

“The place where business & tech meet to take it to another level” – June 28-29, 2022
We add a learning dimension to our annual Techsylvania experience by inviting experts from leading companies to host technical workshops. Techsylvania 2022 is going back to tech, with a series of workshops dedicated to engineers and their skill-set enhancement. During the two days, you can select from 10 workshop sessions featuring a wide array of topics, focused only on cutting-edge areas of technology.


Accessible for all the ticket holders

Capacity of up to 60 people/session

Addressing hot issues of the 21st century
Demystifying stream processing at scale
In fact, what do people mean by scale? Furthermore, how do you manage fault tolerance in your services?
What are your methods for ensuring the reliability of data pushed to customers?
Let’s explore the answers to these questions together by building a hands-on distributed application that allows users to rate their favorite movies: Crowdie Tomatoes.
Join us on June 29th, starting 12:40 PM EEST!
Workshop hosts:
Dan Belibov, Engineering Manager at CrowdStrike
Cezar Socoteanu, Engineering Manager at CrowdStrike


Effectively implementing DevOps practices to boost delivery performance
DevOps is generally regarded as a recommended set of technical principles in our industry nowadays. However, when it comes to actually putting those ideas into practice, approaches can vary greatly.
So what should YOU be focusing on? Which practices offer the best return on investment?
In this session we illustrate what several years of experience have taught us and showcase a sample project setup using Azure DevOps
Workshop host:
Victor Ionescu, Principal IT Consultant at msg systems Romania
A faster way of developing backend APIs with the help of automatic code & infrastructure generation
Take part in this workshop that will show you a new way of developing backend applications.
We’ll cover everything from project setup to production-ready system using best industry practices.
A tool made by developers for developers.
Workshop hosts:
Răzvan Bretoiu, Co-Founder & CTO at Linnify
Darius Bogdan, Head of Engineering at Linnify


Democratising Computer Vision – automate visual tasks without training any algorithms
The goal of our workshop is to go in-depth on the process of creating and using an online platform capable of image recognition, starting from 3D assets of real-world objects. We will talk about the engineering challenges that arise when integrating deep learning workflows with web services, the machine learning solution we deploy, and the real-world applications of the platform in the retail space.
It is a ‘hands-on’ workshop, in which we’ll go through our deployed solution capabilities: on-boarding new products from 3D assets and real images all the way to detecting the products in real-world scenarios. We will discuss the design decisions for our web services, ML-ops and how we use deep learning models in production.
We will do a live demo of how our solution works in the retail space! We encourage you to bring images of packaged good you take from a supermarket to test our models with your own images. Photo-taking criteria: smartphone camera, photos taken at an “eye-level angle”, shelf in the center of the image and focused, no reflections, no blur, no people in the image. See you there!
Workshop hosts:
Flaviu Samarghitan, Lead Computer Vision Engineer at Neurolabs
Mathias Maciossek, Lead Software Engineer at Neurolabs
Write your Android App with Sync from Scratch
Nowadays, most, if not all, startups require some user facing mobile applications. However, the development of those mobile apps requires more effort than the equivalent traditional web front-end.
In this workshop, we will create an Android app that connects to a MongoDB cluster using Realm. We will discuss tools and techniques that greatly simplify their development. Those techniques can even be used for the creation of the Minimum Viable Product and are flexible enough to align your app faster with the changes in your business requirements.
In this session, we will go one step further by explaining the concepts and sharing some code snippets. Diego and Jorge will do some live coding while exploring the basics of writing an Android app using Kotlin, Compose and the Realm SDK.
If you are into iOS instead of Android, you are welcomed too. We will share a repo with the equivalent iOS code and accept questions about that platform also.
Workshop hosts:
Diego Freniche Brito, Mobile Developer Advocate at MongoDB
Jorge Ortiz Fuentes, Mobile Developer Advocate at MongoDB


