Tech Events in Bucharest

Join us for a NeoMixers evening built around one question:

What is actually happening with AI right now and how are people really using it?

AI is moving fast. But real understanding doesn’t come from articles or demos.
It comes from hearing directly from people already using it in their work and businesses.

This edition brings together founders, operators, and builders for an evening of honest, unstructured conversations about AI in practice.

No panels. No pitches.
Just the right people, having the right conversations.

You’ll get value from this if you are:

• A founder or entrepreneur using AI in your business
• Driving AI adoption in your team or organisation
• Experimenting and figuring things out as you go
• Curious, skeptical, or just getting started

Come ready to share real use cases.
Messy ones. Work in progress ones.
Whether you’re building with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, or something else entirely, bring what you’ve been experimenting with.
The best conversation starter in the room will be:
“Here’s how I’m actually using it.”

📅 Thursday, May 7th
⏰ 19:00
📍 Bartini Rooftop
🎟 Free entry, registration required: https://luma.com/93vvlbv5

🤖🌿 Bucharest Techies: Afterwork AI

Iesi de la birou si vrei sa te opresti putin inainte sa ajungi acasa? Te invitam intr-o gradina ascunsa din centrul Bucurestiului, unde oameni din tehnologie, filosofie, cercetare si antreprenoriat se intalnesc sa vorbeasca relaxat despre AI agentic — fara jargon inutil, fara networking fortat, doar conversatii care chiar merita.
Evenimentul este un afterwork organizat cu intentie:
Dupa o zi de lucru, vii intr-o gradina linistita, cu craft beer, vinuri locale si muzica soft, unde te asteapta oameni cu care poti discuta serios despre AI care nu doar raspunde, ci ia decizii si actioneaza.

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🎤🎤 Cum vor decurge discutiile?

Nu e un panel formal de conferinta, ci o conversatie relaxata, in stil afterwork.
18:00 – 19:30
Ne adunam, luam ceva de baut, ne cunoastem si intram treptat in discutii.
Apoi continuam cu o conversatie deschisa despre AI agentic:
– Perspectiva practica din comunitatea tech: cum este folosit in proiecte reale, in dezvoltare, automatizari, HR, sales etc.
– Perspectiva de cercetare si filosofie: etica, responsabilitate, limitele agentilor AI (cu oameni din zona academica, inclusiv Filosofie)
– Antreprenori si fondatori: cum integreaza AI agentic in business fara sa transforme totul intr-o “firma robot”

19:30 – 22:00
Discutii libere, grupuri care se formeaza si se schimba natural.
Poti ramane intr-un grup sau te poti muta la bar, intr-un colt de gradina sau la alta masa.
Muzica soft, bauturi si conversatii care merg de la carierele viitorului pana la scenarii mai sci-fi — dar discutate serios.

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🍺 Ce poti bea?
– craft beer locale, inclusiv variante de sezon
– vinuri romanesti alese
– bauturi non-alcoolice
Barmanii te pot ghida in functie de moment: ceva usor la inceput, poate un vin sau un cocktail mai interesant pe masura ce discutiile devin mai intense.
🧠 Cine vine?
– oameni din tech (ingineri, dev, product, AI) care lucreaza deja cu AI agentic
– cercetatori, doctoranzi si studenti avansati
– oameni din filosofie interesati de impactul social si etic al AI
– antreprenori si fondatori care construiesc produse cu AI
🎟 Locuri limitate
Evenimentul este mic si atent curatat — doar cateva zeci de locuri — ca sa pastram o atmosfera autentica, fara marketing agresiv.
Locatia exacta va fi trimisa doar celor cu bilet confirmat, prin Luma si WhatsApp.
Daca vrei un loc unde sa te opresti dupa munca si sa ai conversatii reale despre AI agentic, asta e pentru tine.

Are you ready to enjoy warmer spring evenings together again? We are, and that’s why we’re inviting you to our next Data & AI Engineering applydata Meetup, taking place at our Bucharest office on the 14th May.

Bogdan Beda: "Beyond Syntax: The Evolving Role of the Software Engineer in the AI Era"

Bogdan Beda is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, working on *Copilot for Work* backend, on a non-deterministic product using a codebase that is increasingly being generated by AI.
In his presentation, Bogdan will explore the new essential toolkit for the AI era – moving beyond basic prompt engineering to mastering product development, from system design decisions to validating outputs.

Costin Vilcu: "SOC Transformation in the AI Era"
Costin Vilcu is an Information and Network Security Professional with 20+ years of experience, passionate about Penetration Testing, Security Consulting, Teaching and Social Communication.
Costin's presentation explores how Security Operations Centers (SOCs) must evolve in the age of AI, from reactive monitoring to intelligent, autonomous threat detection and response.

Dana Juncu: "The Invisible Threat: How a Sticker on a Traffic Sign Could Compromise Autonomous Vehicles"
Dana Juncu is a Senior Product Manager at Diconium, working at the intersection of data, engineering, and product, owning end-to-end delivery of labeled datasets for ADAS & autonomous driving systems.
In her presentation, Dana will cover why AI security is fundamentally different from traditional software security and what it actually takes to build robust, trustworthy AI in safety-critical domains.
If you're curious, you can read more about the importance of Data Labeling in her previous blog articles: Data Labeling as Continuous Service & Traffic Sign Recognition at Scale

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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Our lovely community conference, Cloud Native Days, is coming soon, publishing the details here for more visibility.

