Blagovesta Pugyova is a manager with over 15 years of experience and talent in managing and inspiring people. She has worked in finance, investment advisory, and IT. Currently, she is the CEO and co-founder of Childish.ai and Fabrico. Apart from that, she is also the founder and president of the Give a Book Foundation, one of the eminent volunteering organizations in Bulgaria. Blagovesta studied Finance at UNWE, Sofia and Law and Accounting at LSE, London.

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Grisha is a Partnership Director at Telerik Academy, where he helps technology companies reach and hire the quality IT talent that Telerik Academy creates. He has over 17 years of experience in sales and consulting with key clients such as Microsoft, PwC, BBC, Aston Martin, The Coca-Cola Company, and Nestle. Before heading the partnership network of Telerik Academy, he worked at Telerik and Progress as a Senior Sales Engineer for Telerik Sitefinity – a proprietary content management system. Prior to that, Grisha headed a team of sales experts at SiteGround. He has lectured in the USA, South America, Europe, and Asia. Grisha is also one of the co-founders and a former chairman of the Bulgarian Debate Association, whose members recently ranked second in the world.

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The only thing Anna loves more than writing code is training future automation QAs and sharing her passion for solving problems. Her obsession with programming dates back to the late 1980s, when her boyfriend at the mathematics high school told her that ‘this job is not for women’. However, life throws surprises and her career path meanders through financial journalism, international market analysis and PR. She hopes to stay at Astea until she turns 92, when she'll become a ghost who haunts the company's network and yells ‘Boo’ at every bug she encounters.

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Snezhina Marinova is the co-founder and manager of hOUR SPACE, Bulgaria's first coworking space for psychologists and psychotherapists, which aims to popularize and normalize mental health care. In 2020, hOUR THERAPY launched a service which allows companies to support their employees through access to psychotherapy, coaching, training and interactive lectures on different topics pertaining to mental health care. Snezhina completed her higher education in Scotland – a bachelor's degree in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and a master's degree in Publishing at Edinburgh Napier University. After returning to Bulgaria, Snezhina became certified as a gestalt psychotherapist at the Bulgarian Institute of Gestalt Therapy and is currently a member of the Bulgarian Association of Gestalt Therapy. Since 2016 she has been working in private practice as part of the community of mental health specialists at hOUR SPACE. In her spare time, Snezhina likes to sing and is the personal photographer of two cats and a dog.

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