Andreea Profeanu
IT Security Engineer
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IT Security Engineer with experience in the operations area.
As part of the METRO SYSTEMS security team I am protecting the business information stored on websites, servers and desktop computers.
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Live Hacking Session: Get control over a corporate device in a rather secure environment Protecting the corporate environment against malicious hackers is always a complex task. While reaching acceptable efficiency in bugs discovery and increased system security is achievable using well documented methods, other attacking vectors can still be left open. Employee training and security regulations are sometimes considered low priority.Mihai Tataran
General Manager, Partner @Avaelgo
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Mihai Tataran is the General Manager of Avaelgo, a Microsoft Gold Partner on Cloud Platform, and he is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional on Azure. Lately Mihai had an extensive experience with Azure: completed solutions for different customers, advisory engagements for large organizations helping them define and execute their Cloud strategy, and also delivered technical trainings on Azure. Mihai has been a speaker for many years at international conferences: DevReach in Bulgaria, Codecamp Macedonia, TechEd NA 2011 and 2012 BoF sessions; he is also involved in organizing ITCamp Romania.
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What to consider when migrating a solution to the Cloud, or when establishing an organizational strategy for the Cloud, with examples on Microsoft Azure, based on Avaelgo’s experience with multiple customers and solutionsFlorin Filote
Director eMAG Marketplace
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Having more than 10 years of experience in retail and FMCG and another two years in the industrial field, in companies such as Selgros Cash & Carry (one of the biggest Cash & Carry retailers in Europe), Vel Pitar (the Romanian bread industry market leader) and Ecopack (the oldest manufacturer of industrial packaging and paper in Romania), Florin Filote runs eMAG Marketplace for more than two and a half years. During this period, the platform has seen an impressive growth in the number of partner stores, with an expected number of over 10.000 sellers this year, across the region – Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary.
Founded in 2001 by Romanian entrepreneurs, eMAG is a pioneer of the Romanian ecommerce market and became a regional leader, with a strong presence in Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland. For 16 years, eMAG is constantly investing in technology-based services that help customers save time and money. With a growing range of products, both through its own offer and through Marketplace sellers, eMAG is the place where anyone finds and buys anything, from any place. Clients benefit from added value services, such as 30-days return policy, opening the parcel at delivery, 24/7 call center, Pick Up and Return Service, loan financing through eCredit, “1-click buying”, mobile application with its instant swipe ordering service. At eMAG, customers can find a wide range of products, from IT, mobile phones, domestic appliances, electronics, books, children articles, auto parts and accessories, insurance, home and garden or sport equipment.
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This session will be updated soonVlad Sorici
Architecture & Services Project Manager, Orange Romania
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Project Manager of the Orange Fab project, Vlad began working with Orange Romania in 2012 in the Development & Innovation team, focusing on defining architectures for new services (Business Wi-Fi, Orange Passpoint, Wi-Fi Call).
In recent years, he has been working on research projects for the development of new-generation networks and services, including 5G, and developing sustainable partnerships with the start-up ecosystem.
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Orange Fab Romania is a 1-year startup accelerator, conceived to support entrepreneurs in developing innovative products and help them distribute both locally and globally. This startup program is looking for start-ups in Romania with mature innovative products that not only improve people’s live but set a trend on how people will live in the future and has 4 tracks: Future of life, Security, Networks of future and Smart territories, which includes also energy.Adrian Sora
Senior Enterprise Arhitect @ Logika IT Solutions
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Senior Enterprise Architect with extensive experience with Oracle products, starting with technology solutions (Oracle Database, Weblogic Server), middleware solutions (Oracle Identity and Access Management, Oracle WebCenter Suite, Oracle SOA Suite), business applications (Oracle E-business Suite) and cloud solutions (Oracle IaaS in public cloud and on cloud on premise, Oracle PaaS – database and java cloud service).
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With only a few months to go until the GDPR becomes law, businesses, should now seriously consider the impact of the GDPR by carrying out an internal gap analysis of current data privacy and cyber security practices as compared to GDPR requirements. The presentation is meant to discuss the role of the IT, challenges and what Oracle products can do in mitigating GDPR requirements.Irina Margescu
IT Solution Consultant
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As an IT consultant she over-delivered business solutions for customers in Romania. She has a big team of specialists and her own experience behind her to design the best in branch projects and to deliver the expected results. The strength of Bittnet is much greater than the sum of it’s members’ strength. The quality of human resources boosts teamwork and collaboration.
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This session will be updated soonNicoleta Anton
Global Ratings and Reviews Manager
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Nicoleta Anton is TomTom’s Global Ratings and Reviews Manager. In this role, she looks after the consumer ratings and reviews strategy at TomTom worldwide and ensures that customer feedback is used purposefully in the organisation. With over six years of experience in online marketing, training and events, in both corporate and nonprofit environments, Nicoleta now focuses on the role ratings and reviews play in the Consumer Decision Journey and makes sure that the voice of the customer online plays an integral role in product marketing and development.
