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During Day 1 - 3rd of November & Day 2 - 4th of November you can join multiple interesting presentations.

Day 3 - 5th of November is dedicated to practical workshops.

You can have a look at our Schedule below or download the agenda as PDF.

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Schedule

Welcome to PeakIT005! Feel free to explore - click on any speaker to discover and register for the presentations or workshops!

Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
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
Amfitheater - No registration needed
9:45-10:15
Artificial Intelligence – transforming data into knowledge
Amfitheater - No registration needed
10:15-10:30
Day Agenda
Amfitheater
Applying Design Thinking on a social challenge
Room 1
Start your way into Web Programming (Javascript and Ajax)
Room 2
The magic of Async/Await in .NET
Room 3
What does DevOps want from me?
Room 4
Instant REST APIs with NestJS
Room 5
Introduction of IoT (Internet of Things) and Cloud
Room 6
HackDay #1 – Code for Brașov (morning)
Room 7
Insight into Product Management
Room 1
Introduction to React
Room 2
How most vulnerabilities are handled in ASP.NET Core
Room 3
How to find your way in the Cloud
Room 4
Build your first enterprise-ready bot
Room 5
Best coding practices with C#
Room 6
HackDay #1 – Code for Brașov (afternoon)
Room 7
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
8:45-9:00
Day Opening
Amfitheater
9:00-9:30
How to (not) do your job
Amfitheater - No registration needed
9:30-10:00
Servless functions, a cloud solution
Amfitheater - No registration needed
10:00-10:30
Surprise Raffle (give away) and closing
Amfitheater
Are you listening to me? I hear you!
Room 1
Insights of Angular
Room 2
Secrets of Go(lang) language
Room 3
What does a tester do in an agile team?
Room 4
Insights into Relational Database Queries
Room 5
S.O.L.I.D principles
Room 6
freeCodeCamp Brasov Cofee&Code
Room 7
How Emotional Intelligence helps in decision making for effective leadership
Room 1
First steps into Mobile Dev with React Native
Room 2
Microservices
Room 3
Automation testing: the stages and their evolution
Room 4
Secrets of the Rust programming language
Room 5
Design Patterns
Room 6
freeCodeCamp Brasov Cofee&Code
Room 7
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
9:30-10:00
Opening & Announcements
10:00-10:55
Scaling Culture In Times Of Uncertainty
Open for all
11:00-11:55
Cybersecurity in the era of Cloud computing and Remote work
Open for all
12:00-13:00
Presentations
The state of testing right now and the traps we often fall in
Open for all
New perspective: How about actually benefit of your digital identity? Welcome to a new era of Generative Identity
Open for all
Overview of database technologies
Open for all
Use Docker Compose when running integration tests with Azure Pipelines
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
Registration needed
Development of SQL Server Databases in Visual Studio
Registration needed
Java Up-to-Date: new features in versions 9-14
Registration needed
Take decision faster. The perfect method to get your team from blockers to actionable items in 1 hour
Registration needed
Deployment for Cloud Native Applications with GitOps
Registration needed
Turning OpenAPI Spec into UI forms and services
Registration needed
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
9:00-9:15
Opening
9:15-10:10
DevOps on AWS
Open for all
10:15-10:25
Ideas - Raffle
10:30-13:30
Morning Parallel Workshops
Microservices Architectural Design Patterns
Registration needed
How to make an OnPremise Kubernets Cloud
Registration needed
Software architecture of modern applications
Registration needed
Positioning your startup
Registration needed
Parallel testing using Selenium Grid and containers
Registration needed
ReactJS & MobX(advanced)
Registration needed
Understanding Node.js
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
Registration needed
Deploying to multiple clouds with one tool – Terraform
Registration needed
Real-time User Experiences with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView
Registration needed
How to facilitate online meetings to get the best out of them
Registration needed
Introduction to Azure using PAAS solutions for programmers
Registration needed
Exploring React custom hooks
Registration needed
Best Coding Practices in C#
Registration needed
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
13:00 - 13:40
Opening
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
13:45 - 14:40
Unlock Refactoring and Level Up Your Game 
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
14:45 - 15:40
How can we use AWS lambda and Tensorflow to serve deep learning models
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
15:45 - 16:40
From bare-metal programming to Embedded Linux in IoT
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
16:50 - 17:45
Transforming Banking with AI
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
17:50 - 18:45
Why Cybersecurity starts with Identity and what are the key considerations?
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
18:50 - 19:45
The Test Design Starting Line: Hypotheses
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
9:00 - 9:25
Opening
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
9:30 - 10:25
Moving to the Public Cloud - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
Programming principle and best practices for test automation
Registration needed
Reusable Dialog Component in React
Registration needed
The modern .NET – Real time web apps with Blazor and SignalR
Registration needed
Should I quit or Should I not
Registration needed
Minimum Secure SDLC
Registration needed
From Student to a UX Design career
Registration needed
Functional programming with Python
Registration needed
Programming Reactive Streams in Java
Registration needed
Deep dive into containers
Registration needed
MongoDB Database Design Patterns
Registration needed
Micro:Bit a small computer for kids
Google Forms Registration needed
12:30 - 13:55
Parallel Sponsor Booth Activities
Testing Methodologies Suitable for Embedded Products Verification
Check the links in the details page.
DAP Digital Accelerator Platform – an open source platform
Check the links in the details page.
Building Deep learning models for decodifying CAPTCHA and performing Style Transfer
Check the links in the details page.
Test Automation Frameworks – 5th Gen Rise of AI
Registration needed
Reusable Dialog Component in Angular
Registration needed
Microservice Patterns and Best Practices
Registration needed
The art of asking questions - The art of asking questions – debugging everyday communication
