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
CEO at Macadamian
Canada
Di-Ann Eisnor
Director of Growth at Waze (Building a 100 Million User Base)
USA
Sonny Vu
Founder of Misfit (Acquired by Fossil for $260 million)
Vietnam
Rich Archbold
Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom ($1 Billion Unicorn Messaging Startup)
Ireland
Robert Altinger
SVP Engineering & Operations at Crossover
USA
Paul Cutter
Chief Technology Officer at Paddy Power Betfair Group
United Kingdom
Akis Evangelidis
Head of Europe PR & Communications at OnePlus
France
Anda Gansca
CEO and Co-Founder of Knotch (Forbes 30 Under 30)
USA
Elies Campo
Partnerships and BD Director at Telegram
USA
Pat Sheridan
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Modus Create
USA
Ted Persson
Design Partner at EQT Ventures
Sweden
Japjit Tulsi
VP Engineering at eBay (Leading Engineering for The World's 9th Largest Internet Company)
USA
Steffi Czerny
Co-Founder & Managing Director at DLD Media (Number 30 of Wired' 100 Digital Influencers)
Germany
Sergiu Biris
Co-Founder & CEO at Zonga
Jeremy Apthorp
Senior Software Engineer at Slack (Building the Fastest-Growing Business App in History)
USA
Yossi Vardi
Angel Investor (Father of the Israeli Tech Ecosystem)
Israel
Ashley Carroll
Partner at Social Capital (Runs a $1.2 Billion VC Fund)
USA
Niv Liran
Chief Product Officer at Auto1 Group ($2.8 Billion Unicorn)
Germany
Philipp Kandal
Techsylvania Chairman & VP of Engineering at Telenav
USA
Joshua Burke
Commercial Attache US Embassy
Jeremy Fisher
CEO of River
USA
Kaidi Ruusalepp
Founder & CEO at Funderbeam (Creator of the Global Startup Stock Exchange)
Estonia
Catalin Golban
Group Leader Driver Assistance at Bosch
Mihai Dragan
CEO at Oveit
David Kashak
Founder and CEO of Connatix
USA
Dan Isai
CEO at Salad Box
Romania
Alexander Shulgin
Founder & CEO of Gruppa Kompaniy Familia
Russia
Ralph Simon
Founder & CEO of Mobilium Global (The Inventor of the Ringtone)
United Kingdon
Michelle Messina
Founder & CEO of Explora International
USA
Bogdan Colceriu
Co-Founder & CEO of Frisbo
Sebastian Dobrincu
Founder and CEO of Storyheap ($1 million in Revenue and Top Clients: Tumblr, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez)
USA
Lucas Roh
Founder & CEO of Bigstep
USA
Katherine Manderfield
Director of Content Strategy, T Brand Studio at The New York Times (Largest Circulation Newspaper in US)
USA
Rohan Chandran
SVP Product Management, Data & Operations at Shopkick
USA
Xuan Jin
Senior Evangelist at Alibaba Cloud International (Largest Cloud Computing Company in China)
United Kingdom
Luke Mawbey
Head of Technology at ComplyAdvantage
United Kingdom
Ondrej Bartos
Partner & Chairman of the Board at Credo Ventures
Czech Republic
Peter Gersak
CTO South East Europe at IBM
Slovenia
Florin Talpes
Founder and CEO of Bitdefender (Top Cybersecurity Player with 500 Million Users)
Richard Kivel
Managing Director at GrayBella Capital
USA
Max Niederhofer
General Partner at Sunstone Capital
Germany
Matthew Michelsen
Silicon Valley Insider (Working with Leading Brands: Lady Gaga, Nike, Cirque Du Soleil, YouTube)
USA
John Biggs
Writer at TechCrunch (Author of the Best Book on Blogging)
USA
Micha Breakstone
Co-Founder & Head or R&D at Chorus.ai
Israel
Omer Tetik
CEO at Banca Transilvania (Running a Bank with over 2.2 Milion Clients and 7.000 Employees)
Jan Ameri
Chief Innovation Officer at ArcticStartup
Finland
Newton Howard
Director of the MIT Synthetic Intelligence Lab / Professor at the University of Oxford (Creating the brain implant of the future)
USA