Michael Busch joined ING bank in 2009 and built a career in ING combining his technology expertise with his operational and business perspective. In 2016 he moved to Romania to build ING Tech, ING’s software development center where he is now Head of Technology. Here he has been leading the strategic developments of the organisation to support the Think Forward strategy of the bank.

In his previous role, Michael has worked within the Competence Center Core Banking as a senior consultant. He also played an orchestrating role in India’s Core Banking system upgrade.

Michael earned a master’s degree in Financial Management from Nyenrode University and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Management (Finance and IT) from Hogeschool Utrecht. In 2013 he completed the General Management Program at Harvard Business School in Boston,USA.

I am a technology enthusiast and passionate about agile methodologies.
With 7 years of experience in software development and expertise in mobile & web applications, I have been involved in developing, testing and maintaining applications but also in managing small teams and optimizing company’s internal processes.

Computer whisperer, cloud charmer, seasoned geek, round peg, writer of executable poetry, Elder Thing, Senior DevOps Engineer at PTC.

Björn Rabenstein is a Production Engineer at SoundCloud and a Prometheus developer. Previously, Björn was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google and a number cruncher for science.

Ionut has 11 years of experience in core banking development and is currently managing the architecture and tooling department of ING Tech Romania. Here he concentrates his efforts on facilitating the adoption of automation of software development as a means to give engineers the opportunity to focus more of their time and energy on complex, creative tasks that involve experimentation and collaboration.

When he’s not thinking about automation or how to revolutionise core banking, he’s busy with gadgets, drones, karting and circuit racing.

Ionut holds a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Economic Studies Bucharest (ASE).

DevOps enabler, evangelist and enthusiast. Speaker and seeker. Kind teacher.

I’m a computer engineer with a strong focus on helping companies succeed by delivering quality products and ensuring that the software development processes are efficient, effective and reliable.

Dee Liyanwela is the Managing Director and CEO of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Sri Lanka. He is also responsible for executing LSEG’s Group Offshoring Strategy. Dee was previously an Executive Director for London Clearing House (an LSEG company) for eight years, responsible for Listed Derivatives, Equities and Fixed Income Technology. He has more than 20 years of experience in building technology platforms, managing various technology functions and delivering services via global offshore delivery centres. Prior to joining LCH, Dee was the CTO for a specialist software vendor where he built and ran a delivery centre for the company from Bangalore, India. Dee began his career working on Mobile Telecommunications technologies. Dee holds a BA (Hons) in Technology and Finance, an MBA, as well as an Advance Management Programme from Ashridge Management College, UK.

Veronica is the founder of the first Romanian Digital Think-Tank – Digital Citizens Romania – connecting Romanian digital innovators and everyday digital citizens with the European and Transatlantic opportunities and debates. She is a professional with more than 10 years experience, working in both national and international contexts, in areas related to digital transformation, innovation, education and multi-stakeholder cooperation.

Currently, Veronica coordinates an ambitious initiative – “Driving the Digital rEvolution” – with the aim of supporting Digital as a main priority in the next EU Digital Agenda and Budget.

Focusing on sub-topics such as Cyber-security, Digital Education and Artificial Intelligence, the initiative highlights the Romanian digital expertise in the framework of the future EU Council Presidency, held by Romania in 2019.

Mark has been working as a creative professional and technologist for nearly twenty years, partnering with Fortune 100/500 companies and non-profits to craft meaningful experiences for digital UIs and ecosystems in new technologies. He shares his thoughts as an international speaker and writer. In his personal life Mark is a daily meditator, soccer addict, father of five, husband of one, and social justice activist. He also has a great story about saving his son from a scorpion by catching it in a jar with his ninja-like reflexes

Senior software engineer at resin.io. Creator of Build Focus, keen open-sourcecontributor, and maintainer of Loglevel,Git‑Confirm and Server Components.

Martin Woolley is an industry veteran with over 30 years’ experience working with computers large, small and ….. getting smaller. He still has a Sinclair ZX81 somewhere. When Martin first discovered Bluetooth low energy it struck him as a phenomenally exciting, useful and developer-friendly technology and a perfect fit in this age of the Internet of Things.

