The 5th Hidria Innovation Forum was organised on 12 March in Tolmin, at which more than 150 of the leading managers of Hidria, innovators and award winners participated.

The forum at which the Chairman Edvard Svetlik, the President of the Management Board Iztok Seljak, MSc, the Vice-President of the Management Board  Miloš Šturm, the director of innovation culture Tanja Mohorič, and the guest Dražen Carić from the consulting company I.C.I.C. delivered speeches, was intended for learning about the strategy in the field of innovation culture in Hidria and exchange of experience and opinions on the innovation process. In the final part of the forum, awards were conferred to the innovators of the year, the authors of improvements with the largest economic benefit and the authors of the best degree essays in 2009.