What an energy today, on the second day of Techsylvania conference! We have good reasons to say that, with all the speakers in the house taking on some hot and great topics that really challenged us to look into the tech and innovation world a little bit further.
The day started with Mark Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu founder who gave us a demo on how IoT and programming will be changed in the future, making all the developers in the room quite happy.
The long-awaited moment has arrived, and we successfully check day one of Techsylvania conference off our list. But let us name at least a few of the most impressive things we’ve seen and learned today.
There is a saying that who wakes up early goes far and we can totally agree with that, as it has all started early in the morning until the evening, with condensed talks of 20 minutes each, resuming all with about 22 speakers, including Tim Draper, DFJ founder, the highly reputed American investor to honour us into opening the conference.
Right now, as we are writing this from the Techsylvania event that has started this weekend, 16 candidates for the Startup Avalanche competition are preparing their pitches that can take them to Silicon Valley. We are therefore presenting them to you, as we might assume they will soon become some valuable and notorious businesses that will change the tech scene, names that you will definitely hear more about in the near future.
It’s the end of day two at the Techsylvania hackathon, which means the teams have presented their projects in front of our jury. After a full day and night of hacking, the 16 teams have each had their 4 minutes of demos. But only a handful of them impressed the jurors and won the big prizes. Read on to find out who they are!
A room filled with more than 130 developers, 24 hours of hacking, 16 ideas and over 20 cutting-edge gadgets to work on. We are here at the Techsylvania hackathon and these numbers represent only a part of what is going on for the two days.
Is there more to the Techsylvania conference than the already announced number of over 40 speakers, the incredible networking with more than 1000 people and the startup competition that drives one startup to Silicon Valley?
Yes, there is!
Developers and passionate hackers, this one is for you! We might just guess your excitement and curiosity to know what is beyond the 24 hours wearables and connected devices hackathon, so we’ve prepared our time machine that will take us straight to the final and most enjoyable moments of the Techsylvania hackathon – the awards time.
Swooooosh!
For Mark Shuttleworth, his journey into the tech scene has been fulminant even from the beginning and also paved with a lot of success that few can count as their own. Because he will be one of the keynote speakers for the Techsylvania conference this year and also because his professional and personal life are something to look up to, let us pinpoint some of this achievements that made us so eager to know him.
The World Wide Web Era
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“The Central and Eastern European region has become a major IT hub, spurring the international expansion of successful technology start-ups, particularly from Romania. Internationally acknowledged talent in software development has created a highly lucrative opportunity in Romania for technology investment”, says Bitdefender’s founder, Florin Talpeș.
This is probably one of the most important blogposts related to this Techsylvania edition. Not only that we have a tendency to save the best for last, but specially because this article summarises hundreds of days of hard work, commitment and hope to get Techsylvania on fresh and prosperous grounds.
It’s also about all the support that we have received so far to successfully launch a new and better edition each year. Reputable speakers that have never visited Romania before, valuable partners that have decided to join us for the second or even third time in a row, courted startups from across the globe—you name it, we have received an enormous boost and we couldn’t be more glad about it.
The only thing that’s on top of our minds right now is to deliver what we have promised: Techsylvania as a leading tech event in Eastern Europe. But we surely need your help to conquer this title. And how can you do it? By joining us on the 21-24th of May, at Students’ Culture Hall in Cluj-Napoca, of course!
