techsylvania
2017 Edition
In the 4th year, Techsylvania consolidated its position as a bridge between IT experts, founders and entrepreneurs of the international and local system. The 2017 edition featured speakers from top companies such as NVIDIA, SAP, Allianz Ventures, Financial Times, Amazon, Wunderlist, McKinsey, 500 Startups, SamsungNEXT and many more.
Over 1500 people attended talks on the three main pillars of the event—code, product, funding—and also case studies and discussion panels on topics such as challenges entrepreneurs face in the first year of business, opportunities to invest in local ecosystems and women leadership in business.
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2017 Edition Speakers

Harsh Sinha
VP of Engineering at TransferWise
United Kingdom

Jerry Kennelly
Chairman and CEO at Riverbed Technology ($3.6 billion technology company)
USA

Alison Lowndes
Artificial Intelligence DevRel at NVIDIA
United Kingdom

Konrad Kaschek
General Manager at Bosch Cluj Factory
Romania

Shahar Nechmad
Co-Founder & CTO at Novus Summit & Credit Stacks
USA

Gabriela Nistor
Deputy CEO at Banca Transilvania
Romania

Patrizio Mapelli
CEO at NTT DATA EMEA
Italy

Tomasz Stachlewski
Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services
Poland

Ralph Simon
Chief Executive & Founder of Mobilium Global (The Inventor of the Ringtone)
United Kingdom

Diana Calfa
Managing Partner at Morphoza
Romania

Paddy Power
Head of Communications at Paddy Power Betfair
Ireland

Stefan Glaenzer
Founding Partner at Passion Capital (Best European Angel Investor)
United Kingdom

Wei-Chun Tai
Partner at Mosley Ventures
USA

Christian Renner
Managing Director at Kompass Digital
Germany

Simon McDougall
Regional Leader EEMA at McKinsey Digital Labs
United Arab Emirates

Alexis Bonte
Co-Founder & CEO at eRepublik Labs / Exec in Residence at Atomico
Spain

Martin Wezowski
Chief Designer at SAP
Germany

Elena Mustatea
Entrepreneur
United Kingdom

Chad Fowler
Divisional CTO at Microsoft / Venture Partner at BlueYard Capital
USA

Sergiu Biris
Co-Founder & CEO at Zonga
Romania

Tariq Krim
Founder & CEO at Jolicloud (WEF Young Global Leader)
France

Bradley Kirkland
CEO at Stone Soup Tech Solutions
USA

Tugce Ergul
Co-founder at Angel Labs
USA

Richard Still
Technical Director at Financial Times
United Kingdom

Philipp Kandal
Techsylvania Chairman & VP of Engineering at Telenav
Germany

Rabin Yaghoubi
Entrepreneur, Executive, Investor (Google, DoubleClick, Babylon Health)
United Kingdom

Newton Howard
Director of the MIT Synthetic Intelligence Lab / Professor at the University of Oxford
USA

Felix Petersen
Managing Director Europe at Samsung NEXT
Germany

Min-Sung Sean Kim
Digital Health Partner at Allianz Ventures
Germany

Sal Dhanani
Co-Founder and Co-President at Telenav
USA

Andy Tryba
Co-founder & CEO of RideAustin & Crossover
USA

Mike Costache
Managing Partner at KrowdMentor
USA

Brett Putter
Founder & CEO at CultureGene
United Kingdom

Daniel Ramamoorthy
Founder & CEO of Treehouse
Ireland

Bogdan Herea
CEO & Founder of PITECH+PLUS
Romania

Tobias Jaeger
Managing Partner at AXIOM Venture Capital
Germany

Krating Ponpool
Partner at 500 Startups (Thailand’ s Business Man of The Year)
Thailand

Philipp Petrescu
Venture Partner at Hof Capital
Germany

Josef Dunne
Founder of Champion Prints 3D
United Kingdom

Yinne Yu
CIO at Dickson Poon’s Family Office
USA

Tiberiu Moisa
Deputy CEO at Banca Transilvania
Romania

Jama Nateqi
Co-Founder of SYMPTOMA
Austria

Vincent Mouret
Regional Director Europe at OT-Morpho
France

Michal Skowronek
Head of Market Development CEE at MasterCard
Poland

Pep Gomez
Chairman at NUMA Barcelona
Spain

Constantin von Bergmann-Korn
Investment Manager at Axel Springer Plug & Play
Germany