20-21ST JANUARY 2023
źródło: https://unsplash.com/photos/F2KRf_QfCqw
Speakers
Mateusz Mazzini
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and Reporter, Host of UCL Leaders 2023
Mateusz Mazzini
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and Reporter, Host of UCL Leaders 2023
21.01.2023
#Welcome
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and reporter with a decade of experience in Polish and international media. Graduate of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 2015 Bertelsmann Foundation Global Media Fellow. 2017 Visiting Research Fellow at University College London. 2020 Grand Press Nominee for Non-Fiction Feature. 2021 BIRN Fellow for Excellence in Journalism. He covers Latin American affairs and the Global South, politics of Western Europe, the rise of the far right and populism and other major global trends. He now writes for Gazeta Wyborcza and POLITYKA Weekly. His work was featured in, among others, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Pacific Standard, and numerous other outlets in Poland and abroad.
21.01.2023
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
#Welcome
Mateusz Mazzini
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and Reporter, Host of UCL Leaders 2023
Sociologist, Latin Americanist and reporter with a decade of experience in Polish and international media. Graduate of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 2015 Bertelsmann Foundation Global Media Fellow. 2017 Visiting Research Fellow at University College London. 2020 Grand Press Nominee for Non-Fiction Feature. 2021 BIRN Fellow for Excellence in Journalism. He covers Latin American affairs and the Global South, politics of Western Europe, the rise of the far right and populism and other major global trends. He now writes for Gazeta Wyborcza and POLITYKA Weekly. His work was featured in, among others, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Pacific Standard, and numerous other outlets in Poland and abroad.
Berta Herrero Estalayo
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe, UCL Leaders 2023 Keynote Speaker
Berta Herrero Estalayo
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe, UCL Leaders 2023 Keynote Speaker
21.01.2023
#Welcome
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
Berta Herrero is Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe. She is also the Founder & Director of the company’s Schools for Female Leadership in the Digital Age, which provide top students and young professionals with a once-in-a-life-time opportunity to acquire the skills needed to shape Europe’s digital transition, under a full scholarship. Most recently she has launched The Women’s Academy for Rural Innovation, a ground-breaking initiative designed to empower women from rural communities to shape the digital age.
Ms. Herrero has extensive experience in the field of European Union politics and policies in three different sectors (institutional, corporate and media), and in areas ranging from foreign affairs and enlargement to cohesion, new technologies and innovation.
Prior to joining the tech industry, Ms. Herrero served in the cabinet of a Vice-President of the European Parliament in Brussels, and previously as a journalist for Spain’s newspaper El Mundo, reporting from different countries across the world.
Ms. Herrero studied Journalism in Madrid, European Studies in Amsterdam and East European Studies in Berlin, and earned a certificate on 'Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Organizational Excellence’ from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
She is personally invested in contributing to overcome the divide, be it digital, geographical or gender-related, that prevents the European society from moving forward in a fair and inclusive way. In 2021, she was honoured to be featured on the prestigious Santander-CIDOB ’35 under 35′ list, which recognizes the potential of emerging leaders who are shaping the digital era worldwide.
21.01.2023
Opening Ceremony & Keynote Speech
#Welcome
Berta Herrero Estalayo
Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe, UCL Leaders 2023 Keynote Speaker
Berta Herrero is Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Huawei Europe. She is also the Founder & Director of the company’s Schools for Female Leadership in the Digital Age, which provide top students and young professionals with a once-in-a-life-time opportunity to acquire the skills needed to shape Europe’s digital transition, under a full scholarship. Most recently she has launched The Women’s Academy for Rural Innovation, a ground-breaking initiative designed to empower women from rural communities to shape the digital age.
Ms. Herrero has extensive experience in the field of European Union politics and policies in three different sectors (institutional, corporate and media), and in areas ranging from foreign affairs and enlargement to cohesion, new technologies and innovation.
Prior to joining the tech industry, Ms. Herrero served in the cabinet of a Vice-President of the European Parliament in Brussels, and previously as a journalist for Spain’s newspaper El Mundo, reporting from different countries across the world.
Ms. Herrero studied Journalism in Madrid, European Studies in Amsterdam and East European Studies in Berlin, and earned a certificate on 'Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Organizational Excellence’ from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
She is personally invested in contributing to overcome the divide, be it digital, geographical or gender-related, that prevents the European society from moving forward in a fair and inclusive way. In 2021, she was honoured to be featured on the prestigious Santander-CIDOB ’35 under 35′ list, which recognizes the potential of emerging leaders who are shaping the digital era worldwide.
Deepti Atrish
CEO and Founder of PCLHealth
Deepti Atrish
CEO and Founder of PCLHealth
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Deepti is passionate about data-driven technology that improves the way health will be managed using IoT, AI, and robotis. She is an Experienced Technology Entrepreneur and founded two start-ups. She is the founder of Poonyah - An Ecosystem that uses IoT technology, as well as an AI-driven Health Algorithm to facilitate Seniors live independently. Deepti is the winner of Top 100 Asian TechStars, nominee for Tech Women 100 UK and finalist for Tech Leaders awards in 2019.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Deepti Atrish
CEO and Founder of PCLHealth
Deepti is passionate about data-driven technology that improves the way health will be managed using IoT, AI, and robotis. She is an Experienced Technology Entrepreneur and founded two start-ups. She is the founder of Poonyah - An Ecosystem that uses IoT technology, as well as an AI-driven Health Algorithm to facilitate Seniors live independently. Deepti is the winner of Top 100 Asian TechStars, nominee for Tech Women 100 UK and finalist for Tech Leaders awards in 2019.
Dr Elina Naydenova
CEO & Co-Founder of Feebris
Dr Elina Naydenova
CEO & Co-Founder of Feebris
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Elina Naydenova started her career as a biomedical and AI engineer, with a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare Innovation from Oxford University. She has worked on bringing transformational healthcare innovation to health systems at the World Health Organisation, as well as the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Elina is currently the CEO & co-founder of Feebris – a company whose AI-powered platform enables community users across the NHS to detect deterioration early and prevent avoidable exacerbations for patients.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Dr Elina Naydenova
CEO & Co-Founder of Feebris
Elina Naydenova started her career as a biomedical and AI engineer, with a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare Innovation from Oxford University. She has worked on bringing transformational healthcare innovation to health systems at the World Health Organisation, as well as the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Elina is currently the CEO & co-founder of Feebris – a company whose AI-powered platform enables community users across the NHS to detect deterioration early and prevent avoidable exacerbations for patients.
Dr Adam Dubis
Associate Professor and Programme Lead Digital Health and Global Entrepreneurship at University College London
Dr Adam Dubis
Associate Professor and Programme Lead Digital Health and Global Entrepreneurship at University College London
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Associate Professor and Programme Lead for UCL’s Digital Health and Entrepreneurship, Adam is an enterprise minded educator, looking to grow the future generations of health support innovators and leaders. Dr Dubis leads a rapidly growing team which focuses on applying cutting edge imaging, image analytics and data science techniques to improve ophthalmic and neurological care.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Dr Adam Dubis
Associate Professor and Programme Lead Digital Health and Global Entrepreneurship at University College London
Associate Professor and Programme Lead for UCL’s Digital Health and Entrepreneurship, Adam is an enterprise minded educator, looking to grow the future generations of health support innovators and leaders. Dr Dubis leads a rapidly growing team which focuses on applying cutting edge imaging, image analytics and data science techniques to improve ophthalmic and neurological care.
