Panel - Modern technologies and the future of law

The panelists of the eighth panel "MODERN TECHNOLOGIES AND THE FUTURE OF LAW" are Maja Mandić, Marijana Šarolić Robić, Svjetlana Vukić, and special guest Vanja Škorić.

The eighth panel as part of the project "21 ways to success" within the thematic unit Women in the legal profession is entitled "Modern technologies and the future of law", and will be held on Thursday, March 10, starting at 6 p.m. at the Hilton GardenInn Hotel in Zagreb, with a live stream on the Entrio platform. The panelists of this panel will be Maja Mandić, Marijana Šarolić Robić, Svjetlana Vukić, the special guest will be Vanja Škorić, and the moderators of the panel will be Natalija Labavić and Vedrana Likan.

Maja Mandić has been professionally dealing with legal and regulatory issues in the field of electronic communications, market competition and the media for almost 20 years. After graduating from the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb and three years of work experience in private law practice, he was employed by Hrvatsko Telekom. Since 2005, he has been leading corporate regulatory affairs at HT, and in 2014 he took over the management of legal and regulatory affairs and compliance of the HT Group's operations. With the desire for further professional development in early 2020, he enters the business-operational segment of HT's operations and takes over the management of the department dealing with telecommunications infrastructure. Since 2014, she has held the position of deputy president of the NO, JP Hrvatske telekomunikacije d.d. Mostar. In the meantime, she completed an EMBA study at the IEDC Business School in Bled, a special program for membership in supervisory boards at ESMT in Berlin, and obtained a Compliance Manager International certificate at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. In 2016, she was included in the HUP's database of business women.

Marijana Šarolić Robić likes to think of herself as a true specimen of HOMO LUDENS in the making. Although by education and professional activity she is a member of a very serious legal profession with over 20 years of experience in banking and law, this does not prevent her from daily questioning the status quo and learning again and again about everything that surrounds her. For the last few years, her focus has been on artificial intelligence, and one of her passions is to bring this topic closer to as large a group of people as possible and make them aware of the benefits that such technology brings. Marijana is also one of the founders of the association that promotes gender equality in the business environment PWMN Croatia, the founder of the CROAI association and an active mentor in the Croatian eco start up system since 2013. Otherwise, her favorite role is being a mother to her son Luka and wife to her better half Tomica.

Svjetlana Vukić with more than 16 years of experience in business (marketing and tech), projects from strategy to production, on the domestic and international market, for start-ups and corporations. In 2019, together with three other partners, he founded Resonate — a studio for the design of digital products. Today, Resonate works successfully for tech companies in Switzerland, Iceland, Abu Dhabi, the USA and the UK. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, to which she "returns" as a lecturer on the course Designing User Experience.

Our special guest, Vanja Škorić, is a lawyer, activist and program director at the European Center for Non-Profit Law in the Netherlands and a PhD candidate at the Laboratory of Civil Artificial Intelligence, Institute of Informatics, University of Amsterdam. Vanja has been a civil society activist since 1999. She began her journey as a legal advisor in the Croatian organization GONG; she was a member of the Croatian Council in the partnership initiative for open government; she participated in OSCE international election missions in various countries. She is also one of the founders and former board member of the Soliarn Foundation in Croatia. Vanja holds a diploma in public international law from the University of Amsterdam and law studies at the University of Zagreb.

Her favorite engagements include regulatory changes in Croatia and abroad to various regulations or standards that improve democratic society, government accountability, access to information, protection of non-profit organizations, the right to protest, and the like. Recently, he enjoys mixing law and technology through work on legal issues of the development and use of artificial intelligence, finding synergies between civil society and technical experts, and the balance between the development of artificial intelligence and the preservation of human rights and freedoms. As if her doctorate in addition to her full-time job was not enough, Vanja also threw herself into writing children's books, inspired by her daughter's questions about "difficult topics" such as discrimination against women in society, the climate crisis and protests.