Micro Front-ends with respect to Module Federation

Web Stage — 30 minutes

The need of levelling up towards a high-end architecture is always an ambitious thing. Within a Front-end application, scaling is an important point. Let’s try a new method of sharing code between our Front-end applications

• Adrian Sandu [Technical Team Lead — BCR]

Strengthening the friendly bond between QA's and Devs with Cypress and Cucumber

Web Stage — 45 minutes

Testing is a tough, yet interesting topic whenever it comes to Software Development.
Many products just ignore it and end up in misery, as their products grow. But given the right amount of care, and efforts, testing products can turn out great in terms of robustness, scalability, reliability and maintenance of the product. It is however a pain to write the test cases and develop them. Especially, making sure nothing is left out when the QAs update/remove/add a test. Let me share a surprising tool that eliminates this gap between the Devs and the QAs. Thank me later!
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• Muhammad Ahsan Ayaz [Software Architect — Syncron]

Don’t release to Production, release to QA

Web Stage — 30 minutes

Seeing your colleagues from QA team as the end-users of the application you’re working on may come as unusual, but doing so makes a big difference.
From a tight feedback loop to improved user experience, in this session we will discuss the advantages that this paradigm shift brings into the application development.
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• Petru Rebeja [Lead Technical Designer — Cegeka]

Native web apps: are we there yet?

Web Stage — 45 minutes

There are so many discussions about web VS native apps. Will we get to the point where the Web becomes truly Native for the majority of the platforms?
There are so many discussions about web VS native apps. Will we get to the point where the Web becomes truly Native for the majority of the platforms? Progressive Web Apps, Project Fugu, WebAssembly & other technologies actively contribute to moving in this direction. In this session, we go through a list of details that make the integration of an application & operating system seamless, and map it to the APIs available for the web platform. With the knowledge of what's available today and what's coming soon, you are empowered to build truly Native Web Apps to deliver the best user experience!
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• Maxim Salnikov [Developer Engagement Lead — Microsoft]

Networking lunch

Web Stage — 1 hour

Tips, tricks and what's new in CSS

Web Stage — 45 minutes

CSS has evolved a lot over the years, with many new features, which can help us work a lot easier. Elad Shechter will show you what amazing things you missed in CSS

• Elad Shechter [CSS/HTML Architect — Appwrite]

Top Tips For Blazor

Web Stage — 45 minutes

Want to try out Blazor?
 Maybe you already have! Here are my top tips for creating awesome Blazor applications! We'll cover the following topics and more in this demo rich session: * Blazor Server and Blazor WASM * Blazor hybrid web apps with .NET MAUI * Awesome Components * A whole host of performance-improving tips * Tools to make development easier
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• Layla Porter [Developer Advocate — VMware]

Testing user flows - A study case

Web Stage — 30 minutes

Unit tests are good enough for testing small, isolated units of code; but aren't the best choice when wanting to test the integration of these units into a larger system. 
On the other hand, end-to-end tests take much longer to run, so they're not feasible to be executed in every build cycle and may fail to detect bugs early enough in business logic. In this case study, we're going to start by looking at one of the largest projects in Deloitte Digital and run through a 'by-the-book' frontend implementation. We'll be focusing on testing entire user flows as part of the PR process without the need of a headless browser and while keeping the pipeline build fast and stable. Read More...

• Vlad Moldoveanu [Tech Lead — Deloitte Digital]

The subtle art of contract testing

QA & Testing Stage — 30 minutes

Have you ever experienced a painful situation of deploying to production some code changes only to find out that an API you integrate with has broken the contract? 
 How can you effectively ensure that the components are compatible with each other and their integration is successful?

