The event took place
April 21-22, 2020.

MIT Management Sloan School

New technology expert at the MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy. He leads research programs on digital transformation, innovation and IT leadership. He also teaches the Essential IT for Non-IT Executives course and helps boards and executives around the world achieve competitive advantage through technology. He is the author of the best-selling publications. Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation according to Business Digest is one of the top ten books of 2014, and The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value was ranked number one in its subject area in 2009. His articles appear in such publications as: MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. He serves on the board of the Technology Business Management Council and co-chairs the MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Awards. Before becoming a research fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, he earned a PhD from Harvard Business School. He also has more than a dozen years of experience in product development and technology management.

Professor at MIT and Tufts University, expert in TRIZ methodology, creator of the DFP method, Chief Strategy Officer at CRIDO R&D team

Consultant and coordinator of innovative design technologies. Board member and chief advisor at NOVISMO consulting firm. He has conducted more than 1,000 courses on systematic innovation and TRIZ (Theory for Inventive Problem Solving) issues for Fortune 500 companies worldwide. He is director and chief instructor of corporate TRIZ training programs at Procter & Gamble, Samsung, Intel and Siemens, among others. He has more than 100 publications and books and 104 projects in various engineering fields. He has received special awards for innovation development at Procter & Gamble and Unilever, and Samsung Electronics for integrating TRIZ Samsung Six Sigma Black training. He holds a doctorate in industrial engineering, environmental engineering, and a master's degree in patent law.

Researcher with the Harvard Labour and Worklife Programme

Doctor of Philosophy, one of whose areas of interest is artificial intelligence. In 2011, she was chairwoman of the Audiovisual Working Group of the Council of the European Union. As a Fulbright Program Fellow, she graduated from The New School for Social Research in New York, where she participated in research on identity in virtual reality. In 2014, she served as a Visiting Scholar at The New School for Social Research and Brown University in New York. She is interested in the development of new technologies, especially green and sustainable technology, humanoid artificial intelligence, social robots and wearable technologies.

EMEA Technology Research & Insights Leader, Deloitte

From Gartner Research, he joined Deloitte in August 2016. In his role, he helps shape Deloitte's global research program, as well as identify and lead many research initiatives in EMEA. Hans is a member of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, which works with senior management to understand and capitalize on emerging opportunities at the edge of business and technology. In both roles, Hans is a frequent speaker at international conferences, helping leaders better understand the fundamental technological changes that are shaping their business world, navigating short-term challenges and identifying long-term opportunities. Hans is also a part-time lecturer at Nyenrode Business School on Digital Disruption and Innovation. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Supervisory Board at Priva, a global leader in greenhouse climate management and process optimization.

Leading European expert in leadership and personal effectiveness

Experienced inspirational speaker, consultant, trainer, coach and manager. In 2016, he was selected as one of the top 25 experts in the elite 100 Coaches, led by the legendary Marshall Goldsmith. He was the first Pole to complete the coaching program at the McClelland Center in Boston, and holds an international executive coaching certification from Stakeholder Centered Coaching™. Graduate of the Executive Program at Singularity University in Silicon Valley. Since 2007 he has been associated with "Harvard Business Review Poland". He is co-founder and managing partner of the ICAN Leadership Lab and a respected inspirational and conference speaker. He advises management boards of leading companies in Poland and abroad, and conducts numerous workshops and trainings for high-level managers.He is the author of the bestselling book Labyrinth. The Art of Decision-Making, which became a bestseller of the Harvard Business Review Poland in just six weeks, and was recently published in the US market, where it is receiving very positive feedback from the most influential leaders.

One of the most experienced strategic consultants in Europe.

He is a recognized conference and inspirational speaker. He conducts workshops as part of open and corporate programs, designs programs in strategy development and implementation, also implements e-learning programs and development programs based on Harvard Business Publishing multimedia tools. He has worked with leading companies as a management consultant and trainer (including Goodyear Polska, SAP, Lyreco, Lotos, Hestia, Ciech SA, TPSA, Eurozet, GlaxoSmithKline, Kolporter, PSB Group, Węglokoks).

