Dan Cadar
TV Producer
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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.
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Florinel Chis
Executive Director - ARMO (Romanian E-Commerce Association)
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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.
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Alexandra Roată
Managing Partner Softlead
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Passionate about software and technology, with 9 years experience in entrepreneurship and a strong background in digital marketing. In the last 4 years, Alexandra managed to create and launch the first software marketplace in Romania, with main focus on B2B lead generation. Over 600 software solutions are listed on Softlead and she are planning to develop also a dedicated product, to increase the valid leads and the opportunities for each company in the platform. In tech industry, Alexandra has been invited for several times to speak about software market and about her own experience at both local and global events.
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Alexandra Pahomi
Co-founder & Creative Director at prSTEPS
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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.
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This session will be updated soonLiviu Chirila
Digital Priest, CTO Temperfield
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Digital Priest & positive digital disruptor, with a decade-long IT experience to Transform2digital people & companies, promoting new technologies, such as virtualization, private cloud or Artificial Intelligence@work. Liviu is animated by putting these technologies in help of humans & heart disease medicine, with a simple and genial idea to help people with CVDs, using technology advancement. eCUORE team puts a mix of highly innovative skills to improve the rules of diagnostics and monitoring in Cardiology worldwide. eCuore is a breakthrough solution, based on Artificial Intelligence algorithms & cloud technologies, for detecting cardiovascular disorders in Real Time from patients, which will be able to send accurate alerts to emergency services and save lives. Come@IMW to see eCuore@work!
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When it comes to B2B, it seems that heart has no significant role to play. But what if we would think of our colleagues, employees, partners as humans with a heart and possible heart diseases? What if we could use technology not only to better our profit figures, but also to better our health & lives? Would this be a new ingredient to make your business stronger & healthier? Come & see live eCuore, our breakthrough solution, based on Artificial Intelligence algorithms & cloud technologies, for detecting cardiovascular disorders in Real Time from patients and even saving lives with accurate alerts to emergency services. You will see new technologies@work: cloud, virtualization, NSX, Artificial Intelligence. You will discover with Liviu Chirila, Digital Priest & CTO Temperfield, that Digital Mastery can do wonders for your business & hearts. And we will think of further ways to put technology@work for your business too! Come@IMW & see live eCuore presentation at Enterprise stage & at our I03 booth!Corina Staicu
Chief Operating Officer
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With over 9 year professional experience in the IT industry and a strong education background in Automatic Control and Computer Science, Corina is now overseeing the operations in eSolutions, a young and dynamic IT company experienced in Cloud, Big Data and Enterprise solutions.
Corina is an Agile enthusiast and a strong believer of servant leadership concept. Her favorite quote is : “The only source of knowledge is experience” Albert Einstein.
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Gabriel Vasile
Former tech journalist, blogger and freelancer
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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.
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Florin Buga
Security Operation Engineer
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I have been working for METRO SYSTEMS since 2014, starting a career in the IT security field one year later. Searching and finding vulnerabilities inside Metro Systems is one of my main goal.
Synopsis
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.Laurentiu Ghergu
Developer Advocate & Senior Java EE developer
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Laurentiu is a passionate Java developer working at IBM Client Innovation Center and a Bluemix developer advocate. Currently he is focusing on building cognitive chat bots using Watson technology for IBM clients and in parallel he is also a full stack developer for a Java EE-based commercial software-as-a-service offering deployed in IBM’s cloud system Bluemix.
As a member of the IBM Romania Technical Expert Council, he is taking part in multiple initiatives targeted at increasing developer understanding of cloud technology.
Prior to joining IBM, Laurentiu worked on multiple high availability, mission-critical Java EE-based web projects which integrated IoT devices over proprietary protocols.
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Find out how the platform as a service and function as a service models of IBM Bluemix can increase the operational efficiency. This session will provide a high level overview of the cloud platform and an understanding of IBM Cloud Functions, which is a distributed, event-driven compute service. We will also analyze how Cloud Foundry runtimes, the foundation of Bluemix PaaS model, can reduce time to market for web applications.Alex Bordei
Director of Engineering & Head of Product
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Alex Bordei is a Developer turned Product Manager. He has been developing infrastructure products for over ten years. Before becoming Bigstep’s Director of Engineering, he was one of the core developers for Hostway Corporation’s provisioning platform. He then focused on defining and developing products for Hostway’s EMEA market and was one of the pioneers of virtualization in the company. After successfully launching two public clouds based on VMware software, he created the first prototype of the Bigstep platform, in 2011. He is engaged in mapping out even more useful perspectives on the big data paradigm in order to encourage exploration and innovation through big data.
