Hi, this is Francesco Rulli I'm the CEO of Querlo
today i'm here with Gaia who and Nenad
they are both co-founders of two
fantastic organizations one is the
STUDIO X Ventures
and another one is the Impact Hub Belgrade
so Gaia if you can give us a little
bit more insights about
those two organizations and your work.
Thank you Francesco for
having us today so studio x ventures is
really a venture builder
that sources its startups from dubai
and takes the best ones to
and invests in them
pretty much with know-how advisory and
cash.
Yeah and i think belgrade is basically a
part of the global network of co-working
spaces and communities throughout the
world
there are 90 locations throughout the
world here in
belgrade we founded this company in 2014
gathering together a community of
entrepreneurs startup founders
angel investors enabling them to connect
better to each other.
Fantastic okay so you're in belgrade
now
in the heart of europe i'm here in new
york
now what's your perspective about
what i call the postcovid era
where do you see the challenges but also
the opportunities from your
you know your professional perspective.
This is absolutely the the question that
we ask ourselves every day
and especially with the startups you
know how to firm
into an opportunity that can be
transformed into a business that solves
the problem
and makes a profit right
so you know our perspective is is
sort of is sort of reflective of the
context that we live in
right in the western balkans and in
europe which is not a primary market
but what we definitely see is obviously
the fact that you know the network
leverage and the network effect is not
the same
as it used to be people
need to learn how to how to transfer
their experience and their bonding and their
relationship building from what used to
be more
of a personal you know interaction
now into the digital tools right we're
using zoom right now which is great but we also know that a lot of times
you know through
the million of zoom meetings that we
have these days we lose attention we get
bored we stop our video and start to do
something else
so what is it that we can do from
this perspective to
increase the engagement
the bonding through such digital tools
that's that's what we ask every day and
that's actually why we work a lot with
startups that are bringing forward online collaboration solutions and
tools
that can draw at scale. Fantastic
so indeed this interview is part of
research i'm doing with forbes
about three things and which is the
post covid era
and the use of artificial intelligence
and a lot has
been an interesting transition from
concerns about the work from home
then concerns about risk healing then
concerns about
mental health so in terms of
artificial intelligence what are your
thoughts about the role of artificial
intelligence's new era.
Yeah so you know i would maybe add also
that you know
post covid may not ever be post and they
just stay
as it is right so we're really really
looking into a hybrid model of
communication interaction
and personally i think ai will
and already plays a large role and this
may be i actually
need to improve this role ai
traditionally
was very destructive in in workplaces
like such as the
hub or in some you know factories you
know
people being afraid that you know will
lose their jobs their daily operational
sometimes maybe even simple jobs because
there is
an ai behind it can actually replace
that i think that the current situation
really accelerates this use
and bonding between what can we as
humans do
and what we should be doing and not
waste time on some repetitive
and often meaningless work
delete that we are contributing to
so in that sense i think that ai will
continue to be a prominent buzzword you
know in even in the
time to come but more than just a
buzzword i think it will
with this given circumstances
be improved and many 
services
will be therefore a better offer
for us to
focus on the things that we as humans
can be very very good at.
Fantastic thank you and if people
want to learn more about your work
what's the best way to reach out to
you and
eventually get in touch.
Thank you for this question Francesco so
we are definitely online
almost 24/7 i would say so
we check our emails we're very
responsive
you know Gaia Montelatici Studio X
mentors that's
one way to go or linkedin or linkedin
absolutely
i think probably the best way to you
know reach today to any good people you
know even if you have just like a cold
email you know cold message or
linkedin it's
the best way to reach out to people so
happy to connect on that we are
putting out a great startup expo
for the western balkans on september
18th this this is the first the very first
virtual
startup affair that we will be
organizing and maybe
that also be an opportunity to reach not
only to us but to people who are
like us and who like to exchange on
different thoughts.
Very interesting thank you very much.
Thank you francesco