Join me and discover the subtle art of contract testing and how you can add a layer of confidence when your team deploys new versions and risks breaking an API contract. As Gandalf said: "Even the very wise cannot see all ends".
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• Hulia Suliman [Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test — CrowdStrike Romania]

How 5g influences the QA expertise

QA & Testing Stage — 45 minutes

• Viktoriia Taraniuk [Manager in Embedded systems domain — GlobalLogic]

Are testers suffering from cognitive bias? + Adopting the Security mindset

QA & Testing Stage — 30 minutes

Join Accesa to answer the question "Are testers suffering from cognitive bias?"  For the first part, we will question ourselves as manual or automation engineers about our perception when designing our tests. We should stop from our continuous sprint and measure the value we bring to both business and final users with our tests. Let’s become the enablers. We have all the knowledge. We just need to shift our perception.
For the second part, we will talk about "Adopting the Security mindset". The world is not just changing fast, it’s accelerating, and nowadays, everything happens online. Security has become a mandatory aspect of software applications and infrastructures. This year 40% of businesses expect breaches.The ability to deliver secure code and applications tested from a security point of view is being used now as a differentiator together with the other non-functional aspects of an application like performance, usability or compatibility. Similar to how we approached performance testing in the past, now we have to offer our clients engagements that also cover the security aspect. We need to be able to deliver it throughout all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle. Creating, delivering, and operating software in 2022 must also consider security. I'll explain how we at Accesa and RaRo plan to face some of these changes, how this affected our development and testing practices, and how we adjusted to meet these new challenges.Join me as I highlight some of the reasons why Accesa and RaRo started on its journey towards a Security mindset to be able to deliver secure applications.Here’s what you'll will learn: 1 What led us to change our approach on security? // 2.Core principles that drive security throughout SDLC // 3.How does Accesa and RaRo achieve security testing? What's our basic strategy? // 4.Data and research that backed initial assumptions// 5.Where are the future challenges from here on? Read More...

• Andrei Marinoiu [QA Consultant — Accesa]
• Vasile Bota [QA Office Lead — Accesa]

Cutting edge technologies in automated testing

QA & Testing Stage — 45 minutes

We will discuss many of the most modern solutions for visualizing test results and executing tests in Docker containers. Also, we will review many framework integrations with cloud cognitive services which use machine learning ML and artificial intelligence AI.
Finally, we will review how to use them for testing hard otherwise functionalities such as PDFs or videos. The demos will include testing of voice, optical character recognition OCR, and others.
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• Anton Angelov [CTO & Co-founder — Automate The Planet]

Networking lunch

QA & Testing Stage — 1 hour

The pyramid is dead, long live the pyramid

QA & Testing Stage — 45 minutes

When you think about test automation concepts, the test pyramid is probably one of the first metaphors you'll stumble across.
It is a metaphor that can give you a way to group different types of tests. It gives you an understanding of how many tests you should consider at each level. However, voices are getting louder that the pyramid is out of date. Many new forms have emerged, such as the diamond, the trophy, or the crab, to name a few. You see, there are tons of tools and different ways to approach test automation. But what of them should you use and what makes sense for which project? I want to look with you at what we tried in my team and what we ended up with. Let's pick a testing strategy for us and decide what we should automate and what we should leave to humans.
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• Ramona Schwering [Software Developer — shopware AG]

To which degree is testing AI different from other applications (Client or web base)

QA & Testing Stage — 1 hour

• Nikolay Plamenov Avramov [Team Lead — Automate The Planet]
• Nikolaj Tolkaciov [Testing Practice Lead — Devbridge]
• Florin Manolescu [Founder and CTO — Academia Testarii]

The importance of Automation Testing Team

QA & Testing Stage — 30 minutes

• Ciprian Zane [Manager IT Testing Department — OTP Bank Romania]

Taking human approach in automated functional testing

QA & Testing Stage — 45 minutes

Test Automation can be done using numerous approaches – from code-less solutions with recorders that simulate the user interactions, through some coded solutions with custom locators, all the way to AI-driven frameworks that use image-based locator data.
  These are all fine for the click-button, fill-input and assert-message scenarios. But how about the real enterprise projects where we talk about thousands of User Scenarios working on forms with 50-60 fields each, reading and writing data on grids and tables with two screens-long headers and rows? How much time would it take to complete one of those scenarios? How do we create element maps on a scale of 1500+ screens across the whole system? How do we keep the Human-first approach in the automation scripts? And last but not least – how do we maintain all of those through the years of refactoring, redesigns, improvements? I will show you our way of balancing between human-like locators and interactions, while at the same time we keep the flexibility for endless customizations and integrations that the BELLATRIX framework provides. Read More...