Registration needed
Digital Identity in the Modern World
Registration needed
Hexagonal architecture
Registration needed
Modern 3D computer graphics with Vulkan in C++
Registration needed
Security best practices for moving an organization in a cloud infrastructure
Registration needed
16:00 - 16:55
Engineering platforms in the cloud
Main Stage - Link available in details page.
17:00 - 17:55
Mobile Architect – overstated or accurate role?
Main Stage - The link will be available soon
18:00 - 18:55
Building an Audience that Serves Your Career Goals
Main Stage - The link will be available soon
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
14:30 - 15:00
Opening
15:00 - 16:00
CEO vs Entrepreneur in IT
16:00 - 16:45
Impact of technology at the local community’s level
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
Paving the way to AI readiness: Crash course for AI Product Owners
How companies are developing secure applications on Azure
The Future of Management in a Hybrid World
How to catch the bad guys using sentinel
16:45 - 17:30
Ciugud Smart Village – how can we help villages in Romania to have digital public services
17:00 - 18:00
Parallel presentations
IAM wih Blockchain
From data mess to Data Mesh: a practical application
What OKRs have to do with resiliency?
UX Design Process – Mental Modelling Guidelines, In Depth Exploration and How To Tips
17:30 - 18:30
Tech in Community Development
18:00 - 19:00
Parallel presentations
Using Artificial Intelligence to Disrupt Automated Threat Analysis
Be Your Own DevOps
Agility in crisis
19:00 - 20:00
Context-Switching for Testers
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
14:30 - 15:00
Opening
15:00 - 16:00
Dates and times: Hard, but not impossible
16:00 - 16:30
Our startup’s resilient journey: A tale with ups and downs
16:00 - 17:00
Parallel presentations
Technical Debt. A guide for developers and IT managers
Quirks from the Cloud
The Lifecycle of AI Projects in the Enterprise
The Lifecycle of AI Projects in the Enterprise
16:30 - 17:00
From nothing to something and then to maturity
17:00 - 17:30
Data-Driven Decisions and Product
17:00 - 18:00
Parallel presentations
Hi there, are you still imposter?
Spring Cloud Gateway: Resilience, Security and Observability
How to not get crazy with integration challenges
Panel Discussion - AI in the Wild
18:00 - 19:00
Parallel presentations
Going minimal in .NET, are we there yet?
Sensible JVM Configuration
Raiffeisen Smart Market – Future Banking and Event Driven Architecture
Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis
19:00 - 20:00
Strategy for modernizing older applications
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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
How much it costs to make $1M
Introduction to Agile & Scrum
Scientific computing
How to tackle your dinosaur? Quick recipe to migrate from .NET Framework to .NET 6
Introduction to Digital Identity
Service mesh for mere mortals
13:00 - 13:30
Break
13:30 - 17:30
After-noon Parallel Workshops
Introduction to SQL for testing
The LEARNING state of mind: how do we, as adults, learn?
Introduction to Digital Identity
Kubernetes Cluster
Click on one of the workshops above
Time
Session
Speakers
Venue
Entire Day Workshop - Limited availability: 30 seats
09:00 - 09:30
Welcome coffee
09:30 - 13:00
Java Performance Tuning using Performance Diagnostic Methodology - Workshop - Part 1
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 17:30
Java Performance Tuning using Performance Diagnostic Methodology - Workshop - Part 2
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
10:00 – 10:45
Keynote: A Software Engineer at the time of AI
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break, networking
11:15 – 12:00
Parallel sessions
There is light at the end of the tunnel
Memory Efficient Java
How to achieve Flow in large scale software engineering organizations
The Dark Side of DIY
12:00 – 12:45
Parallel sessions
How to create a good product strategy – flywheels vs funnels | a framework
Maximizing Security with JDK: Understanding Built-in Capabilities
Ethical Considerations in Technology Leadership: Navigating Moral Boundaries while Staying Aligned with Business Objectives
12:45 – 13:30
Cross-Platform User Experience Architecture
Navigating the Gen AI Jungle: A Quick Guide to accelerate enterprise adoption
12:00 – 13:30
Mobile Automation with Robot Framework and Appium Presentation - Live coding
12:45 - 15:00
Product Showcase
13:30 – 14:30
Lunch break, networking
14:30 – 15:15
Parallel sessions
Cutting Software Into Slices
AI Powered Apps: A Practical Blueprint for Integration
Where Is C# 12 Heading (and Why, Exactly)?
What operating system is your mind running on?
15:15 – 16:00 
Parallel sessions
Effective Transactions Management with Spring
The Future of Public Administration: Decentralization through Blockchain
Cloud (re)patriation and Hybrid Cloud
15:00 - 16:15
Product Showcase
16:00 – 16:45 
Parallel sessions
Bringing DAST tools to the command-line, DevOps pipelines, and more
Gen AI in BCR
Navigating Together: Coaching and Leadership in the Age of Technology
15:15 - 16:45
Gradinita de manageri
Career insights check point: personalized feedback and more
16:45 – 17:00 
Networking
17:00 – 17:45 
Romania IT Landscape in the AI Era
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
10:00 – 10:45
Debunking LLMs
10:45 – 11:15
Coffee break, networking
11:15 – 12:00
Parallel sessions
The Bank - Entrepreneur - Accountant universe is the business universe.
Accelerating Innovation: The Fusion of AI, RAD, and Cloud in Modern Application Development
Cybersecurity: Closing the loop
Roslyn Source Code Generators with examples
11:15 - 12:45
Speedcoaching
12:00 - 12:45
Elevating Chatbots: Enhancing Conversations with Internal Knowledge Bases
12:45 - 13:30
Clean Code for Frontend AIs Engineers
12:00 – 13:30
Startup – truth or dare
.NET and Cloud Development 2024 Trends
Panel theme: What will be the effect of using AI for Java development?
13:30 – 14:30
Lunch break, networking
13:30 - 15:15
Product Showcase
14:30 – 15:15
Parallel sessions
How can one become tech entrepreneur - through the lens of Innovation Labs
Implementing Clean Architecture
Network segmentation in a Zero-Trust world
Why is a job in UX Design the best? And what path should you follow to get one fast?
15:15 – 16:00
Parallel sessions
So you want to create your own startup
The Path to Inclusive Digital Products
16:00 - 16:45
Working at a Startup and How It Compares to a Corporation
15:15 – 16:45
Panel architecture
Panel Digitization
16:45 – 17:00
Networking
17:00 – 17:45
Decoding the Future: The Romanian IT landscape
17:45 – 18:15
Closing

