Adam Tornhill is a programmer, author, and psychologist based in Sweden. He isthe founder of CodeScene - the quality visualization tool to auto-detect hotspots, prioritize technical debt, and measure organizational aspects of software development.
Speaker
As a member of the Technology Innovation team, I currently focus on supporting internal and external partners to accelerate innovation and create value with focus on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. I have been also closely cooperating with academic institutions to further advance applied research and deepen cooperation between LSEG and universities. Prior to joining the CTO office team, I worked in the Group Risk team within the LCH CRO office (liquidity, stress testing and margin analytics). Beyond my ‘day job’, I regularly attend hackathons and external events to innovate even further and enjoy data community engagement. I participated in the RBS/Ulster Bank Hackathon where our team designed and presented a working prototype for an open API voice activated banking assistant.
Mihai Filipoi is a technical consultant with over 5 years of experience in Endpoint Management, highly skilled in working with System Center Configuration Manager, Intune, Operating System Deployment, Patching and Automation. He thrives in a team environment and is committed to continuous learning and professional growth, as well as continuously sharing his expertise with his team. Mihai is passionate about offering the best enterprise mobility solutions to his customers, especially during these days of remote work, as he believes that endpoint management plays a crucial role in securing corporate data by configuring access policies while at the same time supporting collaboration, productivity and efficiency of each user.
He is a fitness enthusiast, proud dog owner and a pandemic cat convert.
Mihai is leading the Cloud Delivery Management Organization at EPAM in Romania and is acting as BCP Service Delivery Manager. With more than 15 years of IT experience in different businesses like Telecom, Retail, Banking and EMEA IT Services, Mihai successfully performed in various roles like Project Manager, Product Owner, Country Manager, Business Relationship Manager and IT Leader, being focused on people growth, interfacing with clients and deploying technology to build great solutions for the customers. In terms of studies, Mihai has a bachelor’s degree in IT Transports, Politehnica University and a master’s degree in Information Security at Technical Military Academy, Bucharest. He is pursuing to become an excellent leader and performance coach, inspiring others to reach their goals and objectives and helping them grow in a proper environment
MC on CodeClash Stage
Mike Makar is a passionate technology leader and entrepreneur experienced in building and scaling high-performance teams. He has 15+ years’ experience in software development / technology management with a key focus on delivering high-quality complex software projects. In his current role, he leads the team at MassMutual Romania which is developing the next generation of cutting edge technology solutions focused on helping MassMutual to accelerate its digital capabilities and continue leading into the future.
He works as an Expert Data Engineer and Solutions Architect. In parallel, Miklos is a Real-time Data Processing, Big Data & Cloud Computing, Data Platform, and Use Case Seminar TA at Central European University, one of the best independent universities in Europe. He used to work as a Senior Data Engineer and Technical Instructor at Databricks, and as a Data Engineering Consultant at Datapao - a Data and Cloud service company covering data and cloud transformation journeys from enablement through architecture to implementation.
Miklos has experience developing data-intensive applications, data infrastructures, data platforms, handling cloud migrations, and delivering ML/MLOps & Apache Spark courses on behalf of Datapao, and Databricks - the original creators of Apache Spark.
He also co-founded Nordquant, a company focused on digital training solutions.
Miško Hevery is the CTO at Builder.io, where he is helping to empower anyone to create blazing fast sites. Previously he has worked at Google, where he created Angular, AngualarJS and was co-creator of Karma. Before focusing on making the web better, he brought testing culture to Google and the world through his blog. Miško started his career by designing digital circuits and moved to databases, full-stack development, and finally, front-end frameworks, giving him a unique perspective. He understands all of the layers from the web down to a transistor.
Muhammad Ahsan Ayaz is a Software Architect, Author of the Angular Cookbook, and a Google Developers Expert in Angular. He loves helping the startup ecosystem and product owners bring their ideas to life. And he loves to teach programming using JavaScript, Angular and Web Technologies on Twitch and YouTube via Live Streams, video tutorials, and articles.
Michael Kolomenkin holds a Ph.D. in AI and has almost two decades of experience of leading projects in a variety of areas, from diamonds, through medical devices, and to gaming. He is passionate about creating value from AI. He co-founded two start-ups and is currently is the AI Research and Innovation manager in Playtika.
Muntis is the Lead Data Scientist and Machine Learning Developer at the Emergn Machine Learning Lab. He focuses on using the latest ML/AI achievements to build the best solutions for client business problems. Muntis has several years of experience in R&D, experimentation, development of end-to-end prototypes and designing machine learning solutions.
