Two days. 150+ attendees. 60th floor of One Vanderbilt in New York. The Romanian Tech & Innovation Summit is a wrap, and it was the most successful event we have hosted to date.

What filled those two days was exactly what we set out to build: a room where Romanian and American tech professionals, founders, investors, and operators could have real conversations about what it takes to grow in the US market.

Day 1 opened with a pitch competition featuring 11 startups, building everything from AI agents and fintech solutions to industrial IoT platforms and AI-native tax operating systems. 

Congratulations to TaxDava for taking First Place, and to Venti and Agentspace for sharing Second. 

Thank you to Silvia Carasel and Flaviu Simihaian for bringing the startup community together alongside 1pb.org.

Day 2 shifted the conversation to what it actually takes to succeed in the US. Alina Vader Lapusneanu (Fiskl), Porter Haney (CodingScape), Andrei Negrau (Siena AI), Alina Vandenberghe (Chili Piper), Dan Balaceanu (Druid AI), and Vlad Ionescu (UiPath)  shared the journeys, the hard lessons, and the strategies that got them there.

The Ecosystem Support panel, moderated by Matei Puiu (Endava), brought together Simona Vasile (BDO), 

Patricia Zavacky  (Linnify), Andrei Stoica (STOICA.CO), and Bogdan Capatina (RACC-IT) for one of the most candid and practical conversations of the two days.

A huge thank you to our sponsors UiPath and Linnify for making this happen.

And this would not look the way it does without Denisa Hreamătă from Thunder, who captured both days beautifully.

This community is building something real. Thank you to every founder, investor, and operator who showed up, asked hard questions, and made these two days worth remembering.

See you at the next one.