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Balkonnect

Festival

Balkonnect

Festival

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Balkonnect Festival

The Balkonnect Festival 2025 is the premier event bridging the Western Balkans’ leading industries with global innovation, networking, matchmaking, and investment opportunities. Held annually, this year’s festival will focus on innovation, transformation, e-solutions and investment, including sectorial experiences, AI, big data, and green economies. It is expected to attract key stakeholders from sectors including wood-metal/construction, tourism-agri-food-processing, outsourcing, ICT & Digital, renewable and green, banking and finance etc.

Leading
Industries

1
KOSOVA
Wood and Metal processing
ICT and Digital
Tourism
Renewable and Green
Banking and Finance
Outsourcing
2
NORTH MACEDONIA
Agri & Food & Processing
Manufacturing
ICT and Digital
Renewable and Green
Materials
3
MONTENEGRO
Montenegro
Tourism
ICT and Digital
Renewable and Green
Real Estate
4
ALBANIA
Tourism
Telecommunication
Manufacturing
Renewable and Green
Agri & Food & Processing
Construction
5
BOSNIA & HERCEGOVINA
Agri & Food & Processing
Wood Industry
ICT and Digital
Materials
6
SERBIA
Wood and metal processing
ICT, Telecommunication and Digital
Tourism
Renewable and Green
Banking and Finance
Agri & Food & Processing
Construction & Materials

Target
Audience

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY LEADERS

From leading sectors across the WB

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Including EBRD and other economic development stakeholders

ACADEMIA AND INNOVATORS

R&D institutions and tech innovators

GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

Policy-makers driving regional economic integration

INVESTORS

Business angels, venture capital firms & institutional investors

Why You Should Join
The Event?

INNOVATION
Exercise the private sector incentives to synergise R&D, Innovators and I nvestors to advance competitiveness and INNOVATION
INVESTMENT
Enable companies, especially from hosting countries, to Pitch in front of private investors, Business Angels (BAs) and Venture Capitalists (VCs)
MATCHMAKING
Facilitate business connections among industry leaders, investors and stakeholders in the WB region and globally
NETWORKING
Bridging transnational potential and provide a structured yet informal environmentfor building partnerships across borders
PROMOTION
Showcase the leading industries and success stories of WB countries to a global audience and internationalise its potentials

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