But first: Code.
What happens when the future of technology meets with entrepreneurial wisdom and a lot of curious minds? Well, our answer would be — six successful editions of Techsylvania and a great eagerness for the seventh one!

After a thrilling experience at Techsylvania #6, we refilled ourselves with more energy and hopes for the next edition. Our plans for the next one consist of delivering quality content while having an in-depth focus on every pillar of Techsylvania: Code. Product. Funding.

Speaking of which, we want to take a retrospective look at every one of our three pillars and see how we covered them through the years. Thus, we announce a new Techsylvania campaign, which will concentrate on these branches but will be dedicated to our dear #techsylvanians.

How does it work?

Starting now, every week will be dedicated by turns to a theme of interest in the field of Code. Product. Funding., uncovering hot topics that were covered at past editions of Techsylvania. We will go back to talks or moments that are related to that specific subtheme and point out the keynotes we can take from them.

At the ending of every cycle (after all the subthemes of a pillar were presented) we will organize a raffle with prizes for the public which relate to that certain pillar.

Let’s meet the ice-breaker

The first ones to enter the spotlight are the coders and we will dive into Artificial Intelligence.

“I personally think that AI can make a positive change in the world, as long as we technologists make sure that this happens.”

As Japjit Tulsi, the VP of Engineering at eBay pointed out at Techsylvania 2018 — one of the biggest challenges of AI is that people still want to interact as in real life. While working on their eBay shopbot, they started to look at data in a whole different way and got a better understanding of their customers’ needs and how they can improve it with AI. But they also stumbled upon problems that could seem meaningless at first — people not only communicate through written words online but with emojis, too.

Another company that is customer-centric and their platform needs to continuously improve through AI is Alibaba.

“When you think we need 25y of education for a PhD and these systems are able to gain (to some extent) superhuman abilities on certain tasks in a matter of weeks.”

Stay tuned! There’s more to come.