Cristiana is currently the Director of Operations at SelfKey, the leading organization in blockchain based identity management solutions. At the same time she is consulting in similar roles with other companies in fintech, international structuring consulting, tech and digital space.  

 Driven by the desire to support women lead entrepreneurial initiatives in Romania, as of 2018 Cristiana joined Global Women in Tech non-profit organization, as startup Program Manager. 

 Cristiana’s specialty is working closely with founders and CEOs for building scalable systems and processes as well as strong remote or mixed teams adapted to the current global context of multicultural interaction and collaboration. 

 Cristiana is also the author of Create a Remote Team module on Remote-how Academy, an ecosystem helping individuals and companies go remote through learning and development programs. 

Having a MSc in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and an Executive MBA in Innovation and Business Creation from the Technical University in Munich, she excels at bringing groups together to drive innovation.

Doina is a Women in IT pioneer, as the first woman outside the US to achieve the Salesforce Technical Architect Certification. She is an active advocate for technologists, speaking honestly about both the challenges and highlights of her career. This commitment to open communication comes from her personal belief that sharing her own experiences uncensored can be a platform of inspiration to people from diverse backgrounds to start and to pursue a career in technology.

Alongside her academic achievements since she obtained her MSc in Information Systems in Economics at the University of Tirana, she has also acquired practical experience in the government sector where she has worked as an IT specialist progressing onto heading the IT sector of the Albanian Paying Agency, and now as the Head of IT Sector at the Ministry of Justice, coupled with working as a part time lecturer at the Faculty of Technical Science, “Ismail Qemali” University, Vlora, Albania. 

These experiences have provided her with the opportunity to explore her passion for research work, teaching and her desires to learn new things. 

Furthermore, during her time in the practical world of work, specifically in government institutions she has been able to enhance understanding of E-Governance as developments in ICT are being used to transform and efficiently improve Government functionalities and civilian institutional operations.” 

She has a proven record in product management and as a product architect, software designer, applications developer, project manager, budgeting, license management and human resources management. 

She helped two companies establish and maintain their R&D/start–up operations in Serbia. Loves committing to success of her company and employees. 

Always on the lookout for the best approaches in the ever growing IT/Fintech industry to implement in her working place. 

She actively scouts new employees/contractors and is dedicated to constant education of current employees. 

He has founded over 25 companies that range from sole proprietorship in smaller local markets to several partnerships and corporations doing business around the world.

Certified by the UN’s International Telecommunication Union for building national digital innovation ecosystems, she is currently advising governments, organizations and corporations on digital transformation and innovation. She is a board member of a UN framework organization World Summit Awards, and а frequent panelist and speaker at ICT conferences worldwide on topics such as digital transformation and innovation.

She coordinated the preparation and implementation of the Action Pllan for Blovkchain technologies, which was adopted by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia in June 2018, with the purpose to start the preparation and implementation of regulatory framework for blockchain Technology in Slovenia and Europe.

She is a member of European Blockchaih Partnership (EBP) as a representative of Slovenia. EBP is organized under European Commission (DG CNECT) and is primarilly focused into development of European Blockchain Services Infrastructure with the possible use of applications – use cases (digital identity, diplomas, taxation, notarization and authentication, etc) of European and global importance. She is also a member of government advisory body of INATBA – international bloblockchain association. She is a Head of Delegation of the  Republic of Slovenia at UNECE/CEFACT and co-created An UNECE White paper on Blockchain Technology for SDGs 2030 as an UNECE expert.  
 
She is also an expert of social entrepreneuership, social innovation and impact, as she was head of department of Social entrepreneurship, cooperatives and economic democracy at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology and a member of European Commission Expert group on social entrepreneurship (GECES) as representative of Republic of Slovenia.  . As Cohesion policy expert she was a Head of department for EU funds and a Head of department for the management system and controls at Managing Authority for EU funds. She has strong entrepreneuership/industrial experiences as she was a director of affiliate office of an airline in Slovenia and a rpoute manager at Slovenian national Airline Adria Airways. She was also Director of the institution – Center of European Space technologies Herman Potočnik Noordung. She is experienced person with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Skilled in Policy Analysis, Analytical Skills, Government, Strategic Planning, and Marketing Strategy. Strong engineering professional with a Master’s degree focused in Business Administration and Management, General from Faculty of economics, Ljubljana.  