Head of Sustainable Strategy & Business Development.

Ingemar Jansson is responsible for Cybercom's sustainable business development strategy. He helps the company's clients increase competitiveness and accelerate growth in a sustainable way, leveraging innovation and digitalization. In 2018, on behalf of the Swedish Government, he coordinated the development of a roadmap for fossil fuel independence by IT companies to demonstrate how digital technologies can enable Sweden to become a fossil fuel-free country. He has extensive experience as Director Corporate Development and a proven track record as an entrepreneur, business development manager and consultant in technology-based innovation and sustainability strategy.

Advisor, McKinsey & Company

He serves as a Senior Advisor in the Dubai office of McKinsey & Company. She is a digital transformation leader in transactional and consumer banking. She has 25 years of experience working with many companies in Europe, Asia and the US. She is passionate and committed to supporting companies by showing them how to manage change, implement innovation and restructuring. With her help, companies are embarking on a new path of development related to the use of new technologies. Prior to joining McKinsey & Company in January 2020, she was Director of Transformation at JP Morgan Chase Bank in New York. She also worked with DBS Bank in Singapore. She is also a highly regarded speaker, having spoken at many major conferences and universities around the world. She holds a master's degree in international trade from the Warsaw School of Economics. She also completed European Business Studies at Brunel University of London, where she earned a bachelor's degree.

founder of SuperhumanTalks.com platform

DIY futurist and biohacker. He graduated with a degree in journalism and innovation management from the Rijksuniversiteit in Groningen, the Netherlands. In 2019, he was a student of Waag Amsterdam's Biohack Academy 2019 class. He attends the School of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum "Regina Apostolorum" and is studying at the European University in Rome. Owner of the successful Dutch blog PeterJoosten.net, where he writes about biohacking, technology and innovation, among other topics. Guest speaker and consultant at various companies and institutions. In his popular Biohacking Impact podcast, he interviews experts in the field of human improvement and technological development. His mission is to think, talk, give presentations, conduct interviews and publish articles about the Superhuman era. It is for this reason that he founded the SuperhumanTalks.com platform.

Managing Director of Cybercom Poland, expert in Digital Sustainability

Jan Matulewicz serves as managing director of Cybercom Poland, a technology consulting company. He has been involved in the IT industry since 2004. He has followed a full career path in it - from programmer, to project manager, to director of Software House, to the highest role in the organization. He is a graduate of the International Faculty of Engineering at the Technical University of Lodz and an Executive MBA at the University of Lodz. In both his professional and private life, he promotes the use of technology in the service of humanity. He has 15 years of experience in the field of process management in a technology company.

Partner in Digital Drive team, User Experience expert, Grant Thornton

Digital transformation consultant, managing partner and co-founder of EDISONDA, which is part of Grant Thornton. For almost 15 years he has been working on the topic of usability and interaction design in digital areas. He gained experience in projects for corporations such as ABB, AUTODESK, Benefit Systems, ENEA, Fritolay, ING, TAURON, Vattenfall, and Boehringer Ingelheim, but also dozens of startups from various industries. He is particularly interested in the topics of complex business systems, self-service across multiple channels, digital workplace optimization and IoT. Outside of work, he reads a lot about urban planning and architecture, as well as the history of innovation.

Partner in Digital Drive team, cybersecurity expert, Grant Thorntonn

Expert in governance and oversight in IT, risk management and information security, Auditor of information systems. From 2005 to 2009 President of the Board of Directors of ISACA in Poland. Co-founder of information systems audit and security departments at KPMG (1998 - 2004) and Deloitte (2005 - 2007). From 2007 - 2012 juror of the IT Leader competition organized by Computerworld. Lecturer at the Postgraduate Studies "Effective IT Management in an Enterprise" and "Cyber Security Management" at the Warsaw School of Economics. Active participant in the INDI Open Astronomy Instrumentation project and developer of drivers for devices used in astrophotography. Founder of Immusec, a cyber security implementation company in Poland and worldwide, which became part of the Grant Thornton Group on July 29, 2019.

