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What is Peak IT Conference?

It’s an Amazing Conference for the IT Community

“Peak IT” is the only large IT event in Brasov organized by the community for the community. This big event is the next natural step in the evolution of AgileHub Association and the entire expertise of our volunteers is brought to organize and create quality content for you.
Here you will find two full days of presentations and workshops on hot and relevant topics for both experienced and beginners, in the IT field.
Join our community and be part of the movement that contributes to the revitalization of IT and education in the central part of Romania.

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Schedule

Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
8:00-9:00
Registration, networking
9:00-9:15
Official Opening of Peak IT
Amfitheater
9:15-9:45
Open Source Community - Lessons learned in building Code for Romania, the second-largest tech community in the world
Radu Stefanescu – Code for Romania
Amfitheater - No registration needed
9:45-10:15
Artificial Intelligence – transforming data into knowledge
Lucian Itu – Siemens
Amfitheater - No registration needed
10:15-10:30
Day Agenda
Amfitheater
10:30-10:45
Break – going to workshop rooms
10:45-13:45
Morning Parallel Workshops:
Applying Design Thinking on a social challenge
Cosmin Maxim
Room 1
Start your way into Web Programming (Javascript and Ajax)
Florin Asavei
Room 2
The magic of Async/Await in .NET
Doru Foaltin
Room 3
What does DevOps want from me?
Cristi Obreja
Room 4
Instant REST APIs with NestJS
Gabriel Lupu
Room 5
Introduction of IoT (Internet of Things) and Cloud
Alexandru Candea
Room 6
HackDay #1 – Code for Brașov (morning)
Code for Romania
Room 7
13:45-14:30
LUNCH BREAK & Virtual Booth Activities
14:30-17:30
After-noon Parallel Workshops
Insight into Product Management
Sebastian Maraloiu
Room 1
Introduction to React
Ionuț Morar
Room 2
How most vulnerabilities are handled in ASP.NET Core
Andrei Rînea
Room 3
How to find your way in the Cloud
Alen Smailović
Room 4
Build your first enterprise-ready bot
Andrei Smitko & Mircea Iordache
Room 5
Best coding practices with C#
Nadia Comănici
Room 6
HackDay #1 – Code for Brașov (afternoon)
Code for Romania
Room 7
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
8:00-8:45
Registration, networking
8:45-9:00
Day Opening
Amfitheater
9:00-9:30
How to (not) do your job
Andrei Draghia, Paul Negoescu – IQuest
Amfitheater - No registration needed
9:30-10:00
Servless functions, a cloud solution
Silviu Dumitrescu – Atos
Amfitheater - No registration needed
10:00-10:30
Surprise Raffle (give away) and closing
Amfitheater
10:30-10:45
Break – going to workshop rooms
10:45-13:45
Morning Parallel Workshops:
Are you listening to me? I hear you!
Andreea-Ruxandra Péter
Room 1
Insights of Angular
Wili Grosz
Room 2
Secrets of Go(lang) language
Marius Axinte
Room 3
What does a tester do in an agile team?
Casian Stupari, Roxana Cosconea
Room 4
Insights into Relational Database Queries
Mihaly Torok
Room 5
S.O.L.I.D principles
Sebastian Ichim
Room 6
freeCodeCamp Brasov Cofee&Code
freeCodeCamp
Room 7
13:45-14:30
LUNCH BREAK & Virtual Booth Activities
14:30-17:30
After-noon Parallel Workshops
How Emotional Intelligence helps in decision making for effective leadership
Camelia Codarcea
Room 1
First steps into Mobile Dev with React Native
Cătălin Cioloca
Room 2
Microservices
Igor Jigan
Room 3
Automation testing: the stages and their evolution
Casian Stupari
Room 4
Secrets of the Rust programming language
Adrian Pascu
Room 5
Design Patterns
Nadia Comănici
Room 6
freeCodeCamp Brasov Cofee&Code
freeCodeCamp
Room 7
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
9:30-10:00
Opening & Announcements
10:00-10:55
Scaling Culture In Times Of Uncertainty
Marius Istrate
Open for all
11:00-11:55
Cybersecurity in the era of Cloud computing and Remote work
Ovidiu Cical
Open for all
12:00-13:00
Presentations
The state of testing right now and the traps we often fall in
Marius Francu – Siemens
Open for all
New perspective: How about actually benefit of your digital identity? Welcome to a new era of Generative Identity
Andrei Dumbrava – Atos
Open for all
Overview of database technologies
Joe Mastroianni – Trimble
