17-20
FEBRUARY 2022
BUCHAREST
24th GLOBAL EDITION
3rd EDITION IN ROMANIA

Co-hosted by

Thursday, February 17

19:00 - 22:00

Pre-conference VIP party (limited to 40 guests)

Friday, February 18

08:00 - 10:00

Welcome Breakfast

10:00 - 17:00

Full Day Conference (please see below our detailed agenda)

19:30 - 22:00

Gastronomic Experience @ Casa Timis Winery

Saturday, February 19

08:00 - 10:00

Breakfast

11:00 - 12:00

Private tour of the Casa Timis Winery

13:00 - 14:00

Private tour of the Alexandrion Group Distillery

14:00 - 16:00

Late lunch in the Alexandrion Wine Cellar

20:00 - 22:00

Special dinner experience

Sunday, February 20

08:00 - 09:00

Breakfast

09:00 - 11:00

Drive to Sinaia

11:00 - 12:30

Private tour - Legendary Peles Castle (built by King Carol I between 1873 - 1914)

12:30 - 13:00

Visit Sinaia Monastery (founded by Prince Mihail Cantacuzino in 1695)

13:00 - 14:30

Traditional Lunch @ Taverna Sarbului

14:30 - 15:30

Embark on a picturesque drive to Bran

15:30 - 17:30

Private tour - Bran Castle (aka Dracula’s Castle - established in 1388)

17:30 - 20:00

Drive back to Bucharest

Speakers

Brock Pierce

Chairman
Bitcoin Foundation

Crystal Rose Pierce

Chairwoman
Executive Director
United Councils of Rising Nations

Craig Sellars

Founder
Tether

Ligia Munteanu

Master of Ceremonies

Sebastian Burduja

Member of Romanian Parliament

Simona Vasile

Partner
KPMG

Alexandru Petrescu

Former Minister of Communication & Information Society & former Minister of Economy

Augustin Jianu

Former Minister of Communication & Information Society

Octavian Oprea

Vice President
Romanian Authority for Digitalization

Mike Costache

Chairman & CEO
d10e

Antonio Eram

CEO
Netopia Payments

Paul Ivan

Parliamentary Advisor
Innovation & Emerging Technologies, Romanian Parliament

Bogdan Buta

Managing Associate
DLA Piper

Ruslan Gavrilyuk

CEO
teQatlas & TaaS Capital

Andrei Burz-Pinzaru

Managing Partner
Deloitte Legal

George Rotariu

CEO
Bitcoin Romania

Sebastian Cochinescu

Founder & CEO
Tailpath.com

Brock Pierce

Chairman, Bitcoin Foundation

Craig Sellars

Founder,
Tether

Crystal Rose Pierce

Executive Chairperson, Bitcoin Foundation & Founder/CEO, Sense Labs

Sebastian Burduja

Member of Romanian Parliament

Claudiu Muresan

Senator & President, Senate Commission for Budget, Finance & Capital Markets, Romanian Parliament

Andi Cristea

Member of Romanian Parliament & President, Foreign Relations Committee

Individual Speakers
(to be invited/confirmed)

Klaus Iohannis

President, Romania

Nicolae Ciuca

Prime Minister, Romania

Mugur Isarescu

Governor, National Bank of Romania

Catalin Predoiu

Minister of Justice, Romanian Government

Adrian Caciu

Minister of Finance, Romanian Government

Mirela Calugareanu

President, Romanian National Fiscal Authority

David Muniz

Charge d’Affairs, U.S. Embassy Bucharest

Dan Nitescu

Senior Advisor, National Bank of Romania

Co-hosted by:

Conference Agenda
(Friday, February 18)