She joined Pentalog, the European IT engineering and consulting services leader, as Projects Director being responsible for the management of the IT projects at international level. Simona Sandru holds an MBA degree awarded by the University of Wales, an MSc in Marketing and an ongoing BSc in Computer Science as well. 

In her professional life she uses her expertise to continuously make the difference in the data platform space by helping customers modernize their data estate in order to achieve more with their data. She was involved in core banking transformation processes, complex financial data processing, healthcare modernization, automotive automatization and many more. At the same time she drives transformation internally in Microsoft improving the Data Platform products by working together with engineering team and sharing the experience from the field with them. She also actively contributes to the technical growth of her peers by mentoring, presenting about different topics and sharing her knowledge. 

At just four years old, she got her first Sinclair computer which sparked her passion for IT, a passion that has only developed in time and is fuelling her goal of making a difference in the world through technology.

A proven hands-on tech entrepreneur, she was focused on engineering elastic solutions able to accommodate the frequently changing regulation in banking.

After gaining relevant experience in this field, in 2015 she founded the company Reporting Center where she creates reporting software solutions for the European banking market. After she built a team around her vision, she managed to create a product – Elite Reporting Platform – an innovative tool to accurately automate the Regulatory Reporting for Banks and other financial institutions. This application, was quickly adopted by the Banks, as it was up and running in 5 different Banks, just 3 months after its launch. 

In 2018, she created TechVentures.ro an online incubator, where start-ups can schedule online meetings with their favourite mentors. Elena is a member of the Board of Directors for Tech Ventures Capital, a VC fund interested to invest in early stage disrupting tech companies. She is constantly scouting for tech talents, being present as a jury in various tech competitions – the latest is Global Fintech Hackathon Bucharest 2019. 

My mission is to become ForbesUnder30 (3 years to go). Finished finance, banking, and insurance at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade, MBA at Ivey Business School in Canada. Currently pursuing my Micromasters (Data Science and Statistics) at MIT in Boston.  

I am an ex-professional tennis player and I have run 4 half-marathons. 

Interests: Natural language processing, Explained AI, Machine learning, self-driving cars, extreme sports, and travel. Working on the projects in the government, sport,lawtech, marktech, digital health, and fintech industry. 

Engaged by many international companies for strategic data consultancy. Previous experience: Managing Director & Adriatic Regional Director of GfK (one of top global market research players), CEE Business Development Director Integrated Market Intelligence GfK, Founder of research start-up (integrated to GfK), Strategic Presearch Research and Trends Manager in The Coca-Cola Company. 

After she has finished bachelor studies of Business Information Systems on Faculty of Economics, she mastered in Information Technology Engineering on Faculty of Technical Sciences.

Her passion for business and tech comes from an early age, when she was competing in both technical and social sciences. Through experience in couple of companies she was working for, on analytical, development and management roles, she was engaged on the projects related to telecommunications, service and data integrations, mobile and web applications. As a young woman that was part of both big and small teams and companies, we are sure that she has a wide picture of the business-tech relation to share with us.

Now, Lucia is IT Operations Manager in charge of off-shored IT Account in Bucharest, for IT Retail Banks of France. 
She currently manages teams organized in one of the three operational models: Project Development, Application Maintenance L3 and L2 Functional &Technical Support.

I am Head of Marketing & Board Member at Global Women in Tech and Board Member of UniHub – Bucharest University’s Entrepreneurial Students Organization.  I’m a guest lecturer for the local universities, covering topics: Leadership, Marketing, Lean Startup, Startup Marketing, Digital Marketing.  
 
 
Previously, I’ve worked for local and international organizations, as Chief Marketing Officer, International Communication Manager or Program Manager, focusing mainly on developing innovative projects that enabled the power of technology for the social good and software product development. I’ve managed or been part of teams that developed innovative tech projects, e-government or tech for good projects. The primary market I’ve worked on during my tenures is CEE. 
 
I am passionate about how technology can change communities, data in all forms (Big, Small, Open), and working people who want to drive a positive change. I’m dedicated to advancing on the public agenda the topics of #womeninSTEM and #entrepreneurship for students.  

I have an extensive academic background, having degrees or formal training in marcomms, business management, UX, agile transformation, Scrum, Kanban, HR.”