After developing first high speed digital data acquisition systems for large scale plasma physics experiments, the German physicist joint the technology giant BOSCH.

Starting as head of early Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) activities, he later contributed over decades in leading managment functions to performance and growth of BOSCH as a high tech company with real global footprint.

As President of Automotive Electronics Div. Robert Bosch Corp. Tokyo-Shibuya/Japan, he was responsible for Sales, Engineering and Manufacturing – serving all Japanese OEM Car companies globally.

Having a lot of international experience with new green field sites and still a digital frontier with manufacturing passion – Konrad is establishing now a new high automation plant for BOSCH Automotive Electronics, prepared and ready for the future markets of IoT – just right here in Cluj.

Konrad is a longterm fan and contributor to Open Source until today. Based on this experience he introduced LINUX as server OS to BOSCH advanced software labs and automation environments starting already from 1992 on.

Konrad holds a Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) in physics of the University of Hannover/Germany.

Globally recognised technology and supply chain expert, futurologist, entrepreneur and startup enthusiast. Antonio is regularly sought out for his fresh perspective and brutally-honest style of accurate forecasting. Evangelising innovation with 20 years advisory experience in technology consulting, disruptive supply chains, and new business models. Continuously influencing the future, working together with most Fortune 500 global companies and mentoring hundreds of startups worldwide.

Experienced Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the IT industrial engineering industry. Skilled in MES(Manufacturing Execution Systems), Nexeed MES, Advanced Process Control, Control Systems Design and SCADA. Strong information technology professional with a Master’s degree focused in Advanced System Control from Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca.

Septimiu Nechifor (male, PhD) graduated from the University Transilvania of Brasov in 1998 as an Electronics Engineer. He obtained an MsC in the field of”VLSI Design Techniques” in 1999 and a PhD in Control Engineering in 2016. Septimiu Nechifor joined Siemens in 2001 and he is current Research Group Head inside Business Analytics and Monitoring technology field in Siemens CT. His professional experience covers topics like ERP, Service Oriented Architecture, Distributed Systems, Knowledge Management and Applications. He is a certified Project Manager (affiliated IPMA) with experience in risk evaluation, software quality systems, knowledge based process development. Mr. Nechifor research activities covers Internet of Things, Configuration & Scheduling Systems, Autonomic Computing & Networking, Constraints Programming, Event Driven Architectures and Semantic Web applications. He is driving Siemens CT Romania research activities in a large number of IOT, Cloud, AAL and Green Data Centers EU funded projects.

Trainer. Developer. Speaker. Event organizer.

These are the ingredients that make Daniel loves his job.

In the last 3 years, Daniel delivered 1000+ hrs of training on .NET web technologies for more than 500 students.

In the last 2 years, he was a speaker on .NET technologies at more than 20 IT conferences in Europe (Romania, Norway and Greece), and Europe, and the USA.

Excited about their great potential, Daniel expands the learning focus towards the new kids on the block, Internet of Things and Machine Learning.

Daniel strongly believes in the power of the community and he’s the organizer of two meetup groups (both part of .NET Foundation), Cluj.NET and .NET Romania, and the co-organizer of ApexVox, a free .NET conference for developers.

VP – Romanian Smart City Association (http://romaniansmartcity.ro/)

Co – Founder – Trend Informatica (https://trendinformatica.eu)

Co – Founder – Casa din Viitor (http://casadinviitor.ro/), Home from the Future (http://homefromthefuture.ae/)

Managing Partner – Dewatering & Silent Piling (https://dewateringandpiling.com/)

Cristian studied management and economics in Milan but then continued with technology related studies. Involved in smart city projects, managed BIM projects, GIS critical infrastructure projects and IoT for smart homes and smart buildings projects.  Cristian is an experienced executive who developed an IT company focused on IoT and Automation processes and a design and construction company focused on technology, environmentally friendly solutions and circular economy. He is certified in Artificial Intelligence by MIT and a supporter of international and intercultural collaboration.

