Bulgaria Web Summit 2017



7 April: Interfaces. Experiences. Privacy. CSS. Design The Web. Accessibility.
8 April: $.JavaScript; $.Node; $.MySQL; $.React; $.Hacking; $.Django; $.R
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Join a great community of speakers and geeks from: Bulgaria Australia Czechia South Africa Macedonia Romania Denmark Sweden Estonia United Kingdom and Germany !

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An event about (almost) everything a modern web person should know.

Bulgaria Web Summit is an annual technology-related conference about the modern web.

Benefit: Practical technology lessons which you can immediately apply in your work and thus gain time and money. The attendance fee is actually an investment. An investment in yourselves.

Community: A balanced mixture of participants and speakers working in programming, design, marketing and business development. Find partners, colleagues or ideas to develop.

Party! In addition to the event we are planning a great party and other surprises for you. You should treat yourselves to an amazing weekend in Sofia!

Speakers

Behold! Some of our confirmed speakers.


Aral Balkan

Aral Balkan

An activist, designer, and software developer.



Harry Roberts

Harry Roberts

CSSWizardry. Front-end Architect, designer, developer.


Lara Hanlon

Lara Hanlon

Designer, Thinker, and Educator at IBM Design





Krasimir Tsonev

Writer, speaker and coder, designer with more than 10 years experience.



Tim Messerschmidt

Tim Messerschmidt

Android & Node developer. frequent speaker at events such as SXSW, JSConf EU or HTML5 DevCon.


Sebastian Witalec

Sebastian Witalec

Technical Evangelist for Progress/Telerik with over 8 years of experience in software engineering and architecture.


Mathias Buus Madsen, speaker at Bulgaria Web Summit 2017

Mathias Buus Madsen

Node.js hacker with more than 500 npm modules




Matt Stow, speaker at Bulgaria Web Summit 2017

Matt Stow

A user experience-focused front-end developer who just wants to make the web a better place



Meet Colin Charles

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Colin Charles works on MariaDB at SkySQL. He has been the Chief Evangelist for MariaDB since 2009, with work ranging from speaking engagements to consultancy and engineering works around MariaDB.

He lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and had worked at MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000.

Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known on the conference track having spoken at many of them over the course of his career.

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Meet Jurgen Appelo

Jurgen Appelo is pioneering management to help creative organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. He offers concrete games, tools, and practices, so you can introduce better management, with fewer managers.

Jurgen calls himself a creative networker. But sometimes he’s a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, or… Dutch guy. Inc.com has called him a Top 50 Leadership Expert and a Top 100 Great Leadership Speaker. Since 2008, Jurgen writes a popular blog at NOOP.NL, offering ideas on the creative economy, agile management, organizational change, and personal development. He is the author of the book Management 3.0, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations. And he wrote the little book How to Change the World, which describes a supermodel for change management. His most recent book is called #Workout, which offers you practical ideas to engage workers, improve work, and delight clients.

Jurgen can help you upgrade your enterprise with more engagement and faster results; He can show you how to become an agile businesses with better software; He shows you how to creatively manage your company; And he can inspire professionals with a purpose, advocating work-life integration for creative people. Jurgen is CEO of the business network Happy Melly, and co-founder of the Agile Lean Europe network and the Stoos Network. He is also a speaker who is regularly invited to talk at business seminars and conferences around the world.

Meet Krasimir Tsonev

Krasimir Tsonev is a coder with over ten years of experience in web development. Author of "Node.js Blueprints" book he works with a strong focus on quality and usability. Krasimir is interested in delivering cutting edge applications. He enjoys working in the industry and has a passion for creating and discovering new and effective digital experiences.

Right now Krasimir is working with technologies like HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, PHP and NodeJS, but originally he started as a graphic designer. Later, being a flash developer he spent several years using ActionScript3 and frameworks like RobotLegs. After that, as a freelancer he continued delivering full stack web services for his clients - graphic design, front-end and back-end programming.

With the rise of the mobile development, Krasimir is enthusiastic to work on responsive applications targeted to various devices. Living and working in Bulgaria he graduated at the Technical University of Varna with bachelor and master degree in computer science. He loves blogging, writing books and making talks about the latest trends in web development.

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Meet Anna Dahlström

Anna is a great UX designer and the founder of product studio byflock and their first product Glimt.it.

She’s worked client side, for startups and agencies on large variety of brands and projects, from websites and apps to TV UIs. She’s a regular speaker and instructor for General Assembly where she’s taught more than 30 classes related to designing for multiple devices.

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Meet Igor Mihalik

Igor Mihalik is experienced full stack developer and CTO at Ingen.io. Most of his time is dedicated to UniGraph - a global, language independent knowledge graph that aggregates various sources of structured data and unifies them under a single generally recognised schema.

Previously he worked as Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Pivotal. During his career he worked at various software engineering positions focused on software architectures, distributed systems and technologies covering all layers of software development and deployment stack.

He holds a PhD. in Transport and Communication Technology from the University of Zilina, Slovakia. His research topics covered natural language processing, digital signal processing, speech synthesis and signal compression. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland.

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Meet Robert Nyman

Robert is a strong believer in HTML5 and the Open Web, and has been working since 1999 with Front End development for the web, in Sweden and in New York City.

He currently heads up Developer Relations at Google for the Nordics. He also loves to travel and meet people.

Robert has Presented in 32 countries, and holds claim to the title of most well-travelled speaker on Lanyrd.

He is listed by Twitter as one of 23 Swedes to follow and 5th best developer in Sweden.

He has also run Geek Meet in Stockholm since 2006 – one of the first of its kind for web developers in Sweden

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Meet Etiene Dalcol

Brazilian engineering student currently in exchange in France through a scholarship. Lead developer of Sailor, thinks that Lua programming language should be the next thing and wants to teach programming to young ladies on it.

Likes going to tech conferences and cares about women in technology. Has been a speaker on various occasions and once got a Hackathon prize.

Loves travelling, is trilingual, thinks that learning natural languages is a beautiful thing and is currently deciding which one to learn next.

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