Member of the Management Board, Sales Director, Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services Poland

He has been managing business development and transforming sales for more than 21 years. He gained his professional competence working as a sales director and regional sales manager in companies such as: Hermes Energy Group SA, Lyreco Group and Frito-Lay Poland. He was responsible for defining and implementing sales strategy, its digitization and professionalization, implementing employee incentive programs and introducing innovative projects in the area of new products, loyalty programs and e-learning training. He currently holds the position of Sales Director at Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services Poland in the rank of Board Member.

Regional Vice President, Sales Manager for Eastern Europe, Salesforce

He gained vast experience in the IT industry working for more than 15 years in Eastern European markets at companies such as, IBM and Oracle. The beginning of his career coincided with the emergence of the Internet. He was involved in many projects covering virtually every aspect of IT. At Salesforce, he promotes and helps, customers and partners, to apply new business models that are supported by the Cloud. He is interested in the opportunities and possibilities offered by new technologies.

CEO, Fujitsu Poland

Since 2017, he has been responsible for Fujitsu's sales and business in Poland. Since joining Fujitsu in 2006, Dariusz Kwiecinski has held many managerial positions within Fujitsu structures in Poland and Eastern Europe, including: Service Manager, Service Director, Head of Services and Country Head of Sales in Poland. He is a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology.

CEO, Balluff Poland

He has been working in the industrial automation industry for 25 years, combining technical, business and humanities education. For more than 20 years, he has been co-founding the Polish branch of the Balluff Group providing products, systems, services and data-feeding solutions for superior control systems to make Industry 4.0 a reality in the areas of material flow tracking (traceability), quality assurance, parameterization, format change and predictive maintenance. Manages Balluff Sp. z o.o. based on specialists connecting the unconnected, identifying the unidentified, digitizing analog production processes using IO-Link, RFID, Machine Vision technologies, among others, and supporting the development of automation in the industry. He also applies Lean Management concepts as a member of international project teams at Balluff, based on continuous improvement and value creation. He develops the Engineering and Application Center - inspiring and supporting progress in manufacturing, utilizing engineering, organizational and educational capabilities, where innovative solutions are prepared and implemented to enhance the competitiveness of industry leaders. Leads the Balluff Group's market activities in the Central and Eastern European region.

Country Sales Director, Genesys Poland

For more than 12 years she has been building and implementing solutions based on Genesys technology (Gartner No. 1 for 9 years in a row). More than 5 years ago she took the position of Country Sales Manager at Genesys, where she is responsible for overseeing all the company's business activities in the Polish market. She has been involved with the business and technology solutions market for more than a dozen years. In her activities, she continuously supports the development of existing Genesys customers in the area of broadly understood Customer Experience, Strategic Process Optimization and Corporate Performance Management, as well as focuses on acquiring new customers. Key issues for her are to provide both customers and partners with knowledge backed by global best practices, in order to be able to implement solutions efficiently and comprehensively, ending with a quick return on investment. She is a graduate of the City & Guilds Institute of London with a degree in Information Technology, the Higher School of Commerce and International Finance with a degree in International Marketing in Warsaw, and the Higher School of Management and Marketing. She has worked with, among others, the American company SAS Institute as Marketing Director, Spin as Sales and Marketing Director and Dimension Data as Business Line Director.

CEO, Future Industry Platform

Industry automation expert, president of the Future Industry Platform, creator of the "Initiative for Polish Industry 4.0" social movement, which works to transform the country's industrial sector. Since 2017, leader of the Future Industry project at the Ministry of Investment and Development (formerly the Ministry of Development). From 1990 to 2015, Andrzej Soldaty was associated with the multinational Festo sp. z o.o., a provider of industrial automation solutions and components, where he participated in the development and implementation of a number of automation projects in various industrial sectors. From 2010 to 2015, he was president of Festo. For 25 years he participated in building and developing the concern in Poland, and also led international projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Previously, from 1986 to 1990, Andrzej Soldaty worked in the Robotization Department at ROBRA "Chemoautomatics", a government research and development center, where, as a manager, he participated in the development and implementation of industrial robot applications in the chemical industry, and co-developed a specialized manipulator for the plastics industry. Andrzej Soldaty has a technical education in mechanics and automation, and completed his doctoral studies in economics at the Institute of Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Commercial Director, WEBCON