Martin is a member of the SIG’s Developer Programs and Evangelism team and thoroughly enjoys talking with developers about software development and Bluetooth.

Nowadays a senior manager within Stefanini’s Bucharest Applications Development Center, Catalin has spent 17 years in a variety of technical and management roles within the company, involved in a wide array of technologies and projects. He also has spent more than 30 years being passionate about  computers and technology and brings this passion to today’s digital opportunities.

I’m a web design consultant and front end developer living in Hong Kong.

After starting to work as a freelance web designer/developer in the fairly early days of the web, I co-founded the design studio uforepublic in 2001. We then opened our second office in Hong Kong in 2009.

I’m also a co-founder of Colloq, a conference and event platform that connects organizers, speakers and attendees in an enjoyable and engaging way.

Dan is a proud Netcentric co-founder and a Solutions Architect for both Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Campaign. He is focused on infrastructure and operations and has designed numerous AEM and AC setups, with an emphasis on operational reliability. Dan is regularly engaged in fire-fighting missions and has successfully stabilised AEM setups for various clients around the world. Dan now leads Netcentric’s System Engineering team and is accountable for running and growing our subsidiary in Romania. When not working, Dan enjoys travelling – he has visited 55 countries and counting!

Vitaliy’s background includes mobile application and game development, tech leadership and conference organization. Nowadays, he is leading the development of the next generation in-app marketing tools at GetSocial. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, an active member of various technical communities and a founder of the Google Developers Group Lviv.

29 years old, with +12 years of software industry experience. Track record of successfully delivering highly challenging projects. Lead teams of 30 people, comprised of architects, developers and QA, as well as startups of 2-3 people.

Neo4j and Spring open source contributor. Serial entrepreneur.
Proficient in blockchain technologies, distributed computing, graph databases, big data and A.I.

Most of all, i am interested in beating odds and big challenges.

Passionate about forming, training and leading successful mobile development teams in order to exceed customer’s expectations by connecting and translating complex customers’ needs to technical teams and by ensuring project management for team accounts. With a strong business awareness I constantly improve our customer’s experience through proactive measures and consultative selling.

As a professional I always remain dedicated to the technical nature of my work, dedicating specific time for learning, testing and implementing new technologies and using these in my coaching process with my team members.

André leads Taxify data science efforts for creating intelligent urban mobility services in more than 25 countries.

Previously he co-founded two companies, incl. Planet OS, a data infrastructure and intelligence provider in renewable energy. He also founded Data Research Team of Skype, applying data analytics, predictive methods and system optimizations to improve the products. He focuses on software development and data science systems with applications in transportation, communications, geospatial IoT, electronics manufacturing, biotechnology and other businesses.

Viktor has more than 20 years of experience in a variety of roles within the IT industry. He has worked with IT ops, information security, software development, as well as supporting management with technical expertise. Lately, Viktor has focused on helping development teams and organisations in engineering systems that scale from a technical, organizational and product development point of view.

Felipe Hoffa is a developer advocate for big data at Google, where he inspires developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world.

I started as an open source user with Linux in 1998. Since then I’m living open source values. Recently I specialized in Linux kernel and embedded development, but I left my principal software engineer position to start a cloud computing company. We are bringing Internet closer to people, reverting Internet centralization with focus on convenience, security, and performance.

Thomas is a Blockchain enthusiast, early Bitcoin adopter and was among the very first members of Crypto Valley. He is currently focussing on researching Blockchain technology and combining it with manufacturing processes such as 3D-printing.

Before joining the Crypto Valley ecosystem, Thomas worked in different roles in the media and printing industry. In 2006 he received „Gutenberg Price“ (Printing Industry, Switzerland), awarding his innovative work in the space of offset printing.

Chris Chabot is a Developer Evangelist for Auth0 in Europe, working with developers to create new and innovative experiences. During his career Chris has built and led both product and developer teams, working as evangelist for Amazon Alexa, as Head of International Developer Relations at Twitter and a number of developer-focused leadership roles at Google. Chris is passionate about the potential for societal change through technological innovation, and has spent time advising numerous start-ups and shared his knowledge through keynote speaking at various industry events and conferences.

