Although the digital technology appears to fulfill our life, it has only begun to penetrate industries. As it continues its advance, the implications for companies, business models and opportunities will be tremendous.
The worldwide economy, business models, and the IT community are dramatically changing under our eyes through digitalization. The innovative technology can make the difference between survival and extinction in this disruptive time. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation and robotics innovates economic growth and finds their appliance in expert systems, data analytics, robotics, machine learning algorithms or voice recognitions.
The CIOs are again in the frontline of the business transformation in an unprecedented role of digital business partner. The digital journey of the enterprises continues in an economic ecosystem where new GDPR regulation compliance and huge increased cybersecurity threats puts a tremendous pressure to companies and CIOs.
Can you lead your enterprise to continue the digital journey?
The CIO Council Conference is designed as forum to provide an intimate networking platform for CIOs and CxO from leading organizations. Attendees will engage in challenging debates and innovative knowledge sharing with CIO Council members and industry leaders regarding the opportunities that digital transformation provides to gain competitive advantage.
Main topics:
Top 10 digital trends for 2019
Empowering Business Through IoT, AI, Machine learning, Robotics, and 3D Printing
The future of business intelligence apps are based on AI and machine learning
The secret of blockchain technology
Data privacy and the GDPR - a major cultural change.
Building a cybersecurity culture
Cybersecurity for industrial automation and control systems
Future of smart cities
The digital workforce/The workplace of the future. Can the Artificial Intelligence be the right replacement for humans?
Attracting and Maintaining Talent in a digital ecosystem
Is the educational system ready to support the innovation technology?
The European Digital Agenda
AGENDA
Wednesday, 16 May 2018 – Hotel Radisson, 09:00 – 17:00
Moderator: Yugo Neumorni, President CIO Council Romania, IT Director Hidroelectrica
0800 - 0850
Registration & Welcome Coffee
0850 - 0900
Opening speech Moderator: - Yugo Neumorni, President CIO Council, IT Director Hidroelectrica
900 - 1100
SESSION 1: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION. INOVATION GROWTH
KEY NOTE SPEACH: “The future role of the European CIO” . Speaker: Mr. Emmanuel GAUDIN, Charmain of EuroCIO association, CIO Lagardère
The European CIO Association (EuroCIO) is the only European, independent, not-for-profit representative for the large IT-users (demand side of IT), both private and public. Sharing and developing vision and exchanging experiences at a European level for the better or best use of information technology, as well as externally representing the larger user communities towards European Commission and other European authorities are the main objectives.
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Turbulent times in IT Rewards
Speaker: Oana Botolan, Managing Partner, Cteam Romania (Cteam Human Capital, part of Cteam Group)
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PANEL: FAST FORWARD IN DIGITAL ECONOMY. INOVATING GROWTH
While the digital continues to transform the company processes the CIOs have been asked to focus on one goal: Delivering exceptional digital experiences to customers. From artificial intelligence (AI), to blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT), new digital technologies are having a major impact on business - and that impact will only grow in 2018. Artificial intelligence goes from Newbie To Mainstream. How to integrate the newest digital trends with the mature technologies like cloud computing, BIG Data or IoT? How the business intelligence analytics are changed by artificial intelligence and the newest technology trends? Does the blockchain find its way to the IT ecosystems? How to decrease the costs through intelligent analytics software? Did the IoT push us to the edge?
Panel previews:
5G technology driven by business needs. Business transformation driven by 5G technology - delivered by Marius Iordache, IP Network Architect, Orange Romania
Realizing 2030: The Next Era of Human Machine Partnerships - delivered by Radomir Bordon, Director, Central and Eastern Europe, Dell EMC
A new dawn of immense possibility is on the horizon. Dell Technologies surveyed 3,800 business leaders from around the world to uncover their forecasts for the next decade. The research revealed a divided vision of the future but common ground on the need to transform and how.
Panelists:
- Florin Popa - Business to Business Director, Orange Romania
- Liviu Buligan, Executive Director SoftOne Romania
- Radomir Bordon, Director, Central and Eastern Europe, Dell EMC
- Cătălin Popescu, CIO Council Member, Director of Engineering at Honeywell
- Cristian Cucu, Secretar de Stat, CIO , Secretariatul General al Guvernului
Moderator:
-Carmen Adamescu, Partner, Head of IT Advisory Services, EY Romania
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PANEL: Disrupting Mobility. Where are we going?
