The Jubilee 10th COMBIS Conference Opened on Thursday

The jubilee 10th COMBIS Conference has started, a two-day gathering of Croatian and regional IT community. Through this year's main topic 10ading Evolution. 10ading Change. Future 10aded., the aim is to bring participants closer to the digital transformation of companies, to show important and recent ICT projects of the country and the region and to create an insight into numerous possibilities of technology in the future.

"COMBIS is at the forefront of IT and each year we have more to show. With each new Conference, COMBIS is showing the way it changes. How we embrace the changes that technology brings and how we try not only to adapt to changes, but to initiate them as well.", said Hrvoje Išek, COMBIS CEO at the beginning of the opening ceremony. The opening of the jubilee COMBIS Conference attracted a record number of participants in Umag.

Išek used this opportunity to present new members of the Board, Mladen Gregović, COMBIS' Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Mario Vojvoda, COMBIS' Chief Development Officer (CDO). "The whole team, the management and every colleague from COMBIS, and from HT as well, with which we are in a stronger synergy than ever before, will try to respond to every customer’s request, to fulfil every customer’s business need and to even go a step further than that. Two steps further, if needed", stated the first person of COMBIS.

Saša Kramar - Chief Operating Officer of Business and Member of the Management Board at Hrvatski Telekom joined Hrvoje Išek at the opening ceremony and pointed out how the entire HT Group achieves more than 3 percent of Croatian GDP and generates more than 27 thousands of work places in Croatia, since on every work place inside HT Group come additional 4,4 work places in the rest of the economy.

„Hrvatski Telekom, a leader in technology and the biggest private investor, intensively invests into building modern telecommunication infrastructure and therefore paves a path for Croatian digital future. HT with its investments of over one billion kunas annually contributes the most to the broadbandization of society. On a domestic and foreign markets HT offers most quality business ICT solutions for companies of all sizes and with significant investments into modernization of network infrastructure, HT creates bases for all upcoming smart digital solutions and digitalization in general on the national level“, said Kramar.

Digitalization is the buzzword for almost two decades, but undoubtedly, the fact is that today digital technologies enable all companies to increase their efficiency and their opportunities on the market. I am convinced that this Conference is going to show why this the case“, said Kramar.