• Nikolay Plamenov Avramov [Team Lead — Automate The Planet]

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

CodeClash Stage — 30 minutes

• Mike Elsmore [Developer Advocate — Infobip]
• Alex Lakatos [Technology Lead — Interledger Foundation]

Let’s talk plugins… in 2 languages

CodeClash Stage — 30 minutes

In today's fast-paced world, we need to use the best tools to solve complex problems and meet business demands. This sometimes involves combining 2 or more programming languages. Also, to be competitive in the market, we need to customize and adapt to the various needs – and plugins offer the right flexibility. Join our keynote session and discover in real time a hybrid plugin solution that merges the ease of working in Python with the efficiency of C++. The best of both worlds.

• Ingrid Axinte [Software Engineer — Societe Generale Global Solution Centre]
• Robert-Nicolae Voinea [Tech Lead — Societe Generale Global Solution Centre]

Learning and Teaching C++

CodeClash Stage — 45 minutes

C++ is making great strides since C++ 11, bringing the language and standard library to new heights. Adding features also increases the "complexity" of C++ - the language is bigger than ever.How can developers keep up? How should one learn C++? How should one teach C++? Some people are new to the language, others might know the "classic" C++. This talk examines modern C++ as a "teachable" and "learnable" language.

• Pavel Yosifovich [Developer, Trainer, Author and Speaker — ---]

DevOps Velocity with no quality surprises: the manual

CodeClash Stage — 30 minutes

• Aviram Shotten [Chief Solutions Engineer — Qualitest]

Networking lunch

CodeClash Stage — 1 hour

Edge AI vs Cloud AI. Is Edge overtaking Cloud?

CodeClash Stage — 45 minutes

This talk will compare features of both Edge and Cloud AI looking at several factors such as performance, efficiency or privacy, and will cover several Edge AI use-cases that are already changing the world.

• Silviu-Tudor Serban [Software Engineering Specialist — TCN]

How the fastest growing companies develop their public API

CodeClash Stage — 45 minutes

Josh will draw on his years of experience building APIs and tooling at Microsoft, Facebook and Stripe to share the 5 pillars every developer should think about before sharing an API.

• Josh Twist [CEO and Co-founder — Zuplo]

Python Q&A Session

CodeClash Stage — 30 minutes

• Matt Harrison [Corporate Trainer — MetaSnake]

The future of C++

CodeClash Stage — 45 minutes

In the next decade, three major new C++ will reshape how we write C++ code - reflection, pattern matching, and senders/receivers. Come join Bryce Adelstein Lelbach, one of the leaders of the C++ committee, to find out what's next for C++, and why you should be excited about it.

• Bryce Adelstein Lelbach [HPC Programming Models Architect — NVIDIA]

D Programming

CodeClash Stage — 45 minutes

• Walter Bright [Father of D programing language — D Language Foundation]

Future of Beauty Technology

Women in Tech Stage — 30 minutes

• Liz Bacelar [Executive Director, Global IT Innovation — The Estée Lauder Companies]
• Andreea-Mihaela Raica [Senior Lead Business Analyst, Intelligent Automation — The Estée Lauder Companies]
• Valeriu Grigore [Senior Manager UX/UI Design, DTE — The Estée Lauder Companies]

Women and money, how to raise money for your startup if you are a female founder

Women in Tech Stage — 45 minutes

• Nancy Brito [General Partner — Ground Capital]

