Speakers

Kevin Warwick is Emeritus Professor at Reading and Coventry Universities. Prior to that he was Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University, England.

His main research areas are artificial intelligence, biomedical systems, robotics and cyborgs. Due to his research as a self-experimenter he is frequently referred to as the world’s first Cyborg. Kevin was born in Coventry, UK and left school to join British Telecom. He took his first degree at Aston University, followed by a PhD and research post at Imperial College London. He held positions at Oxford, Newcastle, Warwick and Reading Universities before joining Coventry.

Kevin is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET who has published over 600 research papers. His experiments into implant technology led to him being featured as the cover story on the US magazine, ‘Wired’. He achieved the world’s first direct electronic communication between two human nervous systems, the basis for thought communication. Another project extended human sensory input to include ultrasonics. He also linked his nervous system with the internet in order to control a robot hand directly from his neural signals, across the Atlantic Ocean.

He has been awarded higher doctorates (DSc) by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. He has also been awarded 9 Honorary Doctorates. He received The IEE Senior Achievement Medal, the IET Mountbatten Medal and the Ellison-Cliffe Medal from the Royal Society of Medicine. In 2000 Kevin presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and in 2017 he presented the Paul B. Baltes Lecture at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Siri Børsum works as a Leader of Digital Transformation in Norway. A role she got after spending 3 months as a Google Evangelist at the Google Partnerplex in MTV, Silicon Valley in 2017. Her primary task is to accelerate digital transformation in Norway by raising the level of digital competence at senior management level across industries. She has a strong and passionate commitment to digitalization and the opportunities for companies offered by technology.

Themes like how to utilize technology to operate most efficiently, increase competitiveness and exploit new business opportunities and the importance of culture to make it happen are high on the agenda in her dialogue with Norwegian business.

She holds an MA in International Business, BA(hon) in Media & Communication and 20 years of experience in the media industry in sales and management. In addition to having worked for Google for 11 years, she has experience as Sales Director in Kanal 24 (now Radio Norway) and as Media Advisor and Account Director from different media agencies. She sits on the Board of Directors for Varier (furniture retail), Previous board experience: Visit Lillehammer, Virke – Technology & Knowledge and American Chamber of Commerce (Norway).

Alex has been building web products and helping other builders learn from his experience since 2011. He’s been contributing to open-source projects such as the Serverless Framework and AWS SAM, and he’s been working on innovative projects involving Amazon (voice-enabled apps) and AWS DeepLens (deep learning based real-time vision). As a Sr. Technical Evangelist, Alex often speaks technical conferences across the world, supports developer communities and helps them build applications in the cloud. He is particularly interested in serverless architectures, ML, and data analytics. In his free time, Alex loves snowboarding, jogging, traveling, and playing his saxophone.

The CMO behind one of the world’s best known B2B video content plays – 88 Million YouTube views.

Former VP of the biggest product launches ever in the history of Volvo Trucks and heading the Global Marketing Department, Ingela is now leading the new development in the area of Digital.

Hicham is an ex-Facebook employee and founder of therocketmarketing.com, a Berlin-based digital advertising agency that is focused on helping businesses grow through Facebook and Instagram advertising.

Prior to that he spent 7 years at Facebook’s EMEA HQ in Dublin (when he left he has been there longer than 98% of employees, globally). He worked in the Sales team where he managed and grew a portfolio of clients spending 8-digit yearly advertising budgets.

Hicham is now obsessed with making sure his clients get the best return on investment from their Facebook and Instagram advertising. The Rocket Marketing is focused on building tailor made ad strategies, auditing campaigns and managing ad spend by implementing solutions that scale and convert for the relevant verticals.

Dr. Pernilla Jonsson is Head of Ericsson Consumer & Industry Lab, delivering world class industry-, market- and consumer insights and produces bold opinions on where market is headed. Through close collaboration with customers and strategic partners, Consumer & Industry Lab uses insight to capture business opportunities and take on the challenges created by ICT in society.

Pernilla has worked with innovation, business development and brand & market strategy for multinational companies for over 10 years. She joined Ericsson in 2015 from management consulting where she led projects for strategy development, thought leadership, innovation and branding for multinational companies like IKEA, Unilever, Husqvarna and more.

Pernilla is an appreciated speaker and thought leader on the state of ICT in our lives. In 2015 she launched a book on the digitalization of the purchasing process, which earned the honorary prize as Sweden’s “Marketing Book of the Year 2016.”

A mechanical engineer with experience in intelligent building monitoring and management systems, Brent Lessard is Co-Founder and Project Manager at rLoop, a SpaceX award winning, globally distributed and crowd sourced organization with over 1,200 members from more than 50 countries.

Brent also serves as Advisor to the President of Durham College for the School of Science and Engineering, and was recently awarded the Ontario Premier’s Award for his work within the local community as well as rLoop.

Axel Steinkuhle is design strategist, future thinker, and since 2015 co-founder & CEO of evrbit, an edge technology start-up from Cologne, Germany. evrbit creates stunning multi user AR, VR and multi-screen group experiences. Axel’s philosophy is: digitization should be accessible for all and suitable for everyday use. The foundation stone for this he laid with his own virtual reality software “eVRsync” enabling a scalable VR Sync cinema.

Ilona is a communication professional with nine years of experience in media and internet industry. She has worked for digital companies in Warsaw, Berlin, Vienna and London, both for European and US markets. She is specialized in integrating offline and online tools in public outreach campaigns to support corporate and consumer PR goals, CSR initiatives, sales revenues and marketing activities.

Tomasz Pieta is senior UX designer at Booking.com. He has participated in global user research studies measuring how culture impacts UX. He is using User Experience methodologies from Storyboards, Customer Journeys, Visitors Flow, Use Cases, Sketching and Wireframes to create and A/B different user interfaces. Informed by data, he drives initiatives for Payments by Booking to offer a seamless checkout experience for a global marketplace.

Originally from The Netherlands, Ted Oorbals is the CEO of the Biocryptology Universal Identity Platform (www.biocryptology.com). Ted is a creative strategist with a strong commercial and marketing background, focused on innovation. He has been an entrepreneur and business builder for 30 years and has started and turnaround various companies in sectors ranging from electronics and healthcare to virtual reality and real estate. Furthermore, Ted has been an advisor to various leading Spanish banks for which he created innovative solutions for the significant problems caused by the burden of real estate assets.

His focus has always been on using a combination of disruptive technology with an innovative marketing and sales approach. Together with his market drive, remarkable is his passion for the constant search for new technological trends. These characteristics are some of his greatest strengths that he has applied to successfully develop the Biocryptology platform.

Ex-Investment Banker, Python fan and open source advocate. Constantly learning new technologies looking for breakthroughs. Fan of all things involving big data, security, IoT and human augmentation. Currently working as a Security Engineer during the day and dabbling into DIY hardware at night.

David Vogel is AKQA’s Executive Director, Experience Design (Europe).

He has 15+ years of experience in e-commerce, campaigns, digital product and service design for international brands. David has been at AKQA for 5 of those years, creating delightful products and experiences that add value for consumers. He has a strong focus on innovation processes and regularly runs rapid prototyping ‘hackathons’ for global clients such as Philips, KLM and MINI. In his spare time he loves to cook which, at the end of the day, makes people happy in the most straightforward way imaginable.

I am a highly respected and proficient International Social Media Speaker, Trainer and Consultant. Specialising in many areas but focusing on one of the many areas people do not cover when they first set out in Social Media, their Social Media Strategy. I work with many companies, brands and Fortune 500 companies to make sure that they have a strategy and know how to implement high profile campaigns to get the maximum from their Social Media activities.

My passion is also sharing the message about Social Media and how it can be used in business. I have traveled to many places to speak at many events including Poland (I was commissioned by Seldia EU to attend a Roundtable Conference to speak to European Parliament and Government), Amsterdam (The Social Media Strategies Summit), India (Socialathon 2014 for Digital Market Asia), Ireland, Madrid training a 1.2 billion company, Montenegro to speak for NATO, and Malaysia KL.

I also recently appeared on ITV This Morning as a Social Media Expert to give my opinion on “When Social Media goes wrong!” – video below. And BBC World News Global TV!

I launched ZC Social Media over 8 years ago after initially getting into social media in my role as mortgage broker/IFA. ZC Social Media is a Social Media Agency where we help companies with their execution and provide bespoke management packages for their social media requirements. We also provide bespoke inhouse training and programmes.

Kyran is an Analyst at Seedcamp, Europe’s seed fund, investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. Now on its fourth fund, Seedcamp has invested in over 270 companies since launch in 2007 and includes unicorns Transferwise, Revolut and UiPath within its portfolio. Kyran graduated from the University of Oxford with a First Class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and joined Seedcamp in 2016 after some time spent in digital media.