Ciprian is Expert in Data Sciences working on R programming, Data cleaning and Data Matching, Web scraping, Data analytics and visualization, Data mining, Big Data, data integration, data processing and data validation, use of administrative data in compiling statistics.

Karina is a member of the global initiative “women in tech”, an experienced IoT & Blockchain developer and an international speaker, who has been awarded the Trust of The Audience Award in 2016. She has Master degrees in Applied Informatics in Economics and Geospatial technologies, besides of this she has worked as Developer Lead and Sales Engineer last 12 years in 5 countries.

Alex Bordei is a full-time WordPress enthusiast and a part-time IoT hobbyist.

Always a dreamer and crazy about system interactions, he is trying understand and to integrate everything in order to always obtain a new system.

Powered by a rainbow mind and always playing, he found the theorem that proves that the sky is the limit.

Monica is a reformed architect, grown in a web startup environment with blurry lines between marketing strategy, product management, UX design & copywriting. For the past year she’s been using her experience to support the growth of Romanian entrepreneurs, as part of the very passionate Startarium team. She’s fueled by curiosity an unexplained attraction to deconstructing processes of any kind, which we’re looking forward to indulging on May 16.

I graduated the Electrical Engineering Faculty from Technical University of Bucharest, however pursued a career in information technology therefore all jobs a had were in IT sector: database for small and midsize firms in City Council District 4, then worked in R&D institute, after that I entered private sector joining a company developing a software platform for financial institutions, for electronic stock exchanges.

In 1998 I started my career in METRO as an Oracle developer. After two years I became team lead, having this role for six years until 2007 when I’ve been promoted department manager, and starting with 2011 I am senior manager. In first 15 years working at METRO I’ve travelled in many countries performing development, support and deployment activities, project management, user training, consulting as technical expert, gaining good business knowledge and understanding of our customers and their needs, and also increasing the experience working with multinational teams. During management career, I was responsible of many teams and departments, with different areas of business and technical expertise.

Servant Leader with great communication skills having a proven track of results in creating a productive environment within multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams with a focus on continuous service delivery improvement. Combines reliability, approachability with people management skills to achieve empathy with colleagues, stakeholders and clients alike. Comfortable working in environments that are undergoing complex change, working in an iterative manner and challenging appropriately.

Mike spent his days as Developer Advocate at IBM Watson Data Platform, using his time to share knowledge on rapid development and different databases.  Now he is looking for the next AWESOME challenge BuiltByME. Most of the time he can be found in the middle of a prototype in some combination of JavaScript, server tech and odd API’s.

Mike also happens to be an active part of the hacker subculture, taking part in hackathons and development conferences.

Java Enthusiast 🙂

Em Grasmeder is the Data Witch of ThoughtWorks Germany. Aside from writing code and uttering incantations, Em spends time playing a banjo or a mandolin, falling off her skateboard, and spreading anarchist propaganda. After failed careers in both schoolbus driving and experimental economics, Em taught herself to write software. She’s especially interested in genetic programming and the ethical challenges presented by capitalism to the field of data science.

Passionate about emerging technologies, Big Data and the microservices world. I lead an awesome team that delivers great results by turning research work into products.  Most of my work is technical and it involves design, architecture and implementation of high-end scalable solutions to challenging problems at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering. I like working with the newest technologies and I adopted the microservices architecture since 2014 and started working with cool stuff like Kafka since its 0.7 version.

Starting with developing Android apps, continuing with monolithic applications and now dealing with the chaos  and in the same time  with the beauty of microservices, I could say about me that I am a curious developer and a person with a constantly eager to learn.

Programming is fun, and that’s how am I : creative, sociable and I like to joke and laugh.

I have a 5 year experience in Java programming and I can say that it is the ideal domain for people interested in being aware of the new technologies and appetite for constant learning.

