The DigitALL Mentors are going to significantly contribute to the EU Transformation Academy providing one-to-one business mentoring, guiding the tourism SMEs and startups through their digital transformation thanks to their professional background and knowledge of disruptive technologies!


Let’s discover who the 21 DigitALL Mentors are!

Ivona Gudelj, who is highly passionate about overcoming challenges for the benefit of customers and society is committed to helping others to unleash their potential and grow.

Trpimir Kvesić, CEO of InSky Solutions and head of Microsoft Midmarket award-winning solutions development.

Mario Brcic from the University of Zagreb, has more than 10 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence and a track record applied work with companies, both startups and multinationals, to solve real-world problems.

Ivan Slade Šilović, from Shimadzu Europe, is a passionate developer in Digital and AI Healthcare and ready to use his professional background to concretely help enterprises to scale up and revolutionize their businesses. Primož Cigoj, founder and CEO of PC7 company, has a huge background of expertise in the European Project Dynamic Forensics Evaluation because of his contribution in developing and advanced educational tool for for digital forensic engineering.

Manuela Ferrante, committed in workshops about Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and POC and everything that combines creativity and technology, is a professional of product design.

Oto Brglez is an extremely passionate technologist and software engineer, with a background of more than 20 years in building complex and sophisticated web systems, products and technologies.

Tomo Popovic, teacher of computer science and information systems at the University of Donja Gorica, has 25 years of international experience in both industrial and academic environments, now committed to developing software for brand protection and the prevention of counterfeits in the wine industry.

Oliver Laduch is focused on the medical consumption data, and every month since 2008 he processes all consumption data of 500 German hospitals thanks to Big Data. Furthermore, he’s committed to AI projects, like project estimates for German federal road construction offices.

Fabio D’Agnano is an architect with specialisms in the field of 3D design and digital manufacturing, and he is particularly interested in new teaching methods serving as a consultant to the Italian Ministry of Education in the field of digital manufacturing in higher education, using the Design Thinking approach.

Louise Brandstrup Zastrow a creative director, brand strategist and storyteller, founder of Travel Kollekt - Ta digitall, on-demand publishing platform that empowers people who desire to travel responsibly to organize their own travel research and print their personal travel books.

Robi Pritržnik, who is the CEO of Foreach Labs, a metaverse and AI digital agency, responsible for the development company, organization and management, and who has a degree in Computer Science and Information Technology.

Juraj Malenica, a software engineer focused on developing complex AI solutions, with many years of experience in building stable and scalable systems, organizing engineering teams to solve real-world problems and bridging the gap between the engineering world and product world.

Michael Trimmel is an entrepreneur with a passion for Artificial Intelligence. He is the AI Strategy, ML Integration and Product Owner at HalloSophia. Damir Opsenica, who has more than 15 years in ICT, and passionate about innovations to last, digitalization to enable sustainability, challenging status quo, inspiring, empowering and mentoring people.

Ivan Vajs, a PhD student and researcher in the field of applied artificial intelligence in IoT air quality sensor systems and biomedical computing, and Filip Novoselnik, who is a co-founder and CEO of Protostar Labs, an AI company from Croatia focused on computer vision and machine learning solutions for industrial applications, will also be DigitALL Mentors.

Gabriella Currao, who is a UX/UI Manager that works closely with a team of talented designers and engineers translating high-level strategy into meaningful experiences through design.

Silvia Torretta, responsible for the Technology (Engineering + Lab) Business Unit in Studio Volpi, who supports the sales network by collecting customers’ briefs and by formulating the action plan necessary to achieve the desired results.

Davor Anicic, CEO and Co-founder at Velebit AI, who since 2015 has hands-on experience on the product and business side of the successful cutting-edge AI implementations based on Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing for marketplaces, publishing, and several other industries.

Vedran Srhoj-Egekher, with expertise in machine learning and data mining, with scientific background and 5+ years experience in  leaders  and management roles in the IT industry.



These are all the professionals that will take part in the programme, and we can definitely say that these Mentors will significantly contribute to the success of tourism SMEs. We cannot wait to see them at work!


If you are a tourism SMEs or startups interested in acquiring useful instruments to start the digital revolution of your business, apply now!

Apply here!

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