Open for all
Use Docker Compose when running integration tests with Azure Pipelines
Bogdan Marian – Nagarro
Open for all
13:00-14:00
Networking Lunch
14:00-17:00
After-noon Parallel Workshops
The modern .NET - SPAs in the dotnet core ecosystem
Marian Filipovici
Registration needed
Development of SQL Server Databases in Visual Studio
Mihály Török
Registration needed
Java Up-to-Date: new features in versions 9-14
Vlad Cârcu – Dobrin
Registration needed
Take decision faster. The perfect method to get your team from blockers to actionable items in 1 hour
Cosmin Maxim
Registration needed
Deployment for Cloud Native Applications with GitOps
Liviu Costea
Registration needed
Turning OpenAPI Spec into UI forms and services
Gabriel Lupu
Registration needed
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
9:00-9:15
Opening
9:15-10:10
DevOps on AWS
Victor Holban
Open for all
10:15-10:25
Ideas - Raffle
10:30-13:30
Morning Parallel Workshops
Microservices Architectural Design Patterns
Igor Jigan
Registration needed
How to make an OnPremise Kubernets Cloud
Cristian Obreja
Registration needed
Software architecture of modern applications
Sebastian Ichim
Registration needed
Positioning your startup
Cristi Hurhui
Registration needed
Parallel testing using Selenium Grid and containers
Roxana Cosconea, Casian Stupari
Registration needed
ReactJS & MobX(advanced)
Ionuț Morar
Registration needed
Understanding Node.js
Wilhelm Grosz
Registration needed
13:30-14:30
Networking Lunch
14:30-17:30
After-noon Parallel Workshops
Let’s build a RESTful Web API in .Net Core
Florin Asavei
Registration needed
Deploying to multiple clouds with one tool – Terraform
Radu Neda
Registration needed
Real-time User Experiences with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView
Dănuț Chindriș
Registration needed
How to facilitate online meetings to get the best out of them
Andreea-Ruxandra Péter
Registration needed
Introduction to Azure using PAAS solutions for programmers
Doru Foaltin
Registration needed
Exploring React custom hooks
Paul Negoescu
Registration needed
Best Coding Practices in C#
Nadia Comanici
Registration needed
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
13:00 - 13:40
Opening
Marian Andrei
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
13:45 - 14:40
Unlock Refactoring and Level Up Your Game 
Victor Rentea
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
14:45 - 15:40
How can we use AWS lambda and Tensorflow to serve deep learning models
Alexey Grigorev
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
15:45 - 16:40
From bare-metal programming to Embedded Linux in IoT
Mihai Scutaru – Siemens
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
16:50 - 17:45
Transforming Banking with AI
Alin Nedelcu – Raiffeisen
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
17:50 - 18:45
Why Cybersecurity starts with Identity and what are the key considerations?
Silviu Dumitrescu – Atos
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
18:50 - 19:45
The Test Design Starting Line: Hypotheses
James Bach
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
9:00 - 9:25
Opening
Marian Andrei
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
9:30 - 10:25
Moving to the Public Cloud - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Tudor Damian
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
10:30 - 12:30
Morning Parallel Workshops:
Programming principle and best practices for test automation
Andreea Draniceanu
Registration needed
Reusable Dialog Component in React
Paul Negoescu
Registration needed
The modern .NET – Real time web apps with Blazor and SignalR
Marian Filipovici
Registration needed
Should I quit or Should I not
Andreea-Ruxandra Péter
Registration needed
Minimum Secure SDLC
Ovidiu Cical
Registration needed
From Student to a UX Design career
Cosmin Maxim
Registration needed
Functional programming with Python
Andrei Gasparovici
Registration needed
Programming Reactive Streams in Java
Dănuț Chindriș
Registration needed
Deep dive into containers
Liviu Costea
Registration needed
MongoDB Database Design Patterns
Mihály Török
Registration needed
Micro:Bit a small computer for kids
Nicolae Gabriel
Google Forms Registration needed
12:30 - 13:55
Parallel Sponsor Booth Activities
