DevTalks Romania 2025 in numbers
Wednesday 09 Jul, 2025
The 12th edition of the largest tech conference in CEE was an absolute success – from global participants to international top voices and tech giants, DevTalks 2025 has been one to remember.
In terms of numbers, together we reached:
- 7500 attendees over the two days of event
- 80+ tech partners in the expo-area
- Over 150 international and local speakers
- 14 pure tech content stages
- A full Tech Edu Area with 120 kids involved in hands-on learning sessions created by Atelierele Tamarei, Mindhub, Academia Micilor Developeri, and sySTEMatic
- 2 Roundtable Areas with 11 workshops throughout the two days of DevTalks
- 12 local start-ups present in the Grow Your Idea Area
- New networking areas – the Chill Area, the Coffee Hub, the Heineken Networking Lounge, the VIP & Speakers Lounge
This edition is a special one, showcasing our growth over the years and reaching new goals.
Day 1 at DevTalks Romania 2025
The content stages were filled with attendees, excited about what our top speakers had to say. Here are a few of the speakers, part of the 12th edition of DevTalks.
On the Main Stage, Teodora Musatoiu from OpenAI sure filled the room to the brim, everyone listening intently to her from inside and outside the stage. At the same time, Victor Rentea dealt with a similar situation on the Java Stage, all the seats having been taken so quickly.
Both had such interesting keynotes that the participants simply had to be there. Teodora talked about deploying LLMs and Victor touched on streamtoxication, blending deep expertise with high energy.
The Web Stage welcomed Jason Mayes, Google’s Web AI Lead, talk about using GenAI models to perform agentic behaviors in real world applications.
On the Mobile Stage, Ahmed Tikiwa from Disney, shared his experience with WindowSize Classes to streamline the development process of Android Apps. Before that, Dinu-Stefan Rusu, the Senior Software Engineer at scanneralimente.ro presented the growth challenges of the Flutter App, reaching 100,000 Monthly Active Users.
The founder of Centaurium AI, Tijana Nikolić, delivered a powerful talk on the Women in Tech Stage about excelling in using Generative AI, with insights on the market, emerging trends, and implementation possibilities.
Ian Massingham brought his A game on the BigData & Cloud Stage, with valuable information from his experience with the challenges of building an app using LLM provided APIs, as well as open LLMs, like Llama, Mistral, or DeepSeek.
Anders Lybecker also had a strong session, talking about the future of Cloud Computing and the challenges it faces, as well as emerging trends, such as serverless 2.0 and composable cloud architectures.
On the DevLead Stage, attendees had first-hand interactions with tech decision-makers. Italo Vietro, the VP of Platform at Babbel, offered hands-on strategies using SQL for cost management optimization, making complex concepts approachable and actionable.
DevTalks Romania 2025 – day 2
Ganna Pogrebna took over the Main Stage to give attendees practical insights on the cross between cybersecurity and AI, and powerful technologies like anomaly detection and adversarial AI.
On the Future of Engineering Stage, Yoana Boyanova from Broadcom shared her experience in designing user interfaces for multi-tenant cloud environments, while Daniel Krasnokucki from Equinix took to the DevOps Stage to explore how zero trust architecture can be used to fortify modern microservices.
Jakub Rosiński, Snowflake’s SDET, joined the QA & Testing Stage with a personal take on the “shift-left approach” in Playwright, and how early-testing is possible within the company. Lia Moreira from BLIP also joined the stage with insights on AI in test automation and how it helps teams test faster and more effectively.
On the Security Stage, ethical hacker and HackerMinded founder - Tom Van de Wiele, took attendees on a journey through the emerging hacker frontier of AI, sharing his unique perspective on the evolving threats and future of cybersecurity.
We also had Adam Števko, Senior Security Engineer at Datadog, deliver a session tailored for cloud and security engineers looking beyond static Infrastructure as Code. His talk highlighted how the Terrapwner Terraform tool can enhance their workflows.
Over at the Product World Stage, Justin Kaeser from JetBrains demonstrated how to set up projects using Bazel, showing how this powerful build tool can scale to fit a company’s structure and evolving needs.
Alice Rendell, the Off-Leash Interactive’s Narrative Lead, found her way on the DevTalks Gaming Stage, with a groundbreaking keynote on incorporating narrative directly into gameplay, offering players a deeper, more meaningful storytelling experience beyond traditional formats.
Some of these speakers also held interactive workshops at our two Roundtable Areas of this year, like Anders Lybecker and Ahmed Tikiwa. Besides offering practical takeaways from their professional journeys, the speakers also addressed specific questions raised by participants.
Fun booth activations with our partners
Breaks are very important, and at DevTalks Romania we love to have fun in-between content sessions. In this sense, our partners had so many activations with big prizes, which sure got everyone excited.
At the Logitech booth you could shoot a basketball and score to win tech kits with prizes like performant keyboards. The Google and ad/01 booths brought memory tests, in which you could win new gadgets and cool robots.
If you swung by the Stefanini booth, you know you could have won air tags and other cool little gadgets, or a Formula 1 ticket from the UniCredit booth. By participating in the Accenture contests, you had the chance to win a Remarkable 2 tablet.
And so many more prizes.
But DevTalks is not always just about winning. It’s about making memories and creating long-lasting connections.
And sometimes, even about taking a break to read something interesting with Bookster.
Cabina Trasnita joined us again with fun props, photo booths, and a 360-video experience.
Finaqua kept everyone hydrated with alkaline water on the hot summer days and brought a demo corner with different water hardness tests.
The networking areas this year were buzzing with attendees:
- The Chill Area powered by RiceUp with healthy, sweet and savory snacks
- The Heineken networking area with a creative ball game and product samples
- Especially the Coffee Hub, put together by COS and Julius Meinl, simulating a coffee shop atmosphere
- The VIP & Speakers Lounge was also full of interesting discussions, powered by Mobexpert, joined by Mellow Drinks, Fritz-Kola, and Fentimans for a special experience
- The Working Lounge was a space for productive working sessions for everyone, with soundproof booths and comfy places to work, brought by Workspace Studio.
The 12th edition of DevTalks Romania was a success, and a show of everything we can achieve together – participants, partners, and companies alike, who bring something special every time.
Next year, we are waiting for you on June 3rd and 4th, at Romexpo, B1 for a new edition of DevTalks Romania.
Until then, make sure you take a look at our autumn dev conferences:
- DevTalks Cluj-Napoca on September 25th at CREIC.
- DevCon on November 5th-6th at NORD Events Center by Globalworth.
- Empower on November 18th at NORD Events Center by Globalworth.
- DevAfterWork throughout the following months.