Anca was in charge of entering the RO market and during one year she achieved great results and implemented MiniCRM successfully across different companies. Her enthusiastic approach and out-of-box thinking have shown her managerial skills and gave her confidence to enter the Romanian market with a successful product.

Using her psychology and advertising background she is constantly searching innovative ways to spread awareness among the Romanian market regarding MiniCRM’s software and to help SMEs to grow and improve their workflow, communication and business goals within their company.

Geertjan is an open source technology enthusiast working in Oracle on free and open source products such as Oracle JET (oraclejet.org) and NetBeans IDE (netbeans.org).

Phil has been building experiences on the web since the late 90s. Working now as a Technology Director at R/GA in London, he works with clients like Google, Nike, Unilever and Dyson to create a wide variety of web experiences. He is a vocal supporter of things like unobtrusive JavaScript, open web standards, and the importance of performance.

Phil speaks regularly all over the world about exploring innovative approaches and architectures, and publishes thoughts both on his blog (https://hawksworx.com) and on Twitter (https://twitter.com/philhawksworth)

Nitzan is the VP of Marketing & Strategy at SimilarWeb.  She comes to the role with over a decade of experience in the tech and consulting worlds, specializing in strategy, M&A and product marketing.  Prior to joining the company, Nitzan worked as a management consultant in Bain & Co’s San Francisco and Sydney offices and has held various operational roles at Israeli internet companies. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Ana Iorga is a savvy consumer neuroscience expert with a deep abiding passion for bringing science to marketing. She is a professional who has spent over a decade in working with business as well as academia. Ana, having founded one of the fastest growing full service advertising agencies, has deep expertise in the world of design, communication, branding and the creation of marketing campaigns for brands across diverse industries such as Consumer Goods, Retail, Finance and Media. Given her unique academic background, Ana then set out to found Buyer Brain, a consumer neuroscience research lab, that focuses on delivering non-conscious insights which drive deeper customer engagement. Ana is a Medical Doctor that holds a double MBA degree in Marketing and Finance from the University of Ottawa & Bucharest School of Management and is currently a PhD scholar in consumer neuroscience with the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. Dr. Iorga has been a member of TAAN, a global network of senior advertising professionals since 2009. She also serves on the editorial board of NMSBA’s Insights Magazine. Ana is a lecturer at Hamburg Media School’s Neuromarketing Manager Program and co-editor of Ethics in Neuromarketing, a path breaking book exploring the ethical challenges in Neuromarketing. Ana is also the a member of the NMSBA Advisory Board.

Thierry Lavialle is responsible within the Xerox Europe for the sales development of the DocuShare product, the Xerox Enterprise Content Management solution, through a network of system integrator partners. He has a deep knowledge of the European market of document and content management solutions as well as the required IT services to deploy ECM and BPM solutions into the enterprises. He has been working as a technical sales and marketing professional for more than 20 years in IT in the United States and in France where he has worked for 5 years within Hewlett-Packard Services. Thierry holds an engineering degree from ICAM (Institut Catholique d’arts et Metiers) and a Master degree from EM Lyon.

Lucian holds a diploma in Engineering and computers and a Master degree in Communication Science. From 2008 he works for IBM Romania and in 2011 he became a member of IBM Redbooks writers. He is certified as IT Specialists for Open Group and IBM Storage Expert.

In his 13 years of experience he worked and coordinate teams that design, size and implemented enterprise IT solutions for clients all over the world.

Currently he leads a team of IT engineers providing services on a cloud based ecosystem with more then 15000 environments running solutions for Cognitive, Mobile, Analytics and other.

As Country Manager of Switzerland for hybris software and SAP CEC (customer engagement & commerce) since August 2010, Markus Wenger is responsible for driving the activities of the company in Switzerland. Successfully advancing the company’s profile in the region and driving the adoption of products across the full CEC portfolio, Markus leads a team which is instrumental in helping Swiss businesses to engage better with their customers and deliver a truly omni-channel commerce experience.

Wenger started his career at Oracle where he spent nine years in various positions, most recently as Business Unit Manager Technology Solution. Then followed a position at Information Builders where, as Director of Marketing & Technology for Germany and Switzerland, he was responsible for the marketing activities across all the areas of business.

