Jurgen is CIO - Chief Information Officer at ISM eCompany, rated (a while ago) as the #1 fastest growing technology company in The Netherlands. He leads a horde of 100 software developers, development managers, project managers, business consultants, quality managers, service managers and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally.

He is primarily interested in software engineering, quality improvement and complexity theory, from a manager’s perspective. He is a writer, having published a number of papers and articles in several magazines, like Dr. Dobb’s, Software Quality Professional, Methods & Tools, The Software Practitioner, StickyMinds, Software Development Network, Computable and Automatisering Gids.

He is also a speaker, being regularly invited to talk at seminars and conferences about agile software development, project management, process improvement, and development management. However, sometimes he puts all writing, speaking and managing aside to do some intensive programming or to spend time on his ever-growing collection of science fiction and fantasy literature.

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Alexandru worked in software development for more than 10 years, both locally and abroad. He is currently a Software development consultant and trainer working in partnership with Mosaic Works, helping customers develop high quality software and working to improve the quality of the software developed in Romania. He studied in the recent years the influence of human factor in software development and continues to work to find ways to improve the software quality. He is an active promoter of the Software Craftsmanship movement in Romania.

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Johan is Sector Manager at Cegeka. He has more than 29 year experience in delivery of IT projects. He has always be adept of using the relevant methodology and development practices to deliver in a successful way his projects. He has been speaker at Javapolis 2005, 2006 with as presentation topic : lessons learned of applying agile development practices on a large project ‘ Ventouris’, and in 2007 on ‘customer collaboration’ – the BMW case. He has been speaker on the XP-days. Today Johan is the chairman of the Belgium Chapter of the Agile Consortium.

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Andrei is a software engineer with significant experience in developing and supporting open source projects. Over the last few years he has learned many important lessons about how to be a valuable member of a distributed team and about how to encourage collaboration, lessons that he would like to share with you.

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Radu is a dad, ex-lead vocals in a punk rock band, enthusiastic photographer, web specialist and Agile team architect. He worked for more than 10 years helping development teams to discover new ways of delivering quality software. For more than 3 years he was focused in doing this in an Agile way. Getting deep understanding and practicing better Agile becomes his main goal. Leading and facilitating a natural growth of a group into powerful team becomes his great passion. For him, team architect is that special position that generates and sustain beautiful teams. It’s about understanding pillars, creating bondings and generate structures, all in the benefit of the people.

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Catalin is a software engineer by education and has extensive experience as a C++ developer, mostly on Windows systems. After moving to project management and being defeated by Gantts he grasped onto Scrum and Agile and has not let go ever since. Right now he is acting as a line manager in an Agile organization, which sometimes may be very hard to quantify and justify. Because of that he tries to make use of his developer and designer skills as much as possible and generally talk his way out of trouble.  When not at work you may find him spending time with his family, doing a bit of work-out, reading a good comic book or watching a smart TED presentation.

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Bogdan Iordache is the organizer of How to Web, one of the most important web events in Eastern Europe, focused on web entrepreneurship and business on the web.

After finishing his studies he started Stagii pe Bune, the oldest and still the biggest IT-focused internship program in Romania and Conectoo, an email marketing platform targeting online publishers.

In 2009 he started How to Web, helping Eastern European entrepreneurs find the inspiration, connections and knowledge they need for developing their businesses. The first international edition of How to Web won the IDG’s “Best Romanian IT&C event of the year” award.

Bogdan holds a degree in Engineering from the Computer Science department of theUniversity “Politehnica” of Bucharest and also a DEA degree from the University “Lumiere” of Lyon.

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