Nancy has more than 15 years of experience in mentoring startups and investing in early stage ventures. She has more than 20 years of experience in online technology and communication as well as in team leadership. Nancy has also created and invested in more than 20 ventures. She has worked in various sectors such as Telecommunications, Media and Communication, Healthcare and Fashion. Specialising in innovation, problem solving and Marketing. In the last 8 years she has been an angel investor and this year has started a Venture Capital Fund.
Natale Vinto is a Software Engineer with more than ten years of IT and ICT technologies and a consolidated background in telecommunications and Linux operating systems. As a Solution Architect with a Java development background, he spent some years as EMEA Specialist Solution Architect for OpenShift at Red Hat. Natale is co-author of Modernizing Enterprise Java for O’Reilly and a contributor to open-source projects. Today, Natale is a Developer Advocate for OpenShift at Red Hat, helping people within communities and customers succeed with their Kubernetes and cloud-native strategy.
Testing Practice Lead
With more than 10 years of experience, he started his career in the field from ground zero - from taking part in the Telerik Academy to becoming a Principal QA Engineer/ Ninja that is at the heart of any innovation or automation initiative. Through his work, he has developed and integrated multiple custom frameworks and tools used across the entire company. He found his true passion in Automation while looking for a ‘weapon’ to fight the boring, non-productive daily tasks that a QA faces. By reducing the manual repeatable jobs, he believes that we can make the world a better place, full of happy and productive people that are ready to tackle the next challenging task, instead of the next pile of test scenarios to cover by hand. He is a passionate technology geek and automation specialist that strives to implement optimizations and achieve high-quality standards in any aspect of life.
He is leading the local Romanian Digital & IT organisation Okan has a wealth of experience and knowledge in managing IT, as well in developing and delivering Software Products.
Oli Gibson is a Principal Product Manager at Thoughtworks, where he helps enterprises and technology disruptors bring new ideas to market and build modern digital businesses. Previously he's worked as a software engineer at IBM and with startups in London and New York. Oli is passionate about developing great products, building successful product organisations, and sharing his experiences through, mentoring, blog posts and conferences.
Dr. Michael Mylrea is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Resilience, one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the US focused on disrupting medicine and manufacturing with innovation.
As a technologist with 20 years of experience developing innovative cybersecurity and digital solutions, Dr. Mylrea has successfully launched, led and advised various tech companies with leadership (CISO, CTO, CPO), board and advisory positions with industry, government and academia.
Michael Groves is a geographer with a PhD in aerial and satellite earth observation, with over 20 years’ experience in environmental management and sustainability reporting. He is the founder and CEO of Topolytics - a data aggregation and analytics business that is making the world’s waste visible, verifiable and valuable. Topolytics is acknowledged by Cleantech Group, IDC, Frost & Sullivan and SAP as a leading AI and analytics business in the £3Bn ‘waste tech’ sector.
Co-Founder & CEO at LinearB
After being a software developer for 10 years, Manuel realized that his focus on value delivery, product vision and strategic significance was pulling him towards a new and exciting role. As an IAM (Identity and Access Management) Product Owner, he brings together his three passions: Software Development, Security and Agile Methodologies. To his surprise, he discovered that coming up with a vision, defending it, making it come true and bringing value to customers while removing waste is what he enjoys most.
Manuel's powerful background as a Senior Full Stack .NET Developer provides him with the ability to define complex functionality and understand the Development Team, the problems and intricacies they face. As a Certified Information System Auditor, he understands the specifics of Authentication and Authorization both regarding security and regulatory compliance. As a Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner, he binds it all together towards delivering maximum value in an agile and waste less way.
Layla is a Developer Advocate at VMware serving the .NET community. She is a Live Coder on Twitch, a Microsoft MVP, a GitHub Star, and the founder of the #WomenOfDotNet Initiative. Layla loves sharing knowledge whilst having fun. No question is stupid and beginners are always welcome.
Leigh Felton is the Chief of Staff for Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) organization, supporting public sector clients in their cloud adoption and digital transformation journey.
Leigh joined the Public Sector team from the Microsoft Office of Responsible AI. In this role, she drove the implementation of responsible AI across the company. This included company-wide implementation strategy, planning for engineering and in-country teams, and the Worldwide Responsible AI Champs program.
Leigh is a seasoned leader, business strategist, and communications expert. She has over 20 years as a change agent, driving the adoption of new technologies and launching new products, including a deep focus on technology equity gaps in marginalized communities. She is passionate about innovative digital approaches to technology that positively benefit people's lives and societal overall.
