Big Data Week
A Global Festival of Data
BUCHAREST CONFERENCE // OCTOBER 11 - 12 // RADISSON BLU HOTEL
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BIG DATA WEEK BUCHAREST 2022: A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO BIG DATA

OCTOBER 11-12 // RADISSON BLU 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 11-12, 2022

This year we bring forward an enhanced format, offering a two-day conference, with four stages packed with valuable insights from all areas of a big data implementation.

  • Big Data DevOps & Infrastructure
  • Big Data Architectures
  • Data Security
  • Reporting, BI & Analytics

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
  • Implementation examples
  • Multi-track event
  • Expert advice, insights, and best practices

After two years of online networking, we are eager to meet again for good coffee and top-quality content.

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