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BIG DATA WEEK BUCHAREST 2023: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO BIG DATA

OCTOBER 3-4 // SHERATON HOTEL

Big Data Week Bucharest proposes a holistic approach of big data projects, showcasing innovative strategies, tools, and techniques to revolutionize your business strategy.

One energetic week filled with informative online and offline events:

  • Workshops
  • Conference
  • Networking
  • Demos
  • Technical insights
  • Business applicability

Bucharest Anchor Conference // October 3-4, 2023

Covering topics such as cloud & infrastructure, big data architectures, BI & analytics, the 2023 edition will also highlight the transformative power of AI and ML in the big data landscape.

  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Big Data Architectures
  • BI & Analytics
  • AI & ML

Once again, we bring forward top-quality content,  presenting the latest discoveries, actionable insights, and best practices that you can take away for direct implementation.

What our agenda holds:

  • Big data technologies
  • Trends
  • Infrastructure
  • Architecture
  • AI & ML
  • Expert advice, insights, and best practices

Let’s meet again!

The 2023 edition spans two days and four stages and aims at exploring the forefront of technology, bringing together industry leaders, experts, and enthusiasts to explore the latest trends and advancements in the world of big data, in a new venue with increased networking space.

Join us and (re-)engage with the big data community!

Speakers

Cristina Andries

Big Data Division Manager // eSolutions

Dorian Hodorogea

Customer Engineer Data Analytics CEE // Google

Andrei Petrescu

CTO // CloudHero

Cezar Gherghel

DevOps Engineer // eSolutions

Horia Niculescu

Customer Engineer - Data Analytics // Google

Sebastian Ungureanu

Senior Product Marketing Manager // UiPath

Mihai Niculae

DataLake Manager // Gameloft

Sorin Peste

Cloud Solution Architect, Data & AI // Microsoft

Stefan Gusa

Software Developer & SRE // Adobe

Cosmin Ichim

Data Engineer - Big Data & Analytics Community // Cognizant Softvision

Alexandru Craciun

Head of Data Engineering // EPAM Romania

Bogdan Stefanescu

CEE UDS Channel Sales // Dell Technologies

Dan Mihai Dinu

Engineering Manager // Grafana

Cosmin Panaete

Business Processes Director // Regina Maria

Alex Bordei

VP of Product Management // MetalSoft

Marian Simpetru

Managing Partner // eSolutions

Tobias Margarit

Managing Director // diconium

Rahavan Raman

Senior Manager - Data & Analytics // Qvest.US

Josh Andrews

Vice President and Data & Analytics Practice Lead // Qvest.US

Florin Manolescu

Co-Founder & Chief Testing Officer // Academia Testarii

Andreea Tipau

Senior Engineer – Data Science // GoPro

Daniel Monoranu

Head of Information Security // Skymetrix

Dragos Cioata

Cloud Data Engineer // Adore Me Tech

Nick Radu

Marketing EMEA Analytics & Data Manager // IBM

Mihail Musat

DevOps Manager // Zitec

Viorel Bibiloiu

Big Data Architect // eSolutions

Razvan Burlacioiu

Sr Software Engineer, TL // Adobe

Andrei Smarandoiu

Software Development Engineer // Adobe

Artiom Darie

Head of Data Analytics & Senior Director // AdsWizz

George Stan

BI DevOps Manager // Gameloft

Codrut Panea

DevOps Engineer // eSolutions.

Razvan Socol

Chapter Lead - Data Lake // ING Hubs Romania

Oana Turbatu

Feature Engineer - Data Lake // ING Hubs Romania

Felix Crisan

Head of Research // Elrond

Calin Constantinov

Principal Development Consultant // Endava

Serban Teodorescu

Software Developer & SRE // Adobe

Radu Dobrinescu

Senior Partner Solutions Architect // AWS

Diana Streche

BI Engineer // Adore Me

Laurentiu Matei

Business Intelligence Director // eMAG

Alexandru Irimia

Data Platform Team Leader // eMAG


18:30 – 20:30

DevOps Workshop: Codrut Panea, DevOps Engineer // eSolutions

Using ArgoCD and Crossplane for Bootstrapping K8s Clusters




Hour

Big Data DevOps and Infrastructure

Hour

Data Security



09:15 – 09:45

Registration & welcome coffee

09:15 – 09:45

Registration & welcome coffee



09:45 – 09:50

Cezar Gherghel, DevOps Engineer// eSolutions, Stage Moderator – Intro & welcome

09:45 – 09:50

Florin Manolescu, Co-Founder & Chief Testing Officer // Academia Testarii, Stage Moderator – Intro & welcome



09:50 – 10:30

Radu Dobrinescu, Senior Partner Solutions Architect // AWS – The What, Why and How of MLOps on AWS

09:50 – 10:30

Daniel Monoranu, Head of Information Security // Skymetrix – Data Security: Before OR After?