Liran Tal is a software developer, and a GitHub Star, world-recognized for his activism in open source communities and advancing web and Node.js security. He engages in security research through his work in the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js ecosystem security working group, and further promotes open source supply chain security as an OWASP project lead. Liran is also a published author of Essential Node.js Security and O'Reilly's Serverless Security. At Snyk, he is leading the developer advocacy team and on a mission to empower developers with better dev-first security.
Engineering leader with experience in building products in Hosting and Cloud area. As a Head of Cloud Development Romania within 1&1, Livius oversees a team of highly talented and passionate engineers that are working on building several key components of the IONOS Cloud in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Cloud Automation Tooling areas.
Liz is the Executive Director of IT Innovation for The Estée Lauder Companies, powering NFT, Metaverse and emerging tech opportunities for our brands in the US, China, Europe and Latin America. Prior to her career in beauty, Liz was credited with being a global innovation leader powering the evolution of “fashion and tech.” For over a decade, she powered hundreds of partnerships between top technologies and fashion leaders through her consultancy and high-profile global industry events produced with the CFDA, IMG, Conde Nast, BFC and Pitti Immagine. Liz also hosted and executive-produced the hit podcast “Innovators”
Lucas Adams is the Head of Data Integration Platforms at MassMutual. He has been with MassMutual for 3 years. He is a passionate technologist that loves solving complex problems in creative and efficient ways. His most recent achievement is standing up a real-time event driven platform based on Apache Kafka. He is the father of two sons and enjoys cooking and exercising.
Madalin Dumitru is the Founder & CEO of Cyber Smart Defence. The company was founded to respond to the growing threats in cybersecurity. During the years, Madalin gathered specialists and ethical hackers, forming together a united, specialised team that can face any challenge in the field. Madalin also has a continuous contribution reflected into long term Customer relationship, building strategic partnerships with multinational companies and on-going research and development, always considering the cybersecurity market versatility and constant change that came as a requirement for staying relevant in the fight against cyber-criminals who always have found creative ways to exploit vulnerabilities. By joining forces with the Stefanini Group, Madalin helped in creating a global cybersecurity tower, capable of delivering all cybersecurity services on all continents. Madalin is also a respected commentator on cybersecurity issues and has previously been interviewed by the likes of NBC, Fox, ABC, Reuters and USA Today.
MC - Main Stage Day 1 and Day 2
Mete is a Developer Advocate at Google, focused on helping developers with Google Cloud. As a long-time Java and C# developer, he likes to compare the two ecosystems. Prior to Google, he worked at Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, EMC, and Nokia building apps and services on various web, mobile and cloud platforms. Originally from the island of Cyprus, he currently lives in Greenwich of London, not too far away from the prime meridian.
Martin Fiore has held a range of key strategic, operational, and client service leadership roles at EY, including his current position as East Region Tax Leader. He was Executive Sponsor of the Technology Committee that brought intelligent automation into EY and his articles and interviews on business and technology themes often appear in major business and talent media
Mary is a Java Champion and a passionate Streaming Developer Advocate at DataStax, a leading data management company that champions Open Source software and specializes in Big Data, DB-as-a-service, Streaming, and Cloud-Native systems. She spent 3.5 years previously as a very effective advocate at IBM, focusing on Java, Jakarta EE, OpenJ9, Open Source, Cloud, and Distributed Systems. She transitioned from Unix/C to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then. She considers herself a polyglot and loves to continue learning new and better ways to solve real-life problems. She is an active tech community builder outside of her day job, and currently the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG).
Mathis Hammel is a tech evangelist at CodinGame, a website specialized in mini-games to learn programming. He is a specialist and technical advisor in cybersecurity, machine learning, and algorithms. Mathis is passionate about technical challenges such as programming competitions and Capture The Flag, and holds several titles from national and international championships.
Matt is a world-renown expert on Python and Data Science. He has a CS degree from Stanford University. He is a best-selling author on Python and Data subjects. His books: Effective Pandas, Illustrated Guide to Learning Python 3, Intermediate Python, Learning the Pandas Library, and Effective PyCharm have all been best-selling books on Amazon. He just published Machine Learning Pocket Reference and Pandas Cookbook (Second Edition). He has taught courses at large companies (Netflix, NASA, Verizon, Adobe, HP, Exxon, and more), Universities (Stanford, University of Utah, BYU), as well as small companies. He has been using Python since 2000 and has taught thousands through live training both online and in person.
Matteo Emili is a Microsoft MVP since 2010. He is passionate about technology, but it is not his only interest – what really makes him tick is how technology acts as a tool to solve a complex business problem, ultimately bringing benefits to the clients he works with.
Regular speaker at conferences and meetups, he enjoys sharing back with the worldwide technical communities – especially about ALM, Agile and DevOps.
He currently works at Avanade UK as a Group Manager for Software Engineering.
