Liviu Buligan
Executive Director
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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.
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The collaboration between Hippoland and SoftOne is one of the best examples of how innovation and mobility can make a company expand and grow fast, in a sustainable way. Hippoland, one of the biggest children toys, apparel and accessories retailer in the country, is one of the few “lucky” companies actively using Cloud Computing and Enterprise Mobility for business management, cost optimization so that they can grow and expand their business faster and better. How did they do it and what are the results after only 2 years? Be there on the 5th of October: IMWorld, Romexpo - SMBs Enterprise Solutions stageSander van Loosbroek
Director Distributed Ledger Technologies, Cegeka DLT
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Sander van Loosbroek holds an MBA and a Bachelor in IT and is an experienced entrepreneur. He co-founded one of the first digital EDM music distributors in The Netherlands and developed a mobile event solution with integrated wifi access. He wrote his MBA thesis about the applications of blockchain technology for the financial industry in 2014 and then joined Cegeka, a European IT service provider to lead their distributed ledger research and development activities. Since 2015 Cegeka developed several Trade Finance related blockchain Proof-of-Concepts and won an EFMA award in 2016 for the Digital Trade Chain application it built for KBC which is now brought to production in a consortium of 7 banks.
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Cegeka’s blockchain services realize digital transformation through process innovation, by building information ecosystems for multy-party collaborations. Our down to earth blockchain approach makes businesses future proof. How we do this? By offering you a workshop to understand blockchain and how it impacts your industry. How does Cegeka innovate? We approach innovation as a daily practice, we discover new opportunities and disruptive business models.Erik Barna
CEO and Founder Life Is Hard S.A.
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A creative thinker, strategist and technology entrepreneur, Erik is the Founder & CEO of Life Is Hard S.A an award winning public tech company. Life Is Hard, is the first and so far, the only software development company listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. His 15+ years experience and a professional background and capabilities in IT, entrepreneurship, management and product development make him an Innovation and Leadership Advocate.
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Digital transformation is the new reality. Let's see how technology is changing the way we do business and the business environment in a highly digital economy. Are the Romanian SME's prepared for this technological wave?Ovidiu Ghiman
Chief Commercial Officer, Business Segment, Telekom Romania
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Ovidiu Ghiman began working in telecommunications in 1998, and starting 2009 joined former Romtelecom, currently Telekom Romania. Up to now he held various executive positions such as Strategy and Business Development Executive Director, Chief Officer for Strategy and Commercial Residential Segment. Since 2013, he was appointed Chief Commercial Officer – Business segment. Ovidiu Ghiman is an enthusiast of new technologies such as IoT and M2M and is strongly focused on enhancing the leading position of Telekom as turn-key IT&C solutions provider for companies of all sizes.
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This session will be updated soonJouk Pleiter
CEO & Founder
(Speaker brought by Raiffeisen Bank)
(Speaker brought by Raiffeisen Bank)
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Jouk Pleiter is CEO and Co-Founder of Backbase, the created of the Omni-channel Digital Banking Platform.
Backbase was founded in 2003 and is privately funded with operations in New York, Atlanta, Amsterdam, and London. Global organizations such as ABN AMRO Bank, Al Rajhi Bank, Barclays, Fidelity, GE, Hapoalim, Hiscox, ING, Legal & General, Nationwide, Nordstrom, OTP Bank, PostFinance, PZU, Sberbank, and SwissCard have all improved their online customer interactions and maximized online customer experience, retention and conversion, by leveraging Backbase’s technology.
Before Backbase, Mr. Pleiter was president and co-founder of Tridion, one of the world’s leading WCM software vendors, later acquired by SDL and renamed SDL Tridion. Before Tridion, Mr. Pleiter co-founded Twinspark Consultancy, one of the first interactive web agencies in the Netherlands. Mr. Pleiter holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Groningen.
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This session will be updated soonCristiana Belodan
Executive Director
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In 11 years spent in the M & A industry I’ve dedicated all my energy to help brands become the heart of all our partner’s business. And, after almost 7 years in the GMP team, I believe it’s the passion for creativity placed in the service of the brands & people that keeps me going.
I value my work as „an act of love not a marriage of convenience”. (Haruki Murakami)
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Successful and impactful digital campaigns you can learn from.Bogdan Savu
Customized Applications & SIVADOC Department Manager
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Bogdan Savu has joined SIVECO Romania in 2014 and is leading one of the company’s key Line o Business.
Bogdan has more than 17 years of experience in software development, Business & IT consulting and Project Management.
He has successfully coordinated over 50 national & international commercial projects for leading organizations in Romania, and is supervising over 25 R&D projects with external financing.
Synopsis
Get off paper and streamline processes. SIVADOC Lite links documents and processes and is the best solution for digitalization. Based on SIVECO’s over 15 years of experience in document management development and implementation, SIVADOC Lite makes creating and digitizing documents become an intuitive, productive and fast process. SIVADOC Lite helps small and medium organizations to accelerate and increase their efficiency by consolidating a consistent and coherent image of their business. Join this session to learn more about SIVADOC Lite and explore the benefits of digital document management for business.Alexandru Mazilu
Country Manager Romania & Bulgaria
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Why should your company pay more, lose time travelling or get frustrated with complicated and over technical deployments, when you have the most versatile solution at hand? Introducing Logitech Video Collaboration, your low TCO but highly efficient video collaboration solutions for a business that grows.
