Tekpon AI Summit 2025

Simply the best AI event in the world

1,000 elite AI & SaaS founders and executives will gather on 25-27th of November 2025, in Bucharest, Romania for a summit like no other.

In a world flooded with noise, Tekpon AI Summit delivers clarity, connections, and real secrets from the AI industry.

Chatham House Rule applies. Dress code Business Formal.

Speakers

Our speakers are the leading voices in SaaS and AI. Founders, engineers, and executives who are building the technologies redefining the future of our industry. They are not just talking about the future, they are actually creating it.

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Who’s attending

Tekpon events bring together elite founders and executives with millions in ARR, joining us from all over the world. These are some of the names we can reveal. Many more prefer to keep their names in the shadows until the event.

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Tekpon AI Summit Agenda

Get ready for a full conference day of thought-provoking keynotes, in-depth panels, and interactive workshops, followed by two days of curated side events and high-level networking. Every moment is designed to spark ideas, share real-world strategies, and build meaningful connections across the global AI and SaaS community.

 Day 0: Founders Dinner

Nextoria is hosting a private dinner in central Bucharest for the leading local and visiting tech founders. It is an intimate gathering designed to bring together exceptional operators, share insights, and build meaningful connections across the global SaaS ecosystem before the big day at Tekpon AI Summit. The dinner is fully booked.

On the eve of the first Tekpon AI Summit, we’re bringing together an intimate group of 7- and 8- figure SaaS and AI founders for a private dinner in Bucharest. ​Hosted by SaaS on the Beach and L40, with the support of Ventures’n’Law.

Day 1: AI Summit

Tekpon AI Summit 2025 will take place at NORD Events Center by Globalworth, a premier venue in Bucharest known for its modern design and world-class facilities. It features one of the largest indoor screens in Europe, spanning an impressive 100 square meters, creating a striking backdrop for keynotes and presentations.

📅 Date: November 25th, from 11:00 to 22:00

📍 Location: NORD Events Center by Globalworth in Bucharest, Romania

🍽 Official Restaurant Partner: Stradale Urban Jungle, 1-minute walk from the venue

💧 Official Water Partner: Nazzuro Aqua

Networking happens at all times! Tekpon events are build around real conversations and lasting connections. We’re networking-first, always.

11:00 – 12:00

Registration & Networking

12:00 – 12:30

Welcome to Tekpon AI Summit

12:30 – 12:50

The AI-First Playbook: Growing Without Increasing Headcount

Vincent will show how companies can use AI-first approaches from product development to go-to-market and beyond to create insanely profitable companies. This includes but goes beyond vibe coding and also looks at business model design, sales strategy, and how AI can be leveraged in each of these facets of the business. Using the examples of Poolside’s portfolio companies, he’ll show you how to design your company so that you do not need more than a handful of people to run it, even when traction hits.

Vincent Jong

Founder @ Poolside Ventures

12:50 – 13:15

How AI is changing Go-To-Market for SaaS companies

AI is redefining how SaaS companies find customers, personalize outreach, and close deals. This panel brings together GTM leaders using AI every day to drive predictable growth. Expect real examples of what’s working in 2025, from intent-based prospecting and smarter outbound to AI-driven sales automation that actually converts.

Jeko Kolev

Founder & CEO @ Nextoria

Bill Stathopoulos

Founder & CEO @ SalesCaptain

Vaios Gkitsas

Founder & CEO @ Upset Partners

Frank Sondors

CEO @ Salesforge

Osman Koc

Co-Founder & CEO @ UserGuiding

13:15 – 13:20

Surprise

13:20 – 13:40

How to Really Scale AI: Combining Traditional and Agentic Automation

How do you really combine automation, AI, and agents in a way that works? I’ll be sharing a dive in through our own experience while figuring this out for one of the leading AI automation platforms, Make. You’ll see the mistakes, learnings, and use cases that brought us value in a demo-packed session.

