Agenda

Check out the different topics, each representing a single block of talks and sessions to guide you through the program of DevTalks!

9th of June

10th of June

Data, AI & ML has always been a popular subject in our DevTalks Network. We keep our main focus to bring the best strategies and tools, now with even more effervescent topics to be discussed and approached by professional leaders.

8th of June

9th of June

8th of June

10th of June

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10:00 to 10:10 Intro Speech powered by CrowdStrike Romania

Cosmin Bratu [Engineering Manager — CrowdStrike Romania]

10:15 to 10:45 Unexpected Journey to Data Meshes

Alex Postica [Cloud Engineer — CrowdStrike Romania]

You store Petabytes of threat intelligence data in a GraphDB with a 400+ nodes Cassandra Cluster. Read More...

10:50 to 11:35 Finding & optimizing your way in the cloudy DBMS jungle

Daniel Seybold [Co-founder & CTO — benchANT]

Designing efficient IT systems for data-intensive and highly scalable application domains is complex and risky.
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11:40 to 12:10 Data mesh not data mess

Petronel Paun [Azure Data & AI Domain Lead — Accenture]

If you are currently asking someone in the data industry what is a hot topic these days, most probably will find data mesh in the center of those conversations. Read More...

12:15 to 13:00 Accelerating data teams with "Data Build Tool"

Miklos Petridisz [Expert Data Engineer & Solutions Architect — Co-founder & Independent Consultant]

The talk has a top-down approach and explores how data teams work directly within the warehouse to produce trusted datasets for reporting, ML modeling, and operational workflows.
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13:05 to 13:35 MLOps: Taking AI from the lab to production

Claudiu Rontu [Senior Consultant — Deloitte ERDC] ;

Radu Radocea [Senior Manager — Deloitte ERDC]

With AI and ML at the core of enterprise transformations and its expectation of sustainability at scale, the need for a fully functional development, operationalization, and automation cycle is self-evident. Welcome to the realm of ML operations (MLOps)! Read More...

13:35 to 14:00 Networking lunch

14:00 to 14:30 The journey towards a data-powered company

Andreea Lachapelle [Chief Data officer — Edenred Digital Center]

Today we live more and more connected to digital ecosystems where every interaction results in massive data sets being generated. The consumption and usage of this data are helping companies to shape new business models by building new customer-centric data-powered solutions. Read More...

14:35 to 15:05 Exploring Cloud Automation Tooling

Ana-Maria Moga [Software Developer — 1&1 Internet Development] ;

Livius Pîrvănescu [Head of Cloud Development Romania — 1&1 Internet Development]

In recent years cloud computing has revolutionised the way organisations design, develop, and maintain their IT infrastructure. Long gone are the days when system administrators had to manually manage and configure all of the hardware and software that was needed for the applications to run.
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15:10 to 15:55 Accelerating innovation in healthcare

Jorge Fonseca [Senior Solutions Architect — AWS]

Healthcare stakeholders—payors, providers, governments, and consumers—are struggling to manage the clinical, operational, and financial challenges amplified by a global pandemic.
Read More...

16:00 to 16:30 Multi-dimensional production data anonymization with Python

Cosmin Cojocaru [Data Science Lead — DB Global Technology]

The focus when building an anonymization strategy is to preserve the logic of the original data, while eliminating any possibility of data reconstruction and data leakage risks.
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16:35 to 17:20 Serverless landscape beyond functions

Mete Atamel [Senior Developer Advocate — Google]

Serverless is much more than simple HTTP triggered functions.
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10:00 to 10:10 Intro Speech powered by ING Bank Romania

Razvan Sighinas [Executive Director & Chief Information Officer — ING Bank Romania]

10:15 to 11:00 Opennes and ethical hacking

Melanie Rieback [Co-Founder & CEO — Open Radically Security]

Pentesting should be open, transparent, and noncommercial.
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11:05 to 11:35 Keynote powered by ING Bank Romania

Razvan Sighinas [Executive Director & Chief Information Officer — ING Bank Romania]

11:40 to 12:10 Cyber-attacks Kill Chain Disruption

Madalin Dumitru [Founder & CEO — Cyber Smart Defence] ;

Alexandru Bertea [Cybersecurity Strategist — Stefanini Group]

A Cyber-attack kill chain describes an organized attack campaign against a specific IT/OT technology infrastructure target.
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12:15 to 12:45 Cybersecurity as an enabler for the Business

Manuel Garat [Senior Manager - Identity and Access Management — Booking Holdings]

Often, Cybersecurity can be perceived as a necessary nuisance to protect a company, its employees and assets.
Read More...

