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This stage focuses on business solutions for SMB’s and Enterprises in order to help them gain insights on today’s hot topics including AI & ML, Blockchain, Big Data, RPA, Cloud and IoT.
Here's what we'll be exploring on the IT Ops Stage
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning have become an essential part of the technology industry. The smart robots can do anything from interacting with your customers to solving problems through virtual simulations, being indispensable in a future-proof business.
The underpin of cryptocurrencies can only leave us to wonder what other forms will it take in the future. From payments to insurance or IoT, the decentralized platform is going to disrupt the way we live and make business.
A good implementation of Big Data & Cloud in enterprises is the holy grail of business right now. Companies invest enormous amounts of resources to reap the biggest benefits of these technologies namely reduced costs and improved decision making.
This workflow automation technology has already proved itself as one of the most efficient enterprise tools yet. The level of flexibility, scalability and sheer productivity it provides enabled employees to do less repetitive tasks and focus more on creative ones.
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Specialist Solutions Architect
AWS
Global VP Pre-Sales
UiPath
Project Manager Automation
WAGO Kontakttechnik GmbH & Co. KG
Customer Success Manager
Revolgy
Cloud Architect
Revolgy
Principal Solution Architect
Siscale
Mediation & Operational Support Systems Manager
Orange România
Head of International Sales
CAS CRM - CAS Software AG
SVP ENGINEERING
TRADESHIFT
Business Development Manager, Application Software Business Unit
ABBYY
Chief Software Engineer Financial Solutions
TotalSoft
BPM Services and RPA Group Solutions Team Lead
NTT DATA Romania
Digital Transformation Manager
Vodafone
Research & Development
EXE Software
Deputy CEO
Trencadis CORP
Head of Products
Druid Enterprise Chatbots
Producer
Ubisoft
RPA Lead
ING Bank Romania
Managing Partner
eSolutions
Director General
QBS Retail & Logistics
CRM Tech Team Leader
Ubisoft
Chief Technology Officer
Syswin Solutions
Commercial Director
SoftOne Romania
Commercial Sales Manager
Veritas Technologies LLC
Chief Information Officer
Syswin Solutions
TV Anchor
Digi24
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Darko Meszaros is a Specialist Solutions Architect @ AWS. As a Specialist SA within AWS, he helps shape the strategy and enable the broad use of AWS Management Tools and The AWS Marketplace, by directly working with customers. Darko owns the technical engagement and defining implementation architectures, developing deep expertise in the AWS Management Tools and DevOps technologies.
Darko worked his way up from AWS Premium Support, and 11+ years of experience in various spheres of IT – from Government Offices to large Telcos – always trying to automate things. He comes from Subotica, Serbia.
When you start a new business almost everything seems to be more important than infrastructure and platform. “We will just buy a bunch of servers and our IT guys will take care of everything else” is something we often hear from many startups or even corporations. And then they are surprised when some huge f*ck up happens to them. The application crashes during traffic peaks, customers are angry and the revenue goes down.
In this talk, we will show you how to face all sorts of infrastructure and platform challenges with cloud solutions from AWS. You will learn how not to lose your mind, money and customers.
Darko Meszaros – a Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS will tell you how companies update their architecture and stack in the Cloud. Why are they doing that and how does that help them to win in the market.
After that Jaroslav Machaň and Štěpán Vrány from Revolgy will show you how you can leverage all the opportunities that Cloud services on AWS have to offer to save your money and time of your development team.
Takeaways:
Expect best practices, real-life use cases, customer success stories (of fin-tech industry) explanation of the most common pitfalls and more. All demonstrated in hands-on demos!
Alex Mihailciuc is heading the Global Pre-Sales department within UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company. Alex’s department is comprised of 260+ Technical consultants, Engineers and Competitive analysist delivering RPA solutions and POCs to the wide pool of UiPath customers and prospects.
Alex is a highly motivated and goal-oriented leader with exceptional leadership and demonstrated experience in planning, developing and implementing IT solutions that support the business strategy and increase business capabilities. Previous to UiPath, Alex has been leading Solutions and consulting teams for Genpact covering the entire ITO industry spectrum for over and hold various other leadership roles within tech companies for over 13 years.
Today’s RPA market and the future of the industry
For 3 years with WAGO in the automation department, developing complex solutions for customers to help them in the transition to an IoT driven world.
Tech enthusiast, always wanting to try out the newest and most advanced technologies that can make life and business easier.
WAGO’s approach to the concepts of Industry 4.0 and the digital factory with the IoT Controller and the WAGO Cloud.
