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Meet the 2023 Impact Conference

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Impact 2023 - Viktor Nagy
Viktor Nagy
Product Manager at GitLab

Viktor joined GitLab, an all-remote company in the DevSecOps space, in 2019, before the outbreak of the pandemic. He is a seasoned product person who managed to adapt various product techniques to the remote nature of the XXI. century....

Impact 2023 - Subhayu Ghosh
Subhayu Ghosh
Mr at Tier Mobility

Subhayu Ghosh is the Vice President of Product and Growth at Tier Mobility where he is responsible for leading the product, marketing, customer loyalty, CRM, and revenue management teams. With more than two decades of experience leading cross-functional teams, he has a track record of delivering innovative solutions that drive product-led growth for F100 companies like Amazon and Emirates Airlines...

Impact 2023 - Marijn Huizendveld
Marijn Huizendveld
Independent Consultant at Marijn Huizendveld B.V.

Marijn works as an independent software consultant for (corporate) startups and scale-ups within Europe. He studied business school (boring though useful) and moonlighted as a freelance software engineer (limited impact, lots of fun).After getting stung by the start-up bug he founded a SaaS business in which he was involved for the next 6 years (lots of impact, limited private life). This experien...

Impact 2023 - Anjali Leon
Anjali Leon
Principal Agility and Product Leadership Coach & Consultant at PPL Coach

Anjali Leon is a solopreneur Agility, Product, and Professional Leadership Coach, Collaboration Facilitator, and Trusted Strategic Advisor. Through her boutique coaching and consulting practice, PPL Coach, she brings her years of experience in technology, leadership, and Agile to partner with clients and collaborators to adapt, innovate, and thrive in the new-normal business environment - where th...

Impact 2023 - Adam Thomas
Adam Thomas
Principal/Founder at Approaching One

What can we learn by following our curiosity, embracing the unknown, and creating amidst chaos? This is the question that propels Adam Thomas’s career as a technologist, product expert, and all-around thinker and creator. His answer so far? We can learn that our potential is limitless and we have an amazing array of options for living, working, and playing better.  Seizing every opportun...

Impact 2023 - Antonia Landi
Antonia Landi
Product Operations Consultant & Coach

Antonia is a Product Operations Consultant and Coach, and one of the top voices in European Product Operations. She’s a firm believer in enabling product organisations to achieve Product Excellence with the power of Product Ops - whether as an independent function or a shared responsibility. A leader in her field, she’s on a constant mission to enable Product teams to do their best work by pr...

Impact 2023 - Debbie Widjaja
Debbie Widjaja
Product Leader at Shopify/Meta/Various Unicorns

Debbie is a seasoned product leader with over 12 years of experience in the tech world, including at Meta and Shopify. She crystalizes her product thinking on Medium (150k readers) and teaches data literacy for product managers on Maven. ...

Impact 2023 - Alex Falls
Alex Falls
Chief Product Officer at Hearsay Systems

With over 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry, Alex is a passionate and visionary team builder, team leader, and product executive. He currently leads the full product lifecycle, from ideation to launch to evolution, for Hearsay Systems, a leading provider of compliant digital communications and workflow solutions for the financial services sector....

Impact 2023 - Alicia Shao
Alicia Shao
Senior Service Designer at The LEGO Group
Impact 2023 - The LEGO Group

Alicia Shao, senior service designer at The LEGO Group, external lecturer at Köln International School of Design, mentor at Amazing Design People List, and most importantly, a Futurist at heart. As a zealous advocator, Alicia has trained over 1000+ people in design thinking and service design, and now she is teaching in the area of future thinking and system thinking at KISD. She has also taught a...

Impact 2023 - Leah Tharin
Leah Tharin
Growth & Scale Advisor at B2B

Leah Tharin is a leading Growth Advisor for scaling B2B companies. She was the former Head of Product at Deindeal, Jua and lead the core product at Smallpdf with over 50 million monthly active users. She is a program creator, lecturer, executive coach and advisor to company leadership and funds around product-led growth, scaling and product-led sales....

