Is the Artificial Intelligence the new buzz-word in technology? Or it is going to change the world more than anything in the history of mankind. How will the society look in the next 15 years? How will the business evolve in the next 20 years? Is it true that more than 40% of the jobs will disappear? Will we assist to a battle between technology and humanity in the years to come?
We don’t know how the future will look like but we know for sure that the artificial intelligence will increase all the aspects of our life. Energy will be produced and used efficiently, the cities will become intelligent, the medicine and the education will be transformed in a very positive way, our lifestyle will enhance with intelligent and automated features and we will be accompanied by our personal intelligent assistant. The business will flourish and they will become more efficient introducing AI, machine learning, automation and all the new technology.
Adding AI to your business should be the next step as you look for ways to advance your operations and increase your performance. It is again the right time for the CIOs and the technology leaders to drive the companies into the AI new world order.
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 2020. How the future will look like?
What is the role of the CIOs in the new AI economy?
Empowering Business through AI, Machine learning, Robotics and 3D Printing
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to reengineer your business processes
The future of Business Intelligence Apps is based on AI and machine learning
How to deploy an AI Cyber Defense for your company?
Cybersecurity challenges into the world of AI
Data privacy. A major cultural change.
Cybersecurity for SCADA and industrial control systems
The secret of block chain technology
The digital work force.The workplace of the future
Attracting and Maintaining Talent in a digital ecosystem
Is the educational system ready to support the innovation technology?
The European Digital Agenda
AGENDA
Tuesday, 26 March 2019 – Hotel Radisson, 09:00 – 17:00
Moderator: Yugo Neumorni, President CIO Council Romania
0800 - 0900
Registration & Welcome Coffee
0900 - 0910
Opening speech Moderator: - Yugo Neumorni, President CIO Council
910 - 1120
SESSION 1: ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE IS HERE? What about us?
*********************************************** KEY NOTE SPEECH: Public-private participation and the importance of leadership
Speaker:
Elly van den Heuvel-Davies, Secretary to the Netherlands Cyber Security Council
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PANEL: THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS IN THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ECONOMY.
Adding AI to your business may be the next step as you look for ways to advance your operations and increase your performance. 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 Robotic Process Automation (RPA) 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 appliances that streamline business processes, improve customer services and leverage sensor-driven data for marketing and advertising.
- How AI transform the companies, the economy and the society?
- Are the C-level prepared for the AI transformation? Are the society ready?
- What are some common benefits of artificial intelligence technology?
- Introducing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in improve operations
- Business Intelligence Apps Built on AI/Machine Learning
- Case studies for the benefits of AI
- Is AI a threat or opportunities for CIOs?
Panel preview:
Analytics. And the role it plays when transforming raw data into business intelligence- delivered by Mihaela Cristescu, WiFi & Analytics Product Manager, Orange Romania
Panel preview:
Artificial intelligence is here? What about us? - delivered by Aurel Netin, Country Manager, Lenovo Romania
Panel preview:
True Enterprise RPA and the Path to AI - delivered byRazvan Atim, Head of Sales Eastern Europe, UiPath
Speakers:
Lucian Butnaru, General Manager, Cegeka Romania
Martin Vaross, Partner, Consulting, Mazars
Gabriel Dumitrescu, Large Accounts Division Manager, Orange Romania
Razvan Atim, Head of Sales Eastern Europe, UiPath
Bogdan Bandila, CIO Council Member
Moderator: Mircea Modran, CIO Council Member
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Tehnologii relevante in Industria 4.0
Speaker: Gabriel Voicila, Partener, Servicii de Consultanta in Tehnologie, PwC 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
1120 - 1200
Coffee break
1200 - 1345
SESSION 2: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CYBERDEFENCE
KEY NOTE SPEACH: The role of DNS in network defense
Speaker: Dr. Paul Vixie- Chairman, CEO and cofounder, Farsight Security, Inc.
Brief: Dr. Paul Vixie is an Internet pioneer. Currently, he is the Chairman, CEO and cofounder of Farsight Security, Inc. Dr. Vixie was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014 for work related to DNS and anti-spam technologies. He is the author of open source Internet software including BIND 8, and of many Internet standards documents concerning DNS and DNSSEC. In addition, he founded the first commercial anti-spam company (MAPS, 1996), the first non-profit Internet infrastructure software company (ISC, 1994), and the first neutral and commercial Internet exchange (PAIX, 1991). In 2018, he cofounded SIE Europe UG, a breakthrough European data sharing collective to fight cybercrime. Dr. Vixie earned his Ph.D. from Keio University for work related to DNS and DNSSEC in 2010
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PREZENTARE: The state of cybersecurity in 2019
Speaker: Alexandru Balan, Chief Security Researcher, Bitdefender
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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 transform 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 costs 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 to deploy an AI CyberDefense for your company?
