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SiteGround is a leading web hosting provider, known for its unique in-house solutions, blazing-fast hosting platform, and top-rated customer support service. Founded in 2004, today the company powers more than 2 million domains worldwide and has data centers on three continents. With SiteGround, your PHP website or app will be hosted on a scalable infrastructure that runs on Linux Containers with SSD disks, Apache servers with the latest PHP versions, and NGINX as a reverse proxy cache. The company has built handy tools which give developers flexibility and control over their sites and code. Free SSL certificates, Staging, Git integration, SSH, phpMyAdmin, easy switch between multiple PHP versions, and smart collaboration tools are just some of the features you can enjoy on their hosting environment. Their 24/7 Support Team are quick to react, expert and friendly, and will be happy to help you solve any issues in no time.
Gold Sponsor
Isobar Commerce Bulgaria, previously known as eCommera, has a proven track record for delivering, managing and innovating multi-channel commerce platforms for major international brand and retailers including Clarins, Walt Disney, Adidas, ASDA – WalMart, Shiseido and many more. Our world – class team has delivered sites for over 25 brands with more than 170 sites across 34 markets.
Isobar Commerce partners with Salesforce Commerce Cloud, a leading e-commerce SaaS platform to deliver globally outstanding value for retailers and brands. Our team works to solve retail’s most pressing challenges – omni-channel operations, global expansion and customer experience.
Gold Sponsor
Our mission is to make the world a better place to work and to achieve this mission we need products our customers will fall in love with.
We help more than 1,800+ of the world’s leading companies to attract, engage and retain their best people with an employee engagement platform that brings employee benefits, discounts and perks, reward and recognition, employee wellbeing, employee communications and employee survey tools into one unified hub.
We are looking for smart, motivated developers to join our team of programming professionals in our Plovdiv office.
Gold Sponsor
Takeaway.com is a leading online food delivery marketplace, focused on connecting consumers and restaurants through its platform in 10 European countries and Israel. Takeaway.com offers an online marketplace where supply and demand for food delivery and ordering meet. The company’s online and mobile ordering platforms allow meals to order directly from more than 40,000 takeout restaurants all over Europe and beyond. Currently we are expanding our Sofia IT office where we are developing software for those restaurants and 60+ million customers around Europe.
Gold Sponsor
JetBrains creates professional software development tools for coding in Java, Kotlin, C#, C++, Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript and more languages, as well as advanced team collaboration tools.
At JetBrains, code is our passion. For over 18 years we have strived to make the strongest, most effective developer tools on Earth. By automating routine checks and corrections, our products speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover and create.
Gold Sponsor
Twilio powers the future of business communications. Enabling phones, VoIP, and messaging tobe embedded into web, desktop, and mobile software.
Millions of developers around the world have used Twilio to unlock the magic of communications to improve any human experience.
Twilio has democratized communications channels like voice, text, chat, video, and email by virtualizing the world’s communications infrastructure through APIs that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet robust enough to power the world’s most demanding applications.
By making communications a part of every software developer’s toolkit, Twilio is enabling innovators across every industry — from emerging leaders to the world’s largest organizations — to reinvent how companies engage with their customers.
Gold Sponsor
Noble Hire is a Sofia-based Bulgarian startup which aims to change the way job-search works for the tech industry. It is a referral-based job board connecting the Bulgaria’s most promising tech talent with cutting-edge companies, drastically lowering the time and cost per hire. We developed a job board containing 50+ IT companies at the moment and more to come. Using the Noble Company Profile framework, you can learn everything you want about a company before taking a step into their office – culture, benefits, perks, pay, you name it. We believe that people shouldn’t go with “just a job” but to work for passion and meaning. We are fulfilling this with our matching system which is yet to be perfected.
Video Streaming & Technology Sponsor
WITmind is a leading ISO 9001, 20000-1 and 27001 certified IT service provider specialized in all aspects of the terms “video“ and “cloud”.
The extensive experience and incredible power of the company are in the cloud services, high quality video content encoding, streaming and integrated web solutions.
Amidst the various services they offer, such as building of specialized hardware platforms, integrated solutions and consultancy they centralized their effort in the state-of-the-art cloud solution for video content processing, encoding and streaming which happens directly in the cloud.
WITmind applied and successfully received 3 ISO certificates for quality, IT service management and information security in their mission for providing better and more secure cloud services.
Silver Sponsor
DROXIC was founded in 2012 by three friends with over 15 years of experience in the industry. The company focuses on developing web and mobile projects for customers in Europe and North America. In DROXIC, we love challenges, and that attitude helps us create and develop complex and large-scale software solutions. Our main goals are to deliver outstanding quality, make our employees happy and keep our clients completely satisfied with our work!