Saverio is Strategic Adviser at IoT Analytics, but he is also involved in several other projects. He is also Lead Expert for the EU Digital Cities Challenge Project supporting the city of L’Aquila in defining its digital transformation strategy. He advises Xsure, a Romanian start-up, for developing their blockchain-AI solution for the insurance market. He supports IntentHQ, consumer data analytics company, in developing their market footprints among mobile network operators.

Previously at Beecham Research, Saverio, as Chief Research Officer, run technology market research in the areas of M2M, Internet of Things, and wearable technologies. He has published in areas such as smart healthcare, smart cities, smart utility, data analytics, smart farming, M2M/IoT connectivity, and M2M/IoT platforms. On those subjects, Saverio advised organizations such as Vodafone Group, Sierra Wireless, Telit, Motorola Solutions, Telefonica, Sony, Inmarsat, Accenture, Wireless Logic, Digital Catapult, and GSMA.

He has talked about IoT related topics as presenter and panelist at several conferences such as IoT Tech Expo, IoT Forum, IoT Convivio, MWC, Wearable Technology Show, and IoT Week. He is also Seminar Lecturer on the IoT Market at Birkbeck College Ubiquitous Computing course.

Joel is an expert in digital transformation, IoT and customer experience. Currently, a Customer Success Lead @ Cisco Switzerland, Joel works with customers in their digital strategy, delivering a great costumer experience and enabling their transformation from a technology and business perspective

Before, Joel was a Technology Strategist, part of Cisco’s Corporate Strategy Office. He worked on new solution creation and strategy in the IoT space for smart cities, to create new business models and market strategies, together with startups and accelerators around the world.

Joel has 11 years plus experience in software sales, strategy & innovation and business development. He is an Economist and an Executive MBA candidate at IE Business School; He has Executive Education from IMD Business School and Haas Business School at UC Berkeley

Dr. Claire Trévien is a marketing consultant working primarily in the B2B space.In her previous role as Head of Content Marketing at Passle, she helped quadruple the company’s growth across all key metrics. Her specialities include content marketing, analytics, and empowering professionals to embrace their digital footprint.

Claire was shortlisted ‘Marketer of the Year’ in 2016 at the prestigious CIM Marketing Excellence Awards and ranked globally 46th Most Influential Content Marketer by KPS Digital. When she’s not a marketer, Claire is a cultural historian and a poet, with two published collections to her name.

Nils is a top-management consultant who is serving leading B2C brands on growth strategy and (strategic) marketing topics like brand strategy or marketing spend optimization.

In his 13 years at McKinsey & Company, he has served 30+ of the 100 most valuable brands in the world on all continents except the coldest one. While he is working across sectors, his main focus is on consumer products in the widest sense, covering everything from food to sports cars. In addition to his client work, he is also managing McKinsey’s growth strategy/marketing consulting service line on a global level. He is particularly passionate about creating new approaches for the Firm and its clients, especially in the area of leveraging deep consumer/market/competitor insights for growth.

Hurricane MD and author, Jon Mowat, has built a solid reputation as a leading video marketing expert and engaging keynote speaker on the marketing event circuit. Building on insights from his twenty years in the industry and honed for his book, “Video Marketing Strategy“, Jon brings theory to life with engaging examples and practical exercises.

Jon is a regular speaker at events and conferences sharing his decades of experience in video marketing, and he found that many marketers want tips on how to maximise the power of video. This prompted him to write a book on video marketing strategy, “Video Marketing Strategy: Harness the Power of Online Video to Drive Brand Growth”.

I am a new Instructor and Subject Matter Expert in Security Operation Centres here at TalTech, Tallinn, Estonia. My previous position was the Head of the Computer Emergency Response Team at the University of Cambridge, which is the largest digital private network in Europe. In this role, I was responsible for dealing with Cyber & Information Security incidents in the University of Cambridge, and I was personally responsible for handling any cases that required special handling (assisting with various Legal Enforcement Agencies). Even though I have left the University of Cambridge, I am still a lecturer for Pembrokes & King’s College during the summer teaching a three-week social engineering course.

Prior to this, my experience was in the military; I was in the Royal Navy (UK) for nine years. I served as a Communications & IT Specialist on; nuclear ballistic missile submarines, mine hunters, the INVINCIBLE class Aircraft Carrier, and the RIVER class patrol boats. In 2009 I left the Royal Navy and went to join the Royal Norwegian Navy as a civilian instructor, teaching warfare, communications, and open source Intelligence (OSINT). I was then issued a King’s Commission to serve as a LT CDR within the Royal Norwegian Navy, as both one of the Battlewatch Captains & as the Senior Communications Chief for Standing NATO Maritime Group One. In this role, I was in charge of coordinating five warships to protect shipping in Somalia against the pirate threat, as well as producing communications and IT plans for all operational requirements.

Jakub works on JavaScript related parts of projects Truffle and Graal. Before joining Oracle Labs team in October 2015, Jakub worked at Oracle Product Development Organisation as a Java developer on project Jersey (JAX-RS reference implementation), where his main responsibilities were DI support and performance.

John, the “Ex-Disney Guy”, and former Walt Disney World Resort Leader, is a highly sought after internationally known speaker and author of the top selling book, “Making the Customer Experience Magical Now!-How to Succeed in Business and Beat Out Your Competition Today”.

John has appeared on television networks, numerous business journals and recently featured in the Virgin Atlantic In-flight Magazine, after completing five successful speaking tours in Australia and being named “Australia’s and America’s Best Customer Experience Speaker”. John has inspired audiences with over 3,500 keynotes and seminars throughout  the U.S. and all across the globe.  

Today, John’s 30 plus years of experience, has made him a leading authority on customer loyalty, business growth and team culture environments. He has successfully coached hundreds of small businesses, tourism communities, start ups, universities and professionals to Build Customer Brand Loyalty For Life, Attract and Keep More Customers and Create Customer Focused Team Environments.

A Product Manager at UiPath, Wiliam comes from a tech & startup background, where he delivered different solutions across a number of verticals: IoT, agriculture, business intelligence, legaltech. He has a background in finance, which, thanks God, was never put to work, and he had to talk his way into the tech world.

He loves talking to users, goes out of his way to hear some feedback on the product and would travel the world to find out the next big idea and do that awesome new feature. He especially loves long walks on the beach, writing code with no bugs and sticking to release deadlines, but he’s too old to believe in fairytales.

Tamir Dresher is a software architect with over 10 years of experience of developing, consulting and teaching large scalable distributed systems for which he was rewarded Microsoft MVP. Tamir is the Chief Architect of Clarizen and teach Software Engineering in the Ruppin Academic Center. Tamir is the author of “Rx.NET in Action” which was published by Manning. He blogs at www.blogs.microsoft.co.il/iblogger.

Martin McKeay is a Senior Security Advocate at Akamai, joining the company in 2011.

Martin is a senior editor of Akamai’s State of the Internet Security Report, Akamai’s report on Security, focusing on DDoS, DNS, Bots, just to name a few of the topics. Martin has represented Akamai in Europe in the past and currently lives in Miami, Fl.

With nearly 20 years experience in the security space and five years of direct Payment Card Industry work, Martin has provided expertise to hundreds of companies. He has spoken at events in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, including RSA, Black Hat, Defcon and FIRST. He is a member of Europol’s European Cybercrime Center Internet Advisory Committee. He frequently writes for publications such as CSO Online and IBM’s Security Intelligence blog.

Bruno starts coding in Machine Language on a Commodore Vic20 when he was 12 years old. He’s been coding in C since 1988 in his firs job and then in Java since 1996.

He developed distributed objects and large scale application for the enterprise using RMI, CORBA and J2EE. In 1999 he coaches one of the first group that adopts XP (eXtreme Programming) method in Italy.

In 2002 he has co-founder of Java User Group Torino, in 2005 he’s recognized as Java Champion. He has been promoting Java technologies as a speaker in Italy at developer conferences like Webbit, AgileDay, JavaConference, Javaday and in Europe at Devoxx, Jazoon and Geecon. Now he settled in London and enjoys the weather.

Alex has been involved in application development since the late nineties and worked as a lead developer and architect at large enterprises and small companies. He spends his time teaching other developers the details of the Microsoft development platform and frameworks, and coaches architects to design and build modern distributed applications at cloud scale. He has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Visual Studio and Development Technologies 10 times. In his spare time Alex likes to participate in all kinds of sport, and loves playing and programming new and retro video games. Microsoft MVP – 12 years in a row

Momchil Elenkov is Global Telecom Partnerships Manager for Viber. Momchil is responsible for the Viber strategic commercial partnerships with mobile operators on a group level as well as in various markets worldwide.

