IT Days 2017

DAY 1	November 14^th
08:30	Coffee & Registration
09:00	Opening Remarks (ro)
09:30	Quality: It’s All in the Mind (en) Peter Leeson Orchestrated Knowledge
10:00
10:30	Coffee & Networking Break
	Products & Leadership Conference hall, ground floor Host: Dan Suciu	Testing Pocket room, 1^st floor Host: Andreea Pârvu	Artificial Intelligence Europa room, 3^rd floor Host: Ciprian Sorlea	UX Room 32, 3^rd floor Host: Mircea Vădan
11:00	What does it take to be a Leading Liquidity Provider in today’s financial markets? (en) Sjoerd Rietberg Flow Traders	How deep are your tests? (en) Thomas Sundberg Think Code AB	ML optimized for running on a low-end device (en) George Platon BuddyGuard	Journey killers at Europe’s largest bank (en) Peter W. Szabo Initiale FarZenith
11:30	Bid your money on education! It will be a good investment (ro) Simona Motogna University of Babeș Bolyai	How deep are your tests? (en) Thomas Sundberg Think Code AB
12:00	Peer Learning in IT Education Bogdan Herea Pitech+Plus	When Testing and Development Unite Roxana Onac Endava	Automatic Classification of Text Data using Natural Language Processing Techniques (en) Adela Mureșan VE Interactive	Ordered Chaos: Building A Design System Radu Chelariu Betfair
12:30	A leadership question: just how motivating agile is? Laurențiu Spermezan Gemini Solutions	When Testing and Development Unite Roxana Onac Endava
13:00	Lunch Break
14:00	Engineering Machine Learning Applications (en) Boštjan Kaluža Evolven
14:30
	Management Conference hall, ground floor	Testing Pocket room, 1^st floor	Programming Europa room, 3^rd floor	UX Room 32, 3^rd floor
15:00	Do You Need a Manager? (en) Peter Leeson Orchestrated Knowledge	To test or how to test? – Test Academy programs and the new Test Managers challenges Horațiu Palade Accenture	Resistance to change for the adoption of robots in the industry Radu Orghidan NTT DATA Romania	Is the UX hype over? The State of user experience (ro) Paul Axente 3Pillar Global
15:30	Agile Droplets in a Waterfall World Simona Bonghez Colors in Projects	Methods of test automation in automotive Bogdan Pop NTT DATA Romania	Aeronautical Technical Puzzles (ro) Cătălin Roman Frequentis
16:00	Coffee & Networking Break
	Management Conference hall, ground floor	HR Pocket room, 1^st floor	Programming Europa room, 3^rd floor	UX Room 32, 3^rd floor
16:30	Agile levels of learning and change (ro) Dan Suciu 3Pillar Global	Leader 3.0 Andreea Pârvu Endava	Near-real time reporting Azure (ro) Radu Vunvulea Endava	Evidence based UX design Mihai Varga Interface-design.co.uk
17:00		Time Challenge: 7 Ideas to Improve Your Life Magnoliu Stan Smart HR	What 's new in MySQL (en) Cătălin Besleaga Oracle	Evidence based UX design Mihai Varga Interface-design.co.uk
17:30	Panel: Cluj IT Future (ro)
18:00	Panel: Cluj IT Future (ro)
18:30	Wine & Networking

DAY 2	November 15^th
08:30	Coffee & Registration
09:00	BuddyGuard startup road + technology insights (en) George Platon BuddyGuard
09:30	Robotics in Industry 4.0: A Great Case in the Era of Innovation 4.0 (ro) Stelian Brad Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
10:00	From Homo sapiens to Homo agilis (ro) Sorin Sfîrlogea Colors in projects
10:30	Coffee & Networking Break
	Automotive Conference hall, ground floor Host: Dan Suciu	Startups Pocket room, 1^st floor Host: Andreea Pârvu	Software Architecture Europa room, 3^rd floor Host: Ciprian Sorlea	Hands on Labs Room 32, 3^rd floor Host: Mircea Vădan
11:00	The journey from assisted to automated driving – trends that will transform the automotive industry (ro) Sergiu Ștefan Nicolaescu Continental Sibiu	Security For The Cloud - The Inside Out Approach Mircea Patachi UNLOQ.io	Peeling the Onion without tears … Gabriel Ciuloaică Software Consultant	Where we keep our secrets? Florin Prodaniuc Betfair
11:30	Autonomous Driving: Opportunity for Connected Cars (en) Lazăr Constantin Ariton Bosch	How can an accelerator help your startup? Gabriel Dombri Spherik Accelerator		Hidden dynamics in organizations Ligia Cremene Ligia Cremene Coaching and Consulting
12:00		Startup trends: what's next + Local Startups pitches (en) Mircea Vădan clujstartups.com	The road to Production is paved with good intentions Ciprian Sorlea Nordlogic Software	GDPR – T minus 6 months. Are you ready? (ro) Tudor Damian Avaelgo
12:30	Corporate Social Responsibility - bridging the gap between two Romanian realities (en) Romulus Pașca			AR in practice (ro) Cristian Epure Siemens
13:00	Lunch Break
14:00	Scaling Blockchain Systems (en) Peter Lawrey Higher Frequency Trading
14:30
	Electronic Trading Conference hall, ground floor	Blockchain Pocket room, 1^st floor	Programming Europa room, 3^rd floor	Hands on Labs Room 32, 3^rd floor
15:00	The challenges of Speed (en) Christopher Lederer & István Kiss Flow Traders	Are blockchains eating the world? Cotyso Bodea Tora	Concurrency with style Ovidiu Deac Ed-IT.ro	ROS in practice Levente Tamas UTCN & Tófalvi László Accenture
15:30	Functional Programming in Electronic Trading (en) Horea Hopârtean & Florin Bunau Ullink	Blockchain and virtual currencies Călin Diniș NTT DATA Romania	Reactive Applications with Spring 5.0 and Project Reactor Timo Bejan Crossover
16:00	Coffee & Networking Break
	Artificial Intelligence Conference hall, ground floor	Blockchain Pocket room, 1^st floor	Programming Europa room, 3^rd floor	Hands on Labs Room 32, 3^rd floor
16:30	Using AI for map making (en) Philipp Kandal Telenav	Blockchain for Real Time Energy Systems: Opportunities and Challenges Claudia Pop ConsenSys	Peter Lawrey Higher Frequency Trading	CD Pipeline Measurement Adrian Șuteu Endava
17:00	Using AI for map making (en) Philipp Kandal Telenav		Peter Lawrey Higher Frequency Trading	The Power of Insight-driven design (en) Jonathan Culling Endava
17:30	1^st Annual Today Software Magazine Awards
18:00	1^st Annual Today Software Magazine Awards
18:30	Wine & Networking

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