As part of the EuroCC4SEE project, the participating countries — Türkiye, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina — are collaboratively designing an SME-focused HPC training.
🎯 To ensure that the program is relevant and targeted, we are conducting a needs assessment survey with input from all partner countries.
The University of Donja Gorica and NCC Montenegro are organizing a panel discussion within the hashtag#EuroCC project, a European initiative dedicated to the development of national competence centers in the field of high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and big data analysis.
The event brings together successful UDG alumni and researchers, who today lead innovative companies and projects in Montenegro and beyond. Through personal stories and practical insights, speakers will show how knowledge from AI and HPC can become key levers for career development.
Panelists:
Anton Jurovicki – CEO & Co-Founder, Coinis | The founder of the zaposli.ME platform
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.
As part of our ongoing efforts to foster industry collaboration, the National Competence Centre (NCC) Montenegro recently conducted a follow-up consultation with representatives from Alicorn, Mr. Milutin Pavićević and Mr. Andrija Vučković. The meeting focused on exploring how High-Performance Computing (HPC) can be integrated into Alicorn’s development workflows, particularly in areas requiring substantial computational resources. Discussions also covered opportunities for accessing EuroHPC resources through open calls, as well as potential collaboration on Proof-of-Concept initiatives and joint project applications. We will also explore future options for open calls by Fortissimo and Innovation fund od Montenegro.
This was a follow up visit to Alicorn, an innovative technology company from Podgorica
Alicorn shared several promising use cases where HPC could significantly enhance their operations, including advanced data analytics and AI model training. This aligns with NCC Montenegro’s mission to support SMEs in leveraging HPC and AI technologies for innovation and competitiveness. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Alicorn and assisting them in navigating EuroHPC application processes, thereby contributing to the digital transformation of Montenegro’s tech industry.
NCC Montenegro (within the EuroCC2/EuroCC4SEE project), in cooperation with “IT Society”, is organizing the training “HPC and Industrial Cooperation – Opportunities and Perspectives” as part of the activities of the 29th scientific and professional conference Information Technologies – Present and Future, which will be held on 29 and 30 May 2025 in Žabljak.
The aim of this two-day training is to present available high-performance computing (HPC) as an innovative tool for improving business in Montenegrin industry. Through practical examples and discussions, participants will have the opportunity to consider the possibilities of implementing HPC in their companies, identify potential challenges that they can solve, the necessary resources and establish B2B contacts with members of NCC Montenegro.
This will be a contionuation of IT2025 and collaboration of NCC Montenegro and “IT Drustvo” NGO
In collaboration with ICT Cortex, we are organizing a workshop “Innovation through Supercomputing in AI – an opportunity to improve your business”, on the topic of #HighPerformanceComputing and #ArtificialIntelligence technologies, intended for innovative IT companies, #SMEs and startups that want to improve their products, services and business processes using cutting-edge digital solutions.
With the support of experts, participants will learn how to use HPC technologies for accelerated development of AI models, how to access leading European supercomputing resources and how to improve their software solutions with significant time and resource savings.
The workshop is organized as part of the set of training events of the EuroCC2/EuroCC4SEE (Digital Europe) project, and is implemented by the National Competence Center (NCC) Montenegro.
Join us on Wednesday, April 23, from 1:00 PM at the Entrepreneurial Nest, UDG and learn more about #NCC technical support and the benefits that the European supercomputing infrastructure offers to the business and public sectors.
Agenda
INTRODUCTION TO HPC TECHNOLOGIES AND NCC MONTENEGRO
13:00 | NCC Montenegro: Drive Your Innovations with HPC Sanja Nikolić HPC & AI: Turn Your Data into Action HPC/HPDA/AI Training and Service Portfolio HPC4SME: Automated Assessment Tool
13:30 | NCC Montenegro: Gateway to European Supercomputers Luka Filipović EuroHPC: Democratizing Access to Supercomputing Overview of Open Access Calls – How to Apply?
As part of its mission to strengthen high-performance computing (HPC) capacities in Montenegro, the National Competence Center (NCC) in HPC recently visited the local IT company Exploring, a growing SME known for its innovative data-driven solutions. The meeting served as an initial consultation aimed at introducing the EUROCC project, and presenting the range of support services provided by NCC Montenegro.
NCC team visited Exploring, an SME IT developer from Podgorica
During the visit, the NCC Montenegro team provided an overview of the EUROCC initiative and the ongoing efforts to enhance digital innovation through HPC, artificial intelligence (AI), and related technologies. The Exploring team was introduced to the NCC self-assessment survey, a tool designed to help companies evaluate their readiness for adopting HPC technologies. In addition, we identified a potential use case to migrate Exploring’s development processes of ML prediction models for BI, which involve handling large datasets and developing prediction models, to the computing infrastructure managed by NCC Montenegro. This move could significantly improve computing performance and scalability for their internal R&D workflows.
The meeting also explored the possibility of:
Launching a proof-of-concept (PoC) analysis to evaluate the benefits of HPC in a real-world scenario tailored to Exploring’s use case;
Joint participation in upcoming open calls and EU-supported innovation programs;
Establishing a long-term collaboration between Exploring and NCC Montenegro to unlock further innovation potential.
This consultation marks an important step toward bridging the gap between academic HPC expertise and the private sector’s innovation goals. NCC Montenegro looks forward to supporting Exploring in its digital transformation journey.
We concluded this consultations with an action plan for the coming months
