From Pizza Shops to a Billion-Dollar Tech Company: Meet Ilir Sela
From his family’s pizzeria counter to a billion-dollar tech company.
Meet your DOKU.TECH 2026 keynote speaker: Ilir Sela Ilir , Founder & CEO of Slice .
Born to an Albanian family in North Macedonia and raised in Staten Island, Ilir grew up helping in his family’s New York pizzerias. He saw local shops losing ground to the big chains, and decided to build the technology to help them fight back.
Today, Slice is the largest pizzeria network in the U.S.:
Active in all 50 states
15,000+ independent pizzerias
Over $2 billion in earnings generated for local shop owners
And this November, for the first time ever, Ilir is coming to Kosovo to tell his story in person.
The Future is Calling. Be in the room when he answers.
5 – 6 November
Palace of Youth, Prishtina