Dr Indra Joshi
Director for Health, Research and AI at Palantir Technologies
Dr Indra Joshi
Director for Health, Research and AI at Palantir Technologies
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
A world-leading expert in digital health and AI technologies, Indra created the NHS AI Lab. The £250m investment that led to the development and deployment of over 80 AI technologies into UK healthcare. She is currently working across the global health and research portfolio of Palantir Technologies to enable better use of data to impact health and care. She is a Founding Member of One HealthTech - organisation supporting under-represented groups to be the future leaders of health innovation. Alongside, she is an associate editor for BMJ Leader and a former member of the WHO digital health expert group
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Dr Indra Joshi
Director for Health, Research and AI at Palantir Technologies
A world-leading expert in digital health and AI technologies, Indra created the NHS AI Lab. The £250m investment that led to the development and deployment of over 80 AI technologies into UK healthcare. She is currently working across the global health and research portfolio of Palantir Technologies to enable better use of data to impact health and care. She is a Founding Member of One HealthTech - organisation supporting under-represented groups to be the future leaders of health innovation. Alongside, she is an associate editor for BMJ Leader and a former member of the WHO digital health expert group
Simon Rasalingham
Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai
Simon Rasalingham
Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai
21.01.2023
#Technology
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
Simon Rasalingham is a Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai, as well as winner of the 2022 Prix Galien UK Award for „Best Digital Health Solution”. Developed by Behold.ai, red dot is an artificially intelligent CT and X-Ray medical diagnosis platform that can almost instantly detect various conditions, such as lung cancer or stroke. Simon is also the Founder of Medica Group - UK’s largest Teleradiology Service.
21.01.2023
Technology Panel: Innovation in Healthcare - Is AI doomed to remain a “startup level technology"?
#Technology
Simon Rasalingham
Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai
Simon Rasalingham is a Chairman and CEO of Behold.ai, as well as winner of the 2022 Prix Galien UK Award for „Best Digital Health Solution”. Developed by Behold.ai, red dot is an artificially intelligent CT and X-Ray medical diagnosis platform that can almost instantly detect various conditions, such as lung cancer or stroke. Simon is also the Founder of Medica Group - UK’s largest Teleradiology Service.
Coco Yeonsoo Do
Korean Singer and Dancer
Coco Yeonsoo Do
Korean Singer and Dancer
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Creative artist who works at a global K-Pop culture and community based in the UK and South Korea. She is a professional dancer, trained in various genres such as ballet, contemporary dance, Korean traditional dance and hip-hop dance. Formerly, Coco was a member of KAACHI, the UK’s first K-Pop girl group. Currently, she is actively working with FANTOO, the global Hallyu media platform based in South Korea, creating various original video media related to Korean culture and K-Pop, such as ‘K-Pop Diet’, ‘Shocking Korea’ and ‘Fan Meeting on the Way Back Home’. Further, Coco has delivered lectures on “the characteristics of Korean culture in K-Pop” at the Korean Culture Centre UK.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
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Coco Yeonsoo Do
Korean Singer and Dancer
Creative artist who works at a global K-Pop culture and community based in the UK and South Korea. She is a professional dancer, trained in various genres such as ballet, contemporary dance, Korean traditional dance and hip-hop dance. Formerly, Coco was a member of KAACHI, the UK’s first K-Pop girl group. Currently, she is actively working with FANTOO, the global Hallyu media platform based in South Korea, creating various original video media related to Korean culture and K-Pop, such as ‘K-Pop Diet’, ‘Shocking Korea’ and ‘Fan Meeting on the Way Back Home’. Further, Coco has delivered lectures on “the characteristics of Korean culture in K-Pop” at the Korean Culture Centre UK.
Simon Smith
Former British Ambassador to the Republic of South Korea
Simon Smith
Former British Ambassador to the Republic of South Korea
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Simon Smith is a British diplomat. He has served as Ambassador to Austria, Ukraine and South Korea. Currently he is a chair of the steering committee of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House. He has retired from a 35-year career in the UK diplomatic service, where he served in London, Tokyo, Moscow, Vienna, Kyiv and Seoul. He speaks Korean, Ukrainian, German, French, Russian and Japanese.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Simon Smith
Former British Ambassador to the Republic of South Korea
Simon Smith is a British diplomat. He has served as Ambassador to Austria, Ukraine and South Korea. Currently he is a chair of the steering committee of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House. He has retired from a 35-year career in the UK diplomatic service, where he served in London, Tokyo, Moscow, Vienna, Kyiv and Seoul. He speaks Korean, Ukrainian, German, French, Russian and Japanese.
Marek Bracha
Pianist
Marek Bracha
Pianist
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
A versatile pianist educated in Warsaw and London. As an active artist he performs piano repertoire both on modern and historical instruments. He also devotes himself to music education both as a lecturer in Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and as an author of lecture recitals on Polish music performed in his homeland and abroad. His work promoting Polish music included appearances in China, Japan, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, USA, Taiwan, Venezuela and Chile. He debuted with performances of Chopin’s pieces and still remains an expert on this composer. He regularly comments on the International Chopin Piano Competitions on Polish TV. He is also no stranger to modern music and his album, Modern Soul, won a Supersonic Prize awarded by the Pizzicato Magazine.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Marek Bracha
Pianist
A versatile pianist educated in Warsaw and London. As an active artist he performs piano repertoire both on modern and historical instruments. He also devotes himself to music education both as a lecturer in Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw and as an author of lecture recitals on Polish music performed in his homeland and abroad. His work promoting Polish music included appearances in China, Japan, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, USA, Taiwan, Venezuela and Chile. He debuted with performances of Chopin’s pieces and still remains an expert on this composer. He regularly comments on the International Chopin Piano Competitions on Polish TV. He is also no stranger to modern music and his album, Modern Soul, won a Supersonic Prize awarded by the Pizzicato Magazine.
Dr Laura-Maria Popoviciu
Art Curator at the UK Government Art Collection
Dr Laura-Maria Popoviciu
Art Curator at the UK Government Art Collection
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Pre-1900 curator at the UK Government Art Collection. She is an experienced London-based art historian, curator and researcher, specialising in the early modern period. She holds a Doctorate in History of Art and a Master’s degree in Cultural and Intellectual History from the Warburg Institute in London. Her academic achievements have been recognised through prestigious fellowships and grants, and her portfolio includes curated exhibitions, scholarly publications, teaching appointments, audio and video podcasts.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
#Art
Dr Laura-Maria Popoviciu
Art Curator at the UK Government Art Collection
Pre-1900 curator at the UK Government Art Collection. She is an experienced London-based art historian, curator and researcher, specialising in the early modern period. She holds a Doctorate in History of Art and a Master’s degree in Cultural and Intellectual History from the Warburg Institute in London. Her academic achievements have been recognised through prestigious fellowships and grants, and her portfolio includes curated exhibitions, scholarly publications, teaching appointments, audio and video podcasts.
Piotr Wilczek
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom
Piotr Wilczek
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom from 2022. Before that, he was the Ambassador of Poland to the United States from 2016 to 2021. Prior to joining the foreign service, Ambassador Wilczek taught at the University of Warsaw as a tenured professor specializing in comparative literature and literary translation. In 2006, he was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland. He is also an editor and author of numerous books and articles.
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
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Piotr Wilczek
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom
Ambassador of Poland to the United Kingdom from 2022. Before that, he was the Ambassador of Poland to the United States from 2016 to 2021. Prior to joining the foreign service, Ambassador Wilczek taught at the University of Warsaw as a tenured professor specializing in comparative literature and literary translation. In 2006, he was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities by the President of the Republic of Poland. He is also an editor and author of numerous books and articles.
Sungeun Kim
Acting Director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK
Sungeun Kim
Acting Director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK
21.01.2023
#Art
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
Acting director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK and a Press Attache at the UK Korean Embassy. She also has experience working in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Information and Communication in South Korea
21.01.2023
Art Panel: Cultural Diplomacy - Tradition vs Pop Culture
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Sungeun Kim
Acting Director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK
Acting director of the Korean Cultural Centre in the UK and a Press Attache at the UK Korean Embassy. She also has experience working in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Information and Communication in South Korea
Stevie Spring CBE
Chairman at British Council and Mind charity
Stevie Spring CBE
Chairman at British Council and Mind charity
21.01.2023
#Business
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
A portfolio director, investor and PE adviser, Stevie chairs both the British Council and Mind, is the Non-Executive Director and Chairman of Remuneration for The Co-op Group and is an investor/advisor to two tech scale ups.
