Satellite Events.
May 28th
WORKSHOPS
Exclusively in Romanian
On May 28th, within Cluj Innovation Days, DIH4Society will host a series of interactive sessions dedicated to SMEs and organizations, with a focus on the North-West region of Romania and beyond. Participants, including current clients and interested stakeholders, will have the opportunity to explore at least three types of digital transformation services offered through the hub.
Following the opening sessions, attendees can join a dynamic discussion featuring impact stories from the project, with contributions from SMEs, public administration representatives, and healthcare institutions that have benefited from DIH4Society’s expertise. The program continues with Brokerage and Matchmaking sessions designed to connect organizational needs with tailored digital solutions. Participants are encouraged to come prepared with their key challenges and to register in advance for May 28th to make the most of this collaborative experience.
All DIH4Society activities on May 28th will take place in Romanian.
10:00 | Opening Remarks
Day moderator:
- Eva Marina Căprioară
Speakers:
- Andrei Kelemen, DIH4Society
- Petrică Ciupitu-Istrate, OIPSI
10:10 | First Generation of EDIHS in Romania
Moderator:
- Bianca Pădurean, VIACluj TV
Speakers:
- Petrică Ciupitu-Istrate, OIPSI
- Edgar Zoltan, DIH4Society
10:30 | DIH4Society 1.0: Impact Stories session
Success Stories: Bridging Technology and Business (40 min.):
Moderator:
- Eva Marina Căprioara, 20Robots
- Mircea Vădan, BraveX Aero
- Ovidiu Prodan, Expert Proiect
- Alin Sălăgean, Zaleco
- Cosmin Porumb, DIH4Society Expert
11:10 | Transition Break
Digital Journey: The Client-Expert Exchange (40 min.):
Moderator:
- Bianca Pădurean, VIACluj TV
Speakeri:
- Claudiu Salanță, Cluj County Council
- Anca Mitișor, Cluj-Napoca Clinical Rehabilitation Hospital
- Ciprian Căprioară, DIH4Society Expert
- Cristian Pavel, DIH4Society Expert
12:00 | Transition Break
12:15 | Brokerage session
Moderator:
- Eva Marina Căprioara, 20Robots
Speakers:
- Alexandru Bogdan, Linnify
- Ciprian Căprioară, 20RobotsTech
- Tamas Bakos, Cyber Dacians
12:45 | Transition Break
13:00 | Matchmaking/B2B session
Moderator:
- Laviniu Chiș, Expert DIH4Society
What will digital transformation in Romanian companies really look like in 2026? What is holding back the adoption of AI? Where are the biggest cybersecurity vulnerabilities?
This 45-minute interactive session brings together companies seeking IT solutions and providers who can offer them in a facilitated format based on real-world challenges.
Using Slido and facilitated discussions, participants collectively identify the most pressing digital challenges, and providers respond with concrete examples and relevant best practices. The result: authentic connections, qualified solutions, and a clear roadmap of digitalization needs.
13:30 | Lunch Break
14:30 | DIH4Society 1.0 to 2.0: A Journey of Impact and the Road to Strategic Collaboration
Speaker:
- Edgar Zoltan, Project Manager
14:45 | DIH4Society 2.0: Strategic Directions and Collaborative Impact
Moderator:
- Edgar Zoltan, Project Manager
Panelists:
- Andrei Kelemen, Cluj IT
- Mihaela Dumitrache, OIPSI
- Daniel Bălan, Chamber of Commerce and Industry Bistrița-Năsăud
- Adina Turcu-Stiolică, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Craiova
- Dorin Domuța, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
TESTATHON
The Skillab Testathon and Innovation Challenge: Community Event
SKILLAB is a research and innovation project (skillab-project.eu) that aims at delivering an open-source skills demand/supply identification, analysis, and prediction hub for citizens, enterprises, academia, and policy makers.
Track 1: Testathon
During the Testathon, participants will be given access to initial released integrated open source SKILLAB platform code, and to the cloud-based testing environment and tools (including GitHub repo, Jenkins, etc.), along with accounts to access them.
