Predrag Pedro Gajic
With more than 14 years of experience, Predrag Gajic has lead business and people operations all over the globe, with stints in Serbia, Portugal, Russia, and Uganda. For the last five years he has been a prominent member of the People Operations team at Toptal, using his skills to find the top developers around the world. And now he is Head of Growth – Human Capital at Symphony.
Matt Lesniak
Matt Lesniak is a co-founder and Head of Impact & Innovation at Conscious Coliving. He is responsible for designing community experience and impact strategies and measuring the social value of coliving communities. Matt is also a founding member and current Head of Community of Co-Liv, a co-founder of Coliving Insights and has worked for The Collective on their Impact and Community Experience Teams.
Cate Maiolini
Cate is the London Mayor of StartupHome which is a social enterprise coliving in Islington. She is also the UK and Head of ambassador for Co-Liv. Cate comes from a financial and fashion background with a good knowledge of the real estate sector. Her expertise is bringing people together and gathering passionate people in the same place as she strongly believes this is the formula of innovation. On top of the above she is a podcaster, educator and community facilitator with a deep knowledge of operations in the coliving sector.
Antonin Yuji Maeno
Cofounder, Parent Architect, Cutwork
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Larisa Halilovic
Larisa Halilovic is an education expert, TEDx speaker and executive trainer and mentor with over 20 years of experience in leadership, management and professional development. Over the course of her career, Larisa has led international teams and projects in Education and Digital Industry in eight countries of the world, including two global pilots: Blended Learning and Digital Cities.
Larisa holds qualifications from Cambridge University, UK and Auckland University, New Zealand, in the area of Adult Education, Linguistics and Psychology. Her current research focuses on the role of Emotional Intelligence and Values-Based Leadership in the times of digital transformation.
Larisa is the Director of British Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a member of Institute of Leadership and Management, International Society of Qualified Coaches, Creative Mentorship Advisory Board.
Alex Hillman (USA)
Alex Hillman is always thinking about the intersection of people, relationships, trust and business. These days, he splits his time between running Indy Hall (one of the world’s oldest fully independent coworking spaces), teaching creative people how to bootstrap their own business without relying on outside funding, and collaborating with people and organizations towards the goal of helping 10,000 people become sustainably independent by 2029.
Tamara Nikolić Đerić (Croatia)
Tamara Nikolic Ðeric (1983) holds degrees in Ethnology/cultural anthropology and Indology/oriental studies. Since 2008 has been working as curator for the Ethnographic Museum of Istria. Along with other Museum activities she started and still runs the first Ethnographic film festival in Croatia, ETNOFILm, dedicated to visual documentation and interpretation of ICH. Since 2014 Nikolic Ðeric collaborates as professional program manager and from 2017 as President of Ecomuseum Batana (UNESCO Register of Good safeguarding practices, 2016). Since 2017 collaborates with UNESCO (ICH sector) as trainer for the implementation of the 2003 Convention. She is PhD candidate at the Department for Ethnology and Cultural anthropology at the University of Zagreb researching topics on working women, her work being entitled Women and industry: Intersectional analysis of the role and position of Rovinj industrial women workers. She is author of scientific and professional articles and exhibitions.
Kofi Oppong (UK)
Although, Kofi was homeless at the age of 17, he went on to have a successful career, at first as a JD sports manager and later a Nike town product manager. With the knowledge gained and 10 Years working for Nike, Kofi decided to use his experience to give back to the community. He went on to set up Circle Sports in Westminster & Kingsland High road, an independent sports store that has put 70 N.E.E.T.S (Not In Education Employment or Training) back into long-term employment since opening in 2010. However, Kofi felt that the education system was not as transparent and certain demographics struggle to have access to any information. From this he decided to create Urban MBA (Master Business Association) in 2014 which he describes as the University for Street Entrepreneurs! Urban MBA empowers 16-25-year-old to start up their own business. So far within a five-year period Urban MBA has Cultivated over 60 young entrepreneurs, helping them gain over £200,000 in funding to grow their business. Over 200 have participated in either 6 week or 12 week enterprise programs to help them gain further entrepreneurship knowledge. Urban MBA was created by Kofi to address the 21st-century workforce…
“Currently, there are no jobs for life! Everyone will need entrepreneurial skills!”
Kelsea Crawford (USA)
Wow just doesn’t cover everything! Kelsea is a passionate female entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Cutwork, an innovative architecture and design studio focused on new ways to live and work. Recent profile projects include Station F, the largest startup campus in the world and the first large scale co-living space in Paris. Kelsea was nominated for “Forbes 30 Under 30” in 2017, and was named a Fellow of the prestigious Kairos Society. In 2018, Cutwork was named in the top 30 clean-tech startups in Europe.
Željko Crnjaković (Serbia)
He is a tough cookie. Ok, maybe a tough muffin. Stubborn enough to stay in coworking for such a long time, learned him how to change, adopt and repeat. He is the founder of the first coworking space in Subotica in 2013. Since that time he has continuously been working on promoting and strengthening coworking communities across Serbia and the region, while building the local community in Subotica through several iterations of coworking spaces, navigating both ups and downs along the way. He is also a successful entrepreneur and founder of a digital content agency Solutium, involved with many educational projects for developing entrepreneurship and online business.