His fields of action also include tech-projects related to AI, Chat-bots, B2B, and B2C- communication between corporations and end-users via the Viber-ecosystem. Momchil has a background in two of the leading telecoms in Bulgaria where he managed the mobile products and services and CRM strategies and activities.

Alan Goode is the founder and managing director of Goode Intelligence – a cybersecurity research and consulting company.

• 13 years of research and analysis experience
• Seventeen years of management and technology consultancy with experience of strategy and deployment
• Experienced security manager and senior technical consultant:
• Head of Information Security at T-Mobile UK
• Security Practice Manager at Atos Origin
• Head of Digital Security at De La Rue Identity Systems (including biometric passports)
• Security analyst for Citibank (Payments)
• Expert in biometrics, authentication/identity, fraud management and cyber security
• Frequent speaker and conference lead including Judge for GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018; speaker on biometrics at Connect ID, Biometrics & Identity Conference 2015 , MoneyConf 2016, ATM & Cyber Security 2017 & 2018 and Lendit Europe 2017.

Tiberiu has extensive experience in cyber security in both the public and private sector, managing technology, corporate governance and legislation. He is currently leading the operations of CyBourn’s Bucharest-based Security Operations Center, serving clients across the European Union, leading integrations, monitoring and incident response.

Prior to co-founding CyBourn, he has been part of CERT-RO, Romania’s National Computer Emergency Response team. He has also been part of ENEVO Group an Industrial Internet of Things start-up now active across 3 continents.

Tiberiu holds a MSc from University of Amsterdam on Innovation Management and International Entrepreneurship and a BSc in International Business from Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest.

Roger Halbheer is Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft in EMEA. In this role, he acts as a trusted advisor to C-level executives in the commercial and private sectors and has established relationships with industry leaders, security communities and government and intelligence agencies across the world. Roger is a regular speaker at industry events and has worked with national and international print and broadcast media both to represent Microsoft and provide expert comment on security issues.

Before re-joining Microsoft in 2018 he was a Managing Director for Accenture Security working in the Austria, Switzerland, Germany region and additionally responsible for the global cybersecurity alliance between Accenture and Microsoft.

Until 2015 he was the Head of Group Security (Chief Security Officer) at Swisscom. He was responsible for the security strategy of the overall Swisscom Group in close collaboration with the group’s companies.

Before, Roger was Microsoft’s Worldwide Chief Security Advisor. He joined Microsoft as the Chief Security Advisor Switzerland and was promoted to Chief Security Advisor Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in 2007. From 2010, Roger led Microsoft’s worldwide team of Chief Security Advisors who work with national organizations – including governments, law enforcement and intelligence agencies – on information technology issues and strategies.

Joseph Carson is a cyber security professional and ethical hacker with more than 25 years’ experience in enterprise security specializing in blockchain, endpoint security, network security, application security & virtualization, access controls and privileged account management.

Joseph is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), active member of the cyber security community frequently speaking at cyber security conferences globally, often being quoted and contributing to global cyber security publications. He is a cyber security advisor to several governments, critical infrastructure, financial, transportation and maritime industries. Joseph is regularly sharing his knowledge and experience giving workshops on vulnerabilities assessments, patch management best practices, the evolving cyber security perimeter and the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

Joseph serves as Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic and author of Privileged Account Management for dummies.

Mr. Barnhart-Magen is currently a security research manager at Intel, where he focuses on AI Security, reverse engineering and researching various embedded systems.

He is a member of the BSidesTLV organizing team and recipient of the Cisco “black belt” security ninja honor – the highest cyber security advocate rank and has over 15 years of experience in the cyber-security industry, where he held various positions in both corporates and start-ups.

Denis Makrushin is Application Security Team Leader at Ingram Micro.

Formerly, with the Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab was focused on vulnerability research and development of targeted attacks mitigation technologies. Denis has gained diverse experience while working in the cybersecurity area. From the offensive security standpoint he’s been engaged in vulnerability research and penetration testing of corporate infrastructure, network security assessments of banking systems, and he took part in the organization and holding of an international forum on practical security aspects.

He took time to look at the industry from the defense side perspective and built information security processes for critical infrastructure and developing threat intelligence products. He graduated from the Information Security Faculty of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute).

At this time he is continuing his research project ‘Targeted Attack Detection Based on Game Theory Methods’ as PhD candidate of MEPhI. Denis has presented at many public international security conferences including Defcon, RSA Conference, CARO, BSides, Infosecurity, PHDays, ZeroNights as well as multiple closed door invite-only security events.

A business-focused cyber security leader, Flavius has held senior security positions both within the public and the private sector and has lead a number of enterprise-wide security transformation programmes, in complex global organisations. Passionate about solving real industry problems, cultivating and building teams to deliver on the organisation’s mission, values and goals.

Alongside his role as a Head of Information Security at Bank of Ireland UK, Flavius is also one of the co-founders of OutThink, a team of CISOs and security practitioners who are changing the way in which organisations engage with their employees to shape behaviours and build a risk-aware cyber security culture.

Balazs Bucsay (@xoreipeip) is a Managing Security Consultant at NCC Group in the United Kingdom who does research and penetration testing for various companies.

He has presented at many conferences around the world including Honolulu, Atlanta, London, Oslo, Moscow, and Vienna on multiple advanced topics relating to the Linux kernel, NFC and Windows security. Moreover he has multiple certifications (CREST CCT, OSCE, OSCP, OSWP, GIAC GPEN) related to penetration testing, exploit writing and other low-level topics; and has degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science. Balazs thinks that sharing knowledge is one of the most important things in life.

Mario-Leander Reimer is a chief technologist for QAware GmbH.

He is a senior Java developer with several years of experience in designing complex and large-scale distributed system architectures. He is continuously looking for innovations and ways to combine and apply state-of-the-art technology and open source software components in real-world customer projects. He studied computer science at Rosenheim and Staffordshire University and he is also teaching cloud computing as a part time lecturer.

Matt Skinner is the head of Digital Strategy + Data at Proctor + Stevenson, one of the UK’s largest independent agencies, specialising in B2B marketing strategy, creative and technology.

With a decade of experience in digital marketing and data analysis, Matt has advised businesses across 4 continents, of all sizes and budgets: from global giants like Panasonic, Regus and Daikin to SMEs and early stage start-ups, to help them find new audiences and convert more of their existing audience.

A former comedy writer and journalist, Matt’s work on GDPR compliance strategies have been featured in Forbes, working with companies across the world – from North America to India – to help prepare them for the potential impact the legislation will have on the digital marketing industry.

I have spent the last 15 years creating breakthroughs within integration of E-Commerce, Retail, SoMe and Mobile. I have been one of the key drivers within the fashion industry and the digitization that have happened the last 15 years. My work has been to create a mindset within companies where management and employees think E-Commerce first and then retail as system.

If you take the last two years, my work has been about creating a mindset that is Mobile -> SoMe -> E-Commerce -> Retail. Next step is AR as part of the Mobile future.

Maria Maxim is a Partner with Wolf Theiss and the coordinator of the TMT (Technology, Media, Telecom) and Data protection practice in Romania.

During her legal career of nearly 20 years, Maria has implemented numerous data privacy (EU GDPR), anti-trust and compliance programs for major companies and has conducted a number of trainings programmes in her areas of expertise.

She has extensive knowledge of the telecom industry, as prior to joining Wolf Theiss Maria was for 18 years in-house legal counsel of a major telecom company in Romania where she coordinated the litigation, data protection, compliance and Anti – Money Laundering activities. Her impressive experience includes also the position of senior manager, FIDS inside one of the “Big Four” accounting firms in Romania.

Harald started working for pureLiFi as a communication systems engineer, working with major companies to assist them in integrating Li-Fi technology. Responsible for the operation and management of the company’s activities as a whole, including business development and sales,marketing, engineering and development, administration, recruitment and financials.

His experience includes DoCoMo Euro-Labs and Rohde&Schwarz GmbH in Munich, Germany, holds a patent and has filed three more in the field of communications engineering. He has a BSc in electrical engineering and computer science from Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, an MSc in communications engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany and a PhD in digital communications from the University of Edinburgh.

Pete Herzog is the shining example of a hacker trying to fix the world.

He built a career out of taking apart the security world piece by piece to figure out how it works. You can find articles and projects from him all over the place, especially at the non-profit research organization, The Institute for Security and Open Methodologies (ISECOM), he co-founded in 2001 to help make this happen. There you’ll find his work with the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM), Hacker Highschool, and the Cybersecurity Playbook as well as work in trust metrics, authentication, social engineering, vulnerabilities, risk analysis, and so much more. Pete also teaches training classes, coaches corporations, develops security products, advises start-ups, and hacks things.

Joppe is a cryptographic researcher in the business unit identification at NXP Semiconductors. Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Cryptography Research Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA.

