Building AI Experiences: The unique engineering, UX & privacy challenges
Women in Tech Romania, in partnership with Google Romania, invites software engineers, technical leaders, and technology professionals to an evening dedicated to the realities of building AI-powered products.
As AI rapidly becomes part of everyday software development, engineers face a new set of challenges that extend far beyond model selection and implementation. From designing intuitive user experiences and building reliable systems to ensuring privacy, trust, and responsible use of AI, creating successful AI products requires a multidisciplinary approach.
Join us for an exclusive in-person event featuring Google engineers and AI leaders who are building and scaling AI-powered experiences used by millions of people worldwide. Through technical talks and interactive Q&A sessions, speakers will share practical lessons, engineering decisions, and real-world insights from the front lines of AI product development.
Whether you are already integrating AI into your products or exploring how to leverage AI in your day-to-day work, this event will provide valuable perspectives on the opportunities and challenges shaping the future of software engineering.
Agenda
17:30 – 18:15 | Guest Arrival
18:15 – 18:30 | Welcome speech
Opening remarks from Lavinia Neagoe for Women in Tech Romania and Tudor Visan, Software Engineering Manager, Google Romania.
18:30 – 19:00 | Session 1
Ștefania Budulan
AI Technology Lead, Adobe
Ștefania Budulan has over 10 years of experience delivering Machine Learning and AI solutions that bridge research and real-world business impact. She works at the intersection of data, engineering, and strategic decision-making, building production-ready systems and advising organizations across industries including financial services, telecom, media, manufacturing, IoT, marketing, and the public sector.
Throughout her career, she has built AI systems including recommender systems, anomaly detection solutions, churn prediction models, risk prediction frameworks, next-best-offer engines, chatbots, and advanced NLP applications.
Q&A Session
19:00 – 19:30 | Session 2
Alexander Krasnoselskikh
Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead, Google
Alexander is a Team Lead at Google and owner of the Google Health processing backbone. He is also a Health & Home AI champion within Google. Prior to joining Google, he worked on large-scale search systems at Yandex, where he owned the Yandex Fresh Search platform.
Q&A Session
19:30 – 20:00 | Session 3
Marina Ganea
Senior Software Engineer, Google
Marina’s journey in technology began through competitive programming, earning First Prize at the Romanian National Informatics Olympiad and later competing in the ACM-ICPC World Finals. After completing her Master’s degree at ETH Zurich, she spent more than a decade at Google across Switzerland, the United States, and Romania, working on projects that combine AI and large-scale infrastructure.
Her work has included launching Gmail Smart Reply, building integrations between Google Travel and Search, contributing to Search Quality initiatives, and most recently working within Google Health on Fitness Coach, an LLM-powered product.
Q&A Session
20:00 – 21:00 | Networking
Continue the conversation with speakers, Google engineers, and members of the local technology community.
Whether you are already building AI-powered experiences or are preparing to incorporate AI into your development workflow, you will gain practical insights from engineers working on products used at global scale.
Register today to join Women in Tech Romania and Google Romania for an evening of technical discussions, real-world engineering stories, and valuable networking with peers and industry experts.
We look forward to welcoming you on June 22!
Photography & Recording Notice
By registering for this event, you acknowledge that photographs and/or audio-video recordings may be taken during the event. By attending, you consent to the use of your image and/or voice captured during the event for publication on the internal communication channels and social media platforms of Women in Tech Romania and Google Romania for legitimate communication and promotional purposes. If you wish to opt out of the use of your image and/or voice, please contact us at [email protected] no later than June 22, 2026.