techsylvania

2018 Edition

The 5th edition gathered over 2.200 attendees which benefited from high-quality information delivered by worldwide experts in the IT&C industry, developers, IT executives, leading companies and entrepreneurs.  

The Director of Growth at Waze, Di-Ann Eisnor, Kaidi Ruusalepp, Founder & CEO at Funderbeam and the creator of the global startup Stock Exchange, Sebastian Dobrincu, Founder and CEO of Storyheap with clients like Tumblr, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Japjit Tulsi, VP Engineering at eBay and Yossi Vardi, angel investor and the father of the Israeli Tech Ecosystem joined the Techsylvania stage.

Satellite events – a premier for an IT event organized in Romania -, Q&A sessions and Executive Roundtables were added to the conference schedule.

 

Days

Participants

Speakers

Startups

2018 Edition Speakers

Fred Boulanger

Fred Boulanger

CEO at Macadamian

Canada

Di-Ann Eisnor

Di-Ann Eisnor

Director of Growth at Waze (Building a 100 Million User Base)

USA

Sonny Vu

Sonny Vu

Founder of Misfit (Acquired by Fossil for $260 million)

Vietnam

Rich Archbold

Rich Archbold

Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom ($1 Billion Unicorn Messaging Startup)

Ireland

Robert Altinger

Robert Altinger

SVP Engineering & Operations at Crossover

USA

Paul Cutter

Paul Cutter

Chief Technology Officer at Paddy Power Betfair Group

United Kingdom

Akis Evangelidis

Akis Evangelidis

Head of Europe PR & Communications at OnePlus

France

Anda Gansca

Anda Gansca

CEO and Co-Founder of Knotch (Forbes 30 Under 30)

USA

Elies Campo

Elies Campo

Partnerships and BD Director at Telegram

USA

Pat Sheridan

Pat Sheridan

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Modus Create

USA

Ted Persson

Ted Persson

Design Partner at EQT Ventures

Sweden

Japjit Tulsi

Japjit Tulsi

VP Engineering at eBay (Leading Engineering for The World's 9th Largest Internet Company)

USA

Steffi Czerny

Steffi Czerny

Co-Founder & Managing Director at DLD Media (Number 30 of Wired' 100 Digital Influencers)

Germany

Sergiu Biris

Sergiu Biris

Co-Founder & CEO at Zonga

Jeremy Apthorp

Jeremy Apthorp

Senior Software Engineer at Slack (Building the Fastest-Growing Business App in History)

USA

Yossi Vardi

Yossi Vardi

Angel Investor (Father of the Israeli Tech Ecosystem)

Israel

Ashley Carroll

Ashley Carroll

Partner at Social Capital (Runs a $1.2 Billion VC Fund)

USA

Niv Liran

Niv Liran

Chief Product Officer at Auto1 Group ($2.8 Billion Unicorn)

Germany

Philipp Kandal

Philipp Kandal

Techsylvania Chairman & VP of Engineering at Telenav

USA

Joshua Burke

Joshua Burke

Commercial Attache US Embassy

Jeremy Fisher

Jeremy Fisher

CEO of River

USA

Kaidi Ruusalepp

Kaidi Ruusalepp

Founder & CEO at Funderbeam (Creator of the Global Startup Stock Exchange)

Estonia

Catalin Golban

Catalin Golban

Group Leader Driver Assistance at Bosch

Mihai Dragan

Mihai Dragan

CEO at Oveit

David Kashak

David Kashak

Founder and CEO of Connatix

USA

Dan Isai

Dan Isai

CEO at Salad Box

Romania

Alexander Shulgin

Alexander Shulgin

Founder & CEO of Gruppa Kompaniy Familia

Russia

Ralph Simon

Ralph Simon

Founder & CEO of Mobilium Global (The Inventor of the Ringtone)

United Kingdon

Michelle Messina

Michelle Messina

Founder & CEO of Explora International

USA

Bogdan Colceriu

Bogdan Colceriu

Co-Founder & CEO of Frisbo

Sebastian Dobrincu

Sebastian Dobrincu

Founder and CEO of Storyheap ($1 million in Revenue and Top Clients: Tumblr, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez)

USA

Lucas Roh

Lucas Roh

Founder & CEO of Bigstep

USA

Katherine Manderfield

Katherine Manderfield

Director of Content Strategy, T Brand Studio at The New York Times (Largest Circulation Newspaper in US)

USA

Rohan Chandran

Rohan Chandran

SVP Product Management, Data & Operations at Shopkick

USA

Xuan Jin

Xuan Jin

Senior Evangelist at Alibaba Cloud International (Largest Cloud Computing Company in China)