His research focuses on computational number theory and high-performance arithmetic as used in public-key cryptography. On the one hand, he has an interest in the various mathematical problems used in applied cryptography. Examples include the integer factorization problem and the (elliptic curve) discrete logarithm problem. On the other hand Joppe likes to investigate the different techniques to realize efficient cryptographic implementations on various exotic or embedded architectures.

Inspiration insight leader tracking the globe deeply – macro, regional and future-leaning signaling leading us to a healthier future. BtoB, BtoC – including near-future CPG, platforms, design, innovation, IoT, lifestyle tracking with deep inter-generational insight.

Client work includes Apple, Dell, Adidas, Microsoft SE Asia, Nike, Google, TrendWatching London, BMW Munich and more.

Ben Urbain is founder and creative director of Glossy.tv, a Belgian based branding agency.

Since 2004, Ben was responsible for the roll-out of several brands. He developed strategy, storytelling, art direction and pure design. Ben will guide you through the true meaning of branding, and where branding plays its role in the success of your organization. Expect an interesting tour about how the most difficult decisions can build brands that make the difference.

I’ve been working in IT since 1999 and I’m currently working as Principal Software Architect and Microsoft Competence Center lead at Info Support in The Netherlands. I’m a Microsoft MVP (since 2016) in the Developer Technologies category. My primary areas of expertise are: building distributed systems, systems integration, (web-scale) software architecture and patterns, software craftsmanship, .NET (Core) development, Azure and devops. I like sharing my knowledge about these subjects by publishing videos and speaking on events.

Roger helps people keep their marketing simple in a world where business bullshit and complexity threatens to stifle success.

An experienced marketing professional helping businesses with their marketing strategy, content, and social media, Roger clocked up many years in the ‘big corporate’ world as marketing director of several UK financial services brands before getting out of all that and starting his own consultancy.

He now uses his expertise to guide his clients in designing engaging campaigns and is known as a prolific content creator, podcaster, and an international keynote speaker. He’s the host of the popular Marketing and Finance Podcast.

As a qualified exercise class and yoga teacher Roger’s also been known to ask his clients to take off their ties, put on their trainers, taking their fitness, and well as their marketing, to the next level.

Momtchil is a Solution Engineer at Oracle focused on PaaS solutions on the markets of Central and Eastern Europe, where he has a rich experience in different fields. Besides Oracle he also worked with products of Microsoft.

Andreea has a background in strategic marketing, an area which enables her to continuously explore new ideas and bring them to life. Her professional path took her to several countries and industries, gaining experience in logistics, telecommunication and, most recently, in the energy sector. Andreea’s key focus is on product development, with core expertise in the areas of service design, market research, project and financial management. In her role as Product Innovation Manager at ENGIE, she focuses on shaping products related to renewable energy and electromobility.

Julian is working as a Partner Technical Consultant for Microsoft on the Azure & App Development solution area. He previously worked as a Developer Support Engineer for Azure App Services and is experienced in both .NET and open-source technologies. Check out his blog on MSDN: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/julianatanasoae

Cybersecurity researcher with 27 years of experience in vulnerability research, malware research, threat analysis, penetration testing and digital forensics, currently acting as security consultant for Romanian National CERT, CERT-RO, and few other entities in the governmental and financial sector, founder and developer of Dekeneas, a Romanian startup based on the idea of detecting complex cyberattacks such as watering holes and cryptojacking, using artificial intelligence in big data environments.

With over 20 years of experience in various software development positions, from programmer to architect, Marian Simpetru is currently Managing Partner at eSolutions, where he is also involved in developing custom software solutions and architectures.
In the last three years he has been actively working on conceiving Big Data platform architectures and managing custom projects which he oversees from kick-off to delivery.

Extensive experience in the IT industry
Founded eSolutions in 2001
More than 15 years of IT management experience
Occasional speaker at local and international tech events regarding Open Source technologies, Java and Big Data

Istvan Laky is Senior Systems Engineer at Juniper Networks. He started  his Juniper carrier more than 10 years ago as service provider network design expert and broaden his experiences towards enterprise architectures and security solutions. He works with multiple territories across Eastern Europe countries.

Adrian is a Senior Business Developer at ENGIE being responsible with the development of new business in the areas of electric mobility, renewable energy production and technical services.

He is a dynamic professional with a track record of project coordination and implementation and 5+ years of experience with top players of the energy & utilities industry. He has a PhD in Systems Engineering and professional expertise in project management, energy efficiency and energy modelling, electrical and automation systems, business analysis and financial modelling.

Founder and CEO of XEDUCO Institute (formerly INTELPROF), George Dobrea is a cybersecurity expert and a well-known technical instructor delivering consultancy and training programs for military, commercial or public organizations in more than 20 countries. Awarded thirteen times by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Cloud and Datacenter Security and by EC-Council as the ‘Instructor of The Year’ for 2016, 2017 and 2018 he’s a popular speaker at technical conferences including Microsoft Ignite, TechED and Hacker Halted USA.

Ioan is an IT executive, with more than 15 years of experience in the sector, currently overseeing international business development strategic initiatives. He’s been involved in delivering large scale solutions in highly regulated industries such as telecom, financial, utilities, public sector/safety and healthcare. His focus in the last seven years is developing e-government solutions for the Romanian and lately the African markets, aimed at empowering the citizen by leveraging technology against bureaucracy.

Among the initiatives he contributed in starting and developing, is the Cluj IT Cluster ecosystem that managed to shift, in 6 years, the focus of the IT community from outsourcing services to more innovative products and services delivery. Another initiative is the Royal School in Transylvania, a community initiated, developed and driven school, aiming at developing an alternative to public and private education in Romania.

Liviu Buligan, Executive Director @SoftOne Romania is one of the Romanian pioneers of the ERP & Business Software industry, with more than 20 years’ experience working on top executive positions and managing reputable IT companies. Liviu joined SoftOne Romania in its early days, almost 4 years ago, when the company was just entering the Romanian market and he is one of the base team members who helped SoftOne become a key leader on the European Cloud solutions market.  He thinks that the use of cutting-edge technology in managing a business is not optional, but compulsory for every company that wants to stay on the market for the long term.

Horia Flueras, Executive Director @ IT HIT, a researcher in Information Technology, provides leadership for the continued development of an innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment with a vast experience in analysis, design, industrial research and experimental development / testing hardware and software products, software systems integration and software modules implementation.

Horia has advanced Project Manager knowledge, industrial research expertise and experimental development in the field of information systems based on Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft Exchange 2013 platforms as well as experimental development and implementation in the field of information systems specialized in resource management and customer relationship.

Mikhail works in 1Ci (1C International) since 2018 as a business development manager in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Mikhail’s responsibility is to develop business in key countries for the company. From 2002 to 2018, Mikhail worked various positions in the company ABBYY, where he was engaged in business development and promotion of new products to the markets of eastern and central Europe.

Dr. Sameh Yamany is the CTO of Viavi where he drives technology innovation and execution. He is the former CEO and President of Trendium, a wireless monitoring and assurance company. Dr. Yamany’s industry experience also includes his senior executive role at Tektronix Communications where he set the vision and development of the Iris wireless and wireline monitoring and troubleshooting suite of applications.

Dr. Yamany worked as an assistant professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia and has a PhD in computer science from University of Louisville. He has authored several patents, and more than 50 journals, conference publications, and book chapters in artificial intelligence, telecommunications and systems engineering.

Eduard Pughin is one of Maguay’s founders, back in 1992 and he is now acting as Operations / Executive Manager of the Company. He graduated Polytechnic University of Bucharest with major in Electronics and Competitive Management and also CODECS Open University.
Maguay is one of the leading Romanian system builder of computer systems: servers, storage, notebooks, PCs, marketed under its own brand, integrator of complex IT projects and software developer.

According to IDC, Maguay is the largest Romanian producer of servers. In the last 10 years Maguay held the 5th position in Top 5 Server vendors, being surpassed only by major manufacturers. Maguay is the only company in Romania, from the IT sector, which is on the list of approved suppliers of CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research.

Maguay received from Intel Corporation at CeBIT Hannover 2012 the award for outstanding contribution in education on Intel server technologies. Maguay team has international recognition, exemplified by following partnerships:
Intel Technology Provider Platinum – HPC Data Center Specialist, Oracle Gold, Fortinet Platinum Partner, VMware Enterprise, Seagate C-OEM, and Microsoft Partner.

Cosmin is a senior Air Traffic Controller and trainer with ROMATSA (Romanian Air Navigation Service Provider) for the last 18 years. Among his passions, software development takes most of his time. He is self taught in software programming.
In early 2000, during his education with the Aviation Academy, he identified the need for a  training infrastructure as being mandatory for effective ATC training. Using his passion and paper based curricula, he developed the first RADAR and 3D Tower simulator in Romania. Today, all ROMATSA training is performed on his simulators, that are being developed by his company Simsoft. He is actively involved, as Chief Technology and Product Officer, in further developing the initial simulator and the new major update of the ATC simulation platform that would change the ATC training by using AR, mobility and AI.