Cybersecurity challenges into the world of AI
Cybersecurity for SCADA and industrial control systems
How can we deal with human factors in security?
How can cyber risks best be incorporated into business continuity plans?
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?
Panel preview: Leverage Big Data in Cybersecurity- delivered by Corina-Stefania Nebela, Big Data and Cybersecurity Architect, Atos
Speakers:
Dr. Paul Vixie- Chairman, CEO and cofounder, Farsight Security, Inc
Dr. John McCarthy, BCS Elite
Roxana Ionescu, Partner, Head of Data Protection practice, NNDKP
Cătălina Dodu, Global Cybersecurity Services Presales Director, Atos
Cristian Cucu, Secretar de Stat, CIO , Secretariatul General al Guvernului
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?
1345 - 1430
Lunch
1430 - 1630
SESSION 3: Innovation and growth with Artificial Intelligence
PRESENTATION:#Shi(f)tHappens
Speaker:
Cristian Herghelegiu, CEO Dendrio Solutions | VP of Technology Bittnet Group
PANEL: Innovation and growth with Artificial Intelligence.
The artificial intelligence is exploding. Advanced machine learning are introduced to automate business intelligence and analytics processes, machines algorithms are widely used to identify market trends and to increase sales, predictive maintenance and logistics processes are boosting using AI to mine the huge databases. More and more artificial intelligence and advanced learning machines are replacing today low-skill jobs while industry and manufacturing become fully robotized.
· Is the artificial intelligence to be seen as a replacement or a complement of the current workforce?
· What is a Neural Network?
· How Computer Vision could speed up your business?
· Speech recognition, virtual agents, deep learning, biometrics, RPA, everything will be automatized.
· Will all these new AI technology force humans into obsolescence?
· What education programs and trainings are necessary for our employees to align the new technological trends?
Panel preview: AI Ready Solutions from Dell Technologies - delivered byHoria Constantinescu, Datacenter Sales Executive CEE, Dell
Speakers:
Vladan Pekovic, Chief Technology and Information Officer, Telekom Romania
Daniel Rusen, Director of Marketing and Operations, Microsoft Romania
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 2019, HERE:
Chairman, CEO and cofounder, Farsight Security, Inc.
Elly van den Heuvel-Davies
Secretary to the Netherlands Cyber Security Council
Mihaela Cristescu
WiFi & Analytics Product Manager, Orange Romania
Cătălina Dodu
Managing Atos Cybersecurity Business in CEE, Atos
Horia Constantinescu
Datacenter Sales Executive CEE, Dell
Martin Vaross
Partner, Consulting, Mazars
Dr. John McCarthy
BCS Elite
Roxana Ionescu
Partner, Head of Data Protection practice, NNDKP
Lucian Butnaru
General Manager, Cegeka Romania
Razvan Atim
Head of Sales Eastern Europe, UiPath
Aurel Netin
Country Manager, Lenovo Romania
Vladan Pekovic
Chief Technology and Information Officer, Telekom Romania
Gabriel Ciucu
Managing Director, ALEF
Gabriel Pavel
Balkans Sales Director, Fujitsu
Daniel Rusen
Director of Marketing and Operations, Microsoft Romania
Bogdan Bandila
Cio Council Member
Călin Rangu
Director of Business Conduct and Intermediaries Supervision, Romanian Financial Supervision Authority (FSA)
Cristian Cucu
Secretar de Stat, CIO , Secretariatul General al Guvernului
Cristian Herghelegiu
CEO, Dendrio & VP of Technology @Bittnet Group
Corina-Stefania Nebela
Big Data and Cybersecurity Architect, Atos
Alexandru Balan
Chief Security Researcher, Bitdefender
MODERATORS
Yugo Neumorni
President CIO Council
Bogdan Tudor
CIO Council Vice-president
Mircea Modran
Cio Council Member
Yugo Neumorni
President CIO Council
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).
