Speakers

Yordanka Fandakova

Mayor of Sofia

Yordanka Fandakova is Mayor of Sofia from 2009. Her previous positions include Member of Parliament, Minister of Education, Youth and Science, Sofia Deputy Mayor for Culture, Education and Sports. Prior to that she gained rich 20-year experience in the area of education as a teacher and as a school principle.

Mrs. Fandakova holds MA in Russian Philology from Sofia University and Pushkin Institute in Moscow. She has additional qualifications in the spheres of management of education, business administration, political management. She speaks Russian and English.

Mrs. Fandakova’s priorities and achievements during her mandates as Mayor of Sofia include fast development of city infrastructure, free and fast internet coverage in public spaces, environment, education, better conditions for doing business in Sofia. During her term in office Sofia became one of the 30 fastest developing cities in the world and the European capital city with the biggest GDP growth in the last 10 years.

Stefan Kiryazov

EOS Sofia

Stefan published his first software (a subatomic particle interaction visualization) in 1997 at the tender age of 14 and has been active in various tech communities ever since. He didn’t get into the blockchain space early enough to retire on his own island so he is still around, promoting the budding smart contract industry which he predicts will disrupt various major business in the near future. He believes that as of today EOS is the most credible platform to bring about this revolution so he’s focused on bringing the community together and informing the general public on what’s to come.

Dr. Pavlin Dobrev

Bosch Software Innovations
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Dr. Pavlin Dobrev is a Research and Development Manager at Bosch Software Innovations. The company owned by Bosch is focused on developing software for the Internet of Things (IoT). He is charge for the Quality Management of the Bosch IoT Suite, the entire support of ISO 9001, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 at Bosch Software Innovations, as well as various research and customer projects.

Dr. Dobrev has more than two decades of experience with IoT including latest Java technologies, as well as in OSGi and embedded systems. He is an active participant in the OSGi Alliance, Java Community Process and other technical standards groups. He is a member of the Eclipse Foundation and participates in the development of the Eclipse IDE as a committer in the Equinox project.

Pavlin Dobrev has a PhD in Computer Systems in the area of Knowledge Management from the Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and holds an MsC in Computer Science from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Sofia University. He has written many scientific and technical publications and participated as speaker in prestigious international conferences.

An end to the hype: IoT goes mainstream

Day 1 - 27th Nov 12:00-12:40 Main Hall #Influencers Novice

Have we discovered the Holy Grail of business models for the Internet of Things, the killer app? Does every product need to be connected via a smartphone app? Have, as predicted, billions of devices already been connected? And what will come after the IoT hype is over? In his keynote address, Dr. Pavlin Dobrev traces Bosch’s route to the Internet of Things and its attendant evolution to an IoT company. For Dr. Pavlin Dobrev, the year 2018 marks a turning point: connectivity has finally reached the corporate sector and is now being increasingly commercialized. He believes that the hype surrounding IoT is over – but the excitement is not about to cool. According to a new study, one in two companies is planning to introduce an IoT platform this year. In the past, IoT was the subject of individual task forces and special projects, but now it is set to become an integral part of enterprise infrastructure, product portfolios, corporate strategy, and organization.

Leaning objectives:

  • The case example of IoT at Bosch: from traditional manufacturer to IoT company
  • Springboards and pitfalls on the path to becoming a successful IoT company
  • The role played by IoT platforms, software, and developers in successful IoT companies
  • The impact of open source and agile organization on IoT success

Slides

Sudan Jackson

REWE Digital

Sudan Jackson has been working in REWE Digital’s technology division since 2016, where he is responsible for cultural and organisational development. The focus is on actively designing collaborative environments to enable modern, innovative, creative, and customer-focused solutions. And although “Manager” is part of his current title, it only says a little about what he actually does. Sudan is a person who is inspired every day to improve people’s (working) lives. He is a certified coach and trainer, and a welcome speaker at conferences.

Sudan has over 20 years of experience as a personnel developer, project manager, IT consultant and business coach with internationally operating and leading companies where he was responsible for major projects in change management, leadership development, and in the organizational/transformational context.

He has also designed and implemented successful leadership, empowerment and talent management programs. He is very interested (and enjoys it a lot) in discovering new ways to modernize these topics. Working with people and helping others to do great things with his help that are not yet imaginable… This is a task with which he strongly identifies.

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Atanas Kiriakov

Ontotext

Atanas Kiryakov (LinkedIn) is the founder and CEO of Ontotext – Semantic Web pioneer and vendor of semantic technology. Atanas is member of the board of the Linked Data Benchmarking Council – standardization body, who’s members include all major graph database vendors.