Craft authentic e-commerce shops
TBA
Workshop host:
Mihaela Lungu, Technical Lead at About You
Intelligent Forms Processing with Microsoft Form Recognizer
Come to this workshop to find out how you can use Microsoft’s AI services to automate information extraction from your forms
Form Recogniser applies advanced machine learning to accurately extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and structures from documents. Using just a few examples, tailor Form Recogniser to understand your documents, both on-premises and in the cloud. This allows anyone to turn documents into usable data at a fraction of the time and cost, so you can focus more on acting on the information rather than compiling it.
Workshop host:
Sorin Peste, Cloud Solution Architect, Data & AI at Microsoft


The Elixir of Web Scraping
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications. It has a simple, tidy and modern syntax that makes coding like writing poetry.
In this workshop we will see it in action by writing a simple web scraper. We will explore ways to improve the performance of our program by leveraging Elixir’s concurrency capabilities and hopefully have a lot of fun.
Workshop host:
Constantin Cheptea, CTO at Crafting Software
Scalable notification system
Email notification system that scales with minimal impact over backend API systems.
Workshop hosts:
Lucian Lutas, Tech lead at Salt&Pepper
Geo Apopei, Software Developer at Salt&Pepper


Agile at Scale vs Agile in Startups
Here in Capgemini Engineering Ukraine GEC we work with different types of companies that require different implementations of Agile methodology. We’ll go through several case studies (Okta, Novartis, Ericsson) covering our best practices for Agile in startups and compare them to the Agile model for the big customers such as enterprise companies.
Workshop host:
Ksenia Redunova, Engineering Manager at Capgemini Engineering Ukraine
Bridging the gap between academia and the professional world for tech talent
As a tech scale-up, we have made one of our core values to give back to our communities. We committed to invest in the education of the future generation of developers by working with institutions to bridge the gap between students and the professional world.
The rapid rise of cloud computing is transforming how organizations create business value, and generating a growing number of new high-quality jobs in Romania and around the world. The technical knowledge and hands-on skills in live cloud environments that students develop through Scaleway’s Academia program will position them well for their careers.
Today’s junior developers don’t have the level required by tech companies, that must train the juniors they recruit. This disparity between schools/teachers and companies is only increasing. What is the impact of this situation on the market and what can we do about it? This is what we will try to address together.
Workshop hosts:
Mélodie Morice, Corporate Programs Manager at Scaleway

Down the Google UX Roadmap and a Glimpse of Life @Google
TBA
Workshop host:
Andrei Magnea, Product Design Manager @ Google

Demystifying stream processing at scale
Have you ever wondered what the industry standard looks like for processing streams of data? What about doing it at scale?
In fact, what do people mean by scale? Furthermore, how do you manage fault tolerance in your services?
What are your methods for ensuring the reliability of data pushed to customers?
Let’s explore the answers to these questions together by building a hands-on distributed application that allows users to rate their favorite movies: Crowdie Tomatoes.
Workshop hosts:
Dan Belibov, Engineering Manager at CrowdStrike
Cezar Socoteanu, Engineering Manager at CrowdStrike

Democratising Computer Vision – automate visual tasks without training any algorithms
TDevOps is generally regarded as a recommended set of technical principles in our industry nowadays. However, when it comes to actually putting those ideas into practice, approaches can vary greatly.
So what should YOU be focusing on? Which practices offer the best return on investment?
Workshop host:
Victor Ionescu, Principal IT Consultant at msg systems Romania

A faster way of developing backend APIs with the help of automatic code & infrastructure generation
Take part in this workshop that will show you a new way of developing backend applications.
We’ll cover everything from project setup to production-ready system using best industry practices.
A tool made by developers for developers.
Workshop hosts:
Răzvan Bretoiu, Co-Founder & CTO at Linnify
Darius Bogdan, Head of Engineering at Linnify

Democratising Computer Vision – automate visual tasks without training any algorithms
The goal of our workshop is to go in-depth on the process of creating and using an online platform capable of image recognition, starting from 3D assets of real-world objects. We will talk about the engineering challenges that arise when integrating deep learning workflows with web services, the machine learning solution we deploy, and the real-world applications of the platform in the retail space.
It is a ‘hands-on’ workshop, in which we’ll go through our deployed solution capabilities: on-boarding new products from 3D assets and real images all the way to detecting the products in real-world scenarios. We will discuss the design decisions for our web services, ML-ops and how we use deep learning models in production.
Workshop hosts:
Flaviu Samarghitan, Lead Computer Vision Engineer at Neurolabs
Mathias Maciossek, Lead Software Engineer at Neurolabs