She graduated in law and after roles in marketing, television and international advertising agency management, she was named Chief Executive of Clear Channel and later Future plc - an international consumer publishing company - where she led digital transformation.
Previously, she chaired BBC Children in Need for a decade, served three terms as Chairman of The Groundwork Federation, and was Audit Chair for Arts and Business.
She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and the Marketing Society, and holds an honorary doctorate for services to business.
She was named one of the UK’s 100 most connected women in GQ magazine and is on the Telegraph/Debretts list of Britain’s 500 most influential people. She was appointed CBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
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Stevie Spring CBE
Chairman at British Council and Mind charity
A portfolio director, investor and PE adviser, Stevie chairs both the British Council and Mind, is the Non-Executive Director and Chairman of Remuneration for The Co-op Group and is an investor/advisor to two tech scale ups.
She graduated in law and after roles in marketing, television and international advertising agency management, she was named Chief Executive of Clear Channel and later Future plc - an international consumer publishing company - where she led digital transformation.
Previously, she chaired BBC Children in Need for a decade, served three terms as Chairman of The Groundwork Federation, and was Audit Chair for Arts and Business.
She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and the Marketing Society, and holds an honorary doctorate for services to business.
She was named one of the UK’s 100 most connected women in GQ magazine and is on the Telegraph/Debretts list of Britain’s 500 most influential people. She was appointed CBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Krzysztof Krawczyk
CEO CVC Capital Partners Warsaw
Krzysztof Krawczyk
CEO CVC Capital Partners Warsaw
21.01.2023
#Business
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
Krzysztof Krawczyk is the Head of the Warsaw Office and a Partner at CVC Capital Partners, one of the world’s leading private equity and investment advisory firms. Since joining CVC he has been a board member
of such CVC’s portfolio companies as Zabka, Stock Spirits Group, PKP Energetyka, D-Marin
and AR Packaging.
Krzysztof has a successful track record of 25 years in European private equity and he served on the boards of numerous private and publicly-listed companies in TMT, industrial, logistics and healthcare sectors throughout CEE region.
Prior to joining CVC, Krzysztof was Managing Partner at Innova Capital, a leading mid market private equity firm in Central Europe. Krzysztof also worked at Pioneer Investment, a Poland-based private equity fund, and Daiwa Institute of Research, an advisory arm of Japanese investment bank Daiwa.
He is a member of The Polish Business Roundtable, an association of founders and CEOs of the largest companies operating in Poland and a Board Member of Valores, a first venture philanthropy fund in the CEE region.
Krzysztof holds a degree (with Honors) in Finance & Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics.
He is also an alumnus of the Executive Program at Harvard Business School. Krzysztof has been awarded
a Private Equity Person of the Year for 2015 and 2017 by the members of Polish Private Equity Association.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
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Krzysztof Krawczyk
CEO CVC Capital Partners Warsaw
Krzysztof Krawczyk is the Head of the Warsaw Office and a Partner at CVC Capital Partners, one of the world’s leading private equity and investment advisory firms. Since joining CVC he has been a board member
of such CVC’s portfolio companies as Zabka, Stock Spirits Group, PKP Energetyka, D-Marin
and AR Packaging.
Krzysztof has a successful track record of 25 years in European private equity and he served on the boards of numerous private and publicly-listed companies in TMT, industrial, logistics and healthcare sectors throughout CEE region.
Prior to joining CVC, Krzysztof was Managing Partner at Innova Capital, a leading mid market private equity firm in Central Europe. Krzysztof also worked at Pioneer Investment, a Poland-based private equity fund, and Daiwa Institute of Research, an advisory arm of Japanese investment bank Daiwa.
He is a member of The Polish Business Roundtable, an association of founders and CEOs of the largest companies operating in Poland and a Board Member of Valores, a first venture philanthropy fund in the CEE region.
Krzysztof holds a degree (with Honors) in Finance & Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics.
He is also an alumnus of the Executive Program at Harvard Business School. Krzysztof has been awarded
a Private Equity Person of the Year for 2015 and 2017 by the members of Polish Private Equity Association.
Manas Chawla
Political Risk Expert, Founder and CEO of London Politica
Manas Chawla
Political Risk Expert, Founder and CEO of London Politica
21.01.2023
#Business
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
Manas Chawla is a political risk expert and the Founder and CEO of London Politica, the world’s largest political risk advisory for social impact. He has specialist expertise in consulting on soft power, corporate diplomacy, and crisis management, and has advised the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and a range of C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies. An accomplished public speaker, Manas has delivered lectures and keynotes on geopolitical risk and open-source intelligence at universities and conferences across Europe, including the most widely-watched TED talk on political risk. He serves as Chairperson of LSE’s Political Risk and Investment Society and trustee of the London Speakers Union. He gained an undergraduate degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently a Master’s candidate for the Global Governance and Diplomacy programme at the University of Oxford.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
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Manas Chawla
Political Risk Expert, Founder and CEO of London Politica
Manas Chawla is a political risk expert and the Founder and CEO of London Politica, the world’s largest political risk advisory for social impact. He has specialist expertise in consulting on soft power, corporate diplomacy, and crisis management, and has advised the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and a range of C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies. An accomplished public speaker, Manas has delivered lectures and keynotes on geopolitical risk and open-source intelligence at universities and conferences across Europe, including the most widely-watched TED talk on political risk. He serves as Chairperson of LSE’s Political Risk and Investment Society and trustee of the London Speakers Union. He gained an undergraduate degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is currently a Master’s candidate for the Global Governance and Diplomacy programme at the University of Oxford.
Michał Brański
Co-founder of the o2.pl Mail and Portal
Michał Brański
Co-founder of the o2.pl Mail and Portal
21.01.2023
#Business
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
He is responsible for the strategy and development of Grupa WP’s key brands and services. For the Wirtualna Polska acquisition transaction, together with Jacek Swiderski and Krzysztof Sierota, in 2014 he was awarded the Leader of Business title in the 48th Forbes Ranking and the Forbes 2015 Player of the Year in the New Technology category. In 2014, he was awarded the Person of the Year title in the MIXX Awards competition. He studied management and marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics. Active participant in debates on the development of technologies in Poland and their impact on the environment. In his private life, he is a keen basketball player.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
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Michał Brański
Co-founder of the o2.pl Mail and Portal
He is responsible for the strategy and development of Grupa WP’s key brands and services. For the Wirtualna Polska acquisition transaction, together with Jacek Swiderski and Krzysztof Sierota, in 2014 he was awarded the Leader of Business title in the 48th Forbes Ranking and the Forbes 2015 Player of the Year in the New Technology category. In 2014, he was awarded the Person of the Year title in the MIXX Awards competition. He studied management and marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics. Active participant in debates on the development of technologies in Poland and their impact on the environment. In his private life, he is a keen basketball player.
Alison Edgar MBE
Speaker and Author at Sales Coaching Solutions
Alison Edgar MBE
Speaker and Author at Sales Coaching Solutions
21.01.2023
#Business
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
Alison Edgar MBE has worked tirelessly throughout the last decade as “The Entrepreneur’s Godmother” to flip the crushing statistic “90% of start-up businesses fail”. She has helped thousands of entrepreneurs to harness their inner potential to understand the fundamentals of business success. She now works with some of the world’s leading organisations including Sky, Amazon, Adobe, and MetLife, teaching employees to think like entrepreneurs, harnessing the agility of small business. Alison is a twice best-selling author and in 2020, she received an MBE for recognition of her long-term services to entrepreneurship and business. She is a contributor to ITV, BBC TV, and Radio and has recently become a business mentor on a new Amazon Prime UK & US TV show airing in 2023.
21.01.2023
Business Panel: Corporation or its alternatives - Where to attain individual success?