The world as we knew is long gone. The new reality is here. Autonomous and connected vehicles with no human intervention, self driving cars, safer and intelligent roads, drones, intelligent medications, artificial intelligence, clean and free energy, intelligent cities, car free sharing, the new way of social network interaction, smart apps are changing our lives.
Mobility, a key factor for the new reality, is driven by ever-higher-performing smartphones, tablets, and other devices enabled by 4G and 5G networks, as well as the explosion of other innovative applications.
The way we work is rapidly changing. Specific businesses are force to change or face disappearance. Are we ready?
Mobility and communication Smart apps Digital signature IoT and cloud computing Security New way of social interaction
1100 - 1130
Coffee break
1130 - 1330
SESSION 2: CYBERSECURITY „BY DESIGN" IN A HYPERCONNECTED WORLD
Data privacy and the GDPR a major cultural change. The society put a major pressure to the business community for a severe control on privacy and personal data protection. We are talking about a major cultural change and a global mind shift in data protection compliance. For the first time the companies and the business cannot ignore the GDPR compliance battle.
Speaker: Roxana Ionescu, Partner, Head of Data Protection practice, NNDKP
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GDPR status across Europe
The GDPR challenges are common across Europe no matter the size of the companies or the countries. The European CIO Association will present a summary of GDPR findings resulted from surveying the EuroCIO members.
Speaker: Yugo Neumorni, Cybersecurity Council Chairman, EuroCIO
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CyberSecurity a cross-border perspective of the world´s leading industry association
Speaker: Todd Thibodeaux, CEO, CompTIA
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PANEL: Are the CIOs ready for the next cyber-attack?
We are living in a hyper connected world where millions of objects and sensors are added daily which transforms our life in an unprecedented way. Our life is improving through technology, artificial intelligence, new digital services and new devices are changing and transforming our business. But all comes with an increased cost of cyber threats and cyber risks. National critical infrastructures, power grids, medical and financial institutions failed like domino pieces in the last years in a battle with invisible aggressors. The society demands immediate actions to control the cyberterrorism and urge the business and the IT community for better security and data privacy measures and regulations. "Security and Cybersecurity by design" is the new law to be imposed to IT ecosystems. • How can we deal with human factors in security? • How can cyber risks best be incorporated into business continuity plans? • Will the artificial intelligence and the machine learning be incorporated into the IT security defense systems? • Are the CIOs ready for the next cyber -attack? • Is the "Cybersecurity as a Service" the best options for companies and CIOs? • How to protect national critical infrastructures from cyber- attacks? • Is Industrial Control Systems unsecure by design? • Online clandestinity and the Darknets are the "crime as a service" suppliers engaged in illegal activities. • Are you compliant with NIS Directive and GDPR regulations?
Panel previews:
Prescriptive Security Operations Center - Building the Next Generation SOC - delivered by Cătălina Dodu, Managing Atos Cybersecurity Business in CEE, Atos
Melting of national security – a cybernetics perspective - delivered by Dr. Iulian Fota, Director of the National Intelligence College, former National Security Adviser to the President of Romania
Panelists:
- Cătălina Dodu, Managing Atos Cybersecurity Business in CEE, Atos
- Aris Vrakas, Data Expert, Informatica
- Victor Margină, Softline, Head of the representation, Softline International Romania
- Dr. Iulian Fota, Director of the National Intelligence College, former National Security Adviser to the President of Romania
Moderator: Yugo Neumorni, President CIO Council Romania, IT Director Hidroelectrica
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PANEL: SECURITY. Are we really capable of protecting our data and users?
Internet of Things, the Trojan horse for the Cyberwar? Are CIOs ready to join the battle?
The explosion of interconnection of the physical objects, ranging from airplanes, refrigerators to artificial hearts or even children’s toys, into a single platform named Internet of Things is changing the world to a new reality. The positive and great potential of Internet of Things is amazing. But the new reality brings to the same table the cyber-criminals well equipped and ready to exploit vulnerabilities in new technologies, and to cause irreparable damage to both organizations and individuals. Are CIOs ready to fight the cyber war? Are the organizations aware of the threats of the new IoT reality? How prepared are the authorities to respond?
