Business meets Innovation

About panel: SMART B2B Matchmaking Platform

The presidents of both Smart Alliance – Innovation Technology Cluster and IKT Telemark, two of the most prolific clusters when it comes to meaningful innovations in ICT will talk about creating the best networking platform worldwide. How will it work? Who can join? Some of the questions that will find its answers in this panel.

About panel: SMART Innovation - from Local to Global

This panel focuses on the newest tech available from our members who went global.

In our live demo, companies will present for the first time their new technology developed over the past year

About panel: SMART INNOVATION Worldwide (Partners)

The reason why no C-Level person should miss this event is due to the fact they will come in contact with the solutions that were developed using cutting-edge technology.

These were developed by our partners, leaders in their business area, such as Banking, Security, Big Data, and Cloud, which have grown to have large and top presence locally and globally.

About panel: Reshape the Future of Romanian R&D

Vice-chancellors from some of the best universities in Romania, together with representatives from the private sector in R&D, including one of our members that has driven its R&D forward and expanded to the USA, as well as an international promoter of innovation in South Africa, UK, USA and Europe, will debate on how to build a strong foundation for an R&D centre focused solely on ICT in Romania.

This debate is part of our cluster strategy to foster an innovative culture for the business community.

About panel: Romanian Innovation Engine

By presenting the various innovations developed our members, the concept of the Summit will unveil itself in an extraordinary manner.

Our members will engage the audience in a marathon of state-of-the-art tech, where they will show their best solutions that made them known internationally.

About panel: Smart B2B MeetPoint

The Smart B2B MeetPoint will have a dedicated area in the Rapsodia Room, and through its networking sessions taking place throughout the event, it will provide a strong base on which companies can build business relationships and establish powerful future collaborations.

Our goal is to create a platform for collaboration between SMEs, multinationals, local and international cluster,  and leaders in innovation with the help of SMARTY, our Smart Networking App.

Keynote speakers

Meet our most valued speakers

Alexandru BOBE

Vice-Chancellor, University of Ovidius, Constanța

Torkild FOLLAUG

CEO of IKT Telemark

Gabriel MUNTEANU

Founder & President of SMART ALLIANCE - Innovation Technology Cluster

Dragos PÎSLARU

Partner at Civitta

Andrei CUCOANEȘ

Chief Design Officer at Sether

    Andra Mihaela CAZACU

    Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Data Center Security at Bitdefender

      Yugo NEUMORNI

      President CIO Council

      Elena UNCIULEANU

      Executive at Reporting Center & Founder TechVentures

      Eduard BEYER

      Consultant, Deloitte & Treasurer/Board Member Romanian South African Business Association

      Alexandru BRAȘOVEANU, Esq.

      BCPA - Brașoveanu, Cernat and Partners Law Firm

        Andrei ORBAN

        President at ENVIRON Association

        Costin LIANU

        General Manager USH Probusiness

        Raluca PAUNA

        CEO, Eriscan innovation, MSC IT Engineer, MM-IS (WITS)

        David LONTAI

        Business Development Manager at Ysoft

        Catalin CRIVINEANU

        Partner Account Manager at Eaton

        Romanian Innovation Engine

        Smart Innovation Race

        Ioan COCAN

        Managing Partner at Tremend Software Consulting

          George TUDOR

          CEO at IT Teams

            Mihai ”Mike” Drăghici

            Founder & CEO PayByFace

              Cosmin MĂCĂNEAȚĂ

              Managing Partner at Omega Trust

                Codrut CHERESTEȘ

                CEO at Dositracker

                  George ȘERBAN

                  Founder at GSdata

                    Florian SIMIONESCU

                    Manager & Leader at Integrisoft

                      Marius PANĂ

                      CEO & Founder at Spearhead Systems

                        Agenda

                        9:00-10:00
                        Networking Episode 1 | Registration & Welcome Coffee

                        • Registration | First Floor Lobby – Ronda Ballroom
                        • Networking Episode 1 | Smart B2B MeetPoint @Rapsodia Ballroom

                        SPEAKER: Gabriel MUNTEANU - President of Smart Alliance - Innovation Technology Cluster

                        The CEO of Smart Alliance – Innovation Technology Cluster and the CEO of IKT Telemark, two of the most prolific clusters when it comes to meaningful innovations in ICT will talk about the project for which we have signed our partnership – creating the best networking platform worldwide.

                        How will it work? Who can join? Some of the questions that will find its answers in this panel.

