Ana-Maria has been in the NGO field for more than 20 years, she was the Executive Director of the largest NGO in Romania on human rights, advocacy and public policy, and is currently the CEO of Bucharest Robots, the first Romanian start-up in the field of humanoid and service robots and member of the Board of euRobotics – the European Association for civil robotics.

Throughout her extensive work in the NGO field and now as an advocate of robotics and automation, Ana-Maria is constantly involved in gathering data and providing feed-back on the social-economic implications of the new technologies such as robotics and AI and their potential impact, both on a national and European level.