Agenda
Hour
Meetup
18:00 – 21:00
Guardrails for Agentic Data Access – Bucharest Big Data Meetup, Powered by Cloudera & AWS
Hour
PRACTICAL BIG DATA ENGINEERING
08:00 – 09:00
Welcome & Registration
09:10 – 09:50
Beyond the Hype: Building Production-Ready Data & AI for a Brave New World
Charles Aad
Charles Aad, Field CTO for EMEA // Cloudera
09:50 – 10:30
Surviving the 100-Team Shift: Architecting Accountability at Scale
Eugene Klyuchnikov
Eugene Klyuchnikov, Principal Data Engineer // Zalando
10:30 – 11:00
Morning Coffee
11:00 – 11:40
Processing Payments Big Data with AWS EMR Serverless and S3 Tables
Ioana Teoc
Ioana Teoc, Director of Engineering // Worldpay UK
11:40 – 12:20
When Every Input Is an Edge Case: An Adaptive Data Platform
Andra Bratosin
Andra Bratosin, Senior Data Consultant // Endava
12:20 – 13:00
When One Forecast Is Not Enough: Machine Learning for Smarter Demand Planning
Coralia Zotic
Coralia Zotic, Data Science Consultant // EPAM Romania
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 14:40
Integration Platform: The Foundation of an AI-Ready Data Platform
Lucian Neghina
Lucian Neghina, Head of Data Engineering // eSolutions
Dragos Tanta
Dragos Tanta, Engineering Manager // Tchibo
14:40 – 15:20
Reservation Is Not Utilization: A Kubernetes Resource Optimization Case Study for Analytical Workloads
Florian Thurk
Florian Thürk, Senior Solutions Architect // Cloudera
15:20 – 16:00
Afternoon Coffee
16:00 – 16:40
Data Quality in BigQuery with Great Expectations
Radu Sandulescu
Radu Sandulescu, Data Analytics & AI Services Director // Zitec
Oana Preotesescu
Oana Preotesescu, Head of Data Management // Leroy Merlin
16:40 – 17:20
From Medallion to Context: Building an Evidence-Driven Data Architecture
Rares Istoc
Rares Istoc, Head of Engineering // Narrio
17:20 – 18:30
Networking Party
Hour
WORKSHOPS TRACK – OCT. 6
11:00 – 12:30
Automate BigQuery: From AI Functions to Active Agents
Dorian Hodorogea
Dorian Hodorogea, Client Engineer for Data Analytics in CEE // Google Cloud
Cosmin Pintoiu
Cosmin Pintoiu, Customer Engineer – Data Analytics and AI Specialist // Google Cloud
11:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:00
From API to Dashboard: Building a Real-Time Data Pipeline with Open-Source Tools
Mircea Rugina
Mircea Rugina, Senior Engineering Manager // LSEG
15:30 – 16:00
Afternoon Coffee
Hour
APPLIED AI
08:30 – 09:10
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:20 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:40
Building Agents Got Easier. Shipping Quality Didn’t
Mark Tolstov
Mark Tolstov, Strategic Account Executive CEE // Datadog
10:40 – 11:10
Morning Coffee
11:10 – 11:50
RAGtime: Lessons from Engineering an AI System
Stefan Kohler
Stefan Kohler, Founder & Architect // PrAIvate
11:50 – 12:30
Don’t Disrupt the Plant. Optimize It: Combining ML, GenAI, and Human Expertise for Energy, Quality, and Cost
Cristina Gurguta
Cristina Gurguta, Associate Partner, Director of Research & Innovation // INSUS
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:10
Shifting from Business Intelligence to Decision Intelligence in the Agentic Era
Marius Costin
Marius Costin, Decision Intelligence Director // eMAG
14:10 – 14:50
GenAI in Financial Services. What Happens Behind the Production Curtain?
Ovidiu Toader
Ovidiu Toader, Chapter Lead Data Analytics // ING Hubs Romania
14:50 – 15:30
Afternoon Coffee
15:30 – 16:10
From a Million-Row Lifecycle Table to AI-Driven Digital Twins
Catalin Gheorghiu
Catalin Gheorghiu, Solution Architect // EPAM Romania
16:10 – 16:50
Exploring AI Factory Network Topologies in NVIDIA AIR
Andrei Tomus
Andrei Tomus, Network Engineer // MetalSoft
Hour
WORKSHOPS TRACK – OCT. 7
10:40 – 11:00
Morning Coffee
11:00 – 12:30
Building ADK Agents with Skills and Tools
Gabriel Preda
Gabriel Preda, Principal Data Scientist // Endava
11:00 – 12:30
No-Code and Agentic AI
Emil Calofir
Emil Calofir, Head of AI // eSolutions
Marian Simpetru
Marian Simpetru, CEO // eSolutions
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
From Raw Data to AI: Build an Open Lakehouse Anywhere
Zsombor Fedor
Zsombor Fedor, Solutions Engineer // Cloudera
13:30 – 15:00
Governing AI Agents: Unlocking the Opportunities and Managing the Risks
Adriana Neagu
Adriana Neagu, Founder // Law Matters
15:00 – 15:30