Balkan entrepreneurship summit

Creative Hub organized the first Balkan entrepreneurship summit held on September 13 (Friday), 2019 at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel in Skopje. The event was opened by Arijana Koskarova, Forbes Under 30, founder of Creative Hub, Zoran Zaev, President of the Government, Kocho Angjushev, Deputy Prime Minister, representative of the Economic Chamber of Macedonia and HE Sybille Suter Tejada, Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation also participated in the opening ceremony.

The Summit was divided into several panels: Panel 1, “Building Synergies”, moderated by: Igor Bosilkovski, Forbes Co-Editor under 30 list,panelists: Fatmir Hysenbelliu, (Republic of Albania) Vice President Hysenbelliu Group, Bojan Koskarov, Co-Founder Creative Hub, Vangelis Andrikopoulos (R. Greece) Venture Capital Analyst, Outlier Ventures, and Alexander Naydenov (Paperhive). Vasil Naci (Republic of Albania), Agna Group, “Building a Successful Balkan Brand”. Panel 2, “Dealing the Challenges of Shortage of manpower”, moderator: Zivkica Kalenikova, Journalist and Editor,panelists: Arijana Koskarova, Co-Founder Creative Hub, Center for Non-Formal Education, Mila Caroska, Minister of Labor and Social Policy, and Marko Kutrevski, President od the board of Directors of Pekabesko. An interview was followed by Evan Luthra (R.India), Serial Entrepreneur with moderator: Dimitar Atanasovski, Idea Lab. Presentation by Akash Mehta (R. France), Dior, “Artificial Impact of New DNA on Digital Marketing”. Panel 3, Venture Investment Panel, ” Financing Trends for 2020 ”, moderated by: Arijana Koskarova, MBA, Creative Hub,panelists: Antonio Argir, President of the Management Board of NLB Bank, Yorgos Mousmulas, partner at Metavallon Venture Capital, Evgeny Angelov, president of the Bulgarian Venture Capital Association, a partner at PostScript Ventures. Panel 4, “What to expect in the future in the largest industries”, Moderator: prof. Dimitar Kovacevski, American College, panelists: Milos Milosavljevic, Founder and Head of Strawberry Energy and Taner Akcok (R. Turkey) “Managing the largest financial app provider. The event organized by the Creative Hub was supported by the Government, the Economic Chamber of Macedonia and the Swiss Embassy. On this event NEXT-EM dooel also attended.