(taken from HackFwd)
Kushtrim Xhakli is an entrepreneur with a high passion for innovation and market disruption. In the last decade, he started companies from scratch and managed to bring a range of new technologies into challenging environments.
Kushtrim is part of the management of Changers.com, a Berlin based company that develops innovative solar devices and makes eco friendly behaviour measurable and rewarding through its online marketplace.
Kushtrim has also founded Fast Europe Ventures LLC, management consulting an online technology solutions company serving financial institutions and telecom operators in Eastern Europe, as well helping startups in CEE.
Earlier while running IPKO Institute, Kushtrim built the open education platform trajnimi.com offering people in Kosovo a unique opportunity to develop technical knowledge for free as a standard ICT education. He received the “Best Practice Award” from the ECDL Foundation for the most influential high-tech impact in Europe in 2008 and today the portal is part of Kosovo's national education programme.
Currently, Kushtrim is a Board Member of the IPKO Foundation, seeding and supporting the development of the next generation of leaders with a digital vision for Kosovo, as well helping the country with digital strategy. On the other hand, Kushtrim is also a member of the Sandbox Network, the foremost global community of extraordinary young achievers.
Kushtrim often delivers guest talks on entrepreneurship at business schools, industry conferences, startup weekends and networking events. He also enjoys travelling to exciting places.
Kushtrim Xhakli speaking at TEDxWarsaw, Warsaw, Poland. March 24, 2011.
Kushtrim Xhakli speaking at LOGIN11 Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania.
March 17, 2011
Kushtrim Xhakli presenting at SHiFT Conference in Lisbon, Portugal about Emerging Markets. April 16, 2010. Photo by: Ton Zylstra
Jim Friars, Chairman of ECDL Foundation awards Kushtrim Xhakli the price: Best Practice Award 2008 at ECDL CEO Summit in Vienna, 22-25 October 2008. Photo: ECDL.org
Kushtrim Xhakli presents at LIFT Conference 2008 in Geneva Switzerland the successes of national portal trajnimi.com and many transformation opportunities of Kosovar market into wider market. LIFT08 was held on 6-8 February 2008, and gathers the experts of technology fields to discuss about the opportunities and challenges in connected society. Photo: Martin Kuipers.
Kushtrim Xhakli and Alban Gerguri unveil trajnimi.com portal to the audience, June 7, 2007
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"He is particularly strong at educating people to a broad range of new technologies in challenging environments. As a man of networks and of ideas, helps you in introduction to new markets in Eastern Europe and also as a way to know what inspires the next generation of European entrepreneurs", TechMe2.eu |
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"...in less than three decades he has gone through different political contexts, a war, a refugee status, a fight for his life and hope, a brief experience abroad and the return home, to a torn apart country in desperate need for some action. And that's exactly what he did: he inspired, he led, he challenged others, he provoked, he resisted... and step by step, bit by bit, he helped changed the future of so many." The Art of Life and Work |
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