About us

Lead by passion for technology and startups, as well as building communities around events, Vlad Ciurca and Oana Petrus created Techsylvania with the help of an amazing team.

Techsylvania started in 2014 with 380 attendees and grew to more than 2.200 attendees in 2018. The conference attracted speakers such as: Tim Draper (Founder of DFJ), Steffi Czerny (Managing Director at DLD Media), Di-Ann Eisnor (Director of Growth at Waze), Katherine Manderfield (Director of Content Strategy at The New York Times), Yossi Vardi (Angel Investor), Sonny Vu (Founder of Misfit), Peter Halacsy (CTO & Co-Founder at Prezi), Mark Shuttleworth (Founder of Ubuntu & Canonical), Andreas Ehn (First employee & CTO at Spotify), Peter Yared (Former CTO CBS Interactive), Gentry Underwood (Co-Founder of Mailbox), Johannes Reck (CEO GetYourGuide), Marcus Segal (Senior VP of Operations at Zynga), David Bettner (Creator of Words With Friends), Japjit Tulsi (VP Engineering at eBay).

Apart from this, the event features a connected devices hackathon where developers build creative projects, as well as a startup competition that featured early-stage companies from 9 countries.