Maxim Salnikov is an Oslo-based cloud and tech community geek. He is a web dev maestro who builds apps since the end of the last century and shares his extensive web platform experience by speaking & training at developer events around the world. Daytime, Maxim is boosting cloud skills at the country scale by leading developer engagement in Microsoft Norway. In the evenings, you'll find him organizing the country's main web & mobile meetups, and two full-scale tech conferences.
When doing promo on social media, please reference my corresponding accounts:
https://twitter.com/webmaxru https://www.linkedin.com/in/webmax/
Dr. Melanie Rieback is the CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world’s first non-profit computer security consultancy company. She is also a former Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Free University of Amsterdam (VU) who performed RFID security research (RFID Virus and RFID Guardian), that attracted worldwide press coverage and won several awards. Melanie was named 2010 ICT Professional of the Year (Finalist) by WomeninIT, one of the 400 most successful women in the Netherlands by Viva Magazine (Viva400) in 2010 and 2017, one of the fifty most inspiring women in tech (Inspiring Fifty Netherlands) in 2016, 2017, and 2019. She was also called the Most Innovative IT Leader by CIO Magazine NL (TIM Award) in 2017 and one of the 9 Most Innovative Women in the European Union (EU Women Innovators Prize) in 2019. Her company, Radically Open Security, was named the 50th Most Innovative SME by the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (MKB Innovative Top 100) in 2016.
Hello, I’m Ollie, Software Engineer, passionate about music, culture and motorcycling and dedicated to personal development.
Paul is the Head of AMS & IMS Team at EPAM Romania. He has a background in Telecommunications, Engineering Technology and Project Management and over 13 years of international experience working in Telecom and Banking Services. His is passionate about building and developing teams, and also driving Digital Transformation to unlock business value for customers, with a focus on DevOps adoption, CI/CD pipelines implementation and QA Automation. He is a tech-savvy with a keen interest in body language and beekeeping.
Laurentiu Diaconu is the Vice President of Data Engineering for Verumex, and based in Bucharest, Romania. He is responsible for the Data Engineering strategy of the company (tools, platforms, patterns, best practices, general architecture etc.), as well as overseeing Data Engineering & Analytics execution for VmX’s products and for our clients within the commercial real estate vertical. He is the Principal Architect of the VmX Enterprise Data Platform and brings a mix of software engineering, data analysis, machine learning & product design experience to the table
I'm an intrinsically motivated and passionate QA Lead whose speciality is exploratory, automation and continuous testing. Last 13 years I've worked as Software Engineer, as Test and QA Lead, helping individuals and teams grow, improve and overcome challenges. My previous project put me in a context where I had to learn about security testing concepts and started to develop a passion for it. In my presentation, I'll give a real perspective on how a team, a company, can take the first steps in the Security Testing field.
Coming from the East side of the world, Teresa is passionate about mobile applications and Cloud technologies, she has been working with many talented developers to craft various apps and projects throughout the years. Teresa likes to explore the world of multi-platform, the fun of continues delivery, testing automation and much more
He is a DevOps specialist with deep knowledge in developing cloud-native applications and containers, doing Java development for 20+ years.
"I know the pain developers have in the modern App Dev world. I like working with containers and Kubernetes, but the thing I like most is to help developers go fasters. Currently, I’m working in the Production Engineering team at Vungle.
I spent several years at Red Hat and learned a lot about open source. Nowadays I try to promote open source where I can and encourage developers to start contributing...sharing is caring."
Entrepreneur, Tech Product Design, Innovation.
30-year background in entrepreneurship, technology and the design of software and hardware products with a focus on tackling big problems at scale. Experienced at introducing modern and innovative product design techniques to corporate and government customers around the world.
A hands-on technologist, maker and contributor to a number of Open Source projects.
Most recent focus:
- Helping co-author the CDF Best Practice Guide for DevOps
- Leading the CDF MLOps Roadmap
- Bringing MLOps capabilities to the Jenkins-X CI/CD platform to simplify the challenge of operating machine learning solutions in production environments
- Setting up a product commercialisation strategy for teams working on applying machine learning solutions in start-up environments.
Contributor to the IEEE International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) Roadmap, Factory Integration and Systems & Architectures chapters.
Thomas has enjoyed working in software companies for almost 20 years. He played different roles (technical consultant, project manager, architecture, technical director) in software companies as a PS/Pre-sales/R&D member. This variety on missions allowed him to develop balanced technical & communication skills.
He has now become a fulltime R&D member and has extended his skills through a more technical angle. He enjoys mentoring people both from a human and a technical point of view. Help people grow and allowing them to deliver quality products on time is his greatest source of accomplishment.
