Sorin Grindeanu was appointed President of the National Authority for Management and Regulation of Communications in Romania in November 2017. Between January and June 2017, he served as Prime Minister of Romania. From 2012 to 2016, he was an MP and a member of the IT&C Committee in the Chamber of Deputies. He served as Communications Minister from December 2014 to November 2015. Mr. Grindeanu also has extensive experience in the local administration: he was President of the Timiș County Council from June 2016 to December 2017, and before that he served as a vice mayor of Timișoara City, a member of the Timișoara local council and Head of the Timiș County Youth and Sports Directorate. Sorin Grideanu is a graduate of the West University of Timișoara - Faculty of Mathematics, majoring in IT, and holds a Master’s Degree in Data Bases.

Paul Yewman is CEO of PostTag, the navigation technology specialist, a position he has held since September 2016. The London-based company provides pinpoint navigation to ensure drivers get to the right front door first time, every time without asking the customer to take any additional steps, remember a combination of 3 random words or an alphanumeric code. PostTag makes your address more precise saving delivery drivers an average of 90 seconds per delivery. 

In recent months, PostTag has expanded rapidly and is now working with major household names to greatly improve efficiency of delivery and customer satisfaction. 

Yewman is a world-class strategist and sleeves-up executor, merging the best of the corporate and start up ecosystems. He is an expert in relating technology applications to business needs and building win/win partnerships. 

Prior to joining the team at PostTag, Yewman served in a number of Director-level roles across financial, data and digital service providers, and has worked with high profile global clients to leverage maximum business value. 

In 2002, Mr Yewman founded The Property Investment Market, the first stock market for property which allows investors to build a portfolio of residential property in the UK and oversees. As Sales Director, he created and managed the company’s partner programme, and worked with investors, suppliers and Government agencies to deliver growth and strategy. 

 Sebastian Steinhauser is the CEO and Founder of Parcelly, London’s first omnichannel logistics tech start-up converting redundant space in local businesses and private homes into carrier agnostic storage capacity. With an ever-growing nationwide network of more than 2,000 Pick-up-and-Drop-off locations in more than 58 cities across the UK, the multi-award winning, smartphone-based solution puts customers in full control of their parcels by allowing them to choose where and when to collect and return their deliveries. 

Parcelly’s innovative technology platform resolves industry problems associated with first- and last-mile delivery, whilst driving air quality improvements and reducing white van traffic congestion. Expanding its value proposition over the past years to cater for a wide range of demands within the E-commerce, Retail, Urban logistics and the Corporate space, the company now offers a variety of services including hyper-local Warehousing, Leave-safe, Parcelly Agent, Key-Exchange and Corporate Mailroom management. 

Before starting his entrepreneurial career, Sebastian spent 7+ years in London’s City with some of Europe’s leading financial institutions. Prior to that, Sebastian gained experience in different strategic positions in Germany and France and obtained a triple accreditation in International Management from ESCP Europe.

Eduard Lazar is Head of Client Partnerships at On the dot. Prior to joining On the dot, Eduard funded his own business in technology and fashion, and held senior positions across product, engineering and sales. He designed, built, launched and sold enterprise systems across manufacturing and communications, attaining success most recently by going to market with On the dot and a number of global multi-national companies. Eduard is now looking to ramp up the partner ecosystem across multiple sectors; retail, pharmacy, food & beverage, and grocery, ensuring the timely, efficient and high quality implementation of On the dot technology.

Adrian Mihai is one of the founders of FAN Courier, the leader of the courier companies in Romania for the past 8 years. FAN Courier started its history in 1998, when the three Romanian entrepreneurs, Felix Patrascanu, Adrian Mihai and Neculai Mihai dreamt of turning the new formed company into the greatest provider of courier services in Romania. The plan became reality in 2006 and since then FAN Courier has been Gladly, Anywhere from the first place.

Thomas Altmann is  Product Manager Systems at SICK Austria. He has good knowledge of the automation industry due to long-time self-emloyment with own special interest publishing company.

