IT Days 2025

DAY 2	November 13^th 2025
08:30	Coffee & Registration
09:00	Education panel: #CreateNewWorlds Sergiu Nedevschi, Professor @ Technical University of Cluj Christian Sacarea, Vicerector @ Department of Computer Science, UBB Emil Petru, CEO @ BMW TechWorks Romania Lucian Burcu, Lead Software Engineer & Mobile Community Lead at RebelDot @ RebelDot Ovidiu Măţan, Founder @ Today Software Magazine	The Disappearing Handoff: Live-Coding a Unified Design-to-Dev Workflow Radu Chelariu Metro Digital
09:30
10:00	Coffee & Networking Break
	Programming & AI Conference hall Host: Maria Sîrbu	Practical Programming Studio room Host: Alice Frank	Research Europa room Host: Andreea Giurgiu	UI/UX Room 32 Host: Smaranda Ignat
10:30	Beyond LLMs: Feature-Driven Approaches to Sentiment Analysis and Recommendations Sergiu Limboi MHP - A Porsche Company	The Future of Street View Search is Here: Meet KartaVision Bogdan Gliga Grab	Environment Perception, Understanding, and Representation from an Aerial Perspective Sergiu Nedevschi UTCN	UX, Manipulation and Other Forms of Digital Witchcraft Anca Șofan BoatyardX
11:00	Everything You Wanted to Know About Anarchy (But Were Afraid to Ask) Andrew Harmel-Law ThoughtWorks	Beyond the Smartphone: Android in Cars Mihai Traistaru P3 Romania	Solar Bear project Mihai Oltean Cugirul Sustenabil	What If the Product Owner Was a River? Designing for Stakeholders We Can’t See Daniel Oros CodeCrafters by BT
11:30		Automation is not an option – it’s the new standard Eszter Endrődy & László Nagy Morgan Stanley	Multirobot search and optimization Bușoniu Lucian UTCN	Is UX/UI design in any way an art form? Radu Ghitulescu msg systems Romania
12:00	Coffee & Networking Break
	Business Conference hall	Programming Studio room	Programming Europa room	UI/UX Room 32
12:30	#CreateNewWorlds Business Panel George Călinescu, Chief Financial Officer @ Banca Transilvania Georgina Lupu-Florian, CEO & Founder @ Wolfpack Digital Radu Jinga, General Manager @ msg systems Romania Iustinian Șovrea, Romania Country Manager @ GlobalLogic Ovidiu Măţan, Founder @ Today Software Magazine	Data Access Layer: Standardization, Performance and Best Practices Claudiu Gombos Yardi Romania	Automating code audits with n8n Victor Motogna Wolfpack Digital	Building Apps for the World, Not just for the Screen Dan Ilieș FitSkin
13:00		Behind the Patent: What Really Happens from First Idea to Grant Cătălin Roman Frequentis		Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Digital Worlds where Everyone Belongs Cristian Vîrciu & Vica Cotoarbă Wolfpack Digital
13:30	Lunch Break
14:30	Brave new work Lena Thorsmæhlum, Senior UX Designer/ Lead human @ Gervi Labs Thordur Arnason, Lead Human @ Gervi Labs
15:00
15:30	Coffee & Networking Break
	Management & coding Conference hall	Programming & Sounds Studio room	Business Today Europa room	UI/UX Room 32
15:45	Communities - The Strength of Many in a World of Intelligent Machines Ioana Marchiș Betfair Romania Development	The Sonic Architecture of Games Sergiu Rusu Ubisoft	From Microenterprise Income Tax to Profit Tax: Expenses That Reduce Tax, Not Just Accounting Profit Adrian Besleagă A&I Consulting	UI/UX Panel #CreateNewWorlds Anca Șofan, Lead Product/UX Design @ BoatyardX Daniel Oros, UI/UX Designer @ CodeCrafters by BT Radu Ghitulescu, Senior UX Designer @ msg systems Romania Anamaria Androne, Head of UX @ Codecrafters by BT Radu Chelariu, Design System Manager @ METRO.digital
16:15	Improve teams productivity by fixing the tech debt that truly slows you down Alexandru Sicoe Banca Transilvania	The Sonic Architecture of Games Sergiu Rusu Ubisoft	Drones and robots - startups in Romania Mircea Vădan clujstartups.com
16:45	Digital De-Weighting: Subtraction and Exaptation as the Real Engines of AI Innovation Radu Orghidan CoRAI Labs	"Meta-world creation" - Visual code authoring tool concept Adrian Roșian WhiteCity Code	Solution Architecture in the AI era Cătălin Gheorghiu EPAM	Designing Information for a Better User Experience Sonia Pavlenko Ascom Mobile Solutions
17:15	Refactoring made easy. Template Powered. AI Driven. Rareş-Valer Coantă CodeCrafters by BT	Enterprise examples of Agentic Automation Sergiu Wittenberger Wittenberger Industries	Platform Productisation in flow era. Adrian Șuteu Endava	The next steps in controlling computers with your mind Mihai Simedrea Symbiote BCI