Thomas is a Software Architect specialized in building highly-scalable, resilient, and secure enterprise applications. He develops software solutions at Systematic, Denmark, where he’s been working on modernizing platforms and applications for the cloud-native world, focusing on developer experience and security. Thomas likes contributing to open-source projects like Spring Security and Spring Cloud. He’s the author of “Cloud Native Spring in Action - With Spring Boot and Kubernetes”, published by Manning, where some of his main interests converged, such as Kubernetes, Buildpacks, Knative, and other cloud-native technologies.
Tyler is the Executive Director, Integration Delivery at The Estée Lauder Companies. He is an entrepreneurial global leader with a strong track record of innovation, business enablement, technology modernization, strategy development and execution. Tyler has over 20 years of IT experience with CPG companies focused on Supply Chain technologies, M&A, and Integration.
Vali is the Senior Manager for User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design at The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC). He is responsible for creating standards in Accessibility Design that will serve as a foundation in future ELC apps to better serve all ELC users and customers. Vali has over 10 years of experience in the UX/UI field in different niches such as e-commerce, banking, media and pharmaceuticals.
Viktor Farcic is a Developer Advocate at Upbound, a member of the Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and Docker Captains groups, and a published author.
His big passions are DevOps, GitOps, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences.
He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox. He published The DevOps Toolkit Series and Test-Driven Java Development.
Steve Jarrett has taken responsibility for a new Data and AI Department defining the Group's data strategy. This new organisation consolidates key skills to help the company develop use cases, enrich services, improve processes based on data and artificial intelligence, as well as enhance the value of this data externally.
Steve has been a product leader and entrepreneur in AI and mobile for over 25 years, including building one of Facebook’s first strategic machine learning programs in 2013, working with Apple on the original iPod, and product managing the first mobile browser at General Magic. He has also been founding CEO of three software companies in the US and UK.
Manager in Embedded systems domain
Vlad Moldoveanu is a Tech Lead at Deloitte Digital and a true representation of a tech passionate. He literally wrote his first computer program on a CIP-03 computer in BASIC back in the early 90's! His passion for technology and the tech community is what drove him to start the foundation of the Front-End Guild in Deloitte Digital a few years ago and grow it to over 100 members. If he has a choice, he particularly enjoys working with React and server-side rendering technologies. Besides coding he's also a retro computing enthusiast and a bedroom guitar player.
Walter Bright is the creator and first implementer of the D programming language and has implemented compilers for several other languages. He's an expert in all areas of compiler technology, including front ends, optimizers, code generation, interpreter engines and runtime libraries. Walter regularly writes articles about compilers and programming, is known for engaging and informative presentations, and provides training in compiler development techniques. Many are surprised to discover that Walter is also the creator of the wargame Empire, which is still popular today over 30 years after its debut.
Will Carlson is a purpose driven leader focused on developing solutions for the people and businesses he serves in the IT and cybersecurity community. He has mentored thousands of individuals, delivered thousands of hours of content to help others start or upskill their careers, and deployed solutions to a global market to help organizations be better prepared to respond in the face of cyber threats.
In his role as Cybrary’s Senior Director of Content, he has the opportunity to combine his background leading IT, cybersecurity, game development, training production, and team building to solve problems for millions of individuals worldwide. He's been interviewed in publications such as the Washington Examiner and EdSurge, hosts the Cybrary podcast, and regularly participates in panel discussions focused on cybersecurity education and training.
When he is not working, Will enjoys traveling the country with his family, vocal performance, and constantly being a student of cybersecurity.
Yishai Beeri likes to solve problems, and that's why he was so fascinated with programming when he first encountered Logo back in the 80s, where the possibilities seemed endless.He has made it a focus of his career to solve complex programming problems, both as a consultant and entrepreneur. In 2014 he joined the CTO office of a fast-moving cloud security startup, which later was acquired by a networking giant. At this startup he also met Ori Keren and Dan Lines, now co-founders of LinearB. He joined them shortly after the company was established, in order to get back to what he loves most about engineering, solving big challenges, and this time he is focusing on the world of dev team metrics and software delivery management.
Youcef is passionate about software development with a strong interest in architecture and software design. He has a great experience working with wide and complex development environment. He has worked on different aspects of software development from project planning to requirements gathering through to design, modeling, writing and testing code, creating documentation and support.
Over the past 15 years, Yuval Wilf has served in different architecture and infrastructure management roles in the Security domain. Yuval currently manages the infrastructure group for Cognyte’s network intelligence analytics, responsible for developing infrastructure tools of DevOps, MLOps and ML models for Cognyte’s portfolio. Yuval is also a lecturer and trainer in several colleges and training organizations.