Jock is a freelance head of product, author (http://amzn.to/2tnHacR) and startup mentor with over seventeen years’ experience working in technology with startups and larger organisations. These include the BBC, Mind The Product, the Ministry of Justice, University of Cambridge and the Government Digital Service (GDS).

Ovidiu joined UiPath as a Product Manager in March 2019. He has more than ten years’ experience in managing projects in the area of data retention, data import, data transformation, data analysis, audit, and reporting. He is passionate about conscious leadership, adult development, integral coaching, yoga, and climbing.

I am passionate about designing IT architectures, mainly in the Big Data area. I created and I manage the Bucharest Big Data meetup community and I am a trainer for Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka and Hadoop eco-system.

Xebir Founder & CEO I work daily with complex projects using Agile/Lean/DevOps approaches to achieve business goals. Software Engineer with a Master Degree in Software Technology and Software Management, I support companies in their transformation path in order to make them more dynamic and value-oriented, creating a strong Lean oriented culture.
Agile Business Coach, Microsoft MVP and Disciplined Agile Consortium member, agilist of the first hour, I’m the leader of the AgileIoT.org and Eclipse Duttile open projects, an empirical disciplined approach to create massive IoT market solutions.
I am a speaker (and co-organizer) at the most important Agile and Microsoft conferences in Italy and across Europe.

Ties is a Senior Software Engineer working for JDriven. He began his career mostly working on fixing bugs in a big monolithic application. This made him passionate about exploring concepts and ways to code to prevent bugs from ever occurring. He embraces this passion in his daily life by helping companies with architecture, programming, and training as a Sofware Consultant at JDriven.

19+ years of software development experience for various projects and technologies, specialized on mobile development (Android) and Java. Got experience over time in most parts of software production – from QA, programming to management, leading, mentoring, software design, recruiting and also teaching Android/Java.

Been involved as tech leader or project manager in many projects/applications – related to social media, messaging, computer-aided educational processes, graphics, animation, physics simulation, artificial intelligence, audio-video/signal processing, conferencing, games, packet filtering/manipulation on networks, signaling servers, testing environments, selling platforms, analytics etc.

Worked with many programming and scripting languages, from BASIC and Pascal, C, C++, .NET, C#, and so on – to Perl, JS, Python and Java.

I have more then 7 years in Java Development, 5 with Spring Stack. I am a Clean Code and Clean Architecture Evangelist.
I  am a teaching assistant at the  Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Bucharest where I guide students in the practical side of learning java for 3 years now.
I am an ambassador for Softbinator,  one of the first meetups from Bucharest that hosts technical meetings in an informal, care-free  manner.

Paul is a self-made and master-of-all-trades entrepreneur. Tech enthusiast and former developer, he is now easily triggered by anything startup-related. As co-founder of a few startups and CEO of Around25, Paul’s most powerful skill is building strong and self-sustaining teams.

James went from senior-level executive search in financial services to scaling and building tech-based startups globally over the last 15 years. With a people-centric career that has spanned through innovation in recruitment, personal funded startups and consultant for some of the fastest scaling platform businesses in London and beyond, James is now the Co-Founder/CEO of Squid40 and is focusing on a challenge culture based on uniting collaboration and empathetic minded professionals that have amazing startup ideas with inspiring founding teams.

Felix Crisan, Co-founder Netopia / mobilPay Felix is a programmer, entrepreneur, investor, with a keen interest in new technologies, passionate about big data and crypto-currencies as a real-world blockchain application.

Radu Vunvulea is a technology enthusiast working as Group Head of Cloud for Endava. He has vast experience in different technologies and industries. Most of his time is spent working with the cloud, helping companies to innovate and finding solutions to their business problems. He enjoys building bridges between people and helping others to grow. He shares his knowledge on his personal blog and at different events where he is invited as a speaker. In his spare time, he drives an IT community and he is also a Microsoft Azure MVP.