LUNCH BREAK & Virtual Booth Activities
Testing Methodologies Suitable for Embedded Products Verification
Dan Puiu, Dănuţ Tăzlăoanu & Botond Harai – Siemens
Check the links in the details page.
DAP Digital Accelerator Platform – an open source platform
Eugen Rosenfeld – Nagarro
Check the links in the details page.
Building Deep learning models for decodifying CAPTCHA and performing Style Transfer
Teodor Chiroiu & Ovidiu Necula – Raiffeisen
Check the links in the details page.
14:00 - 16:00
After-noon Parallel Workshops
Test Automation Frameworks – 5th Gen Rise of AI
Casian Stupari
Registration needed
Reusable Dialog Component in Angular
Wilhelm Grosz
Registration needed
Microservice Patterns and Best Practices
Igor Jigan
Registration needed
The art of asking questions - The art of asking questions – debugging everyday communication
Nadia Comanici
Registration needed
Digital Identity in the Modern World
Alex Petrescu
Registration needed
Hexagonal architecture
Vlad Cârcu – Dobrin
Registration needed
Modern 3D computer graphics with Vulkan in C++
Sebastian Ichim
Registration needed
Security best practices for moving an organization in a cloud infrastructure
Andrei Dumbrava
Registration needed
16:00 - 16:55
Engineering platforms in the cloud
John Miles – Trimble
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
17:00 - 17:55
Mobile Architect – overstated or accurate role?
Alexandra Iacob – Nagarro
Main Stage - The link will be available soon
18:00 - 18:55
Building an Audience that Serves Your Career Goals
Nick deWilde
Main Stage - The link will be available soon
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
14:30 - 15:00
Opening
Iulia Nagy
15:00 - 16:00
CEO vs Entrepreneur in IT
Andrei Danila
16:00 - 16:45
Impact of technology at the local community’s level
Laura Popeea – Fundatia Comunitara
16:00 - 17:00
Parallel presentations
Place your bets! How we run security for the whole Superbet group and still have time to play Stray
Alex “Jay” Balan
Paving the way to AI readiness: Crash course for AI Product Owners
Alin Nedelcu – Raiffeisen
How companies are developing secure applications on Azure
Radu Vunvulea
The Future of Management in a Hybrid World
Peter Leeson
How to catch the bad guys using sentinel
Dorin Barboiu
16:45 - 17:30
Ciugud Smart Village – how can we help villages in Romania to have digital public services
Dan Lungu
17:00 - 18:00
Parallel presentations
IAM wih Blockchain
Elena Dumitrascu
Panel Discussion: Future AI Trends
David Eschwé Cosmin Cojocaru Alin Nedelcu – Raiffeisen
From data mess to Data Mesh: a practical application
Will Thomas & Ryan Singleton – Trimble
What OKRs have to do with resiliency?
Luiz Quintela
UX Design Process – Mental Modelling Guidelines, In Depth Exploration and How To Tips
Ioana Cheteles – Pavel – Oracle Cerner
17:30 - 18:30
Tech in Community Development
Laura Popeea – Fundatia Comunitara Radu Lepadatu Dan Lungu
18:00 - 19:00
Parallel presentations
Using Artificial Intelligence to Disrupt Automated Threat Analysis
Liviu Arsene & Marian Radu
Be Your Own DevOps
Bogdan Socaciu- Nagarro
Agility in crisis
Cornel Fatulescu
19:00 - 20:00
Context-Switching for Testers
James Bach
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
14:30 - 15:00
Opening
Iulia Nagy
15:00 - 16:00
Dates and times: Hard, but not impossible
Jon Skeet
16:00 - 16:30
Our startup’s resilient journey: A tale with ups and downs
Ovidiu Cical – Cyscale
16:00 - 17:00
Parallel presentations
Technical Debt. A guide for developers and IT managers
Laurenţiu Spilca
Quirks from the Cloud
Andrei Stefanie
The Lifecycle of AI Projects in the Enterprise
Vlad Zamfirescu
The Lifecycle of AI Projects in the Enterprise
Ionut Bardasu
16:30 - 17:00
From nothing to something and then to maturity
Valeriu Filip
17:00 - 17:30
Data-Driven Decisions and Product
Corina Stirbu
17:00 - 18:00
Parallel presentations
Hi there, are you still imposter?
Igor Jigan – Cegeka
Spring Cloud Gateway: Resilience, Security and Observability
Thomas Vitale
How to not get crazy with integration challenges
Mihai Rus – Coera
Panel Discussion - AI in the Wild
Ionut Bardasu Vlad Zamfirescu
17:30 - 18:30
Panel Discussion
Valeriu Filip Corina Stirbu Ovidiu Cical – Cyscale
18:00 - 19:00
Parallel presentations
Going minimal in .NET, are we there yet?
Bogdan Bujdea