Teofil Plaiasu is an iOS developer who enjoys helping make the digital world accessible to a wider audience through the mobile apps. Teo has over 9 years' experience as a mobile developer. He joined Raiffeisen Bank's development team in 2018 and since then he worked on one of the most complex and challenging projects. Both his technical and management skills were valued as equal and since March 2021 he accepted the challenge of leading the internal Mobile Development team.
Steliana has a diverse background that spans business management, digital transformation, and marketing. A technology aficionado and a seasoned business professional, she currently serves as Head of Marketing & Digital Transformation for OTP Leasing, part OTP Group, focusing on leveraging the technology and new ways of working for the benefit of the customers, teams & business.
She has a Ph.D. degree, obtained with a thesis rooted in two of her main fields of interest – Big Data and Communication - and is a Maastricht School of Management Alumna.
Previously, Steliana worked for local & international organizations, focusing mainly on developing innovative projects that enabled the power of technology for social good and software product development. During her career, she managed or was part of teams that developed innovative tech projects, e-government, and social welfare technology projects, mainly in CEE.
She is a Leadership Board member at Global Women in Tech and Board Member of UniHub – Bucharest University’s Entrepreneurial Students Organization, focusing on advancing in the public agenda two of the most important topics for her: #diversityinSTEM and student entrepreneurs.
“Paulo A. Pereira is the VP of Engineering at Remote. Paulo was previously Director of Engineering at Onfido and Seera Group. He is passionate about building product engineering teams. Paulo co-authored Microservices in Action and authored Elixir Cookbook and was one of the technical reviewers for Learning Elixir and for Mastering Elixir.”
Radu is senior manager, passionate about business analytics challenges by creating innovative data integration and business intelligence solutions by bringing creativity to technology to drive better business performance.
More than two decades of consulting, mentoring, research, and development experience, with focus in the areas of BI and data integration.
Specialties: • Service Delivery Management • Information Architecture • Data Science • Data Engineering
Pavel is a developer, trainer, author and speaker. He has written several books dealing with the inner workings of windows, such as "Windows internals 7th edition part 1" (co-author), "Windows Kernel Programming", and "Windows 10 system programming". Pavel is the author of many open - source tools, which can be found on his Github repos.
Petronel Paun has over 10 years of experience as an IT specialist. He has a solid professional background and expert knowledge of database systems and data platforms, plus he has worked with multiple technologies both on-premises and cloud. Through the various projects he has been exposed to, he learned and took part in all of a data project's lifecycle events (architecture, governance, delivery and maintenance). Passionate about neuroscience, psychological behaviour, and leadership, he has a good sense of promoting people and keeping the team in the first place to establish a perfect and balanced working ecosystem focused on delivering the best results.
Petru is Lead Technical Designer in Cegeka with over 10 years of experience in software development with solid knowledge in full life-cycle software development process: definition, prototyping, coding, testing, implementation and maintenance. He is a problem solver and passionate about learning new skills.
Phil is a serial internet entrepreneur passionate about disrupting established industries through technology. Before co-founding AdsWizz, he was also part of other technology businesses that have become category leaders. Phil holds a Ms. Sc. Eng. in Applied Mathematics and Engineering and published several research papers on cryptography, smart cards, and information security. When Phil is not busy AdsWizzing all around the globe, he tries to spend as much time as possible with his family.
Backed by more than 15 years of experience, Pierre is honing the ability to abstract and simplify complex systems to build solid foundations necessary for large scale projects. Passionate about IT and entrepreneurship, he is also the tech angel behind many early-stage or more mature companies. After graduating as a civil engineer in Computer Sciences, he founded several successful companies and in 2019 joined AdsWizz to scale and elevate its architecture and the Technology Innovation unit.
Sethu Vijayakumar is the Professor of Robotics at the University of Edinburgh, UK and the Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. He has pioneered the use of large-scale machine learning techniques in the real-time control of several iconic robotic platforms such as the SARCOS and the HONDA ASIMO humanoids, KUKA-LWR robot arm and iLIMB prosthetic hand. One of his landmark projects (2016) involves a collaboration with NASA Johnson Space Centre on the Valkyrie humanoid robot being prepared for unmanned robotic pre-deployment missions to Mars. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a judge on BBC Robot Wars and winner of the 2015 Tam Dalyell Prize for excellence in engaging the public with science. Professor Vijayakumar helps shape and drive the national Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) agenda in his recent role as the Programme Director for Artificial Intelligence (AI) at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI.
I am an idealistic, passionate, and enthusiastic software architect and teacher. I like to change software development by bringing software creators and domain experts closer with Domain-Driven Design.
