AGENDA

IT Days 2026 agenda. 11 November 2026. All times are local to Cluj-Napoca (EET).
14:00	Lunch break
DAY1	November 11^th 2026
08:45	Welcome to IT Days Ovidiu Măţan Today Software Magazine 08:45–09:00
09:00	(Re)Generating products today Ovidiu Măţan Today Software Magazine 09:00–09:30
09:30	Ctrl + Alt + Delete: Your Code Is No Longer Your Greatest Asset Andreea Pârvu Endava 09:30–10:00	Getting Past the AI Interviewer Bianca Moga 09:30–10:00	From Slack to Production in Under 5 Minutes: An AI Agent–Powered Deployment Demo Gabriel Arcaș, Ph.D. RebelDot 09:30–10:00	Let them hear you: Neuroadaptive AI for Human Communication Mihai Simedrea Symbiote BCI 09:30–10:00
10:00	Coffee & connections
	Products & leadershipConference hall	ProgrammingStudio room	Building softwareEuropa room	Hands on labsRoom 32
10:30	What happens if a company appoints AI as board member? Süleyman Temizer Bosch 10:30–11:00	The New Math of AI-Native Engineering Alexandru Diniș BMW TechWorks Romania 10:30–11:00	Builders with taste Thordur Arnason Gervi Labs 10:30–11:30	To Boldly Go… and Sometimes Fail - The Enterprise Guide to Leading in Uncertain Times Smaranda Ignat SAVENSIA 10:30–11:00
11:00	Technology Is Not the Hardest Part. The Invisible Architecture Behind Complex Technology Delivery Mioara Reyne BT Amplifier 11:00–11:30	Security is no longer for security teams Laurențiu Spilcă Endava 11:00–12:00		Your org scaled. Your decision structure didn’t. Szilard Kacso Azimut Happy Employees 11:00–11:30
11:30	Definition of Insanity Dan Mircea Suciu Computer Science, UBB/Colors in Projects 11:30–12:00		Temporal Graph RAG: Building Retrieval Systems That Keep Pace With Reality Ioana Barboș RebelDot 11:30–12:00	From Legacy Mindset to Future Fit: How Do We Adapt When AI Is Writing the Code? Ștefania Stănese Eberspächer Group 11:30–12:00
12:00	Coffee & connections
	Software architectureConference hall	ManagementStudio room	Applied softwareEuropa room	WorkshopRoom 32
12:30	AI Research - AIRI@UTCN Adrian Groza Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN) 12:30–13:00	Dead End or Restart in Romanian IT? Time to switch from Simple Execution to Consulting and Innovation. Doru Șupeală Hacking Work 12:30–13:30	A City That Can Predict Its Future Alexandru Luchiian Accenture 12:30–13:00	The A³ Framework: Designing Agentic Systems You Can Trust, Govern, and Control Laura Dioșan Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Laura Diana Cernău Marsh \| Babeș-Bolyai University 12:30–13:30
13:00	From Writing Code to Orchestrating AI: The Next Software Engineer Rareș Coantă BT Amplifier 13:00–13:30
13:30	Lunch break
14:30	Now that we are all product managers Mark Seemann 14:30–15:30
15:00
15:30	Coffee & connections
	Business and ManagementConference hall	Applied engineeringStudio room	UI / UXEuropa room	Human leadershipRoom 32
16:00	Panel: Business today Delia Albu BT Amplifier Adrian Florian Wolfpack Digital Thordur Arnason Gervi Labs Voicu Oprean AROBS 16:00–17:00	Environments of innovation Daniel Ciugurean Bosch 16:00–16:30	The usability rules AI changed, and how to translate them Diana Gabor BoatyardX 16:00–16:30	AI changed the rules. Now what? Veronica Cernea Snyk 16:00–16:30
16:30		We’re Still Engineers Radu Vunvulea Endava 16:30–17:00	Cognitive offloading Anamaria Androne Banca Transilvania 16:30–17:00	Talking to Machines: What Linguists Already Know About Context, Meaning, and Skills Sonia Pavlenko Ascom Mobile Solutions Melania Duma UiPath 16:30–17:00
17:00	No News Is Bad News - Building and Developing Strong Teams in Uncertain Times Diana Ujică msg systems Romania 17:00–17:30	Closing the last mile: from synthetic signals to real-world readiness Horațiu Marc Global App Testing 17:00–17:30	That’s just, like, your opinion, dude Radu Chelariu METRO.digital 17:00–18:00	From Documentation to Evidence: How ISO/IEC 42001 Is Changing Software Documentation in AI Organizations Monica Chiș 17:00–17:30
17:30	The Intelligence We Forgot to Upgrade Simona Bonghez Colors in Projects 17:30–18:00	AI, what are you thinking? Adrian Roșian WhiteCity Code 17:30–18:00		Documentation That Teaches AI: Best Practices for High-Quality Knowledge Bases Andreea Pelea Ascom Mobile Solutions 17:30–18:00
18:00	Wine & Networking

IT Days 2026 agenda. 12 November 2026. All times are local to Cluj-Napoca (EET).