Silver Sponsor
eMerchantPay is an established payment service provider that provides international online, mobile and POS payment processing services to merchants across the globe. eMerchantPay’s fraud prevention services and payment processing solutions enable merchants to increase their conversion rates, expand their customer reach and prevent fraud. Innovative payment solutions, processing in more than 150 currencies and various languages, plus dedicated account managers providing personal service make eMerchantPay a knowledgeable specialist and an innovative partner for businesses of all types and sizes.
We are a self-funded, product-based company, and working on a number of challenging (both code and infrastructure), high-uptime (99.99%) payment products, utilising predominantly the Ruby and Rails stack.
Silver Sponsor
Lab08 is a software company founded by an experienced crew of tech leaders and software developers who share the belief that great innovations are made together with our customers. We work primarily with Nordic companies, building software products based on strategic and long term partnerships.Our culture is based on transparency, friendship and teamwork. We are passionate about shipping quality software that provides customers with a great user experience. We want to change the world for the better with innovative and scalable software.
More info on lab08.com and dev.bg/company/lab08/
Silver Sponsor
Lunch Sponsor
The Mansion Group, winners of the Employee Wellbeing Award 2019 and Online Casino Operator of the Year 2018, is a leading provider of online gaming and entertainment with over 15 years’ experience in the industry. We own a diverse portfolio of globally recognised brands including Casino.com, MansionCasino, Slots Heaven and MansionBet. Mansion was founded in Gibraltar in 2004, and today operates from three locations – Gibraltar, Israel and Bulgaria.
Our office is located in Sofia, Bulgaria and we are the Technological and Operational heart of Mansion group, opened in 2014 and has since continued to grow. It combines some of the most important functions in the business such as Software Development, Product Management and IT Operations.
Coffee Break Sponsor
Paysera is a fintech company for payment solutions that provides payment gateway service for e-shops with fully digitalized processes, low commissions & free ready-to-use plugins. The service enables online merchants to sell goods internationally and to provide the end customers with local payment methods and currencies. In relation to its service, Paysera has established it’s developers’ Affiliate program via which developers have the opportunity to receive monthly income.
Bronze Sponsor
Acronis leads the world in cyber protection – solving safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges with innovative backup, security, disaster recovery, and enterprise file sync and share solutions that run in hybrid cloud environments: on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. Enhanced by AI technologies and blockchain-based authentication, Acronis protects all data, in any environment, including physical, virtual, cloud, mobile workloads and applications.
With 500,000 business customers, and a powerful worldwide community of Acronis API-enabled service providers, resellers and ISV partners, Acronis is trusted by 79 of the top 100 most valuable brands and has over 5 million customers. With dual headquarters in Switzerland and Singapore, Acronis is a global organization with offices worldwide and customers and partners in over 190 countries.
Base Sponsor
AXSMarine is a French company and a leading provider of specialized maritime web-based software with offices in Sofia, Paris, London, Singapore and Stamford (USA).
We offer a complete suite of interactive, web-based tools and databases which support all commercial ship chartering activities. Our products and solutions are purpose-built for shipbrokers, operators, owners, charterers, research firms and financial institutions, helping them make decisions efficiently and accurately.
AXSMarine subscribers can transform a massive overload of raw text data into useful, searchable information. As a result, our customers are able to make faster decisions and smarter choices by easily accessing own information and market data with our powerful, easy-to-use assessment and analysis tools.
Base Sponsor
UpCloud is an innovative Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider from Finland with a strong technical and business background in the hosting industry. Our business is focused on providing our customers the best services from the best data centres around the world.
Experience our next generation, faster-than-SSD cloud servers with a 100% uptime SLA. Together with our proprietary MaxIOPS storage technology, you will get industry-leading performance at all times.
Our simple but powerful control panel and API let you spend more time coding and less time managing your cloud infrastructure. Together with the community, we develop and maintain a large library of open source API clients and tools.
Base Sponsor
Taylor & Hart is a disruptive British e-commerce bespoke jeweller specialised in custom-designed, ethical engagement rings and fine jewellery, that capture your story. Our specifically developed technology online and in-store, processes & brand democratise bespoke jewellery, at scale, a clicks and bricks business model. We have graduated the famous Techstars accelerator program in Boston, USA with other 11 companies out of 2000 applicants.
Our CRM, e-commerce, diamond search, quotation, production and delivery systems are fully automated and integrated. We’re aiming to build the best technology in the bespoke jewellery industry and we’re always looking for bright & motivated people to join our tech team and work on our many new planned exciting features.
Base Sponsor
Cloudways is a Managed Cloud Hosting platform that lets you launch cloud servers and applications with few clicks on top cloud providers including DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, GCE and AWS. The supported applications are PHP, Laravel, WordPress, Magento, and few CMS like Drupal, Joomla and Prestashop.
Cloudways provides complete managed experience to Digital agencies, SMBs, Ecommerce, and Bloggers.You can easily setup DNS, SSL, CDN and other services with few clicks. You don’t need to hire a sysadmin hence saved a lot of money with complete peace of mind. You can take the complete benefit of premium support and smart assistance by CloudwaysBot.