Registration and full schedule on cloudnativedays.ro, use the community code CNB26 for 40% discount.

Cloud Native Days is a non-profit event, organized pro-bono by community members, super passionate about Kubernetes, cloud, DevOps, and open-source. The agenda is curated by volunteers running open-source meetups and conferences around the world, so there is no marketing, no product selling, just talks and workshops about real technical challenges. If you didn't make it to KubeCon this year, this is an intimate Eastern European option that everyone loves, already at its third edition!

What's the schedule you ask? Sampler below:

AI, LLMs, MLOps

• Is Skynet already active? How to build teams that can win the AI war – Alexandru Petcu & Alexandru Darie
• It's 3 AM and Your Kubernetes Cluster is Down: Why AI Should Be On-Call Instead of You – Viktor Farcic
• Teaching Machines to Debug Machines: Building an AI-Powered RCA Agent for Sylva-Core – Mihai Zaharia
• Battery-Included AI Platform: From Zero to Production LLMs with EKS, KRO, and GitOps – Andra Somesan & Radu Dobrinescu
• MLOps for GenAI: Enabling Autoscaling for GPU intensive workloads – Andrei Mihai & Flavius Petruca
• Empowering LLMs with Kubernetes Context: Smart Troubleshooting via MCP – Velmira Georgieva & Ross Georgiev
• MCP Security: Keep Your AI Agents from Spilling the Tea – Manfred Bjørlin & Awar Abdulkarim
• Small Models, Big Agents: Fine-Tuning and Serving SLMs on Kubernetes – Christian Melendez
• LLMs on Kubernetes: Same Cluster, Different Threat Model – Jake Page
• Building AI that works for people: A practical guide for developers – Verlan Irina

Platform Engineering & Infra

• Kube-Oddities: The quirks that keep Kubernetes interesting – Márk Sági-Kazár & Marcus Noble
• Multi-Tenancy Has Layers: Peeling the Kubernetes Onion One Question at a Time – Carlos Mestre del Pino
• Adobe's Platform Story: A New Platform Paradigm for Scaling the Kubernetes Fleet – Alex Petrică
• Scaling Blockchain Infrastructure to Billions of Requests: A Cloud-Native RPC Platform – Mihai-Alexandru Mihalcea, Mihai Stanescu & Marton Szekely-Schnedarek
• Kubernetes in Transit: Best Practices for Smooth Cross-Cloud Migrations – Federico Fregosi
• From N-Tier Architecture to Microservices and Agents – Adelina Stanciu
• Operating Istio in Production: From Fundamentals to the SRE Lens – Raluca Bica
• Declare. Push. Deploy: Releases in a Community-Driven Cloud Platform – Andrei Rucsandoiu & Vladimir-Georgian Mocanu-Prejma
• From Dockerfiles to Fast Starting VMs on a Millisecond Cloud Platform – Razvan Deaconescu
• From a Single Server to Scalable Kubernetes: Lessons Learned Migrating a Travel Agency to AWS – Andrei Petrescu
• GitOps in the Wild: How We Run FluxCD at Raiffeisen Bank – Mircea Anton
• Zero-Trust Multi-Tenancy: vCluster + Cilium Across Hybrid Cloud – Constantin Mario

Security, Compliance & Sovereignty

• Data sovereignty: What it really means? – Pawel Piwosz
• Galactic cybersecurity with Responsible AI – Gabriela Radu
• Ozzie & Nova: A Kubernetes Security Play – Whitney Lee
• Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for serverless functions at scale – Ralph Squillace & Alessandro Pilotti
• OpenSSF Projects as Compliance Infrastructure for Cloud-Native Software – Madalin Neag
• Bro, Do You Even Supply Chain? How to Actually Secure Your Software Supply Chain – Plamen Petkov
• Cloud Sovereignty through Federalized Telco-Edge-Cloud Convergence – Razvan Mihai & Marius Iordache

Observability, Resilience & SRE

• You Can't Prevent Every Outage, But You Can See Them Coming – Florin Loghiade
• Let there be chaos: Practical chaos engineering for resilient Kubernetes clusters – Bogdan Stan
• Outcome-Driven Data Architecture: A Spotify Listener Personality Case Study – Cristina Bocan
• The Paved Path to Observability – Kasper Borg Nissen
• Uh, is this a good idea? Examining the viability of reusable prompt-based workflows for developers – Adriana Villela
• How to leverage Open Telemetry in an AI world – Birzu Adrian & Maria Oprea

Register on cloudnativedays.ro using CNB26 to get the 40% discount. See you in a few weeks!

Three speakers. Three angles. One honest conversation.

During this year’s edition of FOMO – Festival of Modern Owners, RO AI Alliance is hosting a community event, bringing together different perspectives on what AI looks like beyond the headlines: from autonomous research systems, to production-ready AI products, to engineering experiments with new coding workflows.