#Business
Alison Edgar MBE
Speaker and Author at Sales Coaching Solutions
Alison Edgar MBE has worked tirelessly throughout the last decade as “The Entrepreneur’s Godmother” to flip the crushing statistic “90% of start-up businesses fail”. She has helped thousands of entrepreneurs to harness their inner potential to understand the fundamentals of business success. She now works with some of the world’s leading organisations including Sky, Amazon, Adobe, and MetLife, teaching employees to think like entrepreneurs, harnessing the agility of small business. Alison is a twice best-selling author and in 2020, she received an MBE for recognition of her long-term services to entrepreneurship and business. She is a contributor to ITV, BBC TV, and Radio and has recently become a business mentor on a new Amazon Prime UK & US TV show airing in 2023.
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
Senior Director for Standards and Practices - CNN
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
Senior Director for Standards and Practices - CNN
21.01.2023
#Politics
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux is an Emmy award winning journalist, speaker, writer and producer based in Washington DC. She’s the Senior Director for Standards and Practices for CNN. In her decade plus at the company Emma has blazed an unorthodox career path, breaking stories on everything from US gun laws to sexual violence on college campuses. She’s produced award winning and groundbreaking reports including on people struggling for justice in Native communities, young people caught up in the US immigration system and incarcerated men studying feminism as a means of rehabilitation.
Emma started her career in journalism as the News Director of her college radio station. Prior to that, she dabbled in politics working on statewide and local races before falling in love with journalism. At CNN she’s played a variety of roles- researcher, reporter, producer, editor, the youngest ever to hold that role, and now as a senior leader in charge of big ethical questions for CNN’s journalists around the world. She’s won a number of awards over the course of her career including an Emmy and a Peabody.
Emma regularly speaks about journalism and communication with audiences in the US and abroad. She’s on the board of a Polish media start up, and regularly consults and advises journalists abroad including in Ukraine. She loves cooking, hosting dinner parties, biking, yoga and spending time with her husband and three adorable pets.
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
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Emma Lacey-Bordeaux
Senior Director for Standards and Practices - CNN
Emma Lacey-Bordeaux is an Emmy award winning journalist, speaker, writer and producer based in Washington DC. She’s the Senior Director for Standards and Practices for CNN. In her decade plus at the company Emma has blazed an unorthodox career path, breaking stories on everything from US gun laws to sexual violence on college campuses. She’s produced award winning and groundbreaking reports including on people struggling for justice in Native communities, young people caught up in the US immigration system and incarcerated men studying feminism as a means of rehabilitation.
Emma started her career in journalism as the News Director of her college radio station. Prior to that, she dabbled in politics working on statewide and local races before falling in love with journalism. At CNN she’s played a variety of roles- researcher, reporter, producer, editor, the youngest ever to hold that role, and now as a senior leader in charge of big ethical questions for CNN’s journalists around the world. She’s won a number of awards over the course of her career including an Emmy and a Peabody.
Emma regularly speaks about journalism and communication with audiences in the US and abroad. She’s on the board of a Polish media start up, and regularly consults and advises journalists abroad including in Ukraine. She loves cooking, hosting dinner parties, biking, yoga and spending time with her husband and three adorable pets.
Gabriel Elefteriu
Director of Strategy and Space Policy at Policy Exchange
Gabriel Elefteriu
Director of Strategy and Space Policy at Policy Exchange
21.01.2023
#Politics
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
Gabriel Elefteriu, FRAeS is a Director of Strategy and Space Policy at Policy Exchange, UK’s only think tank with a dedicated space policy unit. Gabriel is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society; a Policy Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy; and an Associate of King’s College. He holds a BA War Studies (2012, First) and an MA Intelligence and International Security (2013, Distinction) from King’s College London.
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
#Politics
Gabriel Elefteriu
Director of Strategy and Space Policy at Policy Exchange
Gabriel Elefteriu, FRAeS is a Director of Strategy and Space Policy at Policy Exchange, UK’s only think tank with a dedicated space policy unit. Gabriel is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society; a Policy Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy; and an Associate of King’s College. He holds a BA War Studies (2012, First) and an MA Intelligence and International Security (2013, Distinction) from King’s College London.
Dr Jill Stuart
Visiting Fellow and Dissertation Support Supervisor, London School of Economics
Dr Jill Stuart
Visiting Fellow and Dissertation Support Supervisor, London School of Economics
21.01.2023
#Politics
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
Dr Jill Stuart is an academic based at the London School of Economics. She is an expert in the politics, ethics and law of outer space exploration and exploitation. She frequently appears in the global media and regularly gives lectures around the world. She is one of an elite number of people to have been endorsed by the UK Home Office as an Exceptional Talent Migrant/ World Leader in her Field.
Dr Stuart is trained in both domestic and international mediation and has done consultancy work for the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. From 2013-2017 Dr Stuart was Editor in Chief of the Elsevier journal Space Policy where she remains on the Editorial Board. She is also on the Board of Advisors of METI International, an organisation focusing on searching for and messaging extraterrestrial intelligence
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
#Politics
Dr Jill Stuart
Visiting Fellow and Dissertation Support Supervisor, London School of Economics
Dr Jill Stuart is an academic based at the London School of Economics. She is an expert in the politics, ethics and law of outer space exploration and exploitation. She frequently appears in the global media and regularly gives lectures around the world. She is one of an elite number of people to have been endorsed by the UK Home Office as an Exceptional Talent Migrant/ World Leader in her Field.
Dr Stuart is trained in both domestic and international mediation and has done consultancy work for the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. From 2013-2017 Dr Stuart was Editor in Chief of the Elsevier journal Space Policy where she remains on the Editorial Board. She is also on the Board of Advisors of METI International, an organisation focusing on searching for and messaging extraterrestrial intelligence
Theodora Ogden
Security Analyst at RAND Europe
Theodora Ogden
Security Analyst at RAND Europe
21.01.2023
#Politics
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
Theodora Ogden is an analyst working in the area of defence, security and infrastructure at RAND Europe. She is currently on sabbatical at Arizona State University as the appointed Interplanetary Initiative Fellow, where she conducts research into space law and governance, access to space, and emerging space economies and industries. With an academic background in security and international law, Theodora sharpened her analytical toolkit throughout her experiences working at RAND Europe, NATO HQ SACT, the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, as well as at several think tanks and non-profit organisations.
For the Interplanetary Fellowship at ASU, she is working on a project that examines countries that are developing their autonomous capabilities in space. “I’m looking at a number of countries — both developing and developed — and some of the ways in which we can encourage space to become more inclusive, while at the same time considering the risks and potential threats of having more actors in that domain,” she said.
21.01.2023
Politics Panel: Geopolitics of Space - The future of Earth’s politics conducted in orbit and beyond
#Politics
Theodora Ogden
Security Analyst at RAND Europe
Theodora Ogden is an analyst working in the area of defence, security and infrastructure at RAND Europe. She is currently on sabbatical at Arizona State University as the appointed Interplanetary Initiative Fellow, where she conducts research into space law and governance, access to space, and emerging space economies and industries. With an academic background in security and international law, Theodora sharpened her analytical toolkit throughout her experiences working at RAND Europe, NATO HQ SACT, the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU, as well as at several think tanks and non-profit organisations.
For the Interplanetary Fellowship at ASU, she is working on a project that examines countries that are developing their autonomous capabilities in space. “I’m looking at a number of countries — both developing and developed — and some of the ways in which we can encourage space to become more inclusive, while at the same time considering the risks and potential threats of having more actors in that domain,” she said.
5-6TH MARCH 2021
źródło: https://unsplash.com/photos/F2KRf_QfCqw
5.03.2021
The workshop will focus on three topics:
5.03.2021
Workshops organized by CVC Capital Partners
#Workshop
2:30 P.M. (GMT)
5.03.2021
Marta Kowalska
Investment Executive at CVC
The workshop will focus on three topics:
Expected duration: 60min
We will meet you right where you are, in the new normal!
5.03.2021
Workshops organized by CVC Capital Partners
#Workshop
2:30 P.M. (GMT)
5.03.2021
Marta Kowalska
Investment Executive at CVC
The workshop will focus on three topics:
Expected duration: 60min
We will meet you right where you are, in the new normal!
5.03.2021
What you’ll learn from this workshop:
5.03.2021
From Idea To Investor Pitch: How To Bring Your Business Idea To Life? – Sneak Case study.
