Sponsors & Partners 2024
Sponsors & Partners 2024
Platinum Sponsor
Aircash
Aircash is a regulated & licensed EU electronic money institution and the first Croatian fintech platform. Aircash’s innovative solution includes a digital Aircash mobile wallet which offers instant deposits, withdrawals, payments and money transfers, a one-click prepaid card via the Aircash app and A-bon, a printed e-voucher for easy and secure online purchases using a 16-digit PIN code.
Aircash Marketplace, integrated within the Aircash mobile wallet, features a one stop payment solution for parking, transport, entertainment & gaming, events, utilities and telecoms. With Aircash, virtual money becomes physical in a matter of seconds. Aircash has recently become the principal issuer of the world’s leading card scheme and started issuing cards with the same name in a fast, easy and, above all, innovative way, in addition to its existing and popular Aircash mobile wallet service.
Silver Sponsor
Visa
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year.
Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere and see access as foundational to the future of money movement. Learn more at Visa.rs.
Institutional Support
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
IFC — a member of the World Bank Group — is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2023, IFC committed a record $43.7 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity as economies grapple with the impacts of global compounding crises. For more information, visit www.ifc.org.
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
SECO is Switzerland’s competence center for all core issues relating to economic policy. SECO’s economic development cooperation strives to achieve inclusive sustainable growth and poverty reduction. Its activities aim to create more and better jobs, to enhance trade and competitiveness, to support effective institutions and services and to foster climate resilient economies. For more information, visit www.seco-cooperation.ch.
Official Digital Bank of Finticipate Forum
Yettel Bank
Yettel Bank believes that banking should be simple and transparent. Designed with the customer in mind, it offers unique deals and a different approach to banking. As a part of the Yettel family, it shares a vision of adapting technology and banking to meet customer needs.
Yettel Bank is a mobile banking partner, committed to providing an exceptional user experience. Its goal is to make banking simple, transparent, and intuitive. Leveraging smart technology, it brings the best of the digital world to everyday banking activities.
Yettel Bank is a member of the PPF Group, operating in 22 countries across three continents. The PPF Group invests in various market segments, including banking and financial services, telecommunications, biotechnology, insurance, real estate, mining, and agriculture, with a presence in Europe, Russia, the United States, and Asia.
Supporting Sponsor
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions includes seven brands that span multiple industries and sectors. We harness the power of data, sophisticated analytics platforms and technology solutions to provide insights that help businesses and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe.
Take the Stage Sponsor
ZWEBB Fintech
ZWEBB Fintech is a pioneering company in platform development and distribution of complete SaaS systems for Factoring, Trading and Crowd-financing. The company is stablished in 2013, with its offices in Stockholm and Kraljevo, Serbia. Since 2018, ZWEBB Fintech has been a member of the Swedish Fintech Association as a leading FinTech solution provider.
Business Association Partners
Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH)
The Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH) supports both the foreign expansion of Polish business and the inflow of FDI into Poland. We also aim to boost Polish exports. Supporting entrepreneurs, the Agency assists in overcoming administrative and legal procedures, related to specific projects as well as helps to develop legal solutions, find a suitable location, reliable partners and suppliers. In order to offer direct assistance to Polish businesses abroad, PAIH has established a network of support all over the world.
FinTech Poland
Through dialogue, collaboration, knowledge sharing and acceleration Fintech Poland works to improve quick development of the digital finance sector in Poland and promote Polish fintechs abroad.
The objective of the FinTech Poland Ecosystem is to make the market for financial innovation in Poland more completive and international. This is achieved through various joint initiatives – also those related identify development barriers, creating standards and conducting regulatory dialogue at the national and European levels. By organizing seminars, conferences, meetups and working groups the community facilitates interaction between market participants. The FinTech Poland Ecosystem was launched in September 2022 and already has almost 50 members.
Digital Serbia Initiative
Digital Serbia Initiative is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation with the strategic goal of developing a strong, globally competitive digital economy in Serbia. Founded by the leading digital players in the country, we combine the forces of more than 30 member-organisations from all sectors relevant for the growth of a digital ecosystem – including tech, banking and finance, telco, consulting, legal, education and research, media, pharmaceutical, and startup support organisations. We aim to create a business environment that serves the digital economy by investing in strategic programmes in the areas of formal and informal education, startup ecosystem development, legal and regulatory frameworks, digital infrastructure and public dialogue on digital transformation.