Bogdan has approximately 10 years of software development and technical leadership experience and 2 years of experience in the delivery of technical training, mentoring and coaching on enterprise Java and microservices ecosystems. Bogdan’s current skill set comprises mentoring and training Agile teams on software architecture, development, testing and improving projects based on the Spring ecosystem, microservices and Reactive Programming. When he is not lobbying for clean coding and software design patterns, Bogdan is either running marathons, reading behavioral economics books or traveling around the world.

Catalina has an extensive experience in User Experience and Design Thinking, leading creation of digital experiences in companies as Electronic Arts (where from 2017 to 2019, she led the Romanian UX team for FIFA) Vodafone and ING Bank.

At ING she went from coordinating innovative digital campaigns, making ING one of the most loved Romanian brands in social media, to being the person behind the experience of ING Bank’s internet banking, Home’Bank.

She left the corporate world to become an entrepreneur, co-founding the Design Thinking Society with, what she proudly says, other 3 of the best makers in Romania, on their way to make some changes around design in Romania. They are an Innovation and Design consultancy boutique, offering companies and startups consultancy, while providing the best framework to improve their products and services.

Catalina is also a UX trainer, mentor and advocate of design thinking and doing approach. She is a certified Google Design Sprint Master, Google Developer UX expert and invest effort and time in developing and supporting the tech communities.

Marton Kodok is a Google Developer Expert on Cloud, senior software architect at REEA.net and a Romanian hero on StackOverflow with 133k reputation points. He led the implementation of complex and distributed systems serving millions of users for companies like FreeLogoServices, LogoMix, WaterSmart, Ausschreibungsdienste and many more.

A globally experienced executive, I create and lead high performing digital businesses. With a focus on product, innovation & transformation, my work spans enterprise and startups in financial services, automotive, transportation and logistics, retail, UK government and healthcare.

Oli Gibson has worked with companies, across all sectors, helping them build better products. He has been an entrepreneur, developer and is now a Product & Strategy Consultant at ThoughtWorks. After several startups, his focus shifted towards the enterprise where he now helps organisations transform their business strategy, take an experimental approach to product development and manage cultural transformation.

Monira Rhaimi has worked across multiple roles from software engineer to product manager, in different regions of the world. Having experienced many different environments, teams and cultures, she developed a passion for product management, lean and agile practices and culture change in organisations.

Currently working for ThoughtWorks as a Product Consultant, she has the opportunity to practice her craft and deepen her learnings while helping teams start a change.

Cristian Lungu PhDc is an ML trainer and consultant actively working on Image processing and NLP related problems since 2015. He’s currently leading the Tecknoworks ML team. He also taught or teaches software and machine learning concepts in various formats in the past decade.

Passionate about technology and founder of Infra-Con community (https://www.facebook.com/InfraConRomania/)

Alex Lakatos is a JavaScript Developer Advocate for Nexmo. In his spare time he is a Mozilla Tech Speaker and has been a contributor to the Mozilla project for the past six years, based in London. JavaScript developer building on the open web, he has been pushing its boundaries every day. You can check out his github profile or get in touch on twitter. When he’s not programming, he likes to travel the world, so it’s likely you’ll bump into him in an airport lounge.

I love building in the Cloud. I’m passionate about web development, data analysis, serverless, andeverything Cloud. Let me know about your open-source projects on AWS.

Sergiu Cisar has over 10 years of experience in the IT & Software industry. Interested in networking & infrastructure, tooling and automatic configuration, Sergiu has grown from Network Engineer to Senior DevOps Engineer and now Operations Lead.

[Eugene Istrati] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eistrati) has spent over two decades as a technologist in a variety of industries, including digital media, cloud computing, and reputation marketing. Before joining Mitoc Group as Technology Partner, Eugene worked as Director of Engineering at Hearst Corporation and Program Manager at Amazon Web Services. He holds a dual Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, as well as a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

Architect | Technical Coach | Enabler, focused on cloud-native application development, DevOps &Continuous Everything. 

