Join us at the CMC Annual Forum

The CMC Annual Forum is a premier event that brings together influential business leaders, key policymakers, and strategic thinkers across Europe. Each year, the conference and forum brings together high quality thinking from the world of management in partnership with leading organisations. This year, we invite you to engage in insightful discussions, gain practical knowledge, and network with top-tier professionals on engaging everyone in strategic thinking and strategy-making – Open Strategy – for turbulent times.

The event has three parts: an explorative key lecture, an investigative forum discussion, and a hands-on implementation workshop.

This is also a charitable event through which we support and donate to the local community through partnership organisations.

About the speakers and panelists

An authority on leadership and strategy, Christian Stadler is a Professor at Warwick Business School and co-author of the award-winning Open Strategy. Mastering Disruption From Outside The C-suite and Enduring Success. What We Can Learn From The History Of Outstanding Corporations. A passionate advocate for more inclusive and open decision-making processes, Christian has been recognised on the Thinkers50 strategy shortlist as well as a Thinkers50 future thinker. Christian is a Forbes columnist, regular media guest, and Harvard Business Review author. Last year, he wrote the most-read Sloan Management Review article explaining how leaders can use GenAI. He talked/written about Rolls-Royce and VW and also had the CEOs in his teaching classes. He previously held visiting professor positions at Dartmouth College, Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, and Université Toulouse.

Milivoj Markovic, Associate Dean, RIT Croatia, Rochester Institute of Technology, one of the largest private universities in the United States. Milivoj has joined RIT Croatia in 2014. Before this, he worked at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, where he received his PhD in 2011. He was a Fulbright scholar at Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of several academic and professional papers, primarily focusing on strategic management and technology, and he has worked on consulting projects focusing on private and state-owned enterprises. 

Dr. Saša Muminović, President, Slo-Cro Business Club, and President of the Board in AquafilCRO d.o.o. He has over 20 years of tenure in various executive positions at Aquafil, developing the company and leading strategy to today’s regional organisation. He leads the non-profit organisation Slo-Cro Business Club, which aims to organise and strengthen economic relations between Slovenia and Croatia.

Datty G. Ruth, CEO of SMARTER HABITAT, was working for 30 years as the director of the major company VCL in the film, television and music sectors in Holywood. When Datty visited Haiti in 2012, two years after the devastating earthquake, he was struck by the inhumane housing and catastrophic rubble in which many people had lost their lives, and was driven by a vision to provide people with a decent roof over their heads. The growing number of trouble spots around the world – whether due to natural and climatic disasters, poverty or war and the resulting refugee flows – as well as the growing need for housing, made this vision a mission. Its mission is to attract international concessionaires and cooperation partners for SMARTER HABITAT and, as “spiritus rector”, to further develop the business model in all areas – always with the aim of creating a modern social-humanitarian and globally active company. The aim: to create building materials from “green” bio-based materials and agricultural waste that can be produced regionally in large quantities, cost and energy-efficiently, and installed quickly and easily.

Sridhar Iyengar, Managing Director of Zoho Europe, the Netherlands, has been a key part of the company’s vision to create a strong presence in the software industry through SaaS innovation since its inception 28 years ago. Throughout the years, he has navigated Zoho through the scale-up phase during the dotcom boom and witnessed the transition from telecoms to cloud computing, and most recently, the rise of AI. Despite these technological shifts, Sridhar’s unwavering passion for software innovation has remained constant. He has focused Zoho business on creating a platform capable of adapting to the evolving needs of society, demonstrating his commitment to ensuring the sustainability of SaaS in the future.

Uroš Rošer, Chief Operating Office at Dewesoft, Slovenija, is also head officer for investments. He is well acquainted with Dewsoft’s co-ownership model and is a specialist in the Vested model, which connects companies and suppliers in an original way through open contracts, which is related to the Forum’s theme. Uroš is an extremely broad and pleasant interlocutor. As a manager at Dewesoft, he has covered different areas, from legal and HR to investments, which gives him a great depth of understanding of the company.

Forum partners