1330 - 1430
Lunch
1430 - 1630
SESSION 3: EMPOWERING BUSINESS WITH IOT, AI, MACHINE LEARNING AND ROBOTICS
PANEL: Impact of AI technologies on business.
The impact of AI technologies on business is projected to boost labor productivity fundamentally changing the way we work and reinforcing the role of people to drive growth in business. Companies are entering in a new era ruled by data incorporating AI and machine learning in business intelligence systems. They can now use machines algorithms to identify trends and insights in vast reams of data and make faster decisions that position them to be competitive in real-time. Expert systems, data analytics, robotics, machine learning algorithms, voice recognitions are only few AI appliance that streamline business processes, improve customer services and leverage sensor-driven data for marketing and advertising. • Business Intelligence Apps Built on Machine Learning • AI for business dashboards • Predicting Repairs and Upkeep for Machinery through AI, IoT and robotics • AI for Monitoring Machine Fleets and Factories • Machine Learning and GeoLocation Data Applications
Panelists:
- Cosmina Simion, Partner, NNDKP
- Vladan Pekovic, Chief Technology and Information Officer, Telekom Romania
- Radu Brasoveanu, CIO Council Member, VP | CTO at DB Global Technology
- Gabriel Pavel, Balkans Sales Director, Fujitsu
- George Lazar, Board Member CIO Council
- Liviu Apolozan, CEO, DocProcess
Moderator:
- Mircea Modran, CIO Council Member
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Case study: Electrica. Back to the future. Why are we slow?
Cloud migration case study opportunity. Enter & Exist cloud strategy. The secret of standardization. Planning the migration. Cloud supplier analyse.
Speaker: Dan Crisfalusi, CIO Council Member, CIO Electrica
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The paradox of growth. How to deal with human resources crisys in IT industry
Speaker: Bogdan Tudor, CIO Council Vice-president
PANEL: Disruptive technologies. The new way of Business. Threats or Opportunities?
Enterprise technology development keeps racing ahead changing the very way of doing business. The panel will explore the impact of new technology trends like Big Data, cloud computing, mobility, IoT on companies and on the architecture of information systems in companies as well as the connection between these key-trends in the IT industry: Cloud and mobility continue to be major forces of technological change, enabling innovation and new business models. Cloud friendly applications for a new way of business As social tools become more popular, how ready is cloud to go social and become an integrated part of the way companies manage business data? More power for CIO – cloud analytic for traditional data and big data across the entire enterprise The internet of things, the Big Data, and 3D printing are new wave of tech disruptor and enablers
1630
Cocktail & fine wine tasting
You can view the presentations held during CIO Council National Conference, HERE:
Chief Information Officer and chairman of the European CIO association
Cătălina Dodu
Managing Atos Cybersecurity Business in CEE, Atos
Todd Thibodeaux
CEO, CompTIA
Roxana Ionescu
Partner, Head of Data Protection practice, NNDKP
Cristian Cucu
Secretar de Stat, CIO , Secretariatul General al Guvernului
Florin Popa
Business to Business Director, Orange Romania
Vladan Pekovic
Chief Technology and Information Officer, Telekom Romania
Radu Brasoveanu
CIO Council Member, VP | CTO at DB Global Technology
Marius Iordache
IP Network Architect, Orange Romania
Liviu Buligan
Executive Director SoftOne Romania
Radomir Bordon
Director, Central and Eastern Europe, Dell EMC
Cosmina Simion
Partner, NNDKP
Victor Margină
Head of the representation, Softline International Romania
Dan Crisfalusi
CIO Council Member, CIO at Electrica
Bogdan Carlescu
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Bitdefender
Aris Vrakas
Data Expert, Informatica
Gabriel Pavel
Balkans Sales Director, Fujitsu
George Lazar
Board Member CIO Council
Liviu Apolozan
CEO, DocProcess
Dr. Iulian Fota
Director of the National Intelligence College, former National Security Adviser to the President of Romania
Oana Botolan
Managing Partner, Cteam Romania
Cătălin Popescu
CIO Council Member, Director of Engineering at Honeywell
Bogdan Tudor
CIO Council Vice-president
MODERATORS
Yugo Neumorni
President CIO Council, IT Director Hidroelectrica
Carmen Adamescu
Partner, Head of IT Advisory Services, EY Romania
Mircea Modran
CIO Council Member
Yugo Neumorni
President CIO Council, IT Director Hidroelectrica
Yugo Neumorni, CISA, EMBA is Board member and Chairman of the Cybersecurity Council of the pan European association EuroCIO. He is also the president of CIO Council Romania, member of BCS Elite and the IT&C Director for Hidroelectrica, the Romanian power generation leader and the major supplier of ancillary services required in the Romanian National Energy System.