Fear of being unmasked - Impostor syndrome | Love-hate relationship

Women in Tech Stage — 30 minutes

Questions like the following ones often creep in the minds of many smart, high-achieving people:
Do I really deserve all my success? Am I as competent as people think I am? Have I succeeded only due to luck and knowing the right people? These doubts have a name: imposter syndrome. It's not false modesty, and neither is a strategy to climb the corporate ladder. It can happen to anyone, but minorities and women are the hardest hit. This talk is about the journey of two successful development consultants in recognizing the imposter syndrome in themselves, dealing with it, and turning it into an accelerator to grow.
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• Daniela Spilca [Development Consultant — Endava]
• Diana Constantinescu [Bucharest .NET Community Lead — Endava]

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship

Women in Tech Stage — 45 minutes

Why does diversity matter in AI, business and innovation?
Why does diversity matter in AI, business and innovation? Why to address bias in AI? Why to boost innovation? Rayna will walk you through the modern challenges in technology - diversity & inclusion, bias in AI and how innovations become force for good. Together we are game changers for a better world driving it to irreversible progress by innovations. She advocates that we will significantly improve our well-being and the amazing everyday life we have by uniting our efforts to create beautiful friendship between artificial intelligence, innovation and humanity.
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• Rayna Stankova [Software Engineer — VMware]

Networking lunch

Women in Tech Stage — 1 hour

Do we need women dedicated initiatives?

Women in Tech Stage — 1 hour

Most times when I share that I am part of a Women in Tech initiative, someone will roll their eyes, or even ask me why there are no Men in Tech initiatives?
It both funny, and sad at the same time that we still ask such questions. Will try to share my learnings on why they work and why they are important from different programs attended or organized.
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• Ioana Chiorean [Senior Engineering Manager — Interledger Foundation]

Self-Organizing Teams: How to manage Creativity

Women in Tech Stage — 30 minutes

Creativity can be a scary place, but we can help change this bias! Setting the right context for your creative talents can improve the iteration process and will surely elevate the value of the product you deliver.

• Dana Juncu [Associate Producer — Ubisoft Romania]

Artist at soul & Entrepreneurial mind

Women in Tech Stage — 1 hour

• Georgina Lupu [CEO & Founder — Wolfpack Digital]
• Irina Raicu [Senior Product Manager & A.I. Artist — Microsoft]

Responsible AI – from theory to practice

Women in Tech Stage — 45 minutes

Taking a human-centered approach to socio-technical challenges means that instead of talking about technology first, we talk about humans first and then the relationships between humans and technology.
Responsible AI pushes beyond compliance and tech policy, and introduces real lived experiences, examples and our own biases into the technology that we have grown to trust and rely on.
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• Leigh Felton [Chief of Staff & GTM Leader Microsoft, WW Public Sector — Microsoft]

Opennes and ethical hacking

Security Stage — 45 minutes

Pentesting should be open, transparent, and noncommercial.
In this presentation, dr. Melanie Rieback (CEO and co-founder) will share her experiences at Radically Open Security (including the "Peek Over Our Shoulder" workflow), critically reflect on the infosec industry, and suggest ways to leverage our "craft" for positive change.
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• Melanie Rieback [Co-Founder & CEO — Open Radically Security]

Secure by design

Security Stage — 30 minutes

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

Cyber-attacks Kill Chain Disruption

Security Stage — 30 minutes

A Cyber-attack kill chain describes an organized attack campaign against a specific IT/OT technology infrastructure target. 
 The presentation is aimed at describing practical means of implementing cybersecurity defenses that help mitigate the risk of cyber-attacks and disrupt the cyber kill chain.
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• Madalin Dumitru [Founder & CEO — Cyber Smart Defence]
• Alexandru Bertea [Cybersecurity Strategist — Stefanini Group]

