More than 1600 participants, 70 lectures and 90 top of the class lecturers, with 30 representatives of national and regional media – these are just few number that marked Sinergija 19.

During the three days of this year’s edition of the conference, Belgrade was again the central gathering place for the representatives of IT sector and business from the whole region. The increase in number of visitors is the best indicator of the increase of the quality and the relevance of contents offered by Sinergija. Without any doubt, the most relevant and, at the same time, the principal theme of Sinergija 19 was the artificial intelligence and its application – as one of the keys of the future, to which refers the slogan of this year’s conference.

We spoke about the application of artificial intelligence in agriculture, power distribution, sports and almost all domains of modern life. One of frequently quoted phrases was the one pronounced during last year’s edition, that Serbia will become digital when one could pay with the cell phone for the cheese bought at the green market. This digital Serbia was presented by Serbian Chamber of Commerce, introducing the public at Sinergija with the PKS instant PAY application, enabling paying for products and services with the cell phone or tablet device.

IT and eGovernment office of Government of Serbia announced at Sinergija their engagement in the preparation of the national infrastructure for the development of artificial intelligence, which will be accommodated in the State data centar in Kragujevac.

Panel discussions opened interesting themes, such as whether Serbia could become competitive in online job market and if the digital nomadism today offers bigger professional opportunities than it was the case ever before. The representatives of leading global companies spoke how with the help of data, machine learning and artificial intelligence they can offer today better quality user experience to their customers and more creativity to their teams.

Start-up community gained its prominent place within Sinergija Challenge competition, where were presented the best solutions representing the positive influence of the digitalization on the service improvement in public administration and finances – with the idea to make more efficient some services in both sectors.

We believe that, like every year before, numerous themes opened by Sinergija 19, will represent our digital present on the next, 20th edition of the conference. See you at Sinergija 20!