and precise focus give motivation, motivation gives flexibility and readiness for tests, and all these states are states that we can build ourselves!
Listen to this conversation and find out how a change in strategy and a defined goal structure can lead to the desired results.
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The company SYRMIA is one of the first Science and Technology Park Niš members to move in. This team consists of system and embedded programming enthusiasts, and they deal with software development in different domains, starting with system libraries, compilers and emulators, optimized platforms for machine learning, modern graphics cards, all the way to a wide range of areas in the auto industry domain.
They operate at several locations in the region, but they consider Niš to be the branch with the most diverse palette of projects, and as they like to say – with them, cars take driving tests, machine learning works in turbo mode, and TVs are taught smart tricks. Recently, they have been on a mission to transfer gaming to the “cloud.”
Ever since it has been founded, SYRMIA has been dealing in providing services and developing innovative solutions in the field of embedded real time software with special focus on automobile software, consumer devices (TV and SetTop box devices) and computer processors and tools.
Join us on Tuesday, July 12 at 14:00 to hear more about projects they are working on, system software, and the charms and issues in developing it.
You can also attend the event via the link : https://bit.ly/3Rhz0e3
At the upcoming Startup Breakfast, we will talk with Miša Lazović, the founder of the startup company Kredium, about the early startup development phase from the Kredium company’s point of view.
Miša will share how the development path was going when creating his own innovative business, what obstacles startup company founders may encounter on that path, and what the early startup development stage entails with us.
Our guest is the founder of the international platform Kredium, which helps clients find the most favorable loan offer and ideal real estate faster and easier. Kredium is currently doing business in Serbia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America. After finishing his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Economy in Niš, he finished his master’s studies at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He started his career as an internal auditor of the National Bank of Serbia, where he worked on financial and operational assessments in various fields. He also managed finances at the digital agency Neopix with a focus on the development strategy and sales. He worked as a consultant in the international companies Boston Consulting Group and Strategy&, where he gained invaluable experience in creating and redefining development strategies for clients across Europe and the Middle East.
Expect a truly inspirational discussion on Friday, July 1 on the STP Niš YouTube channel!
Innovations are undoubtedly important for the long-term development of business ecosystems and the creation of added value of companies and the society. How does one come up with innovations? How to introduce them to business processes? How to motivate people to be more creative? These are some of the questions we will pose during the “Innovative Manager of Today” event. The event is part of the “Valorization of Knowledge” realized by the EU Info Point Niš and the Science and Technology Park Niš and it will be held on Wednesday, June 29 at 12:00, in hybrid form – live at STP Niš with online broadcast.
How to remain on the wave of creative thinking and innovative work despite all the changes? How to be an efficient innovative manager of every present and what are the actual key abilities and skills of an individual necessary? How to tend to innovation as a value for the company and the society? These are only some of the directions of the conversations which our lecturers will present through concrete examples from their business practice, alongside some useful advice:
- Ognjen Radić, serial entrepreneur, founder of the company FitPass, co-founder of Hempiness CBD, Shootiranje;
- Dimitrije Petković, founder and co-owner of the companies Webelinx and Webelinx Games.
About the lecturers:
- Having years of experience in management, Ognjen Radić has moved to the position of Country Manager in the largest global service for online food ordering FoodPanda.
He is most famous for the successful company FitPass which he founded in 2014 together with his business partner and which he built up to a value in millions and then sold in 2020.
He is also the co-founder of several companies – Shootiranje bar, Hempiness CBD
- Dimitrije Petković is the founder and co-owner of the companies Webelinx (2011) and Webelinx Games (2020).
He has held multiple positions during his career.
He has been in several positions during his career until settling in the fields of Game Design and Product Management. He is currently a CPO (Chief Product Officer) where he is in charge of product strategy and work with production teams. He is very proud of the fact that the products they have made in Niš are available and in demand across the whole world. Webelinx games and applications have had more than two billion downloads during these 10 years.
In partnership with the Science and Technology Park Niš, the EU Info Point Niš has initiated a series of workshops called “Valorization of Knowledge” with the goal of enabling processes of learning and dialogue in all sectors, especially among young people and young entrepreneurs, by tending to a strong culture of knowledge valorization, marketable knowledge, entrepreneurship, and innovations.
In this series, EU experts for business and innovations (program managers, mentors, consultants, users) and knowledge transfer experts will offer their expertise and support in combining research and its application by presenting examples of intermediaries who connect knowledge producers and knowledge users, especially small and medium-sized companies.
People interested in watching can apply by filling out the form at this link.
The EU encourages the development of science and innovations with the goal of creating technological prerequisites for the development of competitiveness and economy across Europe. The EU resources dedicated to this sector in Serbia are used to encourage the quality of science, innovations, and connection with European and international scientists and entrepreneurs, which increases the competitiveness of Serbian economy. A quick transformation of research results and data into sustainable and economically sustainable solutions is crucial for achieving ambitious goals of EU policy.
