Ratko Mutavdžić is Director, Cloud Services for Public Sector in Central Eastern Europe, with Microsoft. He was working on several managment position in Microsoft, driving solution developments Public Sector, starting in a consulting practice and then leading several different sales and technology teams. Currently he is working on a number of Open topics, like Open Government and Open Innovation, enabling them through the use of cloud platforms and technologies, where he research the methodologies and frameworks on how to deliver more efficient and sustainable ways to introduce concepts of openness into different elements of citizen, organizational and government activities.

Currently driving Innovation and incubation projects for Public Sector in 33 countries in CEE and influencing a little bit more.

He is the author of number of published papers on different aspects of the technology, successful blogs on new technologies, change and transformation and active contributor in a number of social networks exploring the use and advance of new ways to connect and share innovation and invention.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ratkom/

There is no single country in the world that is not preparing itself for the age of new technologies and platforms. One of the most important ones is Artificial Intelligence – everyone expects that it will change the world, but also to drive new economic progress for the countries that want and invest into it. European Union is making sure that we are not behind and there are numerous initiatives and investments into the Artificial Intelligence. What about Croatia? What is Croatia doing to make sure that we are in the same boat as the rest of the European Union? What do we need to do to prepare and what activities are we already implementing?

Croatian Employers Association published a document called “Perspectives and opportunities for use of Artificial Intelligence in Croatia”, looking at the potential, values and issues of utilizing Artificial Intelligence in Croatia. This is the first document in a series where CEA is trying to bring the potential of Artificial Intelligence closer to the communities, industries and individuals – to understand how they can use and het the value out of it.