Chris was born in the fields of isolated Wyoming, USA. He moved west to study math and computer science at University of Washington – Seattle. He received a Fulbright scholarship to study cybersecurity and e-government in Estonia where he accidentally stayed 6 years to pursue his passion for startups and tech. His journey of QA to developer to product engineer led him to TransferWise, a mission driven global fintech company bringing Money Without Borders. He’s spent more than three years as a product engineer building out AML & Compliance systems and the last 6 months with the North American payment engine. He currently lives in New York City and spends his free time running, traveling, and visiting every rooftop bar imaginable.

An expert in Azure and cloud architectures with a good all-round ability to juggle projects and meet deadlines even when handling complex problems and interdependent business processes. Experienced in motivating and guiding project teams to succeed.

Adrian has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, having worked as a software and system engineer, backend, web and mobile developer and part of DevOps teams where his focus has been on cloud infrastructure and site reliability, writing application software, deploying servers and managing large scale architectures. Today, Adrian tends to get super excited by AI and IoT, and especially in the convergence of both technologies.

Crafting code in most programming languages, since 2004. Currently Lead Architect of the largest client of IBM Romania.

Passionate trainer and coach, since 2013. Extensive experience (over 1500 hours) with major clients such as Deutche Bank, Emag, Axway, ING, Betfair, etc..

Clean Code evanghelist – regular international conference speaker. eXtreme Programming fan, TDD practitioner.

Software Architect @ Luxoft with 10+ years of experience in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested in software architecture and performance & tuning topics. Regular speaker at external conferences (e.g. GeeCon, JokerConf, XP Days, Voxxed, Bucharest Java User Group, Logeek, SoftLabs, DevTalks, Agile Tour) and occasionally technical writer (InfoQ, DZone, etc).

Marko Lukša is a software engineer at Red Hat, where he works on the Kubernetes Service Catalog and integrating Red Hat’s Java Middleware products into Kubernetes and OpenShift. He has been developing software for over 20 years, with 15 of those years primarily focused on Java enterprise apps. He is also the author of “Kubernetes in Action”, a 600+ page book explaining how to effectively develop and run applications in Kubernetes.

Investment Banker turner programmer. Python enthusiast, open source advocate, currently working in Cyber Security and Big Data. Interested in information asymmetry,  risk probability and predictive analytics.

Axel Fontaine is the founder and CEO of Boxfuse (boxfuse.com), the easiest way to deploy JVM, Node.js and Go applications to AWS, and the creator of Flyway (flywaydb.org), the open-source tool that makes database migrations easy.

Axel is an entrepreneur, a Continuous Delivery expert, an Immutable Infrastructure expert, a Java Champion, a JavaOne Rockstar, a regular speaker at many large international conferences, a trainer and an author.

You can find him on Twitter and on GitHub as @axelfontaine.

Andrew Morgan is an independent consultant, currently focusing on architecture and design, microservices, and continuous delivery. He has experience working with many different types of organisations, primarily in development and operations roles. He is also involved in the wider technology community, contributing to a number of open source projects, presenting at international conferences, writing for InfoQ, and is soon to become a Pluralsight author.

Matija graduated from the Polytechnic of Zagreb with a master’s degree in Information Technologies. He is currently an enterprise application developer at King ICT and a teaching assistant at the Polytechnic of Zagreb. Interested in technical know-how and delivering functional code. He is a self-proclaimed certification junkie as evidenced by his many Java certificates.

Adam moved from application development to a consultancy career in cloud native computing. He currently works at Amsterdam-based consultancy Container Solutions. He is helping companies succeed in improving their delivery of business critical software by combining his application development experience with knowledge of container-based infrastructure.

Aleksander Radovan (HUJAK & King ICT) – graduated on the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, Croatia, and is currently finishing the PhD program. He is in the Java more than 14 years. He is president of the Committee for Education of Croatian Java User Association (HUJAK), works for KING ICT as Java team lead and teaches at several universities in and around Zagreb courses related to programming in Java and information systems in general. He is also interested in areas such as artificial intelligence, genetic algorithms, robotics and teaching the younger generation programming.

