Alexandru Ghenea

A 50 minutes introduction of sustainability in IT by Alexandru-Madalin Ghenea and Marc Cortada Bertomeu Synopsys: Do you want to improve the performance of your code while reducing its carbon footprint? Do you want to design your application considering emissions? Join us on a hands-on ride to learn some tips & tricks that will improve your architecture and code toward more sustainable applications. In this talk, we'll discover the importance of carbon awareness and green IT. Brace yourself as we unveil a wide-variety of carbon-aware solutions, ranging from high-level strategies to practical to hands-on examples of writing high-performant green code. Whether you're a performance enthusiast or a green advocate, this talk will help you develop the skills to make IT greener and write code that's both performant and sustainable.

A 15 minutes introduction of NewSQL by Alexandru-Madalin Ghenea and Marc Cortada Bertomeu Synopsys: Once upon a time, we only had two types of databases: SQL and NoSQL. Both had advantages and disadvantages, but this allowed us to choose the database that fit our application best. Then one day a challenger appeared: NewSQL. It promises to have the scalability of NoSQL databases as well as the transactional & consistency capabilities of an SQL database. Come with us on a journey to discover whether or not NewSQL is indeed “the chosen one”.

A brief, beginner friendly introduction into Cybersecurity. Some of the main concepts teached in this course are: - What is Cybersecurity - What are Threats & Vulnerabilities - Malware: Viruses, Worms, Trojans, Bots, Adware, Spyware, Rootkits, Ransomware - What is Phishing - What is a brute force and denial of service attack - How to protect your data and devices

A talk by Alexandru-Madalin Ghenea and Aurel George Proroocu about the threat trends in banking.