WORKSHOPS
November 18rd
PETER LAWREY
Higher Frequency Trading
He has a popular blog “Vanilla Java” which gets 120K page views per months, is 3rd on StackOverflow.com for [Java] and 2nd for [concurrency], and is lead developer of the OpenHFT project which includes support for off heap memory, thread pinning and low latency persistence and IPC (as low as 100 nano-seconds)
November 18rd
SIMONA BONGHEZ, PHD
Colors in Projects
Owner of Confucius Consulting, member of the PMI CMAG has over 15 years of experience as a trainer and consultant in management and project management. She truly believes that humour, games and metaphors are powerful tools for having interactive and enjoyable training sessions, thus enforcing the learning process.
SORIN SFÎRLOGEA
Colors in Projects
Senior Trainer, Coach and Consultant with over 20 years of experience in Project Management, Software Development, IT Management and IT Consultancy Services and a proven record of accomplishments in building, managing, coaching and leading teams to success. Senior Project Manager with a significant track of successful business and IT projects. Expert Agile practitioner and coach with a deep interest in Agile management concepts. Certified PMI-ACP. Skilled trainer and speaker, passionate about knowledge sharing and education. Native in Romanian, fluent in English, proficient in French.
November 18rd
VICTOR POPESCU
Bittnet
Over 12 years business experience, software development and, over the past 3 years, stock market investments via BvB AeRO and NYSE. Passionate about building products and providing turn-key solutions.
Founder and CEO of Gameleon, a Visual Studio for Game Creators. It allows easy prototyping and creation of web-based games, without the need of technical know-how. Its major partners were Eleven Venture Fund and Mozilla via WebFWD.
Featured in Forbes Romania's 30 under 30 for their 2013 edition.
November 19rd
DANIEL SÂRBE 
Development Manager, Big Data and Machine Translation @ SDL
Daniel is leading the Big Data and Machine Translation group at SDL Research Cluj, working on a Hadoop-based data pipeline that processes Petabytes of unstructured data; the resulting clean data is used to increase the quality of SDL’s Statistical Machine Translation engines. Daniel is involved in the local Big Data community as a meet-up organizer/speaker in the effort to raise the awareness of the Big Data and Hadoop field.
TUDOR LĂPUȘAN
BigData developer @ Telenav
I'm passionate about bigdata technologies and statups. I heard for the first time about Apache Hadoop when I was at my master courses and from that time I was fascinated about bigdata world. My first big professional success was when I introduced the Apache Hadoop technology into the company I'm working for, skobbler, in 2012. From that time I'm working as a full time devops on bigdata projects. My current work involve to well manage and maintain the Hadoop and Hbase in-house clusters. From this passion, I have initiated a bigdata/data science community in my town, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with the goals of meeting new passionate people, working together on cool projects and helping IT companies to adopt bigdata technologies. Until now we had many meetups and workshops with many participants.
ADRIAN BONA
Software Developer @ Telenav
Adrian Bona is a Software Engineer at Telenav, where he is working with large amounts of GPS data and planet-scale maps. He is passionate about Big Data, Machine Learning and how the new knowledge gets traction in active developer communities, such as the ones from Cluj. In his free time, Adrian is teaching Fundamental Algorithms and Logic Programming laboratories at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.
Price: 150 euro + TVA