Our afterparty is famous for its good music and nice beer and as the tradition goes, the first drink will be free thanks to SiteGround.

Keep the bracelets you get at the entrance because you’ll need them to get into the party.

• The entrance to the event is free, no registration required.
• We’ll have an afterparty on 3 November at 20:00 (8 p.m.) in the In the Park event hall (in the “Little NDK” building, above Lumiere Cinema).
• You’ll get a visitor’s bracelet at the entrance. Keep it because you’ll need it to get access to the afterparty.
• Please adhere to our code of conduct.
• If you have any questions or need help during the event look for a volunteer (wearing a T-shirt with TEAM on the back) or tweet @openfestbg.
• This year in hall D, behind the big halls you’ll have the opportunity to go and have a conversation with the speakers during the first day of the event after a talk has ended. You will be able to ask your questions and a deeper discussion on the subject.
• We encourage you to share your favorite OpenFest 2019 moments on social media. The conference’s official hashtag is #openfest2019.
• You can get an official OpenFest T-shirt for a minimal donation of BGN20 from the reception desk.
• For the convenience of parents we have a children’s play area with some interesting activities. It’s located to the right of the lecture halls.
• We will have coffee, as well as water from our partners Pure Water. Both are free of charge. Coffee carts are located near the entrances of B and C halls, and water is on the left to the halls.
• We strongly recommend that you bring your own water bottles to protect the environment and think about a better Tomorrow.
• We have provided several options for breakfast and lunch close to the event. Food vans are parked on the right of the building.
• If you’re using public transportation this weekend, you can take trolleybuses 5 and 8 to Sofia Tech Park stop or ride one of the buses 84, 184 or 306.

We expect you on 2 and 3 November in Sofia Tech Park, “John Atanasoff” building.

This year, Zoiper will try to be the most joyful booth – with orange surprises for everyone to win by spinning a “Wheel of fortune!1”. Zoiper will offer an unlimited amount of tangerines and bananas – thematically selected in line with Zoiper’s projects.

Zoiper is the most popular softphone in the world amongst RTC users for more than 16 years.

The latest team endeavors are particularly challenging related to Automatic Speech Recognition and Deep Learning.

Zoiper is entirely developed in Bulgaria by a multinational team which is constantly looking for colleagues with various talents.

Ontotext’s most popular product is GraphDB(TM) – a semantic graph database engine. The Ontotext Platform extends it with text analysis, semantic tagging, search, classification and discovery capabilities.

In January 2019 Ontotext AD merged into Sirma AI JSC and became the core of Sirma Group’s Enterprise AI strategy. Sirma AI trades as Ontotext but extends its portfolio with computer vision and facial recognition technology.

Currently, the Ontotext team consists of 70 employees. 54 of them are software engineers, text analysis, machine learning and semantic technologies specialists. The company has offices in Sofia and Russe.

If you have interests in the field of semantic technologies and AI, consider looking at the company website and social media pages in Twitter and LinkedIn. There, you will find specialized articles and learning materials.

The Ontotext team will represent the company at OpenFest 2019 and will answer questions about the company, the projects that they work on and the technologies that they use.

Find us at a stand next to the entrance during the entire 2 days of OpenFest. Explore our amazing devices, play a game and win a prize. Check out our open positions and everything you need to know about the industry with our team members.

Meanwhile, we will hear several intriguing talks in English. Michael Kreil will reveal how social media bots influence public opinion. We will learn from Steven Rostedt, who has been working on the Linux kernel for two decades, how to argue with Linus Torvalds and what challenges the project is facing now. The experienced system administrator John Hawley will talk about the interesting contradictions in modern technology and why programmers must pay more attention to hardware.

The next day will offer highly varied lectures too. In one of them, Zhivko Angelov will share how bad examples can help us become better programmers having more security in their job. The Latvian IT security expert Kirils Solovjovs will talk about the massive leaks of user passwords in the last year and what can be done in such circumstances. Later we will hear Petar Sabev, who will give a talk on the topic of burnout.

This year’s visitors will be able to join one (or more, if they are especially curious) of 14 workshops, which will be held simultaneously with the lectures. The topics are varied – from working with different hardware and software to non-technical activities like yoga and lockpicking. Besides, there will be interesting discussions such as the traditional lightning talks.

You can find the full schedule here. We expect you on 2 and 3 November in the John Atanasoff forum in Sofia Tech Park.

SiteGround in 3 words:

Catch up with all interviews in SiteGround’s 15th anniversary playlist on YouTube.

Please search our current job openings to learn more about our exciting career opportunities in Bulgaria: https://jobs.softwareag.com/search/?q=bulgaria.

Headquartered in California, Konsulko works with customers throughout North America, Europe and Asia to develop and maintain Open Source-based solutions for products. Our European subsidiary, Konsulko Ltd is based in Sofia.

Konsulko’s focus is upstream and production software design, enablement, optimization, and maintenance for customers in a wide array of embedded software markets including automotive, networking, industrial, medical devices and IoT.

Our senior leadership have been contributors in the Linux kernel and other OSS communities since the late 1990s. Konsulko engineers are involved today in many Open Source projects, including the Linux kernel, U-Boot, Yocto Project, OpenEmbedded, AGL, and GENIVI. Members of the Konsulko team have been key participants in major software projects with Google, Sony, NEC, Nokia, Nvidia, MIPS, Texas Instruments, NXP, Juniper Networks, Huawei, Robert Bosch, Groupe PSA, and Jaguar Land Rover.

If you are attending OpenFest, we’d love to talk with you about engaging Konsulko’s engineering expertise and experience on your project. Or if you’re an accomplished software developer with a passion for Linux, please contact us during or after OpenFest about joining the Konsulko team.