Petyo Dimitrov is a software engineer with 10 years of working experience in various projects for international clients. Currently, he is a Software Architect at Musala Soft. His professional focus is in Java, Enterprise Application and Integration technologies, RESTful and XML Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. He also enjoys sharing his experience and new technologies he is learning with colleagues at work, students at Technical University – Sofia and on different IT conferences in Bulgaria.

Radi Palazov is Director, Regional Delivery Center Bulgaria, Europe Commercial Delivery within DXC Technology. In this position, Radi manages over 1500 multi-technology professionals located in Sofia and Varna, delivering services globally to over 200 clients in Cloud, Workload, Platforms & ITO, Workplace & Mobility, Application Services, Cross Offering, Enterprise & Cloud Apps, Big Data & Analytics. In addition, Radi also acts as Cloud, Workload, Platforms & ITO Lead for Europe.

Prior to this, Radi was EU Restricted Build Center Leader in Project Delivery organization for Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing (ITO), within HPE’s Enterprise Services. In this role, Radi was accountable for delivering project portfolio services for EU Restricted business, from small, add-on requests, up through large transitions and transformations.

Further back, Radi was the head of Project Delivery in Sofia, leading a team of ~400 highly skilled specialists who delivered services in the Datacenter, Workplace, Project & Program Management domains. Back in time, Radi was the person who set up successfully the Network Services Tower in Sofia, part of the Global Delivery Center Bulgaria.

Radi brings 20+ years of experience in the field of IT. He holds multiple excellence awards for mature leadership and significant contribution to the strategic development of the Sofia ITO organization.

Mr. Palazov has a master’s degree in Computer and Information Sciences, and a diploma in Mathematics.

Daniela Kolarova is a System architect at DXC Technology with more than 13 years experience with Java. She has worked on many international projects using Core Java, Java EE, Spring. Because of her interests in AI she worked on scientific projects at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and at Plovdiv University and did some presentations on AI conferences and a Java conference this years. She is a also a DZone Java and DZone AI contributor. Daniela Kolarova graduated “Informatics” at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Plovdiv University “Paisij Hilendarski“.

Petar Stanchev is currently Professor at Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA and Professor and Doctor of Mathematical Sciences at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has published 2 books, more than 200 chapters in monographs, magazines and conferences, over 200 conference papers and seminars.

His research interests are in the fields of semantics, image processing, multimedia databases, databases, information systems, expert systems, fuzzy sets and systems, decision making, e-commerce, web technologies, computer games.

He is currently editor-in-chief of two international magazines and a member of the editorial staff of several magazines. He is the Bulgarian representative in the European Commission’s OpenAIRE2020 project. He is the author of the first programming book in Bulgaria “I Program at Nine Years”. More details about him are on his page https://paws.kettering.edu/~pstanche/ .

Marc Schettke is software engineer and consultant for embedded systems in the pro audio sector, with his main area of interest being real-time audio networks. He is using Rust since 2014 without regrets.

Doychin Bondzhev has over 25 years of experience in the software and consultancy industries. For the last 17 years he is establishing his own business – dSoft-Bulgaria. During that time he utilized different technologies including CDI, EJB, Web Services, Swing, JavaFX, JSF, JAX-RS, JMS and also different databases and platforms. He used these technologies for business, banking, process control and other types of projects. Prior dSoft-Bulgaria, he was a senior developer at AtoZed Software, responsible for maintaining and developing IntraWeb for Win32, .NET and Java. He has a masters degree in computer science from Technical University, Sofia branch Plovdiv.