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As a business, you might dread the thought of bad customer reviews and the damage they can cause to your bottom line. You should be – the power of ratings and reviews is undeniable and their importance has only been on the rise in recent years. But there is also great value in reviews. If you listen to your customers and show them that you care about their issues and not only about your image, the reward will be their understanding and support. In this talk I will give you insights into how you can use consumer feedback to improve your products and services, build a relationship with your audience and tailor your marketing communications in order to be successful in a competitive landscapeGeorge Iordache
Sales Team Leader, eMAG Marketplace Romania
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Since 2014 in eMAG, George is leading the Soft Lines Marketplace sales team, a position from which he contributed directly to the listing of more than 400 partners on eMAG.ro. In addition, George also coordinates the Hungarian eMAG Marketplace sales team. George has 10 years’ experience in sales and entrepreneurship, founding a publishing house specialized in consulting periodicals for public institutions and schools.
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Koen Vanhees
Security Operations Manager
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Koen Vanhees holds a master in electronics, but soon in his career his passion moved to Linux, scripting and automation. Later on, he worked as a Unix consultant in an IAM project for one of Belgium’s biggest banks, and steadily his passion for security grew massively. He currently holds a number of certificates (OSCP, GWAPT, GCFE, GMON) and as a security engineer at Cegeka he became an expert in a wide range of fields: security monitoring digital forensics, incident management, penetration testing, vulnerability management. Nowadays he acts as the Security Operations Manager in Cegeka’s SOC, being responsible for the proper operation of the team in all its facets and to develop a long term technical security strategy for Cegeka and its customers.
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Cegeka offers state of the art Security services which assists its customers to address, control and minimize the risks posed by today’s overwhelming cyber security risks. The Security Operations Center, which operates independently within the organization, aims to deliver innovative service towards its customers to improve the “detect” and “respond” capabilities. One of the primary fundaments is an equal focus on the three aspects in information security: people, process and technology.Ioan-Florin POPA
Technical Team Lead
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Florin is a results-driven, customer-focused, articulate and analytical Software Engineer who can think “out of the box”. Strong in design and integration problem solving skills. With over 7 years of experience in implementing complex Java-based enterprise applications, his technical skills cover a wide range of technologies from all layers of a software product: Presentation, Business Logic, Data Access and Database.
During his career he has coordinated complex development teams and he has been involved in developing and delivering trainings as part of Luxoft Professional Training Center.
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Find out about one of the most powerful Spring Framework projects, whose purpose is to unify and ease the access to different kinds of persistence stores, both relational database systems and NoSQL data stores. During the presentation we will go through the most important Spring Data JPA features, check out the best use-cases for each of them and, in the end, configure from scratch a simple Java EE project’s persistence layer using Spring Data JPA and Hibernate JPA provider.Lucian Aldescu
CEO
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Lucian Aldescu is the CEO of DPD Romania – a courier company with 40 years of experience in Europe. Lucian started his career in transport & logistic field in 1994, as a logistic manager for Eculine. In 1997 he founded, together with James Gray-Cheape, Pegasus Courier, company which was acquired in 2008 by Geo Post and was renamed DPD Romania.
Lucian Aldescu graduated an MBA program at Tiffin University and has been the president of AOCR (Courier Operators Association of Romania) during the period 2009-2011.
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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.Stefan Hoerhammer
Co-founder and COO of Medialine AG
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Stefan Hörhammer, the co-founder and COO of Medialine AG that runs the operations for 11 European locations. was born in Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate in 1977. At the same time, the trained lawyer draws on more than 17 years of industry experience in IT. While studying, Stefan Hörhammer and his brother Martin built and distributed the first PCs and telephones and laid the foundation of today’s owner-managed company. Starting with a “Garage Company”, the brothers now serve as a full ICT service provider with 150 employees and over 600 customers in Germany and across Europe. Stefan Hörhammer has been a very requested speaker for many years now, awaking the enthusiasm of his listeners by practicing a controversial style and practical conversation approach.
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Why is digital disruption happening? Why and how digitalization is changing business models and what it means for each of us? During Stefan Hoerhammer’s speech you will find out how the digital vortex works and how it has changed during the past three years. You will also see examples and receive advices on how to handle digitalization in changing company structures and you will find out why companies spend so much money on digital disruptor.Dan Mocanu
Owner at Leap Forward
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Dan Mocanu is a catalyst for accelerated growth in business through pioneering business strategies and breakthrough leadership.
