NCC Montenegro and ICT Cortex hosted Supercomputing Opportunities for Industry Leaders—a dynamic industry event showcasing how HPC and AI are reshaping the innovation landscape for businesses in Montenegro.
The event was opened by Sanja Nikolić, who presented NCC Montenegro as a national hub dedicated to fostering driving innovation, digitalization and competitiveness through Cloud HPC and AI technologies.
Following the introductory part, Luka Filipović emphasized NCC Montenegro’s role as a national gateway to the EuroHPC supercomputing infrastructure. His presentation offered a practical roadmap and expert insights into the Open Access Calls, providing businesses with clear guidance on how to leverage some of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe—and globally—for research, development, and innovation.
The second part of the event featured a panel discussion with representatives from innovative companies in the Montenegrin IT sector—technology visionaries who are actively applying HPC and AI in real-world projects. The panel highlighted successful collaborations with NCC Montenegro and included:
Milutin Pavićević, Chief Creative Director at Alicorn, presented NameSentinel—an AI-powered service that enables smart search and generation of memorable domain names by processing user preferences and startup descriptions. The platform leverages HPC to process tens of millions of domain records daily, enabling real-time, ultra-fast domain availability checks.
Marko Lekić, CTO of Fleka, shared insights into the company’s work in the FinTech industry, highlighting the development of ML-based, HPC-empowered SaaS solutions aimed at enhancing personalized banking experiences. Their approach leverages intelligent algorithms for transaction and spending classification, enabling smarter, more tailored financial services.
Đuro Stojanović, CEO of UHURA Solutions, an AI startup specializing in automating document-driven processes, emphasized the benefits of leveraging EuroHPC resources, specifically the Leonardo supercomputer. He discussed how it can be used to train and fine-tune LLMswith up to 70 billion parametersondomain-specific datasets, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of AI-driven financial solutions.
Nebojša Jovanović, Co-Founder and Product Owner of PAID, presented the development of a B2B software solutionforquantitative tradingon stock exchanges. The solution requires training sophisticated AI/ML models and running up to 1.2 million simulations per financial instrument—a process that, thanks to access to the LUMI supercomputer, was completed in just 4.7 hours, compared to the estimated 10 months.
This event not only showcased the industry potential of HPC and AI—particularly within the IT sector—but also emphasized NCC Montenegro’s supportive role in making these advanced technologies both accessible and actionable for the local and regional business ecosystem.