Oct. 8, 2026, JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel

SOVEREIGN BY DESIGN

Engineering Digital Sovereignty
On-Premise AI, Edge Computing & the EU Regulatory Landscape.

SOVEREIGN BY DESIGN

Engineering Digital Sovereignty
On-Premise AI, Edge Computing & the EU Regulatory Landscape.

Don’t miss the 23rd edition of No Time for Downtime, the reference event on operational continuity, critical infrastructures and information security for your organization.

About NTFD

No Time for Downtime is the reference event dedicated to computing systems and mission-critical infrastructures in Romania. It brings together technology leaders, integrators and practitioners who present solutions and trends for modern IT infrastructure, oriented towards operational continuity, performance and security.

The target audience includes organizations of all sizes, with their own data centers or hosted or hybrid infrastructures. The program is structured in two complementary sections: a technology showcase with live demonstrations and a series of applied presentations, case studies and best practices. NTFD facilitates direct dialog between manufacturers, integrators and beneficiaries and provides context for informed technology decisions.

How was the previous editions?

We would like to thank our partners at Maguay, both for a successful event and for their involvement in the partnership we have been developing over the last few years.
For Hewlett Packard Enterprise, this event brings the opportunity to present the latest innovations available in the HPE portfolio and I would mention here the Data & Cloud, Hyperconverged, Mission Critical, Wi Fi – Aruba solutions.
All these state-of-the-art solutions aim to modernize and optimize the IT infrastructure and processes for all companies in Romania.

Radu Opriș
Managing Director, HPE Romania

What we presented

9:00 a.m. – Welcome & Registration
10:00 a.m. – Introduction and welcome: “No Time for Downtime” — Eduard Pughin, General Manager, Maguay
10:20 a.m. – Keynote: One HPE: Powering What’s Next — Roxana Clement – Managing Director, HPE Romania
10:35 – Control is the new AI advantage. Security, sovereignty, and trust are at the core of enterprise AI — Roxana Neacşu-Stanca – HPE Private Cloud AI Sales, East-Central Cluster
11:00 a.m. – Business Continuity & AI in a Resilient, Flexible Deployment Model — Ciprian Pustianu – Principal Master Account Cloud Engineer at Oracle
11:20 a.m. – AI for Security, Security for AI — George Catrina, Team Leader, System Engineer, Public Sector and Enterprise, Romania, Fortinet
11:40 – Coffee Break & Showcase
12:10 p.m. – Everpure Data Primacy – How We Can Turn Company Data into the Primary Source for AI and Smart Applications — Horia Constantinescu, Everpure Country Manager for CEE
12:25 p.m. – Redefining Data Resilience — Cornel Popescu – Lead Systems Engineer for Eastern Europe, Veeam Software
12:40 p.m. – 24/Cyber — Bogdan Toporan, CEO, Best Internet Security | BISS
12:55 – Coffee Break & Showcase
1:30 p.m. – The Modern Landscape of Cyber Threats – 2026 — Bogdan Botezatu, Director of Threat Research and Reporting at Bitdefender
1:45 p.m. – Red Hat OpenShift—the secure, sovereign AI platform — Mihai Canciu, Presales Manager, Exclusive Networks
2:00 p.m. – AI Under Control: Visibility, Security, and Compliance with F5 — Robert Tanase – F5 Presales Engineer
2:15 p.m. – Raffle
2:30 p.m. – Late lunch & Showcase

Maguay Raffle Prizes

  1. HIGH-PERFORMANCE ULTRAPORTABLE
    Maguay MyWay U14AI300I-MIL — 14″ · AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 · 16 GB RAM · 1 TB SSD
  2. FAST AND VERSATILE STORAGE
    Promise Pegasus M4 — storage system configured with 2 × 2 TB SSDs.
  3. THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS SOVEREIGNTY
    NVIDIA RTX A2000 · 16 GB VRAM.
    The first step towards sovereign AI: run AI locally, directly on your own PC.
  4. 3 prizes, each consisting of ONE WEEKEND IN THE MOUNTAINS FOR 2 PEOPLE
    Chalet Alpina voucher for a weekend in the mountains for 2 people (2 nights).

Have we convinced you?

Reserve your invitation now to the 23rd edition of No Time for Downtime, which will take place in October 2026 at JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel.