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