MC & Speakers

Iulia Nagy

Journalist - MC

Dan Dragomir

Writer at www.computerblog.ro - Moderator

Andrei Cretu

Co-founder & CEO @Pluria - Moderator

Andrei Dumbrava

Senior IAM Consultant - Moderator

James Bach

Founder and CEO of Satisfice

Jon Skeet

Senior Software engineer at Google

Kirk Pepperdine

Principle Java Engineer - Microsoft

Michael Coté

Developer Advocate VMware, Author

Thomas Vitale

Software Architect & Engineer, Author

Andrei Danila

CEO at CODE932

Laurenţiu Spilca

Author/ Java Trainer/Development Consultant

Liviu Arsene & Marian Radu

Directors Threats & Data Science at CrowdStrike

Alex “Jay” Balan

CISO, happening.xyz & Superbet Group

Ovidiu Cical – Cyscale

Cyscale Founder & CEO

Cornel Fatulescu

CPO, Chief Platform Officer

Luiz Quintela

Business Agility Consultant, Author, Trainer

Radu Vunvulea

Microsoft Regional Director and Azure MVP

Lucian Itu – Siemens

Research Group Head of AI - Siemens

Peter Leeson

Founder of Orchestrated Knowledge

Corina Stirbu

Fractional CMO

Igor Jigan – Cegeka

C# .NET Developer at Cegeka

Will Thomas & Ryan Singleton – Trimble

Software Architects at Trimble

Mihai Rus – Coera

Software Architect at COERA

Claudiu Gura – Raiffeisen

IT Solution Architect at Raiffeisen Bank 

Bogdan Bujdea

Chief Technical Officer and Microsoft MVP

Alin Nedelcu – Raiffeisen

Head of Advanced Analytics at Raiffeisen

Vlad Zamfirescu

Chief AI Architect EMEA

Valeriu Filip

Managing Partner SecurifAI, I-Tom

Ionut Bardasu

IT Area Lead | MBA

Bogdan Socaciu- Nagarro

Principal Engineer at Nagarro

Dan Giurescu

CEO Credivera

Elena Dumitrascu

CTO Credivera

Andrei Stefanie

Product Engineer - Cyscale

Dan Lungu

Coordonator „Ciugud Smart Village”