#Workshop
5.03.2021
Jakub Panek
CEO at INVO
What you’ll learn from this workshop:
Expected duration: 20min
We will meet you right where you are, in the new normal!
5.03.2021
From Idea To Investor Pitch: How To Bring Your Business Idea To Life? – Sneak Case study.
#Workshop
5.03.2021
Jakub Panek
CEO at INVO
What you’ll learn from this workshop:
Expected duration: 20min
We will meet you right where you are, in the new normal!
5.03.2021
Are you interested in Real Estate?
In the dynamic business environment, real estate transactions need precision and decisiveness. Effective and well-thought-out processes are necessary. For that reason, the investors need access to high-quality legal advice and support, which would enable them to successfully manage transactions.
The workshop’s aim is to familiarise the attendees with the specificity of real estate legal aspects and the daily work of a transactional lawyer nowadays.
5.03.2021
“Suits” in reality. The whole truth about a transactional lawyer.
#Workshop
4 P.M. (GMT)
5.03.2021
Martyna Racz-Suchocka
Senior Associate at Dentons
Expected duration: 60min
We will meet you right where you are, in the new normal!
5.03.2021
“Suits” in reality. The whole truth about a transactional lawyer.
#Workshop
4 P.M. (GMT)
5.03.2021
Martyna Racz-Suchocka
Senior Associate at Dentons
Expected duration: 60min
We will meet you right where you are, in the new normal!
Since our last conference, the world has changed in an unprecedented manner. The global pandemic, at first a seemingly distant and surreal threat, ended up irreversibly altering our lives and communities in almost all their dimensions. Throughout the year there has been one question on everyone’s mind and it was simple: is this “The New Normal”? This year at the UCL Leaders we will explore this question and, as always, strive to go one step further and ask – where are we headed next? We invite you to join us on this quest with the hope that we will be able to shed some light on our current condition and help you make sense of our society’s predicaments.
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Workshops organized by CVC Capital Partners
Workshops organized by Dentons
6.03.2021
Opening Ceremony
Keynote Speech
#EcommerceRedefining customer service through innovation
Break
#BusinessBack to Business: what should we start, cease and rebuild in the post-pandemic reality?
#EqualityImplementing gender equality in the 21st century: Does infringing on women’s reproductive rights ultimately control their privacy?
Lunch Break
#PoliticsPolitical Campaigning in the Age of Social Media
#FilmRenaissance of the Polish Cinematography
Coffee Break
#LawThe future of the law practice in the post-covid age
Closing Ceremony
Since our first launch in 2017, we have hosted a number of delegates and experts in the sphere of politics, economics, science, as well as art and culture.
Speakers
Bartosz Bielenia
Actor
Bartosz Bielenia
Actor
06.03.2021
#Film
Renaissance of the Polish Cinematography
Bartosz Bielenia is a Polish stage and film actor, most renowned for his critically-acclaimed performance in “Corpus Christi”, a Polish picture nominated for the Best International Feature Film for the 92nd Academy Awards. During his studies at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Cracow (which he had graduated from in 2016), Bartosz made his theatrical debut in 2013, playing in Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” at the Bagatela Theatre in Crakow. In the following years, he performed at the National Stary Theater in Cracow. Since 2018 onwards he has been acting in Warsaw’s New Theater. As for Bielenia’s film career, he appeared in films such as “Disco Polo”, “Clergy”, and “Prime Time”, premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. He also received the Zbigniew Cybulski Award, the Shooting Star Award for best young European actor.
06.03.2021
Renaissance of the Polish Cinematography
#Film
Bartosz Bielenia
Actor
Bartosz Bielenia is a Polish stage and film actor, most renowned for his critically-acclaimed performance in “Corpus Christi”, a Polish picture nominated for the Best International Feature Film for the 92nd Academy Awards. During his studies at the AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Cracow (which he had graduated from in 2016), Bartosz made his theatrical debut in 2013, playing in Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot” at the Bagatela Theatre in Crakow. In the following years, he performed at the National Stary Theater in Cracow. Since 2018 onwards he has been acting in Warsaw’s New Theater. As for Bielenia’s film career, he appeared in films such as “Disco Polo”, “Clergy”, and “Prime Time”, premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. He also received the Zbigniew Cybulski Award, the Shooting Star Award for best young European actor.
Bolesław Racięski
Panel Moderator
Bolesław Racięski
Panel Moderator
14.01.2020
#Film
Renaissance of the Polish Cinematography
Bolesław Racięski, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of „Artes Liberales”. He was awarded a grant from Polish National Science Centre and currently researches relationships between European film funds and Latin American filmmakers. He teaches film history and other film related courses at the University of Warsaw and Warsaw Film School, while also dabbling in YouTube (Ekrany FIlm&Media channel) and podcasting (Ścieżka dźwiękowa: podcast filmowy).
14.01.2020
Renaissance of the Polish Cinematography
#Film
Bolesław Racięski
Panel Moderator
Bolesław Racięski, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of „Artes Liberales”. He was awarded a grant from Polish National Science Centre and currently researches relationships between European film funds and Latin American filmmakers. He teaches film history and other film related courses at the University of Warsaw and Warsaw Film School, while also dabbling in YouTube (Ekrany FIlm&Media channel) and podcasting (Ścieżka dźwiękowa: podcast filmowy).
Ewa Puszczyńska
Film Producer
Ewa Puszczyńska
Film Producer
06.03.2021
#Film
Renaissance of the Polish Cinematography
Ewa Puszczyńska is a prominent Polish film producer known, among others, for such pictures as Ida (Academy Award for the Best International Feature Film, BAFTA Film Award) and Cold War (three nominations for the Academy Award, European Film Award), both by Paweł Pawlikowski, The Captain by Robert Schwentke, or Kill It and Leave this Town by Mariusz Wilczyński. Her latest picture, Fools by Tomasz Wasilewski, is currently at the stage of post production. She is also working on a yet to be titled Jonathan Glazer’s project. For many years, Ewa Puszczyńska has been working at the Opus Film studio, initially producing commercials and since 2005 – feature films. In 2016 she founded the Extreme Emotions studio, with which she produced films such as Quo Vadis, Aida? and Hostages. Ewa Puszczyńska is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the European Film Academy, of which she was a member of the board in the years 2015-2020. “Variety” included her in its list of 500 most influential business leaders in the film industry.
fot. Agnieszka Cytacka
06.03.2021
Renaissance of the Polish Cinematography
#Film
Ewa Puszczyńska
Film Producer
Ewa Puszczyńska is a prominent Polish film producer known, among others, for such pictures as Ida (Academy Award for the Best International Feature Film, BAFTA Film Award) and Cold War (three nominations for the Academy Award, European Film Award), both by Paweł Pawlikowski, The Captain by Robert Schwentke, or Kill It and Leave this Town by Mariusz Wilczyński. Her latest picture, Fools by Tomasz Wasilewski, is currently at the stage of post production. She is also working on a yet to be titled Jonathan Glazer’s project. For many years, Ewa Puszczyńska has been working at the Opus Film studio, initially producing commercials and since 2005 – feature films. In 2016 she founded the Extreme Emotions studio, with which she produced films such as Quo Vadis, Aida? and Hostages. Ewa Puszczyńska is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the European Film Academy, of which she was a member of the board in the years 2015-2020. “Variety” included her in its list of 500 most influential business leaders in the film industry.
fot. Agnieszka Cytacka
Jan P. Matuszyński
Film Director
Jan P. Matuszyński
Film Director
06.03.2021
#Film
Renaissance of the Polish Cinematography
Jan P. Matuszyński is one of the most promising Polish directors of the young generation. He graduated in Film Directing from the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice and completed the course in Documentary at the Wajda School in Warsaw. His films were repeatedly presented at film festivals in Poland and abroad. He is a director of documentary Deep Love, which was awarded, among others, on Gdańsk DocFilm Festival, Kraków Film Festival and Moscow International Film Festival. His feature film debut The Last Family was honoured with numerous awards in Poland and abroad. It was hailed as “the most artistically mature debut of recent years”. The film was awarded, among others, the Golden Lion, the Journalists’ Award and the Audience Award at the Gdynia Film Festival.
