Claudia Chirilescu founded Spoon in 2003 as an independent media agency with focus on strategic thinking. Spoon breathes an antreprenorial spirit: proactive, focus on results, responsable for growing brands, understanding client needs, keeping up with digital trends and embrace innovative thinking.

Spoon core philosophy is that results are influenced equaly by content, platform and audience. Understanding context and audience behaviour, real time optimizations and continous testing are mandatory if you want to engage the audience with your brand.

The rapid rhythm that digital, technology and society evolve transformed the way we do communication today. At Spoon we challenge ourself to a continous learning process, curiosity and measuring results.

Dan is working with JavaScript for almost 10 years and is now currently leading a team of great developers. Enthusiastic about Java and developing Android applications, working on frontend has always remained his first love. Even though he sees room for improvement, he thinks that trying to share the knowledge to others is the most valuable thing.

I am a technology entrepreneur. Over the 20 years of my carrier I have gained a lot of experience in setting up and launching new businesses in both Europe and in the US. I have started working for Andersen Consulting in Hungary, later in San Francisco, but soon after I started my first consulting company in San Francisco Bay Area.

I have successfully started companies in the following industries: Internet, E-Commerce, Cloud Software, IT system integration, IT equipment distribution, Digital Media and Cosmetics. Right now I am managing most of these companies from Budapest, Hungary, working with close to 30 highly skilled and motivated people.

With more than 15 years of experience in online business and an Asebuss Alumni since 2000, Adrian Ursu is Partner at BrandFusion. For the last four years he has been representing in Romania, as Business Partner, the Danish company Dynamic Software, the company behind Dynamicweb All-In-One WCMS. Three times speaker at Internet and Mobile World, Adrian will present this year the advantages Dynamicweb All-In-One offers companies that want to make the most of their online presence.

• 11 years of experience in telecom
• 13 years of experience in management positions
• approximately 800 people – the largest team coordinated
• 4 industries
• 2 business start-ups implemented with a financial impact of 8 digits – expressed in euros
• 9 future managers who have benefited from his coaching and mentoring

Behind these figures lies one of the best performing Romanian managers, Marius Costin.

Currently, Marius Costin coordinates the PayU Romania team – the number 1 expert in online payments – as Country Manager. His focus is on building talents and teams, retaining highly motivated people and identifying opportunities for accelerated growth on the e-commerce market.

Mihai Crăciunescu is a Robotics Engineer at RINF Tech. He has a keen interest in sensors, microcontrollers, embedded programming, and light weight motors, and…everything related to Robotics, in general and his passion translates into innovative projects at RINF Tech.

Mihai is also a tutor at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, where he instills students with enthusiasm for the field. In 2013, he founded the HBFS Robotics, a group that focuses on design, programming and also builds intelligent robots for international competitions.

Mihai is the proud owner of an impressive number of international and national awards including the 1st place at the Line Follower and Line Follower Enhances competition – RobotChallenge, Vienna 2015.

Managing Partner of Softelligence, a business software solutions company, Teodor Blidăruş has an experience of over 20 years in the IT&C industry.

Engineer by formation, but driven by a strong entrepreneurial vocation, Teodor has led many teams throughout complex software and business development projects.

As President of ANIS, his objectives aim to increase the Romanian software industry by stimulating the software export, developing the domestic market and encouraging the adoption of technology in both the private and public sectors.

Răzvan Ionescu (Marketing Director – Business Segment Telekom Romania) is responsible for the overall management of B2B Fixed&Mobile Marketing including Product Management, Segment & Proposition, Base management, Campaigns, Analytical CRM & Market research. Răzvan has 11 years with the company, time during which he held various management positions within departments such as Regulatory Costing, Regulatory Affairs, Mergers & Acquisitions and Regulatory Affairs (within Romtelecom, before the rebranding to Telekom). He also held the position of Audit and Cost Accounting Manager in the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications between 2002 and 2004. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Energetics in the Politechnical University in Bucharest (1999), as well as of the Faculty of Administrative Law and Public Administration in the National School of Political and Administrative Studies (2000). Moreover, he also took a masters in Energy Systems Management within the Politechnical University in Bucharest. He would describe himself as an avid passionate of sports – mainly distance running and cyclism – frequently entering sports competitions.

