Centralna Postaja, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Centralna Postaja - "Centralna Postaja, aka ‘central station’, brings a bit of big city style to Ljubljana - with its trendy pared back décor and hip vibe you may feel like you’re in London or New York. Designed as an all-day hangout Centralna has affordable offerings from morning to late including all-you-can-eat breakfasts (only €2.50!) and international classics: pastas, pizzas and some of Ljubljana’s best burgers (or sliders actually). At night the place turns into a full-on lounge bar, with house DJs often providing the soundtrack." by InYourPocket

Denis Petrovčič - architect, Shambala co-founder, entrepreneur, skipper | Ljubljana native, lived his early 10 years in Italy, grandchild of Matej Bor, not directly related to Vida Petrovčič | his Ski Towers project started with Slovene Business Alliance (SBA) and trip to Azerbaijan and alter to Shanghai | sailed with father from Izola to Gibraltar and after Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) joined him again in Caribbean | with sister starting up Musketir.si, BNI-like cross loyalty program | will run half-marathon soon and a while ago finished one of Dan Brown's book | with no limitations he would invest in and systematically fix tourism in Slovenia, while opening up "v hrib obrnjene" people.

Osmica, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Osmica - "Located on the pedestrian street that runs parallel to Čopova, Osmica is essentially the pizza annex of the longer-running Allegria in the courtyard around the corner. The menu boasts over two dozen pizzas, and several choice of salad, lasagna and tortillas are also on offer in the comfortable rustic setting - think lots of wood and exposed stone with an open kitchen. We stop by for lunch or grab a pizza to go on the way home quite often, but if we were forced to choose a favourite it'd have to be the Tartufo, which comes heaped with prosciutto, salami, parmesan and of course truffle oil." - by InYourPocket

Aleksandar Marković - Serbian conductor, living in Vienna | just found out about TED at this lunch, where we were actually speaking in Serbian language, me being a diminishing minority of Slovenians who know how to | born and raised in Zemun, knows very well Šatrovački, just like Gregor, | not realted to most famous Marković, once prime minister of ex-Yugoslavia Ante | His father was Vlada from famous Vlada i Bajka band, Yugoslav answer to Simon and Garfunkel | in early 90's went to USA, intended to stay for a month and a half in music summer camp in North Carolina, then stayed on in Washington and Miamo, studied piano and returned to Vienna, drawn by German language, influenced by Wagner | Vienna was also a natural choice for conducting study, Music Director of Brno Philharmonic, prior to that also in Innsbruck | worked with Ana Šinkovec and Slovenian Philharmonic in 2004 | regularly switches from head to body by sport activities, aesthetics in general is of big importance, tennis on hold due to conducting inflammation, read book by David Deida: Finding God Through Sex | With infinite resources he would stay in music, but would be more selective and picky, maybe taking over Monaco Philharmonic or somewhere else on Mediterranean coast. With top world class plus also top candidates and talents in academia - not unlike Qatar, but location is of utmost importance, due to audience for which everything is done in the first place.

Taverna Brajda, BTC, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Taverna Brajda - a rustic-ish place in the middle of shopping city BTC. Full of wood and business lunchees. Serving vegetarian burger and other delicacies. Try and see for yourself. 

Aleksander Brankov - Sales advisor at Mercuri International | just ordered bunch of books at BookDepository.co.uk - some of which featured on his GoodReads shelf - in recent batch there's Simon Sinek's Leaders Eat Last, accompanied by 45 min Vimeo clip | likes Spiritual Intelligent Quotient, just finishing it, loves Django and other Tarrantino makes | has roots in Macedonia, grandpa from Izbiste (from Biste) in Serbia where Macedonians settled people from Biste | EF almost graduate with EDHEC Nice Erasmus exhange, worked for Simobil, AIESEC and did IEDC Discover Management | ran his first half marathon with chip in pocket - how familiar :) | self proclaimed social geek, while assembling his PC ended up in ER, winter sport freak, boarding fan, last standing on skis in elementary school, Duolingo on pause, MOOC user, IE school Madrid doing Coursera critical perspectives on management, also RSAnimate and overall has issue with insatiable thirst for knowledge and curiosity | one day he will expedite knowledge and experience gathering and network to further improve entrepreneurial ecosystem in Slovenia and then improve values and fairness worldwide. A tall order.