Write your Android App with Sync from Scratch
Nowadays, most, if not all, startups require some user facing mobile applications. However, the development of those mobile apps requires more effort than the equivalent traditional web front-end.
In this workshop, we will create an Android app that connects to a MongoDB cluster using Realm. We will discuss tools and techniques that greatly simplify their development. Those techniques can even be used for the creation of the Minimum Viable Product and are flexible enough to align your app faster with the changes in your business requirements.
In this session, we will go one step further by explaining the concepts and sharing some code snippets. Diego and Jorge will do some live coding while exploring the basics of writing an Android app using Kotlin, Compose and the Realm SDK.
If you are into iOS instead of Android, you are welcomed too. We will share a repo with the equivalent iOS code and accept questions about that platform also.
Workshop hosts:
Diego Freniche Brito, Mobile Developer Advocate at MongoDB
Jorge Ortiz Fuentes, Mobile Developer Advocate at MongoDB

Craft authentic e-commerce shops
TBA
Workshop host:
Mihaela Lungu, Technical Lead at About You

Write your Android App with Sync from Scratch
Come to this workshop to find out how you can use Microsoft’s AI services to automate information extraction from your forms.
Form Recogniser applies advanced machine learning to accurately extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and structures from documents. Using just a few examples, tailor Form Recogniser to understand your documents, both on-premises and in the cloud. This allows anyone to turn documents into usable data at a fraction of the time and cost, so you can focus more on acting on the information rather than compiling it.
Workshop host:
Sorin Peste, Cloud Solution Architect, Data & AI at Microsoft

The Elixir of Web Scraping
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications. It has a simple, tidy and modern syntax that makes coding like writing poetry.
In this workshop we will see it in action by writing a simple web scraper. We will explore ways to improve the performance of our program by leveraging Elixir’s concurrency capabilities and hopefully have a lot of fun.
Workshop host:
Constantin Cheptea, CTO at Crafting Software

Scalable notification system
Email notification system that scales with minimal impact over backend API systems.
Workshop hosts:
Lucian Lutas, Tech lead at Salt&Pepper
Geo Apopei, Software Developer at Salt&Pepper

Agile at Scale vs Agile in Startups
Here in Capgemini Engineering Ukraine GEC we work with different types of companies that require different implementations of Agile methodology. We’ll go through several case studies (Okta, Novartis, Ericsson) covering our best practices for Agile in startups and compare them to the Agile model for the big customers such as enterprise companies.
Workshop host:
Ksenia Redunova, Delivery Manager at Capgemini Engineering Ukraine

Bridging the gap between academia and the professional world for tech talent
As a tech scale-up, we have made one of our core values to give back to our communities. We committed to invest in the education of the future generation of developers by working with institutions to bridge the gap between students and the professional world.
The rapid rise of cloud computing is transforming how organizations create business value, and generating a growing number of new high-quality jobs in Romania and around the world. The technical knowledge and hands-on skills in live cloud environments that students develop through Scaleway’s Academia program will position them well for their careers.
Today’s junior developers don’t have the level required by tech companies, that must train the juniors they recruit. This disparity between schools/teachers and companies is only increasing. What is the impact of this situation on the market and what can we do about it? This is what we will try to address together.
Workshop hosts:
Mélodie Morice, Corporate Programs Manager at Scaleway

Down the Google UX Roadmap and a Glimpse of Life @Google
TBA
Workshop host:
Andrei Magnea, Product Design Manager @ Google

Sorin Ruse & Catalin Ghenea
Software Engineers at Fitbit
Rohan Ramanath
Sr. Staff Engineer, Machine Learning at Linkedin
Sonia Pop, Mihai Petrus, Cristian Pencea & Alex Nemes
Betfair Romania Development
Alex Maleș
Starfish Technologies
Pablo Iglesias
Ziggeo
Hannes Kruppa
Head of Data Science, Machine Learning & Geo at Grab
Adrian Margin
Senior Engineering Manager, Machine Learning at Grab
Yuchen Fama
Director of AI Product at Clarifai





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