Björn Rabenstein is a Production Engineer at SoundCloud and a Prometheus developer. Previously, Björn was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google and a number cruncher for science.

iOS software engineer and trainer specialised in data-driven apps with an emphasis on prototyping,best practices and balance with agility – Web developer trying to achieve the best balance betweentechnology and requirements Specialties: iOS, Swift, Ruby, Rails

Alin Turcuis a community manager @ Cognizant Softvision, in charge of the Mobile and AI communities. From coding to architecture solutions and coordinating engineering teams, Alin was involved in all stages of mobile app development during his career.

Lately he mostly focuses on software design, experimenting with the latest frameworks and technologies and building high performant teams mobile teams. Alin is also an active contributor to open source libraries and loves sharing knowledge, speaking at various mobile conferences including DroidCon San Francisco, DroidCon Romania and MobOS.

In his little spear time he likes to play basketball, practice boxing and going to the gym. He always says: “if you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong, never stop searching for better ways to do things and innovate, innovate, innovate in everything that you do!”

Ioana has more than 9 years testing experience with a specialization in mobile apps and  she is leading a small team of testers in an outsourcing company. In her free time she contributes to Open Source projects while hacking a coffee, being a Mozilla Representative, Mentor and Peer. She has a mission to run the world while exploring it.

Hi, I’m Willian, I’ve been earning money doing FrontEnd since 2007 although I work on IT since 2004. I like to call myself as JS formatter and CSS tweaker since I don’t really care about job titles. I’m very concerned about company culture, therefore, I love to be and shape the company I want to work by leading by example and giving nice and constructive feedback. Tech-wise, I’m a framework agnostic more than that, I prefer Web standards over frameworks.

Passionate about cybersecurity. Started working at Cyber Smart Defence in 2014.

Cyber Smart Defence is one of the fastest growing cyber security companies in Romania, also in the United States, Middle East and Europe that employs ethical hackers in order to identify and give solutions for the vulnerabilities within the IT infrastructures.

I am a Senior Android Engineer with six years worth of experience in developing Android applications. My passion always resided in creating beautiful applications, and researching for new ways to improve user experience for mobile devices.

I see myself as an effective leader, skilled in enlisting the support of my team members so they are aligned with the project’s and organisation’s goals. Using a meticulous and detail-oriented approach, I am able to prioritise and delegate tasks effectively, to ensure project completion under the best of terms.

New improvements in technology and frameworks are no strangers to me, and adapting to a continuously changing mobile world is something that I take on enthusiastically.

Florin Otto is VP Product at Modex right from the start. Blockchain enthusiast, experienced tech entrepreneur, and product manager with deep knowledge in building and managing multiple products across different companies and diverse teams. Deeply passionate about building products that make people’s lives better, focused on strategy and designing the way that technology will serve both businesses and consumers. He demonstrated success in building and managing blockchain products from ideation to the actual implementation, product launch and ongoing management.

Sitting at the forefront of disruption, Florin and his team are bridging the gap between the development community and the real world. At Modex, they empower developers to build DApps that are simple to use and make the complexity of the blockchain and smart contracts more accessible to everyone. In essence, they are solving the last mile problem of the blockchain, the adoption.

Dragos is a senior UI developer at MHP Porsche. Driven by a passion for the emerging smartphone platforms during college, he initially started working in mobile User Experience and then in Hybrid Web app development around 8 years ago, and for several years has been focusing on building apps on the web, as well as on the nature of this medium.

Constantin is an experienced consultant with a focus on Business Intelligence and BIG DATA projects and applications, authorization concepts and performance optimization.

Based on his 15-year work experience with several SAP modules and non-SAP BIG Data application, he is responsible for the Business Unit BI&BIG Data at MHP Romania.

His team of about 50 colleagues is focusing on high-end SAP BI and BIG Data solutions as well as on state of the art SMART Manufacturing process solutions.