He supported from the CIO's role the Hidroelectrica business growth from insolvency to the most profitable company from Romania, to more than 300 mln EUR net profit, and to a 65% EBITDA. He coordinated directly a major SAP implementation project for Hidroelectrica in a very challenging timeframe and during large-scale company transformation process. The SAP project was awarded with Gold Winner of the 2017 SAP Quality Awards contest in the Fast Delivery category in CEE. Previously Yugo was for more than 10 years the Head of IT for Vimetco, the largest aluminum producer from South Eastern Europe and 6 years IT Manager for Deloitte Central Europe.
Having more than 24 years of experience in the IT industry, Yugo Neumorni is specialized in reorganization, planning, design and development of complex industrial IT environments. His area of expertise includes large scale IT division reorganization and development, ERP projects, IT security & cybersecurity, SCADA and industrial control systems, IT audit and IT governance, business processes in energy and manufacturing, COBIT framework, ITIL.
Yugo is the president and co-founder of the CIO Council Romania and he was the president and Board member of ISACA Romania.
He has a Computer Science degree in Polytechnic University in Bucharest and he graduated the EMBA program with Kennesaw State University (USA) and Asebuss (Romania).
Emmanuel Gaudin
Chief Information Officer and chairman of the European CIO association
Emmanuel is the Lagardère Chief Information Officer and chairman of the European CIO association*
47 years old, graduated from Ecole Centrale de Nantes.
After working in the automobile industry (VALEO, 1995-2000) and the smart card sector (GEMALTO, 2000-2003), He joined LAGARDERE in June 2003 as a projects director before becoming vice president in charge of business operations.
*The European CIO Association (EuroCIO) is the only European, independent, not-for-profit representative for the large IT-users (demand side of IT), both private and public. With far over 600 organizations as members, represented by their highest IT-manager or CIO and representing over 500.000 IT workers, EuroCIO is "the" largest organization in its kind also at global level, with links to other CIO communities around the world
Carmen Adamescu
Partner, Head of IT Advisory Services, EY Romania
Carmen is Partner in EY, leading IT Advisory Practice & IT Risk Assurance. She joined EY in 2012, by now having 18+ years’ experience in Romania and CEE in IT industry. She has had executive roles and relationships with large clients and Global IT Players. Carmen has a MSc in Nuclear Physics (1987, University of Bucharest) and a MBA at Open University, UK, specialized in Strategy, Marketing, Change Management and HR.
Before joining EY in 2012, Carmen worked for IBM in Romania and CEE, playing leadership roles. During her career, she was the trusted advisor for many large clients in Romania, engaged in strategic, complex IT projects, covering different industries as Financial Services, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Telco, and Public Sector.
She is also a subject matter expert in outsourcing, technology enablement, Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Modelling and for Major Program Transformation initiatives. Carmen’s strategy in EY is to help her clients to embrace digital and take advantage of analytics for improving operational performance and grow the business, while supporting them to protect against cyber risks.
Cătălina Dodu
Managing Atos Cybersecurity Business in CEE, Atos
Catalina is managing Atos Cybersecurity business in CEE. Additionally, she runs the operations of Atos IT Solutions and Services Romania since February 2014. With an experience of over 18 years in IT, previous to being appointed Country Manager, Catalina Dodu managed the System Integration division of Atos Romania, and before that, she was Director of Product Management at Bitdefender.
Catalina holds a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, as well as a Master degree in IT Project Management. In
2007 she also graduated the Romanian-Canadian MBA program.
Todd Thibodeaux
CEO, CompTIA
Todd Thibodeaux is the president and chief executive officer of CompTIA, the leading non-profit trade association for the global technology industry. CompTIA represents more than 2,000 member companies and 3,000 business partners spanning the worldwide technology industry.
