IT Summit of Transylvania
2024 edition

Gabor Maté is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of four books published in thirty languages, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor is an internationally renowned speaker highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship of stress and illness. For his ground-breaking medical work and writing he has been awarded the Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian distinction, and the Civic Merit Award from his hometown, Vancouver. His fifth book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture was released on September 13, 2022.

Speaker Elin Hauge is a futurist, artificial intelligence expert, and business strategist. With her background from physics, mathematics, and business, she brings new and thought-provoking perspectives to familiar problems and connects the dots between the pragmatic here-and-now and the bigger picture of the future. Her talks span from value creation for business and society to responsible and sustainable application of algorithms.

Elin Hauge holds a MEng in Biophysics and Medical Technology and a MSc in Management Science and Operational Research. Her strong academic background from mathematics and physics, combined with broad business experience, provides a rock-solid foundation for her perspectives on the revolutionary opportunities and complex challenges with and around artificial intelligence.

Amalia Sterescu is an Edupreneur, Leadership Consultant, Certified Personal Branding Strategist and Public Speaking Coach, with over 25 years of professional experience, working both in the corporate environment as a leader in various corporations and as an entrepreneur in Education.

Erzsébet is a seasoned engineering manager with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry. She is passionate about building great products and teams, across industries.

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She is focusing on client infrastructure reliability in Google Assistant, a leading virtual personal assistant. Before Google, she played a key role in building a premium media service as a Director, with geographically distributed technical teams. The service had an increasing customer base in the Nordics and increasing NPS. Later Erzsébet joined a B2B fintech startup as CTO, where she successfully worked with scaling up the technical teams.

He is a creative technologist with background in leading innovation initiatives in XR and AI at Volvo Cars for more than 10 years. He leverages his expertise in futurist thinking and innovation management to unite creative and engineering teams. Timmy has a notable record of patents, awards, and mentoring emerging talent, and holds board and advisory positions in various startups, and organizations such as SXSW, EU commission, Unity, Zoan, and Varjo

Data nerd, productivity aficionado, enabler of people and organizations, and ... gamer.

Regardless of job titles, Sascha has always focused on making individuals, teams, and organizations work better together.

This sounds serious, but can also be good fun - like always when one does things that one likes. He is all about being productive in a lean - i.e., less wasteful - way.

He shares tips and methods for being productive rather than busy - often without being asked to. He does this, so people can spend more time on things they like to do, without sacrificing the quality and outcomes of the things they have to do.

Stefan is a fan of all things around technology, innovation, and nerd stuff.

At 3SS he is working together with engineers and architects to build and evolve an entertainment solution for operators and automotive used by customers world-wide - a constant journey of trial & error with a lot of hard learnings.

With more than 20 years experience in the IT industry, coming from a background as developer, working as project manager and supporting business development he has a broad perspective on the tech-side of the media&entertainment industry.