Speakers

Vasilena Vasileva

Women Who Code

Василена Василева е част от екипа на DEV.BG – най-голямата ИТ общност в България и активен член на Women Who Code – Sofia! Организатор на събития по професия и доброволец по душа.

Women Who Code Sofia е българският клон на женската общност, чиято цел е да вдъхновява и подкрепя жени в тяхното развитие в технологичен и социален аспект.

Инициативната започва преди 3 години като част от международната общност “Women Who Code”, присъстваща в повечето страни в света.

В момента Women Who Code Sofia е най-разпознаваемата женска организация в IT сектора, която организира всеки месец събития с различна тематика.

По време на презентацията ще разберете какво предстои на организацията през 2020 г. и кои са новите предизвикателства пред тях.

Eugene Ciurana

Meltwater Group
pr3d4t0r https://ciurana.eu

Eugene Ciurana is the director of knowledge representation science and technology at Meltwater, where his team is building the most advanced competitive intelligence system in the world by contextualizing 1.2 trillion documents and 12 million unique entities from 10 million data sources worldwide. His previous work as an AI technology principal led to successful exits, products, and services at Cosmify, Yahoo, Summly, and Badoo. Eugene’s career evolved from high availability and scalability systems to deep learning, exploratory analysis of unstructurеd data, and applied ML over the last 7 years. He has served in direct tech advisory roles at MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce for $6.5B), Horizons Ventures, TA Venture, JP Morgan Chase, Cloudera, Kearny Jackson, Rubikloud, and Box. Eugene can be reached at https://ciurana.eu or in the Freenode and OFTC networks under /nick pr3d4t0r.

Dirk Van Den Wouwer

Televic

Dirk Van Den Wouwer (M) holds a Masters degree in Micro Electronics. He is currently Director R&D and Product Management at Televic Rail NV where he leads  different international R&D teams. Dirk has been involved in several nationally and internationally funded research projects. Before joining Televic Rail ten years ago, he was R&D Director at Gemidis NV, a spin-off company of IMEC, which is one of the world’s leading organizations for R&D in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. Prior to this, Dirk worked amongst others as System Architect at AGFA Healthcare and as Project Manager at Xeikon NV.

 

Stefan Enev

Ontotext

Stefan has key roles in product development, development infrastructure, and projects with some of Ontotext’s biggest clients. He was the guiding force behind the creation of the Dynamic Semantic Publishing platform and two of its core components, the Concept Extraction Service, and the Recommendations engine.

In his present role,  Stefan manages the Semantic Analytics Solutions squad. His mission is to make sure the team builds exciting, easy to use and run, and semantically powered software. The focus is on creating technologies which empower publishers to generate more relevant, interconnected content and personalized semantic recommendations, which helps them increase user engagement.

Sudan Jackson

REWE Digital

Sudan Jackson has been working in REWE Digital’s technology division since 2016, where he is responsible for cultural and organisational development. The focus is on actively designing collaborative environments to enable modern, innovative, creative, and customer-focused solutions. And although “Manager” is part of his current title, it only says a little about what he actually does. Sudan is a person who is inspired every day to improve people’s (working) lives. He is a certified coach and trainer, and a welcome speaker at conferences.

Sudan has over 20 years of experience as a personnel developer, project manager, IT consultant and business coach with internationally operating and leading companies where he was responsible for major projects in change management, leadership development, and in the organizational/transformational context.

He has also designed and implemented successful leadership, empowerment and talent management programs. He is very interested (and enjoys it a lot) in discovering new ways to modernize these topics. Working with people and helping others to do great things with his help that are not yet imaginable… This is a task with which he strongly identifies.

Tito Hamze

Atanas Kiriakov

Ontotext

Atanas Kiryakov (LinkedIn) is the founder and CEO of Ontotext – Semantic Web pioneer and vendor of semantic technology. Atanas is member of the board of the Linked Data Benchmarking Council – standardization body, who’s members include all major graph database vendors.

Atanas is an expert in semantic graph databases, reasoning, knowledge graph design, text mining, semantic tagging, linking and search. Author of signature academic publications with more than 2500 citations. Until 2010 Atanas was product manager of GraphDB (formerly OWLIM) – a leading RDF graph database serving mission critical projects in organizations like BBC, Financial Times, Nikkei, S&P, Springer Nature, John Wiley, Elsevier, UK Parliament, Kadaster.NL, The National Gallery of US and top-5 US Banks.

As CEO of Ontotext, Atanas supervised multiple high profile semantic technology projects across different sectors: media and publishing, market and investment information, cultural heritage and government.

Surain Adyanthaya

PROS

Responsible for PROS Travel product strategies, Surain Adyanthaya collaborates with clients to develop and shape airline solutions that address their key industry needs. Surain has held various roles at PROS including head of R&D. With PROS since 1993, Surain works closely with product development in his current leadership role of product innovation and strategy.

Andy Gumbrecht

PheonixContact AG
AndyGee

Andy Gumbrecht is an avid Apache TomEE member, developer and former evangelist at Tomitribe. Now working as a senior engineer at PhoenixContact AG, he is still an active contributor of Apache projects including OpenEJB/TomEE. Andy is a speaker at local Java Users Groups and conferences throughout Europe. He has been using in production environments and contributing to Apache OpenEJB/TomEE since 2009. You can find some of Andy’s technical postings at http://www.tomitribe.com/blog. Andy has been fitting in tight code since getting a Sinclair ZX81 with a whopping 1k memory back in 1982

Mandi Walls

Chef Software
lnxchk https://about.me/lnxchk

Mandi Walls is Technical Community Manager, EMEA at Chef. For Chef, she helps technology organizations increase their effectiveness using configuration management and modern IT practices. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences, and is the author of the whitepaper “Building a DevOps Culture” published by O’Reilly. She is interested in the emergence of new tools and workflows to make the task of operating large complex computing systems more approachable.

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