9th ISTA Conference

ISTA 2019

Name: 9th ISTA Conference
Start: 2019-11-14T08:45:00+02:00
End: 2019-11-15T17:40:00+02:00
Location: Sofia Event Center

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14 November 2019Sofia Event CenterEvent completed

31 speakers
38 sessions
5 photos
26 partners

Programme

The 2019 programme

Times and tracks as the edition published them. Each session has its own page.

Day 1

08:45 - 09:30
Registration and welcome coffee
09:30 - 09:40
TalkBeta Room
Opening
09:40 - 10:20
KeynoteBeta Room
The Human link: the key to successful innovation
Frank Wammes · Capgemini
10:30 - 11:10
TalkBeta Room
Eliminating the Human Factor: Automating Cloud Security
Ivaylo Vrabchev · HeleCloud
10:30 - 11:10
TalkAlpha Room
Organizational Politics - Good or Bad?
Georgi Gerginov · Innovations in Software Technologies AssociationNikos Lambridis · Advisor Learning and Coaching
11:20 - 12:00
TalkBeta Room
Continuous Delivery & Self Healing System
Alexander Popov · Uber
11:20 - 12:00
TalkAlpha Room
Single architecture for on-prem and SaaS products
Rossen Spasov · VMware
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 13:40
KeynoteBeta Room
Global teamwork to drive product innovation
Anil Khatri · Leanplum
13:50 - 14:30
TalkAlpha Room
Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing?
Ivan Vergiliev · Heap
13:50 - 14:30
TalkBeta Room
Rendering is not what you think it is Or how to improve the actual visualization performance of your web app
Hristo Klisurov · VMware
14:40 - 15:20
TalkBeta Room
Is Test Automation worth the effort?
Tim Vellacott · Experian
14:40 - 15:20
TalkAlpha Room
Next level static code analysis reported in a next level fashion
Martin Vrachev · VMware
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:30
TalkAlpha Room
Hindsight lessons about UI automation
Viktor Slavchev · Clippings
15:50 - 16:30
TalkBeta Room
Teaching Robots to Program
Svetlin Penkov · Sciro Research
16:40 - 17:20
TalkAlpha Room
IoT Challеnges - Microservices and Edge Computing at rescue
Diana Atanasova · VMware
16:40 - 17:20
TalkBeta Room
The Five Quality Metrics You’ll Ever Need
Emanuil Slavov · Falcon
17:20 -
Cocktail

Day 2

08:45 - 09:30
Registration and Welcome coffee
09:30 - 09:40
TalkBeta Room
Opening
09:40 - 10:20
KeynoteBeta Room
Being relevant - a life of constant learning and taking action
Radoslav Nikolov · SAP Labs Bulgaria
10:30 - 11:10
KeynoteBeta Room
How to overcome Agile’s limitation to your development as an engineer
Bjørn Skou Eilertsen · Milestone Systems
11:20 - 12:00
TalkAlpha Room
Migrating data-intensive microservices from Python to Go
Nikolay Stoitsev · StorPool Storage
11:20 - 12:00
TalkBeta Room
The Future of Education (and the Role of Institutions, Schools and Companies in It)
Angel Georgiev · Musala Soft
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 13:40
TalkBeta Room
Fearless monolithic to microservices migration with Redhat Openshift container platform
Georgi Atanasov · Musala Soft
13:00 - 13:40
TalkAlpha Room
Service Mesh Interface(SMI) for Non-Traditional Service Mesh Implementations – is this a possible match?
Ivana Atanasova · VMware
13:50 - 14:30
TalkBeta Room
Building JavaScript at Scale
Minko Gechev · Google
13:50 - 14:30
TalkAlpha Room
Cost saving with auto remediation
Valentin Hristev · VMware
14:40 - 15:20
TalkBeta Room
A hybrid approach in the Serverless world
Radu Vunvulea · Endava
14:40 - 15:20
TalkAlpha Room
The amazing future of HR or why not HD .... Sounds good, does not it?
Stanimir Hadzhiev · Chaos Group
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:30
TalkAlpha Room
Content Reuse in Autobots
Pavel Hadzhiev · SAP Labs Bulgaria
15:50 - 16:30
TalkBeta Room
Making (Business) Sense of Test Automation
Iancho Dimitrov · Musala Soft
16:40 - 17:20
TalkBeta Room
Extending Kubernetes: Run It Anywhere, Manage Anything
Stoyan Rachev · SAP
16:40 - 17:20
TalkAlpha Room
Security testing - from lizard to wizard in 40 minutes
Nedko Hristov · TransportAPI
17:20 - 17:40
TalkBeta Room
Closing Ceremony and Raffle

On stage

Who spoke in 2019

Each name links to a profile that spans every edition they appeared in.

