Program Committee

To ensure the high quality of the Topconf conference program in the long term, all presentations will be tested scientifically and thematically. The evaluation is done by our independent conference program committee with members from various ICT companies.

Members of the Program Committee Topconf Bucharest 2014 are:

  • Ioan Eugen Stan

    IT Consultant
    Consultant
    Ioan Eugen Stan PFA

    Ioan Eugen Stan is passionate about IT and free software. Currently he works as a technology consultant and is involved in various communities and open source projects, such as Apache Software Foundation, Bucharest JUG, Debian Project. His current focus is team building, Agile methodologies and continuous delivery of good software products. He likes to speak about his passions, promote open source projects and encourage people to contribute. Apache Software Foundation - http://apache.org (Apache James, Apache Provisionr) JUG Bucuresti - http://bjug.ro - Founder and Organizer Debian Project - http://debian.org - Debian User, Contributor and Advocate

  • Serban Tir

    CTO and Co-Founder of the first Romanian Accelerator - Gemini Foundry
    CTO at Gemini Solutions group of companies
    Gemini Solutions

    Serban Tîr is part of the Romanian IT community since 1996 as a technology lover/geek in the beginning, software architect later and moving to the business part of things. In particular he has a 14 years experience working with Silicon Valley based companies. During this period he played different roles within the software projects he was involved in, starting with software developer to Vice President of Engineering. The experience includes business relationships with small start-ups as well as very large public companies. Currently he is CTO at Gemini Solutions group of companies. He understood the real value of high-tech innovation, and he is one of the initiators of the GeminiFoundry initiative, a "flexible accelerator" which promotes Romanian high-tech start-ups to the American market.

  • Valerica Dragomir

    Executive Director of ANIS - the association of software companies in Romania
    Executive Director
    ANIS

    Valerica works for ANIS since 2001 and is Executive Director since 2005. She was involved in the strategic planning for all events initiated by ANIS – soft21.ro, Business Club ANIS, IT Café, the Romanian participation at CeBIT Hanover (since 2005) – and all the other projects of the Association - Romanian Software Outsourcing Index, Software and IT Services in Romania - 2013 Study etc.

  • Serban Popa

    CXE
    COO
    Capgemini Romania

    Information Tehnology Consultant with more than 10 years experience. Particularly interested in the financial and banking sector, specialized in green-field banking projects, ERP implementation, infrastructure optimization, etc. Project Manager in a wide variety of applications with deep implications in daily business. Specialties:Financial-banking sector, Infrastructure arhitecture and optimization, ERP, etc

  • Péter Henning

    Technology enthusiast
    Project Manager
    Dell

    Péter Henning is a Project manager at Dell Inc. He has a strong international background in software development, testing, project management and more than 10 years telecommunications industry experience. He has experience in working with industry leading companies like Dell, Microsoft - Skype, Deutsche Telekom, T-systems, IBM, Siemens, Fraunhofer Institute. He is a graduate of one of Romania’s most respected universities, the Academy of Economic Sciences, Cybernetics, Statistics and Computing Sciences faculty, having gotten his master’s degree in computing security from the same institution. He is specialized in IT particularly in telecommunication, software development and computing security fields but also in the economic sector.

  • Andrei Avadanei

    Founder & Coordinator, DefCamp
    President
    Cyber Security Research Center from Romania

    Andrei is President at Cyber Security Research Center from Romania - CCSIR and also the founder and coordinator of DefCamp, one of the most important hacking & INFOSEC events from Romania. Throughout the more than seven years of experience in the INFOSEC field, Andrei has been awarded at numerous national and international competitions of web and software programming, algorithmics and security. Among other things, he owns the IT blog dedicated to Romanian audience, worldit.info, and he is involved in various projects and initiatives.

  • Alex Balan

    Head of Product Management
    Head of Product Management
    Bullguard

    Started of in the IT security industry around 1997 and been active as much as the time allowed it ever since. Currently working as Head of Product Management for BullGuard Software.

  • Maria Diaconu

    Agile Lean Romania community founder of www.agileworks.ro
    CEO & Founder
    Mozaic Works

    Maria Diaconu is an experienced agile and lean practitioner, community founder, former programmer and entrepreneur, currently passionate about innovation and building long term innovative teams. She started the Romanian Agile Lean communities in 6 cities, organized conferences for the community and supported the learning of community members. Maria founded Mozaic Works, a company specialized in product development, agile, lean and software craftsmanship trainings and coaching, and guilty of organizing cool conferences. Through her mentoring activities, Maria helps startups clarify their vision and methods to achieve it. Her next planned adventure is to create amazing and innovative products with partners from around the world.

  • Dragos Adrian Gurgui

    software apprentice
    Programmer
    Bitdefender

    For me is like I've been a computer programmer for my whole life. I've had a nice playground at Bitdefender R&D; labs and a lot of personal pet projects. If you're in computer security and you like socializing then we should definitely chat.

  • Radu Constantinescu


    Managing partner
    Qualitance QBS SRL

    Radu has more than 10 years’ experience in IT entrepreneurship and computer science research. Since 2007 Radu is managing partner at Qualitance, a fast emerging Romanian software company. His current focus is on creating a scalable business framework for green-field IT projects and developing education initiatives.

  • Ioan Iacob


    General Manager
    Qualitance QBS SRL

    Ioan Iacob is one of the founders and managing partners at QUALITANCE, top Romanian software consultancy company delivering strategy consulting, product development and testing services to clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to Silicon Valley startups. Ioan has a strong background in software engineering, management and process improvement, previous to QUALITANCE having held management positions in several top technology companies worldwide.

  • Ioan Cocan

    Managing Partner, Tremend Software
    Managing Partner
    Tremend Software Consulting

    Ioan Cocan is Managing Partner and co-founder at Tremend Software. Tremend develops software since 2005 in Enterprise, Web/Mobile and Embedded areas.

  • Ilie Dragan


    Past President
    Project Management Institute Romania

    Professional Career: Since 2006 Partner, Consultant and Trainer-EuropeanProjectConsulting in the field of process, project & programm management 2009-2011 Vicepresident of Training and Certification - PMI RO CHAPTER 2012-2013President of PMIROChapter Education and Training MBA Marketing –University of Ottawa / HEC Montreal, 2003 PMP, 2005 Professional MBA Process and Project Management University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna, 2010 PMI Leadership Masterclasses,2011 Diploma in Strategy and Innovation, SAID Business School–University of Oxford, 2013 DBA Programme (2012-2016), Bradford School of Management,UK Competencies Process management, project & programme management Management of the project-oriented company Strategy and Innovation Management of EU Projects