The SKILLAB support team will provide training and support documentation on the SKILLAB platform to be tested and on the use of the testing environment and tools. They will further provide detailed guidelines on the process, the Testathon objectives, expected outcomes/deliverables and winning criteria. They will be remotely available to mentor and provide guidance to the registered Testathon participants throughout the entire Testathon duration.
Participants will define test cases and implement testing pipelines, using the testing environment and tools, which may involve multiple test scenarios for the provided SKILLAB platform functionalities and features. Among the (automated) testing types to be performed during the Testathon, the following, as a non-exhaustive list, will be targeted at:
- UI Testing
- Integration Testing
- Functional Testing
- Performance/Accuracy Testing
- Data Integrity Testing
- Deployment Testing
- Security Testing
After the participating individuals or teams complete all testing activities in the 1 month given timeframe, they are expected to write and submit a testing report, reporting valid discovered issues and including details on the testing processes adopted, the type of bugs/issues discovered, the steps that led to each discovered bug/issue, screenshots of each encountered bug/issue.
The complete report will need to be submitted until the end of the Testathon to the SKILLAB project evaluation committee.
Track 2: Innovation Challenge
The Innovation Challenge is designed to allow participants to explore and express their research ideas. The SKILLAB team will provide a large sample dataset and will pose a single research challenge. The objective: to explore and express their research ideas or approaches to find innovative solutions to the posed challenge. The goal is to provide tangible answers on a question pertaining to labour market analytics.
Imagine that you are a labour market analyst working tirelessly on understanding the dynamics of skills, occupations and trends. Through several fortunate circumstances you are granted access to a large dataset, containing millions of job advertisements from various sources across the European Union. You also have access to millions of LinkedIn user profiles, also across the European Union. You are aware of the problems that the labour market faces i.e. widening skill gaps, dying skills, ineffective training programmes and you want to do something about it. Now is your chance to RESEARCH and INNOVATE!
We seek teams that will think out-of-the-box, and using the provided data, produce solutions that target the following desired outcomes:
- Skill demand and supply gap measurement
- “Hot” skills or skillsets prediction
- Optimal candidate detection
- Don’t limit yourselves: Anything innovative can be submitted!
The SKILLAB team will provide the participating teams with instructions on how to use the SKILLAB tracker for data extraction as well as with indicative code from the SKILLAB services. The teams will have the freedom to explore any methodology the deem suitable for the posed challenge.
Their submissions should include the code, results, and justification as well as adequate references and relevant work, wrapped in a complete report.
Jury members:
- Dr. Aluaș Mihaela, Babeș-Bolyai University (RO)
- Dr. Ampatzoglou Apostolos, University of Macedonia (GR)
- Creț Tudor, Life is Hard (RO)
- Dragoș Dumitraș, Linnify (RO)
- Dr. Jahn Marco, Eclipse Foundation (DE)
- Dr. Lefteris Angelis, Aristotle University (GR)
- Dr. Mittas Nikolaos, Democritus University of Thrace (GR)
- Pavel Cristian Gabriel, Alfa Software (RO)
- Dr. Tsekeridou Sofia, Netcompany BELUX (GR)
- Dr. Valentina Lenarduzzi, University of Southern Denmark (DK)
- Raul Sas Cătălin, Accenture Romania (RO)
- Dr. Ioannis Stamelos, Aristotle University (GR)
- Álvarez-Terribas Francisco ,Telefónica (ES)
- Georgiou Konstantinos, Aristotle University (GR)
- Dr. Tsoukalas Dimitrios, CERTH (GR)
- Dario Amoroso d’Aragona, University of Southern Denmark (DK)
- Dimitrios Kavargyris, Aristotle University (GR)
- Theodoros Maikantis, University of Macedonia (GR)
- Anastasios Gogos, Netcompany BELUX (GR)
- Elisavet Kanidou, University of Macedonia (GR)
- Nikolaos Nikolaidis, University of Macedonia (GR)
TRAINING
Operating Open-Source Software is a training session for students, academics, and young professionals that focuses on practical skills for using, managing, and understanding open-source software in academic and research environments.
Trainers:
- Ivar Grimstad, Eclipse Foundation (DE)
- Rosaria Rosini, Eclipse Foundation (DE)
- Konstantinos Georgiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)