12:45 to 14:00 Networking lunch

14:00 to 15:05 Introduction to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect

Dr. Philippe De Ryck [Web Security Expert, Founder of Pragmatic Web Security — Pragmatic Web Security]

OAuth 2.0 is likely one of the most complex aspects of modern web applications.
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15:10 to 15:40 Zero trust, why trust!

Mihai Filipoi [Technical consultant — Accesa] ;

Alexandru Hagea [Network and Security Lead — Accesa]

In a post-pandemic world, the way we work has changed dramatically – it had to!
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15:45 to 16:30 Manufacturing in the Metaverse: Securing AI Driven Digital Twins & Distributed Ledgers of Things

Michael Mylrea [Senior Distinguished Engineer — Resilience]

16:35 to 17:55 How can we defend ourselves against ransomware atacks in 2022?

Yoni Leitersdorf [CEO & Founder — Indeni] ;

Chloe Messdaghi [Impact Strategist — Impactive Consulting] ;

DJ Schleen [Vice President - Infrastructure and Developer Operations — VillageMD]

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10:00 to 10:10 Intro Speech powered by EPAM Romania

Mihai Tudoran [Delivery Manager Organization — EPAM Romania]

10:15 to 10:45 Different perspectives for a successful delivery.

Paul Bran-Popescu [Head of AMS & IMS Team — EPAM Romania]

Have you ever encountered a difficult project? How do you face challenging situations in a project?
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10:50 to 11:35 The Psychology of Quality Engineering

Sargis Sargsyan [Director, Quality Engineering — Picsart]

Quality Engineering is embedded in Software Engineering and has a high impact and role on the SDLC. Read More...

11:40 to 12:10 How to adapt in the new hybrid work environment reality. Five lessons learned in leading and managing large communities

Alexandru Savu [Enterprise .NET Senior Community Manager — Cognizant Softvision]

Concise lessons learned directly from the field.
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12:15 to 13:00 10 things I wish someone told me before I became a tech evangelist

Mathis Hammel [Tech Evangelist — CodinGame]

How do I get into public speaking? What does the audience want? Is it a noble or a pretentious cause?
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13:00 to 14:00 Networking lunch

14:00 to 14:45 Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn't Tell Me

Ori Keren [Co-founder & CEO — LinearB]

I was three years into my software engineering career and loving it. Not a care in the world. Then a freight train hit me. I got promoted to dev team lead. The technical skills that make us great developers don't translate to management.
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14:50 to 15:20 Applied Elastic Stack in the Telco Industry: Observability and Big Data Near Real-Time Analytics

Alexandru Cristu [Solution Architect — R Systems]

15:25 to 16:10 Keynote

16:15 to 16:45 Modern CI&CD for Data Warehouses

Laurentiu Diaconu [Vice President of Data Engineering — Verumex]

Traditionally, proper CI/CD has been very challenging for Data Warehouses due to multiple reasons.
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10:00 to 10:10 Intro Speech powered by METRO.digital

10:15 to 10:45 The Art of Becoming a Product Organisation

Daniela Lica [Product Coaching Domain Manager — METRO.digital]

In a realm overflowing with innovation hype, creating winning products that truly address our customers' needs has become a very challenging assignment. Read More...

10:50 to 11:35 How you move your business from the past to the future. The effects of digitalization on your business.

Akos Deliaga [Co-founder and CEO — Talk-A-Bot LLC]

From the past to the future.
How can they respond to change?
Based on the European Digitization Index, we are the penultimate.

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11:40 to 12:10 Living the startup life within a corporate surrounding

Kenneth Vermaas [Head of Framework Development, DKV Mobility coordinating RO&DE teams — DKV EURO SERVICE ROMANIA]

At the tech side, you’ll have your product teams in place. Your teams will be performing at maximum velocity in your scrum cycles. How do you counter the non-tech, the old-school thoughts ? How does your startup mindset you stay alive within the classical corporate surroundings ?

12:15 to 13:00 Building a Distributed Engineering Team

Paulo Jorge Alves Pereira [VP of Engineering — Remote]

In this keynote we will hear about building an engineering team across 30+ countries in the world and what are the benefits and challenges of having a fully distributed team working asynchronously?

13:00 to 14:00 Networking lunch

14:00 to 14:45 Adversity & Innovation — Observations and Learnings from the Pandemic

Gary Crawford [Chief Innovation Officer — Waracle]

Back in 2020, Gary made some big predictions about how the pandemic would change our world. Two years later, it's time for him to face the music and discuss what he got right, what he got wrong and what we're learning about building successful digital products and services in a post-pandemic world.