Ionut is one of the Bringo pioneers. Co-opted from the start of the project, Ionut has used his Marketing experience and passion for Digital and Innovation to organize and coordinate Bringo's work in the best way. From the position of Logistic & Organizing Director, he has always tried to be one step ahead and helped expand Bringo in Iasi, Constanta and Cluj. Bringo is a 100% Romanian platform that helps you make your purchases quickly and efficiently at a hypermarket price and delivers them home in 90 minutes. Adapted to the digital lifestyle, Bringo offers you the ability to shop from the comfort of your home, choosing from over 50,000 products, including IT.

Pavel Penchev is CEO of Econt Express Ltd from 2000, Master of Transport Management, holds certificates in business management, project management and IATA certificate. The company, Econt Expres Ltd. is licensed operator of postal and courier services, with 16 years presence in the market. Econt maintains a large network of over 550 offices in Bulgaria with a strong team of nearly 2500 professionals. In recent years, the company opened offices in Romania, England and Greece. Pavel is the foundation of development and implementation of specific services in the field of eCommerce. Its active work in conditions of freedom and independent movement of money, goods and documents boosts sales on the Internet, currently over 6800 shops used the services of Econt.

Justine Clark is the Industry Marketing Manager, Transport and Logistics, Europe for Honeywell Sensing and Productivity Solutions. An experienced and highly motivated marketer with an impressive track record of achievement in B2B, IT, consumer electronics and commercial market sectors, she previously was Regional Marketing Manager - Europe for DHL Supply Chain. 

Cristi Petcu is the General Manager of Pink Post. In April 2017, Total Post announced the merger with Post Master, a company previously owned by the Austrian Post Group, the newly formed company being named Pink Post. In 2010, Total Post acquired TCE Post, founded in 2006, the main competitor on the private market of postal services in Romania.

Bogdan Ciubuc is the Sales and Marketing Manager at Vans division. He started his career at Mercedes-Benz Romania in 2008. He declares: "It is very rewarding for me to see that our constant efforts generate solutions for our customers in order for them to consolidate their business, allowing us to support the highest quality standards and offer complete and personalized services. Since our customers’ satisfaction is essential for us, we also focus on the best after-sales services, consolidating our national service network and constantly improving it."

Lucian Aldescu was the CEO of DPD Romania untill 2018. He started his career in transport & logistic filed in 1994, as a logistic manager for Eculine. In 1997 he founded, with James Gray-Cheape, Pegasus Courier, company acquired in 2008 by Geo Post – Yurtici Kargo Group and named DPD Romania. Lucian Aldescu graduated an MBA program at Tiffin University and was the president of AOCR (Courier Operators Association of Romania) during 2009-2011.

Elena Ionescu Turda has more than 15 years of experience in the banking sector with focus on transaction automation and digitalization. She is the CEO of KEBA Romania, a subsidiary of KEBA AG –an internationally active company that creates its success from technological innovations. Headquartered in Linz, Austria, KEBA AG is represented by subsidiaries around the world. For more than 50 years since it was founded, KEBA has stood for innovative automation in a variety of industries with many years of international market experience and solid application expertise: KEBA was a pioneer about 15 years ago in developing an automated parcel delivery solution (locker) and therefore prepared the market and paved the way for parcel automation. It is now the global market leader with more than 5,000 lockers sold worldwide.

After completing an honorable military career full of challenges, such as the first Gulf War and Romania's accession to NATO, Mr. Turcu got in the civilian life and in business, especially in logistics, as director of operations and developed in Romania a French multinational company. After he graduated an Executive MBA in 2005, Mr. Turcu founded RO SYSTEC GROUP and became the Romanian representative for several foreign companies that produce equipments and postal and logistic solutions: BOWE SYSTEC, SIEMENS, NEOPOST, VIPS FRANCE.

Cătălin Cîrnaru has over 15 years of experience in logistics, both in national and multinational companies. For more than 5 years, he is the logistics manager of Flanco Retail. Catalin coordinates the logistics department and deals with the supply chain of one of Romania's largest IT & C, electronics and home appliances retailers.

Florinel Chis is an E-commerce expert and Entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in delivering end-to-end solutions for major Online Retailers.  He is representing the Romanian E-commerce at both national and EU level as the Executive Director of ARMO - Romanian E-Commerce Association.