Jan P. Matuszyńśki is also a director of such TV series as The Border, The Second Chance (fourth season) and The Illegals. In 2020, he directed the TV series The King based on a novel by Szczepan Twardoch. The latest feature film by Matuszyński is titled Żeby nie było śladów and is a story of Grzegorz Przemyk.
fot. Rafał Placek / Gildia Reżyserów Polskich
06.03.2021
Renaissance of the Polish Cinematography
#Film
Jan P. Matuszyński
Film Director
Jan P. Matuszyński is one of the most promising Polish directors of the young generation. He graduated in Film Directing from the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice and completed the course in Documentary at the Wajda School in Warsaw. His films were repeatedly presented at film festivals in Poland and abroad. He is a director of documentary Deep Love, which was awarded, among others, on Gdańsk DocFilm Festival, Kraków Film Festival and Moscow International Film Festival. His feature film debut The Last Family was honoured with numerous awards in Poland and abroad. It was hailed as “the most artistically mature debut of recent years”. The film was awarded, among others, the Golden Lion, the Journalists’ Award and the Audience Award at the Gdynia Film Festival.
Jan P. Matuszyńśki is also a director of such TV series as The Border, The Second Chance (fourth season) and The Illegals. In 2020, he directed the TV series The King based on a novel by Szczepan Twardoch. The latest feature film by Matuszyński is titled Żeby nie było śladów and is a story of Grzegorz Przemyk.
fot. Rafał Placek / Gildia Reżyserów Polskich
Marek Tejchman
Deputy Editor in Chief of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
Marek Tejchman
Deputy Editor in Chief of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
06.03.2021
#Law
The future of the law practice in the post-covid age
Journalist specializing in economy and international affairs. Currently leading the news team in the biggest business newspaper in Poland (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna). Between 2007 and 2015 anchor and commentator for TVN CNBC and TVN 24 news broadcasters. Previously working in Polsat and Radio TOK FM where he held post of deputy editor in chief.
06.03.2021
The future of the law practice in the post-covid age
#Law
Marek Tejchman
Deputy Editor in Chief of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna
Journalist specializing in economy and international affairs. Currently leading the news team in the biggest business newspaper in Poland (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna). Between 2007 and 2015 anchor and commentator for TVN CNBC and TVN 24 news broadcasters. Previously working in Polsat and Radio TOK FM where he held post of deputy editor in chief.
Ireneusz Piecuch
Senior Partner at DGTL LAW
Ireneusz Piecuch
Senior Partner at DGTL LAW
06.03.2021
#Law
The future of the law practice in the post-covid age
Business and IT law expert leading own firm for the last decade. In that time, he worked for over 7 years with international law firm CMS as Global Co-Head of Telco and TMT Leader for CEE. Previously, between 2013 and 2015, deputy CEO responsible for strategy, international relations and IT at Poczta Polska. Before 2010, head of the legal department and board member of IBM Poland as well as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development at Telekomunikacja Polska (later Orange). In the past, member of several supervisory and advisory boards, including inter alia Emitel, Wirtualna Polska, KGHM and PKP PLK.
06.03.2021
The future of the law practice in the post-covid age
#Law
Ireneusz Piecuch
Senior Partner at DGTL LAW
Business and IT law expert leading own firm for the last decade. In that time, he worked for over 7 years with international law firm CMS as Global Co-Head of Telco and TMT Leader for CEE. Previously, between 2013 and 2015, deputy CEO responsible for strategy, international relations and IT at Poczta Polska. Before 2010, head of the legal department and board member of IBM Poland as well as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development at Telekomunikacja Polska (later Orange). In the past, member of several supervisory and advisory boards, including inter alia Emitel, Wirtualna Polska, KGHM and PKP PLK.
Krzysztof Izdebski
Board Member and Program Director of the ePaństwo Foundation
Krzysztof Izdebski
Board Member and Program Director of the ePaństwo Foundation
06.03.2021
#Law
The future of the law practice in the post-covid age
Board Member and Policy Director of ePaństwo Foundation (EPF) and a Board Member of Consul Democracy Foundation. He is a lawyer specialized in access to public information and re-use of public sector information. Krzysztof is particularly interested in the impact technologies have on democracy and citizen-state relations. He is the author of publications on freedom of information, technology and public administration, including recently published „alGOVrithms The State of Play. Report on Algorithms Usage in Government-Citizens Relations in Czechia, Georgia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Slovakia.”
06.03.2021
The future of the law practice in the post-covid age
#Law
Krzysztof Izdebski
Board Member and Program Director of the ePaństwo Foundation
Board Member and Policy Director of ePaństwo Foundation (EPF) and a Board Member of Consul Democracy Foundation. He is a lawyer specialized in access to public information and re-use of public sector information. Krzysztof is particularly interested in the impact technologies have on democracy and citizen-state relations. He is the author of publications on freedom of information, technology and public administration, including recently published „alGOVrithms The State of Play. Report on Algorithms Usage in Government-Citizens Relations in Czechia, Georgia, Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Slovakia.”
Aleksandra Gawrońska-Mucha
Market Counsel IBM Central and Eastern Europe
Aleksandra Gawrońska-Mucha
Market Counsel IBM Central and Eastern Europe
06.03.2021
#Law
The future of the law practice in the post-covid age
Aleksandra Gawrońska-Mucha is the Head of the Legal Department for Central and Eastern Europe of IBM, a global leader in Hybrid Cloud and AI. In her role, Aleksandra leads a team of lawyers responsible for legal matters in the 29 countries of the region.
Aleksandra has 20 years of in-house and private practice experience and deep knowledge of commercial, corporate, IT laws and international practices, and legal department management. Prior to her current role, Aleksandra held several positions in the IBM Legal Department and served as IBM Trust & Compliance Officer for the region. Prior to joining IBM in 2006, she practiced law in international law firms in Warsaw and London. She studied law in Poland and the Netherlands and management at the Warsaw School of Economics. She is admitted to the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law.
06.03.2021
The future of the law practice in the post-covid age
#Law
Aleksandra Gawrońska-Mucha
Market Counsel IBM Central and Eastern Europe
Aleksandra Gawrońska-Mucha is the Head of the Legal Department for Central and Eastern Europe of IBM, a global leader in Hybrid Cloud and AI. In her role, Aleksandra leads a team of lawyers responsible for legal matters in the 29 countries of the region.
Aleksandra has 20 years of in-house and private practice experience and deep knowledge of commercial, corporate, IT laws and international practices, and legal department management. Prior to her current role, Aleksandra held several positions in the IBM Legal Department and served as IBM Trust & Compliance Officer for the region. Prior to joining IBM in 2006, she practiced law in international law firms in Warsaw and London. She studied law in Poland and the Netherlands and management at the Warsaw School of Economics. She is admitted to the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law.
Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram
Advocate at Clifford Chance
Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram
Advocate at Clifford Chance
06.03.2021
#Law
The future of the law practice in the post-covid age
Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram – attorney-at-law and social activist, works with NGOs on developing a civic society and protecting the rule of law and systemic changes in the justice system. She is in charge of the pro bono activity of law firm Clifford Chance, Janicka, Namiotkiewicz, Krużewski i wspólnicy sp.k. Co-founder of the Justice Defense Committee and Free Courts that monitor and archive political pressure on judges and lawyers, giving them legal aid. Regularly participates in legislative processes in Parliament as an expert in parliamentary Constitutional Governance and Reform of the Justice System groups. She regularly participates in European Commission meetings, where she presents a civic and expert view of the changes taking place in the Polish justice system.
Sylwia represents national and sexual minorities, victims of violence and police brutality before courts. She appears before the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights in key proceedings on the independence of courts and judges. She has repeatedly represented Supreme Court judges in court.
Originator and executor of the “Constitution Week” civic campaign, an educational project held regularly in schools throughout Poland, for raising Constitutional and human rights awareness among children.
