Techsylvania 2018
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Hackathon Winners Presenting On Stage | Laura Kimura | 22m |
Three winning hackathon projects built working prototypes in 24 hours: a retail self-driving cart that uses Dialogflow + DeepWave TTS, a Sphero-simulated… | ||
| What School Doesn't Teach You About Building Companies | Sebastian Dobrincu | 19m |
Builds StoryHeap, a social‑media analytics tool that automates syncing Snapchat/Instagram stories after agencies report spending an hour a day manually… | ||
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| Fighting Corruption with Technology | Luke Mawbey | 20m |
Claims that current systems catch only 1–3% detection today and therefore fail, and that a scalable pipeline named ComplyDetect pipeline builds a usable… | ||
| Using Market Knowledge to Catalyse a Fast Growing Community | Florin Talpes | 31m |
Cybersecurity grows because cybercrime industrializes and new tech opens insecure gaps; Bitdefender reports machine learning for 8+ years and plans an… | ||
| Lessons Learned from Failure and the Most Important Skill for Entrepreneurs | Sonny Vu | 31m |
Built and exited Misfit sold Misfit for $260 million, then launches Alabaster to back deep tech in material science, biotech and food. Hiring means preferring… | ||
| Official Aftermovie | （unnamed speakers） | 03m |
Quick montage of Techsylvania 2018 shows a shift from general sessions to specialized workshops, a regional draw branded as the Web Summit of Eastern Europe… | ||
| Optimizing Tech Throughput | Niv Liran | 17m |
Auto1 scales tech from 5 to ~250 engineers by moving a monolith to microservices, then to vertical product teams that own front-end, back-end and mobile for… | ||
| Capital as a Service Democratizing Venture Through Data | Ashley Carroll | 19m |
Claims that data first processes cut bias by opening applications globally and making decisions from product traction only Result is 42% female founders and… | ||
| What to Develop Now: Your Product or Your Business | Elies Campo | 21m |
Advice boils down to specifics: go to Silicon Valley early and cheaply (Airbnb, hacker houses) to get introductions; WhatsApp runs on a lean infrastructure and… | ||
| Building the Future How We Created Our New Platform For Growth | Paul Cutter | 20m |
Two legacy platforms become one unified production platform running all brands since January, built as an OpenStack private cloud with Nuage SDN on Arista… | ||
| Investments in Romania from Another Perspective | Michelle Messina, David Kashak, Luke Mawbey, Ondrej Bartos, Ruta Laukien | 31m |
Investors describe concrete wins and gaps: a Prague VC lists three Romanian bets including Brainy (acquired by Teads in 2016) and an early seed in UiPath; a… | ||
| Stick to The Basics Product & User | Akis Evangelidis | 22m |
OnePlus grows from zero to 1.4 billion revenue in four years by obsessing over users and pragmatic product choices: a 1.5 million-member forum drives polls… | ||
| The Soul of Engineering: How to be the Solution | Robert Altinger | 17m |
Argues that engineers are moving into power centers and must produce concrete results: only 2% do stuff while 90% sit on the couch, so build things that work… | ||
| What it Takes to reate a Successful Startup Ecosystem | Yossi Vardi | 33m |
Lists specific exits (ICQ, Answers.com, FoxyTunes, Mobileye sold to Intel), invests in 86 internet companies with 30 failed and ~32 exits, and counts ~25 still… | ||
| Future of Advertising | Katherine Manderfield | 21m |
Advertising is a nearly $600 billion industry shifting from banners to longform branded content and publisher partnerships; Facebook in 2018 grabs 56.8% of US… | ||
| Solve for AI | Japjit Tulsi | 16m |
eBay builds an in-house multimodal shopping assistant combining vision, NLU and dialogue that searches images, text and voice and even reacts to emojis; models… | ||
| On Product, Empathy and Creating a User Centric Culture | Ted Persson | 18m |
Argues product equals the intersection of design, engineering and business and gives three concrete moves: hire a hands‑on product person paired with a doer… | ||
| Notes: Team, Community, Growth, Cities | Di-Ann Eisnor | 22m |
Argues that Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America are underused innovation hotspots, with smaller countries producing top tech talent and faster… | ||
| Founder Story Life is a Lottery | Kaidi Ruusalepp | 20m |
Kaidi Ruusalepp, Founder & CEO at Funderbeam (Creator of the Global Startup Stock Exchange) - https://techsylvania.co/speakers/kaidi-ruusalepp/
