Our world is shifting from large data centers to small centers of data everywhere. The explosion of built-in intelligence, hyper-connectivity and data from the edge is reshaping markets, disrupting every industry and transforming how we live and work.

In this edge-to-cloud world, the future will belong to the fast. In this world, innovation is key.

Join us at HPE Discover More to see how technology, apps and data from the Edge, to the Cloud can come together for your enterprise to redefine experiences and drive smarter, hyper-efficient operations.

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Gábor Gonda – Managing Director – Hewlett Packard Enterprise Central Europe

Gábor Gonda is leading HPE Central Europe cluster since November, 2018 and is responsible for overseeing HPE’s activities in Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Slovakia, while also having the role of Managing Director of HPE Hungary since 2012.

Gábor joined HPE 20 years ago and held several sales and sales management positions, both in Hungary and on a regional level in various business units. During those years he dealt with HP’s businesses across the board, including imaging and printing, personal computing and enterprise infrastructures. He contributed significantly to the CEE success of Hewlett-Packard by driving channel programs for significant revenue and – more important – profitable market share growth across the region and businesses.

Radu Opris – Managing Director – Hewlett Packard Enterprise Romania

Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Romania, Radu has over 20 years in top positions within IT@C & Technology sector leading international companies, extensive experience in Team Management, Sales, Business Development, Commercial, Top Partner Executive Management and Corporate Affairs.

Entrepreneur, sales/results and target oriented, full of energy, well connected, knowing very well the high tech Romanian and CEE market.

Sorin Cristian Cheran – High Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence Strategist – HPE Competency Centre

Sorin is an AI Strategist part of the High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence Competency Centre, working for HPE since 2007. In the past years Sorin has been driving the Artificial Intelligence in HPE at the European level and in some cases worldwide. Known as an AI passionate speaker, Sorin also strongly believes in Beneficial and Ethical AI. Before HPE, he has obtained his PhD in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from Universita degli Studi di Torino in Italy and his Master in Nuclear Physics in Germany.

Alexandru Vîlcu – Hybrid IT Category manager – Hewlett Packard Enterprise Romania

Alexandru Vilcu is the Hybrid IT Business Unit manager for HPE Romania, currently responsible for positioning HPE’s Data Center product portfolio to the Romanian Enterprise IT market. He is a senior HPE expert, bringing the experience of customizing regional responsibilities to the local business environment. He holds many years of experience in Enterprise Storage business area and he is now driving the sustainable business growth for Hewlett Packard Enterprise selling to Romanian challenging and competitive market. He is a specialist in enterprise market trends and technologies. He is passionate about understanding customer’s environment and solving their challenges to drive their own profitable growth for their companies. Nurturing a solid partnership with the complementary solution providers, pushing it through the local partners’ landscape, he is a key competency source for understanding today’s demanding enterprise businesses.

Daniel Rusen – Director of Marketing and Operations – Microsoft

Director of Marketing and Operations for Microsoft, Daniel is an experienced salesman, with more than 17 years’ experience in the IT industry. Daniel has excellent business management skills ( MBA graduate), good mix of technical, sales and marketing acumen, experienced presenter with high capacity of persuading and motivating people, able to initiate change, good planner, focused on revenue growth and profitability through customer satisfaction, management of large scale projects.

Ducu Oprea – VP, Head of System Integration – NTT Data

DUCU OPREA is VP, Head of System Integration for NTT DATA Romania, part of NTT DATA Group, one of the top 10 System Integrators worldwide. Holding a vast experience in strategic IT&C management for both private and public sector, Ducu’s role is to enable organizations with strategic IT capabilities, in an integrated manner in order to contribute to the fast-paced globalization trend as well as to the digital society. For more than 16 years Ducu has been managing his own IT company. He also has over 13 years of professional experience in the State Department, in the field of special products. He is an MBA graduate and his education, trainings and studies cover nuclear physics, cybernetics and strategic management.

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