Cassandra Faris is a Support Agent at Test Double, a software development consulting agency. She is responsible for the growth, support, and success of the company’s agents. She leads Test Double’s employee and community outreach initiatives. Cassandra is passionate about growing the tech community and its people. She is an international speaker who specializes in teaching professional skills at technology conferences. She is also the President of the Microsoft and open source conference, DogFoodCon, and a Per Scholas Advisory Board member. She has an MBA in Organizational Leadership. When she’s not busy with the tech community, she is avid tabletop gamer, runner, and soccer fan who travels as much as possible.

Ijeoma currently works as a Mobile Quality Assurance Engineer at NPR validating mobile applications and the backend services that power them. Outside of work you can often find her mentoring women in tech as a Java/Android Lab Lead for Women Who Code DC or volunteering. For fun you can find her spending time with those she cares for most(family and friends).Fun fact she recently started playing guitar.

Mihai has joined eMAG two years ago and is the Product Owner of the Targeting & Profiling Team, working on marketing automation strategies and content personalization.

Alex has joined eMAG three years ago as a developer for the Targeting Team. He is now working on the development of the internal recommendation engine.

Wiliam has seen other people write this summary in 3rd person, but being outspoken and blunt, he will go on talking in first person.

I am passionate about products and technology. I mostly enjoy creating new things, thinking about products and crafting them, adapting solutions to consumer needs and making them useful.

The whole process has a personal touch and I love to think about design as a form of art, but also of care and attention. That is what matters, finally. It’s about smart UX that makes your life easier and great UI that makes everything colourful. The human touch behind the cold lines of code.

Professional experience covering a broad variety of industry roles: Developer, Business Analyst, Team Lead, Release Manager, Quality Manager, Product Owner and Product Manager.
Strong multicultural exposure and customer facing experience. “Get things done” and problem solving attitude. Business oriented thinking. Enjoy acquiring new skills. Quick to adapt and assimilate knowledge, while looking ahead to new challenges.

Radu is Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest and co-founder at SecurifAI. In 2013, he completed his PhD in machine learning at the University of Bucharest. In 2014, Radu received the Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research in Computer Science from the Ad Astra Association. His research interests include machine learning, computer vision and text mining. He published over 45 scientific articles and a research monograph with Springer. Radu has more than 6 years experience in deploying machine learning algorithms in the industry. In 2016, he co-founded SecurifAI, a start-up that develops AI systems for real-time video analysis in order to detect suspect behavior, potential attacks, and deliver timely alerts

Alex Lakatos is a JavaScript Developer Advocate for Nexmo. In his spare time he is a Mozilla Tech Speaker and has been a contributor to the Mozilla project for the past six years, based in London. JavaScript developer building on the open web, he has been pushing its boundaries every day. You can check out his github profile or get in touch on twitter. When he’s not programming, he likes to travel the world, so it’s likely you’ll bump into him in an airport lounge.

I completed my Masters in Computer Science at University of Southern California (class of 2014) and have been working as a software developer for over three years. Although my primary job involves Java technology, I am always excited to work on new things that enhance my skill-set. My strengths are problem solving, applying newly acquired skills and my passion for understanding the end-to-end business workflow of product features.

Jock is a freelance head of product, author (http://amzn.to/2tnHacR) and startup mentor with over seventeen years’ experience working in technology with startups and larger organisations. These include the BBC, Mind The Product, the Ministry of Justice, University of Cambridge and the Government Digital Service (GDS).

Currently, Tiberiu focuses on building a private cyber security operation center enhanced with AI capabilities. He has extensive experience in managing innovative project in 3D printing, industrial automation and cyber security. He has been part of the founding team of ENEVO Group, a born-global industrial automation company and today works with Romanian National Cyber Security Incident Response Team.

Cornel Amariei is a Romanian-born inventor, author and entrepreneur, operating as Head of Innovation at Continental Automotive System.
There, he leads Innovation projects in areas such as electric mobility, smart sensors and connectivity. Furthermore, Cornel is responsible for creating an innovative culture and organization.
Besides, Cornel is passionate about industrial design, music, piloting and is a Standout Member of the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe list.

Ali Baghchehsara is an engineer who has worked in automotive, aerospace, cognitive science branches. His efforts have been recognized by the Amirkabir University (First Place in Jet Engine Design Competition, Tehran 2010), Payam Noor University (Gold Service Award for first Student Space Vehicle Design, Karaj, 2012 ), Royal Aeronautical Society in (Achievement Award, London, 2014), and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Outstanding Service Award, Montreal, 2015).