Dr. Paul Vixie
Chairman, CEO and cofounder, Farsight Security, Inc.
Dr. Paul Vixie is an Internet pioneer. Currently, he is the Chairman, CEO and cofounder of Farsight Security, Inc. Dr. Vixie was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014 for work related to DNS and anti-spam technologies. He is the author of open source Internet software including BIND 8, and of many Internet standards documents concerning DNS and DNSSEC. In addition, he founded the first commercial anti-spam company (MAPS, 1996), the first non-profit Internet infrastructure software company (ISC, 1994), and the first neutral and commercial Internet exchange (PAIX, 1991). In 2018, he cofounded SIE Europe UG, a breakthrough European data sharing collective to fight cybercrime. Dr. Vixie earned his Ph.D. from Keio University for work related to DNS and DNSSEC in 2010.
Elly van den Heuvel-Davies
Secretary to the Netherlands Cyber Security Council
Elly van den Heuvel-Davies is an experienced manager, who has had a long career within the Government. Since a decade she works in the field of cybersecurity. She is experienced in the operational as well as the strategic side of this complex field.
In 2014 she was appointed Secretary to the Netherlands Cyber Security Council (CSR). The Cyber Security Council has 18 high level members from government, industry, and the scientific community. The CSR offers both solicited and unsolicited advice to the Cabinet. The Council also facilitates public-private dialogue on the complex matter of cybersecurity.
From 2008-2014, she was head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its predecessor GOVCERT.NL. During this period she focused on strengthening existing (inter)national joint ventures within the community. The NCSC is formed as a public- private partnership. Building a strong public private partnership had her special attention. Added to her achievements were building a sturdy foundation of trust with all stakeholders. She was responsible for the operational coordination of large incidents (including DIGINOTAR) in the critical infrastructure.
She is an active and respected member of the cybersecurity community as Advisor
Cybersecurity World Economic Forum WEF (2018-present), Chair woman of the advisory board of the International Cybersecurity Forum FIC (2018-present), Member Supervisory Board of the Healthcare CERT (Z-Cert) (2017-present) and Initiator of the Cyber Security Summer School (NCS3) and Women in Cyber Security (WICS) International Network for women working in the field of cyber security and cyber crime (2012). She has published various publications on cybersecurity.
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
Mihaela Cristescu
WiFi & Analytics Product Manager, Orange Romania
With 15 years of experience in telecoms, Mihaela dedicated her last 5 years to develop IoT & Big Data solutions as drivers for digital transformation. Today she helps companies enhance their applications by converting big data into business intelligence and decision making enablers.
Mircea Modran
Cio Council Member
MMr. Mircea-Toma Modran has an extensive 30+ year managerial experience covering information technology, corporate strategy, restructuring, business continuity, risk management, business process re-design and implementation, operational improvements. From system engineer all the way to Executive Board Director and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, his skills were appreciated and called for by well-known national and international corporations from technology (IBM, Digital, Hewlett Packard, Nortel), chemical (BASF), oil & gas (Petrom, OMV), energy (Transelectrica) and aerospace (Romaero, IAR) business.
Mr. Mircea-Toma Modran earned an Electrical Engineering degree (M.Eng.) from University of Craiova, Faculty of Electrotechnics, Automation & Computers, major in Computers ; he also holds a Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) from Toronto York University, Schulich School of Business, major in Corporate Strategy, International Business and Management Information Systems . He has attended various post-graduated executive programs at Hult Ashridge Business School and University of Edinburgh (UK) and Humber College and Niagara-on-the-Lake Institute (Canada).
Mr. Modran is member of the:
• CIO Council - Romania,
• AAI (Independent Directors Association) - Romania,
• ANSSI (the National Association for Information Systems Security) - Romania,
• BCI (Business Continuity Institute) - UK
• PEO (Professional Engineers of Ontario) - Canada
• 6Sigma Institute / USA.
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.
Horia Constantinescu
Datacenter Sales Executive CEE, Dell
Horia is working in the IT industry since 2000, having technical and sales responsibilities for technologies like storage infrastructure, data protection, data mobility, data center architectures across EMEA. His present role covers CEE region for the modern storage technologies and transformations in the data centers and in the way data is made available for digital use.
Martin Vaross
Partner, Consulting, Mazars
Martin is Partner in Mazars responsible for consulting services and at the same time leading the global Mazars Robotics Centre.