Alexandru Dan (AI Professor, Ethical AI Ambassador & CEO @ TVL Tech) brings the research lens with a talk on autonomous AI exploration: how AI systems can enter feedback loops, learn from their own outputs, use tools, create subagents, and run experiments with limited human intervention. His session will explore ideas behind Autoresearch / AI That Learns While You Sleep, touching on Claude Projects, self-learning workflows, examples from tools like Suno and online experiments, and the bigger question of how these systems should be guided as they become more autonomous.

Stefania Budulan (AI Technology Lead @ Adobe, with cross-industry consulting experience) brings a builder’s perspective to “Building AI That Works: The Decisions Leaders Need to Unlearn.” Drawing on real-world experience delivering AI solutions, her talk reveals why promising demos rarely translate into business impact, and what leaders must rethink to build AI that is reliable, scalable, and actually used.

Tudor Predună (Senior Sensor Fusion Engineer @ Bertrandt Group) brings the engineering lens through a technical field study on vibe coding. His talk will look at how AI-assisted coding changes the way engineers prototype, test, debug, and make decisions. Tudor goes beyond the hype around “coding with AI” and explores where these tools genuinely help, where they create new risks, and what happens when engineering intuition meets AI-generated code in real workflows.

Expect a practical, community-driven evening with people building, studying, and questioning AI from different angles.

Where: AFI Victoriei Plaza, Blvd. Aviatorilor 8A, et. 2
When: 21 May, 18:00.
The event starts at 18:00 with networking and snacks.
The talks will begin at 19:00.

Bucharest Deep Learning is back with another exciting session! Join us for a deep dive into Streaming Reinforcement Learning alongside Florin Gogianu, presenting recent research on making pure sequential learning highly competitive.

The Talk: Revisiting Adam for Streaming Reinforcement Learning

Learning from interactions as soon as observations are perceived, without explicitly storing them, promises simpler, more efficient, and adaptive algorithms. However, for over a decade, Deep RL has relied heavily on memory-intensive replay buffers or parallel sampling to tame learning instability.

This talk takes a step back to investigate the efficacy of established batch-RL algorithms, like DQN and C51, within the pure online streaming setting. Florin will show that when appropriately tuned, standard optimization techniques can be surprisingly effective. The presentation will unpack the "unreasonable effectiveness" of the Adam optimizer , demonstrating that two properties are essential for robust streaming performance: bounded objective derivatives and variance-adjusted weight updates.

Finally, the talk will introduce Adaptive Q(λ) (AQ(λ)). By combining eligibility traces with Adam's variance adaptation mechanism and a bounded error signal, this new algorithm surpasses existing streaming methods and approaches double the human baseline across a subset of 37 Atari games.

Logistics

• Date & Time: Tuesday, May 26 | 18:30 - 19:30
• Location: FMI New Building (Politehnica Business Tower)
• Address: Bulevardul Iuliu Maniu, nr. 15G, Etaj 5, Room 503

Timp de discutii / networking / profesional / neprofesional.

Va invitam pe toti

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Majoritatea website-urilor arată bine, dar nu performează.
Nu este o problemă de design, ci de detalii care influențează direct deciziile utilizatorilor.

Acesta este un studiu de caz aplicat, dedicat antreprenorilor și proprietarilor de website-uri WordPress care vor să înțeleagă cum funcționează un website din perspectiva conversiilor și ce pot face concret pentru a obține mai mulți clienți.

În cadrul meetup-ului vom analiza un site real și vom vedea, pas cu pas:
unde se pierd utilizatorii

• de ce nu convertesc vizitatorii în clienți
• ce elemente creează fricțiune în procesul de cumpărare sau contact
• ce optimizări simple pot avea impact imediat

Nu ai nevoie de cunoștințe tehnice — totul va fi explicat clar și aplicat, astfel încât să poți lua decizii pentru propriul tău business.

Ce vei putea aplica după eveniment:

• cum să identifici rapid problemele din website-ul tău
• ce modificări merită făcute cu prioritate
• cum să gândești site-ul din perspectiva utilizatorului, nu doar vizual
• cum să îți crești șansele de conversie fără investiții majore

Prezentarea va contine explicații clare, exemple reale și lucruri simple pe care le poți aplica.

Pentru cine este meetup-ul?
Orice utilizator WordPress este binevenit: incepator sau avansat, profesionist, proprietar de site, proprietar de site, DIY users.
Let's share & connect!

🗓 Joi, 28 mai
🕖 19:00 – 21:00
📍 ImpactHub (Zona Universitate), Strada Tudor Arghezi 8-10📍 Link Google Maps
🙏✨ Multumim ImpactHub pentru suportul oferit in organizarea acestui eveniment.
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📋Agenda pentru WP Meetup Aprilie:
18:45 Arriving Time
19:00 Welcome & WP News
19.10 Prezentare: Cum îți optimizezi site-ul WordPress pentru a crește conversiile (Studiu de caz)
20:20 Support WordPress / WooCommerce & Networking
21:00 The End >>> we’re going out for a drink