Techsylvania

Not every founder starts with funding and a vision board. 🖤 Some start with a health diagnosis, a deadline, and no other option. Nikola Stolnik, CEO at Good Game Global, built an esports company in Croatia from literally nothing, and this is where it started. 🎥 Full episode on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dW_BF8S4 The Roadmap by Techsylvania 👀

To our Strategic Partner Super Technologies: thank you. 🙏 Techsylvania 2026 was built on the belief that the right partnerships make everything possible. Super Technologies embodied that from day one, and Cluj-Napoca felt it on June 24 - 25. Here's to what comes next. 🙌

Techsylvania 2026 wouldn't have been what it was without the right partners, and VistaJet was one of the finest examples of what a true partnership looks like. The Official Reception at Techsylvania 2026 was something special and that's largely thanks to VistaJet for hosting it in true style. ✈️ A special thank you to Madison Jones for being an incredible representative for VistaJet throughout the event, and to Michelle Rosa-Wolfe for commanding center stage in a way that left a real impression on everyone in the room. 🙌 Grateful for the partnership, the presence, and the people. See you next year. ✈️🥂

Day 2 of #Techsylvania2026: the moment it all came together. A week on, we're looking back at how the second and final day unfolded in Cluj: the closing conversations, the connections made, the energy that carried the whole event through to the end. Here's the recap. 🎥

Day 1 of #Techsylvania2026 in three words: energy, ideas, connection. A week later, we're still buzzing from the conversations that happened on stage and off it. Here's a look back at how Day 1 unfolded in Cluj: the talks, the moments, the community that showed up. Missed it live? This recap captures the spirit of it. 🎥

That's a wrap on #Techsylvania2026! Two days of honest, generous conversations from people who know what they are talking about. That sounds simple but it is not easy to pull off and this community keeps doing it. Founders, investors, engineers, researchers and builders from across the world gathered in Cluj to share what they know and challenge what they think they know. That is what this conference has always been about and this edition delivered it in full. To the Techsylvania team and every volunteer who made it run: this does not happen without you. Thank you! 🙏 To everyone who was in the room: we hope you are taking something real back with you. And to our sponsors: thank you for being with us, this event would not be the same without you! 🚀 Until next year, #techsylvanians! 

If you want to understand what it takes to build deep tech at a European scale, there are few people better placed to talk about it than Hermann Hauser. Hermann co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners, helped spin out ARM from Acorn Computers, and has founded or backed companies across semiconductors, genomics, AI and beyond, with exits to Microsoft, Illumina and Nvidia along the way. He is in conversation with Philipp Kandal at #Techsylvania2026. Hearing Hermann speak is a masterclass in how constraints actually enable groundbreaking innovation. When they were building the very first ARM chips at Acorn, they didn't have the money or the resources of their massive US competitors. Because of that severe lack of capital, the engineering team was forced to keep the microprocessor incredibly small and simple. That enforced simplicity inadvertently led to a chip with unprecedentedly low power consumption, the exact technical breakthrough that allows ARM to power virtually 100% of the world's smartphones today. 💡 It’s a powerful reminder for every builder that sometimes, a lack of resources is your greatest competitive edge.

The Q&A sessions on Day 2 of Techsylvania 2026 were exactly what this conference is built for. No filters, no scripts, just the audience going head to head with some of the sharpest minds in tech. The questions were bold, the answers were honest, and the conversations that followed were even better. That's a wrap on Day 2. Thank you for showing up fully. 🙌

What if the most radical thing you could do in a room full of tech leaders was ask them to stop — and breathe? That's exactly what Laura Calmore (Revera) did at Techsylvania 2026 — and the room was better for it. As a Conscious Regenerative & Mindfulness Facilitator, Laura brought a perspective that cut through the noise of optimization culture with a simple but profound question: we are arguably the most optimized generation in human history — but are we the most alive? Her argument: the systems we've built — from business to institutions to universities — are running on a logic of efficiency, control, and extraction that is fundamentally disconnected from the logic of life itself. Nature doesn't produce all year round. It breathes. It rests. It moves through seasons. And the moment we forget that, we start optimizing ourselves out of our own humanity. She also reminded the audience that everything is relational — we are not isolated nodes, but part of a wider web of life that includes our teams, our communities, and the ecosystems in which we build our businesses. And then she did something you don't often see at a tech conference: she guided the room through a live breathing and relaxation exercise — creating a rare moment of stillness and genuine presence in the middle of a packed conference day. Because before we can build systems worthy of humanity, we need to remember how to be human together again. #Techsylvania2026

Four companies founded and sold by 32. Now Noah Berkson is asking a different question at #Techsylvania2026: "How do you become irreplaceable in a world where AI is changing what skills actually matter?" Noah runs Austin Capital Partners, a family office focused on fintech and financial services, and co-founded Irreplaceable Institute, a platform built to help professionals figure out exactly that. 💡 The World Economic Forum's core skills for 2030 are not what you would expect at a technology conference: curiosity, creativity, social influence, emotional intelligence, self-awareness. The most valuable people will not just be the most technical, they will be the ones who combine technical knowledge with something deeply human.