He has more than 19 years of professional experience, including more than 15 years in consulting. Prior to joining Mazars, he has worked for Deloitte, Accenture and Tatra banka.
He specializes in projects to improve efficiency and performance, process management, innovation and digital agenda, system integration and risk management. He has led several complex projects for major Central European companies.
He has been recently focusing on building Robotic Process Automation capabilities at Mazars, setting up an RPA competence centre in Bratislava, in cooperation with the Mazars’ head office in Paris. He works with global network of professionals, developing process optimization and automation capabilities across the firm.
Dr. John McCarthy
BCS Elite
John McCarthy is a renowned authority on cybersecurity strategy, development and implementation. He holds a PhD in Cybersecurity and eBusiness Development and is an internationally recognized author of a number of papers discussing all aspects of cybersecurity in the modern world.
John is frequently invited to sit on expert panels and appear as a speaker at well-known cybersecurity events. John is also a leading expert on social engineering awareness training and best practice.
Roxana Ionescu
Partner, Head of Data Protection practice, NNDKP
Roxana Ionescu is a highly versed lawyer with over 14 years of professional experience in privacy matters and one of the most reputed Romanian specialists in this field.
She coordinates and contributes to the assistance provided to domestic and international companies and entrepreneurs on complex privacy matters related to clients' core-businesses, marketing or employment data protection specific activities, cyber-security requirements, classified information regime, cloud computing, database sharing and data protection implications of business transfers, projects and mergers, both national and cross-border.
Roxana is closely connected to EU data protection developments and is a regular speaker and participant at national and international conferences in the field. She also contributes to relevant papers in the area of data protection and privacy.
She was included in the Who’s Who Legal, Data Protection 2018 Guide, being the only Romanian Lawyer recommended for Data Privacy & Protection in Romania.
Lucian Butnaru
General Manager, Cegeka Romania
While in his junior year at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Lucian founded Akela Informatique in May 1998 as a software development. The business took off and made its first million dollars in revenues in 2000, employing over 70 engineers. With Lucian’s strong vision and accurate execution behind it, Akela went on to further expand as a premier outsourced developer of software. In 2005 Lucian sold all of Akela’s shares to TechTeam Global (NASDAQ: TEAM), a US mid-sized IT service organization, while remaining at the helm as General Manager for another 6 years until the company reached over 1,000 employees.
Lucian is the co-founder and chairman of Selfpay, a leading company processing instant payments through self-service kiosks. Through it's proprietary technology it enables multi-vendor payments on any type of self-service device and it is already installed on almost 4,000 payment stations in Central and Eastern Europe, becoming the best software solution in its class while becoming the fastest growth Romanian company in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (2015).
Lucian continues to pursue other business ventures in the technology space and real-estate, as investor and/or board advisor.
Starting 2013, he serves as General Manager of Cegeka Romania, leading an entrepreneurial IT service business on an accelerated growth path.
Lucian is an active member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and co-founder of the Romanian Business Leaders Association (RBL).
Razvan Atim
Head of Sales Eastern Europe, UiPath
Razvan is one the veterans at UiPath, having been here since 2007, a time when the company had only 10 employees.
He plays an active role and features as a key participant in growing the business, both on the partnering and the client side. His motto is: “Making sure that you deliver successful business and reliable technology to the customers, that will ensure you own and your company success.”
Aurel Netin
Country Manager, Lenovo Romania
Aurel Netin has experienced the technologic growth in the past 20 years from all angles: employee, entrepreneur, top management in public sector and private sector. Since 2006, he has been leading Lenovo operations in Romania and his name became widely recognized for leading Lenovo to the top of the market. Due to strategic support focused on operational performance, customer experience and key partnerships, Lenovo succeeded in maintaining the leadership position on the local market over these years. Passionate about innovation and future technologies, Aurel Netin offers strategic support to Lenovo’s business based on what’s the best value for the future.
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.
Gabriel Ciucu
Managing Director, ALEF
Gabriel Ciucu is Managing Director of ALEF Distribution Ro, the subsidiary of the ALEF Group which is present in more than seven countries in Europe.
His experience in leadership position in IT&C Romanian market is over 20 years.
His belief is that investing in trainings for society it’s a strategic way of developing new area in business using the best trained people. About ALEF, Gabriel Ciucu said: “We've invested a lot in our training facilities and are happy to see a growing need for education”.
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.
