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 for Topconf Tallinn 2014 are:
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Optimizing and automating the world through awesome software
Head of Engineering
Nortal AS
Priit learned to program before he learned to play games with computer. Most of his career he has been in software developer role in various sized projects and teams. Always searching for innovative ideas and new technologies to adopt. In spare time he is learning stuff he knows nothing about and tries to make his home smart.
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Juggling technologies
Senior Developer
GrabCAD
Matti is a programming language geek always on the lookout for the most suitable paradigm for the current problem at hand. He has more than a decade of experience in the software business working as a consultant mainly in the telecommunications and public finance sectors. Currently he enjoys the madness of the startup world, helping to improve the life of all mechanical engineers. In his spare time he hacks Clojure and struggles with juggling.
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You are only as good as your data, Truth not Trust is the Key.
VP of Product Management
Guardtime
Joseph has more than 20 years’ experience in customer service, information technology, enterprise technical support, infrastructure and enterprise management solutions and product management.
He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO). A very hands on product manager who likes to see the product in the eyes of the user, understand how the products helps the user do their job, focus on the high level business problems and solving them.
Joseph serves as VP of Product Management at Guardtime where they have developed a revolutionary, massively scalable digital signature and authentication technology called Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI), previously Joseph held Senior roles where he spent more than 10 years at Symantec and HP in ASIA.
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In the middle of the challenge there is always an opportunity
Development Manager
Swedbank AS
Sofia works as Development manager at Swedbank.
She joined the Bank back in 2004 and has been working since in various roles for the company.
Her responsibility includes to be in charge for project portfolio delivery within the area, fulfilling department targets, full staff responsibility, managing team of 24 specialists, maintaining relationship with customers and cooperation with other IT areas.
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a machine for turning coffee into code
Lead Software Architect
SIA Tieto Latvia
Aivars Kalvans holds the position of Lead Software Architect at Tieto Latvia and is working on Card Suite payment card system. During his more than 12-year career Aivars has been involved in a number of projects related to credit card issuing, acquiring and utility payments through mobile phones, ATMs and POS-terminals. He enjoys solving both design and technical problems and likes to work on personal and Open Source projects using C++ and Python in his free time.
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Experienced IT Program Manager
Beta Program Manager
Microsoft, Skype Division
Raul is a professional with 8 years of experience in different roles around software development and testing. During this time he has gained substantial experiences in building and developing communities, outsourcing, software testing, in implementing Scrum, and in organizing events.
He has been also a corporate blogger on the Skype Garage blog and has been speaking on industry conferences around Europe.
He is Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner.
Raul has a Master's Degree in Design and Development of Virtual Environments from University of Tartu.
He is interested in innovative products which aim to change the status quo on the field their operating.
Specialties: Organiazing, community building, software testing, outsourcing, blogging, public speaking.
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From idea to implementation!
Development Manager
Elion Enterprises Ltd
Helin is working as a development manager in one of the leading telecom compnies in Estonia, Elion Enterprises Ltd. She has been working for Elion since 2006 and has had various roles in the company. As a development manager she is responsible for leading product development projects and managing the scope of the development of a new product.
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Passionate about product quality and efficient team work organization.
Senior Program Manager
Skype Technologies OÜ
From 2000 to 2005 Filipp studied at the Tallinn University of Technology (Faculty of Information Technology, Computer and Systems Engineering). He received a bachelor of science degree in 2005. Bachelor's degree thesis topic was "Hybrid walking robot".
From 2005 to 2008 Filipp continued his education at the Tallinn University of Technology (Faculty of Information Technology, Computer and Systems Engineering) and received master of science degree in 2008. M.Sc thesis topic was "Research and development of the walking legged robot ".
Presently Filipp continues his doctoral studies at Tallinn University of Technology. Main topic of the studies is research and development of the walking robot. Research covers overall construction principles of the robot and all normal operation procedures of a legged robot such as gait generation, gait execution, adjustment to changing conditions, fault detection, recovery from incidents and overall reconfiguration after loss of leg or legs. Proposed setup is aimed at low-cost, low-weight solution that decreases the complexity of construction, reduces development time and lowers overall cost of production of a robot.
From 2005 to 2011 Filipp was employed by Fujitsu Services AS, Estonia, Tallinn as a Head of Software Development and QA Department.
Since January 2012 Filipp was employed by Skype as a Manager, Quality Tools and Services team. Currently Filipp is a Senior Program Manager at Skype, Microsoft focusing on engineering tools for quality assurance.