In 2013 he introduced a new concept for operating satellites for collecting electricity from space with Mr. Jones and published a book after it in North Charleston, SC about their common project which later founded Solar Maximum LLC® to further Research and develop Concentrated Solar Energy System. Additionally in his time in DLR (German Aerospace Agency) he has brought the integrated vehicle health Monitoring to overal operational concept using cognitive Systems.

Presently he is leading projects in Research and Development branch concerning the integrity of Health Monitoring Systems and Autonomous Flight in Germany.

Petru is  the Manager of the Telematics team within Harman Romania and has over 20 years of experience in software development. Throughout this time he had the opportunity to work in different areas such as: embedded systems, large database, automotive, smart house. He is also very familiar with large scale projects having over 100k+ user both national and international. His passionate about programming, sport, cars and of course barbeques.

Vlad Macelaru (25) graduated with a degree in business and management in the Netherlands. In the third year of university, Vlad left Europe to study Japanese society and culture in a six-month exchange program in Tokyo, where he developed an interest in technology. He is currently based in Bucharest, where he channels his energy to find and bring together people who support and contribute to social and technological projects. He participated in the development of software and hardware for business and non-governmental areas, winning competitions including NASA Space Apps Challenge Romania, Be an Innovator by BearingPoint in Berlin and Startup Weekend Bucharest. Vlad is the current Romanian Youth Delegate at the United Nations

I am a seasoned software engineer with more than 10 years experience in leading teams and building web applications using several scalable platforms, different technologies and programming languages (mainly PHP and Javascript). I’m always curious about new technologies and I try to play with them as much as I can (for example GO). In addition, I have a keen eye for enterprise patterns, coding standards, performances, refactoring and methodologies.

Paul is a technical lead with more than 8 years experience in software development in several technologies, mainly Java and microservices. He works with various clients across different industries to help them deliver amazing products: from spinning up engineering teams, to choosing the right technologies and ways of working, to being the last person to leave at the Christmas Party, not because he’s sad and lonely but because he understands how much these things bring people together.

Paul is very interested in all things architecture, ops, performance and helping people reach their full potential.

Adrian joined LSEG in July 2016 as Group CISO. He was previously Group CISO for HSBC, prior to which he worked for a mixture of tech (Skype, Betfair) and financial services (BarCap, Reuters, DB, Man Group) companies. He has also worked for venture capital firm, Accel Partners. He has a mix of startup and large enterprise experience, somewhat of a rarity!

Adrian classifies himself as a technologist who happens to specialise in Security and loves finding innovative and pragmatic solutions to business problems. He still actively codes and has an app in the Apple app store used by 1000’s of Londoners every day.

Adrian holds an MSc in Information Security from the University of London.

Databases and Open Source technology enthusiast. Spent almost ten years working for world leading technology companies, focusing on many aspects of technology business. His long-standing passion for open-source technology and databases led him to Oracle, working with MySQL, the leading open source database on the market. In the past, he worked with the infrastructure and security aspects of the application layer, but also with middleware and website performance for companies like Symantec, Akamai, and CA Technologies.

Rafael is a Lead Developer at Budapest-based Emarsys and a frequent speaker at conferences around Europe. As a founding member of Emarsys CraftLab – the dedicated coaching team of Emarsys – he has taught university courses, talked at numerous conferences and visited multiple companies as an external consultant. His passion for short feedback loops drove him to create Lean Poker, a workshop where developers have the opportunity to experiment with continuous delivery in an safe environment. He is also the creator and host of the Morning Commute YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm27Xuroww1AxPdR3Zz_5jA) inspiring the next generation of developers to broaden their knowledge. His previous talks can be viewed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLssqJVvKKY4mJG3i5AMVjNcOxOzLJ1F28

Coder, blogger and tech enthusiast in general, Alex is always eager to talk about web development, javascript and programming overall. He believes that building knowledge is similar to building Legos – which he does in his spare time – one block at a time. He dedicates a lot of time to teaching others, through mentoring and coaching activities both at his current company Fortech where he leads a department of JS developers and inside the local community from Cluj, where he organizes JSHeroes, the biggest JS conference in Romania.

