[Sibiu-2026] Added speakers, updated program.

content/events/2026-sibiu/program/amorim-marcela.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
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+Title = "DevOps is no joke: promising failure cases"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["amorim-marcela"]
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+Everyone likes to boast about their victories. But it's the mistakes that truly reveal where we're failing—and where we can grow. This talk is about the behind-the-scenes events that no one acknowledges on stage: when haste, vanity, or a false sense of control end up costing us dearly.

content/events/2026-sibiu/program/apitzsch-wiebke.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
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+Title = "How to make good decisions in AI transformation -   considering tech, finance, change and ethics"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["apitzsch-wiebke"]
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+Most AI projects don’t fail in production because of bad code. You guys can code.
+They fail because the wrong decisions were made long before the first line was written.
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+In this talk, Wiebke Apitzsch—Managing Director of AI.IMPACT with a background in strategy, AI implementation, and ethics—takes a DevOps lens on AI transformation. She argues that many teams are asked to productionize use cases that should never have been built in the first place.
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+Instead of focusing on tools, models, or frameworks, she introduces a practical decision-making approach that integrates four dimensions developers deal with every day—often implicitly:
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+Tech reality – What actually works beyond the demo?
+Economic viability – What justifies the infra, latency, and maintenance cost?
+Adoption & change – Will anyone trust, use, or integrate this into workflows?
+Ethical impact – What are we automating—and at whose expense?
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+Using real-world patterns from AI projects, she shows how “category errors with budget” emerge—and why DevOps teams are often the ones left operationalizing flawed assumptions.
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+The session provides a clear mental model to push back, ask better questions upstream, and turn AI from a fragile experiment into something that can actually survive production.
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+Because in the end, scalable AI is not a tooling problem.
+It’s a decision problem.

content/events/2026-sibiu/program/mihu-raluca-2.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Powerpoint Karaoke"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["mihu-raluca"]
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content/events/2026-sibiu/program/parad-dorota.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Future-proof your workflow"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["parad-dorota"]
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+AI is breaking our traditional workflows. We can implement new features way faster. We can generate a lot more code. We can release more bugs than ever before. We have ways to delete our production database that we haven’t imagined possible.
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+Some of us react to this by rejecting or minimizing AI usage. Some of us learn to embrace the chaos.
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+Over the years, I’ve built multiple software teams operating in very different environments. What made them all effective, despite varying challenges, was a set of core practices that apply no matter what or when. These are the things that let us survive and thrive in the AI revolution.
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+In this talk, I’ll share tips on how to make your workflow future-proof, so that your team can be effective with both the help and despite of new inventions. I will show how to:
+* Recognize non-negotiable parts of your workflow
+* Make adjustments to accommodate increased speed
+* Cultivate skills that are good forever
+* Distinguish real value from hype
+* Know when to embrace and when to reject a piece of technology
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content/events/2026-sibiu/program/powerpoint-karaoke.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Participant Powerpoint Karaoke"
+Type = "talk"
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+Participant Powerpoint Karaoke

content/events/2026-sibiu/program/taylor-beckie.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "The Sound Barrier Documentary"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["taylor-beckie"]
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+The Sound Barrier is a documentary exploring the unseen cultural and systemic barriers that shape how women find, use, and experience their voice in male-dominated industries. Rooted in lived experience and conversations with women in STEM, the film examines how confidence, identity, safety, and power intersect - and what changes when women are not only encouraged to speak, but truly heard.
+Rather than offering surface-level confidence advice, The Sound Barrier challenges the environments that reward silence and conformity, and asks a bigger question: what happens to leadership, innovation, and culture when women's voices are amplified rather than accommodated? 

content/events/2026-sibiu/program/zeimer-dana.md

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+Talk_date = ""
+Talk_start_time = ""
+Talk_end_time = ""
+Title = "Anyone can sing!"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["zeimer-dana"]
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+Just as we have a speaking voice we also all have a singing voice. A quick demonstration of singing and improving your singing.

content/events/2026-sibiu/speakers/amorim-marcela.md

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+Title = "Marcela Amorim"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/amorim-marcela"
+image = "marcela.jpg"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "amorim-marcela"
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+As a Quality Culture Evangelist, mentor, and community builder, I develop content and experiences that broaden the technical perspective on software quality, connecting QA to topics such as AI, accessibility, organizational culture, and engineering.

content/events/2026-sibiu/speakers/apitzsch-wiebke.md

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+Title = "Wiebke Apitzsch"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wiebke-apitzsch/"
+image = "wiebke.jpg"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "apitzsch-wiebke"
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+Wiebke Apitzsch is Managing Director of the consulting firm AI.IMPACT and an expert in the strategic development and implementation of AI solutions in organizations. With many years of experience in identifying and productionizing AI use cases, she supports companies in successfully and sustainably adopting artificial intelligence.
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+Prior to this, she worked at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and is a trained INSEAD Executive Coach. She also has an academic background in ethics from LMU Munich, which informs her perspective on responsible and human-centered AI. Her expertise lies at the intersection of strategy, technology, and change management.

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+Title = "Dorota Parad"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorota-parad/"
+image = "dorota.jpg"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "parad-dorota"
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+Dorota is the CEO at Authress. With two decades of experience in different software roles, from coding, testing, UX, through product and engineering management, to business operations, she brings a down-to-earth perspective to complex topics people prefer to avoid.

content/events/2026-sibiu/speakers/taylor-beckie.md

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+Title = "Beckie Taylor"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = "https://beckietaylor.com/"
+image = "beckie.jpg"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "taylor-beckie"
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+Beckie Taylor is a Manchester-based tech founder, community leader and speaker working at the intersection of women, voice and leadership within male-dominated industries. She is the founder of Tech Returners and Voices in Tech, co-founder of Empower Women in Tech, and has been recognised as one of the most influential women in tech by Computer Weekly.
+Beckie is also the creator of The Sound Barrier, a documentary exploring the unseen cultural and systemic barriers that shape how women find, use, and experience their voice in male-dominated industries. Rooted in lived experience and conversations with women in STEM, the film examines how confidence, identity, safety, and power intersect, and what changes when women are not only encouraged to speak, but truly heard.
+Her work is grounded in lived experience, having built, scaled and exited a tech business,  alongside years of leading communities that support women returning to, and progressing within, the industry. Her focus is not just on confidence, but on helping women in STEM recognise, strengthen and use their voice within environments that were not designed with them in mind.
+Through her programmes, speaking and storytelling, Beckie facilitates meaningful, lasting change, equipping individuals and organisations with the tools, awareness and language needed to create more inclusive, effective and representative cultures.

content/events/2026-sibiu/speakers/zeimer-dana.md

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+Title = "Dana Zeimer"
+Twitter = ""
+linkedin = ""
+image = "danaz.jpg"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "zeimer-dana"
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+Classical singer, jazz singer, teacher of Italian, German, English, singing, choir, piano and guitar. Currently teaching Italian at a school and teaching singing privately and oerforming as a professional singer.