Impact 2023 - Samantha Coffman
Samantha Coffman
Senior Product Manager at Spotify
Impact 2023 - Spotify

Samantha is a Senior Product Manager at Spotify, currently focused on building paid plugins for Backstage, an open-source framework for creating developer portals. With a career that includes roles at HelloFresh, Sauce Labs, and Cisco before joining Spotify, she has gained extensive experience in the tech industry. Her focus has always been on equipping internal teams with a strong product-oriente...

Impact 2023 - Melissa Perri
Melissa Perri
Founder & Lead Instructor at Product Institute

Melissa Perri is a strategic advisor, author, and board member that works with leaders at Fortune 500 companies and SAAS scale ups to enable growth through building impactful product strategies and organizations. In 2018 she wrote the industry-acclaimed book "Escaping the Build Trap". Currently, Melissa is the CEO and founder of Produx Labs, which offers e-learning for product people through Produ...

Impact 2023 - Esther Trapadoux
Esther Trapadoux
Principal Growth Marketing Manager at Amplitude
Impact 2023 - Amplitude

Growth marketer with over 15 years of experience in B2B SaaS. Currently building community at Amplitude, and solving the existential crisis of community-led growth. Alumni of University of California, San Diego. Previously with Qualcomm, Financial Engines, SigFig, and Jabmo, notable for building new acquisition and distribution strategies. Passionate about learning from users, analytics, and solvi...

Impact 2023 - Zsófia Hajnik
Zsófia Hajnik
VP of Product at Turbine.ai

Zsofia has a background in Product Management of Machine learning, Data science and Data engineering teams and as Product Lead at Turbine aims to redefine drug discovery process with AI...

Impact 2023 - Nadezhda Belousova
Nadezhda Belousova
Founder, Strategic Advisor and Enterprise Business Agility Consultant at Evolneo

Nadezhda Belousova is an edge-dweller with the background in psychology and a solid profile in management consulting, leadership development, organization design and strategic business agility.She partners with executive teams, senior leaders and change agents worldwide, offering her clients uniquely tailored blend of coaching, mentoring, training, consulting and facilitation. Rooting her approach...

Impact 2023 - Irina Loginova
Irina Loginova
Delivery Manager at EPAM

Irina Loginova has 10 years+ experience in managing both software and infrastructure projects using waterfall, agile and hybrid approaches. In 2022 she was recognized as a value creator and received a CEO Award for bringing great results to the customers, strengthening company’s authority on the market and winning new engagements. Successful establishment and maintaining data-driven delivery helpe...

Impact 2023 - Maryna Didkovska
Maryna Didkovska
Quality Engineering Director at EPAM

Maryna Didkovska is a Quality Engineering Director at EPAM Systems. As a Test Manager, Delivery manager and Software automation engineer, Maryna has managed teams to build scalable testing process on a projects with over 600 participants , develop testing ecosystems on Enterprise level, find solutions to quality architectural challenges, and coached others be experts and leaders. Being PhD in Soft...

Impact 2023 - Gábor Nádai aka Mefi
Gábor Nádai aka Mefi
Engineering Director at Bitrise

Engineering Director at Bitrise. Before that, he was VP of Engineering at ingatlancom. He’s been a successful blogger since 2005 touching both professional and unofficial matters. He is the founder of the Leadership Meetup Budapest group and member of the Stretch Conference expert team. In 2018, he was awarded Young Leader of the Year in the Hungarian SME sector....

Impact 2023 - Karolina Tóth aka Fancy
Karolina Tóth aka Fancy
Freelance IT Culture & Communications Consultant, Coach

Freelance IT Culture & Communications Consultant, Coach - she’s been in the Hungarian IT sector for 8 years and has been working for 17 (hard for her to admit). She’s a subject matter expert in the Stretch conference organizer’s team and she hosts the successful Level-up Engineering podcast, interviewing internationally known IT leaders biweekly....

Impact 2023 - David Schneidhoffer  aka kisPocok
David Schneidhoffer aka kisPocok
Engineering Manager at Hopin

Husband, dad, and a spaniel owner all at once. Index.hu, Ustream/IBM, Bitrise alumnus. Right now he works as an engineering manager leading the DevEx Platform team of Hopin’s StreamYard. Professional beginner-surfer....