Former tech journalist, now blogger and freelancer, writing mainly on Business Solutions topics, both Enterprise and SMB. Pasionate about customer relationship management, owner of crmreview.ro, the only romanian website dedicated to CRM solutions and strategy.

Attentive and pragmatic in thinking, Alexandra has a wide experience in Public Relations and Online Marketing. For the last 10 years she has worked with corporate clients from various industries, such as Answear.ro, elefant.ro, OLX or Storia.ro.

She has a true passion and deep understanding for everything tech and wearables. Alexandra Pahomi managed the local launch and PR campaigns for Vector Watch, the Romanian start-up that developed the 30 days battery-life smartwatch. Now, she oversees the  communication and event management activities on the Romanian market for Fitbit, the leading global wearables brand. Together with local digital teams, she also coordinates Fitbit’s Social Media campaigns in CEE.

Catalin Maftei is a pioneer in e-commerce. He has created and developed cloud systems such as:
– www.PlatiOnline.ro – since 2002, the first online payment processor in Romania
– www.LivrariOnline.ro – since 2005, the first leg for ecommerce couriers
– www.PostaPanduri.ro – since 2015 the first Pachetomate / SmartLockers network in Romania for. Implementing the “Click & Collect” and “Pickup in Store”
– CRM4eshop.com – since 2014

He has created and developed projects such as:
– FarmaciaTei.ro – since 2009
– BebeTei.ro – since 2014

He is a Java passionate developer with many years of experience, always wanting to work on challenging projects. An Artificial Intelligence enthusiast that wants to learn how to learn

Anda is in charge of the Innovation movement, disruptive digital developments and Agile Transformation at E.ON, making a difference in a traditional company and paving the way to a new culture, mindset and behavior.

She started her journey in 2013, by coordinating the Lean adoption in the service area of E.ON. Soon after, she became the Advocate of an Innovative method of product development – the Garage, which generated one of the most successful energy related products in the market, E.ON Life. In the process of reshaping the way of working in a corporation and the future of energy, she embraced agility. As a Chief Product Owner of a Scaled Agile Project, Anda guided the digitization of energy for consumers, which brought E.ON the “Best Digital Transformation Program Of The Year” Award at the Romanian Energy Awards 2018 by The Diplomat. She drives the Agile Transformation Program meant to encourage the transition to agile of a non-IT Business.

Teo Tunea recently joined Digitaljob and he has already embarked on a mission to consolidate the company’s position as Romania’s No. 1 job board fully dedicated to leading professionals in the IT, design and marketing industries and to help it grow locally, regionally and – why not? – internationally.

Teo has previously worked for IBM as a Digital Marketing Strategist, overseeing Big Blue’s digital strategy in the United Kingdom & Ireland and covering some of IBM’s most important lines of products and services such as Analytics, Insurance and Watson Customer Engagement. Prior experience includes working for top international companies from a range of very different industries, such as Google, Finnair or Finpro, with a professional career spanning almost 10 years and uniquely combining sales, business consulting and digital marketing skills.

Teo’s educational background is no different than his professional career, as he has explored various disciplines such as engineering, linguistics, law and business

As a Business Development Manager for Microsoft Partners, my goal is to support Independent Solution Vendors (ISVs) on their digital tranformation journey. That is: to modernize their existing solutions and to build new solutions in order to meet the changing needs of customers, as well as capture new buisness opportunities.

Digital transformation is not only about technology – it’s about culture, strategy and new business models that requires leaders to re-envision the whole busines.

My experience:
Manager with almost 15 years in the IT Industy
International: Germany, Austria, Switzerland (DACH), Romania, Indonesia
Trilingual (EN, DE, RO)

Specialized in:
– Business Development
– Evangelism for cloud technologies
– Technical Pre-Sales and Consulting for German-speaking Partners
– Customer Service and Support

Razvan is currently leading the EMEA Technical Pre-Sales Team at UiPath. A role he got after spending more than 4 years along the company, since was a small start-up. He was one of the first ten employees in the early beginning of so called the first Romanian Unicorn. During these +4 years, he was dedicated to grow the company by accomplishing multiple roles such as RPA developer, Customer Success Manager, Business Analyst and Technical Account Lead for key customers.

Andrei Georgescu is co-founder and Managing Director of White Image for more than 15 years. He is passionate about data and solutions that generate results. Currently, White Image delivers Data Management and E-Mail Marketing solutions for customers from e-commerce, banking, auto, HR, and many other fields. You can also find Andrei as a teacher at the IAA School where he teaches E-Mail Marketing, data management & marketing automation.

Ashwin is a digital strategist with expertise and experience leading large-scale technology and business transformation projects across industries. Ashwin is a partner and Chief Strategy Officer of Insomniac Design responsible for driving digital strategy and execution for global brands and clients. In addition to overseeing the firm’s growth and expansion in domestic and international markets, Ashwin oversees digital projects including strategy consulting, global campaigns, web and mobile projects, data visualization, and open data initiatives.

His previous work spans a number of Fortune 500 companies including Dell, Intel, Cendant, and Lucent Technologies. Ashwin received a Masters degree from Cornell University and a Bachelors degree from The University of Toronto. Ashwin has extensive experience consulting with Fortune 100, Fortune 500, private, government, and NGOs to uncover innovative and practical solutions for driving sustainable competitive advantage and build progressive organizations. With broad experience in providing strategic counsel and advice, he leads client management, consulting, strategic communications, project management, and technology and organizational growth strategy initiatives.

Software architect and senior full stack developer in a wide variety of business applications: finance, e-commerce, online auctions, market research industry, supply chain management applications, content management systems and performance tools.

Particularly interested in service-based architectures, cloud computing, enterprise solution patterns (any device presentation, deployment, distributed systems and services patterns), and relational/non-relational database design.

Management competences: people management skills, conceptual skills, conflict management, negotiation skills, servant leader. I’m an Agile oriented thinking (SCRUM framework seasoned with Kanban and Extreme Programming artifacts), Lean Software Development enthusiast, managed and coordinated teams and projects.

Founder of RepublicA community and organizer of:

https://www.meetup.com/Bucharest-Microservices-User-Group

https://www.meetup.com/Bucharest-NET-Core-User-Group

https://www.meetup.com/Bucharest-Akka-NET-Actor-Model-User-Group

J F Grossen is the VP Design at HERE Technologies. In his role, he has made it his mission to humanize deep technologies and make them approachable, understandable and relevant for more people in their daily lives. Grossen is a proven creative and strategic thought leader in digital transformation for global brands, such as GE, IKEA and Johnson & Johnson. Bringing 20+ years of experience in the US, UK and Europe in building Design studios, leading business development and setting the vision for how technology will make our lives better.

Horia has 18 years of experience in sales last 12 years in IT & Software solutions. He is in charge of growing the business of Beck et al in Romania. Horia developed the partnership network of Beck et al in last 3 years focusing on JobRouter and DocuWare. In 2018 he doubled the sales revenue of Beck et al Services signing new contracts for important projects like: Nepi Rockcastle, Azomures, Mercury360, Eurosport DHS, Fortech.

IT specialist focused in business consultancy, business analyse and digital transformation, with a Ph.D. in Cybernetics, Statistics and Business Information, based on agile software development and risk management in complex projects. Held different IT, research, teaching and management positions, coordinated large teams and budgets, with more than 10 years’ experience in EU funded projects, university teaching, e-learning and IT solutions. Main techs in SQL, JavaScript, auto IT scripting, CSS, PHP, workflow management and process automation systems, and main open source CMSs. Author of 5 books and more than 30 research articles. A high developed conceptualization skill, able to assume the scope of the project, to define activities, assign resources and roles, define design features and requirements. A problem solving person, with abilities of communication and negotiation, and with capability to influence the organization. Like to plan with fun and always play as a team player.

Wiktoria Rakowska is Country Manager EMEA at JobRouter AG and has since January 2015 been responsible for the international partner management and support in the region of EMEA, excluding DACH.

Wiktoria has graduated from the University of Economics in Warsaw and holds a Master’s degree in International Trade. Already during her studies, she has started her professional career in Poland, where she has worked several years in a tax consulting company. During 2008-2015, Wiktoria has gained vast experience in the field of export management, development of international sales and opening of new markets.

At the IT reseller company TechData Polska Sp. z o.o. she was responsible for the coordination of export sales of computer software and hardware. Then Megabajt Sp. z o.o. has engaged her for the brand introduction and development in foreign markets, in particular in Czech Republic and Slovakia. Later, as Export Manager at Aquael Janusz Jankiewicz Sp. z o.o., she was coordinating the activities of distributors as well as sales and marketing activities in general in the countries of Eastern Europe, South Amerika and South Korea.