Every ISTA speaker

Alexander Popov
Site Engineering Lead, Uber
Site Engineering Lead, Uber
Angel Georgiev
Technical Training Lead, Musala Soft
Technical Training Lead, Musala Soft
Anil Khatri
Technology Advisor, Leanplum
Technology Advisor, Leanplum
Bjørn Skou Eilertsen
Chief Technology Officer, Milestone Systems
Chief Technology Officer, Milestone Systems
Diana Atanasova
OpenSource Engineer, VMware
OpenSource Engineer, VMware
Emanuil Slavov
Director of Engineering, Falcon
Director of Engineering, Falcon
Frank Wammes
Global Account Executive, Capgemini
Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Capgemini Europe
George Dimitrov
Staff Engineer, VMware
Staff Engineer, VMware
Georgi Atanasov
Director Technology Solutions, Musala Soft
Director Technology Solutions, Musala Soft
Georgi Gerginov
Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, Innovations in Software Technologies Association
Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, Innovations in Software Technologies Association
Hristo Klisurov
R&D Manager, VMware
R&D Manager, VMware
Iancho Dimitrov
SVP Strategic Clients, Musala Soft
VP Innovation, Strategic Clients & Business Development, Musala Soft
Ivan Vergiliev
Tech Lead, Heap
Tech Lead, Heap
Ivana Atanasova
Open Source Engineer, VMware
Open Source Engineer, VMware
Ivaylo Vrabchev
Head Of Professional Services, HeleCloud
Head Of Professional Services, HeleCloud
Martin Vrachev
Software Engineer, VMware
Software Engineer, VMware
Minko Gechev
Engineer in the Angular team, Google
Engineer in the Angular team, Google
Nedko Hristov
DevOps engineer, TransportAPI
DevOps engineer, TransportAPI
Nikolay Stoitsev
Senior Engineering Manager, StorPool Storage
Senior Software Engineer, Uber
Nikos Lambridis
Startup Business Coach, Advisor Learning and Coaching
Startup Business Coach, Advisor Learning and Coaching
Pavel Hadzhiev
Developer, SAP Labs Bulgaria
Developer, SAP Labs Bulgaria
Radoslav Nikolov
Managing Director, SAP Labs Bulgaria
Managing Director, SAP Labs Bulgaria
Radu Vunvulea
Group Head of Cloud, Endava
Group Head of Cloud, Endava
Rossen Spasov
Senior Software Engineering Manager, VMware
Senior Software Engineering Manager, VMware
Stanimir Hadzhiev
Head of HR, Chaos Group
Head of HR, Chaos Group
Stoyan Rachev
Senior Software Engineer, SAP
Senior Software Engineer, SAP
Svetlin Penkov
Founder, Sciro Research
Founder, Sciro Research
Tim Vellacott
Head of Quality and Projects, Experian
Head of Quality and Projects, Experian
Valentin Hristev
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, VMware
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, VMware
Viktor Slavchev
Senior QA, Clippings
Senior QA, Clippings
Тsvetan Angelov
Developer, SAP Labs Bulgaria
Developer, SAP Labs Bulgaria

Partners

The companies that make ISTA happen.

Organizers run the conference; partners fund, staff and equip it. Every logo links to the company behind it.

Organizers4

Strategic partners12

Growth partners1

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Event partners9

Gallery

ISTA 2019 in photographs

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As published

What ISTA 2019 reported

These are the edition's own figures, printed on its page at the time — not recomputed and not carried forward to any other year.

days: 2Published as a hero counter on https://istacon.org/history/2019/
tracks: 2Published as a hero counter on https://istacon.org/history/2019/
attendees: 850Published as a hero counter on https://istacon.org/history/2019/
presentations: 25Published as a hero counter on https://istacon.org/history/2019/

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What ISTA 2019 cost

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Super Early-Bird Ticket174 BGN incl. VATClosed
Early-Bird Ticket222 BGN incl. VATClosed
Regular Ticket264 BGN incl. VATClosed

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