Afterwards he established a broad customer base at Silverstream as the Country Manager Switzerland, until the company was acquired by Novell. During the following six years he decisively boosted the Software Business at Sun Microsystems.

A biotech engineer that rediscovered himself in advertising, Adi started more than 11 years ago in BTL and after a few years decided to navigate well within the digital territories.

A “process thinker” by education, after having coordinated and implemented hundreds and hundreds of projects, he switched budgeting and implementation with planning and is now Head of Strategy and Planning at Kaleidoscope Proximity Bucharest.

He’s also a father, a mad driver, a Zen embraces.

Whatever, he’s cool :).

Nathan is co-founder and CEO of the collaborative innovation platform OI Engine, an award winning software platform that was born from IDEO’s Design Thinking approach to innovation. OI Engine is an Innovation management solution that helps you generate new revenue opportunities, create cost savings, and transform your culture.

Most recently, the platform has been used to help a US bank, Umpqua, to engage its employee base and make their recent merger more human-centered and successful. It has been used for co-creating new business ideas which have helped companies tackle market disruption in the recruitment sector, and has affected tens of thousands of lives by addressing global issues in areas as diverse as sanitation, serious disease prevention, e-waste, urban resilience, and women’s safety.

Before OI Engine, Nathan co-founded and co-ran OpenIDEO.com, a public instance of the software where a global community of 100,000 helps create social impact through working with corporate and NGO sponsors. He also worked as a consultant for IDEO, overseeing the Organisational Design team in Europe, and ran his own company in London. He’s passionate about his kids, and is a health and food geek.

Ciprian is participating in the Microsoft Regional Directors Program as a Regional Director for Romania and has been involved for the past 17 years in many enterprise-scale technology-related projects, workshops and presentations.

Ciprian is also a Microsoft Azure MVP focusing especially on architectural issues related to cloud solutions and the Microsoft technology stack. He splits his time between consultancy, delivering workshops and presentations on technologies and platforms that are part of the Microsoft technology stack, and doing academic research in the field of data mining.

In the past 7 years he accumulated a significant amount of knowledge in the field of cloud computing, becoming a recognized specialist on the Microsoft Azure platform

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IT&C Marketing manager with 10 years experience in telco and IT&C projects, in charge with transversal partner integration

Liviu is Co-Founder of the ECOMpedia.ro project and Community Manager for GPeC (Gala Premiilor e-Commerce – Romanian e-Commerce Award Gala). He has over 15 years of experience in online marketing and 10 years in e-commerce. He was, among other past jobs, PR Manager at eMAG. In 2005, he founded a web consulting company specialized in e-commerce and sites evaluation, Web Audit.

He is also speaker at conferences and seminars, especially dedicated to electronic commerce, he write articles and market analysis. Skills: e-commerce, site audit, UX, CRO, Analytics, Online Marketing.

Taloi has been selected by Cardinal Path to be a regional trainer of Google Partner Academy Programme in Google Analytics. Taloi has also GAIQ – Google Analytics Individual Qualification certification.

Liviu TALOI has worked with online shops as eMAG, MarketOnline, SigmaNET, F64, FashionUP, TAMOS, Kurtmann, ZorileStore, Vexio.ro, MetaphoraBijoux, Gutuie.ro, eMenAtWork, e-commerce platforms & full digital agencies as Content Speed, Shopmania BIZ, Retargeting.biz, online tourism sites as EXIMTUR, Veltravel, he did usability & conversion rate optmization projects as for BCR – sIT Solutions AT Spardat Gmbh, Bitdefender (USA site), SKIN media, he delivered Google Analytics closed&open trainings as for BrainArt, Siniat, ING NN Asigurari de Viata, Google Partner Academy.

In recent years, Liviu Taloi provided expert advice to more than 100 Romanian online stores in e-commerce, usability, analytics, conversion rate optimization and online marketing. Many of these online companies are now market leaders in their niche.

Raluca Guset is the Retail Manager of QuickMobile, the biggest tech specialist in Romania. Highly experienced professional, with  national and international know how in retail management, Raluca is responsible for the QuickMobile offline expansion,  in charge with the company’s biggest project this year – the QuickMobile franchise.

Information technology has had a profound impact on my life, by providing limitless opportunities to connect, learn and grow.

I want to share my enthusiasm for how IT can improve our experience of the world and change for the better the way we work, live and play.