Founder of Helios Vision – a Bucharest-based Artificial Intelligence startup – and Intel Software Innovator. Background in applied computer vision and machine learning research, developing solutions in areas such as: surveillance and activity recognition, intelligent traffic analysis, automatic document classification, accident prevention and real-time object reconstruction with 3D cameras.

Over the past few years, I was involved in many projects using big data and machine learning technologies.

During this time, I have develop a passion for working with data and had the chance to meet a lot of people with similar skills. Together with some friends we created BigData/DataScience and Cluj.AI communities in Cluj-Napoca where we have been organizing many meetups and workshops.

I’m really happy to present at DevTalks the open source library I’m currently developing. I’m looking forward hearing your feedback as it will help me in the future development.

With over 10 years of experience in the BI space, Simina is passionate about making chaotic numbers look tidy and meaningful, and enabling people to make informed decisions based on their data. Simina has worked with a wide variety of BI tools from Microsoft, SAP, SAS, TIBCO and Tableau.

She is currently developing BI solutions related to Project and Portfolio Management, for clients in the life sciences industry.

Julia has been doing design, community engagement and now is a Developer Advocate for Nexmo. She spends most of her time wrangling Node-RED into doing her bidding, creating resources for the community.

Håkan holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and in addition, he holds a Master’s degree in Leadership and Organizational behavior. He has also taken courses on university level in psychology, interaction design and human-computer interaction. He has 19 years’ experience of software development in various positions such as developer, tester, architect, project manager, scrum master, practice manager and team lead.

Viral Parmar is a Serial entrepreneur who runs ComExpo Cyber security company as well as Infinite Defense Foundation a non-profit organization in India. He is a Developer Advocate, Productivity Hacker, Open Source Strategist, Technical Evangelist, Community Liaison, International TechSpeaker, he is a Cyber Security researcher by profession and open source enthusiast working in a field of information security from last three years with the expertise in Cyber Crime Investigation, Public Key Infrastructure, Social Engineering, Web App Penetration Testing, Digital Forensics and Mobile Security. He found sever vulnerability in 150+ well known websites like Intel, your story and solved more than 100 cases of cyber-crime & online frauds. He is famous for his research Cyber Disorder and Who is spying on you. Trained 150,000+ people till now and aware them about privacy and security. Given Seminars and workshops in 150+ Organizations. He is Working with Mozilla foundation from last 2 years as Reps, Mentor in Mozilla Open Leadership Project, Coach(Privacy and Security) in MozSprint 2018, also working with L10N project on Pontoon, Rust and WebVR projects.

Trishul is a professional frontend developer; writes React code for living and volunteers for Mozilla to justify his existence. He promotes PWAs to developers #teamWeb. He loves to talk about modern Javascript and tries to use it to solve all of his problems, even the domestic ones. He is an expert in developing browser extensions.
You may know him for his [Measure-it](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/measure-it/) extension with 20K+ users. He also creates [Youtube tutorial videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI08QU9qtPEJiBs7rVOT4FvXJlisDgTlS), to help developers to understand and get started with various Webextension APIs.

* More than 10 years of experience in front-end.

* Team leader at Yandex, one of the biggest IT company in Europe.

* Gave more than 50 front-end talks on different conferences.

* Permanent open source contributor with about 500 contributions on github in the last year.

* A member of BEM core team since 2011.

Paul Apostol is the founder of Digital Nation, having started the community back in 2013. At the head of the organization, Paul works alongside digital natives in teaching technical skills to Romanian youth, specializing them in areas of programming, cloud computing, UX design or social media marketing.

At the same time, Paul heads the community’s entrepreneurial division, Digital Incubator, where relevant projects are developed for Romanian industries in need of digitization – agritech, smart cities, fintech, big data, blockchain and IOT.

A programmer originally, Paul has been working in tech for the past 15 years, 8 of these at the helm of Easyhost, leading the cloud supplier’s operational activities in Romania and the UK.