Takeaways:
Being obsessed with customer experience Jaroslav accepted a new challenge to establish a real customer-centric approach at Revolgy. His past experience includes working closely with local technology communities across different countries and cultures and tightening the relationship of companies he worked for, with these communities. He has been their ambassador and preached about their technologies at conferences, meetups, and seminars. He also worked as a leader of small teams of developers, technical writer, evangelist, and a product owner.
When you start a new business almost everything seems to be more important than infrastructure and platform. “We will just buy a bunch of servers and our IT guys will take care of everything else” is something we often hear from many startups or even corporations. And then they are surprised when some huge f*ck up happens to them. The application crashes during traffic peaks, customers are angry and the revenue goes down.
In this talk, we will show you how to face all sorts of infrastructure and platform challenges with cloud solutions from AWS. You will learn how not to lose your mind, money and customers.
Darko Meszaros – a Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS will tell you how companies update their architecture and stack in the Cloud. Why are they doing that and how does that help them to win in the market.
After that Jaroslav Machaň and Štěpán Vrány from Revolgy will show you how you can leverage all the opportunities that Cloud services on AWS have to offer to save your money and time of your development team.
Expect best practises, real-life use cases, customer success stories (of fin-tech industry) explanation of the most common pitfalls and more. All demonstrated in hands-on demos!
Takeaways:
Stepan has started working on with implementation & integration of computing and virtualization platforms right after finishing high school. He gained proficiency in it shortly and soon became a respected consultant. He then got to work on cloud projects – initially as an Ops specialist. Nowadays he’s focused more on architecture building and implementation of cloud solutions. Stepan is passionate about automation and a big enthusiast of DevOps culture who loves to cooperate closely with developers.
When you start a new business almost everything seems to be more important than infrastructure and platform. “We will just buy a bunch of servers and our IT guys will take care of everything else” is something we often hear from many startups or even corporations. And then they are surprised when some huge f*ck up happens to them. The application crashes during traffic peaks, customers are angry and the revenue goes down.
In this talk, we will show you how to face all sorts of infrastructure and platform challenges with cloud solutions from AWS. You will learn how not to lose your mind, money and customers.
Darko Meszaros – a Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS will tell you how companies update their architecture and stack in the Cloud. Why are they doing that and how does that help them to win in the market.
After that Jaroslav Machaň and Štěpán Vrány from Revolgy will show you how you can leverage all the opportunities that Cloud services on AWS have to offer to save your money and time of your development team.
Expect best practices, real-life use cases, customer success stories (of fin-tech industry) explanation of the most common pitfalls and more. All demonstrated in hands-on demos!
Takeaways:
An IT infrastructure and operations expert with experience across vast areas of IT such as networking, virtualization, servers, applications, cloud and containers.
What are the types of automatization and how does an organization need to adapt, in order to support them? Join an applied session, that also brings in front the case study of AIOps ready monitoring platform – ARCANNA (Automated Root Cause Analysis Neural Network Assisted) – a piloted project developed by Siscale, startup part of the Orange Fab startup accelerator.
Key take-aways:
With over 13 years of experience in the telecom industry and IT Operations, Marian is now responsible with the automation implementation and evolution in Orange Romania’s IT Operations department.
What are the types of automatization and how does an organization need to adapt, in order to support them? Join an applied session, that also brings in front the case study of AIOps ready monitoring platform – ARCANNA (Automated Root Cause Analysis Neural Network Assisted) – a piloted project developed by Siscale, startup part of the Orange Fab startup accelerator.
Key take-aways:
Mircea Prelipceanu is Head of International Sales at CAS Software AG – the leading German supplier of CRM software for small and medium-sized enterprises. More than 400,000 people in over 25,000 companies enjoy the benefits of CAS CRM: a powerful standard solution, flexible to meet the customer’s needs, great ergonomics, proven and awarded in practice and excellent value for money.
Born and raised in Romania with extensive working experience in different countries throughout Europe, Mircea Prelipceanu has been working for CAS Software AG for more than 10 years. During this time he established a worldwide partner channel network which delivers an excellent service for the customer. Furthermore he advises companies on the usage of CRM solutions and holds regular lectures on Sales, Customer Relationship Management and CRM implementation best practice.
Digitalization is turning our world upside – face the challenges and take advantages for your business:
It’s weird, but in a digital world it becomes more and more important to emotionally reach and inspire customers to turn them into real fans of your company, assuring your successful future. CRM supports you in creating long-term customer relationships which guarantees your company maximum success.