Since joining the organization in 2008, Mr. Thibodeaux has led the expansion of CompTIA’s commitment to advancing industry growth through education and training programs, market intelligence and research, networking events, professional certifications and public advocacy.
Mr. Thibodeaux is a frequent commentator and source quoted in news coverage of the technology industry, including the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Entrepreneur, Forbes, and USA Today. He also contributed written columns to a variety of business and industry publications, including CIO and InformationWeek Dark Reading.
Before joining CompTIA in July 2008, Mr. Thibodeaux spent more than 17 years with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), where he served in a wide range of roles culminating as its senior vice president of industry relations.
Mr. Thibodeaux is a life-long IT and tech enthusiast dating back to his very early years. The son of an electrical and mechanical engineer, his love of technology continues to this day and he has infused CompTIA with a renewed sense of enthusiasm for the industry the organization represents.
He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Bachelor of Science, economics, 1988) and George Mason University (Master’s degree in economics, 1997)
Mircea Modran
CIO Council Member
Mr. Mircea-Toma Modran has an extensive 30+ year managerial experience covering information technology, corporate strategy, restructuring, business continuity and risk management, business process re-design and implementation, operational efficiency and effectiveness improvements. From a system engineer all the way to an Executive Board Director and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, his skills were appreciated and called for by well-known corporations from technology (IBM, Digital, Hewlett Packard, Nortel), chemical (BASF), oil & gas (Petrom, OMV), energy (Transelectrica) and aerospace (Romaero, IAR) domains.
Mr. Mircea-Toma Modran received his Electrical Engineering degree (M.Eng.) from University of Craiova, Faculty of Electrotechnics, Automation & Computers, major in Computers, and his Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) from Toronto York University, Schulich School of Business, major in Corporate Strategy (Restructuring), International Business (Far East) and MIS – Management Information Systems (global data centers). He has also attended post-graduated executive programs in UK (Hult Ashridge Business School, University of Edinburgh) and Canada (Humber College, Niagara-on-the-Lake Institute).
Founding member of the CIO Council in Romania, Mr. Modran is also an Associate Member of ANSSI/ RO (the Romanian National Association for Information Systems Security), full licensed Member of BCI / UK (Business Continuity Institute), full licensed Member of PEO / CA (Professional Engineers of Ontario) and certified Six Sigma Deployment Leader by the 6Sigma Institute / USA.
Roxana Ionescu
Partner, Head of Data Protection practice, NNDKP
Roxana is one of the most reputed Romanian specialists in the data protection field, being the only lawyer active in Romania acknowledged as an expert on Data Privacy and Protection in the Who's Who Legal Data 2018. With over 13 years of experience in data protection and privacy matters, Roxana has been assisting clients on complex privacy matters related to their core-businesses, marketing or employment activities, database sharing and data protection implications of business transfers, projects and mergers, both national and cross-border.
On GDPR compliance, Roxana's experience includes coordinator roles of more than 35 GDPR audits and implementation projects completed or ongoing only since the beginning of 2017.
Cristian Cucu
Secretar de Stat, CIO , Secretariatul General al Guvernului
Mr. Cristian Cucu is a graduate of both business and law studies in Bucharest and holds an MBA from Northwood University in Michigan, USA, while maintaining a strong focus on technology. His career path turned towards cyber-security in 2001, where he activated for over 15 years, becoming a professional in this field after implementing and consulting on numerous and complex solutions from security base lining, to preemptive protection, remediation and resolution. He is also a certified auditor in system’s security and risk management and the current interests outline security intelligence and architecture, mapped on the Romanian IT security ecosystem.
In 2016 he has taken on a new and more complex challenge, becoming the first Government CIO in Romania with responsibilities related to the implementation of information technology public policies, development of the enterprise architecture and alignment of projects, investments and resources with the objectives of the national strategy and interoperability framework.
Florin Popa
Business to Business Director, Orange Romania
Florin Popa is Business to Business Director in Orange Romania and coordinates a team of 450 professionals dedicated to small&medium businesses, large companies, multinationals and public entities.
With more than 13 years spent with Orange in various positions such as Indirect Sales Manager or Sales & Distribution Director, Florin shares his experience and helps companies active in Romania in their digital transformation journey.