Responsible at Clifford Chance in Warsaw for the pro bono practice since 2006. Winner of the “Golden Paragraph” as best lawyer in Poland, also listed in the Forbes “Most influential women in Poland” ranking for 2020.
06.03.2021
The future of the law practice in the post-covid age
#Law
Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram
Advocate at Clifford Chance
Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram – attorney-at-law and social activist, works with NGOs on developing a civic society and protecting the rule of law and systemic changes in the justice system. She is in charge of the pro bono activity of law firm Clifford Chance, Janicka, Namiotkiewicz, Krużewski i wspólnicy sp.k. Co-founder of the Justice Defense Committee and Free Courts that monitor and archive political pressure on judges and lawyers, giving them legal aid. Regularly participates in legislative processes in Parliament as an expert in parliamentary Constitutional Governance and Reform of the Justice System groups. She regularly participates in European Commission meetings, where she presents a civic and expert view of the changes taking place in the Polish justice system.
Sylwia represents national and sexual minorities, victims of violence and police brutality before courts. She appears before the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights in key proceedings on the independence of courts and judges. She has repeatedly represented Supreme Court judges in court.
Originator and executor of the “Constitution Week” civic campaign, an educational project held regularly in schools throughout Poland, for raising Constitutional and human rights awareness among children.
Responsible at Clifford Chance in Warsaw for the pro bono practice since 2006. Winner of the “Golden Paragraph” as best lawyer in Poland, also listed in the Forbes “Most influential women in Poland” ranking for 2020.
Rafał Brzoska
CEO of InPost
Rafał Brzoska
CEO of InPost
06.03.2021
#Ecommerce
Effective e-commerce, i.e. the art of promoting an online store at a low cost
Mr. Brzoska is the Founder and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer at InPost. He serves as Supervisory Board Member at Sales Manago. Mr. Rafal Brzoska is a Co-Founder and serves as Venture Partner and Advisor at bValue Angels VC. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at easyPack. He created a nationwide network of door drops and addressed marketing materials distribution, turning Integer into the leader on the distribution market in Poland. InPost, which has been operating for just a few years, already competes successfully with the Polish postal services monopolist, Poczta Polska. Rafał Brzoska is an experienced manager, an expert in newly created markets with a high potential for growth. Between 1999 and 2001 he held the position of the Sales Manager in SENIORET, an Internet service provider, and was its co-owner and administrator at the same time. Since 1999 he has been a commercial proxy and a co-owner of Integer S.C. Since June 2001 Rafał Brzoska is also a Management Member in Integer Sp. z o.o., which is known by the name of Integer.pl since 2002. Since 12 April 2006, he also holds the position of the President of the Board of Directors and the Sales Manager in InPost Sp. In 2007 Rafał Brzoska founded Integer.pl, which he successfully introduced to the Warsaw Stock Exchange 30 October 2007. Rafał Brzoska’s managerial abilities and innovative approach to business are corroborated by the Manager of the Year title he won in Magellan’s Laurels contest organized by the Association of the Cracow University of Economics’ Graduates. He was also shortlisted for the prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 award. Rafał Brzoska was, therefore, among the best managers in Poland, who stand out for their ethical conduct in business. Rafał Brzoska graduated from Management and Marketing studies at the Cracow University of Economics. He is interested in stock market analysis and the literature on financial markets.
06.03.2021
Effective e-commerce, i.e. the art of promoting an online store at a low cost
#Ecommerce
Rafał Brzoska
CEO of InPost
Mr. Brzoska is the Founder and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer at InPost. He serves as Supervisory Board Member at Sales Manago. Mr. Rafal Brzoska is a Co-Founder and serves as Venture Partner and Advisor at bValue Angels VC. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at easyPack. He created a nationwide network of door drops and addressed marketing materials distribution, turning Integer into the leader on the distribution market in Poland. InPost, which has been operating for just a few years, already competes successfully with the Polish postal services monopolist, Poczta Polska. Rafał Brzoska is an experienced manager, an expert in newly created markets with a high potential for growth. Between 1999 and 2001 he held the position of the Sales Manager in SENIORET, an Internet service provider, and was its co-owner and administrator at the same time. Since 1999 he has been a commercial proxy and a co-owner of Integer S.C. Since June 2001 Rafał Brzoska is also a Management Member in Integer Sp. z o.o., which is known by the name of Integer.pl since 2002. Since 12 April 2006, he also holds the position of the President of the Board of Directors and the Sales Manager in InPost Sp. In 2007 Rafał Brzoska founded Integer.pl, which he successfully introduced to the Warsaw Stock Exchange 30 October 2007. Rafał Brzoska’s managerial abilities and innovative approach to business are corroborated by the Manager of the Year title he won in Magellan’s Laurels contest organized by the Association of the Cracow University of Economics’ Graduates. He was also shortlisted for the prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 award. Rafał Brzoska was, therefore, among the best managers in Poland, who stand out for their ethical conduct in business. Rafał Brzoska graduated from Management and Marketing studies at the Cracow University of Economics. He is interested in stock market analysis and the literature on financial markets.
Kamil Wiszowaty
CEO of Group One Media
Kamil Wiszowaty
CEO of Group One Media
06.03.2021
#Ecommerce
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Kamil Wiszowaty has been involved with the media industry for over 13 years. Transferring from the Initiative Media’s digital cell, he joined Value Media 12 years ago. Since 2015, he has been responsible for the management of the media house Value Media, which is the part of the largest independent communication group – Group One. As the CEO of Group One Media for the past 4 years, he spearheads all media companies, successfully structuring their development and the „one team” idea. Additionally, he is a co-founder of the One stop shop for the e-commerce agency SalesTube, content marketing agency Labcon and media house RL Media, which he also manages. Even though he states that „the best is still ahead of him”, as his greatest success he considers participating in the creation of Group One and winning with Value Media the title of the MMP’s Media House of the year in 2017 (MMP – best media industry magazine in Poland). Among other things, he is a three-time nominee for the magazine’s Press AD wo/ MAN of the Year award. Kamil Wiszowaty is also a member of the jury of the most important industry competitions, such as: Effie Awards Europe and Mixx Awards. He graduated from the University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in Warsaw, where he studied the faculty of Political Sciences. Privately, he is a happy father of two children and an active charity activist with a passion for politics and travelling to the hottest parts of the world.
06.03.2021
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Kamil Wiszowaty
CEO of Group One Media
Kamil Wiszowaty has been involved with the media industry for over 13 years. Transferring from the Initiative Media’s digital cell, he joined Value Media 12 years ago. Since 2015, he has been responsible for the management of the media house Value Media, which is the part of the largest independent communication group – Group One. As the CEO of Group One Media for the past 4 years, he spearheads all media companies, successfully structuring their development and the „one team” idea. Additionally, he is a co-founder of the One stop shop for the e-commerce agency SalesTube, content marketing agency Labcon and media house RL Media, which he also manages. Even though he states that „the best is still ahead of him”, as his greatest success he considers participating in the creation of Group One and winning with Value Media the title of the MMP’s Media House of the year in 2017 (MMP – best media industry magazine in Poland). Among other things, he is a three-time nominee for the magazine’s Press AD wo/ MAN of the Year award. Kamil Wiszowaty is also a member of the jury of the most important industry competitions, such as: Effie Awards Europe and Mixx Awards. He graduated from the University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in Warsaw, where he studied the faculty of Political Sciences. Privately, he is a happy father of two children and an active charity activist with a passion for politics and travelling to the hottest parts of the world.