10:00 - 10:05

Welcome by Master of Ceremonies

10:05 - 10:20

Welcome remarks by Mike Costache, Chairman & CEO, d10e

10:20 - 10:40

Keynote Speech by Brock Pierce, Chairman, Bitcoin Foundation

10:40 - 10:55

Keynote Speech by Crystal Rose Pierce, Chairperson, Bitcoin Foundation

10:55 - 11:10

Keynote Speech by Sebastian Burduja, Member of Romanian Parliament

11:10 - 11:25

Keynote Speech by Alexandru Petrescu, Former Minister of Economy

11:25 - 11:40

Keynote Speech by Craig Sellars, Founder, Tether

11:40 - 11:55

Keynote Speech by Antonio Eram, CEO, Netopia Payments

11:55 - 12:10

Keynote Speech by Andi Cristea, Member of Romanian Parliament & President, Foreign Relations Committee

12:10 - 12:25

Keynote Speech by Augustin Jianu, Entrepreneur & Former Minister of Information & Communication Technologies

12:25 - 12:40

Keynote Speech by Andrei Burz-Pandaru, Managing Partner, Deloitte Legal Romania

12:40 - 14:00

Special lunch

14:00 - 14:15

Keynote Speech by Sebastian Cochinescu, Founder & CEO, Tailpath

14:15 - 14:30

Keynote Speech

14:30 - 14:45

Keynote speech by Bogdan Buta, Managing Associate, DLA Piper

14:45 - 15:00

Keynote speech by Reginald Ammons, Vice President, Bitcoin Romania

15:00 - 15:45

NFT Charity Auction by Artmark

15:45 - 16:00

Keynote Speech by Paul Ivan, Parliamentary Advisor, Innovation & Emerging Technologies, Romanian Parliament

16:00 - 16:20

Keynote Speech by Simona Vasile, KPMG

12:00 - 12:30

Fireside Chat (Mike Costache with Sebastian Burduja)

12:30 - 14:00

Special lunch

Event Partners

Official Functional Water Sponsor

Global Broadcast Partner

Strategic Partners
(to be confirmed)

Romanian Business Leaders

AmCham

Unicorn.org

Ecosystem Partners
(to be confirmed)

TechHub

Techsylvania

How2Web

SeedBlink

TechAngels Romania

RocaX

Educational Partners

Romanian American University

Economics Univeristy of Bucharest (ASE)

Educativa Group

Media Partners
(to be confirmed)

TVR

Digi24

MediaPro

Antena3

Aleph News

Lagardere

Forbes

Ziarul Financiar

Business Magazine

Business Review

Q Magazine

Revista Cariere

MTR Press (Luxury, Real Estate, Connect)

G4S

Wall-Street.ro

Profit.ro

Start-up.ro

Juritice.ro

Startups.ro

NFT Charity Auction Beneficiary
(21.000€ raised)

The funds raised at our NFT charity auction benefit Asociația OvidiuRo whose mission is to make quality early education available to all children in Romania.

READ ME 100 STORIES! is the flagship program of Asociatia OvidiuRo, in partnership with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, aimed to encourage reading in kindergarten and in the family.

Together with the local communities, we transform public kindergartens in Romania into islands of reading and nature, where children and adults decipher together the secrets of books and the universe and take care of the plants and animals around them.

By 2025, we want to transform all (approximately) 4,500 public kindergartens into kinder-libraries.

Since its launch in January 2021:
* 1,162 kindergartens became kinder-libraries
* 78,000 children participated in daily reading activities
* 3,350 teachers benefitted of literacy based training
* 142,000 books were donated.

OvidiuRo offer the following quality resources, related to the national curriculum:
– carefully selected books for preschoolers and their educators;
– literacy-focused training sessions for children’s educators;
educational resources to organise the activity, according to the reading plan prepared at kindergarten level;
– reading workshops for children, so that preschoolers can develop their vocabulary and love for reading;

The selected and offered books are valuable from a literary point of view and suitable for the preschool age. In the first five years of life, the child’s brain develops 95%. That is why it is important for every child to have access to quality early education and to be exposed to a variety of learning experiences that form the basis of their intellectual development as an adult.

More info:
The most recent annual report 

Our website

Media Partners
(indoor)

Indoor Media

Elevate Media

Media Partners
(outdoor)

News Outdoor

PIKO Outdoor

Spectacular Outdoor

Spectacular Outdoor

PIKO Outdoor

Media Partners
(indoor)

Indoor Media

Elevate Media