Sara Maldon

Head of Business Automation & AI @ Make

13:40 – 14:00

How to build and sell B2B AI products that prevail

As the founder of Tukel Accounting (award-winning U.S. accounting firm), Cenk will guide the community on the watch-outs for developing AI products that will pass risk assessments.

Cenk Tukel

Founder & CEO @ Tukel Inc.

14:00 – 14:25

Automation Promises vs Reality: What Actually Works?

Everyone’s talking about AI automation, but how much of it truly delivers? This panel brings together experts building and implementing automation at scale to separate real impact from hype. From sales and operations to finance and customer success, they’ll share where automation drives real results, where it fails, and how to strike the right balance between AI and human input.

Raquel Vázquez

Founder @ enuno

Ruxandra Ion

Founder & CEO @ Ventivo AI

Ilie Andrei Leonard

AI Automation @ Instantly.ai

Ionut Sas

SVP Finance @ UiPath

Petru Pop

Co-Founder @ makeitfuture

14:25 – 14:30

Surprise

14:30 – 14:50

Fireside chat with Cloudflare

A fireside chat with Cloudflare. Cristian Dina, CEO of Tekpon AI Summit, sits down with Alexandra Moraru, Senior Product Manager at Cloudflare, for an honest conversation about how Cloudflare builds products, ships fast, and uses AI across their stack.

Cristian Dina

CEO @ Tekpon AI Summit

Alexandra Moraru

Senior Product Manager @ Cloudflare

14:50 – 15:10

AI Search is Optimizable: Optimize for what AI search likes (Hint: it is not SEO tactics).

Traditional SEO and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) may look similar, but the data tells a different story.  With less than 10% overlap between top-ranked pages in Google and those cited in AI-generated answers, something else is going on. In this session, we’ll unpack why that gap exists, how answer engines actually rank and select brand content, and the steps marketers can take to optimize for visibility in AI search.

Todd Paris

CEO @ IQRush.ai

15:10 – 15:30

Fireside chat with Bright Data’s CMO

AI breakthroughs are no longer defined by model size or compute power, they are defined by data. In this fireside chat, Bright Data CMO Yanay Sela reveals the hidden infrastructure fueling today’s AI revolution: public web data. From predicting market shifts to training models on real-world signals, you will see how leading companies turn the open web into a living source of truth, and why keeping public data public is critical to innovation, fairness, and competition in AI.

Ana Maria Stanciuc

Head of Content @ Tekpon

Yanay Sela

CMO @ Bright Data

15:30 – 15:55

How AI Is Transforming Marketing and Personal Brands

AI is rewriting the marketing playbook, but it’s also changing what it means to build trust and influence online. In this panel, three founders known for their strong personal brands and automation-driven businesses share how they’re using AI to scale content, community, and connection. Expect candid stories, growth frameworks, and a look at how authenticity and automation can actually work together.

Tom Hunt

Founder & CEO @ Fame

Stefan Smulders

Co-Founder & CSO @ Expandi.io

Mike Korba

Co-founder & CCO @ User.com

Abdul Mukati

Founder & CEO @ Master Inbox

Milan Savov

Founder & CEO @ SmartClick

15:55 – 16:15

The Human-AI Collaboration Playbook

Learn proven techniques that eliminate frustrating AI interactions, discover research tools that compress weeks into hours, and understand when to choose predictable workflows over autonomous agents. See real case studies including a complete UI system delivered with V0 in 26 hours and strategic frameworks for cost-effective AI adoption.

Kazik Pietka

Co-Founder @ HEVELI

16:15 – 16:40

Building AI Products That Actually Scale

Adding AI to your product isn’t enough, building something that truly scales is what sets winners apart. This panel brings together founders and product leaders who’ve turned AI from a feature into a core engine for growth. They’ll discuss architecture, real-world implementation challenges, and what it takes to build AI products that deliver consistent value, not just hype.