Mircea Prelipceanu – Head of International Sales at CAS CRM, a Smart Company of CAS Software AG – will present how a CAS CRM will help you to reduce the complexity of a hectic daily business, overloaded with information by our digitalized world and how this will simplify your digital communication to get customers excited and grow your business in a sustainable and profitable way.
Three takeaways to start the digital transformation of your customer relationship Management:
1. Digitalization is changing our world – advantages and challenges especially for midsized businesses
2. Customer centricity is crucial for sustainable success
3. Unique customer experiences – practical examples to inspire your digital transformation
Rolf joined Tradeshift at the very beginning as an engineer/code monkey. He has experienced the wild adventure going from 5 employees in a garage to +950 employees on a global scale. Today, he works at a strategic level with making product and engineering deliver successfully to the customers of Tradeshift. Rolf is based in San Francisco with his wife and two kids.
Scaling an engineering organization from 1 to 10 employees is a good challenge. Scaling to 350 engineers globally, divided into 58 different teams, well that’s an even better challenge. Come and hear how Tradeshift did it – learn how to grow an organization, while still maintaining a healthy growth framework for the individual engineer.
Takeaways:
Sergii Ostryanko is a Business Development Manager at ABBYY Application Software Business Unit, currently developing markets in Poland, Turkey, Romania, Greece, Baltics and Iraq. Joined the company in 2016. Previously studied and worked in the United Kingdom and Denmark.
Accompanied educational projects in US, the UK, Australia and Canada. Sergii holds an MSc in International Management with European study from University of Exeter and is an Affiliate member of the Institute of Leadership and Management in London.
Digital transformation of any organization starts with the personal productivity of each employee. The time spent on routine tasks is lost time, which you paid for. AI-enabled OCR is an integral part of successful and effective productivity tools of the future.
Takeaways:
Laurețiu has a vast experience in software development, with a focus on business solutions for the leasing market. For more than 12 years, he has solved the challenges of major leasing players, starting form local companies and up to strong international financial organizations such as Deutsche Leasing.
He is now leading the development team for Charisma Enterprise Financial Services and is responsible for all the development projects. Mentor, coach and leader of in his department, he is in charge with the development strategy, integrating new technologies and taking new steps towards democratization of technology. He graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies and has an MBA at Tiffin University.
Laurentiu invites you to step into the future with Charisma EveryWare, one single platform to connect all solutions and services. He will go through the challenges of today markets and the benefits that our new platform brings to companies: User Experience; Open Architecture; Data Analytics; IoT & Telematics; 3rd Party Integration and Functional Diversification. At the end, he will provide you with a case study to better understand its applicability.
Experienced in operational improvement for enterprise-level organizations by developing and implementing the most suitable automation technologies, based on the client industry and technical landscape. Involved in all stages of the processes lifecycle, can evaluate the automation potential of a process and propose the appropriate solution.
The highest goal is transforming any potential project into a long term partnership with the client, based on clear delivery methodologies and transparency.
Overview on the process of developing and marketing automation technologies by NTT DATA Group; NTT DATA Romania – BPM&RPA Competence Center pool of services and technologies focused on improving operational efficiency; introducing new concept of RPA implementation – WinActor Self Service RPA, NTT DATA Intelectual Property
Cristian is currently the Digital Transformation Manager in Vodafone Group.
His responsibilities include agile transformation and software automation in Vodafone.
Prior to this he involved in strategic transformation projects including predictive analytics and machine learning.
He also graduated an MBA at Maastricht School of Management.
In this section I will present the strategy Vodafone has on the Digital Transformation Journey.
Takeaways:
My name is Alexandru Petrescu, I work as “R&D” in EXE Software, I am a university assistant, Technical Lead at MIC UPB and Country Lead MSP Romania. I am passionate about technology, especially in AI and I am proud of it, which has led to achievements such as an article published in 2019 IEEE ICCP or the certification of “Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate”
Reveal how an AI model from research laboratories can be transformed into an accessible Web API model using Azure ML studio, thus making it available to the real-world scenarios.
Takeaways:
Mihnea is an e-Government enthusiast having spent recent years in top management positions for Romanian IT businesses. He is now Deputy CEO for Trencadis Corp, an organic growing Romanian integrator managing complex IT systems, accessed by more than 100.000 citizens daily. Mihnea joined Trencadis in May 2017 having previously shown his expertise in implementing many critical systems as Project and Program Manager from 2003 to 2017 in e-Government, Retail, Automotive and Telco IT sectors.
