techsylvania

2014 Edition

We transformed Cluj-Napoca, a city with an well established local IT scene, into the hottest point of innovation and technological development in Eastern Europe.  Extremely well positioned in Europe and relatively close to five country capitals – Belgrade, Budapest, Sofia, Kiev and Bucharest – the local IT ecosystem needed a gathering place for the region’s foremost creatives, technologists and innovators, where in-person inspiration was passed on, ideas and knowledge would be shared, projects and collaborations got started.

380 attendees joined the 1-day conference, with well-known national and international speakers and the 24-hour hackathon on connected and wearable devices

Days

Participants

Speakers

Connected Devices

2014 Edition Speakers

Semyon Dukach

Managing Director at Techstars Boston

USA

Andy Piper

Developer Advocate at Twitter

UK

Marcus Segal

Former COO Casino Division at Zynga / Entrepreneur in Residence at The Summit

USA

HP Jin, Ph.D

Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer at Telenav

USA

Fee Beyer

Head of Program Management at hub:raum

Germany

Josef Dunne

Co-Founder of Babelverse

UK

Lisa Lang

European Marketing Manager at Twilio

Germany

Robert Muresan

CEO at exosyphen studios SRL / CTO at exosyphen studios USA, LLC

Johannes Reck

CEO at GetYourGuide

Switzerland

Rohan Chandran

Former Senior PM at Yahoo / Head of Product and Global Services at Telenav

USA

Piotr Jaś

General Manager CEE at BlaBlaCar

Poland

Marius Jumolea

General Manager at Visually Romania, CEO at Greppy Systems

Rossen Tzvetkov

Business Development Officer at Nova Broadcasting Group

Bulgaria

Philipp Kandal

General Manager EU of Telenav / skobbler & Chairman Techsylvania

Tudor Vlad

Back-End Engineer - Trading Solutions @ Ullink

Robbert Visser

Robbert Visser

Urban Nomad & Entrepreneur with a passion for Startups

Voicu Oprean

OWNER and CEO at AROBS Transilvania Software

Dragos Andronic

Developer/Entrepreneur/Product guy

Simon Obstbaum

Owner and Founder of YOPESO, Business Angel

Agenda

MONDAY, JUNE 2ND, 2014

09:00 – 10:00 AM Registrations
10:00 – 10:10 AM Opening Remarks by Executive Producers
10:10 – 10:40 AM Keynote: HP Jin – How To Go From A Startup To Public Listed Company And Should An IPO A Big Dream For Entrepreneurs
10:40 – 11:10 AM Keynote: Marcus Segal – Common Mistakes Made By Tech Start-ups
11:10 – 11:30 AM Break
11:30 – 11:50 AM Talk: Andy Piper – Combining Context With Signals In The Internet of Things
11:50 – 12:10 PM Panel: Philipp Kandal (moderator), Marius Jumolea, Robert Muresan, Dragos Andronic, Tudor Vlad – Lessons From Success And Failure
12:10 – 12:40 PM Talk: Josef Dunne – Nemawashi – Laying the groundwork. A founders story
12:40 – 1:00 PM Talk: Piotr Jaś – BlaBlaCar – Your Footprint First. The Story Of Expanding Across Europe And Beyond
1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 – 3:00 PM Hackathon Winners Present On Stage
3:00 – 3:20 PM Talk: Marius Jumolea – Sustainable Business Models – Highlighting Tradeoffs And Team Constraints
3:20 – 3:40 PM Talk: Rossen Tzvetkov – Alternative Media Partnerships For Scaling Your Business
3:40 – 4:00 PM Break
4:00 – 4:20 PM Panel: Robbert Visser (moderator), Johannes Reck, Marcus Segal, Rohan Chandran – How To Build A Successful Global Product From A Local Market Perspective
4:20 – 4:30 PM Talk: Voicu Oprean – The Journey From Software Outsourcing To Innovative Products
4:30 – 4:50 PM Talk: Lisa Lang – Epic Failures – And What We Can Learn From Them
4:50 – 5:10 PM Talk: Fee Beyer – Key Learnings Of Berlin VC Funding – From An Ecosystem Standpoint
5:10 – 5:30 PM Talk: Rohan Chandran – Metrics Driven Product Development – Let the data be your guide
5:30 – 6:00 PM Keynote: Johannes Reck – Growing Your Engineering Culture – What GetYourGuide Learned While Scaling Up From 5 to 100 people
6:00 – 6:30 PM Keynote: Semyon Dukach – Going From Professional Blackjack To Startups, Angel Investing and Techstars
6:30 PM Closing Ceremony
10:00 PM After Party
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