Check out the… | ||
| Future of Money | Omer Tetik | 19m |
In Conversation with Omer Tetik, CEO at Banca Transilvania - https://techsylvania.co/speakers/omer-tetik/
Philipp Kandal (Telenav) - Moderator | ||
| Build Your Next App with Electron | Jeremy Apthorp | 17m |
Electron combines Chromium + Node.js to give web stacks native OS access (windows, notifications, clipboard) and is used to build Slack, GitHub Atom, Skype… | ||
| Data Technology Enabled AI Solutions | Xuan Jin | 20m |
Alibaba Cloud describes a data governance stack that consolidates siloed business data into one data one ID one service, runs ML models on cloud-scale compute… | ||
| Notes Team, Community, Growth, Cities | Di-Ann Eisnor | 23m |
Describes how Waze grows from a blank map to a platform used by broadcasters and cities using concrete experiments: gamification with points and cupcakes that… | ||
| How to Slay a Dragon | Jeremy Fisher | 14m |
Advice: don’t try to out-feature a giant; instead pick a single, different core and scale it. The talk argues products win by focusing on one thing really well… | ||
| The Advantages of Building Your AI Stack In house | Micha Breakstone | 19m |
Chorus.ai builds its own stack: real-time conversation cloud pushes to Salesforce, voice activity detection moved from GMM to deep nets, universal background… | ||
| Purposeful leadership & entrepreneurship as a journey of personal growth | Max Niederhofer | 24m |
Argues that founders must shift from fear and scarcity to a purpose-driven approach, claiming 400% increase in work engagement and 200% boost in productivity… | ||
| Long Term Impact of Artificial Intelligence | Philipp Kandal, Newton Howard, Xuan Jin, Catalin Golban, Micha Breakstone | 30m |
Panel describes a deployed city brain that reroutes traffic, gives pre‑green lights to emergency vehicles, and uses facial recognition for threat detection… | ||
| What Do We Mine Next | Alex Shulgin | 22m |
Describes how mining created multimillionaires and built real infrastructure: Bitfury data centers in six countries become large-scale mining farms, and claims… | ||
| Run Less Software | Rich Archbold | 21m |
Claim: run less software by standardizing tech, outsourcing undifferentiated heavy lifting, and spending saved time on real competitive advantage. Intercom… | ||
| Opening Remarks Day 1 | Emil Boc | 17m |
Cluj-Napoca pitches itself as an innovation hub with concrete claims: 100,000 students, a 2.5 million‑passenger airport, more than 25 banks, and a national… | ||
| Going International | Rohan Chandran, Dan Isai, Sergiu Biris, Mihai Dragan, Bogdan Colceriu | 34m |
Panel argues companies should design for scale from day one while keeping a solid home base: Salad Box reports expansion to 12 countries on three continents… | ||
| Digital Transatlantic Bridges | Joshua Burke, Peter Gersak, Frederic Boulanger, Pat Sheridan, Lucas Roh | 37m |
Romania hosts ~3,000 IBM staff across four delivery centers that build core products (the Watson scoring engine is produced there), a Canadian firm ships… | ||
| Startup Avalanche Finals | （unnamed speakers） | 01h 05m |
280 applications, 15 finalists, 6 pitching tonight and each pitch gives concrete traction numbers and business models rather than buzzwords. Fastcast claims… | ||
| Opening Remarks 2nd Day | Sorin Zavelita | 04m |
Crossover says it has grown a Romania team to over 200 people after 15 years in large corporates, is a platinum sponsor of Techsylvania, and backs the… | ||
| Closing Ceremony & Startup Avalanche Prize Offered by Arobs | （unnamed speakers） | 11m |
Announcement names Troop Travel as the Startup Avalanche winner and awards a trip to Silicon Valley plus a TechCrunch Disrupt table in San Francisco. Fifteen… | ||
| Opening moment hosted by E.ON @Techsylvania 2018 | 06m | |
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| The New Startup: How to Build a Company Through Token Sales and ICO's | John Biggs | 20m |
Claims that ICOs are here to stay, usually awful, and worth doing only if risk-tolerant; best-performing launches pair a technical founder and a blockchain… | ||
| Important New Trend Lines in Europe | Steffi Czerny | 22m |
DLD Media launches DLD in 2005 and books early unknowns — brought Zuckerberg at 2M users and booked Lady Gaga before fame — to argue that the real value is… | ||
| Techsylvania 2018 Opening Remarks | 06m | |
Fifth annual Techsylvania draws 2,000 registered attendees and starts about ten minutes late as organizers note a much bigger lineup and a long campaign to… | ||
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