Cybersecurity as an enabler for the Business

Security Stage — 30 minutes

Often, Cybersecurity can be perceived as a necessary nuisance to protect a company, its employees and assets. 
 Businesses often "cope" with it unwillingly, as an unavoidable imposition. However, Booking.com's vision for Cybersecurity is different. We make it possible for employees, especially developers, to innovate and focus on core missions and enterprising solutions, while keeping our business secure, compliant and resilient. Come hear what the IAM (Identity and Access Management) team is doing in this space, how we innovate, and what our vision is for the future.
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• Manuel Garat [Senior Manager - Identity and Access Management — Booking Holdings]

Networking lunch

Security Stage — 1 hour

Introduction to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect

Security Stage — 1 hour

OAuth 2.0 is likely one of the most complex aspects of modern web applications.
It is often mistakenly assumed that OAuth 2.0 offers authentication and authorization. Instead, OAuth 2.0 only offers delegation. To make matters more complicated, there are at least six different OAuth 2.0 flows, each for a particular purpose. On top of that, OpenID Connect (OIDC) redefines some of these flows to enable authentication explicitly. In this talk, we will clear up the confusion about OAuth 2.0 and OIDC. We will explain the purpose and properties of most relevant flows. We explore how to use OAuth 2.0’s delegation mechanism to enable authorization on a backend. Finally, we will look at using OIDC for end-user authentication with a third-party provider. At the end of this talk, you will have a solid understanding of OAuth 2.0/OIDC and how to use it in your applications.
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• Dr. Philippe De Ryck [Web Security Expert, Founder of Pragmatic Web Security — Pragmatic Web Security]

Zero trust, why trust!

Security Stage — 30 minutes

In a post-pandemic world, the way we work has changed dramatically – it had to!
The pandemic has been the primary accelerator for digital transformation in recent years, requiring us to move from the safe and comfortable perimeter that we, as IT individuals, have worked so hard to build to a more flexible and less restrictive way of work. This brings about unprecedented security risks, and our discussion today will emphasize how you, as an organization, can improve your security posture to protect yourself – before you wreck yourself. Read More...

• Mihai Filipoi [Technical consultant — Accesa]
• Alexandru Hagea [Network and Security Lead — Accesa]

Manufacturing in the Metaverse: A Brave New World of Disruptive Innovation

Security Stage — 45 minutes

All modern organizations require a resilient health ecosystem to function. The Covid-19 Pandemic was grim reminder of our vulnerability. During the Pandemic, critical ports and transportation ground to a halt, hospitals and essential services were overwhelmed and critical supply chains and manufacturing disrupted.  While researchers worked to develop a vaccine for a complex, non-linear, evolving biothreat several sophisticated cyber adversaries took advantage of the fog of war against Covid to weaken their opponents. An ongoing Cyberwar fueled by Nation State adversary and well-funded criminal games took on new meaning as Malware targeting systems became Kill Ware, meant to not only deny, and degrade but destroy and kill. During the Pandemic, cyber-attacks increasingly targeted healthcare, pharma and medical device manufacturing and device supply chains, ransomware spread through hospital networks, stealthy cyber weapons were launched to steal intellectual property, misinformation campaigns questioned the viruses’ source and efficacy of its cure.  The following presentation explores how National Resilience, one of the fastest growing biopharma start- ups, aims to overcome some of these challenges with disruptive innovation, from Digital Twins and to privacy preserving Manufacturing in the Metaverse, Distributed Ledgers for Biological Internet of Things (BIoT) to Explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI). Please join Technologist Dr. Michael Mylrea, a Senior Distinguished Engineer at National Resilience and Fellow and The University of Miami, Data Science Institute. Read More...

• Michael Mylrea [Senior Distinguished Engineer — Resilience]

How can we defend ourselves against ransomware attacks in 2022?

Security Stage — 1 hour

• Chloe Messdaghi [Impact Strategist — Impactive Consulting]
• DJ Schleen [Vice President - Infrastructure and Developer Operations — VillageMD]

Different perspectives for a successful delivery.

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes

Have you ever encountered a difficult project? How do you face challenging situations in a project?