10:30 – 11:10

George Stan, BI DevOps Manager // Gameloft- A Guided Tour of Autoscaling in Kubernetes

10:30 – 11:10

Felix Crisan, Head of Research // Elrond – Data3: Shaping Data in a Web3 Context


11:10 – 11:40

Morning coffee break

11:10 – 11:40

Morning coffee break


11:40 – 12:20

Serban Teodorescu, Software Developer & SRE & Stefan Gusa, Software Developer & SRE // Adobe – Cassandra as a Persistent Cache in Adobe Audience Manager

11:40 – 12:20

Tudor Galos, Sr. Privacy Consultant // Tudor Galos Consulting – Data Localization vs. International Data Transfers in Big Data Scenarios



12:20 – 13:00

Alex Bordei, VP of Product Management // MetalSoft – Cutting Data Processing Costs with Your Own Automated Infrastructure

12:20 – 13:00

Sebastian Ungureanu, Senior Product Marketing Manager // UiPath – Security and Governance in a Highly Democratized Development Environment


13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break



Hour

Big Data DevOps and Infrastructure

Hour

Big Data Architectures – Part One



14:00 – 14:40

Horia Niculescu, Customer Engineer Data Analytics // Google – Agile Development with Google Cloud in Data Projects

14:00 – 14:40

Tobias Margarit, Managing Director // diconium – Data Mesh: A New Organizational Paradigm to Create Data Value



14:40 – 15:20

Mihail Musat, DevOps Manager // Zitec – Cars2Click & Zitec – Elevating Car Trading through Data-Driven Decision Making

14:40 – 15:20

Mihai Niculae, DataLake Manager // Gameloft – Building Scalable Pipelines for Processing Data from Devices to the Cloud DataLake



15:20 – 15:50

Afternoon coffee break

15:20 – 15:50

Afternoon coffee break


15:50 – 16:30

Andrei Petrescu, CTO // CloudHero – Why Lift & Shift to Kubernetes is the Path Towards Application Modernisation

15:50 – 16:30

Cosmin Panaete, Business Processes Director // Regina Maria & Marian Simpetru, Managing Partner // eSolutions – Hybrid Data Platform



16:30 – 17:10

Dan Mihai Dinu, Engineering Manager // Grafana – Build Kickass Observability with Grafana LGTM

16:30 – 17:10

Andreea Tipau, Data Engineer // GoPro – Big Data Analytics on GoPro’s Mobile App Quik Editing Feature Usage



17:10 – 17:50

Bogdan Stefanescu, CEE UDS Channel Sales // Dell Technologies – How to Unlock the Value of Unstructured Data with Dell PowerScale & ECS



Hour

Big Data
Architectures – Part Two

Hour

Reporting, BI & Analytics

09:15 – 09:45

Registration & welcome coffee

09:15 – 09:45

Registration & welcome coffee



09:45 – 09:50

Daniel Monoranu, Head of Information Security // Skymetrix, Stage Moderator – Intro & welcome

09:45 – 09:50

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



09:50 – 10:30

Daniele Montesi, Senior Data Scientist & Emanuele Viglianisi, Senior Data Engineer // adidas Runtastic – ZERO2HERO: An Advanced Data Platform to Drive User Engagement

09:50 – 10:30

Sorin Peste, Cloud Solution Architect, Data & AI // Microsoft – Moving past “What Happened” and onto “What Will Happen Next” with Microsoft Power BI



10:30 – 11:10

Cosmin Ichim, Data Engineer – Big Data & Analytics Community // Cognizant Softvision – When Big Data Is Too Big. A Presentation about Baseball and Data.

10:30 – 11:10

Artiom Darie, Head of Data Analytics & Senior Director // AdsWizz – Apache Druid Best Practices for Cost Efficiency


11:10 – 11:40

Morning coffee break

11:10 – 11:40

Morning coffee break


11:40 – 12:20

Andrei Smarandoiu, Software Development Engineer & Razvan Burlacioiu, Sr. Software Engineer, TL // Adobe – Our Journey to a Modern Analytics Processing Pipeline

11:40 – 12:20

Laurentiu Matei, Business Intelligence Director & Alexandru Irimia, Data Platform Team Leader // eMAG – Transforming Data at Scale with the eMAG Data Platform



12:20 – 13:00

Alexandru Craciun,Head of Data Engineering // EPAM Romania – Data Mesh. Simple is Always the Best

12:20 – 13:00

Remus Racolta, Co-founder // Data Booster – Effective Data Storytelling


13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break


14:00 – 14:40

Christian Schmidt, IT Consultant & Senior Software Engineer // tarent – With DDD and Self-Contained Systems to a Better Data Architecture

14:00 – 14:40

Diana Streche, BI Engineer // Adore Me – Keeping Up with the Cloud



14:40 – 15:10

Octavian Rinciog, Senior Software Engineer // Bitdefender – Scaling Elasticsearch Clusters to Store Hundreds of TB

14:40 – 15:20

Nick Radu, Marketing EMEA Analytics & Data Manager // IBM – Digital Transformation Becomes a Way of Life



15:10 – 15:50

Afternoon coffee break

15:20 – 15:50

Afternoon coffee break


15:50 – 16:30

Viorel Bibiloiu, Big Data Architect // eSolutions – Using Kafka-Streams, K8s, and Cassandra for Near Real-Time Retail Inventory

15:50 – 16:30

Dorian Hodorogea, Customer Engineer Data Analytics CEE // Google – When Data Meets Culture



16:30 – 17:10

Calin Constantinov, Principal Development Consultant // Endava – Uncovering Social Influence with Neo4j

16:30 – 17:10

Josh Andrews, VP and Data & Analytics Practice Lead & Rahavan Raman, Senior Manager – Data & Analytics // Qvest.US – A Maturity Lifecycle for Organizations Building Analytics Platforms Using dbt




What Is Big Data Week?

Big Data Week is a worldwide concept of community events focusing on the social, political, and technological impact of data. We bring together a global community of data professionals, facilitating the sharing of knowledge and new ideas about data.

Big Data Week is hosted across a number of major city hubs reaching Europe, the Americas, Australia and Pacific Asia.

The festival connects a number of global cities through locally hosted meetups, events, networking functions, data-visualisation, demos, debates, and hackathons.

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