Webit.Festival 2017

As partners of Webit.Festival 2017 we would like to inform the members of ICT Cluster about the latest news for the event.

In April, the festival will welcome more than 5000 attendees from 80 countries and over 100 speakers. Among them you will find some of the companies on the Fortune’s 500, top brands, policymakers, founders of some of the most innovative businesses and the most exciting startups, not only in the region, but throughout the world.

The event is held on 25 and 26 April under the patronage of the President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev, the Mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova and the European Commission. It will be attended by successful mayors in the country and abroad.

Your presence on Webit.Festival will make you part of a global community of some of the most influential people from 5 continents, who draw the future of the world.

The communication with representative of the highest levels of the private and public sectors will contribute to the development of your B2B Communication and will improve the interaction of your business with government institutions.

Speakers on Webit.Festival will share their experience in improving the quality of services, mastering new technologies, providing innovative solutions, creating opportunities to improve software education, cooperation between public and private sectors, development of healthy business climate and promotion of fair competition.

Along with Webit you can help for improving the level of public awareness about the state of the ICT sector in Bulgaria and develop the image of Bulgarian software and communications industry abroad.

Events during Webit.Festival are conducted in three main areas - Enterprise, Policy and Startups.

In Enterprise you will find out more about the world of software development (Dev Summit), marketing and innovation (Marketing & Innovation Summit), digital transformation (Digital Transformation Summit), managing large databases and cloud services (BigData & Cloud), financial technology (FinTech Summit), internet of everything (IoE Summit) and privacy and security (Security & Privacy Summit).

During the Dev Summit you will learn about current trends in topics like: What is DevOps, How can you streamline and automate Ops, Agile & DevOps, Boosting developers productivity with DevOps and Managing deployments and infrastructure with DevOps.

The conference will meet you with people like Don Dodge (Developer Advocate, Google), Jonas Jacobi (VP, Cloud and Mobile Technology Strategy, IBM), Peter Heinrich (Developer Evangelist, Amazon), Christoph Auer-Welsbach (Partner Innovation Leader Europe, IBM watson) and Patrick Hagerty (Technical Advocate, IBM Bluemix).

Meanwhile, the Digital Transformation Summit will give you information about the best practices of digitizing your business, so that in can be successful in the technological age. During the conference you can listen to top level speakers, such as the CEO of JetPack Aviation David Mayman, the Founder of Change Sciences Group Inc Pamela Pavliscak and the CMO of AngelHack Brian Collins.