United Kingdom

Luke Mawbey

Luke Mawbey

Head of Technology at ComplyAdvantage

United Kingdom

Ondrej Bartos

Ondrej Bartos

Partner & Chairman of the Board at Credo Ventures

Czech Republic

Peter Gersak

Peter Gersak

CTO South East Europe at IBM

Slovenia

Florin Talpes

Florin Talpes

Founder and CEO of Bitdefender (Top Cybersecurity Player with 500 Million Users)

Richard Kivel

Richard Kivel

Managing Director at GrayBella Capital

USA

Max Niederhofer

Max Niederhofer

General Partner at Sunstone Capital

Germany

Matthew Michelsen

Matthew Michelsen

Silicon Valley Insider (Working with Leading Brands: Lady Gaga, Nike, Cirque Du Soleil, YouTube)

USA

John Biggs

John Biggs

Writer at TechCrunch (Author of the Best Book on Blogging)

USA

Micha Breakstone

Micha Breakstone

Co-Founder & Head or R&D at Chorus.ai

Israel

Omer Tetik

Omer Tetik

CEO at Banca Transilvania (Running a Bank with over 2.2 Milion Clients and 7.000 Employees)

Jan Ameri

Jan Ameri

Chief Innovation Officer at ArcticStartup

Finland

Newton Howard

Newton Howard

Director of the MIT Synthetic Intelligence Lab / Professor at the University of Oxford (Creating the brain implant of the future)

USA

Agenda

DAY 1, JUNE 11TH, 2018

09:00 Registrations
10:00 Opening Remarks by Executive Producers
10:10 What it Takes to Create a Successful Startup Ecosystem
In Conversation with Yossi Vardi
Ralph Simon (Mobilium) – Moderator
10:40 Solve for AI
Japjit Tulsi (eBay)
11:20
Build Your Next App with Electron
Jeremy Apthorp (Slack)
11:40 Coffee Break
12:00 Fighting Corruption with Technology
Luke Mawbey (ComplyAdvantage)
12:30 Panel: Digital Transatlantic Bridges
Joshua Burke (US Embassy) – Moderator
Peter Gersak (IBM)
Frederic Boulanger (Macadamian)
Pat Sheridan (Modus Create)
Lucas Roh (Bigstep)
12:50 Stick to The Basics: Product & User
Akis Evangelidis (OnePlus)
13:10
Future of Money
In Conversation with Omer Tetik (Banca Transilvania)
Philipp Kandal (Telenav) – Moderator
13:30 Lunch
14:40
The New Startup – How to Build a Company Through Token Sales and ICO’s
John Biggs (Techcrunch)
15:00 Panel: Going International
Rohan Chandran (Telenav) – Moderator
Dan Isai (Salad Box)
Sergiu Biris (Zonga)
Mihai Dragan (Oveit)
Bogdan Colceriu (Frisbo)
15:30
Optimizing Tech Throughput
Niv Liran (Auto1 Group)
15:50 What School Doesn’t Teach You About Building Companies
Sebastian Dobrincu (Storyheap)
16:10 Important New Trend Lines in Europe
In Conversation with Steffi Czerny (DLD Media)
Ralph Simon (Mobilium) – Moderator
16:30 Coffee Break
16:50 Hackathon Winners Present On Stage
17:10
Founder Story: Life is a Lottery
Kaidi Ruusalepp (Funderbeam)
17:30
What to Develop Now: Your Product or Your Business?
In Conversation with Elies Campo (Telegram)
Philipp Kandal (Telenav) – Moderator
17:50
Lessons Learned from Failure and the Most Important Skill for Entrepreneurs
Sonny Vu (Misfit)
11:10-11:30 Japjit Tulsi (eBay)
11:30-11:50 Akis Evangelidis (OnePlus)
13:20-13:40 John Biggs (Techcrunch)
15:10-15:30 Niv Liran (Auto1 Group)
15:50-16:10
Sebastian Dobrincu (Storyheap)
16:20-16:40 Kaidi Ruusalepp (Funderbeam)
10:30-11:30 IoT <3 Blockchain: How to Build a Trusted Web of Things
Vlad Trifa (Ambrosus)
11:30-12:30 Startup Breeding in Central Eastern Europe. Where to Go and What to Expect?
Julia Krysztofiak-Szopa (Startup Poland, hosted by the Embassy of Poland)
12:30-13:30 Adverse Media Threat Intelligence using Machine Learning
Cristian Lungu (ComplyAdvantage)
14:40-15:40 I’m a Small Company, But I Like To Think Big: Online Marketing Case Studies
Anabela Luca (AdLemonade)
15:50-16:50
Raising Funding For Your Startup: From The Classic VC-type Funding to Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and ICOs Based Funding – The Legal Perspective
Alexandra Cohutiu (Laurentiu, Laurentiu & Associates)
17:00-18:00 Driving Personalization for Leading E-commerce Vendors
Laszlo Kovacs (CyberSolutions)

