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Urska Starc-Peceny

Chief Innovation Officer, Lead Tourism 4.0 Department

Arctur

Vienna, Austria

My organisation

Arctur

Arctur

SME

Nova Gorica, Slovenia

As more than 30 year old HiTech company, Arctur has participated in many international R&D projects, inventing new business models in HPCaaS and successfully breaking the barriers in bringing HPC to manufacturing SMEs. In 1998, the company launched Tourism 4.0 initiative focused on transferring new technologies like HPDA, IoT and Blockchain from Industry 4.0 to tourism.
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About me

Urška Starc-Peceny, PhD, is an accomplished innovation specialist with expertise in business communication and new technologies. She received her international education in Slovenia, Italy, and Austria. In 2001, her PhD thesis entitled "Netlife" paved the way in research of collaboration design in an AI and big data-driven reality.

With over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur across Europe and the Middle East, Urška is active as an independent expert and leads at Arctur Ltd. the Tourism 4.0 initiative. In this role, she is dedicated to spreading Industry 4.0 technologies into the tourism sector to create a better future for all. She is proud to be part of several flagship projects co-creating the European Transition Pathway, including data spaces for tourism, cultural heritage and media. She is deeply passionate about digital innovation of heritage.

Living between Slovenia and Vienna, Austria, she leads the NASA Space Apps Challenge and serves as an assistant professor on smart-related topics.

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Skills

  • innovation
  • Tourism
  • technology
  • data
  • digitalisation of heritage

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Sub-Saharan Africa Northern Africa and Western AsiaCentral and Southern AsiaEastern and South-Eastern AsiaLatin America and the CaribbeanOceaniaEurope and Northern America