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Why should your company pay more, lose time travelling or get frustrated with complicated and over technical deployments, when you have the most versatile solution at hand? Introducing Logitech Video Collaboration, your low TCO but highly efficient video collaboration solutions for a business that grows.Alexandru Negrea
Consultant Social Media
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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-Mihai Dumitru
Product Owner
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8+ METRO SYSTEMS experience in implementing, integrating and operating middleware based solutions in multi-tiered, multi-platform environments.
I have managed successfully multiple teams, enterprise integration projects with commitment to process improvement and actively contributing towards the technology initiatives.
Recently embarked in the company’s digital journey as an agile Product Owner of a PaaS team (Queueing Services) focused on building fast, scalable and distributed messaging infrastructure designed to support high-throughput data streams between microservices.
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There is a need to provide a new transformation of Digital landscape in METRO SYSTEMS and that implies by itself expanding of the middleware landscape beyond traditional technologies. It was already seen a trend that shifts the direction to more opensource technologies like Apache Kafka. Given the fact that it needs to be compliant with DevOps principles, a deployment pipeline is mandatory and we used Puppet to match the rest of the infrastructure. To meet the requirements it was clear from the start that we needed to develop multiple classes that implement specific functionalities required for such working clusters (monitoring, security, logging). This can be used and included in roles that allow us to customize our solution. In this process there are surely a lot of challenges, trying to translate our expectations in the code showed us that there are a lot more things to consider regarding dependencies and impact when you are working in a cloud environment. You are not working only in your specific technology and that suffices. We need to expand our horizon regarding cloud instance provisioning, networking, security, tracking of essentials parts in this chain. There is still a long road ahead, learning continuously will be essential for trying to push our understanding of such technology and we are making steps in the direction of providing our best solutions to a client more in need of a new middleware topology.Paul Raețchi
Chief Engineering Manager (M2M Division)
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Paul Raețchi is Chief Engineering Manager (M2M Division) at SYSWIN Solutions. His experience across an impressive number of M2M projects and his expertise in embedded software development and hardware integration have ensured successful innovative products roll-out.
From DFM to early EMC testing, Paul provides a broad range of flexible consultancy services to suit the company’s R&D needs.
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This session will be updated soonRareș Florea
Regional Country Manager CEE, Fitbit
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With over 13 years experience in various fields of activity such as financial services, retail, online marketing and e-commerce, Rareș Florea presently holds the position of Regional Country Manager CEE at Fitbit, the leading global wearables brand. From the Bucharest office, Rares oversees the commercial activities for over 18 markets in Central & Eastern Europe where the Fitbit brand is present in.
A graduate of the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Public Administration, Rareș interacted with the international business community from the very start, handling the commercial relationship with strategic partners from Central and Western Europe. Before joining Fitbit, Rareș also handled the commercial relationship for Vector Watch, the most popular smartwatch with Romanian DNA, being responsible with the brand’s commercial presence in 27 countries.
During his very little leisure time, Rares is an avid basketball player, having received notable awards for his 15 years experience at a semi-professional level.
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As an industry born out of the Internet revolution, the edges of using technology to fuel your operations are well known to you. We will discuss on the major e-commerce challenges that players face, and how a customer interaction technology could help in overcoming such challenges.Andrei Cucoaneș
Creative Director
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Andrei is a passionate designer, settled for advertising in 2006. Since then he’s been bringing technology to brands and using ”digital” as more than just a communication channel. He embraced the role of Creative Director in 2014, after ”conquering” numerous festivals, both international and local. Hungry for creativity, digitally driven and a tech junkie, he wants to inspire and help create successful stories, for both brands and creatives.
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Successful and impactful digital campaigns you can learn from.This session will be updated soon
Irina Pocovnicu
Digital Marketing Manager, Greater Balkans
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Irina Pocovnicu is an experienced professional, with over 10 years’ experience in digital marketing.
She is currently managing the digital agenda in PepsiCO, for the Greater Balkans region, covering countries like Romania, Greece, Serbia, Croatia, Cyprus; and creating digital experiences for top brands in the region, such as: Pepsi, Lay’s, Lipton, Gatorade, 7up, Mirinda, Chipsy, Star, Quaker.
Irina build her experience in both corporate and agency environment, in multiple industries and for big brands: automotive, banking, FMCG, services.
Irina is passionate about valuable digital experiences, that come from well-thought consumer insights and drive results.
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This session will be updated soonSorin Tudor
DevOps Engineer
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DevOps engineer with 6+ years of experience in managing and integrating enterprise systems with different messaging solutions. Currently a member of a new formed PaaS team tasked with providing different clients in our organization with scalable messaging patterns customized for the latest use cases.
Synopsis
There is a need to provide a new transformation of Digital landscape in METRO SYSTEMS and that implies by itself expanding of the middleware landscape beyond traditional technologies. It was already seen a trend that shifts the direction to more opensource technologies like Apache Kafka. Given the fact that it needs to be compliant with DevOps principles, a deployment pipeline is mandatory and we used Puppet to match the rest of the infrastructure. To meet the requirements it was clear from the start that we needed to develop multiple classes that implement specific functionalities required for such working clusters (monitoring, security, logging). This can be used and included in roles that allow us to customize our solution. In this process there are surely a lot of challenges, trying to translate our expectations in the code showed us that there are a lot more things to consider regarding dependencies and impact when you are working in a cloud environment. You are not working only in your specific technology and that suffices. We need to expand our horizon regarding cloud instance provisioning, networking, security, tracking of essentials parts in this chain. There is still a long road ahead, learning continuously will be essential for trying to push our understanding of such technology and we are making steps in the direction of providing our best solutions to a client more in need of a new middleware topology.Victor Horescu
ISTQB Certified Advanced Test Manager
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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
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