It is our pleasure to announce Dan Oryan, Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Republic of Macedonia (non-resident) and Director of the Balkan Countries Region at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a speaker at the MK2025 Summit. Mr Oryan has a distinguished career in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs across…
DetailsWhat is a biofuel? In the early 1970´s there was the start of Biofuels research in the EU for alternative fuels that could give energy security, self-sufficiency and CO2 reduction & proven GHG (Green House Gas) – savings (especially in transport sector). Due to the consecutive oil crises where the EU was strongly dependent on fossil…
DetailsWhat is ‘smart mobility’? First of all let me please explain why we call it ‘smart’. Smart is the new and better ‘green’. In the past, many people when thinking about the future shape of transportation or of cities thought ‘green’: ’green mobility’, or ‘green city’. Such statements were indicating that we care about environment.…
DetailsWhat is M2M and how is related to the ‘Internet of Things’? Machine-to-machine communication (M2M) refers to the automated transfer of data among machines, devices, sensors and central servers with the purpose of remotely monitoring and controlling them, with or without human interaction. And the Internet of Things refers to the mentioned machines and devices…
DetailsKosta Barjaba, Senior Policy Adviser to the Minister of Health of the Republic of Albania, Member of Albania’s Academy of Sciences and Professor of Sociology and Public Policies at the European University of Tirana, and MK2025 Summit Speaker: Albania’s economic development and diaspora engagement It is our pleasure to announce Profesor Kosta Barjaba as a…
DetailsHow does Macedonia and Albania’s economic development parallel each other and in what ways are they different? Both Macedonia and Albania are small transitional economies. Both countries have had a long, difficult, expensive and conflictive transition. Both countries continue to have huge migration flows. However, Albanians flow is higher than Macedonians flow: over 30% versus…
DetailsWhat does the term “smart city” represent to you? It is important to set out from the outset that while some components may be present in all city environments, there is no such thing as a “smart city definition” that fits all realities. What it certainly must be is a territory that manages to combine…
DetailsWhat is emotional engineering and processfocused design? Are they related concepts? Emotion comes from the Latin words “e=ex”=out and “movere”=move, and motivation comes from the same Latin word “movere”. Thus, motivation-action-emotion constitute a cycle and it is repeated. Emotion is deeply associated with our internal desire or intrinsic motivation and our needs to grow, which psychologists point out. Process-focused design is, in short, a…
DetailsIt is our pleasure to announce Jared Smith as a speaker at the MK2025 Summit. Jared Smith is President and co-founder of Task Force BPO an international service organization that specializes in providing support services to the insurance and healthcare industries. Task Force BPO is headquartered in the USA and has a global…
DetailsIt is our pleasure to announce Domagoj Simecki, International Sales Consultant/Senior M2M Consultant at Telekom Austria Group, as a speaker at the MK2025 Summit. Mr Simecki will be speaking on the M2M (Machine-to-Machine) revolution in phones and other everyday devices. Our phones and other devices are no longer stand-alone devices but instead wirelessly gather and…
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