Agenda
Hour
ADVANCED DATA ARCHITECTURES – MAIN STAGE
08:00 – 09:00
Welcome & Registration
09:10 – 09:50
Modernizing Data Architecture With Apache Iceberg
Bill Zhang
Bill Zhang, VP Product Strategies // Cloudera
09:50 – 10:30
Observability in AI/ML Systems and Pipelines
Harry Kimpel
Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer // New Relic
10:30 – 11:00
Morning Coffee
11:00 – 11:40
Big Data Becomes Very Big Data With AI
Octavian Ganea
Octavian Ganea, Senior Software Engineer // EPAM Romania
11:40 – 12:20
Lakehouse to Checkout: Turning Retail Data Infrastructure Into Business Impact
Victor Botan
Victor Botan, Data Engineer // AD/01
12:20 – 13:00
Delta Lake at Scale: Real-World Lessons in Multi-Writer Architecture
Andrei Taleanu
Andrei Taleanu, Software Architect // Adobe Romania
Alexandru Ivana
Alexandru Ivana, Senior Product Manager // Adobe Romania
Daniel Sirbu
Daniel Sirbu, Senior Software Engineer // Adobe Romania
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:40
The Next Step in Data-Driven Business: Analytics Agents
Tereza Váradyová
Tereza Váradyová, Head of Delivery // BizzTreat
14:40 – 15:20
The Power of Data Federation in the AI Era
Viorel Bibiloiu
Viorel Bibiloiu, Big Data Architect // eSolutions
15:20 – 16:00
Afternoon Coffee
16:00 – 16:40
16:40 – 17:20
The Future of Apache Cassandra: What’s New and What’s Next
Serban Teodorescu
Serban Teodorescu, Database Reliability Engineer // Adobe Romania
17:20 – 18:30
Networking Party
Hour
OCT 7 – WORKSHOPS TRACK
11:00 – 12:30
Applied AI Workshop: Generating Synthetic Data for Retail & E-commerce
Horia Niculescu
Horia Niculescu, Customer Engineer – Data, AI, ML // Google Cloud
Dorian Hodorogea
Dorian Hodorogea, Client Engineer for Data Analytics in CEE // Google Cloud
11:00 – 12:30
From Zero to Hero With Apache Iceberg: Modern Data Lakehouse in Action
Zsombor Fedor
Zsombor Fedor, Solutions Engineer // Cloudera
11:00 – 12:30
14:00 – 17:00
Observability in AI/ML Systems and Pipelines
Harry Kimpel
Harry Kimpel, Principal Developer Relations Engineer // New Relic
14:00 – 15:30
Serverless Data Pipelines With dbt, Prefect & Cloud Run
Jumanazar Gurbanov
Jumanazar Gurbanov, Principal Data Scientist // Adore Me
Hour
AI SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS – MAIN STAGE
08:30 – 09:10
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:20 – 10:00
TP.ai FAB – Orchestrating Intelligence at Scale
Petrica Vlad
Petrica Vlad, Global Head of AI Operations // TP
10:00 – 10:40
The Next Generation Engineer: Staying Relevant in the AI Age
Dan Mihai Dinu
Dan Mihai Dinu, Engineering Manager // Bolt
10:40 – 11:10
Morning Coffee
11:10 – 11:50
AI vs. Fraud: Machine Learning in Fraud Prevention
Stefan Filipescu
Stefan Filipescu, Data Scientist // ING Hubs Romania
11:50 – 12:30
Agentic AI at Tchibo: Revolution in Retail or Just Hype?
Omar Hairani
Omar Hairani, Head of Data & Artificial Intelligence // Tchibo
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:10
AI Adoption: 3 Years Later. Lessons From the Field. Planning, Execution, Distribution
Horia Niculescu
Horia Niculescu, Customer Engineer – Data, AI, ML // Google Cloud
Dorian Hodorogea
Dorian Hodorogea, Client Engineer for Data Analytics in CEE // Google Cloud
14:10 – 14:50
Alteus AI platform: Governance, Context, Agents
Marian Simpetru
Marian Simpetru, Managing Partner // eSolutions
Radu Gheorghe
Radu Gheorghe, Software Engineer // Vespa.ai
15:30 – 16:00
Afternoon Coffee
16:00 – 16:40
Revolutionizing Patient Care: AI Agents Supporting Doctors in Diagnostic & Medical Reporting
Marian Simpetru
Marian Simpetru, Managing Partner // eSolutions
Radu Gheorghe
Edvin Curban-Gazi, Head of Development, Healthcare // Symfonia Softeh
Hour
OCT 8 – WORKSHOPS TRACK
10:00 – 13:00
Towards a Scalable Personalized Search Application for E-commerce
Radu Gheorghe
Radu Gheorghe, Software Engineer // Vespa.ai
11:00 – 13:00
AI-Assisted Development: Practical Cursor Training
Emil Calofir
Emil Calofir, Head of AI // eSolutions
11:00 – 13:00
Deploying and Governing AI Responsibly
Adriana Neagu
Adriana Neagu, Privacy, Cyber, Legal and AI Governance Senior Professional
14:00 – 16:00
Driving Real-World Impact Wth Agentic AI and IBM Watsonx
Andra Bichea
Andra Bichea, GenAI Consultant and IBM Community Lead // IBM
Mihai-Alexandru Neagu
Mihai-Alexandru Neagu, Data Scientist // IBM
14:00 – 16:00
AI Adoption Beyond Chatbots
Corina Staicu
Corina Staicu, CPO and IT Management Consultant // eSolutions
Pasquale Borriello
Pasquale Borriello, CEO // Arkage
Hour
Meetup
18:00 – 21:00