Big Data Week

Community. Innovation. Vibrant. Valuable. Exciting. Inspiring. Words from speakers & attendees at Big Data Week 2025 and across all seven editions in Bucharest. The community is coming together once again on October 6–7, at Novotel. Join us for the 2026 edition. ✨

Exciting news 🚀Big Data Week Conference is back on Oct 6–7, 2026 at Novotel Bucharest City Centre! This year: Big Data & AI in Practice → real-world use cases → technical deep-dives → workshops Save the date ✨ More soon.

As we say goodbye to 2025, we want to thank our incredible Big Data Week community for a year filled with inspiration, insights, and meaningful connections. Wishing you a data-driven and successful New Year ahead! ✨ See you in 2026!

It's a wrap! ✨ A huge thank you to our sponsors and partners for your incredible support this year🤝 We’re grateful to have you with us! @eSolutionsTech 🔵 @MetalSoftCloud 🔵 AD/01 🔵 @Adobe 🔵 @cloudera 🔵 @EPAMSystems 🔵 @googlecloud 🔵 ING Hubs Romania 🔵 Tchibo

🔵 For our last session of our conference, we have Irina Baragoi, Senior Solutions Engineer at @UiPath, who will clarify the technical foundations and practical applications of agentic AI - enterprise-ready agents capable of executing complex, end-to-end business processes.

🔵How can you rapidly summarize patient histories, enable augmented clinical chat, & automate medical report generation? Marian Simpetru from @eSolutionsTech & Edvin Curban Gazi from Symfonia Softeh are presenting the future of patient care in the form of an AI Medical Assistant.

🔵 What’s the current state of AI in the energy sector? Vlad Bordei, Product Owner at Vollko, is taking the stage to discuss the challenges and the solutions on how AI can deliver tangible value in decision-making and operational support for the energy domain. We're all ears!

🔵 What is @AlteusAI? And how does it help organizations adopt AI effectively while ensuring security, governance, and cost control? Here with us to go through the details are Marian Simpetru, Managing Partner at @eSolutionsTech and Radu Gheorghe from Vespa.ai.

🟦 How can Agentic AI and IBM Watsonx create real-world impact? In their interactive workshop, Andra Bichea and Mihai Neagu from @IBM are showing participants how GenAI is transforming industries like healthcare, finance, and data-driven decision-making.

🔵 Horia Niculescu and Dorian Hodorogea from @googlecloud are taking us from the initial “wow” to the practical “how.” Let's explore effective execution through resource setup, team structure, and momentum-building tactics, then address the toughest challenge: sustained adoption.

🔵 Omar Hairani, Head of Data & Artificial Intelligence at Tchibo, shares their journey from data strategy to innovative Agentic AI. Through real-world success stories & live demos, we are seeing how new data approaches & emerging technologies are transforming retail at Tchibo.

🟦 Adriana Neagu, Privacy, Cyber, Legal and AI Governance Senior Professional, is equipping participants with practical strategies to identify digital and AI-related risks, implement trustworthy AI systems, and embed effective controls within their organizations.

🔵 Let's learn more about fraud from Stefan Filipescu, Data Scientist at ING Hubs Romania. How can we use AI to prevent fraudulent transactions? What are some technical difficulties that can arise in the process? We're finding out the answer to all these and more from Stefan.

🟦 Full house at the AI-Assisted Development workshop! @calofiremil, Head of AI @eSolutionsTech, is showing participants how to understand Cursor’s capabilities and interface, use AI for code generation, completion, and optimization, & integrate Cursor into their daily workflow.

🔵 If AI is building in seconds what used to take us hours or days before, then what's left for us to do? Dan Mihai Dinu, Engineering Manager at @boltapp, is joining us to explore the skills that will set you apart as an engineer & how to future-proof your career in the AI era.✨

🟦 Taking place now is the hands-on workshop on search, hosted by @radu0gheorghe from @vespaengine! Using Vespa.ai, participants are learning fast retrieval and ranking with BM25 keyword search, scalable hybrid vector search with dense tensor ANN, and more.

🔵Inaugurating today's AI Systems and Solutions stage is Petrica Vlad, Global Head of Operations at TP, to showcase their TP.fab AI platform meant to industrialize and scale AI across a global organization. We'll look at practical insights, tools, & BTS lessons from deploying AI.

Loving @bigdataweek so far! It's like we're 6 again at these conferences: - Hey, I'm X, wanna be friends? - Sure. Do you like playing with Y toy? - Yes, here's how. - Oh, I didn't know that. Nice to learn new things :)

🔵 What’s new in Cassandra 5 and what’s coming along with Cassandra 6? Serban Teodorescu, Database Reliability Engineer at @Adobe, is taking the BDW Bucharest stage to show us the improvements that make Cassandra easier to run and more powerful for developers. Welcome, Serban!