Games Partner
PARTY MANAGEMENT is an event agency with 12+ years of experience on Bulgarian and EU market.
With over 900 corporate events behinds, company is a trusted destination management (DMC) partner of over 145 international brands for their team buildings, official openings, corporate cocktails, conferences, Christmas theme parties, Top Management business meetings or incentive travels. With great portfolio of events from 20 to 2,500 guests for companies like Luxoft, Microsoft, IBM, IMI, FTS, Siemens, Proxiad, Bulpros, Opencode, Codix, TESY, Technopolis, Coca Cola, Zagorka, Kamenitza, BILLA, Kraft Foods, Nestle, JDE, Euroins, Societe Generale, Herbalife, Aquasource, Huvepharma, AES, Aurubis and many others, company proudly confess their motto and inspire us too:
“Work on projects you are PROUD of, with people who INSPIRE you, for companies you RESPECT.
Do great WORK and be RECOGNIZED for it. Love the JOBS you do!”
Marketing Partner
As Marketing 4.0 way ambassadors – we believe in passion, vision and clear goals in marketing and brand identity. We do not afraid to discover new “strategies”, to get in the “shoes” of our clients and to help them bootstrapped their business. Our vision is that marketing is the heart of the business and the emotion is the added value for your clients. You don`t only give them to use your services, you are a real host. What we do best is to create and fulfill sustainable marketing and brand identity strategies in order to achieve efficiency with creativity, passion and well optimized budgets. Our comprehensive sales and marketing solutions offer a complete service range of online&offline marketing activities, placing the focus on the results and the customer journey.
Beer Partner
Beer Partner
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General Media Partner
Investor Media Group is the leading media group in Bulgaria and the only Bulgarian public company that includes television media among which there are Bulgaria ON AIR and Bloomberg TV Bulgaria – the first international business and financial channel adapted to the local audience. Investor Media Group is the second most preferred consumer online media group in the country, with a 49% market share growing steadily. Over 15 websites and platforms with diverse content and functionalities form the company’s online portfolio. Part of Investor Media Group is Rabota.bg – the only interactive search and employment site that, with its large database of information and events, also helps the career development of the candidates.
Media Partner
Softlead is an integrated B2B software marketplace, which generates qualified leads for corporate end-users. With over 300 business accounts in the platform, Softlead provides a dedicated content section, where IT&C specialists or people from related fields can read case studies, articles or information about the most important events in Europe and Romania.
Media Partner
DEV.BG is the biggest IT community in Bulgaria – we work with 20 000+ IT professionals and 200+ IT companies. Since 2016 we’ve organized more than 400 events for IT professionals. Every month we organize 15 events, attended by more than 800 people. Find out more at https://dev.bg/
Media Partner
SoftUni is one of the largest and most respected educational institutions, creating professionals in the fields of software engineering, digital marketing and design. Today SoftUni works directly with more than 70 IT companies and over a 100 digital companies and has an active community of 150 000 students. Founded in 2013, with its unique concept and innovative educational methodology, SoftUni is rapidly becoming a market leader and today organizes hundreds of training programs, free courses and seminars, events and other educational initiatives that provide quality education to thousands of young people in the field of IT and digital technologies.
Media Partner
Too many Tech Events and too little time to attend? Watch your next Tech Event online! TechEvents.online provides a curated selection of videos from leading Tech Events about Saas, Big Data, Lean UX, Virtual Reality and many more subjects. Select your favorite Tech Event and watch it online.
Media Partner
SerbianTech is an organization committed to supporting business growth and global positioning of Serbian IT companies, technology startups and domestic tech solutions. It has been built on the legacy of Serbian.tech, a dynamic and impactful community, which has been mobilizing many relevant stakeholders in the field of IT, startups, new technologies, investments and media in Serbia since 2015. Currently, the organization is working closely with the vibrant IT sector in Serbia to educate, connect and promote all the key stakeholders but also help foreign companies establish their businesses in Serbia and explore the Serbian tech market.
Media Partner
WebsiteDesign – one of the leading Bulgarian IT companies which are specialized in Web Development, Search Engine Optimization, Mobile App Development, and Digital marketing. With more than 10 years of experience in the branch, we create effective solutions to thousands of customers in different competitive niches. Our mission is delivering the best results to our clients.
Media Partner
JobTiger was created as the first job board in Bulgaria, launched in 2000.
After 18 years, the company has developed to become the first HR agency offering complex HR services with international experience and know-how. We have over 30,000 clients and work with more than 325,000 job applicants. Over the years, the company expanded its services and became a well-known HR agency with innovative and efficient approach to the market.
In addition to the job board JobTiger.bg, the full range of recruitment services and staff temporary employment, our team is also proud to be the biggest organizer of career events in the country.
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A Cause to Care For
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