Wiktoria Rakowska lives and works in Mannheim, where she is a very motivated participant in external JobRouter AG activities, like the JobRun running team.

LEAN & SIX SIGMA Operations Manager and Kaizen Coach, he has 15 years of experience optimizing organizational for MNC`s across the EMEA, APAC & NAM regions.

During his experience he has proven leadership & management skills to diverse and geographically dispersed teams (MENA & APAC). Some of his knowledge is proven by the certifications he obtained, as for example – Project Manager PMI – 2008, Six Sigma Black Belt – 2007 (Canada).
With a lot of experience in managing multi-cultural project teams and directly involved in Business Process Automation projects –  Mihai is a self-starter and an avid learner, dedicated to extensive continued professional development.

Adrian Orasan is currently Managing Partner at Beck et al. Services Romania, the local subsidiary of the homonym german group. With almost 20 years of experience in IT industry, Adrian started as an IT system administrator for the first technical team and became the leader of the company some years after. He is now focused on guiding and leading the IT consulting company through the digital transformation every company has to face, especially the IT providers as Beck et al. Services, which are by themselves those who shape, transform and improve the business environment through digitalization.

Iryna has 12 years’ experience, acting as a trusted Advisor in Technology Consulting for a variety of leading software companies. One of her major focus areas is on understanding how RPA technologies transform data processing operation to help Enterprises to be ready for an Innovative Digital Future.

Prior to ABBYY, Iryna held service program for Microsoft Services at Sitronics where she led services development, strategic marketing and project management, building Win-Win strategies with the clients, start-up business development, strategic partner recruitment.

Catalina Sofron is Business Development Manager at Datanet Systems, part of the Soitron Group, a leader in implementing new technologies and innovative solutions in the fields of IT services, applications, infrastructure, Unified Communications, contact centres, security, network services and IT outsourcing.

An experienced commercial and marketing manager in the IT, telecom and finance industries, with more than 18 years of successful track record, in the corporate sales performance and B2B partnership management, Catalina Sofron is in charge with launching on the Romanian market new IT applications dedicated to business processes optimisation and successfully implemented to other Soitron customers.

Adrian, one of the youngest Top 100 Young Managers in 2018, founded OmniPERFORM less than 2 years ago and already had become one of the most interesting digital agencies.

By using proprietary technology Omniperform’s team helps brands and businesses to better understand their customers and to ease the connection between the invested marketing budget and defining business impact.

As a full-service digitally-driven agency, OmniPERFORM has been managing campaigns globally to almost any country in the world, for both international and local partners.

Adrian, both as speaker and trainer, shares his experience by presenting perspectives from a client position (CEO of Angels Den Funding, one of the largest angel investor networks based in UK and Omnichannel Consultant for worldwide known brands), a close understanding of publishing and content assets and Technology-Driven Communication Agency (OmniPERFORM).

Corporate innovator with over 18 years of experience in the telecom industry, leading Orange’s innovation efforts in working with startups at Orange Fab Romania and coordinating several research projects in the fields of: future internet networks, critical infrastructure security, Wi-Fi offload for cellular data networks and network’s APIs.

I am an engineer with a strong passion for human sciences. I started with web programming, but my interest in words and people quickly led me towards sales and consultancy.
Traveler in soul and in life (recently author and administration at calatorinviata.ro and FB/calatorinviata.ro), in the last 10 years I’ve developed my experience and competencies in communication, strategy and management of complex projects.

Father of a daughter (7 years old) and a son (1 year old), passionate about psychology, philosophy and the fascinating universe of the mind and of the soul.
With an inclination towards healthy food, deep breathing and a steady pace. My most beautiful moments are those spent with my children and with free and courageous people.
Truth and freedom are my most treasured friends.

Costin has more than 17 years experience in the Romanian IT market. Some of the largest IT systems for public sector clients have been delivered by teams under his coordination. After 10 years in IBM, he switched to the cloud market, coordinating cornerstone projects for clients across various industries. He is passionate about Romania’s potential for innovation in IT solutions.

Anabela Luca is Managing Director & Online Marketing Consultant/Google Trainer at adLemonade.com, Google Premier Partner agency in Romania. Anabela loves digital, especially Pay Per Click marketing that she masters for over 9 years now. She is dedicated to tailoring custom PPC strategies that dramatically improve the revenue and profits for her clients. Her experience with both large-scale clients seeking international success and SMBs eager to get the most out of their advertising budget, she gladly solved challenges by providing strategies that simply work.

As one of the 5 Google trainers in Romania, Anabela delivered over 150 trainings on Google AdWords & Analytics in Google programs like Online Marketing Academy & Google Partners in Romania&internationally. Through her webinars as well as her offline classes, she trained over 3.000 students and professionals in growing their skills as online marketers. You can see some of her webinars and presentations here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc0Fo15aupkMySsENwsgbJou8YIOQibxn.

Anabela believes you can achieve your advertising goals by staying focused on your objectives and flexible in your approach.

Claudia Chirilescu loves being an entrepreneur. She does that everyday at Spoon where she keeps the organization in a continuous evolution in order to be in line with the social digitalization. At Intro and hipshops.com,  she creates a more integrated shopping experience for the consumers combining online and offline touch points.

Digital communication in 2018 is not something an agency can solve by itself, it’s a more complex aspect that all business should address at a high managerial level. Claudia’s team expertize can help clients to better understand how digital solutions and available technologies can help brands create a more intimate relation, thus generating real value. Content is very important, both if its made by the brand of by influencers and should involve brand strategy and consumer experience.

The founder and CEO of the company is Mihai Alexandru Dăncilă, with more than 10 years experience in sales management and sales manager coaching, and over 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry at Orange Romania, where he started with an entry-level job and later had several projects local and national level coordinated.

Mihai excelled in the national project based on the results achieved by coaching the sales teams, where he was responsible for implementing a new service of the company in over 90 sales teams with more than 600 employees.

In 2015, he built the Furnicuele brand (the ants), a cleaning company. After selling this brand to an investment fund just 8 months after its launch, he focused his attention on the development of the Consilo HR brand, under which he created and supported various coaching and sales training projects.

Since 2016, Mihai has returned to the telecommunications industry through the Consilo WEB project, working with one of the world’s largest telecommunications service providers. Since then, Consilo Web has been outsourcing telesales – customer retention .

Behind Mihai, there is currently a team of over 50 specialists with sales experience – including members of administrative, IT team, HR and quality teams – some of whom have been internally “educated” through workplace education and training programs.

With a solid background in Experience Design, Marketing and Product Management, Cristi is playing a leading role in the development of Twispay, an emerging FinTech product with the aim to reshape how payments are made and how money is transferred, and to form a unitary, frictionless, digital banking experience.

Sorin Despot is a communication professional with a Daedalian experience in working on marketing projects, now acting as the Senior Marketing Manager at Twispay. He is also an award-winning poet and debate trainer. His industry know-how spans the entire marketing field, from Advertising and Public Relations to Content Marketing, Data-Driven Growth Hacking, and Marketing Automation. Lately, he mainly focuses on solving the complex real-world problems of running omnichannel marketing projects.

Bogdan Pipernea is the Head of IT in Raiffeisen Raiffeisen Bank and for the past 20 years he’s been mixing IT and banking.

Bogdan was part of extensive IT & Digital transformation programs within several large banks in Romania and he strongly believes that the sustainable evolution of the financial sector will rely heavily on the accelerated transformation of IT departments. This is the path to stable, safe and innovative products and services for clients.

Radu Mărcușu is the CEO of Upswing, the agency which took on the mission to bring the most effective digital strategy in Romania; pushing brands’ visibility în search through optimization and clean, quality content turned out to be the solution.

With deep industry experience and a background as a search geek, Radu is the go-to expert when it comes to anything digital performance.

Alexander Simionescu is General Manager of Renault Technologie Roumanie, the engineering centre of Groupe Renault Romania. Alexander Simionescu has an experience of more than 15 years in management, including as GM, but also in domains such as research, structured analysis, design, development, implementation, engineering and maintenance of software and electronics driven systems.

Car manufacturer since 1898, the Groupe Renault is present in 134 countries and in 2017 it sold 3.76 million cars. The Groupe is harnessing its international growth and the complementary fit of its five brands, Renault, Dacia and Renault Samsung Motors, Alpine and LADA, together with electric vehicles and the unique alliance with Nissan and Mitsubishi. Groupe Renault is the only company in Romania which incorporates all activities specific for a car manufacturer, something which has generated high economic performance and a wide range of job offers in different fields: market studies, design, engineering, manufacturing and supply chain, sales, business services and financing.

