MEET OUR SPEAKERS

Jorge is a Global Senior Solutions Architect for AWS Energy. With two decades of experience in enterprise IT, he holds all AWS certifications, two master degrees in Computer Science and Enterprise Management, and multiple Agile Management certifications. At AWS, he drives customers through their cloud journeys by converting complex challenges into actionable roadmaps for both technical and business audiences. Jorge is also an SME for migration and modernization, digital identity, web3, and emotional intelligence. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐞: Cloud migration and modernization approaches that work 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Enterprises are increasingly undertaking complex journeys of IT transformation, migration, and modernization in the cloud. This session focuses on valuable lessons learned from the thousands of enterprises who have migrated and modernized their on-premises workloads with AWS. We will dive deep into several successful cloud journeys to learn about their technical approaches, mental models used, how they set up their teams to modernize as they migrate, and how they successfully engaged with internal and external stakeholders.

Daniel Hiller is a software engineer with more than 20 years of work experience. He strives to create software that is useful for people so they can do stuff that matters. He’s currently part of the KubeVirt community. KubeVirt is a Kubernetes addon to run virtual machines on Kubernetes clusters. There he maintains, improves and automates CI and testing processes for the KubeVirt organization using Prow on Kubernetes and Golang. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐞: Squash the flakes! - how to minimize the impact of flaky tests 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Flakes aka tests that don’t behave deterministically, i.e. they fail sometimes and pass sometimes, are an ever-recurring problem in software development. There are various reasons why a test can be flaky, however the impact can be as fatal as CI being loaded beyond capacity causing overly long feedback cycles or even users losing trust in CI itself. For the [KubeVirt] project we want to remove flakes as fast as possible to minimize the number of retests required. This leads to shorter time to merge, improves trust in CI, while at the same time it decreases the overall load for the CI system.

Enrico is a Tech Lead and Principal Software Engineer at Elastic. He is an open source contributor (e.g. Langchain) and a developer since 1996. He is an adjunct Professor of computer science at the University of Turin. He has been a research programmer at the University of Amsterdam. TEDx and international speaker in 120+ conferences. He has a Master in Data Analytics from University of Roma Tre. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐞: Talk with your data: building a RAG system for searching (private) data in natural language 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: In this presentation, we will introduce a recent proposal in AI that is called Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). This technique is able to leverage the natural language capabilities of Large Language Model (LLM) such as ChatGPT in order to query a private database. You can literally ask questions about your data, without the need to fine-tune an LLM. We will build a simple RAG system using Langchain, an open source framework for writing applications for LLM. We will show with a few lines of Python that you can build a prototype system using a vector database like Elasticsearch.

Chris Klug is a software developer at Active Solution in Stockholm. He spends his days creating, or solving problems depending on who you ask. He loves creating and building things. Whether it be a new application or a new kitchen, you will see him building things all the time. Most of the time, that means writing code to solve problems for clients. Except for the many days he spends talking about doing things he is passionate about at conferences and usergroups. And for the days he spends mountain biking, simracing or kiteboarding. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐞: Exposing the not-so-secret practices of the cult of DDD 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: For decades, the followers of the Legend of the Ubiquitous Language, have been successfully implementing software solutions in complex domains. Using the not-so-secret practices outlined by the cult of DDD, they merge the realms of development and business to create understandable and manageable software. But even if these powerful practices aren't secret, they are shrouded in mystery and complex language. Making them tools used almost exclusively by developers who have studied the ancient book of Evans. A book filled with incantations like "bounded context", "value object" and "anti-corruption layer". But that ends today! In this session, we will expose some of the most useful DDD practices for what they are. And we will also show you how they can become powerful tools in your developer toolbelt. Even if you do not want to bend your knee to the craftspeople of old, and spend the rest of your career trying to explain the legend of the ubiquitous language to everyone around you.

Ovidiu Șutac is an accomplished leader with a solid background of 25+ years of experience in software development. Having extensive experience in management, Ovidiu is a driven entrepreneur, highly skilled in running own business and corporate organizations. He was part of multinational companies and also launched some start-up companies and managed the businesses from inception until maturity. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐞: Opening Speech Software Architecture Summit

Robin Hermann, member of the Executive Board at Schwarz IT KG and Senior Vice President STACKIT Products is responsible for the implementation and operations of the STACKIT cloud offering. The business informatics graduate has been loyal to the Schwarz Group for around 25 years and can draw on a wealth of experience from management positions at Schwarz IT KG. With a focus on software engineering and infrastructure technologies, he has successfully advanced the digitization of the Schwarz Group over two decades with a lot of commitment and passion. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐞: The state of cloud in Europe 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Cloud-computing has shifted the way we develop and operate our applications fundamentally. Different industries have found different ways to adopt cloud for their workloads. In this talk we will hear about the learnings from the cloud journey of Europe’s biggest retailer and how this led to building a sovereign cloud alternative. In a broader view we will reflect what role European alternatives could play.