                        Speaker: Emanuela MODORAN CEO of Smart Alliance - Innovation Technology Cluster | Torkild Follaug - CEO of IKT Telemark

                        • Bitdefender | Lenovo | Nutanix

                        SPEAKER: Andra CAZACU – Senior Product Marketing Manager at Bitdefender

                        • Alexandru BOBE – Vice-Chancellor, University of Ovidius, Constanța
                        • Dragoș PÎSLARU – Partner, Innovation Stream, Civitta Romania
                        • Costin LIANU – General Manager at USH Pro Business
                        • Eduard BEYER – Consultant, Deloitte & Treasurer/Board Member Romanian South African Business Association
                        • Vlad PARASCHIV – AIESEC
                        • Yugo NEUMORNI – President of CIO Council

                        MODERATOR: ELENA UNCIULEANU - Executive Manager at REPORTING CENTER & Founder @Tech Ventures

                        • Networking Episode 2 | Smart B2B MeetPoint @Rapsodia Ballroom

                        Speaker: Andrei ORBAN - President of Environ Association

                        • Andrei CUCOANEȘ – Sether – A new advertising method to break the old pattern
                        • Andrei BRAȘOVEANU – Innovation dilemma : legal vs moral

                        MODERATOR: Gabriel MUNTEANU - President of Smart Alliance - Innovation Technology Cluster

                        • Networking Episode 3 | Smart B2B MeetPoint @Rapsodia Ballroom

                        SPEAKER: David LONTAI - Business Development Manager (Hungary + CEE countries) at Y Soft Hungary Ltd

                        • Codruț CHERESTEȘ – CEO of Dositracker
                        • Cosmin MĂCĂNEAȚĂ – Managing Partner at Omega Trust
                        • Florian SIMIONESCU – Manager & Leader at Integrisoft Solutions
                        • George ȘERBAN – Founder at GSData
                        • George TUDOR – CEO of IT Teams
                        • Ioan COCAN – Managing Partner of Tremend Software Consulting
                        • Marius PANĂ – CEO of Spearhead Systems

                        MODERATOR: Gabriel MUNTEANU - President of Smart Alliance - Innovation Technology Cluster | Yugo NEUMORNI - President of CIOCouncil

                        • certSIGN Enabling Mobile Enterprises with MobileIron | distributed in Romania by HEADTECHNOLOGY Group

                        SPEAKER: Alexandru Luca - Senior Technical Consultant Mobile Technologies certSIGN

                        Gabriel MUNTEANU - President of Smart Alliance - Innovation Technology Cluster

                        • Final Networking Episode |  Smart B2B MeetPoint @Rapsodia Ballroom

                        9:00-16:30
                        Smart B2B MeetPoint

                        • 9:00-10:00

                        Networking Episode 1 | Smart B2B MeetPoint @Rapsodia Ballroom

                        • 11:30 – 12:00

                        Networking Episode 2 | Smart B2B MeetPoint @Rapsodia Ballroom

                        • 13:00 – 14:00

                        Networking Episode 3 | Smart B2B MeetPoint @Rapsodia Ballroom

                        • 15:45 – 16:30

                        Final Networking Episode |  Smart B2B MeetPoint @Rapsodia Ballroom

                         

                         

                        ROSABA (Romanian-South African Business Association) will lead the one of the most important networking aspects of the Smart Alliance Innovation Summit, where you will be able to interact with bilateral chambers of commerce, embassies and other organisations that will be there to support the local ICT sector’s increasing need to expand abroad, as well as find international partners.

                        TESTIMONIALS

                        what our members say

                        We want to change people’s lives by creating solutions that transform the way they work. Solutions that free up time for people to focus on the creative aspects of their job instead of menial, repetitive tasks. Together with our partners in the cluster we will develop innovative solutions that will allow us to achieve our ultimate goal: to create software that changes the world.
                        Mihai MATEIEssensys Software
                        Tremend has joined the Smart Alliance cluster with the aim of creating better IT solutions and larger projects using our common synergy. We believe this can only happen when people collaborate, only together we can build great ideas. We hope to develop strong partnerships through this cluster considering the diversity in the members’ backgrounds. One of the main advantages of Smart Alliance is its composition of members with a wide range of expertise.
                        Ioan COCANTremend
                        We decided to join Smart Alliance so that we can combine our skills, experience and abilities with those of the other members, in order to generate synergies that will enable us to sustainably develop in the future and to better satisfy the needs of our customers and business partners.
                        Cosmin MĂCĂNEAȚĂOmega Trust

                        Civil Society Partners

                        Preferred Technology Partners

                        Preferred Distribution Partners

                        International Network Partner

                        Media Partners

                        Location

                        • Intercontinental, Nicolae Bălcescu 4, Bucharest
                        • summit@smartalliance.ro
                        • Emanuela MODORAN – 0748 505 008
                        • 9:00-16:00