Tvrtko Stosic works for Avaya for last 10 years as one of leading customer engagement experts. Tvrtko cooperates primarily with large telcos and financial institutions across EU where he provides consultancy aimed to improve customer care and sales operations. His main areas of interests are Omnichannel customer services, digital customer engagement, Customer Experience Management and communication analytics.

Mihai is Search&Targeting Manager at eMAG and he focuses on bringing an individual experience for each client. He is passionate about customer engagement and in his goal is to use technology in order to bring the customers closer to the products they desire. He aims at maintaining a personalized “conversation” with customers using retargeting and highly relevant ads.

With 10 years of experience working in Media for one of the top Romanian TV Channels, the last 5 spent in the Digital department, Mihai was in charge of adapting and implementing the latest digital trends: Live Broadcasts on Facebook, Instant articles and Social Media engagement campaigns.

Cosmin Porumb is one of the HyperMedia co-founders, a fully dedicated IT guy with 15+ years of experience proven by his technical and managerial responsibilities assumed in 50+ R&D projects.

He masters all the knowledge and skills on cutting-edge technologies such as video collaboration systems, mobile multimedia applications, interactive learning platforms, computer-supported collaborative learning environments, complex e-business solutions, and advanced human-computer interaction tools.

Since his PhD defense in 2005, he still continues to innovate in different areas with imaginative business orientation and important impact on the social segment. This aspect leaded Cosmin’s professional life divided between HyperMedia, as company representative in many software projects with Romanian partners, as well as foreign partners based in USA, Korea, Germany, UK, Italy, or France, and the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, where getting involved in research and lecturing activities.

More info: https://ro.linkedin.com/in/cosminporumb

Florinel Chiș is a specialist in e-commerce and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. He began his career in 2002, while in high school, as a programmer. In 2006, he started the first start-up, a software development and design company that has developed numerous projects for brands such as Autodesk, eMag, Romstal Group, PC Garage, Marketonline, Altex, Dedeman and Flanco. In 2012, Florinel Chiș established in the UK, working for online retailers and Warner Music Group, where he developed the global ecommerce platform for the group. In 2013 he co-founded Elastera, a British start-up, a hosting platform for online stores, the company obtaining VC Funding in Q1 2014. Florinel Chiș was also the OSF Global Services consultant for Fortune 500 customers.

Graduate of International Relations Institute of University of Bucharest, Mr. Alexandru Ursu started his career as a Key Account Manager, working for different software companies. In 2016 he was appointed Regionals Sales Executive at Salesforce.com As sales specialist with a strong experience with some of the world’s latest technology solution and cloud platforms providers, he acquired a strong customers service experience, by working both on the local and international technology market. He currently helping companies from EMEA region to find, win and keep customers and thus, to grow their business.

I am 27 years old, 15 of which were dedicated to programming. I founded Middleout at 22. Since then I am delivering quality code to companies such as Ubisoft, Bonduelle, Sound Ad Group. Recently I made the switch to business and IT consulting in order to deliver ideas of the same quality as my code.

Expert in PwC’s Innovation & Incentives team, based on the experiences of dozens of projects specializes in Commercial Due Diligence, market analysis, corporate strategies and commercialization of the R&D projects. Currently, leader of PwC’s startup acceleration initiatives in CEE region – including Startup Collider (www.startupcollider.pwc.com).

Founder and Board member of the Technology Entrepreneurship Foundation, which runs the acceleration program under MIT Enterprise Forum Poland license. Frequent mentor and judge in startups’ support programs. In addition, a social activist with the experience of building a community of innovators and entrepreneurs. For several years, one of the main drivers of TEDx community in Poland.

Patrice Segura is the Head of Sales EMENA for Eutelsat Broadband, He has 20+ years experience in Business Development, Marketing, Sales and Innovation in B2B contexts in the Telecommunication, Space, Governmental and Technology industries.

He is now leading sales at Eutelsat Broadband, the business unit of Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading satellite operators. Eutelsat Broadband provides internet broadband services to residential and professional markets, across the European continent, North Africa and large part of Middle East.