AI2FUTURE 2026

Seasoned business leader with a product management background leading a tiny, efficient and very experienced team of Velebit AI that implements B2B solutions and delivers AI services for online marketplaces, publishing, e-commerce, gaming, biotech and many other industries. Serial entrepreneur starting in the early internet days but also spent five years in academia and 15 years in the corporate environment in various roles across industries like telecommunications, online publishing, and technology transfer. Driven to understand how AI will interact with humans and change our livelihoods in the years to come.

Davor is the Co-founder/Chief Scientist at AIRT, an AI Technology company that helps finance companies to use big data techniques on (pre)process transactional data and dramatically improve accuracy of all predictive models created and used by the internal data science team.

Before co-founding DRAP in 2008, he co-founded PlayMedia Systems in 1997 and launched AMP MP3 technology on the global market, and helped launch BabyWatch (now called Bellabeat) in 2013, a digital health wearable company. He also teaches machine and deep learning at the HUB385 Innovation center.

As a PhD intern working with Yuri Gurevich at Microsoft Research, he worked on applications of the interactive ASM thesis on multiprocessor/multicore programing. He designed, implemented and transferred technology to a product group of a system for execution of structured concurrency, later named the Task Parallel Library of .NET framework. Received the SSCLI and Phoenix 2005 award by Microsoft Research as one of the best 16 research projects in international competition.

Inventor and lead developer of several DRM based and DRM free systems for digital audio distribution based of AMP® MP3 decoding engine for clients including DMX Music, STMicroelectronics and Napster.

Marko is an Software Engineer at Google. Previously he worked at Photomath, Meta (Facebook), Styria, LEGO (as consultant), University of Zagreb and has entrepreneurship experience. He won many awards including the ones from Microsoft and NVIDIA. Marko is also lecturer at Algebra University. He is interested in ML research and practical applications in real life scenarios.