Atanas is an expert in semantic graph databases, reasoning, knowledge graph design, text mining, semantic tagging, linking and search. Author of signature academic publications with more than 2500 citations. Until 2010 Atanas was product manager of GraphDB (formerly OWLIM) – a leading RDF graph database serving mission critical projects in organizations like BBC, Financial Times, Nikkei, S&P, Springer Nature, John Wiley, Elsevier, UK Parliament, Kadaster.NL, The National Gallery of US and top-5 US Banks.

As CEO of Ontotext, Atanas supervised multiple high profile semantic technology projects across different sectors: media and publishing, market and investment information, cultural heritage and government.

Surain Adyanthaya

PROS

Responsible for PROS Travel product strategies, Surain Adyanthaya collaborates with clients to develop and shape airline solutions that address their key industry needs. Surain has held various roles at PROS including head of R&D. With PROS since 1993, Surain works closely with product development in his current leadership role of product innovation and strategy.

Vasil Velikov

PROS

Vasil Velikov has 10 years of professional software development experience. Having degrees in Computer science and Numerical mathematics, his passion lies in fields that combine mathematics, algorithms and software engineering – high performance scientific computing, numerical simulations, computer graphics. He has been a technical lead at PROS for a little more than one year.

Applying Computer Science Algorithms in Air Travel Industry

Day 3 - 29th Nov 10:30-12:20 Master Class Hall Advanced Vasil Velikov, Dafo Nachkov, Georgi Petrov

We’ll have a look at some Air Travel Industry problems and how we approach them with Computer Science knowledge.

Audience requirements: Attendees are expected to be proficient in C++ and to bring their own development setup (e.g. laptop + IDE). C++ 11, STL (gcc) will be used for the exercise.

Brent Franklin

PROS

I have 18 years of experience in developing software and leading people and projects.  Originally from Texas, I currently lead some of the amazing development teams at PROS in Sofia, Bulgaria, focused on building cloud-based solutions for the airline industry.  I’m passionate about development best practices and clean, beautiful code.  I enjoy working with customers to understand their business challenges and then bringing a technical solution to life.  I am currently obsessed with trying to find good Tex-Mex food in Europe to cope with my withdrawals.

The travel search problem – from complex industry standards to pure algorithms and engineering

Day 1 - 27th Nov 17:20-18:10 Hall 7 #CM Advanced Advanced Brent Franklin, Dobromir Georgiev

We will talk about combinatorial and search problems from real-life tasks within our product and we will propose possible computer science solutions with their pros and cons for one or more problems. We will cover up to 3 problems.

Jonathan Johnson

Jonathan Johnson has been engineering commercial software for some twenty years. Software has the amazing potential to improve and even save lives. Sadly, lousy software can miss this potential. His journey is driven by delivering helpful software to move us forward.

His early work began with laboratory instrument software and managing its data. Jonathan was enticed by the advent of object-oriented design and Windows to develop personal banking software. Banking soon turned to the internet and enterprise applications took off. Java exploded onto the scene and since then he has inhabited that ecosystem. At 454 Life Sciences and Roche Diagnostics Jonathan returned to laboratory software and leveraged Java-based state machines and enterprise services to manage the terabytes of data flowing out of DNA sequencing instruments.

His journey continues with Thermo Fisher Scientific as a hands-on architect continuously delivering a laboratory management platform based on Kubernetes with microservices.

Hands-on Architect

Novice

Understanding Kubernetes

So you have some code and it is in a bounded context with a REST API. You are on your way to Microservices. Next you wrap it in a container and now it is an image that others can run. Simple. Now what? No service is an island. Your service needs to log information, needs to scale and load balance between its clones. Your service needs environment and metadata way outside its context. What about where the service will run? Who starts it? What monitors its health? What about antifragility? Updates? Networking? Oh my.

Services live in clusters and clusters live in data centers. Many concepts overlap with the features of cloud management. But don’t get too flustered since, fundamentally, services are managed by clusters. There are several approaches to cluster management such as Docker Swarm, Mesos with Marathon and Kubernetes.

Minikube with Kubernetes is an approachable technique to set up a local cluster that is easy to understand and get started. Whether you have a simple service or a Web application with a set of services, you can develop much of it on Kubernetes with Minikube. We will run some practical examples. Once you understand the mechanics of the tools, we will explore how it works, sort through the terminology and share ideas about practical uses for this technology.

Afterward, you will understand how to run your personal cluster with your Linux, OS X or Windows laptop to further enjoy unraveling the mysteries of running applications in a cluster.

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