Cluj Data & AI

Hello!

We're excited to announce the 5th Meetup of Cluj Data & AI! Big thanks to our partners, Victory Square Partners, for hosting once again!

Schedule:

• 18:30 - 19:00 - Welcome & Network

• 19:00 - 19:20 - DTO: Digital Twin of an Organisation, Corina Catarau, AI Forward Deployed Engineer & AI Researcher from Insight/Amdaris

• This presentation explores the concept of the Digital Twin of an Organisation (DTO) and how AI-driven systems can model, simulate, and optimize complex business operations in real time, covering the topic of reusability when adopting AI in an organization.

• 19:20 - 19:50 - Off the Record: An Honest Conversation About Building with AI, Vlad Damian & Marius Banici from Victory Square Partners, moderated by Sorin Marian

• An unfiltered panel discussion on what building with AI actually looks like in production - workforce, burnout, agentic workflows, and questions nobody has clean answers to, yet.

Speakers:
Corina Catarau

• AI Forward Deployed Engineer & Researcher at Insight/Amdaris, with a PhD in Artificial General Intelligence from City, University of London. Corina specializes in Agentic AI, Digital Twins of Organizations, and Reinforcement Learning

Marius Banici

• Co-Founder & COO at VSP- Built the engineering side of Victory Square Partners from the ground up. Based in Timisoara, he is the architect of VSP's technical culture: the hiring bar, the two-line leadership model, the communities of practice, and the engineering principles that have kept VSP's teams high-performing through six years of rapid growth. What he built is not a department, it is a system designed to scale without losing standards, and to grow without losing the people who built it.

Vlad Damian

• Head of Delivery at VSP - Has been building and leading engineering teams in Romania for over twenty years - automotive navigation systems, enterprise software, product development under real client pressure. He knows how to filter through competing demands and find the critical path. He knows how to communicate technical realities to clients in a way that builds trust instead of confusion. Those things develop over two decades of doing the work, not in a sprint. At VSP, Vlad runs engineering delivery with the same instinct: technically precise, direct with clients and teams, focused on what ships.