In 2018, Techsylvania reached across the globe for the ultimate industry experts and created an intense knowledge transfer between 40+ speakers and over 2.200 attendees, through 70+ keynotes, panels, workshops, satellite events, executive roundtables, pitching and Q&A sessions.

After such an intense 5th edition we’ve given everybody the opportunity to watch all speeches from Techsylvania 2018 for free. We’ve even included the pitches from Startup Avalanche.

Through these you can catch a glimpse of the fabulous event hosted every year in Easter Europe. Make sure you don’t miss the 2019 edition! Buy a €44,5 Builder Ticket or a €99 Premium Pass for a 360 experience.

As a reminder of all the knowledge shared on the Techsylvania stage, let’s recall some of the highlights. We’ve made a top 10 of the most viewed 2018 Techsylvania talks on Youtube and the most voted speakers (a big thank you goes out to all our attendees that filled in our feedback form!).

Sebastian Dobrincu (Storyheap) — What School Doesn’t Teach You About Building Companies

Sebastian Dobrincu is a serial entrepreneur, investor and software engineer. He serves as the Founder and CEO of Storyheap, the leading analytics and management platform for social media stories, helping brands and influencers such as Tumblr, Universal Studios, HubSpot, Selena Gomez, Kevin Hart and more, optimize their campaigns to maximize the return on investment.

Robert Altinger (Crossover) — The Soul of Engineering: How to be the Solution

Robert Altinger, SVP Engineering & Operations at Crossover has an interesting history with both Microsoft and Avanade technologies, with a hands-on experience in designing system processes, recruiting teams, and running multi-tiered, partially outsourced IT operations.

Niv Liran (Auto1 Group) — Optimizing Tech Throughput

Niv Liran is Auto1 Group’s Chief Product Officer and co-leads its tech department, which he scaled from 5 people to over 150 within 3 years. He joined Auto1 from Rocket Internet, where he was Vice President managing online payments and checkout experience for the group’s portfolio companies. Before that, he was a Director of Product Management at Groupon.

Ashley Carroll (Social Capital)- Capital as a Service Democratizing Venture Through Data

Ashley Carroll is a former Partner at Social Capital where she focused on early stage venture investments. She currently serves on the boards of mParticle, a multi-channel customer data platform for marketers, mPharma, a pharmacy benefits manager for sub-Saharan Africa, and Sempre Health, a US-based individualized healthcare pricing platform that improves medical adherence and affordability. She also leads the Capital-as-a-Service initiative.

In Conversation with Yossi Vardi — What it Takes to reate a Successful Startup Ecosystem

Yossi Vardi is an Israeli investor most famous for being the original investor in ICQ — the first Internet-wide instant messaging system. Vardi has invested in over 80 tech companies in diverse areas of software, energy, Internet, mobile, cleantech, and others. Many went public; and others were acquired — such as Gteko (by Microsoft); Tivella (by Cisco); and FoxyTunes (by Yahoo).

In Conversation with Florin Talpes — Using Market Knowledge to Catalyse a Fast Growing

Florin Talpes, is a visionary entrepreneur, who has worked in the IT security business for the past 20 years. Right after the “fall” of the soviet block in 1990, with his wife Mariuca, he created Softwin, one of the first ever Romanian private software companies and the mother company of Bitdefender.

Sonny Vu (Misfit) — Lessons Learned from Failure and the Most Important Skill for Entrepreneurs

Sonny Vu, Founder of Misfit (Acquired by Fossil for $260 million)works with founders to build companies that will have a positive, lasting impact on a lot of people. Much of his work is about getting technology resulting from scientific breakthroughs to market quickly. Current themes include materials science and chips that enable energy-related and other engineering breakthroughs and novel biotechnology that can massively scale synthetic biology for delicious, affordable and clean food production.

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