 

14:40-16:30 Startup Avalanche – Session One (VIP ticket holders ONLY)
16:30-16:50 Coffee Break
16:50-19:00 Startup Avalanche – Session Two (VIP ticket holders ONLY)

Agenda

DAY 2, JUNE 12TH, 2018

 

10:00 Opening Remarks by Executive Producers
10:10 Using Market Knowledge to Catalyse a Fast-Growing (Cyber Security) Startup Community
In Conversation with Florin Talpes (Bitdefender)
Philipp Kandal (Telenav) – Moderator
10:40 The Soul of Engineering: How to be the Solution
Robert Altinger (ESW Capital)
11:00
Building the Future: How We Created Our New Platform For Growth
Paul Cutter (Paddy Power Betfair)
11:20
Data Technology Enabled AI Solutions
Xuan Jin (Alibaba)
11:40 Coffee Break
12:00 Run Less Software
Rich Archbold (Intercom)
12:20 Panel: Investments in Romania from Another Perspective
Michelle Messina (Explora International) – Moderator
David Kashak (Connatix)
Luke Mawbey (ComplyAdvantage)
Ondrej Bartos (Credo Ventures)
Richard Kivel (GrayBella Capital)
12:50 Startup Avalanche Finals
13:30 Lunch
14:40 On Product, Empathy and Creating a User Centric Culture
Ted Persson (EQT Ventures)
15:00 Panel: Long Term Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Philipp Kandal (Telenav) – Moderator
Newton Howard (MIT)
Xuan Jin (Alibaba)
Catalin Golban (Bosch)
Micha Breakstone (Chorus.ai)
15:30
What Do We Mine Next? How Does Blockchain Change Your Project
Alexander Shulgin (Gruppa Kompaniy Familia)
15:50 Future of Advertising
In Conversation with Anda Gansca (Knotch)
Katherine Manderfield (The New York Times) – Moderator
16:10 Important New Trend Lines in Europe
In Conversation with Steffi Czerny (DLD Media)
Ralph Simon (Mobilium) – Moderator
16:30 Coffee Break
16:50 Capital-as-a-Service: Democratizing Venture Through Data
Ashley Carroll (Social Capital)
17:10
Purposeful Leadership: Entrepreneurship as a Journey of Personal Growth
Max Niederhofer (Sunstone Capital)
17:30
What Silicon Valley Insiders Are Investing In
Matt Michelsen (Passport Capital)
17:50
Notes: Team, Community, Growth, Cities
Philipp Kandal (Telenav) – Moderator
In Conversation with Di-Ann Eisnor (Waze)
18:20
Closing Ceremony & Startup Avalanche Prize
22:00
Official After Party
11:10-11:30 Robert Altinger (ESW Capital)
11:30-11:50 Paul Cutter (Paddy Power Betfair)
11:50-12:10 Xuan Jin (Alibaba)
12:30-12:50 Rich Archbold (Intercom)
15:10-15:30
Ted Persson (EQT Ventures)
16:00-16:20 Alexander Shulgin (Gruppa Kompaniy Familia)
16:20-16:40
Anda Gansca (Knotch) and Katherine Manderfield (The New York Times)
17:40-18:00
Max Niederhofer (Sunstone Capital)

 

10:30-11:30 Product Management Best Practices
Ashley Carroll (Social Capital)
11:30-12:30 Building Image Classification Models for Medical Diagnostics
David Campbell (Macadamian)
12:30-13:30 Exploring GraphQL with React and Node.js
Mihail Subtirelu and Adrian Staniloiu (Metro Systems)
13:30-14:40 Lunch (VIP ticket holders ONLY)
14:40-15:40
Deep Learning for Automated Driving
Stefan Mathe and Paul Dragan
(Bosch Engineering Center)
15:40-15:50 Break
15:50-16:50
Start Your BigData Experience Today with Apache Spark
Daniel Sarbe (Connatix)
16:50-17:00
Break
17:00-18:00
Fundraising for Technology Products in CEE
Dan Mihaescu (GapMinder.VC)