- Jadran Lenarčič, PhD, Director of the Jožef Stefan Institute
- Janko Jamnik, PhD, Director of the National Institute of Chemistry
- Jožica Rejec, PhD, Management Board President of Domel d.o.o.
- Radovan Bolko, Chief Executive Officer of Kolektor Group d.o.o.
- Jože Dedič, PhD, Chief Developer at Cosylab d.d.
- Mija Lorbek, Executive Director of UNIKI d.o.o.
Mr. Lenarčič has been working at the Jožef Stefan Institute since 1979, and has been its Director since 2005. He is a professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, and he also gives lectures at the University of Nova Gorica, at the Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, and at the University of Bologna in Italy. Professor Lenarčič is one of the initiators and leader of the ARK (Advances in Robot Kinematics) series of international symposia, the main international scientific event in this field. His main areas of work include robotics, biorobotics, and humanoid robots.
Mr. Jamnik has been Director of the National Institute of Chemistry, the second largest in Slovenia, since 2008. Having worked on his doctorate in physics in Germany, he obtained a PhD from the University of Ljubljana. In addition to being the Director of the National Institute of Chemistry, professor Jamnik also has experience in leading other important research projects and organizations: he was Head of the Laboratory for Materials Electrochemistry, head of the thematic set "Theory" at the European Network of Excellence ALISTORE, and head of the research project "Nano-Materials in Electrochemical Systems".
Ms. Rejec first worked in Domel as a developer in designing different types of motors. In her desire to expand her knowledge in this area, she decided to continue her studies and obtained a master's degree in 1989. Later she became Head of Development at the same company. As the Management Board President, she is now devoted to promoting and encouraging research activities.
In 1999, Mr. Bolko became Deputy Chairman of the company and was in charge of the quality management system, until he became responsible for the development of new (non-commutator) programs. He later became the Deputy Chairman. Since January 1, 2009, Mr. Bolko has been the CEO of Kolektor Group d.o.o.
Mr. Dedič is head of hardware development at Cosylab, a company founded in 2001 by Mark Pleško. Cosylab is one of the leading companies in the world in control systems and the development of software and hardware for major physical experiments such as particle accelerators. They also developed the core control system for telescopes used in the ALMA project.
Mija Lorbek founded the company UNIKI in 2008 together with colleagues. UNIKI is a company for the development of intelligent media with the objective of becoming a key player in the international development of new media solutions.
A group of students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Maribor, invented a solution called 2nd Sight. This solution employs specially modified smart phones, making life easier and better for the blind and visually impaired. The students were among the finalists of the Imagine Cup in New York City, a competition with over 350,000 students from 183 countries. The Slovenian team was among the best 18 teams in the world in software development category.
A multi-disciplinary student group from the University of Ljubljana working under the umbrella of the National Institute of Chemistry entered the premiere undergraduate synthetic biology competition iGEM held at MIT and won first place among new applications, the BioBrick Trophy for the best DNA construct, and the Grand Prize for their project using DNA as the scaffold for encoding information.