17:45	Annual Today Software Magazine Awards Ovidiu Mățan Today Software Magazine & IT Days
18:00	Wine & Networking

DAY 1	November 12^th 2025
08:20	Coffee & Registration
08:45	Opening Remarks Ovidiu Mățan IT Days organiser
09:00	AI Boost – Journey Into Innovation Simona Motogna & Laura Diosan Computer Science, UBB	Innovation in the Romanian IT sector: What an upgrade to our value proposition may look like. Sebastian Văduvă Advanced Solutions
09:30
10:00	Coffee & Networking Break
	Products & Leadership Conference hall Host: Maria Sîrbu	Programming Studio room Host: Alice Frank	HR Europa room Host: Andreea Giurgiu	Security & IOT Room 32 Host: Smaranda Ignat
10:30	Leader as learner Serenella Fantetti Bosch	How to build a highly scalable Netflix-like recommendation engine Costin Bădici GlobalLogic	AI sau n-AI un job sigur pe termen lung? Ce AI de făcut? Doru Șupeală Hacking Work	Fight Fire with Fire: Using AI for Security in the Age of AI Dragoș Cojocari Snykr
11:00	The Innovation Paradox: Scaling Initiative and Avoiding the Transactional Trap Iustinian Șovrea GlobalLogic	Spring Boot 4: What’s New, What’s Next Bianca Moga		When Tech Makes You Dumber: Protecting Your Cognitive Skills in the age of AI. Tudor Damian D3 Cyber
11:30	Engineering Management for Data in the Age of AI Oana Sentanai Betfair Romania Development	Faster, Leaner, Predictable: AI Microservices on Quarkus vs Spring Alexandru Diniș BMW TechWorks Romania	Humans vs AI: Lessons from the Bicentennial Man Andreea Pârvu Endava	Exploratory Robots for a New World – From Disasters to Discoveries Alexandru Luchiian Accenture
12:00	Coffee & Networking Break
	Software Architecture Conference hall	AI Studio room	HR panel Europa room	Cloud & AI Room 32
12:30	The High Cost of AI Mistakes Cornel Ștefanache AscentCore	The Living Map: An AI Ecosystem for Autonomous Mapping Adrian Margin Grab	HR Panel #CreateNewWorlds Andreea Misarăș, Marketing & Communication Manager @ msg systems Romania Andreea Pârvu, VP Growth and Development @ Endava Doru Șupeală, Managing Partner @ Hacking Work	Modernising in the Cloud: From Lift&Shift to AI-Native Radu Vunvulea Endava
13:00	Self-healing services Gabriel Ciuloaică AppFactor	AI-First Use Cases Adrian Bilescu CodeCrafters by BT		What is the “black box” called AI? Andreea Giurgiu Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
13:30	Lunch Break
14:30	Worse is better Mark Seemann
15:00	Worse is better Mark Seemann
15:30	Coffee & Networking Break
	Programming & AI Conference hall	Programming & AI Studio room	Agile Europa room	Human leadership Room 32
15:45	Programming & AI panel #CreateNewWorlds Mark Seemann, Programmer and Software Architect Lena Thorsmæhlum, Senior UX Designer/ Lead human @ Gervi Labs Thordur Arnason, Lead Human @ Gervi Labs Andrew Harmel-Law, Technical principal @ ThoughtWorks Răzvan Florian, President @ RIST Ovidiu Măţan, Founder @ Today Software Magazine	From Keywords to Innovation: Reshaping SEO for Product Growth Ramona Sângerean Betfair Development Romania	Scrum Master Uncovered – An Interactive Workshop Simona Bonghez Colors in Projects	Reflect to Rebuild: New Minds for New Words Ștefania Stănese Endava
16:15		LangChain4J — or Nay? Denisa Todoran msg systems Romania	Agile & AI - The Power of Building The Wrong Thing Fast Bogdan Mureșan Connatix	AI Killed the Product vs Outsourcing Debate. What Comes Next? Emanuel Martonca SoftFight
16:45	CreateNewWorlds: Bringing Real-World Excitement to Your Pocket Alex Cioflica Betfair Romania Development	Bridging Uncertainty: The Art of Deliberate Hybrid Design Gelu Vac MedicalPilot	Teaming Up with Tomorrow. Designing Your Future Teammates Anton Caia CodeCrafters by BT	We shape our buildings and our buildings shape us Smaranda Ignat
17:15	Hitting the Sweet Spots: A Journey Through the Evolution of Listing Platforms Bogdan Rus Yardi Romania	High-Performance Spring Persistence Vlad Mihalcea Hypersistence	Agile Panel: #CreateNewWorlds Simona Bonghez, CEO @ Colors in Projects Dan Suciu, Associate Professor @ Computer Science, UBB Bogdan Mureșan, VP of Technology @ Connatix Anton Caia, AI Ambassador & Java Expert @ CodeCrafters by BT	AIuman Nóra Dobre Genpact Ro
17:45	Wine & Networking