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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.Technical solutions to GDPR-generated problems are rarely discussed nowadays, even though the ethical and legal aspects abound. Starting May 2018, due to the GDPR, Citizens will have the right to question and fight decisions that have been made on a purely algorithmic basis. How do we actually explain a decision taken by an automated process based on a neural network based model? There is a €20m fine if a customer can be re-identified from anonymized or pseudonymized data. How do you protect against re-identification? The presentation will discuss potential technical solutions to the issues raised by the new pan-European regulation.
Mugur Patrascu
Managing Partner
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Mugur Patrascu is Managing Partner of Screen Native agency and associate professor of the Faculty of Journalism and Communication. He has 16 years experience in communication, including 13 years in the digital.
After several years in television, Mugur began his advertising career at D’Arcy. Leo Burnett and Grey followed. In 2006 he launches the digital agency iLeo, one of the first digital communication agencies in the market.
Over the years, Mugur opened and raised, along with other associates and other businesses in the digital domain: the “Orasul Meu”portal, the mobile media communication agency Breeze Mobile or 4inmasina project.
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Zaharie-Lucian Lupșescu
Technical Security Consultant
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Technical Security Consultant with experience in Research and different aspects of the Security industry. Holder of OSCP Certification and passionate about IoT devices and new technologies.
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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.Ciprian Jichici
Microsoft Regional Director, Romania Most Valuable Professional for Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Architect, HTSS
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I am an IT professional with a business focus and I spend most part of my professional time designing, architecting, and managing the development of cloud computing solutions on Microsoft Azure. An important part of this activity is helping top-level business decision makers realize the potential of cloud computing. The challenges, complexity, and awesomeness of the many technologies I have to deal with is what drives and motivates me to learn more every day.
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Today's advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are unfolding at an unprecedented pace. Huge gains in computing power – GPU power and, recently, FPGAs – and an ever-increasing concentration of it in public cloud infrastructures provide a spectacular boost for the AI world. Theoretical constructs that 10-15 years ago were looking computationally unfeasible are becoming today mainstream (think about deep neural nets for example). Microsoft, one of the leaders in the field with a wide range of AI-related services powered by Microsoft Azure, is making all this “intelligence” more and more affordable, to the point where it becomes a commodity. Still, despite the spectacular technical advancements, many questions remain unanswered or have unclear answers. Where’s the ethical, personal, and social line that has be drawn with respect to this new technological area? Are we in danger of losing our jobs? And, the most important question of them all – are we embarking on a path of self-destruction?Vulpoi Marcel
University Lecturer, ASE Bucuresti, CEO Vulpoi&Toader Management
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Marcel leads the largest accounting company with Romanian capital, having experience in working with over 600 clients in all activity fields. He has successfully combined his university career with the practical activity, managing to transfer the know how from theory to practice.
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An ERP software presented as such, no matter how spectacular would be, has no value by itself for a company. An ERP project should be first of all a project for optimization, standardization and controlling of the whole business. What is the future of ERP? What is the best way to implement an ERP system? What is its optimization potential for a company? We are waiting for you at the conference to provide answers and further examples to such questions!Marius Marica
Managing Partner @Contam - SoftOne Authorized Partner
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Marius Marica, Managing Partner @Contam – SoftOne Authorized Partner, has a “special attraction” to Soft1 ERP customizations, thanks both to his over 16 years of experience in the IT & Banking industry and his passion for helping businesses grow using one of the greatest resources available: Innovation. Marius became an entrepreneur few years ago when he founded Contam and started selling, deploying and customizing SoftOne solutions to various companies, regardless their industry, size or location. He belongs to the elite area of professionals that truly understand the beauty of innovation & technology applied in business and make use of it in his day to day life.
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You don’t need to start small, you just have to think big and be ahead of the market! Turbine Engineering is a small company that is not only using one of the most advanced ERPs on the market before reaching 200.000 EUR turnover, but has come to the point where the Soft1 application is truly indispensable for managing his business. The company uses ERP customizations that help them keep track of working hours, money, time and fuel losses and use every minute of their time for generating profits.Andrei Jianu
Digital Manager, Zenith Romania
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Andrei is the Digital Manager at Zenith Romania.
After 8 years in traditional advertising business and marketing strategy, he chooses to redesign his career and navigate into the intersection of marketing, technology and content, the most challenging and dynamic playground, digital.
It’s a world where there’s not a single, definitive right answer for, say, the perfect mobile strategy. It’s a matter of launch, learn, refine, re-launch.
For Andrei it’s not only about a place to work, it’s a way of living.
He strongly believes in the benefit of the doubt.
He knows that is safe to experiment, to challenge, to live in a continuous changing environment. He is comfortable with being uncomfortable and push the vital influencers such as growth and innovation as further as he can.