Florin is a marketer with hundreds of active digital campaigns and an extensive experience in developing marketing strategies. He is aware of the fine line between reason and emotion and knows that the difference between a good strategy and an exceptional strategy has its deep roots in the mind of the consumer.
The online marketing agency that Florin leads, AdMarks Media, is based on a close partnership with its customers and efficient campaigns with strong impact in online.

He offers his partners SEO campaigns folded on to their needs and well-structured marketing strategies together with the people he work with.

Throughout his career as an entrepreneur, Florin has focused on creating and developing successful businesses in areas such as fashion, IT & C, pharmaceuticals, banking, home and garden, and children’s products.

Michael is an MBA graduate with experience in International Taxation, company formation and Amazon-run businesses. He will talk about his experience with helping thousands of Romanian Entrepreneurs own and operate a US company from the comfort of there home. Whether owning a company or needing assistance getting a VISA the solution is far more simple than one would think. Learn how he has helped Romanian Entrepreneurs bring in Millions of Dollars in Revenue a year through effective marketing techniques

Calin Rotarus runs Tailwind Romania, which manages Agora PMP (private marketplace), that uses technologies like Taboola (content dicovery) and Appnexus (programmatic). Recently Taboola was opened for self-served clients, that can manage campaigns worldwide (bid for clicks) with their account.

In the last 5 years, Alexandru worked to define and coordinate the implementation of digital performance campaigns, in order to achieve high performance volumes and find growth opportunities related to the Orange Romania digital strategy.

Ana is a Commercial Platforms Director at eMAG and joined the e-commerce world 6 years ago. As part of the Platforms&Technology department, she and her team are responsible for creating tools that help the business scale through technology.

Rafael has been working in the e-commerce industry for the last 12 years. During this year, Rafael was responsible for more than 300 enterprise projects in several countries. Nowadays he Sales VP for the EMEA Market.

A Senior System Engineer with experience in leading cloud technologies, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence – e.g., Chatbots. Valentin started off his career with Microsoft, followed by Oracle and currently working for ALEF – one of the main Microsoft Distributors in Romania.

Valentin is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) – Cloud Platform

Andras holds an Economics and Data Science degree from the University of Southampton. He has spent almost two years in a traditional Data Analyst role, before progressing to a Data Scientist position at an investment fund. Although he is still very interested and passionate about finance, Andras’ focus has now shifted towards helping companies make sense of their data through his position as a Data Scientist at Bigstep. In his spare time, Andras finds himself jumping around different hobbies. Right now, he’s learning about Generative Art.

10 years of experience in the biggest ecommerce companies in Romania, Fashion Days & eMAG. Started as a developer, moving to business and now managing the Glovo for Romania.

Adrian is a veteran of the direct and digital marketing industry, with more than 15 years of experience. For the last 10 years he is running Interactions, a full-service digital agency which helds an impressive past and present portfolio of brands: Telekom, Audi, Nestle, LG, Hochland, Mega Image and many others from Romania and Europe.

Before Interactions Adrian founded and led the direct and digital division of Ogilvy Group Romania and also worked for 5 years in direct marketing and international outsourcing within Hit Mail Group.

Online since Google was only 3 years old and Wikipedia was still a hundred pages website (2001), Mihai provided SEO services to local and international companies focusing on business goals such as attracting significant and relevant traffic or SEO visibility in the industry where the potential customer is active. In 2013 he becomes co-founder of DWF.ro – the first SEO agency in Romania that draws attention to important ranking factors which were previously ignored.

Guillaume has more than 15 years’ experience in marketing, business development, consultancy and online-offline market research. Through his activity, he’s helping the clients to better understand the benefits of the online-mobile & digital environment and the range of techniques for collecting & transforming relevant information (online panels, consumer panels, passive and geo-location etc.) into valuable insights for the businesses.

Before joining Ipsos, Guillaume held several management positions and lead a ‘Digital & Innovation’ Practice in Central and Eastern Europe. Guillaume is currently based in Hamburg, Germany. He speaks English, French, German, Russian, and Polish.

Roxana is a lawyer and member of the Technology, Media and Telecom practice of bpv Grigorescu Stefanica, being part of the advisory team that focuses primarily on technology, media, telecom and data protection matters. She advises national and multinational companies on matters relating to IT and technology sectors, data protection, media and advertising.

Particularly she has participated in due diligence processes, general advisory work related to a wide range of business matters and in complex projects regarding data protection issues. Roxana has significant experience in the telecom sector from advising a global electronic communications operator in its day-to-day business.

Carmen is a lawyer and member of the Technology, Media and Telecom practice of bpv Grigorescu Stefanica, advising mainly on commercial and regulatory aspect of the technology, media and advertising sectors. Prior to joining bpv Grigorescu Stefanica she worked as a legal counsel for one of the largest global industrial and technology groups in Romania, gaining valuable industry insights into the IT&C sector.

Her recent work involves advising a global giant in internet and technology on commercial and regulatory aspects of various technology products, on advertising and data protection. She also advises companies in various industries on complying with the GDPR and other privacy regulations and conducts audit projects regarding their status of compliance.

Radu is a lawyer and member of the Technology, Media and Telecom practice of bpv Grigorescu Stefanica, where he is part of the advisory team, focusing primarily on advising clients on corporate, commercial and regulatory matters in the field of IT and technology, data protection and advertising.

His recent work includes advising a global giant in internet and technology on commercial and regulatory aspects in the fields of IT and technology, advertising, consumer protection and data protection. He advises extensively on licensing and terms of use for SaaS or PaaS providers, as well as on distribution of digital products. He also advised and assisted various clients from diverse sectors, including IT, medical services and digital marketing, on their compliance journey with the provisions of the GDPR.

In 2017, Radu has obtained the international official accreditation CIPP/ E (Certified Information Privacy Professional/ Europe) granted by IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals), the world’s preeminent credential in the business of privacy.

Ruxandra is a lawyer and member of the Technology, Media and Telecom practice of bpv Grigorescu Stefanica, advising mainly on matters concerning the IT and technology sectors, data protection, as well as media and advertising. Ruxandra is passionate about software development and holds a java software developer certification, offering her a better overview and understanding of the workings of many digital solutions that she advises on.

Her recent work involves advising several global companies on IT, advertising, consumer protection and data protection matters, with a focus on Right-to-Be-Forgotten cases. She also conducted data protection audits and assisted several clients in their GDPR compliance processes.

Recently, she earned the international accreditation CIPP / E (Certified Information Privacy Professional / Europe) granted by IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals), the world’s preeminent credential in the business of privacy.

Lior Barak has a proven track record in successfully converting companies from Excel to state-of-the-art automated data-driven reporting systems. Lior helping organization to setup the infrastructure for automating their marketing efforts.

• Working for 3 years at Zalando
• Founder of Tale About Data, Workshops about marketing infrastructure
• More than 10 years of experience with marketing departments data
• Frequent speaker including App Promotion Summit, Mobile Growth summit, App Growth summit and more.

In the past three years, he has worked his magic with several companies, structuring data and developing the one-stop-shop reporting approach allowing user to focus on actions.
Working as a freelancer, Lior supporting companies transforming into automatic marketing helping them save hours and become more efficient in consuming data saving in the process around 20% of the department working hours.

Mircea Prelipceanu is Head of International Sales at CAS Software AG – the leading German supplier of CRM software for small and medium-sized enterprises. More than 400,000 people in over 20,000 companies enjoy the benefits of CAS CRM: a powerful standard solution, flexible to meet the customer’s needs, great ergonomics, proven and awarded in practice and excellent value for money.

Born and raised in Romania with extensive working experience in different countries throughout Europe, Mircea Prelipceanu has been working for CAS Software AG for more than 10 years. During this time he established a worldwide partner channel network which delivers an excellent service for the customer. Furthermore he advises companies on the usage of CRM solutions and holds regular lectures on Sales, Customer Relationship Management and CRM implementation best practice.

Andra is a strong believer that technology is meant to make people’s life healthier and happier. By Co-founding Hey, Be Well! she is dedicating her time and resources to building a product that can leverage tech for the benefit of millions of people that want to accomplish their wellbeing goals, but lack professional support and know-how.

Lars Bognar is a Mobile Specialist at Google and consults customers and partners in Central Europe on their mobile asset strategy, their mobile performance in terms of sitespeed and UX, and on the integration of web and apps in their businesses.

For the past 6 years he has been working across different sales and product specialist roles in various Google offices with a focus on App Developers and Media & Entertainment customers. In his last position, Lars managed the rollout and tool integration of ad solutions like Universal App Campaigns in Mountain View.

Dan Steinman is the General Manager of Gainsight EMEA, and is based out of London, UK. He leads Gainsight’s growth initiatives from the company’s regional headquarters located in London and helps Gainsight’s European customers successfully understand and adopt Customer Success technology. Previously, Dan held the position of Chief Customer Officer, where his ultimate responsibility was the satisfaction and success of Gainsight’s customer base.

