Agenda

Official opening of KosICT 15

• Vjollca Çavolli, Executive Director, STIKK
• Astrit Leti, Chairman of the Board, STIKK
• Bardh Kadiu, Founder, KosICT Technology Festival

Climbing Inside the Machine

What if you could learn how computers work by climbing, jumping and crawling?

• Linda Liukas, Author and Illustrator, Hello Ruby

Also on Day 1, Linda Liukas at the Future Developers Corner, 15:00, on the festival floor.

Building the Next Generation of Businesses

From Startup to Scale-Up: What Does It Really Take to Grow?

• Arita Hasani, Principal Banker, Financial Institutions, Western Balkans and Eastern Europe, EBRD
• Armend Haxhiu, Head of the Business Division, ProCredit Bank Kosova
• Vigan Disha, Chief Business Officer, SPEEEX
• ModeratorBleta Begu, Senior Communications Expert, Go Digital in the Western Balkans, EBRD

Talent Needs an Address

• Mentor Pllana, CEO & Founder, Pllana Ventures, World Link Towers

Trust Is the Infrastructure

eIDAS 2.0, EU Wallets and the Western Balkans' Road into the Single Market

• Aleš Kučera, Chairman of the Board, NEWPS HOLDING SE
• Jan John, Principal Consultant, NEWPS.CZ

Building Cyber Talent at Home

What the Balkan cyber project has taught you about the region's skills gap, and what it takes to close it locally instead of importing it.

• David Smith, Regional Lead, Advanced Balkan Cyber Project (ABCP), BAE Systems

Protecting the Digital State

• Arijeta Pajaziti, SCADA/EMS Engineer Specialist, KOSTT
• Behar Fazliu, CEO, Arcus Security
• Saimir Kapllani, CEO, Albanian Digital Solution
• ModeratorFatbardh Veseli, Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect, E.ON

The Current AI Threat Landscape and an Initial Guide to AI Adoption in Operational Technology

• Nancy McMulkin, Security Consultant, BAE Systems

Go Big or Go Home: AI and the Need to Solve Harder Problems

• Victor Jansson, Solutions Architect Leader, Amazon Web Services

What is an Innovation Hub?

Proximity and partnership in thriving ecosystems

• Brandi Burgess, Director of Sales, CIC Philadelphia
• In conversation withErblina Idrizi, Business Development Manager, imbus Peja

Securing Digital Services: Breakthrough in G2G, G2B and G2C Digital Communication

• Jan John, Principal Consultant, NEWPS.CZ

AI in Oracle Applications

• Sokol Qeraxhiu, Founder & CEO, Prisma

KOSOVA 2036: school teams present

Algorithmics, Logiscool, Innovation Academy, jCoders, Finnish School Kosova, Probit Academy, London School

Startup World Cup Kosovo 2026

Cause and Effect: The Real-World Limits That Changed How We Make Games

• Mike Geig, Principal Developer Advocate, Unity Technologies

GameHers Game Jam: final presentations

Young game developers, with KGIA

KosICT Champions: CS2 tournament

Solving the Cyber Skills Shortage Problem

A national pipeline approach

• Behar Fazliu, CEO, Arcus Security

Your Next Grant Starts Here: Check the Call, Write the Application, Reuse the Project

• Aleksandar Prelević, Founder and Executive Director, ITEX

Coded in Kosovo, Trusted by 200+ German Driving Schools

How Adaptech Builds Software for One of Europe's Most Regulated Markets

• Asmon Hasani, CEO & Founder, Adaptech
• Hannes Ertl, Co-founder & Head of Product, Adaptech

Laravel Cloud: From Code to Production Without the Infrastructure Headache

• Egezon Berisha, Engineering Team Lead, Laravel

Why Do Technology Innovations (Not) Get Adopted?

Observations from Research and Reality

• Fatbardh Veseli, Enterprise Cybersecurity Architect, E.ON

When Do We Need LLMs? Designing Agentic Systems That Know When to Think

• Uljad Berdica, Student Researcher, Google DeepMind

Building for Global Scale with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Victor Jansson, Solutions Architect Leader, Amazon Web Services