Radi Palazov is Director, Regional Delivery Center Bulgaria, Europe Commercial Delivery within DXC Technology. In this position, Radi manages over 1500 multi-technology professionals located in Sofia and Varna, delivering services globally to over 200 clients in Cloud, Workload, Platforms & ITO, Workplace & Mobility, Application Services, Cross Offering, Enterprise & Cloud Apps, Big Data & Analytics. In addition, Radi also acts as Cloud, Workload, Platforms & ITO Lead for Europe.

Prior to this, Radi was EU Restricted Build Center Leader in Project Delivery organization for Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing (ITO), within HPE’s Enterprise Services. In this role, Radi was accountable for delivering project portfolio services for EU Restricted business, from small, add-on requests, up through large transitions and transformations.

Further back, Radi was the head of Project Delivery in Sofia, leading a team of ~400 highly skilled specialists who delivered services in the Datacenter, Workplace, Project & Program Management domains. Back in time, Radi was the person who set up successfully the Network Services Tower in Sofia, part of the Global Delivery Center Bulgaria.

Radi brings 20+ years of experience in the field of IT. He holds multiple excellence awards for mature leadership and significant contribution to the strategic development of the Sofia ITO organization.

Mr. Palazov has a master’s degree in Computer and Information Sciences, and a diploma in Mathematics.

Daniela Kolarova is a System architect at DXC Technology with more than 13 years experience with Java. She has worked on many international projects using Core Java, Java EE, Spring. Because of her interests in AI she worked on scientific projects at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and at Plovdiv University and did some presentations on AI conferences and a Java conference this years. She is a also a DZone Java and DZone AI contributor. Daniela Kolarova graduated “Informatics” at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Plovdiv University “Paisij Hilendarski“.

Petar Stanchev is currently Professor at Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA and Professor and Doctor of Mathematical Sciences at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has published 2 books, more than 200 chapters in monographs, magazines and conferences, over 200 conference papers and seminars.

His research interests are in the fields of semantics, image processing, multimedia databases, databases, information systems, expert systems, fuzzy sets and systems, decision making, e-commerce, web technologies, computer games.

He is currently editor-in-chief of two international magazines and a member of the editorial staff of several magazines. He is the Bulgarian representative in the European Commission’s OpenAIRE2020 project. He is the author of the first programming book in Bulgaria “I Program at Nine Years”. More details about him are on his page https://paws.kettering.edu/~pstanche/ .

Denis Danov is full-stack developer and dev lead at Dreamix Ltd. He has 5+ years of experience in software engineering, research and development. Denis has a Bachelor degree in Software Engineering from Sofia University and Masters degree in Embedded Systems. He has worked with many teams located all around the world to deliver successful products for international companies.

Doychin Bondzhev has over 25 years of experience in the software and consultancy industries. For the last 17 years he is establishing his own business – dSoft-Bulgaria. During that time he utilized different technologies including CDI, EJB, Web Services, Swing, JavaFX, JSF, JAX-RS, JMS and also different databases and platforms. He used these technologies for business, banking, process control and other types of projects. Prior dSoft-Bulgaria, he was a senior developer at AtoZed Software, responsible for maintaining and developing IntraWeb for Win32, .NET and Java. He has a masters degree in computer science from Technical University, Sofia branch Plovdiv.

Graham is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and WebSphere Applications Server Developer Advocacy Lead based at IBM’s R&D Laboratory in Hursley, UK. He takes a keen interest in emerging technologies and practices and in particular programming models. His past exploits include establishing and contributing to open source projects at PHP and Apache and participation in, and leading, industry standards at OASIS and the OSGi Alliance.

Cosmin Rentea is a software engineer and trainer. His main interest lies in using Big Data technologies for innovative solutions, and his expertise is mainly in scalable backends, JVM, and microservices areas. He has an active presence in Bucharest JUG, local conferences, and workshops. He contributed to Big Data systems for digital marketing, enterprise solutions for large retail companies, and to Java and Go open-source projects.

Werner Keil has worked for more than 25 years as project manager, software architect, analyst and consultant on leading-edge technologies for Banking, Insurance, Telco/Mobile, Media and Public sector.
Among his earlier clients are Sony where Werner designed and implemented micro-format based tags for Sony Music.
He develops enterprise systems using Java, Java EE, Oracle or IBM, does Web design and development using Adobe, Ajax/JavaScript or dynamic languages like Ruby, PHP, etc.

Besides work for major companies he runs his own creative, talent and consulting agency Creative Arts & Technologies. In his spare time, he runs and supports open-source projects, writes song lyrics, novels, screenplays and technical articles. He is committing member of Eclipse Foundation, Apache Foundation and the Java Community Process, including his role as JSR-363 Spec Lead and Executive Committee Member.