Radu Lepadatu

Software engineer

Cosmin Cojocaru

Data Science Product Manager

Dorin Barboiu

Cloud Security Architect at Atos

David Eschwé

Passionate Data Scientist in the Financial Industry

Awesome trainers

Amazing AgileHub volunteers and people that joined our cause

Andrei Danila

CEO at CODE932

Marian Filipovici

Full-stack .Net developer

Liviu Costea

System Engineer and Ambassador for CNCF

Andrei Gasparovici

Python Developer

Mihaela Draniceanu

Senior Software Tester Engineer

Cristian Obreja

Software Developer

Alex Petrescu

Security Consultant/Team Lead

Igor Jigan

C# .NET Developer at Cegeka

Ioana Barhan & Elena Pirtica

Software Testers

Lavinia Bodriug

Scrum Master

Andreea Moldovan

AgileCoach, Learning Programs Manager at AgileHub

Team

Lovely people that helped organizing this event

Rodica Jigan

Digital Specialist

Nadia Comanici

C# developer

Paul Negoescu

Passionate Engineer, Trainer, Speaker

Ioana Dan

Junior Programmer - Marketing Enthusiast

Cosmin Maxim

User Experience Lead & Design Sprints trainer

Florin Asavei

Full-Stack .NET developer

Diana Vancsa

Graphic designer

Camelia Codarcea

Agile Coach, Speaker, Trainer

Andreea Moldovan

AgileCoach, Learning Programs Manager at AgileHub

Ioana Conțiu

Web Designer

Cristian Conțiu

Full-stack & Symfony Developer

Valentina Edroi

Product Owner

PeakIT through the years

Q&A

Peak IT is organized by AgileHub (www.agilehub.ro, https://www.facebook.com/agilehub/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/13054692/) - a NGO whose mission is to offer free education in IT for both adults and children.

AgileHub means free education for people of all ages. The NGO was created in 2013 with a mission of offering free education in IT and non-IT related fields for adults and children. All of our technical, productivity and self-development programs are free of charge for everybody!
We offer trainings, workshops, meetups - all free of charge! They are organized by and with the help of our trainers - members of AgileHub or good friends and partners - that are IT specialists with a practical experience.

AgileHub means:
 ● 200+ training sessions and workshops (4-16 hours long)
 ● 6 medium term courses (8 - 16 weeks long)
 ● 3 long-term children's programs (Dash & Dot and 3D printing, Build your own robot) and learning basic programming with Arcade
● 1 charity event
 ● 4 Peak IT conferences (Conferences free of charge for all of the participants - made possible with the help of our sponsors)

When we started this event, in 2018, we wanted to create a place for Brasov’s IT community to meet. We wanted PeakIT to be an event where the community could find common interests, new useful information, share what they know and find easier ways to learn from each other.

Since then, we have decided to expand our community with the help of the almighty online world and reach out to IT specialists and beginners all over the country!
Therefore, the following points have represented our mission - and still do nowadays:
 ● Visibility for our volunteers
The best way to lead is by example and the entire value of AgileHub is given by its volunteers. This is why our volunteers deserve an event where they are more visible and can become an example for others, to inspire and motivate people to join us, to contribute and grow this community together.
 ● Grow the IT community in order to create more opportunities in the city
 ● Create an opportunity for companies to meet, and also meet the people, ecnouraging them to fund our mission for free IT education.

PeakIT trainers used to mean just AgileHub volunteers. But because our mission is to always improve and expand our curriculum, now we are also welcoming IT specialists that haven't joined AgileHub (yet). These specialists can talk about and use their hands-on expertise to offer the participants all the tools they need to stay updated with certain topics - topics of great importance in the modern world.
We usually choose the speakers by following the latest trends and newest technologies in the IT field, thus contacting people with a great experience that have already made a name for themselves in the IT community.
If you want to join the future editions of PeakIT or even AgileHub, in order to help us organize more frequent workshops, drop us a message using the contact form below!

How does AgileHub manage their funds?

We strongly believe that a NGO’s purpose is to invest all the funding in offering useful programs to its target groups.

 

This is why we invest the raised funds in organizing useful and impactful programs for adults and children. We aim to offer free of charge programs to all of our participants.

 

For example, we organize one-day technical trainings that focus on specific subjects, but also longer programs that take place for 8 to 12 weeks, such as “In-depth React by example”, “First steps in programming for children”, “Security Fundamentals”.

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