There's a question that every CIO, operations director, and digital transformation lead eventually faces: Why does our organization still run on bottlenecks? The invoice sitting in an inbox for three days waiting for approval. The contract that no one can find when the auditor calls. The onboarding checklist that exists only in someone's head. These aren't document problems — they're information problems. And they don't go away by digitizing paperwork. They go away when inf

Business Summits by Bucharest Tech Week 2026 may be over, but you can still relive the experience through our official photo gallery. 🌟 A big thank you to everyone who joined us for this special edition. Celebrating 10 years of Bucharest Tech Week wouldn't have been the same without our attendees, speakers, and partners. Together, we spent 5 days exploring the ideas, technologies, and conversations shaping the future of business. 📸 We've captured some of the best moments an

At EPAM Romania, where complex, large-scale cloud environments are part of everyday delivery for global clients, Alexandru Ivanov’s approach to Azure Log Analytics highlights a critical shift: treating monitoring not as a technical afterthought, but as a business enabler. His implementation focuses on three key benefits: cost control, proactive incident prevention, and sustained operational resilience by aligning monitoring with real business impact rather than default metric

AI is no longer a future bet. Most organizations already have copilots, generative AI pilots, automation projects or AI agents somewhere in the business. But the real question has changed. It is no longer “Can we use AI?”It is “Can AI perform across real systems, real customers and real operational constraints?” At Bucharest Tech Week – Future Summit AI, Concentrix brings a practical view on what comes after the demo: how companies can move from AI pilots to measurable operat

Twelve years ago, MHP Romania was a small team with a big belief: that if you consistently deliver more than expected, the opportunities will follow. They were right. From a single office in Cluj-Napoca in 2014, the company expanded to Timișoara in 2019, to Bucharest in 2024, and now counts over 1,100 people. But growth like this doesn't happen through ambition alone. One thing kept opening new doors: trust. Trust with clients. Trust within the MHP group. And trust placed in

From writing lines of code to leading a global AI team at Microsoft, Lee Stott has spent his career at the intersection of engineering rigour and human enablement. As a Principal Cloud Advocate, he has made it his mission to bring developer reality into rooms where product decisions are made. In the conversation below, he talks about the hardest lessons from transitioning into leadership, what production-ready AI really means, and why the most underrated skill in tech today h

Language: English Cyber Arena Romania: from awareness to practical exercise for more resilient organizations Cybersecurity education is becoming increasingly important in a context where digital risks are part of everyday life, both in professional and personal settings. Whether we are talking about everyday users, company employees, or IT specialists, it is essential that information comes from credible sources and is translated into the right behaviors. Today, the need for

In a world where brands compete not only with each other, but with creators, platforms, algorithms and shrinking attention spans, marketing has become far more than advertising. It’s now about cultural relevance, emotional connection and the ability to evolve without losing humanity. Few people understand this shift better than Lars Silberbauer, award-winning global CMO and one of the leading voices in brand transformation and digital innovation. Known for leading LEGO’s glob

With 35 years as an expat and a career spanning Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Alberto Borghesi, Global Head of People Operations & Innovation at Nokia, has led transformation at the intersection of strategy, culture, and people. His message is direct: organizations don't fail because of poor strategy, they fail because of poor execution. And execution is always, ultimately, a people problem. In the conversation below, he talks about what leading across cultures really

From enterprise systems at Broadcom to cloud-native architectures at AWS and now payments at Stripe, Ben Smith has built a career around one core idea: making complex systems understandable and usable for developers. Through hands-on demos, workshops, and real-world simulations, he focuses on bridging the gap between how systems are designed and how they actually behave in production. In the interview below, he talks about fintech’s biggest blind spots, the shift toward agent