How did you manage to make the customer happy with your delivery?

In this presentation you will find out a successful way to deliver reliable products to a customer while building and maintaining trust. Read More...

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

The Psychology of Quality Engineering

DevLead Stage — 45 minutes

Quality Engineering is embedded in Software Engineering and has a high impact and role on the SDLC.  QE drives the quality development of products and processes while enabling effective testing in parallel. It has been changed over time and has different scopes starting from testing to automation. The role in the product team was transformed over the time parallel on Agile transformation Let's talk about the evaluation of Quality Engineering, history, development and the future of our the role. I will share the ideas and approaches I had experience with during the last 12 years.
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• Sargis Sargsyan [Director, Quality Engineering — Picsart]

How to adapt in the new hybrid work environment reality. Five lessons learned in leading and managing large communities

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes

Concise lessons learned directly from the field.
The presentations will share valuable insights and tips & tricks from experience in leading and managing a large community of engineers. Topics covered: VUCA, leading vs managing, generational differences.
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• Alexandru Savu [Enterprise .NET Senior Community Manager — Cognizant Softvision]

10 things I wish someone told me before I became a tech evangelist

DevLead Stage — 45 minutes

How do I get into public speaking? What does the audience want? Is it a noble or a pretentious cause?
 What is my purpose as a speaker? Five years ago when I decided to submit my first tech talk at a local conference, I had a million questions rushing through my mind, and there have been probably another million since that day. This talk is an experiment to summarize my journey from a newbie tech speaker to a professional tech evangelist as a list of 10 insights and stories.
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• Mathis Hammel [Tech Evangelist — CodinGame]

Networking lunch

DevLead Stage — 1 hour

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

DevLead Stage — 45 minutes

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. 
In fact, they often hold us back. I learned this the hard way. In this session, I expose the top surprises I experienced and the biggest mistakes I made during my first year managing a team. Like going into “superman mode” when there was a problem. Plus I share 8 things I wish my boss told me before I took the job. Like being data-driven does not mean being a performance tyrant. For developers, this session will help you decide if you want to pursue a management role and what it takes to be successful. If you’re already a team lead, you’ll walk away with my personal playbook and all of my best tips for becoming a more effective leader. CTOs, VPs, and Directors of Engineering will learn how to set up new managers for success as they transition from individual contributor to team lead.
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• Yishai Beeri [CTO — LinearB]

Applied Elastic Stack in the Telco Industry: Observability and Big Data Near Real-Time Analytics

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes

In today's distributed cloud native architectures, a good observability stack is a must. Curious to learn more from our production experience with large Elastic Stack deployments enriched with custom agents and tools, multitenant observability solutions which accommodate many products and teams in the same time? That’s not all: find out also how we applied this over 11-year old technology stack to other use cases.

• Alexandru Cristu [Solution Architect — R Systems]

Cross platform frameworks and how it accelerates development and delivery

DevLead Stage — 45 minutes

If your team is in dilemma of choosing between native mobile development and cross-platform frameworks, this talk might be interesting for you.  In it, you will find a detailed analysis of the differences between native and cross-platform app development; the benefit of using cross-platform frameworks; a comparison of cross-platform frameworks, including the very popular Flutter, React Native and Kotlin Multiplatform.  Furthermore, it goes on to look at each technical from the view of developer experience versus product design and release process, showing cases of how it benefits your project if you are crafting a brand new project (Greenfield) or a rewriting / refactoring (Brownfield). In the end, I will discuss few challenges of cross-platform project in team building, automation testing and delivery.  Read More...

• Teresa Wu [VP of Software Engineer — JP Morgan Chase & Co.]