Vladan Pekovic
Chief Technology and Information Officer, Telekom Romania
Vladan Pekovic is a management professional with an international carrier in various markets across Europe, Africa, Latin America and USA, with over 15 year experience in telecom field with focus on network and IT integration, implementation, development and operation of the most advanced and complex mobile and fixed networks.
Customer focused and performance driven, Vladan has also significant experience in Telekom, with a variety of projects in his portfolio. Before joining Telekom Romania, Vladan Pekovic was Chief Technology Information Officer with Crnogorski Telekom.
Vladan Pekovic holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, specializations in Mobile Telecommunication and Information Technology with the University of Montenegro.
Radu Brasoveanu
CIO Council Member, VP | CTO at DB Global Technology
18 years of experience in IT field, mainly on management positions, working for multinational enterprise level companies, focusing on delivering complex IT services within an international environment. Exposure to large transformational, change management and reorganization initiatives.Main industries: Oil & Gas, Utilities, Telecommunications, with relevant international exposure
Marius Iordache
IP Network Architect, Orange Romania
“Active CCIE” certified Network Architect, with 13 years of experience in telcos and extended expertise in complex networks architecture, design and planning. Coordinator and contributor to numerous transversal projects, deployed by European consortiums in RIA type projects, focused on 5G network architecture.
Orange is the market leader in Romania with 10.6 million clients and revenues of € 1.07 bilion at the end of 2017. Orange Romania is part of Orange group, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with over 265 million customers on five continents.
Orange Romania offers to its clients, both individuals and companies, a complete range of communication solutions, from basic services up to integrated solutions for mobile and fixed voice and data and also TV services.
For more information on the company’s products and services, please visit www.orange.ro
Liviu Buligan
Executive Director SoftOne Romania
Liviu Buligan, Executive Director @SoftOne Romania is one of the Romanian pioneers of the ERP & Business Software industry, with more than 20 years’ experience working on top executive positions and managing reputable IT companies.
Liviu joined SoftOne Romania in its early days, almost 5 years ago, when the company was just entering the Romanian market and he is one of the base team members who helped SoftOne become a key leader on the European Cloud solutions market. He thinks that the use of cutting-edge technology in managing a business is not optional, but compulsory for every company that wants to stay on the market for the long term.
Radomir Bordon
Director, Central and Eastern Europe, Dell EMC
Radomir serves as Director for Commercial Presales organization in CEE. The region represents 27 countries including Baltic countries in the north and Greece and Israel in the south of the region. He is responsible for strategy and outcomes in this territory across Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) Business Unit. Creating initiatives, strategies and programs to best align the technical sales campaigns with the changing needs of the industry and developing competitive strategies to target and win the sale in various business segments is his major focus area. It comes in conjunction with creating and communicating a vision or strategy for the team to engage and execute upon.
During his current position, Radomir served as the General Manager for Dell EMC in Poland for 5 months, successfully leading the organization trough initial phase of the merge of both companies: Dell and EMC. He is based out of the Dell EMC office in Warsaw and has been with Dell EMC since 2004.
Prior to Dell EMC, Radomir has held several positions in the IT industry and in an Industrial Engineering organizations.
Cosmina Simion
Partner, NNDKP
Cosmina Simion is a technology, IP/IT and regulatory lawyer with 19 years of professional experience, with expertise in various industries, with a particular emphasis on IT & technology, media and entertainment, online and gambling industries. Partner within NNDKP’s Intellectual Property Department, Cosmina also co-heads the Gaming and Consumer Protection practices of the firm.
Cosmina has a deep understanding of the technology industry, having substantial expertise in advising major players active in this field on a wide range of technology-related issues, including IP, commercial and regulatory. She also regularly contributes to domestic working groups seeking to improve the business and regulatory approaches in the industries she is active.
Victor Margină
Head of the representation, Softline International Romania
Having more than 19 years of experience in the IT industry, mainly on security and virtualization spheres, Victor Margina working at global system integration company Softline, focusing on delivering complex IT solutions for modern business within an international team of professionals.
Performance driven and self-motivated, Victor joined Softline team in 2014 and Softline Romania team in 2016 after working in IBM distributor in Moldova, Republic of.
Dan Crisfalusi
CIO Council Member, CIO at Electrica
Bogdan Carlescu
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Bitdefender
Bogdan Carlescu is Senior Product Marketing Manager at Bitdefender, looking after the portfolio of security products for enterprise customers. Bogdan has extensive international experience in various roles across IT Industry and his professional mission is to empower businesses to achieve their goals by leveraging technology.