Daniel Rusen
Director of Marketing and Operations, Microsoft Romania
Daniel Rusen is the Director of Marketing and Operations for Microsoft Romania. In this role, Daniel is leading the Marketing & Operations team in its endeavors to drive digital transformation growth across all segments on the Romanian market, focusing on execution excellence with the scale mindset. He joined Microsoft Romania in 2011 and has more than 17 years’ business experience in telecommunications and IT industries.
Bogdan Bandila
Cio Council Member
Călin Rangu
Director of Business Conduct and Intermediaries Supervision, Romanian Financial Supervision Authority (FSA)
Călin is acting as Director of Business Conduct and Intermediaries Supervision in Romanian Financial Supervision Authority (FSA), previously Director of Consumer Protection Directorate. He is President of the Institute of Financial Studies, Vice-president of EIOPA InsurTech Task Force, President of FSA Shareholder Group in Consumer Protection. He has a broad experience in management, banking, operational risks, consumer experience, IT and financial services, products and technologies.
Călin is double licensed in economics and engineering, PhD in neural networks applied in financial series processing, MBA graduate in banking and finance, University Lector, MBA Lector. He acted over 13 years as director in National Bank of Romania and Raiffeisen Bank, and general director of Romanian subsidiary of Raiffeisen Informatik Austria Group. He is co-founder of CIO COUNCIL association.
He published over 150 articles, and two books, being organizer or speaker in major Romanian conferences related to insurance sector, consumer protection, alternative dispute resolution, financial and banking sectors, IT, cyber-fares, operational risk management, or management and processes.
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.
Cristian Herghelegiu
CEO, Dendrio & VP of Technology @Bittnet Group
With over 20 years of IT&C business experience, with focus on enterprise applications, software as a service and cloud based business models, Cristian started his career in early 2000’s, within Gecad Net. Between 2004 and 2008, he launched the business applications' division of Microsoft Romania (Microsoft Business Solutions).
Cristian has had a fruitful activity within leading business enterprises, and became highly involved in the entrepreneurial community by leading the local operations of Central Europe On-Demand (CEOD, presently known as Neostratus), an important player in the Software as a Service industry from Central Europe (2009 -2011).
Between 2011-2013 Cristian was the Country Manager of PayU Romania and the CEO of elefant.ro, playing an important role in the business development of both companies.
Between 2013 - 2017, Cristian was the CEO of Gecad Net and after the merger with Bittnet Group he became the CEO of Dendrio, the technology division of Bittnet Group that has the main focus on multi-cloud solutions.
Cristian is enjoying to build business connections and launching new companies.
Motto:
"The future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow" - Robert Kiyosaki
Corina-Stefania Nebela
Big Data and Cybersecurity Architect, Atos
Corina-Stefania Nebela is a Big Data and Cybersecurity Architect at Atos. She is also the Data Management domain leader for the Atos Prescriptive SOC project, responsible for the architecture, data engineering and enterprise data integration within the project.
Corina is a Google Cloud certified Professional Data Engineer and Java SE programmer certified. Before becoming an architect she has work as a developer and a big data engineer also handling cluster improvements and administration.
“What fascinates me is combining big data with machine learning and artificial intelligence, where computers do the analysis by themselves to find interesting patterns which can bring incredible value to any business.”
Alexandru Balan
Chief Security Researcher, Bitdefender
Alex "Jay" Balan works as Chief Security Researcher and his career is focused on Information Security, Innovation and Product Strategy, fields in which he ha so far accumulated over 15 years of experience. He drove the vision for Bitdefender’s UNIX-based security solutions before kickstarting an ambitious project that would advance the company’s R&D department and steer a good part of the company’s focus towards technology and innovation. Now, he furthers security and privacy research and has been actively involved in creating awareness in these fields by speaking at a number of conferences including RSA, DefCon, BSides, ISC China, Interpol's meetings on Cyber Crime for Heads of Units, DefCamp, IMWorld, Future of Media and many others.
REGISTRATION for CIO Council National Conference 2019
Participation fees:
CIO Council Romania members - Complimentary
100 euro ( + VAT) for End Users (IT professionals, IT managers, CIO, COO, CTO) - online payment here
200 euro (+ VAT) for IT Vendors and Consultants - online payment here For groups of 3 persons, or more, 15% discount will apply
Participating to this event you have the unique opportunity to become a CIO Council Romania member, if you will comply with membership requirements.
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