On April 20th2021, ICT for Kosovo’s Growth organized the Regional B2B meeting in Ferizaj where ICT Sector meets Non-ICT Businesses in Development and exporting. The meeting was open to the public and reasonable were in attendance, always in compliance Anti-Covid measures.

The keynote speaker of the event was Deputy mayor of Ferizaj mr. Arton Gavazi, who spoke about a variety of issues impacting industries and the importance of digitalization and the opportunity that these events provide.

Another speaker was Mr. Bujar Baliu, representative of Cluster for Furniture Production. He gave the credits to a meeting of this kind that creates network and opportunities for cooperation.

Short speech was also from representative of The Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK), Mr. Dominik Deda who presented that STIKK provides a platform that unites technology leaders to connect and collaborate, and it supports members who to propel technology forward.

Following the event, prearranged meetings occurred. In total of 10 bilateral B2B meeting were realised. Attendees shared opinions, thoughts and suggestions for consideration of integrating Information and technology elements into the business of the Furniture Production that in Ferizaj Region is very developed. With the presence of nine (9) ICT and ten (10) Production companies, resulted with productive discussions and concrete solutions and proposals that might lead to agreements for cooperation.

All concluded and embraced the need for technology integration in all the production and management system. Consequently, overall implementations have proceeded smoothly and have produced a highly referenceable base that can be leveraged for development and ICT integration.

Participants appreciate the form of meetings that took place. Gave them a sense of comfort to be explicitly asked to walk through the production requirements from ICT perspective and to participate in the process of visualizing how the requirements will be implemented.