Agenda
Hour
BIG DATA INSIGHTS MAIN STAGE
08.00 – 09:00
Welcome & Registration
09:10 – 09:40
Lakehouse, Make Big Data Great Again
Alex Campos
Alex Campos, Data Strategist, Senior Staff Solutions Engineer // Cockroach Labs
09:40 – 10:20
Making Big Data Cloud-Native: Building a Hybrid Data Platform for Scale and Efficiency
Balazs Gaspar
Balazs Gaspar, Director of Product Management // Cloudera
10:20 – 10:50
Morning Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:30
Optimizing Data Transformation and Data Products Development
Alex Frangulea
Alex Frangulea, Platform Architect // ING Hubs Romania
Corina Simion
Corina Simion, Engineering Lead, Data Lake Foundation // ING Hubs Romania
11:30 – 12:10
Mastering Data Lake Federation Using Open-Source Tools
Beni Gal-Janko
Beni Gal-Janko, Principal Software Development Engineer // EPAM Romania
Cristian Udroiu
Cristian Udroiu, Data Lead Software Engineer // EPAM Romania
12:10 – 12:50
Big Data Management in Kubernetes
Cristina Andries
Cristina Andries, Big Data Division Manager // eSolutions
Lucian Neghina
Lucian Neghina, Head of Data Engineering // eSolutions
12:50 – 13:50
Lunch Break
13:50 – 14:20
Navigating Data Mesh Implementations
Madalin Stan
Madalin Stan, AI & Data Manager // Deloitte Technology Delivery Center
14:20 – 15:00
From Meters to Insights: Building a Robust Data Practice in the Utilities Sector
Andrei Muraru
Andrei Muraru, Head of Digital Service // CloudHero
15:00 – 15:40
Innovative Data Management with CRIBL and NiFi: Best Practices and Strategies
Stefan Ciobanu
Stefan Ciobanu, Manager Architecture & Platform Engineering // _VOIS
Catalin Mihaila
Catalin Mihaila, System Engineer Expert // _VOIS
Calin Iorga
Calin Iorga, System Engineer // _VOIS
15:40 – 16:00
Afternoon Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:40
Delivering on Our Promises to Our Customers With the Help of Analytics
Marius Costin
Marius Costin, Data & Analytics Manager // Freshful
16:40 – 17:20
Unlock the Potential of Your Applications With Synthetic Data Generation Using JR
Ugo Landini
Ugo Landini, Solution Engineer Manager // Confluent
17.20 – 18.20
Networking Party (Powered by N-iX)
Hour
BIG DATA INSIGHTS Workshops
11.00 – 12.30
Deploying and Managing On-Premise Kubernetes
Viorel Anghel
Viorel Anghel, Head of Cloud and Infrastructure // eSolutions
11:00 – 13:30
Self-Service Analytics and Conveying Information Visually Using Microstrategy Dashboards
Irini Misios
Irini Misios, Data Engineer // METRO.digital
11:00 – 13:30
Modernize Your Data Architecture With DAT
Alex Campos
Alex Campos, Data Strategist, Senior Staff Solutions Engineer // Cockroach Labs
13:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:30
Building End-To-End Data Solutions on Kubernetes: From Ingest to Visualisation
Viorel Bibiloiu
Viorel Bibiloiu, Big Data Architect // eSolutions
Lucian Neghina
Lucian Neghina, Head of Data Engineering // eSolutions
Hour
AI & ML INNOVATIONS MAIN STAGE
08.30 – 09:10
Welcome & Registration
09:20 – 10:00
From Data-Driven to AI-Driven Management
Dr. Stefan Barth
Dr. Stefan Barth, Agile Consultant & Coach, COO // Qvest Digital AG
10:00 – 10:40
Scaling Data Science at Bolt: From a Handful to Hundreds of Models
Andrei Ilie
Andrei Ilie, Data Science Engineering Manager // Bolt
10:40 – 11:10
Morning Coffee Break
11:10 – 11:50
The Next Horizon for AI in the Auto Industry
Tobias Margarit
Tobias Margarit, Managing Director // diconium Romania
11:50 – 12:30
The Strategic Role of Small Tech Companies in the AI Revolution
Marian Simpetru
Marian Simpetru, Managing Partner // eSolutions
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:10
ELI: AI-Assisted Network Diagnosis at MetalSoft
Alex Bordei
Alex Bordei, VP of Product Management // MetalSoft
14:10 – 14:50
AI-Enhanced Cybersecurity for Energy: The ELECTRON Platform
Grigore Stamatescu
Grigore Stamatescu, Professor & ICT Consultant // National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest & TÜV Austria Romania
14:50 – 15:30
Serverless Data Enrichment Platform With Machine Learning in AWS
Gabriel Preda
Gabriel Preda, Principal Data Scientist // Endava
Alexandru Badea
Alexandru Badea, Data Scientist // Endava
15:30 – 16:00
Afternoon Cofee Break
16:00 – 16:40
Leveraging Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms for Dynamic Decision Making
Tudor Coman
Tudor Coman, Software Development Engineer // Adobe Romania
16:40 – 17:20
Under the Hood of Charlotte AI: A Technical Exploration of Its Multi-Agent Architecture
Ruxandra Caba
Ruxandra Caba, Sr. Manager, Data Science (GenAI) // CrowdStrike
Hour
AI & ML INNOVATIONS WORKSHOPS
10:00 – 13:00
Mastering AI Governance: How to Adapt Your AI Solution to Over 100 Global Laws, Regulations and Requirements
Tudor Galos
Tudor Galos, Senior Consultant // Tudor Galos Consulting
11:00 – 13:00
Andra Bichea, GenAI Consultant and IBM Community Lead // IBM
Valentin Tomici
Valentin Tomici, Architect and Technical Community Lead // IBM
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 17:30
Embrace Evolution in the AI Era: Agility and Growth Mindset
Bianca Enache
Bianca Enache, Head of Agile Consulting // eSolutions
Bernd Schönbach
Bernd Schönbach, Product Owner & Agile Coach // Qvest Digital
14:00 – 15:30
No-Nonsense Guide to GenAI Prototyping
Dragos Manescu
Dragos Manescu, VP of Tech Product Management // Adore Me
Mihai Bizovi
Mihai Bizovi, VP of Data Science // Adore Me
18:00 – 21:30