Radu Vunvulea is a technology enthusiast working as Group Head of Cloud Delivery for Endava. He has a 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 Regional Director and Microsoft Azure MVP.
Spencer Mott is Booking.com and Booking Holding’s Chief Security Officer responsible for leading the global Security and Fraud program inclusive of cybersecurity, fraud, risk management, product software security, data privacy, physical and corporate security
Rafael del Nero is a Java Champion & Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, creator of the Java Challengers initiative and quiz master in Oracle Dev Gym, is the author of "Golden Lessons - 100 Insights to Overcome Life's Challenges and Achieve Your Career Dreams." Rafael believes there are many techniques involved in creating high-quality software that developers are often unaware of. His life's purpose is to help Java developers use better programming practices to code quality software for stress-free projects with fewer bugs.
After her apprenticeship as an application developer, Ramona has contributed to product development at shopware AG for more than six years: First in quality assurance and now as a software developer. She owns both views of the product - that of a tester and a developer. Ramona primarily uses this to strengthen trust in test automation and support the testers. The automation in the end-to-end area of shopware originates from her pen, and she continues to push it firmly - even becoming a Cypress ambassador in the process.
Curious about technology and how it is made, Rayna started her software engineering career more than 15 years ago, contributing to the success of medium and large software development companies across EMEA and the United States. Her more recent endeavor is at VMware where she engages the personal qualities in generating innovative communications to develop and maintain lasting relationships for the advancement of the company and achievement of the business goals. Rayna is a firm believer that behind every great product we have cutting-edge technology, close collaboration with customers and endless spirit of innovation.
As a passionate advocate for empowering women in the IT industry, Rayna leads the Sofia chapter of Women Who Code. Women Who Code Sofia started as a small community of enthusiasts, and is now the largest and most popular women in tech organization in Bulgaria.
Where I spend my free time: Volunteering. Travel. Squash
Razvan Sighinas joined ING Bank Romania management Board in March 2019 as CIO.
Răzvan is active in the IT field for more than 20 years, having started as a software engineer and moving on to operations and senior management roles in US and Europe for major players including Oracle, Vodafone and Electronic Arts. He holds an engineer’s degree from the Bucharest Polytechnic University, an MBA from HEC France and several major certifications in software and project management.
Prior to his joining ING he operated as Senior Director for Electronic Arts, running an organization spanning across US, Canada, Romania, Ireland and India in charge of providing technology solutions and services such as game engines, big data and real time analytics solutions running behind all Electronic Arts’ digital offerings.
In the past 10 years he also headed the IT Operations for Vodafone Romania and created the IT Shared Service Center in Bucharest for Vodafone Group.
Travelling, tennis and water sports are his main hobbies and he takes great pride in his two boys that share this passion for sports and technology.
Rob has a strong focus on ALM and DevOps, automating manual tasks and helping teams deliver value to the end-user faster, using DevOps techniques. This is applied on anything Rob comes across, whether it’s an application, infrastructure, serverless or training environments. Additionally, Rob focuses on the management of production environments, including dashboarding, usage statistics for product owners and stakeholders, but also as part of the feedback loop to the developers. A lot of focus goes to GitHub and GitHub Actions, improving the security of applications and DevOps pipelines.
Robert is a software engineer with more than 20 years of experience in telco and fintech. With an inventive and curious mindset, Robert applies science to automate and simplify his everyday life and make it (even) better.
Sargis Sargsyan has been in the software industry for more than ten years. Agile and teamwork believer with experience working in distributed international teams, using Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodology. He was a part of solid industries specialized in Mobile, Web, SaaS, and Enterprise applications. He had a chance to work with American, German, Czech, and Armenian companies during his career. Passionate about public speaking and knowledge sharing.
Software engineering specialist with R&D expertise in machine learning and applied computer vision. Developed AI-enabled solutions in areas such as: Well-being, Assistive tech, Fitness, Customer experience understanding, Automotive safety, Surveillance and Real-time body tracking using RGB-D cameras.
Java Stage - Moderator
Laurent is a developer passionate about software, hardware, science and anything shaping the future. He works for Google where he ecstatically explores cloud technologies. In a previous life, he pioneered the ebook industry, co-created the 1st European ebook reader, and co-founded Bookeen. He now enjoys sharing his passion in international conferences. You can find him on Twitter at @PicardParis.
Adina is the Director of Software Engineering for The Estée Lauder Companies' (ELC) Digital Technology Center in Bucharest. She is onboarding, developing, and grooming a team of talented professionals with a mission to deliver high-quality, luxury products to consumers around the world. A passionate coder, Adina joined the IT industry building a retail platform designed for brand drops. Intrigued by high-traffic and data-heavy applications, she has since developed ad serving solutions, mobile affiliate networks, and gaming platforms. She brings her vast experience to her role at ELC to shape new optimization strategies and ways of working.