He started his career as IT Systems Integration and Security Professional and migrated towards Sales Engineering and Product Management, combining his engineering background with business management and marketing skills.
Aris Vrakas
Data Expert, Informatica
Aris Vrakas works for Relational SA for more than 12 years as Data Expert. He holds a B.Sc in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece and an M.Sc at Distributed Computing from University of Surrey, England.
He has spent more than 15 years working with Data Handling projects at banks, telecoms, insurances and retail at many different countries of EMEA. He started with Data Integration, Data Quality, Master Data Management, Data Security, Compliance continuing with Big Data and Analytics (Stat Analysis).
The last years he is focused on Digital Transformation and Data Governance developing strategies, plans and data ecosystems based on different customers’ sectors. His goal is efficient data handling covering complex customer needs targeted and accurately. In parallel he predicts the easy future expansions of customer business based on data, the fuel of our era.
Gabriel Pavel
Balkans Sales Director, Fujitsu
Gabriel Pavel is the Head of Product Sales Director of Fujitsu for the Balkans Sales Region which encompasses Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and head of the operations in Romania
Gabriel is responsible for leading the sales team, creating the strategies for distribution channel development, in order to reach the business objectives on medium and long term by building solid relationships based on win-win principles.
Gabriel has been with Fujitsu since 2016, holding the position of Sales Director & Head of Operation in Romania driving as a senior manager the sales team in Romania.
A Sales and Marketing Management professional with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, coordinated and led sales and marketing teams in multinational companies like Microsoft – Department of solutions and partners as well as at Enterprise Solutions Integrators, like Computerland, Novensys or Romanian Business Consult – focused on business verticals (Retail, Professional Services, Distribution/ Logistics, Manufacturing).
Gabriel has been with Fujitsu since 2016, holding the position of Sales Director & Head of Operation in Romania driving as a senior manager the sales team in Romania.
Gabriel lives in Bucharest in Romania with his wife and three daughters.
George Lazar
Board Member CIO Council
Having more than 20 years of IT experience, 15 years in financial institutions management, George Lazăr was more than 10 years IT Manager in several Romanian banks.
George coordinated numerous complex IT projects, mostly in banking industry. His expertise covers both business and IT areas: strategic planning, budgets, risk analysis, project management and people management, banking processes, application development, security, critical infrastructure and so on.
He graduated Mathematics (in French Language) in 1997, Cybernetics in 1999 and the MBA program from City University of Seattle (Romania) in 2009. George is Board Member of CIO Council since 2012.
Liviu Apolozan
CEO, DocProcess
Liviu Apolozan, CEO DocProcess
Cu o experiență de 36 de ani în industria IT din România și Franța, Liviu Apolozan este fondator și CEO al companiei DocProcess, furnizor de servicii și soluții de management și de susținere a transformării digitale a companiilor prin RPA (Robotic Process Automation).
Absolvent al Facultății de Electronică din cadrul Universității Politehnice București (1977-1982), Liviu a plecat în Franța imediat după anul 1990, unde și-a construit o carieră în industria locală de IT.
După 15 ani, în care a acumulat experiență în companii precum Inforsud, Effective și Xerox Global Services Franța, Liviu Apolozan se întoarce în România pentru a pune bazele propriei afaceri în domeniul digitalizării proceselor financiare ale companiilor.
Astfel, în anul 2005, a luat ființă DocProcess. Începând cu servicii de consultanță, opt ani mai târziu, Liviu Apolozan a transformat DocProcess în producător de software, și dezvoltă soluții de digitalizare pentru eficientizarea proceselor financiare, de achizitii, si de logistica ale companiilor. În prezent, peste 3.200 de clienți utilizează platforma DocProcess, printre aceștia numărându-se companii mari precum Carrefour, Cora, Leroy Merlin, Altex, Albalact, Covalact, Mondelez.
În afară de managementul activității DocProcess, Liviu Apolozan este membru al Comitetului European pentru Standardizare, fiind implicat în elaborarea standardelor și susținerea adoptării facturilor electronice. De asemenea, el face parte din Business Payments Coalition, un grup de lucru internațional, care dezvoltă standarde pentru piața din SUA.
