Agenda


Hour

BIG DATA ARCHITECTURES

Hour

CLOUD & INFRASTRUCTURE



08.30 – 09:25

Registration & Welcome Coffee

08.30 – 09:25

Registration & Welcome Coffee



09:25 – 09:30

Cristina Andries
Cristina Andries, Big Data Division Manager // eSolutions, Stage Moderator – Intro & Welcome

09:25 – 09:30

Adrian Seceleanu
Adrian Seceleanu, Journalist, Stage Moderator – Intro & Welcome



09:30 – 10:10

Pierre Villard
Pierre Villard, Director of Product Management, Data in Motion // Cloudera – Apache NiFi. Your Architecture’s Must-Have

09:30 – 10:00

Adrian Georgescu
Adrian Georgescu, Director – Enterprise Commercial and Public Sector // Microsoft Romania and Moldova – Romania. Potential. Technology. Future



10:10 – 10:50

Alex Frangulea
Alex Frangulea, Platform Architect // ING Hubs Romania
Bogdan Vergelea
Bogdan Vergelea, Platform Architect // ING Hubs Romania – Optimising Data Lake Practices for Digital Innovation in Finance: Accessibility, Usability & Observability

10:00 – 10:40

Alina Son
Alina Son Senior Manager, Software & Product Infrastructure // _VOIS
Tudor Datcu
Tudor Datcu, Team Leader, Cloud Infrastructure // _VOIS – A Platform’s Evolution: From Private to Public Cloud Infrastructure Commissioning


10:50 – 11:20

Morning Coffee Break

10:40 – 11:10

Morning Coffee Break


11:20 – 12:00

Adrian Arhire
Adrian Arhire, Data Scientist // Thoughtworks – The Mirror Lakehouse: Revolutionizing Data Querying With Machine Learning Models

11:10 – 11:50

Viorel Anghel
Viorel Anghel, Head of Cloud & Infrastructure // eSolutions – On-Premise Kubernetes Storage Options



12:00 – 12:40

Marius Costin
Marius Costin, Data & Analytics Team Manager // Freshful – How It Started and How It’s Going – Our Journey from Ground Zero and Where We Stand After 2 Years

11:50 – 12:30

Cornel Popescu
Cornel Popescu, Systems Engineer // Veeam Software – Winning the War on Ransomware


12:40 – 13:20

Adrian Bledea-Georgescu
Adrian Bledea-Georgescu, Senior Cloud Engineer // CrowdStrike – Large Database Rebalance Using Monte Carlo Algorithms

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break


13:20 – 14:20

Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:10

Sorin Dumitrescu
Sorin Dumitrescu, VP of Engineering // Bunnyshell – Why You Need Environment-as-a-Service to Boost Developer Productivity



14:20 – 15:00

Cosmin Rentea
Cosmin Rentea, Senior Software Engineer // Adobe
Bianca Costache
Bianca Costache, Senior Engineering Manager // Adobe –Streaming in the Delta Age

14:10 – 14:50

Alex Bordei
Alex Bordei, VP of Product Management // MetalSoft – Building Flexible & Affordable Infrastructure for Private LLMs



15:00 – 15:40

Dan Mihai Dinu
Dan Mihai Dinu, Engineering Manager // Bolt – The Secret Ingredient in Bolt Food

14:50 – 15:20

Afternoon Coffee Break


15:40 – 16:10

Afternoon Coffee Break

15:20 – 16:00

Catalin Paunescu
Catalin Paunescu, Founder & CEO // Star Storage – Unlocking the Cloud Advantage: Modernizing Your Enterprise Content Management With DOCS2CLOUD – Powered by SEAL



16:10 – 16:50

Sonia Pipa
Sonia Pipa, Data Scientist // Endava – Advancing Healthcare Data Analytics With Graph Neural Networks

16:00 – 16:40

Andrei Manea
Andrei Manea, CEO & Co-founder // CloudHero – The Right Time to Pick a Hyperscaler: A Step-by-Step Guide to Seamless Migration


16:50 – 17:10

Andrei Tudose
Andrei Tudose, Director of Product // diconium The Future of Data Products

 