Mihnea Mihailescu began his project management career holding local and regional positions in Softwin and IBM, implementing projects in various countries, such as Serbia, Bulgaria, The Netherlands and UK. He earned a degree in Economics and likes to ski and travel in the rural and historic sites of Romania.
We’ve come a long way from barely understanding the need for information systems to gathering huge amounts of data and teaching systems to work for us. How did we get here? How do we handle our current challenges and opportunities?
Our biggest struggle is upgrading Governmental services. The digitalization of public administration is a much-needed process that benefits us all, as a society and as individual citizens. We believe we have a responsibility to contribute to this endeavor and to give back our knowledge to our economy.
We will share some insights from our experience with the implementation of several critical nationwide systems, like the Ro-Alert system, and what is actually needed to build the capability to alert the population in emergency situations, or to automate the issue of a landbook excerpt.
Takeaways:
Passionate about Artificial Intelligence, Language Processing, and business as well, Dan has over 12 years of experience running large software development teams and building new enterprise products. Having designed and deployed enterprise solutions in multiple industries, and a keen eye for User Experience, Dan has taken the opportunity to infuse AI, Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Understanding (NLP/NLU) components into the only no-code, AI-powered, enterprise chatbot authoring platform in Romania – Druid.
Technological advances in recent years have made it possible to rethink how we interact with enterprise legacy systems. We now have the tools to build and deploy more accurate and relevant conversations between man and machine, and this is giving rise to more and more chatbots and IVAs being used in the enterprise ecosystem. This has made an enormous impact in the way businesses work, as employees are now freed from monotonous and repetitive tasks and can focus on activities which have the biggest impact for businesses.
Takeaways:
During his 16 years’ experience in IT, Ionut Codreanu had several roles that combine his strong technical background with his passion for people development and delivering high quality products.
Ionut is in charge of defining the vision, overseeing the development stages, evaluating the product, anticipating client’s needs and acting as a connector for the stakeholders, in the complex process of delivering a quality product in a highly competitive environment.
As a Producer for one of the most important brands in the group, Ionut is leading creative teams in a fast changing and constantly challenging environment, touching areas like Machine Learning, Automation and Cloud gaming.
He believes that having a consumer-oriented and product owner mindset is the way to achieve excellence.
While ”the cloud” has been around for some time, it is only recently that we’ve seen real strides in the gaming industry, impacting players worldwide. We are on the brink of truly democratizing gaming, shifting focus from the computational power of home PCs and gaming platforms toward streaming AAA games on any internet-connected hardware, regardless of its GPU or CPU performance.
Takeaways:
With more than 15 years’ experience in banking in several roles, from IT to Operations, Cristian is leading now the Robotics Process Automation initiative in ING Bank Romania.
As RPA Lead, Cristian is responsible for robotics implementation in ING Bank Romania, creating awareness and bringing value to automation. He and his team are spotting automation opportunities within the organization and delivering robots to perform the repetitive and “no brainer” tasks faster and better.
Cristian has started the RPA Project in 2018 from scratch, the initiative being now in a scale-up phase.
Described as a DO-er, he has transformed an idea on a paper to a strategic project for organizational efficiency.
Being passionate about technology, innovation and internet of things, he was involved in innovative projects as mobile payments, instant issuing or cards contactless implementation.
Robotic Process Automation in Banking, a journey from an idea to a successful rollout – Use cases, demo and useful insights.
Takeaways:
With over 20 years of experience in various software development positions, from programmer to architect, Marian Simpetru is currently Managing Partner at eSolutions, where he is also involved in developing custom software solutions and architectures.
In the last four years he has been actively working on conceiving big-data platform architectures and managing custom projects which he oversees from kick-off to delivery.
· Extensive experience in the IT industry
· Founded eSolutions in 2001
· More than 15 years of IT management experience
· Occasional speaker at local and international tech events on Open Source technologies, Java and Big Data
During our 18 years of experience as a software development company, we faced different business requests, with increasing complexity over the last years. Nowadays, companies are producing larger and more diverse volumes of data, facing various challenges in handling them, such as:
Over the years, we’ve implemented different solutions to answer these business needs. However, as the demands increased in complexity, they became more difficult to solve. And then we’ve found the answer in using big data technologies. Marian will walk us through a big data platform architecture, presenting the tools we used to address these challenges, including real examples from recent projects and a more complex use case of building an IoT platform, supporting multiple devices for thousands of users all over the world, producing millions of metrics.
Takeaways:
Iulian Tanasa is the general manager of QBS Retail&Logistics, one of SoftOne’s main partners in Romania.
