Senior Software engineer and consultant around JVM and related technologies. Prefer automation over manual configurations. Keen on continuous delivery, unit testing and code simplicity. Interested in developing applications that requires creativity, imagination, fast-learning and zest for putting theory into code.
Egyptian American entrepreneur-turned investor Ahmed Shabana is the current managing partner of the $150 million fund one Parkpine Capital, the U.S.-based venture capital firm he formed with partner Billy Zane most known in Hollywood for the movies Titanic and The Phantom. Launched in 2016, Parkpine has offices in Los Angeles and Menlo Park.
Ahmed is recognized as a high impact entrepreneur by the Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times by founding the Middle East’s first & Africa’s first eCommerce portal and online pharmacy, Agzakhana.com, generating millions in sales turnover while overcoming the economic and commercialization obstacles of the region. Moreover, Ahmed was able to raise capital from Vodafone Ventures and help fundraise for a number of Healthcare, BigData, and SaaS startups of over $800M in combined valuation.
Ahmed holds an MBA from the the University of Southern California, where he was inspired to form Parkpine as a way to improve access to funding and resources for tech entrepreneurs on a global scale. He funded the Global Ventures Summit to connect influencers of the highest growth startup ecosystems in the world. The Summit enables innovative startups to access venture capital professionals, funded technology startup founders, and policy makers in the freshest tech scenes on the planet.
Parkpine’s fund will target post-revenue investments in early-stage technology ventures in growing markets around the world. The fund has a broad mandate invests in tech companies with business models that can be replicated in different markets.
Scott Meyers is one of the most influential names in C++. His books (e.g., Effective C++ and Effective Modern C++) are essential C++ reading, but his influence extends into other programming communities. His writings and lecturing have made him one of the most respected names in software development
Martin Kulov has 20 years professional experience in the software industry. During the years he has held various positions in the professional software engineering field. Martin helps building high quality software systems and teams. He loves to make software work better and faster, and to solve critical problems in production environments.
He is long time speaker at events related to Microsoft technology in Bulgaria and abroad. He has been awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Martin is a member of Microsoft Regional Directors Program.
Martin is president of Association of Software Engineers, non-profit organization that thrives to help software engineers in their lifelong learning activities and professional development.
Christian Heger is a team lead at Zuhlke Engineering. He has made lots of interesting mistakes with .NET and architecture.
Nikolay is a network freak and lazy software nerd ☺ He has a PhD from NBU in “IPv4 to IPv6 network transformation” and a specialization in Architectures for Software systems from Carnegie Mellon University. Through the years Nikolay has worked for many companies like Globul, D-Telecom, SevOne, Comptel, Nokia, Deloitte, BMW. In ThingsLog Nikolay is acting as a product owner and CEO.
LoRa is an LPWAN radio technology that works in ISM radio spectrum. The spectrum is free for use but still regulated and each user has to follow certain rules.
In this talk Nikolay will present an independent solution for distributed IoT LoRa network monitoring and logging. The solution reveals the top talkers in certain area and provides a good idea of the state of the LoRa radio spectrum. Finally a live demo will be done based on real data feeds from Sofia, Bulgaria.
LoRa is a radio technology for sending short data messages over long distances with minimal energy consumption. In this talk Nikolay will do a short introduction to LoRa chirp modulation, LPWAN and LoRaWAN protocol, deployment options, network operator types and best practices.
Nikolay is a network freak and lazy software nerd ☺ Over the time he switched from networking and system engineering to software. How that has happened he does not really know. Topics like DevOps, SDN and cloud are a natural match for his interests.
Nikolay has a PhD from NBU in “IPv4 to IPv6 network transformation” and a specialization in Architectures for Software systems from Carnegie Mellon University. Currently Nikolay is getting a sabbatical from his full time assistant professor position @ NBU.
So he got enough free time to put together a hardware startup for consumption monitoring of water, gas and electricity – ThingsLog.
Alex has 27 years of full time experience in software development. Starting with Lisp programming at the University, and then moving into the world of business computing, Alex has worked with a wide variety of technologies. From imperative, object oriented programming, to functional/declarative programming. Alex’s expertise spans developing software solutions for healthcare, financial and e-commerce industry sectors. While still at the University, Alex read a seminal book “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” by Douglas Hofstadter and become fascinated by the Artificial Intelligence research. Soon after that came the strong interest in the neural networks research. After spending some time building solutions utilizing the web 2.0 technologies (REST and HATEOAS), Alex got involved in the nascent web 3.0 initiatives (the so-called ‘semantic web’). The web standards fostered by the W3C ‘web app manifest’ ushered the new era of Progressive Web Apps (PWA). In addition to this vast improvement in the web technology, web 3.0 also enables the emergence of Conversational User Interface (CUI). Alex has done extensive work in formulating and implementing conversational interface on the web. He had delivered a talk on that topic at the first European Chatbot conference, held in Vienna, Austria in October 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzNT1NPlVJU&t=120s). Alex is a frequent contributor to the “Free Code Camp” publication (https://medium.freecodecamp.com), as well as to the “Chatbots Magazine” (https://chatbotsmagazine.com) and the “Bots for Business” magazine (https://medium.com/bots-for-business). Alex also keeps many of his writings on his Medium page (https://medium.com/alex-bunardzic).
Author of PyTorch. Programming languages, Algorithmics, FP, PP, Math. CS & Mathematics student at MIMUW.