14:50 to 15:20 Product Innovation with AI for Legal Operations

Fredrik Hagstroem [Chief Technology Officer — Emergn]

In today’s technology driven world, even legal professionals will rely on machines to interpret unstructured data in their processes to stay ahead of the competition.
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15:25 to 16:10 AI products cold start problem: how to start when you have no data?

Alexandr Honchar [Partner and Head of AI — Neurons Lab]

Our customers won't use the app without the AI feature. However, we cannot build the AI feature without having data from our customers".
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16:15 to 17:00 The Product Growth Blueprint

Oli Gibson [Principal Product Manager — Thoughtworks]

How often have you heard experts at tech conferences say that “you just need to build a great product” to be successful? Unfortunately, this isn’t true. A great product is generally not the reason for growth. We use terrible products built by billion-dollar-plus companies every day, and many great products never grow at all.
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10:00 to 11:00 Masterclass

11:05 to 12:05 Masterclass

12:10 to 13:10 Masterclass

13:10 to 14:00 Networking lunch

14:00 to 15:00 Masterclass

15:05 to 16:05 Having Fun With Event Storming For Tackling Complex Systems

Radu Gasler [Software Architect — Verifone]

Event Storming is a fun exploratory game which brings together the stakeholders of a project to help them understand and agree on a common model of the software to be built.
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10th of June

10th of June

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10:00 to 10:10 Intro Speech powered by CrowdStrike Romania Cosmin Bratu [Engineering Manager — CrowdStrike Romania]

10:15 to 10:45 Unexpected Journey to Data Meshes Alex Postica [Cloud Engineer — CrowdStrike Romania]

10:50 to 11:35 Finding & optimizing your way in the cloudy DBMS jungle Daniel Seybold [Co-founder & CTO — benchANT]

11:40 to 12:10 Data mesh not data mess Petronel Paun [Azure Data & AI Domain Lead — Accenture]

12:15 to 13:00 Accelerating data teams with "Data Build Tool" Miklos Petridisz [Expert Data Engineer & Solutions Architect — Co-founder & Independent Consultant]

13:05 to 13:35 MLOps: Taking AI from the lab to production Claudiu Rontu [Senior Consultant — Deloitte ERDC] ; Radu Radocea [Senior Manager — Deloitte ERDC]

13:35 to 14:00 Networking lunch

14:00 to 14:30 The journey towards a data-powered company Andreea Lachapelle [Chief Data officer — Edenred Digital Center]

14:35 to 15:05 Exploring Cloud Automation Tooling Ana-Maria Moga [Software Developer — 1&1 Internet Development] ; Livius Pîrvănescu [Head of Cloud Development Romania — 1&1 Internet Development]

15:10 to 15:55 Accelerating innovation in healthcare Jorge Fonseca [Senior Solutions Architect — AWS]

16:00 to 16:30 Multi-dimensional production data anonymization with Python Cosmin Cojocaru [Data Science Lead — DB Global Technology]

16:35 to 17:20 Serverless landscape beyond functions Mete Atamel [Senior Developer Advocate — Google]

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10:00 to 10:10 Intro Speech powered by ING Bank Romania Razvan Sighinas [Executive Director & Chief Information Officer — ING Bank Romania]

10:15 to 11:00 Opennes and ethical hacking Melanie Rieback [Co-Founder & CEO — Open Radically Security]

11:05 to 11:35 Keynote powered by ING Bank Romania Razvan Sighinas [Executive Director & Chief Information Officer — ING Bank Romania]

11:40 to 12:10 Cyber-attacks Kill Chain Disruption Madalin Dumitru [Founder & CEO — Cyber Smart Defence] ; Alexandru Bertea [Cybersecurity Strategist — Stefanini Group]

12:15 to 12:45 Cybersecurity as an enabler for the Business Manuel Garat [Senior Manager - Identity and Access Management — Booking Holdings]

12:45 to 14:00 Networking lunch

14:00 to 15:05 Introduction to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect Dr. Philippe De Ryck [Web Security Expert, Founder of Pragmatic Web Security — Pragmatic Web Security]

15:10 to 15:40 Zero trust, why trust! Mihai Filipoi [Technical consultant — Accesa] ; Alexandru Hagea [Network and Security Lead — Accesa]

15:45 to 16:30 Manufacturing in the Metaverse: Securing AI Driven Digital Twins & Distributed Ledgers of Things Michael Mylrea [Senior Distinguished Engineer — Resilience]