Razvan is a seasoned developer and architect with over 20 years experience in developing video streaming platforms and encoder technologies, IoT and generative AI. He holds a US patent for Systems and Methods to Digital Content Aggregation and Distribution. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐞: BOBi Architecture - How to leverage GenAI capabilities while remaining vendor agnostic 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: BOBi is a broker which sits between various Vodafone systems and platforms and various LLMs/genAI platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Llama. It’s primary focus is to help out the teams in operations to quickly diagnose problems by helping the team with incident context, code analysis, config analysis and dynamic incident analysis coupled with remediation proposals thus moving closer to our goal of zero touch operations and MTTR reduction.

As Software Architect with more than a decade experience in the automotive industry, Laszlo always tries to keep track of the latest areas of development and he aims to stay on the top of his game. He followed technology changes, architecture innovations, increase of complexity in vehicles. As technology and the field of automotive extended to cloud, he also changed his focus and learned more about this vast new area. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐞: The way to data-driven mobility service provider 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: In this session, we will explore the journey towards becoming a data-driven mobility service provider in the automotive industry. As vehicles become increasingly connected, the exchange of data opens new opportunities for services and functions. Bosch, a leading player in this industry, has developed cloud services that enable Automotive OEMs in their cloud business. We will discuss the key success factors for Bosch as a service provider, including monetizing domain knowledge, optimizing time to market, and cost efficiency. Join us to discover how data-driven approaches are shaping the future of mobility services.

As a Data Architect with over eight years of experience in the automotive industry, Matyas has a passion for leveraging data to drive innovation and efficiency across all stages of hardware and software design, development, and manufacturing, along with the field operations of connected vehicle services. With a deep understanding of how data can unlock value, Matyas consistently pushes the boundaries to optimize internal processes, enhance performance outcomes, and deliver value to the end user. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐞: The way to data-driven mobility service provider 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: In this session, we will explore the journey towards becoming a data-driven mobility service provider in the automotive industry. As vehicles become increasingly connected, the exchange of data opens new opportunities for services and functions. Bosch, a leading player in this industry, has developed cloud services that enable Automotive OEMs in their cloud business. We will discuss the key success factors for Bosch as a service provider, including monetizing domain knowledge, optimizing time to market, and cost efficiency. Join us to discover how data-driven approaches are shaping the future of mobility services.

IT executive COO/CTO with banking, IT-provider and start-up experience. Extensive experience in project delivery, operations and re-structuring in mission critical environments, mostly in financial services. Before that, built a consulting company from scratch after focusing on business growth as sales manager of a multi-national IT provider. Profound academic background. Supervisory board experience, University lecturer, Maker. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐞: Nobody likes software architects

Catalin Gheorghiu is a solution architect from Romania. His current interests are in the area of (I)IoT, industrial mobile and cloud solutions. In addition to addressing software development and architecture, he is a certified trainer and consultant. In his spare time Catalin is a member of the technical community, contributing with articles and blogs (signed MrSmersh), presentations to several user groups/meetups (also is RONUA Timisoara user group leader), and lecturing all over Romania and abroad. Since 2011, every year has been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award. Current Microsoft Certified Trainer. 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐥𝐞: The talented mr. (Event) Grid 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Event Grid is an Azure service with a lot of capabilities, some of those not quite expected that are there. This session will try to showcase some of those capabilities, what architectures benefit from them and what use cases. Of course all based on real world project experience. And mr. (Event) Grid has many hidden talents that can make your life easier and the architecture cleaner and performant. So, you should expect some diagrams, some whiteboards, some demos, and for sure some chocolates, fun and informative, calorie rich session.

Bogdan is one of the co-founders of Code for Romania and he is currently one of the Technology Officers that help in coordinating the project teams and in delivering the civic apps the organization’s volunteers are working on. Having over 10 years of experience in .net, flavoring from version 2.0 in a POS Windows application, to multi-tenant Azure enterprise solutions, Bogdan is also a Technical Team Lead for a technology company whenever he is not managing the coding teams in the biggest civic tech ONG in Romania.