Conference 'A Five-Year Digitalisation – Where the State and the Economy Have Arrived. What about the IT industry?’ debated the main issues holding back Romania’s digitalisation

On Tuesday 18 November, the conference “A five-year digitalisation – where the State and the Economy have arrived” took place. What about the IT industry?’, organised by the Governance Course at the Chamber of Deputies’ Technology Committee. During this event, it was discussed the progress Romania has made in terms of digitalisation, the adoption rate of basic digital technologies among SMEs and how to expand and accelerate digitalisation.

At this conference were invited decision-makers involved in the implementation of public policies, experts and players from the digital market, who analyzed the intensified digitization efforts in recent years. The list of speakers consisted of:

• Radu-Nicolae Mihaiu, President, Committee for Information and Communication Technology, Chamber of Deputies
• Cătălin Vasile, AI Advisor – Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Department, Directorate-General for Electronic Communications, Digitalisation Policies and Strategies
• Pavel Popescu, Vice-President, ANCOM – National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications
• Andrei Niculae, Vice-President, ADR – Authority for the Digitalisation of Romania
• Diana-Alisa Paşavel, Expert in accessing funds, implementing and managing cyber security projects, DNSC – National Cyber Security Directorate
• Robert Berza, Executive Director, Edge Institute
• Edward Crețescu, President, ANIS – Employers’ Association of the Software and Services Industry
• Cristian Roșca, Account Executive – Google Cloud – Public sector CEE
• Alexandru Lăpușan, CEO & Co-founder of Zitec
• Mihai Matei, CEO of Essensys
• Cristian Pelivan, Executive Director, ARMO – Romanian Association of Online Shops

The video recording of the conference, as well as key speakers' statements, can be found here.