Future of Engineering Stage - MC
Testing stuff since 2013, also has a business-to-business sales background and a Computer Science bachelor. Delivering soft skills and testing related presentations and workshops. Always tries to give his best.
Andrei Mihai is a passionate software developer and tech enthusiast at 1&1 Internet Development / IONOS. He has spent over 15 years developing Java applications, microservices, DevOPS pipelines and in the last years, Machine Learning tools.
Andrei is also very interested in Quantum Computing and finding real usecases for applying Quantum Technologies.
Anghel has worked with Wolters Kluwer for over 12 years going through starting as a Java developer and reaching his current role of Application & Product Architect. During this time, he has been involved in several projects in the regulatory reporting domain overseeing several major technological upgrades of these products and a move from on an on-premise to a SaaS deployment model. His key interests are architecture and design using Java and related technologies, with a strong focus on performance while conforming to the business constraints of the solutions.
CTO and Co-founder of Automate The Planet Ltd, inventor of BELLATRIX Test Automation Framework, author of bestsellers "Design Patterns for High-Quality Automated Tests: Clean Code for Bulletproof Tests" in C# and Java. Nowadays, he directs a team of passionate engineers helping companies succeed with their test automation. Additionally, he consults companies, leads automated testing training series in C# and Java, writes books, and gives conference talks. You can find him on LinkedIn every day.
Aviram is an experienced global technology leader, Aviram manages Qualitest’s technology and excellence centres and solution architecture group.
Babak Hodjat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak_Hodjat) is the CTO for AI at Cognizant where he leads a team of developers and researchers bringing advanced AI solutions to businesses. Babak is the former co-founder and CEO of Sentient, responsible for the core technology behind the world’s largest distributed artificial intelligence system. Babak was also the founder of the world's first AI-driven hedge-fund, Sentient Investment Management. Babak is a serial entrepreneur, having started a number of Silicon Valley companies as main inventor and technologist. Prior to co-founding Sentient, Babak was senior director of engineering at Sybase iAnywhere, where he led mobile solutions engineering. Prior to Sybase, Babak was co-founder, CTO and board member of Dejima Inc. Babak is the primary inventor of Dejima’s patented, agent-oriented technology applied to intelligent interfaces for mobile and enterprise computing – the technology behind Apple’s Siri. Babak has published many papers in the fields of Artificial Life, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence, and has 31 granted or pending patents to his name. He is an expert in numerous fields of AI, including natural language processing, machine learning, genetic algorithms, distributed AI, and has founded multiple companies in these areas. Babak holds a PhD in Machine Intelligence from Kyushu University, in Fukuoka, Japan. Babak is also the author of "The Konar and the Apple", a collection of short stories based on his youth.
Persuading data to confess the truth and transforming it into valuable advice is my passion. The journey in the ocean of data started about 20 years ago with a PhD flavoured with a lot of econometrics. Afterwards I had happily sailed many projects in management consulting, university research and teaching projects. Four years ago I had a crush on gaming industry that made me a data scientist, a big data project manager and an enthusiastic data analyst at TSG last year
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach has spent over a decade developing programming languages and software libraries. He is the HPC Programming Models Architect at NVIDIA, where he leads programming language standardization efforts and drives the technical roadmap for NVIDIA's HPC compilers and libraries. Bryce is passionate about C++ and is one of the leaders of the C++ community. He is the chair of INCITS/PL22, the US standards committee for programming languages and the Standard C++ Library Evolution group. He also serves as editor for the INCITS Inclusive Terminology Guidelines. Bryce is the program chair for the C++Now and CppCon conferences. On the C++ Committee, he has personally worked on concurrency primitives, parallel algorithms, executors, and multidimensional arrays. He is one of the founding developers of the HPX parallel runtime system.
Andreea is a Senior Lead Business Analyst, part of the Intelligent Automation Center of Excellence at The Estée Lauder Companies. She is responsible for driving the Community of Automation Champions program and networking with contributors to ensure adherence to UiPath Automation Hub guidelines. She maintains project tracking across the Global Scrum Team Projects to provide project benefit quantification and up-to-date details of financial aspects of project delivery. Andreea has four years of experience in the field of Robotic Process Automation. Over the years, she worked on several international RPA project implementations as a Business Analyst and RPA Consultant for multinational companies in industries such as insurance, oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceuticals. Andreea holds both a master and a bachelor degree in Business Administration from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies in Romania.
