Big Data Week
A Global Festival of Data
BUCHAREST CONFERENCE // OCTOBER 3 - 4 // Sheraton Hotel
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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

Adrian Georgescu

Director Enterprise Commercial and Public Sector // Microsoft Romania and Moldova

Alina Son

Senior Manager, Software & Product Infrastructure // _VOIS

Tudor Datcu

Team Leader, Cloud Infrastructure // _VOIS Romania

Sonia Pipa

Data Scientist // Endava

Gabriel Dragan

Team Lead – Digital Services // Deutsche Telekom Services Europe Romania

Alexandru Giurgiu

Data Engineering Manager // Adore Me

Andrei Tudose

Director of Product // diconium

Razvan Mantu

Senior Data Engineer // Adore Me

Catalin Paunescu

Founder and CEO // Star Storage

Cristian Ionescu

Co-founder and Data Analytics Specialist // Witanalytica

Horia Niculescu

Customer Engineer - Data, AI, ML // Google Cloud

Dorian Hodorogea

Client Engineer for Data Analytics in CEE // Google Cloud

Adrian Arhire

Data Scientist // Thoughtworks

Cristina Gurguta

Senior MLOps Strategy Lead // HOLCIM

Thomas Hensel

Software Developer // Qvest Digital

Teodor Danciu

Founder & Architect // JasperReports

Andreea Mihailescu

AI Engineer // Johns Hopkins University & Bertelsmann Tech&Data Alliance

Cornel Popescu

Senior Systems Engineer // Veeam Software

Claudiu Dima

Head of Machine Learning // Veridion

Patrick Steinert

Head of Technology Consulting // Qvest Digital

Alex Bordei

VP of Product Management // MetalSoft

Bianca Costache

Senior Engineering Manager // Adobe

Cosmin Rentea

Senior Software Engineer // Adobe

Adrian Bledea-Georgescu

Senior Cloud Engineer // CrowdStrike

Diana Streche

Senior BI Engineer // Adore Me

Andrei Manea

CEO & Co-founder // CloudHero

Cristina Andries

Big Data Division Manager // eSolutions

Gabriel Nan

Senior Software Engineer // EPAM Romania

Eduard Ciurezu

Software Engineer // Adobe

Andrei Fecioru

Senior Software Engineer // Adobe

Sorin Dumitrescu

VP of Engineering // Bunnyshell

Cosmin Pascu

Enterprise Solutions Architect // AWS

Dora Petrella

Core Data Scientist // METRO.digital

Eduard Balamatiuc

Data Scientist // smartdata

Andreea Munteanu

MLOps Product Manager // Canonical

Mihai Moglan

Machine Learning Engineer // smartdata

Viorel Anghel

Head of Cloud and Infrastructure // eSolutions

Dan Mihai Dinu

Engineering Manager // Bolt

Octavian Palade

Tech & Digital Specialist // Upswing

Tatjana Magdin

Founder // ClarityBI

Alexandru Ivana

Product Manager // Adobe

Irini Misios

Data Engineer // METRO.digital

Marius Grumazescu

Data Platform Team Lead // eMAG

Michał Gutowski

Solutions Engineer // Cloudera

Marius Costin

Data & Analytics Team Manager // Freshful

Pierre Villard

Director of Product Management, Data in Motion // Cloudera

Bogdan Vergelea

Platform Architect // ING Hubs Romania

Alex Frangulea

Platform Architect // ING Hubs Romania

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

 




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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