Sensible JVM Configuration
Kirk Pepperdine
Raiffeisen Smart Market – Future Banking and Event Driven Architecture
Claudiu Gura – Raiffeisen
Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis
Lucian Itu – Siemens
19:00 - 20:00
Strategy for modernizing older applications
Michael Coté
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Day2 – Presentations
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
Click on one of the workshops below
8:45 - 9:00
Opening
9:00 - 13:00
Morning Parallel Workshops
Start effective testing
Ioana Barhan & Elena Pirtica
How much it costs to make $1M
Andrei Danila
Introduction to Agile & Scrum
Lavinia Bodriug
Scientific computing
Andrei Gasparovici
How to tackle your dinosaur? Quick recipe to migrate from .NET Framework to .NET 6
Igor Jigan
Introduction to Digital Identity
Alex Petrescu
Service mesh for mere mortals
Liviu Costea
13:00 - 13:30
Break
13:30 - 17:30
After-noon Parallel Workshops
Introduction to SQL for testing
Mihaela Draniceanu
The LEARNING state of mind: how do we, as adults, learn?
Andreea Moldovan
Zombie Scrum
Andreea-Ruxandra Péter
Introduction to Digital Identity
Alex Petrescu
Kubernetes Cluster
Cristian Obreja
Click on one of the workshops above
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
Entire Day Workshop - Limited availability: 30 seats
Kirk Pepperdine
09:00 - 09:30
Welcome coffee
09:30 - 13:00
Java Performance Tuning using Performance Diagnostic Methodology - Workshop - Part 1
Kirk Pepperdine
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 17:30
Java Performance Tuning using Performance Diagnostic Methodology - Workshop - Part 2
Kirk Pepperdine
17:30 - 17:45
Closing Day
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
08:30 – 09:00
Welcome participants & networking
09:00 – 09:15
Opening
09:15 – 10:00
Keynote: What's your added value today
Erdal Erol I.
10:00 – 10:45
Keynote: A Software Engineer at the time of AI
Dino Esposito
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break, networking
11:15 – 12:00
Parallel sessions
There is light at the end of the tunnel
Andrei Danila
Memory Efficient Java
Kirk Pepperdine
How to achieve Flow in large scale software engineering organizations
Steve Tendon
The Dark Side of DIY
Casian Stupari
12:00 – 12:45
Parallel sessions
How to create a good product strategy – flywheels vs funnels | a framework
Corina Stirbu
Maximizing Security with JDK: Understanding Built-in Capabilities
Laurenţiu Spilcă
Ethical Considerations in Technology Leadership: Navigating Moral Boundaries while Staying Aligned with Business Objectives
Vasile Putină
12:45 – 13:30
Cross-Platform User Experience Architecture
Claudiu Gura
Navigating the Gen AI Jungle: A Quick Guide to accelerate enterprise adoption
Silviu Niculita
12:00 – 13:30
Mobile Automation with Robot Framework and Appium Presentation - Live coding
Liviu Avram
12:45 - 15:00
Product Showcase
Team PlateMate
13:30 – 14:30
Lunch break, networking
14:30 – 15:15
Parallel sessions
Cutting Software Into Slices
Dan Patrascu-Baba
AI Powered Apps: A Practical Blueprint for Integration
Vlad Vedinas
Where Is C# 12 Heading (and Why, Exactly)?
Zoran Horvat
What operating system is your mind running on?
Nadia Comanici
15:15 – 16:00 
Parallel sessions
Effective Transactions Management with Spring
Cătălin Tudose
The Future of Public Administration: Decentralization through Blockchain
Alexandru Panait
Cloud (re)patriation and Hybrid Cloud
Radu Vunvulea
15:00 - 16:15
Product Showcase
Some Text ( bla bla ) Team GoGroceries
16:00 – 16:45 
Parallel sessions
Bringing DAST tools to the command-line, DevOps pipelines, and more
Iulian Birlica & Razvan Pricop
Gen AI in BCR
Dan Cristea
Navigating Together: Coaching and Leadership in the Age of Technology
ICF Coaches
15:15 - 16:45
Gradinita de manageri
Andrei Danila
Career insights check point: personalized feedback and more
Andreea Moldovan & Diana Chitigoii
16:45 – 17:00 
Networking
17:00 – 17:45 
Romania IT Landscape in the AI Era
Panel AI
17:45 – 18:00 
Closing Day
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
08:30 – 09:00
Welcome participants & networking
09:00 – 09:15
Opening
09:15 – 10:00
Keynote: Shifting perspectives in an ever-changing environment
Petruș Stuparu
10:00 – 10:45
Debunking LLMs
Adrian Moldovan