Anastasia Ionescu

Co-Founder @ CatStats.ai

Alexandra Voinea

Product Owner @ FintechOS

Marijana Gligoric

CEO & Co-Founder @ brigit.dev

Angeley Mullins

Founder & CEO @ Aetheris Ventures

Krzysztof Szyszkiewicz

Co-Founder @ Valueships

16:40 – 17:00

Beyond the Hype: The Real Impact of AI in Sales

In this session, Charles Tenot, CEO of lemlist, shares how his team built a $40M ARR bootstrapped company by using AI where it actually matters. From automating outreach and personalization to building scalable sales workflows, Charles will reveal what’s real, what’s noise, and how AI can truly transform the way modern sales teams grow.

Charles Tenot

CEO @ lemlist

17:00 – 20:00

Networking

Day 2: AI Networking

On the second day, attendees will unwind and connect at Therme Bucharest, the largest spa in Europe. Beginning at 12:00, this unique experience offers the perfect blend of relaxation and informal networking in a luxurious tropical setting, complete with thermal pools, saunas, and lush gardens. The ticket to Therme is not included.

Clay is one of the most capable GTM tools on the market today, but with great power comes great responsibility. If you’re bullish on Clay, join others who are feeling the same way at our kickoff event in Bucharest. ​Learn best practices from our CLAY Expert, Alex Baldovin, and each other on 29 September.

Networking with a Beat. ​Join the Official Tekpon AI Summit Afterparty, where Bucharest’s tech crowd connects over curated music and fresh cocktails.

Day 3: AI Workshops

The final day is dedicated to side events that dive deeper into the future of SaaS and AI. Held at the UiPath office, these workshops will feature exclusive panels, workshops, and networking opportunities.

UiPath is Romania’s first unicorn and Europe’s first cloud decacorn. Registration required, limited to 70 attendees per session. The full list of workshops to be announced soon. RSVP required.

📅 Date: November 27th, from 11:00 to 17:00

📍 Location: UiPath office, in Bucharest, Romania

11:00 – 12:00

Registration & Networking

12:00 – 12:20

Stop Building. Start Selling: The Anti-MVP Playbook for High-Velocity Founders

Most founders spend months building before ever talking to customers, and that’s why so many ideas die before meeting reality. In this session, Abdul Mukati, founder of Master Inbox, shares his unconventional “sell first, build second” playbook that helped him sell before an MVP existed, build in public without an audience, turn customer conversations into product specs, and create momentum before the product even launched. You’ll leave with a tactical blueprint for landing paying users before writing code, turning conversations into a real product roadmap, building credibility before you have a brand, using AI to out-ship bigger teams, and creating a fast feedback loop that compounds quickly.

Abdul Mukati

Founder & CEO @ Master Inbox

12:20 – 12:40

AI Agents in Marketing Automation: The future is now

This keynote introduces a 6-level Personalization Maturity Map to help marketers diagnose where they stand in their marketing automation journey, from mass campaigns to predictive personalization. The presentation explores various real-world applications of AI in marketing automation, demonstrating how conversational AI, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation are transforming data queries from 10-minute manual processes into instant insights. Rather than focusing on specific tools, the talk emphasizes the fundamental shift from AI as a feature to AI as a strategic capability that understands marketing context and enables proactive decision-making

Mike Korba

CCO & Co-Founder @ User.com

12:40 – 13:00

The Unfair Advantage: How SaaS Founders Use AI Automation to Move 10x Faster

Build and test AI features for your SaaS without rebuilding your product. With no-code workflows, you can analyze data, process it with AI, and sync it back to your database, all in minutes. Run sentiment analysis, define categories, or enrich leads using simple prompts. Prototype complex RAG pipelines or advanced AI agents before writing a single line of code. Free up your developers’ time while implementing AI-driven automation for marketing, RevOps, and customer support. Connect everything seamlessly with over 6,000 apps through Make, n8n, or Zapier,

Petru Pop

Co-Founder @ makeitfuture

13:00 – 14:00

Networking & Pizza

14:00 – 14:20

How to Pivot from Product Engineering to GTM Engineering: Lessons learned after 20 years as an entrepreneur

Want the unfiltered playbook? Come for the scars, leave with a system. I’ll share how I hired and fired 20 people after raising capital just to fix churn and build true operating cadence, what worked, what hurt, and what finally scaled. We’ll break down how to win GTM in a market where LinkedIn costs $50 a click, why PMF means nothing without CMF, and how to design offers, channels, and messages that actually convert.
You’ll learn how to stay laser-focused, from defining your ICP to running a weekly rhythm that drives results without burning out your team. No fluff. Just frameworks, channel math, and templates you can apply right after the session to sell smarter in 2026.

