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But speaking of Unicorns, we must return to the basics: what is a startup? In this over-competitional world, some forget to fortify the theoretical parts before getting to the practical ones. John Biggs went to the core of these problems, presenting the challenges found within a startup, how to overcome them and what are the natural steps in its development.<\/p>\n In this area also, we had some other interesting points of view from Matt Michelsen who presented lessons learned from successful startups and discussed within a panel between Andrei Piti\u0219, Mihaela Urzica, Viktoria Albrecht, Sean Kane, and Delia Iliasa a contemporary problem, that of startups and corporations working together.<\/p>\n How safe are we?<\/strong><\/p>\n If you were present today, you certainly found out some unknown facts regarding your online safety, from the one and only Ethical Hacker \u2014 Ralph Echemendia. Touching the same matters, Ricardo Mendez from Samsung NEXT, told us more about identity & privacy in these times and revealed on-point insights due to his company\u2019s expertize.<\/p>\n When it comes to the success of a technology team, most of the experts are uncertain, because there seem to be a lot of factors to be taken into consideration. But Aryk Grosz put forth an idea: only the odd survive. After scaling his technology teams from Mixbook, we can certainly learn from his viewpoint.<\/p>\n During this day we also transited many areas of technology: healthcare, aerospace, fintech. The following topics completed our agenda:<\/p>\n The Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n Moving over to the workshop scene, we sensed some new ideas being born under the close watch of our mentors. The ice-breaker of the day was Andre Duis from Metronom, presenting\u00a0modern operations approaches for microservice architectures<\/strong>. IT organizations are overwhelmed with demands of moving faster and faster, and abilities such as breaking up monolithic applications into smaller, independently managed and updated components seem the way forward, so Andre\u2019s workshop was well-appreciated.<\/p>\n Legal matters can stand in the way of the success of your business, but can also propel it when done rightly. For these topics to be clarified, we had Achim-Sorin R\u0103zoare from Lauren\u0163iu, Lauren\u021biu & Associates to present\u00a0tricks & tips for venture deals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n And since we are pretty self-centered as beings, we found out that product designs should take the same shape: human-centered. Leaving the jokes behind, we had a really insightful workshop with J. Cornelius from Nine Labs putting the technical aspects of\u00a0human-centered product design<\/strong>\u00a0into the light.<\/p>\n We also discovered Fitbit behind the scenes with Andrei Dragomir, Scaling-up internationally with digital, alongside Anabela Luca from Adlemonade and Journey Mapping with Caroline Zenss from Macadamian.<\/p>\n The Q & A stage<\/strong><\/p>\n The Q & A stages have proven to be a success at their first edition, last year, and we decided to proceed further with them this year also. People who are really interested in certain topics presented on the conference stage, seem to leave the room with questions because they don\u2019t have the opportunity to detail the topics with the speakers.<\/p>\n Thus, this year, the second in the history of Techsylvania Q&A, there were a lot of questions answered and problems solved due to the interaction between the speakers and attendees. We had the pleasure to discuss with Ion Stoica, Ajey Gore, Shane Luke, Donald DeSantis, Rohan Chandran, Adam Jackson, and Sakshi Chhabra Mittal.<\/p>\n Thank you for your energy and curiosity and see you tomorrow for another round!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not that bad of a Monday, was it? The 2019 Techsylvania Conference started today and we enjoyed together a whole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,21,22,24,51,64,86,99],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-techsylvania","tag-code","tag-product","tag-technology","tag-cluj-napoca","tag-innovation","tag-tech-event","tag-tech-conference"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/v2\/resize:fit:640\/format:webp\/1*_5GR0pQto-ukGKiCFj5ZxQ.jpeg)
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