16:35 to 17:55 How can we defend ourselves against ransomware atacks in 2022? Yoni Leitersdorf [CEO & Founder — Indeni] ; Chloe Messdaghi [Impact Strategist — Impactive Consulting] ; DJ Schleen [Vice President - Infrastructure and Developer Operations — VillageMD]

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10:00 to 10:10 Intro Speech powered by EPAM Romania Mihai Tudoran [Delivery Manager Organization — EPAM Romania]

10:15 to 10:45 Different perspectives for a successful delivery. Paul Bran-Popescu [Head of AMS & IMS Team — EPAM Romania]

10:50 to 11:35 The Psychology of Quality Engineering Sargis Sargsyan [Director, Quality Engineering — Picsart]

11:40 to 12:10 How to adapt in the new hybrid work environment reality. Five lessons learned in leading and managing large communities Alexandru Savu [Enterprise .NET Senior Community Manager — Cognizant Softvision]

12:15 to 13:00 10 things I wish someone told me before I became a tech evangelist Mathis Hammel [Tech Evangelist — CodinGame]

13:00 to 14:00 Networking lunch

14:00 to 14:45 Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn't Tell Me Ori Keren [Co-founder & CEO — LinearB]

14:50 to 15:20 Applied Elastic Stack in the Telco Industry: Observability and Big Data Near Real-Time Analytics Alexandru Cristu [Solution Architect — R Systems]

15:25 to 16:10 Keynote

16:15 to 16:45 Modern CI&CD for Data Warehouses Laurentiu Diaconu [Vice President of Data Engineering — Verumex]

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10:00 to 10:10 Intro Speech powered by METRO.digital

10:15 to 10:45 The Art of Becoming a Product Organisation Daniela Lica [Product Coaching Domain Manager — METRO.digital]

10:50 to 11:35 How you move your business from the past to the future. The effects of digitalization on your business. Akos Deliaga [Co-founder and CEO — Talk-A-Bot LLC]

11:40 to 12:10 Living the startup life within a corporate surrounding Kenneth Vermaas [Head of Framework Development, DKV Mobility coordinating RO&DE teams — DKV EURO SERVICE ROMANIA]

12:15 to 13:00 Building a Distributed Engineering Team Paulo Jorge Alves Pereira [VP of Engineering — Remote]

13:00 to 14:00 Networking lunch

14:00 to 14:45 Adversity & Innovation — Observations and Learnings from the Pandemic Gary Crawford [Chief Innovation Officer — Waracle]

14:50 to 15:20 Product Innovation with AI for Legal Operations Fredrik Hagstroem [Chief Technology Officer — Emergn]

15:25 to 16:10 AI products cold start problem: how to start when you have no data? Alexandr Honchar [Partner and Head of AI — Neurons Lab]

16:15 to 17:00 The Product Growth Blueprint Oli Gibson [Principal Product Manager — Thoughtworks]

10:00 to 11:00 Masterclass

11:05 to 12:05 Masterclass

12:10 to 13:10 Masterclass

13:10 to 14:00 Networking lunch

14:00 to 15:00 Masterclass

15:05 to 16:05 Having Fun With Event Storming For Tackling Complex Systems Radu Gasler [Software Architect — Verifone]

16:10 to 17:10 Masterclass

10:00 to 10:10 Intro Speech powered by CrowdStrike Romania

Cosmin Bratu [Engineering Manager — CrowdStrike Romania]

10:15 to 10:45 Unexpected Journey to Data Meshes

Alex Postica [Cloud Engineer — CrowdStrike Romania]

10:50 to 11:35 Finding & optimizing your way in the cloudy DBMS jungle

Daniel Seybold [Co-founder & CTO — benchANT]

11:40 to 12:10 Data mesh not data mess

Petronel Paun [Azure Data & AI Domain Lead — Accenture]

12:15 to 13:00 Accelerating data teams with "Data Build Tool"

Miklos Petridisz [Expert Data Engineer & Solutions Architect — Co-founder & Independent Consultant]

13:05 to 13:35 MLOps: Taking AI from the lab to production

Claudiu Rontu [Senior Consultant — Deloitte ERDC] ;

Radu Radocea [Senior Manager — Deloitte ERDC]

14:00 to 14:30 The journey towards a data-powered company

Andreea Lachapelle [Chief Data officer — Edenred Digital Center]

14:35 to 15:05 Exploring Cloud Automation Tooling

Ana-Maria Moga [Software Developer — 1&1 Internet Development] ;

Livius Pîrvănescu [Head of Cloud Development Romania — 1&1 Internet Development]

15:10 to 15:55 Accelerating innovation in healthcare

Jorge Fonseca [Senior Solutions Architect — AWS]