Valentin Radu

Founder & CEO @ Omniconvert

14:20 – 14:40

The GTM Engineer: Why the Smartest B2B Companies Are Hiring This Role First

Your revenue teams need AI-driven lead scoring, enrichment, and personalization today, not next quarter. The GTM Engineer makes it happen. They build AI workflows, automate revenue operations, and connect tools like HubSpot, Clay, and Apollo in days, not sprints. Bridging marketing, sales, and engineering, they understand both code and conversion metrics. If you’re past $5M ARR and waiting on tech to move faster, you don’t need more engineers, you need a GTM Engineer.

Alex Baldovin

Founder & CEO @ Authbound

14:40 – 15:00

How to build a Million Dollar Personal Brand with AI

Bohumil will share a proven methodology for making a founder top-of-mind in your industry on LinkedIn on just 6 months. Learn how to structure content that resonates with investors and potential buyers, why thought leadership ads are essential, how AI can supercharge your personal brand. Bonus: Get access to our stealth-mode personal branding tool.

Bohumil Pokstefl

Founder @ Deal Harvest

15:00 – 15:20

Making AI workflows fast and safe with cloud sandboxes

Running AI-generated code, processing untrusted data, and running AI agents all introduce security and performance challenges. In this 30-minute workshop, you’ll learn how cloud sandboxes solve these problems by providing isolated, ephemeral environments that execute code in milliseconds. We’ll demonstrate real-world AI workflows including LLM code execution, data analysis pipelines, and agent-based systems, showing you how to build faster, safer AI applications without compromising on speed or security

Alex Oprisan

Head of Solution Engineering @ Bunnyshell

15:20 – 15:40

Human Creativity: The Competitive Edge. Divergent thinking for AI Innovators.

AI can analyze, optimize, and replicate, but it still can’t wonder. In this fast-paced, energizing, interactive session, Elizaveta Chugunova will take you on a 30-minute creativity sprint designed to reignite your most human skill: divergent thinking. You’ll discover why founders and leaders must not delegate creativity to AI – but instead, use AI as a co-pilot in their own wild, unpredictable creative process.

Elizaveta Chugunova

Digital Strategy Manager @ Veeam Software

15:40 – 16:00

Human Intelligence on Top of AI: Why 99% of AI Content Fails (And How to Be in the Top 1%)

AI writes fast, but it can’t think. 99% of AI content fails because it’s generic and forgettable. In this session, you’ll learn how to use human intelligence on top of AI to create thought leadership content that builds awareness, trust, and drives real sales. We’ll cover the exact framework for combining AI speed with human insight, why most AI content gets ignored, and how to create content that actually converts.

Daniel Deaconu

Founder & CEO @ The Simplifier

16:00 – 17:00

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What else to visit in Romania

Romania, recently crowned the #1 travel destination for 2025 by Vogue, offers a treasure trove of unforgettable experiences.

Begin your journey with the fascinating underground world of Salina Turda, a historic salt mine transformed into a breathtaking tourist attraction.

Explore the legend of Dracula at the iconic Bran Castle, a place steeped in mystery and charm.

Marvel at the grandeur of Bucharest’s Palace of Parliament, the second-heaviest building in the world after the Pentagon, and take an exhilarating drive along the Transfăgărășan Highway, often celebrated as one of the most scenic roads globally.

Cap off your adventure by visiting the majestic People’s Salvation Cathedral, the largest Orthodox church in the world, a symbol of Romania’s rich cultural heritage.

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