For 12 years, he has been advising medium and large companies from many industries on which tools to optimize their business processes. For more than 5 years he has served as Commercial Director at WEBCON, which since 2006 has been developing its proprietary WEBCON BPS platform with innovative InstantChange™ technology. He works with companies such as CEDC, Societe Generale Equipment Finance and Cersanit. He has also shared his knowledge and practical experience as a Lecturer-Trainer, giving lectures and exercises at, among others, the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology in Warsaw and the School of Business in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

Digital & Cloud Services Country Lead, T-Systems Poland

Entrepreneur, information technology salesman, business advisor in technological innovation and a great enthusiast of digital transformation. He gained experience as a manager and sales director in the banking and financial sector in companies such as Computerland SA, Banking Bases and Systems Sp. z o.o. and IT.expert Sp. z o.o., which he co-founded. From 2012 to 2019, he worked as Sales Director and Digital Transformation Manager at Comparex Poland Sp. z o.o. Currently, he holds the position of Director of Cloud Services and is responsible for digital transformation at T-Systems Polska Sp.z o.o. He holds memberships in Business Network International and The Associaton for Information and Image. He is the author of publications on cyber security, data protection and digital transformation.

Member of the Management Board, Director of Industry 4.0, ASTOR

Graduate of Automation and Robotics specialty "Computer Science in Control and Management" at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow. He completed postgraduate studies in "Production Management" at the Higher European School in Kraków. At ASTOR, he was responsible for the technical aspects of implementing manufacturing management systems of the MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems) class, economic analysis of investments in automation and manufacturing management systems. He helped build concepts for production management and automatic control systems for, among others, ArcelorMittal Poland, Nestle Poland, Cereal Partners Poland Pacific-Toruń, Koksownia Przyjaźń, IKEA Industry, LOTOS Asfalt, LotteWedel. He was the originator and first editor-in-chief of a magazine for manufacturing companies - "Business and Production". He was also responsible for building the company's consulting department. Currently, he is a member of ASTOR Group's operating management board, responsible for marketing and customer relationship management. He is an expert in analyzing the economic efficiency of investments in automation systems, in IT systems for production and supply chain management, and in robotization of industrial processes. In addition, at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, he conducts research on the impact of process automation on building strategic advantage for manufacturing companies and on the integration of industrial IT and automation systems. He is the author of the first articles on manufacturing process automation on the Harvard Business Review Poland blog - http://blogi.hbrp.pl/blog-biznesowy/author/jgracel/. He also holds an international qualification in project management certified as a PRINCE2® Certified Practitioner. He holds a Professional Diploma in Marketing from the British institute The Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Implementation Director, Cloudware Poland

Dariusz manages Cloudware's Technical Department, while being responsible for all issues related to our clients' implementations. His entire career has been in technology - he has been in IT, telecommunications and management for 23 years. He started his adventure with IT by being a programmer, and then managed 300+ international DevOps teams. For the last 4 years he has worked extensively in the area and culture of IoT and smart home startups. Currently at Cloudware, he is responsible for the area of project execution and service maintenance, i.e. so-called DevOps delivery. Privately, he is interested in AI, IoT and other advanced technologies.

Senior Business Development Manager, Samsung Electronics Poland

Active "business developer" and passionate about new technologies for over five years employed at Samsung Electronics Poland as Director of Business Development. In the corporation responsible for business development, creating new strategic business partnerships including the creation of innovative projects with public administration and public policy and the commercial sector. Member of the largest chambers of the IT and Telecommunications and Consumer Electronics industry, i.e. PIIT, ZIPSEE Cyfrowa Polska, KIGEiT, as well as the IT Sector Competence Council and the Telecommunications and Cyber Security Sector Competence Council. Actively cooperating with the academic community of SGH and PWSZiP in Lomza.