Hour

AI / ML

Hour

BI & ANALYTICS

08:30 – 09:00

Registration & Welcome Coffee

08:30 – 09:00

Registration & Welcome Coffee



09:00 – 09:10

Octavian Palade
Octavian Palade, Stage Moderator – Intro & Welcome

09:00 – 09:10

Tatjana Magdin
Tatjana Magdin, Founder // ClarityBI, Stage Moderator – Intro & Welcome



09:10 – 09:30

Horia Niculescu
Horia Niculescu, Customer Engineer – Data, AI, ML // Google Cloud – Embracing the AI-Powered Data Future

09:10 – 09:50

Gabriel Dragan
Gabriel Dragan, Team Lead – Digital Services // Deutsche Telekom Services Europe Romania – Digital Transformation With MicroStrategy



09:30 – 10:10

Andreea Munteanu
Andreea Munteanu, MLOps Product Manager // Canonical – Engineering Tomorrow’s Decisions: Building Predictive Analytics Projects With Open Source

09:50 – 10:30

Marius Grumazescu
Marius Grumazescu, Data Platform Team Lead // eMAG
Michał Gutowski
Michał Gutowski, Solutions Engineer // Cloudera – From Warehouse Walls to Open Waters: eMAG’s Data Lake Evolution


10:10 – 10:50

Claudiu Dima
Claudiu Dima, Head of Machine Learning // Veridion – The Economics of Inference

10:30 – 11:10

Morning Coffee Break


10:50 – 11:20

Morning Cofee Break

11:10 – 11:40

Alex Ivana
Alex Ivana, Product Manager // Adobe – Focus on the Outcome Not on the Output



11:20 – 12:00

Dorian Hodorogea
Dorian Hodorogea,Client Engineer Data Analytics CEE // Google Cloud – Google Generative AI Usecase – Bringing All the Models Together

11:40 – 12:20

Gabriel Nan
Gabriel Nan, Senior Software Engineer // EPAM Romania – Apache Spark: Tune it UP


12:00 – 12:40

Mihai Moglan
Mihai Moglan, Machine Learning Engineer // smartdata
Eduard Balamatiuc
Eduard Balamatiuc, Data Scientist // smartdata – Enhancing Wind Turbine Reliability: A Case Study of Data & Machine Learning-Driven Modules


12:20 – 13:00

Irini Misios
Irini Misios, Data Engineer // METRO.digital – MSTR@GCP or How to Leverage Data Analytics With the Help of a Seamless End-To-End Solution


12:40 – 13:40

Lunch Break

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break



13:40 – 14:20

Dora Petrella
Dora Petrella, Core Data Scientist// METRO.digital – Revelations of a Data Scientist: Data Disasters, Eureka Moments, and Lessons Learned Along the Way

14:00 – 14:40

Thomas Hensel
Thomas Hensel, Software Developer // Qvest Digital – Data Visualization Using Python and Jupyter Notebooks



14:20 – 15:00

Cosmin Pascu
Cosmin Pascu, Enterprise Solutions Architect // AWS – Generative AI for Developers and Other Hands-On Builders

14:40 – 15:20

Teodor Danciu
Teodor Danciu, Founder & Architect JasperReports // JasperSoft – Reporting at Scale With JasperReports IO and Big Data


15:00 – 15:40

Patrick Steinert
Patrick Steinert, Head of Technology Consulting // Qvest Digital – Navigating the Digital Landscape: AI and Cloud Solutions in Media & Entertainment

15:20 – 15:50

Afternoon Cofee Break



15:40 – 16:10

Afternoon Cofee Break

15:50 – 16:30

Diana Streche
Diana Streche, Senior BI Engineer // Adore Me – Journey to GA4



16:10 – 16:50

Cristina Gurguta
Cristina Gurguta, Senior MLOps Strategy Lead // HOLCIM – Optimizing Manufacturing With Machine Learning: The Power of MLOps

16:30 – 17:10

Cristian Ionescu
Cristian Ionescu, Co-founder & Data Analytics Specialist // Witanalytica – A Strategic and Pragmatic Approach to Data Analytics Adoption for Companies of Any Scale



16:50 – 17:30

Andreea Mihailescu
Andreea Mihailescu, AI Engineer // Johns Hopkins University, Bertelsmann Tech & Data Alliance – Developing and Up-Scaling RNA-Based Vaccines and Therapeutics Production Using Big Data and Generative AI