With approximatively 20 years of experience in the software industry, both in sales and product development, Iulian acquired a unique blend of technical and project management skills. His experience enables the QBS team to deliver cost-effective and scalable software solutions.
With a significant amount of custom projects successfully delivered, the company has developed vertical solutions, tailored to each client’s business processes.
As a SoftOne Romania authorized partner, QBS Retail&Logistics’s business approach is based on precise understanding of users’ goals as well as industry-specific requirements. The real estate sector has a great potential when it comes to digital innovation and use of revolutionary software solutions. In this particular field, keeping track of costs and operations in real time is vital. This includes everything, from project planning, construction and use of space optimization to the final sale process.
Implementation of custom software in real estate challenges the traditional approach. Soft1 ERP allows users to analyze data centralized from different sources, ensuring effective asset and orders management. This way, players in the real estate sector can stay competitive in the digital era.
Takeaways:
Ovidiu Diaconescu is an experienced technologist and tech founder with a strong background in information technology, privacy, security and the gaming industry.
He started as a freelancer by founding, architecting and lead developing a fund-raising platform used in the United States, Canada, UK and Israel. He, later on, worked in the gaming industry, leading the development of risk management platforms, Cloud technologies, products, QA, operations and business.
He is currently the CRM Tech Team Leader at Ubisoft, working with one of the top-ranking leading technology in Campaign Management.
At Ubisoft, we enrich players’ lives through original & memorable entertainment experiences. This vision is reinforced in our approach to marketing by delivering personalized messages at the right time and on the right channel.
The session presents multiple strategies to enhance marketing automation with real-time data at a high throughput.
Takeaways:
With extensive expertise in microelectronics and programming, he designs and implements creative and successful IOT applications.
How and why do we choose a certain method of communication for connecting IoT devices? From a multitude of existing protocols and technologies, which is best for the project or projects we develop?
Alexandra Lucescu is the Commercial Director of SoftOne Romania, the development hub of one of the most important providers of ERP software, CRM and Web & Mobile applications in Southeastern Europe.
With over 10 years’ experience in communication, marketing and sales, especially in the IT software industry, Alexandra has been identifying new commercial opportunities and managing the marketing efforts of the company for more than 2 years. Her role within the company is to constantly provide strategic advice to upper management and offer Romanian entrepreneurs a revolutionary perspective regarding the automation of business processes.
New technologies are drastically changing the face and pace of business and organizations need to urgently adapt to the new market reality. To accelerate growth, business transformation is imperative and Cloud is at the core.
Learn how to leverage the opportunities of digital technologies in order to accelerate your company’s activities. Utilize an intelligent business transformation platform that can assist you generate new revenue streams, increase cost efficiency and provide your team with the tool they need to deliver outstanding performance every time.
Takeaways:
Because I love working with people and because I consider that technology is a step towards evolution, I decided to make my career as an IT consultant. 12 years have passed since then and still, my work is a pleasure.
As an ever increasing number of workloads are migrated to public cloud platforms, organizations are demanding a solution to visualize applications with hybrid infrastructure (both cloud and on-premises), better understand how cloud resources are consumed, quantify the costs associated with cloud usage, understand if their cloud assets are protected, and optimize their cloud footprint.
Takeaways:
For the past 20+ years, I’ve been involved in various digital fields. Always looking for improving own skills on development methodologies and development design patterns, with a focus on building well-structured applications for various environments.
Like every IT guy almost as old as the Internet, my early years of programming started by playing games on HC 85 Ice Felix, followed by programming my own in QBasic and C.
In the continuous search for new technologies, I help developers to build and deliver stable, reliable and secure applications. All of these, of course in an agile ecosystem (or methodology :D)
Intersecting software with hardware for about 5 years I also design big data infrastructures and prepare them for high availability telemetry ingestion, play with time series dbases like InfluxDB or Prometheus and do advanced geospatial analysis in python or JS, for web.
From the very beginning of the development of an IoT product, whether small-scale as a portable device to massive-scale IoT deployments, such as a network of agricultural sensors, communications security must be taken seriously.
Ligia Munteanu is a TV anchor at Digi24 news station (part of Digi | RCS & RDS Group). Her journalistic career started 10 years ago, at the public Romanian television, and she joined Digi24 team in 2016, as news anchor of the TV program “Economic Journal”. Recently, she became the host of “2.0” IT & C news program, broadcasted by Digi24.
Ligia graduated from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Iasi) and she has a PhD in Economics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies.
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