Specializing in cross platform mobile application development.

4 years experience training fortune 500 companies on web application development, with the last two focused on React and React Native Training (clients include Amazon, US Army Corps of Engineers, Visa, ClassPass, American Express, Indeed, & Warner Bros).

Creator of React Native Elements

Host of React Native Radio

Author of React Native in Action

Software architect, consultant, mentor, worldwide speaker, published author, I like to be involved in innovative projects using the latest technologies available. I speak JavaScript whether it’s on the server, on the client, on mobile or powering smart homes and robotic appliances. I’m always updated what’s new in technology and where it will go in next couple of years. I write clean, tested, modular and maintainable code which is cross platform compatible and standards compliant.

Joining Netcentric with his team in 2015, Conrad’s philosophy is that good solutions are simple and robust. But he also has a liking for disruption and as CTO of Aperto, he introduced Scrum to enterprise projects. In 2006, Conrad founded his own consulting company dedicated to CQ/AEM. His work as principal architect – mostly for Day Software later Adobe – for international projects took advantage of his dedication to simplicity, consistency and cutting edge solutions. He has spent many years in the US and in Europe and is a regular speaker at technology conferences.

.NET Developer & Team Lead @ EveryMatrix, Radu enjoys reading about physics, maths and the cool new things that Microsoft churns out for .NET. He also thinks that software development should be accessible to anyone and developers should explain their craft as simple as possible.

Vlad is a Mobile Enthusiast with over 5 years of experience, currently working as an Android Developer for Deutsche Bank Global Technology. He is also part of a special-ops team that is in charge of the security of DB’s flagship app. Additionally, Vlad is the Tech Guru of Smart Society, an NGO which currently focuses on improving the Romanian Health System. He has a special interest in innovative tech startups, he’s passionate about personal growth and he aims to get a mobile application among the most downloaded from the stores.

Laurentiu is an energetic developer, technical lead and passionate trainer, always in touch with the new technologies.

He takes every opportunity to learn more and to share his knowledge.

With 9+ years’ experience in IT training and software development, his main focus is on quality and performance. Always in a good mood, he encourages and coaches his team mates to go the extra mile.

Paul is a software engineer, trainer and speaker specialised in data-driven solutions on Apple platforms with an emphasis on prototyping, best practices and balance with agility. He started programming back in the days of Fortran, graduated with a PhD in Computational Physics from UCLan and currently hailing from London, UK. He blogs on [Medium](http://m.pardel.net ), often [tweets](https://twitter.com/pardel ) and, in his spare time, is bootstrapping [http://Event.Run ](https://www.event.run ).

Martin is a software developer, who worked with angular, node.js and Java for several years. While he studied math and computer science he had the opportunity to get in contact with machine learning, where his need to make the world easier for users originated. At idealo Martin works on that topic by developing internal angular applications. In his spare time he is organizing the Angular meetup in Berlin.

Liran has been advocating for Node.js and JavaScript, through core lead for the MEAN.js framework, and other projects like docker container tool Dockly. He’s the author of Essential Node.js Security, and a regular contributor on the OWASP Node.js project. Liran is strongly passionate about Open Source since an early age, and enjoys sharing his experience regularly at local meetups and international conferences.

Boyan is a software architect and developer, thinking human-first when writing software. He likes experimenting and talking about technology and its application to solving everyday problems. Prefers working solutions over concrete frameworks and languages. Boyan believes technology needs more storytelling and he tries to convey such. In his free time he performs improvised comedy with his group in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Founder and CEO at Les-Tilleuls.coop.

Member of the Symfony core-team, creator of API Platform and contributor to more than 100 open source projects including the PHP language, Zend Framework, Doctrine, Sonata and Prestashop.

PHP, JavaScript, Go, Java, Python, Ruby and C developper.

Security advisor in BearingPoint Romania, with working experience in managed application security services (secure code review), information and IT security, risk management, Business Continuity Management, crisis management, cryptology, physical security, personnel security, security awareness, audit, compliance, fraud, investigations, and security consulting for customers covering many industries, Sergiu has a master degree and a merit diploma in IT Security from the Military Technical Academy of Bucharest. Recently, he started his PhD in Machine Learning willing to innovate the way we do secure code review today..

