Bogdan studied electronics in Iasi, Romania and has over 14 years’ experience in embedded systems programming. Since seven years he has been a functional safety expert, mainly in the automotive industry, but also for railway and machinery industries, where he tackled a wide range of aspects, like assessments, audits, coaching and trainings as well as management and engineering consulting. clockworkX GmbH is a small start-up having around 10 employees, focused on 2 areas of activities: safe/secure systems and predictive/reliable operations. It’s main areas of activities are customer consultancy, mainly in the automotive domain, but also in railway, medical and renewable energy industry fields, and tool-supported predictive maintenance. At clockworkX Bodgan is the Head of Cybersecurity, consulting customers mainly on projects related to risk assessments, TARA and cybersecurity management. His personal interests consist of journalism and socio-politics lectures, which also determined his passion to organize trainings, discussion sessions, to share ideas and to teach other people.