16:00 to 16:30 Multi-dimensional production data anonymization with Python

Cosmin Cojocaru [Data Science Lead — DB Global Technology]

16:35 to 17:20 Serverless landscape beyond functions

Mete Atamel [Senior Developer Advocate — Google]

10:00 to 10:10 Intro Speech powered by ING Bank Romania

Razvan Sighinas [Executive Director & Chief Information Officer — ING Bank Romania]

10:15 to 11:00 Opennes and ethical hacking

Melanie Rieback [Co-Founder & CEO — Open Radically Security]

11:05 to 11:35 Keynote powered by ING Bank Romania

Razvan Sighinas [Executive Director & Chief Information Officer — ING Bank Romania]

11:40 to 12:10 Cyber-attacks Kill Chain Disruption

Madalin Dumitru [Founder & CEO — Cyber Smart Defence] ;

Alexandru Bertea [Cybersecurity Strategist — Stefanini Group]

12:15 to 12:45 Cybersecurity as an enabler for the Business

Manuel Garat [Senior Manager - Identity and Access Management — Booking Holdings]

14:00 to 15:05 Introduction to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect

Dr. Philippe De Ryck [Web Security Expert, Founder of Pragmatic Web Security — Pragmatic Web Security]

15:10 to 15:40 Zero trust, why trust!

Mihai Filipoi [Technical consultant — Accesa] ;

Alexandru Hagea [Network and Security Lead — Accesa]

15:45 to 16:30 Manufacturing in the Metaverse: Securing AI Driven Digital Twins & Distributed Ledgers of Things

Michael Mylrea [Senior Distinguished Engineer — Resilience]

16:35 to 17:55 How can we defend ourselves against ransomware atacks in 2022?

Yoni Leitersdorf [CEO & Founder — Indeni] ;

Chloe Messdaghi [Impact Strategist — Impactive Consulting] ;

DJ Schleen [Vice President - Infrastructure and Developer Operations — VillageMD]

10:00 to 10:10 Intro Speech powered by EPAM Romania

Mihai Tudoran [Delivery Manager Organization — EPAM Romania]

10:15 to 10:45 Different perspectives for a successful delivery.

Paul Bran-Popescu [Head of AMS & IMS Team — EPAM Romania]

10:50 to 11:35 The Psychology of Quality Engineering

Sargis Sargsyan [Director, Quality Engineering — Picsart]

11:40 to 12:10 How to adapt in the new hybrid work environment reality. Five lessons learned in leading and managing large communities

Alexandru Savu [Enterprise .NET Senior Community Manager — Cognizant Softvision]

12:15 to 13:00 10 things I wish someone told me before I became a tech evangelist

Mathis Hammel [Tech Evangelist — CodinGame]

14:00 to 14:45 Promoted from Dev to Team Lead: 8 Things They Didn't Tell Me

Ori Keren [Co-founder & CEO — LinearB]

14:50 to 15:20 Applied Elastic Stack in the Telco Industry: Observability and Big Data Near Real-Time Analytics

Alexandru Cristu [Solution Architect — R Systems]

16:15 to 16:45 Modern CI&CD for Data Warehouses

Laurentiu Diaconu [Vice President of Data Engineering — Verumex]

10:15 to 10:45 The Art of Becoming a Product Organisation

Daniela Lica [Product Coaching Domain Manager — METRO.digital]

10:50 to 11:35 How you move your business from the past to the future. The effects of digitalization on your business.

Akos Deliaga [Co-founder and CEO — Talk-A-Bot LLC]

11:40 to 12:10 Living the startup life within a corporate surrounding

Kenneth Vermaas [Head of Framework Development, DKV Mobility coordinating RO&DE teams — DKV EURO SERVICE ROMANIA]

12:15 to 13:00 Building a Distributed Engineering Team

Paulo Jorge Alves Pereira [VP of Engineering — Remote]

14:00 to 14:45 Adversity & Innovation — Observations and Learnings from the Pandemic

Gary Crawford [Chief Innovation Officer — Waracle]

14:50 to 15:20 Product Innovation with AI for Legal Operations

Fredrik Hagstroem [Chief Technology Officer — Emergn]

15:25 to 16:10 AI products cold start problem: how to start when you have no data?

Alexandr Honchar [Partner and Head of AI — Neurons Lab]

16:15 to 17:00 The Product Growth Blueprint

Oli Gibson [Principal Product Manager — Thoughtworks]

15:05 to 16:05 Having Fun With Event Storming For Tackling Complex Systems

Radu Gasler [Software Architect — Verifone]