He is an accredited Blue Ocean Strategy practitioner, professional coach with ICF and has over 500 credit hours in leadership development certified by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) in USA.
Dan has lived for 17 years in the United States where he worked at Microsoft in Redmond, WA and taught physics and math in colleges in Seattle, WA.
The cumulative additional revenue catalysed by Dan reaches over 50 million with an average ROI of 50 to 1 and at least of 10 in 1.
Since his return to Romania in 2004, Dan has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs, executives, senior managers and key management persons of over 150 local and multinational companies to elevate performance and transform the organizational culture.
He is a TEDx speaker, a respected keynote speaker and large group facilitator.
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Calin Damian
Digital Rider, CEO Temperfield
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Digital Rider & forward-thinker, entrepreneur & Temperfield CEO for a decade, focusing in bringing Digital Mastery in the Transform2digital journey of your company, both with traditional & new technologies. Practitioner with Mastery competences in: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Security & Data Recovery, Software Defined Network & Software defined Data Center, Artificial Intelligence. Trainer for +2.500 trainees, +12.000 hours in 8 countries. Transform2digital Community builder & enhancer to empower CXOs in digital transformation.
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@Temperfield we strongly believe that Technology should not be the ultimate Solution for everything, if used without Purpose. We definitely put Purpose in all our digital projects, not only to Transform2digital our partners, but also to give them more than technological benefits. We create together a better way to transmit their Purpose to the clients, users, employees. So, you can also use Technology for a higher Purpose! Find out what you really can do better for your customer, for their lives, how you can improve not only your figures and profits, but also the work of your employees or the level of life quality through your products, services or attitude. Decide what you can do, what is your real “why” in business & world and we will help you do it with Digital Mastery. You deserve to have access to technology and innovations, to benefit from virtualization, private cloud or machine learning for delivering faster, easier and better and we can be there for you to Transform2digital. But most of all you deserve to have access to the hope that your efforts really make a difference and generate people’s engagement, not only reach them. We will share with you Temperfield digital statement for delivering Mastery & Purpose. For example complex projects in minutes instead of days; or our efforts to innovate the eCuore solution (based on AI algorithms), to improve diagnostic & monitoring in cardiology, for realtime EKGs and livesaving. Or many other projects to help companies Transform2digital. But most of all we will share our MINDset & HEARTset with you, to digitally embrace hope & purpose that should join technology & humanity. Are you in for a better Purpose of Technology?SDN yourself to meet the dual network challenge! Become the Security Unicorn everybody wants! When it comes to security, everybody is looking for 'reliability + stability' AND 'to-be-delivered yesterday versatility', in the same time. "Make it solid as a rock and agile as the wind!" they say. "Impossible as an Unicorn", you might think. But don't give up your security strategy just because it feels too hard to find the right Unicorn. Trust us, we've met & raised them @Temperfield, they live in a new paradigm, the SDN (Software Defined Network) one. You can become the company's magic security creature that deliver fast, keeping in the same time reliability and centralized control. Now you can reach for solid & agile state in the same time. Provide yourself a unique set of APIs to create a single management console for physical and virtual devices. Get more granular security as virtualization has made network management more challenging, by managing a central point of control to distribute security and policy information consistently throughout the enterprise. Become the Unicorn-of-the-month in your company, doing all these security network miracles, while lowering operating & expenditure costs. Make the impossible Unicorn become possible with SDN!
Marius Costin
Country Manager PayU Romania
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- 11 years of experience in telecom
- 13 years of experience in management positions
- approximately 800 people – the largest team coordinated
- 4 industries
- 2 business start-ups implemented with a financial impact of 8 digits – expressed in euros
- 9 future managers who have benefited from his coaching and mentoring
Behind these figures lies one of the best performing Romanian managers, Marius Costin.
Currently, Marius Costin coordinates the PayU Romania team – the number 1 expert in online payments – as Country Manager. His focus is on building talents and teams, retaining highly motivated people and identifying opportunities for accelerated growth on the e-commerce market.
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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.How can we adopt and stimulate de adoption of online payments: - online payment security - trusting payment operators - communication campaigns delivered by industry actors - cross-border payments: context, advantages, added-value that PayU can bring
Andrei Dumitrașcu
Business Development Manager
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As a relevant mix between technology, software product development and programming (software application), Andrei has a proven experience in coding web and software application implementation (over 10 years). During all these implementations, Andrei was actively involved for the business analyses, process modelling and software development, strongly achieving skills like research and development, communication (also speaker at IT&C events), consultancy, project management, customer satisfaction and programming. Having a full technical background validated by studies and personal development, Andrei has also strong expertise in entrepreneurship and growing start-ups from MVP to well positioned tech products on the local market (for example, Softlead, an integrated lead generation marketplace for software applications).
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