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break, networking
11:15 – 12:00
Parallel sessions
The Bank - Entrepreneur - Accountant universe is the business universe.
Valeriu Filip
Accelerating Innovation: The Fusion of AI, RAD, and Cloud in Modern Application Development
Cristian China-Birta
Cybersecurity: Closing the loop
Panel Cybersecurity
Roslyn Source Code Generators with examples
Ignat Andrei
11:15 - 12:45
Speedcoaching
ICF Coaches
12:00 - 12:45
Elevating Chatbots: Enhancing Conversations with Internal Knowledge Bases
Silviu Niculita
12:45 - 13:30
Clean Code for Frontend AIs Engineers
Paul Negoescu
12:00 – 13:30
Startup – truth or dare
Panel Startup
.NET and Cloud Development 2024 Trends
Panel Microsoft
Panel theme: What will be the effect of using AI for Java development?
Panel Java
13:30 – 14:30
Lunch break, networking
13:30 - 15:15
Product Showcase
Team KULTH
14:30 – 15:15
Parallel sessions
How can one become tech entrepreneur - through the lens of Innovation Labs
Panel Innovation
Implementing Clean Architecture
Florin Coroș
Network segmentation in a Zero-Trust world
Radu Niculita
Why is a job in UX Design the best? And what path should you follow to get one fast?
Cosmin Maxim
15:15 – 16:00
Parallel sessions
So you want to create your own startup
Kirk Pepperdine
The Path to Inclusive Digital Products
Cristian Hurhui
16:00 - 16:45
Working at a Startup and How It Compares to a Corporation
Andrei Stefanie
15:15 – 16:45
Panel architecture
Some Text ( bla bla ) Panel Architecture
Panel Digitization
Panel Digitization
16:45 – 17:00
Networking
17:00 – 17:45
Decoding the Future: The Romanian IT landscape
Ioan Posa
17:45 – 18:15
Closing
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
08:30 - 09:00
Welcome & Networking
09:00 - 09:15
Opening
09:15 - 10:00
Keynote Speaker
10:00 - 10:45
Keynote Speaker
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee break & networking
11:15 - 12:00
Parallel presentations & Panels
Cybersecurity Presentation
AI Presentation
Java Presentation
Coaching Presentation
12:00 - 12:05
Networking
12:05 - 12:50
Parallel Presentations & Panels
Cybersecurity Presentation
AI Presentation
Java Presentation
Gaming Presentation
12:50 - 12:55
Networking
12:55 - 13:40
Parallel Presentations & Panels
Cybersecurity Presentation
AI Presentation
Java Presentation
Gaming Presentation
13:40 - 14:40
Lunch & Networking
14:40 - 15:25
Parallel presentations & Networking
Cybersecurity Presentation
AI Presentation
Cloud Presentation
Gaming Presentation
15:25 - 15:30
Networking
15:30 - 16:25
Parallel Presentations & Panels
Cybersecurity Presentation
AI Presentation
Cloud Presentation
Gaming Presentation
16:25 - 16:30
Networking
16:30 - 17:25
Parallel Presentations & Panels
Cybersecurity Presentation
AI Presentation
Panel Startup
Panel Gaming
17:25 - 17:35
Closing Day1
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
08:30 - 09:00
Welcome & Networking
09:00 - 09:15
Opening
09:15 - 10:00
Keynote
10:00 - 10:45
Keynote
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee break & Networking
11:15 - 12:00
Parallel presentations & Panels
Research Presentation
AI Presentation
Startup Presentation
12:00 - 12:05
Networking
12:05 - 12:50
Parallel presentations & Panels
Research Presentation
AI&Data Presentation
Product Development Presentation
Design Presentation
12:50 - 12:55
Networking
12:55 - 13:40
Parallel presentations & Panels
Soft skills Presentation
AI Panel
AI Presentation
UX Presentation
13:40 - 14:40
Lunch & Networking
14:40 - 15:25
Parallel Presentations & Panels
Java Presentation
Cybersecurity Presentations
Startup Panel
UX Panel
15:25 - 15:30
Networking
15:30 - 16:25
Parallel presentations & Panels
Java Panel
Cybersecurity Presentation
Startup Panel
16:25 - 16:30
Networking
16:30 - 17:25
Parallel Presentations & Panels
Architecture Presentation
Cybersecurity Panel
17:25 - 17:35
Closing Day2

Keynote speakers

Marius Istrate

Growth Adviser & Business Angel

Ovidiu Cical

Founder, Cloud Security Architect

Victor Holban

AWS Solution Architect / DevOps Engineer

Awesome trainers

Amazing People

Andreea-Ruxandra Péter

Scrum Master

Cosmin Maxim

User Experience Lead & Design Sprints trainer

Cristi Hurhui

Product Designer

Cristian Obreja

Software Developer

Dănuț Chindriș

Senior Software Engineer