Marko Suvajdzic is a diverse thinker with 25+ years of achievement in academia and the creative digital research and production space. He is an Associate Director of Digital Worlds Institute, a Professor in Digital Arts and Sciences, a University Term Professor, an Entrepreneur in Residence at the UF Warrington College of Business, and the founder of Blockchain Research Lab at the University of Florida. His research focuses on the positive impact that emerging digital technologies have on humanity and our efforts to improve as human beings. More specifically, his research focuses on the role of digital arts in healthcare and in education, and he has conducted pioneering research and teaching in the area of blockchain technology and its relationship to digital arts and media. Suvajdzic is the founder of the Blockchain Research Lab at UF, and the author of the first Blockchain course at the University of Florida. To date, Suvajdzic’s research efforts at the University of Florida have been awarded $9+ million dollars in external grant awards. His industry experience includes a range of digital startups and educational projects from artificial Intelligence-intensive video game titles such as Dogz & Catz: Your Virtual Petz (PF. Magic/Mattel), to co-founding five of his own startups in digital media. Suvajdzic is a serial entrepreneur and veteran of 6 startups in total, ranging from 1 to 4 years each. He has exhibited his artworks at the National Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, Serbia. His documentary film “Life and Death on the River Ganges” has won an international film festival. His digital interactive experiences have been featured in video games that won multiple awards and consistently ranked on the various gaming industry’s top-10 lists.