Impact 2023 - Wittmann Ádám
Wittmann Ádám
Driver Experience Group Leader at Bosch

Adam is in the Automotive SW industry for more, than 7 years now. His focus is on ensuring project delivery and meeting project goals, while building and keeping sustainably working teams. Working for 5+ years in Driver Assistance field he has background in SW development, team coaching and technical leadership, delivering road safety features to several manufacturers. Currently he is leading a gr...

Impact 2023 - Nassim Ibrouchene
Nassim Ibrouchene
Lean Agile Leader – Product Line Radar at Continental Autonomous Mobility Hungary

Nassim boasts over 10 years of extensive experience in the ADAS domain with a primary focus on the development of the perception software stack for RADAR sensors. His work spans over more than 3 generations of RADAR sensors at Continental, delivering results to countless vehicle manufacturers worldwide.He is currently serving as the Head of the Product Line Radar Organization in Budapest....

Impact 2023 - Alice Walther-Wosnitzka
Alice Walther-Wosnitzka
Employee Portal Manager at ZEISS

Alice Walther-Wosnitzka, originally a political scientist, has been working at ZEISS for 16 years - a great company, as she says, not only with great products, but also with a broad opportunity to develop oneself. And that's very important to her when you're at home in a company for a long time. Today, she is responsible as a product owner for the global employee portal and enterprise search, wher...

Impact 2023 - Abhash Sinha
Abhash Sinha
NLP Engineer at ZEISS

Abhash Sinha is an experienced Artificial Intelligence professional with a Master's degree in the field. He is passionate about Artificial Intelligence and has an extensive work experience in NLP domain. He has recently joined Zeiss as an NLP Engineer, where his focus is primarily on LLMs and their application. He is also an avid traveler who relishes exploring the diverse landscapes and cultures ...

Impact 2023 - Zsolt Vadócz
Zsolt Vadócz
Head of Digitalisation at K&H

Zsolt graduated in economics, but throughout his 20-year career he has always worked close to IT and innovation. He was responsible for delivery of major projects, project office and then management of the entire IT area in a commercial bank for 10+ years. Currently, he leads the Innovation Directorate of K&H, where he and his team work on the development of "classic" digital channels and the ...

Impact 2023 - Zoltán Tar
Zoltán Tar
Enterprise Architect at K&H Bank

Zoltan has 25 years+ experience with 18 years+ of architecture experiences. He is a member of the K&H Enterprise Architecture team, working on various strategic topics, including startegic target architecture, EA team internal communication, EA repositories, etc. and also supporting the new K&H IT capabilities required for Rapid Business Solutions....

Impact 2023 - Ádám Gajdi
Ádám Gajdi
Head of Solution in ICT Digital Directorate at K&H Bank

Ádám has 15 years+ experience in IT solution delivery addressing customer needs. He is now leading the solution team of ICT Digital Directorate at K&H Bank. His mission is to design and deliver innovative solutions for bank customers....

Impact 2023 - Gergely Barthó
Gergely Barthó
Head of Digital Innovation Solutions Development at K&H Bank

Gergely has 25+ years of experience in IT in various positions and sectors. He has delivered IT solutions in healthcare, telecommunications and banking. Gergely and his team are currently responsible for the design and implementation of innovative IT solutions in the digital channels domain, including mobile banking and e-banking, as well as for Kate, the digital assistant of K&H....

Impact 2023 - Dénes Ozorai
Dénes Ozorai
Head of ICT Development at K&H

Dénes, with 20 years of experience in the IT and Financial(Banking) sector, is an accomplished professional known for strategic ICT planning, budget management, and project leadership. His expertise encompasses integrated banking solutions, ICT Operations and DEVOPS transformations, reflecting his commitment to driving efficiency improvements and lean transformations in organizations....

Impact Conference is going to be organized with 4 other tech conferences that together create Compass Tech Summit. Check out all the speakers!