Slovenian Business Club
The Slovenian Business Club in Serbia is a stable, unbreakable bridge between the economies of Serbia and Slovenia, and a strong support to its members in all their activities and business endeavors. SBG represents a reliable partner that you can depend on when it comes to achieving your business goals. SBG is a place for connecting, exchanging experiences and information, educating and creating opportunities for future business cooperation, but also for finding solutions to specific problems that companies face.
Science and Technology Park Belgrade
STP Belgrade supports startups and growing tech companies in accelerated growth and development, conquering new markets and attracting investment. We develop tailor-made programs and services for companies at different stages of development, through international partnerships and new initiatives that promote synergy between technology and business.
European Women Payments Network (EWPN)
European Women Payments Network (EWPN) provides a platform that inspires, empowers and mentors women in payments to help them realise their full individual potential and position themselves for greater personal success while continuing to learn and contribute to the payments and fintech industries. Our events and workshops offer an opportunity to the women to listen to renowned and upcoming female payments experts and role models who are leaders in the field; female pioneers and innovators in the payments industry and female leaders who are paving the way to success for women across all sectors. By creating a European wide network, EWPN opens doors of opportunities to women within the EU/EEA Region.
ICT Cortex
ICT Cortex is a cluster for information technology, innovation, education, design, and technological development in Montenegro. Our mission and overall goal is to improve the competitiveness of Montenegro’s ICT sector through public-private partnerships and collaboration in the field of research and development (R&D). With this in mind, the ICT cluster, with its 45 member companies, brings added value in the areas of technology, fintech, internationalization, talent development, and innovation, thanks to a sustainable cluster organization that identifies and channels various funding sources.
Swiss Serbian Business Network (SSBN)
The Swiss Serbian Business Network is a leading organization established with the purpose of building a community of like-minded people and enabling business cooperation within and between two countries. It aims to strengthen ties through organizing business events that promote strong relationships, building trust, sharing information and professional expertise. These activities are designed to unlock profitable opportunities for its members and followers. The organization primarily focuses on supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as driving high-tech innovations for industrial applications.
Impact Hub Belgrade
Impact Hub Belgrade is a key member of the world’s largest network of entrepreneurs, dedicated to strengthening the local ecosystem of startup entrepreneurs, mentors, and angel investors. Impact Hub provides a hub where startups, mentors, investors, and companies access diverse resources, portfolio management, and networking to achieve their growth goals through collaboration and support. To date, we’ve helped over 700 entrepreneurs gain access to capital and international markets.
Our focus includes four main annual events, Western Balkan Demo Day, held at the start of each season: Spring (March), Summer (June), Autumn (September), and Winter (December). These events showcase our progress and introduce five new early-stage startups to the Impact Hub Belgrade community.
In 2023, the Impact Hub Network had 320,000 active members, reached over 7 million people, ran 400+ programs with 24,000 participants (60% women), and helped create 2,500 new ventures and 8,000 jobs.
Main Media Partners
Grifon Media
Grifon Media is your one-stop shop for impactful outdoor advertising across Serbia. We don’t just sell space, we deliver prime locations and expert leasing to maximize your brand exposure.
Dominate the landscape. Amplify your voice. Partner with Grifon Media.
Media Partners
Sveonovcu.rs
Sveonovcu.rs is a business portal that promotes business trends, entrepreneurship and provides useful information for business and life.
Bonitet.com
A business portal created for those who are interested in current news, new trends, tendencies and opinions on the topic of money and business. We create smart content for the right people.
CEE Legal Matters
CEE Legal Matters is a print and online publication for and about lawyers interested and working in Europe’s emerging legal markets. Our mission is, simply, to be the go-to source of information about lawyers and legal markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
Netokracija
Netokracija is a business-technology media that follows the culture of technological entrepreneurship, digital marketing, and new technologies – in Serbia and Croatia. The company was founded in 2009 in Croatia, and since 2015 Netocracija is also present in Serbia, where it deals with local issues and the development of the domestic digital community. Now, Netokracija is a part of Infobip.
aim
alliance international media (aim) was founded in 2003 in Belgrade, and since then it has been publishing the CorD magazine, a monthly publication in English, recognized as one of the independent, influential magazines in the region. On the twentieth anniversary of the CorD magazine, in November 2023, the first issue of the regional magazine The Region was launched, which gathers 8 countries of the Adriatic region through interviews, columns, and analysis. aim also publishes around 30 specialized “business-to-business” editions in collaboration with almost all foreign investment organizations and embassies, including the Foreign Investors Council (FIC) Serbia, as well as the Foreign Investors Council (FIC) Montenegro.