Modern CI&CD for Data Warehouses

DevLead Stage — 30 minutes

Traditionally, proper CI/CD has been very challenging for Data Warehouses due to multiple reasons.
We could argue the main ones usually are:
multiple moving parts in such solutions (data store backend, transformation systems, orchestration systems, master data management systems, data configurations, BI tools etc.); the nature of data in such solutions (current data, future data); the testing aspect (ensuring test scenarios are comprehensive with respect to the real world and relevant considering real workloads, creating test data and managing its lifecycle correctly etc.). We would like to present a modern approach to tackling this aspect that aligns with Declarative best practices related to handling changes to the state of such a system. Read More...

• Laurentiu Diaconu [Vice President of Data Engineering — Verumex]

The Art of Becoming a Product Organisation

Product Management Stage — 30 minutes

In a realm overflowing with innovation hype, creating winning products that truly address our customers' needs has become a very challenging assignment.  While everyone aspires to build the most desirable products for their customers, reduce risks, and generate significant value for their businesses, they are unlikely to succeed without the proper methods. Let's talk about how to create products that customers love by adopting a product mindset and moving beyond the classical Agile delivery methodologies. 
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• Daniela Lica [Product Coaching Domain Manager — METRO.digital]

How you move your business from the past to the future. The effects of digitalization on your business.

Product Management Stage — 45 minutes

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

Where are companies in digitization?
What are the organizational and business implications of not doing this?
HR digitization. Statistics. Technologies and internal processes.
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• Akos Deliaga [Co-founder and CEO — Talk-A-Bot LLC]

Living the startup life within a corporate surrounding

Product Management Stage — 30 minutes

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 ?

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

Building a Distributed Engineering Team

Product Management Stage — 45 minutes

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? 

• Paulo Jorge Alves Pereira [VP of Engineering — Remote]

Networking lunch

Product Management Stage — 1 hour

Adversity & Innovation — Observations and Learnings from the Pandemic

Product Management Stage — 45 minutes

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.

• Gary Crawford [Chief Innovation Officer — Waracle]

Product Innovation with AI for Legal Operations

Product Management Stage — 30 minutes

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. 
In this keynote, Fredrik Hagstroem, CTO of Emergn, will take a product management perspective on digitalization of with pre-built artificial intelligence (AI). Fredrik will draw on insights from Emergn’s work building a product automating the claims process for an award-winning legal services firm.
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• Fredrik Hagstroem [Chief Technology Officer — Emergn]
• Muntis Rudzitis [Lead Data Scientist — Emergn]

AI products cold start problem: how to start when you have no data?

Product Management Stage — 45 minutes

Our customers won't use the app without the AI feature. However, we cannot build the AI feature without having data from our customers". 
So many great initiatives are stuck in this dead loop for years and lose the competition with the inferior product. However, such a weakness as "lack of data" can be turned into a strength and competitive advantage. In this talk, we will discuss the AI barbell and will see business, tech, and talent patterns that allow building intelligent products even without the data. The talk will be useful for product managers, CEOs, VC investors, and all those who influence strategic backlog for ambitious companies.
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• Alexandr Honchar [Partner and Head of AI — Neurons Lab]

The Product Growth Blueprint

Product Management Stage — 45 minutes

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.
I learned this the hard way when trying to grow my subscription product. I realised I didn’t just need a great product. What I really needed was a growth blueprint.

In this talk, I’ll share my blueprint for product growth and demonstrate how I used it to double my products revenue in six months. We’ll discuss how to set growth goals, how to build a growth model for your product to diagnose issues and find opportunities, and finally, how to communicate everything to your team so that you can drive change. Read More...

• Oli Gibson [Principal Product Manager — Thoughtworks]

Building cockroach products-thriving in uncertain times

Product Management Stage — 45 minutes

• Cristian Orasanu [Strategy Director, Innovation & Partnerships — Techcelerator.Ro]

Having Fun With Event Storming For Tackling Complex Systems

Masterclasses Stage — 1 hour

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.
It is especially useful for tackling complex domains and creating a shared language between non-technical and technical people. After today's session you will learn the rules of the game, I'll walk you through real-life examples and you will be ready to take it and play it with your team
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• Radu Gasler [Software Architect — Verifone]