Neli Vacheva, Country Manager, IDC Bulgaria

Neli Vacheva joined IDC Bulgaria in December 2005. As a country manager, she is responsible for the company's Bulgarian business development, covering software, IT security, and telecoms markets.

Vacheva has more than 20 years of experience in the area of IT. Before joining IDC, she worked as an editor in chief of PC World magazine and on various managerial positions in Bulgaria's software industry. She has conducted numerous IT market studies covering a wide range of technologies and has extensive knowledge of the Bulgarian ICT market.

Vacheva holds a master’s degree from Technical University in Sofia and a diploma in management from Open University, U.K. In addition to her native Bulgarian, she speaks English and Russian.

Petri Markus Pekkarinen, Marketing Director, IT Product Line, Huawei Technologies Bulgaria

Mr. Petri Pekkarinen is a Marketing Director for Huawei Enterprise IT Product Line, based in Helsinki, Finland. He is responsible of launching, promoting and supporting end-to-end solutions for enterprises. Currently Mr. Pekkarinen is focusing on accelerating Huawei enterprise business in Nordic Region.

Mr. Pekkarinen is a highly accomplished business development executive with over 10 years international experience on Telecommunications, Information Technology and Internet Business. Prior to joining Huawei, Petri held various business development positions within ICT industry in Europe and Asia.

Mr. Pekkarinen holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from University of Vaasa, Finland and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, Finland.

Stoyan Zulyamski, Manager IT Operators Section, UniCredit Bulbank

Stoyan Zulyamski graduated NBU, majoring in "Computer Science". He manages “IT Operators” sector in “Information Technology” department at UniCredit Bulbank since 2011. Stoyan deals with the daily operations management of application systems like core banking, card and historical systems. He is responsible for the implementation of new applications and systems as well as for the releasе management process of the existing application environment. He is interested in sustainable solutions and conversion of IT as a service. The objective before him is simplifying IT processes and implementation of DevOps methodology. He has received recognition from internal development program of UniCredit Bulbank. Stoyan is certified in ITIL and PRINCE2.

Goran Car, CTO ComCloud, Combis

Goran Car is Head of Division and CTO ComCloud in Combis, a Citrix Cloud Advisor and subsidiary of T-HT, Deutsche Telekom group member. He has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. in Economics, as well as numerous special trainings like CCIE certification, alongside more than 10 years of experience on different business development, sales and management positions. He has been speaker at different international events and IT columnist.

Michael Velchev, System and Network Administration Manager, UniCredit Bulbank

Michael Velchev graduated St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, majoring in „Information and communication technologies“. He manages sector "System and Network Administration" in “Information Technology” department at UniCredit Bulbank. Michael manages teams that support core IT infrastructure of the bank - network devices, storage arrays, servers and infrastructure services and systems. He joined UniCredit Bulbank 6 months ago. One of the challenges he faced in the bank is the implementation of Private Cloud. He is certified in ITIL.

Ivaylo Stoyanov, Account Manager Public Sector, HP Bulgaria

Ivaylo Stoyanov started his professional IT career in 1997, working in various IT companies, including major Bulgarian distributors and system integrators. Prior to joining HP, he worked at Microsoft Bulgaria. He joined the HP Bulgaria team in 2011 as a manager "Sales Corporate Clients." Currently he holds the position of Manager „Public Sector."

Svetoslav Bogdanov, IT Manager, Bauhaus Bulgaria

Svetoslav Bogdanov is IT Manager of Bauhaus Bulgaria. He has more than a decade of experience in retail industry. He has implemented IT technologies in every aspect of retail business, from configuration of end devices to development of IT politics and strategies, organization and integration of IT and business processes.

Boyan Krosnov, Product manager & co-founder, StorPool

Boyan Krosnov, has been part of the technical teams building 5 service providers from scratch in 4 countries. In most of these projects, he designed the architecture, lead the technical teams and managed the implementation of the project. He is also a co-founder of ultra-high performance networking software company PacketScale, processing millions of packets per second on standard x86 servers. He is currently a co-founder and Product Manager at StorPool, a company developing distributed storage software, enabling cloud operators to build state-of-the-art high-performance storage infrastructure.

Atanas Kiryakov, Founder and Executive Director, OnToText

Atanas Kiryakov is the founder and executive director of Ontotext – a Sirma Group company, leading provider of semantic databases and content analytics in publishing, pharma, government and cultural heritage. Atanas joined Sirma as a software engineer in 1993 and later on became a partner and a member of the Board.

Sofronii Dimitrov, Managing Partner, 11235 Ltd.

Sofronii Dimitrov is Managing Partner at 11235 Ltd consulting company. He has 15 years of experience in IT area. From 2008 till 2014 he was working for Easy Asset Management Ltd as a Programmer, Project Manager, Head of “Software Development” department and since July 2010, as an IT director. Before that, from 2000 till 2008 he was an expert in KIAD department (Ministry of Interior). He graduated Master of Informatics from The St. Kliment Ohridski University.

Apostol Mushmov, Co-founder, 11235 Ltd.

Apostol Mushmov has an international scientific recognition in the field of applied mathematics and analytics. He is an associate member of the Royal Chartered Institute of Mathematics and its applications of United Kingdom. He has carried out scientific research both internationally and locally, which is supported by numerous publications, including for leading American editions. He has held senior positions in large companies in the insurance, telecom and financial sectors in Bulgaria for the past 10 years. He is author of the book "Reverse Marketing - CRM", as well as numerous related publications. He is often invited as a guest-speaker at a number of forums dedicated to client management and development. In 2014 he became co-founder of 11235 Ltd - consulting company.

Ivaylo Kostadinov, .NET Practice Manager, MentorMate

Ivo is .NET Practice Manager with more than ten years professional experience in software development, process integration, team and cost effective management. He has experience in build-up of R&D Teams down to strong technical skills, leadership, adapted for multi-culture, multi-site and multi-language corporate embracing technology excellence.

Prior joining MentorMate, Ivo was Senior Manager at Infragistics, global software company that publishes user interface development tools and components for a range of developer applications, across all platforms. Ivo is Microsoft Certified Professional Developer, Scrum Trainer and has MBA degree from University of National and World Economy.​

Dimitar Dimitrov, Technical Support Director, Euro Games Technology

Dimitar Dimitrov is EGT’s Technical Support Director. He has over 13 years of work experience as an Electronic Engineer specializing in the gaming industry and diverse range of gaming products.