14:00	Lunch break
DAY2	November 12^th 2026
09:00	From Human Voice to Drone Detection: One Mathematical Fingerprint. Gelu Vac MedicalPilot 09:00–09:30	Beyond Faster Code: Where AI Creates Economic Value Mihai Nadăș Computacenter Romania 09:00–09:30	Seeing Isn't Believing: Deepfakes and the Zero Trust Identity Crisis Tudor Damian D3 Cyber 09:00–10:00	Schrödinger’s Agent — resilient agents with Agent Framework in .NET Daniel Costea EU Agency 09:00–10:00
09:30	Into Unconventional Technologies Mihai Sarto Nemesis AI 09:30–10:00	GenAI: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Dragoș Cojocari Snyk 09:30–10:00
10:00	Coffee & connections
	AutomotiveConference hall	AI & agentsStudio room	Tech & DefenseEuropa room	Applied programmingRoom 32
10:30	Digital Fuel twin — alternative-fuel emissions monitoring and digital fuel certificate Liviu Crețu Bosch 10:30–11:00	TopoCurve: Geometry-Aware Topology Reasoning via Bézier Curves in Autonomous Driving Mihai-Bogdan Deaconu Bosch 10:30–11:00	Refactoring the Skies with Trajectory Based Operations Cătălin Roman Frequentis 10:30–11:00	Outcome-Driven Data Architecture: A Spotify Listener Personality Case Study Cristina Bocan Endava 10:30–11:00
11:00	Audio on Android Automotive OS: What Changes from Standard Android Cristian-George Epure Accenture Romania 11:00–11:30	AI SDLC in mobile development Joseph Daniel Tamas BT Amplifier 11:00–11:30	Defense panel Gelu Vac MedicalPilot Mihai Sarto Nemesis AI Alexandru Baboș Land Forces Academy / Defense-X Cătălin Roman Frequentis 11:00–12:00	Solid Light Mihai Oltean Cugirul Sustenabil 11:00–11:30
11:30	Architecture of Automotive GAS and Non-GAS App Stores Mihai Trăistaru P3 Romania 11:30–12:00	I Haven't Written a Line of Code in Over a Year. Want to Know How? Alex Popescu msg systems Romania 11:30–12:00		AI Broke Autoscaling: Rethinking Concurrency for LLM-Powered Systems Crina Boitor BMW TechWorks Romania 11:30–12:00
12:00	Coffee & connections
	Business & technologyConference hall	ProgrammingStudio room	LLMsEuropa room	ProgrammingRoom 32
12:30	Panel: IT Ecosystem Georgina Lupu Florian Wolfpack Digital Radu Miclăuș Betfair Romania Development Radu Jinga WE AS WEB Vlad Mureșan Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (UTCN) 12:30–13:30	The era of good enough Cornel Ștefanache AscentCore 12:30–13:00	Next ... seconds edition Andrei Crăciun Bosch 12:30–13:00	Panel: IT Communities Maria Bărbătei Bosch Ioana Pop Bosch Andreea Pârvu Endava Dan Mircea Suciu Computer Science, UBB/Colors in Projects 12:30–13:30
13:00		Today’s Data Engineering Cosmin Oltean Accenture 13:00–13:30
13:30	Lunch break
14:30	Homo ex Machina Thordur Arnason Gervi Labs Lena Thorsmæhlum Gervi Labs 14:30–15:45
15:00
15:30
15:45	Coffee & connections
	ProgrammingConference hall	SecurityStudio room	Applied softwareEuropa room	ProgrammingRoom 32
16:00	Panel #DevelopersRecompiled Mark Seemann Thordur Arnason Gervi Labs Lena Thorsmæhlum Gervi Labs Alex Cioflica Betfair Romania Development Cătălin Golban Bosch Engineering Center Cluj 16:00–17:00	Recompiling Developers into Defenders: A Security Champions program that actually works Daniel-Florin Pitiș Frequentis 16:00–16:30	BT GO Backend Refactoring: Changing the Engine Mid-Flight Marian Gradea BT Amplifier 16:00–16:30	One Sentence to a Merged Build: Agentic Engineering on a Real MMO Game Sergiu Roșu Devmob Studio 16:00–16:30
16:30		How the Cyber Resilience Act changes software development forever Andreas Sitar P3 Romania 16:30–17:00	Building Agent-Native Applications with AG-UI, A2UI, and MCP Edward Vlad BMW TechWorks Romania 16:30–17:00	Witloop: from conversation to open PR across several AI harnesses Sergiu Wittenberger Wittenberger Industries 16:30–17:00
17:00	Ending ceremony Ovidiu Mățan Today Software Magazine 17:00–17:15
17:15	Wine & Networking