Info Days Conference – 14 November 2020

Info Days – 14 November 2020

Choose your ICT training in Georgia

Virtual Conference

14 November 2020, 10:00  (Tbilisi time)
Language: English
(hosted in Zoom)

Are you interested in one of the topics? If the answer is yes, you positively have to attend this event.
Check out the topics and choose the best one for you:

AGENDA
Time Topics Presenter
10:00 – 10:15 Opening:
  • Tornike Jobava – Digital Economy Skills Development Program Coordinator, GITA;
  • Nikolay Penev – General Manager, New Horizons Bulgaria.
10:15 – 11:00 DevOps Ross Borissov
11:00 – 11:45 Project Management Ivaylo Ivanov
11:45 – 12:30 Development in C++ Sava Nikolov
12:30 – 13:15 The Blockchain Opportunity Alexander Panayotov
13:15 – 14:00 Cybersecurity Lubomir Tulev

Instructors

Ross Borissov

Ross Borissov DevOps Transformation Leader in Progress

Ross Borissov is a DevOps engineer having more than 16 years of experience in information technologies. His experience covers developing web applications, consulting, managing processes and DevOps projects. He has worked in the bank sector, telecommunications, and software companies. Being a DevOps Transformation Leader in Progress Software Corporation, he is responsible for managing value streams, performing VSM assessments, establishing streamlined CI/CD pipelines. He was involved in different projects and accomplishing many assignments such as:
  • Developing web-based applications with Microsoft technologies.
  • Developing web self-care system and customizations for Total-E billing platform with Microsoft and Oracle technologies. Ra'anana, Israel.
  • Customize applications with MS.NET, J2EE, IBM Web Sphere, Oracle 10g.
  • Managed the internal CI/CD infrastructure and processes for .NET based workloads.

Between 2012 and 2016 he's on the position of DevOps engineer at SAP and since 2016 he's a Principal DevOps Engineer in Progress.

Since 2018 till now, he trained 61 students at New Horizons on DevOps and 1 group of 20 students in pilot phase of GITA project with instructor rating score of 9.90, while the worldwide instructor rating benchmark is 9.44, where 10 is maximum.

Instructor's Certifications:
Ivaylo Ivanov

Ivaylo Ivanov Senior Program and Project Manager

Since 2007 Ivaylo specializes in project manager and program management at international companies. He has experience in various industries – software, telecommunications, banking – working on projects with traditional and flexible methodologies.

Ivaylo has solid experience in managing small and large (virtual) international teams, in modelling and optimizing of business businesses, development and implementation of systems for key performance indicators (so-called KPI), etc He has overall responsibility for the teams, planning, implementation, reporting and transmission of programs and projects to clients of the company. He leaded are more than 20 complex multinational projects – from focused entirely on the introduction of new systems at the telecommunications network level to strategic projects aimed at improving the marketing and online strategies of an international group of 8 telecommunications operators.

Sava Nikolov Chief Technology Officer

Sava Nikolov has an experience as a software engineer since 2000. He delivers certified and customized trainings for databases, software development, application security and software engineering, consult customers and coach teams and individuals.

Created and managed solutions for managing financial transactions, sport betting and games – all with extreme focus on security, quality and performance.

Over 15 years in delivering trainings, coaching and developing software teams.

Alexander Panayotov

Alexander is a blockchain developer, who mentors Startup teams, which are creating Blockchain-based products. He has broad experience in teaching on Blockchain architectures and applications.

He develops Blockchain applications (dApps – decentralized applications) on self-practice. Alexander is a member of Blockchain Training Alliance (BTA) and got his international certificate CBSA on May 2019.

Lubomir Tulev

Lubomir Tulev Chief Cyber Security Architect & Business Information Security Consultant

He has started his career back in 2010 as a police investigator at Bulgarian Cyber Crime Department. Few years later Tulev is the head on a state level of Investigation of Illegal content on internet group at this Department.

Active international law enforcement policy maker, he has been the contact point for Facebook, Google, Skype and other major internet-based services for Bulgaria for over 6 years. Tulev has been directly involved in leading hundreds of international cybercrime investigations, incident responses and forensic operations in close collaboration with the FBI, Europol, Interpol and a number of other foreign law enforcement agencies.