His personal life consists of family-related activities: playing soccer with his dogs, running behind his little girl’s bicycle, fighting with his cats and planning with his wife…

I’m a tech-business in between guy, passionate about entrepreneurship and building product teams.

James has worked at LSEG for 12 years having joined as a developer in 2006 forming part of the UnaVista team.  James played a key role in the subsequent development and architecture of the functionality-rich platform that resulted in UnaVista being named the official approved reporting mechanism for transaction reporting by the UK Financial Services Authority in 2011.

Since that time James has been at the forefront of UnaVista’s solution design and development resulting in the approval of the platform by ESMA as Trade Repository for EMIR Reporting across all asset classes; the selection of UnaVista by SIX as the Swiss Trade Repository; and most recently the development of MIFIR / MiFID II as the approved reporting mechanism for the MiFIR regulation.  James has the rare ability to combine his great strength in IT solution architecture with strong commercial and fantastic client facing skills.

James holds a BEng in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bath.

Andra is Co-founder of Hey, Be Well! – a one-stop solution for health enthusiasts. She is an entrepreneur that believes technology should be human-centric and focused on making people’s lives happier and healthier.

With a broad experience in managing and developing software projects and more than 10 years at Accenture, Florin is the Lead of Accenture Technology Romania. In his current role, the main objective is to develop the Technology delivery center in Bucharest. He studied at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest. Besides his role at Accenture, Florin is actively engaged in the events and initiatives of the company, as a trainer or speaker, he holds workshops for high school and faculty students, he is involved in CSR actions, like Hour of Code and sports activities.

Founder of Helios Vision – a Bucharest-based Artificial Intelligence startup – and Intel Software Innovator. Background in applied computer vision and machine learning research, developing solutions in areas such as: surveillance and activity recognition, intelligent traffic analysis, automatic document classification, smart camera and radar tracking, vision-based defect detection for the automotive industry, and real-time object reconstruction with 3D cameras.

Karina is a well-known woman in tech and speaker with the Trust of The Audience Award in 2016. She has been worked as Developer Lead last 10 years. She has confident communication, leadership skills across different levels, developed through international professional interaction and engagements with representatives of various government institutions or IT companies using agile environment across the world. Her social responsibility and communicative competence are demonstrated in the organization of professional networks, events and conferences.

Zhao leads Bestmile’s technical development teams. He has worked in research and development for large organizations like IBM as well as for Silicon Valley’s startups. Most importantly, he led the development and deployment of one of the world’s leading taxi platforms, Easy Taxi, available in 30 countries and used by more than 20 million people. Zhao earned a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics and an M.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.

Mihai is working at Ericsson on the Connected Vehicle Cloud project and has more than 10 years of experience in automation, deployment and testing on various projects involving virtualization/cloud solutions. He also likes to make presentations.

Roxana started a new challenging position at Ericsson, as a System Integrator. She is focusing on discovering the CVC platform and work on better optimising the deployment process. She has experience in working in various environments and IT fields, from networking to development. Proactivity and problem solving are her two directives in a job.

Working in the IT industry since 2007

Team Leader/Project Manager since 2010

PMP Certified

PSM I/PSPO I Certified

Major interest:

–        Project Management

–        Building efficient teams

–        Agile Methodologies

Florin is passionate about Automotive, Robotics, Process Automation and how to combine this domains in order to innovate and improve.

He has development and validation experience with all major ECUs in car, starting from Instrument Clusters and up to Infotainment Systems.

At the moment he overlooks all the Automotive projects in RINF Tech as Technical and Project Manager, one of his main responsibilities being that everything is delivered in time and with quality

Mihai is a serial entrepreneur and currently founder & CEO of CyberSwarm, a cybersecurity startup with an innovative approach to cyberattacks. He is a tech junkie, enthusiastic about quantum physics, maths, history and problem solving. He has a keen eye for observing human behavior due to his degree in Psychology and he dedicates his spare time to helping other entrepreneurs at the beginning of their journey understand the intricate world of business”