Macut invites Oracle to support EXPO 2027 and participate as partner

DUBAI - Serbian PM Djuro Macut met on Wednesday in Dubai with executives of the US IT giant Oracle and invited the company to support EXPO 2027 Belgrade and participate in it as a partner, as well as to take an active part in the GITEX 2027 fair, to be held in Belgrade in May next year.

On the sidelines of the World Governments Summit, Macut spoke with Oracle's Executive Vice President for Industry Applications Simon de Montfort Walker, Senior Vice President for Business Applications in Eastern and Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa Leopoldo Boado Lama and Senior Director for eGovernment Anien Coetzee.

Macut and the Oracle executives agreed to "continue talks in the coming period in Belgrade, with a view to further specifying the agreed initiatives," the Serbian government said in a statement.

The executives noted that Serbia was southeast Europe's digital hub, and expressed readiness for Oracle to get more actively involved in Serbia through concrete projects, including in the health care sector, as well as through an expansion of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, provided by the Serbian State Data Centre.

"Oracle is one of the first users and, at the same time, the largest commercial user of the State Data Centre in Kragujevac. Thanks to this cooperation, modern Oracle Cloud solutions are delivered from Serbia’s State Data Centre to end users around the world, making Serbia unique in this part of Europe.

The Office for Information Technologies and eGovernment of the Government of Serbia has been developing strong cooperation with Oracle since 2017, when the first state-level Oracle agreement was signed," the statement also said.