Applying AI Events in Bucharest

The era of manually reviewing syntax is dead. With AI agents writing code at scale, execution is commoditized. But that just shifted the friction to a new bottleneck: code review.

"Automate the mechanical, humans keep architecture" is standard advice. It also lacks substance if you don't understand the underlying "why". When AI scales your output, the cost of being wrong in your architecture scales with it.

Stories of the Web is back online.
Cutting through the generic AI hype to debug the actual state of shipping code today.

We are thrilled to host Simion Agavriloaiei, Member of Technical Staff @ Wispr Flow.
Simion thrives in high-stakes, fast-paced environments. He just joined Wispr Flow, a top US startup, and he is bringing his raw, unfiltered production experience to our living room.

🎙️ The Talk: The New Bottleneck: Code Review in the Age of AI
This isn't a recycled list of AI tools. This is a deep dive into the lessons learned the hard way when agents take over execution.
We are debugging the review process:

• The Bottlenecks: What actually breaks when code generation scales.
• High Stakes vs Low Stakes: Concrete stories from production and how to adapt your review architecture based on the risk.
• Beyond the Generic: The core logic behind keeping the human in the architecture loop.
• Fails & Wins: What happens when you trust the agent too much, or too little.

🚀 Who needs to be in the room?

• Engineers who want to stop reviewing syntax and start architecting outcomes.
• Tech Leads & EMs trying to adapt their team's velocity to the AI shift without breaking production.

📅 SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, Oct 1st, 18:30
📍 One Cotroceni Building C, 11th Floor
Str. Sergent Nutu Ion 44, Bucuresti
📝 Small agenda:
18:30 to 19:00, Welcome, networking & food
19:00 to 20:00, Live session with Simion
20:00 to 20:30, Q&A, deep dives & curiosities

Attendance is free, but seats are limited and security requires pre-registration. 👉 Please make sure to provide your full name and email address so we can add you to the building's access list.

🚀 The next Bucharest applydata Meetup is coming around! This time, it's all about engineers leading AI teams instead of writing every line themselves, and building the control systems that make those teams trustworthy.

Alex Vutei: "The AI Software Factory - What Happens When One Engineer Gets 5 AI Agents?"

Alex Vutei is a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Diconium, with 11+ years of experience in software engineering, focused on Java, Cloud, microservices and distributed systems. He has a a strong interest in AI, automation and developer productivity and together we will have a practical look at how AI agents can collaborate across the software development lifecycle — from architecture and coding to testing, security and code review — and how the role of the engineer changes when AI becomes a team of specialized agents.

Ionuț Petculescu: "Control, Context, and Guardrails: The Enterprise AI Harness"
Ionuț Petculescu is a Principal Software Architect at Matrix42 with over a decade in software engineering, spanning hands-on software development to leading cloud, AI/LLM, and machine learning platform initiatives. Currently driving the architecture strategy across core cloud, data platforms and mentoring other architects, he will guide us on how the power of AI Models alone is not enough and what other components we need to wrap around it.

Alex Bordei: "Engineering with AI Agents: Methodologies, Controls and Workflows End-to-End"
Alex Bordei is an AI & Technology Advisor with experience in building and operating software products and AI-based systems. His work focuses on integrating AI agents into real-world software development processes, automating business flows, and responsibly adopting AI-assisted engineering practices in organizations. His talk will include specific examples of complete workflows, lessons learned from using them in real projects, and recommendations for teams looking to move from isolated experiments to a controllable and scalable AI-assisted development process.

What to expect:

• Three expert talks
• Networking opportunities in our historical villa office
• Some snacks & drinks

Timetable:

• 18:30 - Event admission
• 19:00 - Welcome & introduction
• 19:05 - First speaker
• 19:30 - Second speaker
• 20:00 - Third speaker
• 20:30 - Connect & chat

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Our goal is to form a local data-loving community, so join us and let's talk data together!
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If it’s October, then it’s Big Data Week in Bucharest, which means it’s time for our annual BDW meetup. This year the evening is powered by Cloudera and supported by AWS. We’re staying close to the conference’s data and AI thread, with talks from eMAG and AWS on the architecture behind agentic access to enterprise data, without breaking the security model.

**Meetup RSVP is not enough to get in. You also need to register on the Cloudera event page — that’s what actually secures your spot. A Big Data Week Conference ticket is not required.**

Putting an AI agent in front of your data is the easy part. The hard part is everything underneath: who the agent is, what it can reach, what happens when it decides to act, and what stops it when the model gets it wrong. Georgiana Conete and Mihai Rez walk through eMAG's Cloudera platform and the MCP layer that lets users query Impala in natural language without stepping outside the permissions already enforced. Radu Dobrinescu then maps the layers that make agent autonomy defensible — least-privilege identity, gateway authorization, human approval on destructive actions, guardrails, and audit — each to a real failure it prevents.

What’s on the Agenda?
18:00 – 18:30 | Doors Open
Grab a drink, grab a seat, and connect with other attendees.
18:30 – 19:30 | Lightning Talks
Georgiana Conete & Mihai Rez – Building a Governed AI Gateway to Enterprise Data
Radu Dobrinescu – Don’t Trust the Model: Securing Agents That Act on Your Data
Third talk is yours – community slot, open until 25 September (see below)
19:30 – 21:00 | Food, Drinks & Networking
Stick around for pizza, cold drinks, and open-ended technical discussions.

The third talk belongs to the community.
We kept the last talk open, and we'd love to fill it from this group. eMAG will show how a platform team built this; Radu will show how it's meant to be secured. The third talk should come from wherever you actually sit:

• how you connected a model to a live database without changing existing permissions
• what you learned from building an MCP layer, or why you chose not to
• a time an agent did something wrong and how you fixed it
• how you manage identity, approvals, and audits for AI agents
• a guardrail that looked useful but didn’t actually work
• how much it all cost

Fifteen minutes on stage plus five for questions. Send a title and a few lines on what you did to hello@bigdataweek.com by Thursday, September 25 .
The slot comes with a full Big Data Week conference pass, two guest passes, and the stage alongside Georgiana, Mihai, and Radu.

This is an in-person event; presentations will be conducted in English.
See you there — and don’t skip the Cloudera registration; Meetup alone won’t hold your seat.

PS: If you didn't get your Big Data Week tickets yet, we have a 25% community discount: BDW26COMM25.