Scurt CV:
2005 - prezent Proprietar DocProcess
1997 - 2005 Project Manager la Xerox Global Services Franța
1995 - 1997 Software Architect la compania Effective din Franța
1990 - 1995 Inginer Software la compania Inforsud din Franța
1984 - 1990 Inginer IT ICPE România
1982 – 1984 Inginer Electronica România
Dr. Iulian Fota
Director of the National Intelligence College, former National Security Adviser to the President of Romania
Dr. Iulian Fota is the director of the National Intelligence College and an associate professor at the National Intelligence Academy . He is a former National Security Adviser to the President of Romania. He previously held the position of the Head of the Defence Section of the Mission of Romania to NATO and Director of the National Defence College of Romania .
The Educational background of Mr. Fota comprises a PhD in Political Sciences achieved at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest, Romania, as well as the graduation of the NATO Defence College in Rome, Italy and of the National Defence College in Bucharest, Romania.
He is also a member in the advisory council of the American think-tank Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and in the editorial board of the publications “Romanian Military History Magazine”, Bucharest, Romania and „Journal of Transportation Security” edited by Springer Science+Business Media, Berlin, Germany.
Oana Botolan
Managing Partner, Cteam Romania
Oana has over 15 years of experience in designing, customizing and implementing reward programs for large and medium size companies, from a wide range of industries. For over 13 years she is coordinating salary surveys, job grading projects and talent design projects for over 300 multinational and local companies.
Oana is managing Cteam Human Capital, part of Cteam Group, with presence in over 7 countries in the area. She is involved in consulting projects, training and talent management projects, in Romania and the other countries of the Cteam Group.
Cătălin Popescu
CIO Council Member, Director of Engineering at Honeywell
Catalin Popescu is Director of Engineering for Honeywell Connected Vehicle operation. Recently, he accepted the position of Aftermarket Engineering for the same operation. Prior to that he had several roles in Honeywell and other manufacturing enterprises, like: Data Strategy and Innovation Leader, Master Data Management Leader, Head of Development, Big Data Leader.
His technical experience is mainly focused on IoT, Big Data, Software Product Development and Agile Management. From a business perspective, Catalin has 20 years of experience in automotive manufacturing industry and connected enterprises. Recently returned from Atlanta where he developed the Atlanta Software Center for Honeywell Transportation Systems, he has the aim to leverage the Romanian top talents in building an extremely demanded software product related to remote prognostics on connected vehicles based on ML and AI.
Catalin holds a degree in Engineering from the Faculty of Electronics and Communications, a Master in Communications Software.
Bogdan Tudor
CIO Council Vice-president
Bogdan conduce cea mai mare companie de servicii de suport IT din România. El a fondat grupul Class IT în 2001, cu scopul de a oferi afacerilor soluții IT excepționale și inovatoare, creând în același timp o cultură a companiei care să ofere angajatilor un mediu de lucru special. Bogdan consideră că specialiștii IT din România sunt printre dintre cei mai buni din industria globală, iar ambiția echipei sale este să pună România pe harta globală a serviciilor de suport IT, creând un brand local recunoscut internațional.
Înainte de Class IT, Bogdan a pus România pe harta Internetului global, instalând primul server global de domenii Internet in București și construind Ronix, prima rețea locală de inter-schimb de trafic, ambele proiecte îmbunătățind accesul la internet pentru milioane de utilizatori locali atât în termeni a vitezei de trafic cat și a continuității accesului. Bogdan este pasionat de IT si de antreprenoriat, în timpul dezvoltarii explozive a Internet-ul ajutat la construirea de la zero a celui mai mare ISP din România care a fost vandut cu peste 10 milioane de Euro în 2004 catre RDS. A urmat si absolvit un program de EMBA în 2005 la Asebuss/Kennewaw State University, a continuat cu educatie de scurta durata la Harvard în 2011 și este absolvent al MIT Global Entrepreneurship Development Program în 2013.
Grupul de companii Class IT are o cifra de afaceri de peste 5 mililoane de Euro in 2017 si are peste 250 de angajati. Este mândru de a fi român si conduce compania Startech Team "acolo unde nimeni nu a mai fost vreodata".
REGISTRATION for CIO Council National Conference 2018
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CIO Council Romania members - Complimentary
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