Dan’s career includes being a very early employee at Epiphany, Co-Founder at NearbyNow, and VP of Customer Success at both Mozes and Marketo before joining Gainsight. Dan is a recognised expert and thought leader in the Customer Success field and brings that thought leadership into execution at Gainsight both with the Customer Success organisation and with our products. Dan recently co-authored the best-selling book Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue.

Dino Esposito authored over 20 books and 1000 articles in a so far 25 years long career.

Author of “Programming ASP.NET Core” (Microsoft Press) and a few successful Pluralsight courses, Dino is busy writing software for a greener world as the digital strategist at BaxEnergy and has a decade long experience of designing software for professional sport events, particularly tennis.

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Volker Simonis works in SAP JVM Technology group.

He is an OpenJDK contributor from the very beginning and helped SAP to engage in the OpenJDK project. He’s the project lead of the OpenJDK PowerPC/AIX and s390x porting projects, a JDK reviewer and JCP Executive Committee representative for SAP. He’s also a member of the JSR 379 (Java SE 9) to 386 (Java SE 12) Expert Groups.

Rares Banescu is the CEO and Founder of Retargeting.Biz with an experience of over 10 years in Online Marketing. He launched Retargeting.Biz in 2013, a software that helps online stores automatically communicate with each client. The tool learns from the actions of the visitors and then sends them personalized messages according to their journey, giving them the proper motivation to complete a purchase. Retargeting.Biz has now over 3000 happy clients from 5 continents in more than 30 countries and it generated over 25 million euros.

Alexandru Radu is a passionate business developer with 13+ years of proven capability in driving success for industry leaders using a special brew of business solutions knowledge, consulting experience and customer service excellence. After a career in programming, consulting, project management and training, he turned into a trusted advisor for customers bridging the gap between the technical and business worlds of the software industry.

Maarten Oonk, Director New Business at Deloitte Center for the Edge EMEA, is a socio-technologist and an expert on strategic transformation, disruption and exponential technologies. Deloitte’s Center for the Edge is strongly anchored in Silicon Valley and Europe and it’s aspiration is to unlock the hidden innovation potential in Europe by helping senior executives to make sense of and profit from emerging opportunities on the edge of business and technology. Maarten’s interest is especially fuelled in areas like additive manufacturing, IOT and robotics.

Maarten has supported large corporations in various industries to define long term transformative strategies and making it actionable by starting new business initiatives that can help accelerate towards this new future state. Maarten’s motto is: context is everything. So think, and create a deeper understanding of fundamental drivers of change, before you act.

Prior to Deloitte Maarten worked for over 8 years for TNO, a renowned R&D and technology institute. At TNO, he led the industry team on Transport & Logistics. He was also chairman of various international working groups on vehicle automation, delegate for the European Commission on international harmonisation and R&D for transport. In addition, Maarten has 10 years of international business development experience in high tech industry, mobility and supply chain management. He has a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering & Management from Twente University.

Vlad Nistor is the CEO and Founder of CoinFlux, the leading digital currency exchange service from Romania. Prior to starting up his company, Vlad had a successful career in asset management, working for Aegon and Erste Bank, managing assets of over 500 million euro.

Ovidiu Joita has worked in the marketing and advertising field for over 17 years. He has predominantly worked in the online field for the last 15 years and has handled hundreds of projects. He has founded iAgency.ro, his own online marketing and SEO agency in 2008. In iAgency’s portfolio, you can find famous names in the online Romanian market: Elvila, DC News, Veloteca, Floria, Total Soft (charisma.ro), Retargeting.biz, Mekior.ro, ChristianTour.ro…

“I believe that every business needs to be present online! A lot of people have the wrong idea that only e-commerce businesses need online marketing or SEO. People are searching for everything on the internet: even for a company’s solvency, not to mention the quality of the products, of the services or the consumer’s reviews on these. What do we precisely do at iAgency? We handle a business located “high on the Everest mountain” that is available only for a few people each year and we bring it in the center of the city, in the most crowded traffic. We make it visible for everyone!”

Augustin Ladar is the Shutterstock Partner Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova, with expertise in both editorial and commercial content. His role is to provide the Business to Business interface between Shutterstock and its local clients, as well as to offer advice and counseling on Copyright and licensing issues. Working in collaboration with the largest content platform in the world brought Augustin valuable insights & knowledge in regard to Copyright laws, most common risks about incorrect licensing and how to protect clients against any possible litigation. On a local level, he has been working for 2 years with a variety of clients from publishing houses to advertising agencies, which helped him acquire experience in multiple industries relying on content creation.

Cotiso spent over 15 years as a network security consultant (CCIE – Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) and trainer (CCSI – Cisco Certified Systems Instructor) for various technology integrators and for various Fortune 500 companies in telco, automotive, banking and pharma industries.He has extensive experience designing, implementing and operating complex and scalable secure networks for large customers and has an in-depth experience with top Network Security vendors.

Lucian Constantin is a freelance journalist who has been covering computer security and the hacker culture for over a decade. His work has appeared in many technology publications including Forbes, VICE Motherboard, PCWorld, Computerworld, The Inquirer, Security Boulevard and The New Stack.

Lucian has a bachelor’s degree in political science, but he’s been passionate about computers and cybersecurity from an early age. Before he decided to pursue a career in journalism, he worked as a system and network administrator. He enjoys attending security conferences, talking to technical people and delving into interesting research papers.

Studies: Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

Career: 20 years of TV career from reporter to producer

Now:

• Producer and presenter of Zona IT, the most important technology TV show in Romania, broadcasted weekly on TVR1
• Coordinator of zonait.tv website, one the most popular tech websites in Romania

Interests: Technology, film&photo, 3D graphics, design etc.

Florinel Chis is the Executive Director at ARMO – Romanian E-Commerce Association (Asociatia Romana a Magazinelor Online), member of the board at EMOTA and member of the board at Ecommerce Europe.

Over 15 years of e-commerce experience, entrepreneur and consultant for Fortune 500 companies.

With over 4 years of experience in the online marketing and communication area, Alexandru Negrea is a well known social media consultant / trainer. In 2012 he founded, together with Andrei Rosca, the first intensive social media course in Romania – Social Media Essentials.

Bogdan is one of the co-founders of Code for Romania and he is currently one of the Technology Officers that help in coordinating the project teams and in delivering the civic apps the organization’s volunteers are working on. Having over 10 years of experience in .net, flavoring from version 2.0 in a POS Windows application, to multi-tenant Azure enterprise solutions, Bogdan is also a Technical Team Lead for a technology company whenever he is not managing the coding teams in the biggest civic tech NGO in Romania.

I will use my 13 years of experience as a software tester and my 9 years of expertise as senior trainer in order to support my customers in their effort to be more innovative while approaching the quality process and testing because I strongly believe that brain can be used for creation and machines for execution

Diana is an enthusiast MarCom Professional and a CSR addict :). Former political journalist and MarCom Expert for national and international brands, Diana owns a content marketing agency based in Bucharest, being very keen on searching for new communication trends in the network society.

She has recently studied Digital Marketing @CREA Genève. In addition, she has a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences, focusing on CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), and is licensed in Communication Sciences, with MA in Business Management and Journalism.

She has recently started to volunteer for The Social Incubator, a young NGO which provides a platform for initiatives with a significant social impact in the lives of disadvantaged individuals, mainly youths leaving the child protection system without any real preparation for independent living, as well as youths coming from other types of economically and/or socially marginalized environments.

Managing partner and founder at termene.ro, Adrian Dragomir is a natural born entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience. His area of expertise covers the IT industry, but he is also a specialist in risk management, business intelligence and compliance.

Focused on the long term perspective, his approach in terms of business strategy is to build with a purpose. His mission is to help professionals and business owners to easily access any legal and financial information in order to increase business credibility, to correctly evaluate any financial risk and to efficiently manage time and business resources of any kind.

Ionut is Windows Insider MVP for three years already (former Windows Phone MVP), developer for Cerner Romania and passionate about technology (smartphones, wearables, security). He is a regular speaker at the major Romanian IT conferences, reviewer at MOBzine.ro and book writer with focus on mobiles.

For more than 12 years (1999-2011) he was part of Romanian CHIP magazine team, as chief of CHIP’s software test lab and later editor in chief, covering topics related to gadgets and smartphone/tablets. After leaving CHIP’s team and joined Siemens Healthcare – now part of Cerner, Ionut followed his passion for gadgets and started his own project at MOBzine.ro where is still monitoring the mobile market and reviewing the most interesting gadgets.

With over 10 year of experience, he’s working at 2Checkout since it was founded

With over 10 years of experience, Dorian is working at 2Checkout since 2016.