Marcin Kuśmierz
CEO of Shoper
Marcin Kuśmierz
CEO of Shoper
06.03.2021
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Marcin Kuśmierz is a visionary entrepreneur with a long track record of successful management. With the beginning of 2021, Marcin was appointed CEO of Shoper – a leading e-commerce solution provider in the CEE. He also serves as a member of the supervisory and the advisory boards at Krajowy Integrator Płatności (Tpay), R2G Polska (apaczka), Fly On the Cloud, Acronis and CloudBlue. Previously, as CEO of home.pl, the largest cloud service provider for SMBs in Poland and CEE, Marcin built one of the most effective cloud industry companies. He was also in charge of international expansion in emerging markets at IONOS CE. Two-time winner of “CEO of the year” awards in the Polish Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and the Manager Magazine contests. In the past, he worked for the ITI Group and TVN television as Director of Research and Development and Director of Mobile Services. A passionate admirer of new communication and collaboration technologies and value-driven companies.
06.03.2021
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Marcin Kuśmierz
CEO of Shoper
Marcin Kuśmierz is a visionary entrepreneur with a long track record of successful management. With the beginning of 2021, Marcin was appointed CEO of Shoper – a leading e-commerce solution provider in the CEE. He also serves as a member of the supervisory and the advisory boards at Krajowy Integrator Płatności (Tpay), R2G Polska (apaczka), Fly On the Cloud, Acronis and CloudBlue. Previously, as CEO of home.pl, the largest cloud service provider for SMBs in Poland and CEE, Marcin built one of the most effective cloud industry companies. He was also in charge of international expansion in emerging markets at IONOS CE. Two-time winner of “CEO of the year” awards in the Polish Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and the Manager Magazine contests. In the past, he worked for the ITI Group and TVN television as Director of Research and Development and Director of Mobile Services. A passionate admirer of new communication and collaboration technologies and value-driven companies.
Michał Brański
Chief Strategy Officer at Wirtualna Polska
Michał Brański
Chief Strategy Officer at Wirtualna Polska
06.03.2021
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Co-founder of the o2.pl mail and portal. He is responsible for the strategy and development of Grupa WP’s key brands and services. For the Wirtualna Polska acquisition transaction, together with Jacek Świderski and Krzysztof Sierota, in 2014 he was awarded the Leader of Business title in the 48th Forbes Ranking and the Forbes 2015 Player of the Year in the New Technology category. In 2014, he was awarded the Person of the Year title in the MIXX Awards competition. He studied management and marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics. Active participant in debates on the development of technologies in Poland and their impact on the environment. In his private life, he is a keen basketball player.
06.03.2021
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Michał Brański
Chief Strategy Officer at Wirtualna Polska
Co-founder of the o2.pl mail and portal. He is responsible for the strategy and development of Grupa WP’s key brands and services. For the Wirtualna Polska acquisition transaction, together with Jacek Świderski and Krzysztof Sierota, in 2014 he was awarded the Leader of Business title in the 48th Forbes Ranking and the Forbes 2015 Player of the Year in the New Technology category. In 2014, he was awarded the Person of the Year title in the MIXX Awards competition. He studied management and marketing at the Warsaw School of Economics. Active participant in debates on the development of technologies in Poland and their impact on the environment. In his private life, he is a keen basketball player.
Magdalena Dziewguć
Country Manager of Google Cloud Poland
Magdalena Dziewguć
Country Manager of Google Cloud Poland
06.03.2021
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Magdalena Dziewguć is a manager with many years of experience in the new technologies sector. She studied law and psychology. Magda holds an Executive MBA from SGH and completed the GMP at Harvard Business School. She has been working for Google since 2014. Additionally from 2019 she holds a seat in the Supervisory Board of BNP Paribas Bank and Politechnika Wrocławska. Before that she was a vice-chair of Exatel SA and a member of a number of supervisory boards. Since the year 2000, she co-created a telecommunications services market for online business for companies such as Orange and Plus. She is the co-founder of Digital University and LiderSHE in Poland.
Magda’s expertise focuses on new technologies and their impact on business processes within organisations. It helped her to lead number of digital transformations. She is an expert in the fields of innovation, restructuring and building the culture of engagement and partnership. On a daily basis, she is a mum of three: Adam, Franek and Sonia. She actively works on projects which develop the presence of women in the public sphere. Magda strongly believes that two factors change the world for the better: new technologies and more decisions taken by women.
06.03.2021
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Magdalena Dziewguć
Country Manager of Google Cloud Poland
Magdalena Dziewguć is a manager with many years of experience in the new technologies sector. She studied law and psychology. Magda holds an Executive MBA from SGH and completed the GMP at Harvard Business School. She has been working for Google since 2014. Additionally from 2019 she holds a seat in the Supervisory Board of BNP Paribas Bank and Politechnika Wrocławska. Before that she was a vice-chair of Exatel SA and a member of a number of supervisory boards. Since the year 2000, she co-created a telecommunications services market for online business for companies such as Orange and Plus. She is the co-founder of Digital University and LiderSHE in Poland.
Magda’s expertise focuses on new technologies and their impact on business processes within organisations. It helped her to lead number of digital transformations. She is an expert in the fields of innovation, restructuring and building the culture of engagement and partnership. On a daily basis, she is a mum of three: Adam, Franek and Sonia. She actively works on projects which develop the presence of women in the public sphere. Magda strongly believes that two factors change the world for the better: new technologies and more decisions taken by women.
Andrzej Bobiński
Managing Director of Polityka Insight
Andrzej Bobiński
Managing Director of Polityka Insight
06.03.2021
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Andrzej Bobiński is the managing director of Polityka Insight. Previously, he was its deputy managing director, responsible for business activities. Between 2013-2016 he headed PI’s economic department. Until 2012, he was the head of the External Relations department at Orange Poland and simultaneously co-founded the Wrocław Global Forum as the director of the events secretariat. In 2013-2016 he was the program coordinator at the Center for International Relations. He is an applied linguistics graduate from the University of Warsaw.
06.03.2021
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Andrzej Bobiński
Managing Director of Polityka Insight
Andrzej Bobiński is the managing director of Polityka Insight. Previously, he was its deputy managing director, responsible for business activities. Between 2013-2016 he headed PI’s economic department. Until 2012, he was the head of the External Relations department at Orange Poland and simultaneously co-founded the Wrocław Global Forum as the director of the events secretariat. In 2013-2016 he was the program coordinator at the Center for International Relations. He is an applied linguistics graduate from the University of Warsaw.
Dobromir Ciaś
Founder of Edge NPD
Dobromir Ciaś
Founder of Edge NPD
06.03.2021
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Founder of Edge NPD, a Polish company operating within the tech field that has launched a solution to combat internet misinformation (ABTShield).
Dobromir Cias studied mathematical sociology at the University of Warsaw and quantitative methods at the Warsaw School of Economics. As an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience, Dobromir Cias combines business, technical and sociological knowledge to lead one of the most innovative start-ups in the media and information market. He is recognized as one of the 100 best innovators in Central and Eastern Europe (NE100 award) by Google and Financial Funds and named one of the Most Creative People in Polish Business. His company was also awarded the INNOVATION 2020 award by SAR.
Previously, he served as director of new product development and director of research at Kantar, WPP. He has participated in over 1,400 research projects. Dobromir Ciaś has been awarded multiple times by European research associations (PTBRiO, ESOMAR) and honoured by Sir Martin Sorell (WPP) for his analysis of the 2008-2010 EU crisis. He is the author of several dozen publications in the field of market analysis, analytical methods and research methodology. He has also cooperated in the area of diagnosis and analysis of disinformation within NATO and the European Parliament.
06.03.2021
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Dobromir Ciaś
Founder of Edge NPD
Founder of Edge NPD, a Polish company operating within the tech field that has launched a solution to combat internet misinformation (ABTShield).
Dobromir Cias studied mathematical sociology at the University of Warsaw and quantitative methods at the Warsaw School of Economics. As an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience, Dobromir Cias combines business, technical and sociological knowledge to lead one of the most innovative start-ups in the media and information market. He is recognized as one of the 100 best innovators in Central and Eastern Europe (NE100 award) by Google and Financial Funds and named one of the Most Creative People in Polish Business. His company was also awarded the INNOVATION 2020 award by SAR.
Previously, he served as director of new product development and director of research at Kantar, WPP. He has participated in over 1,400 research projects. Dobromir Ciaś has been awarded multiple times by European research associations (PTBRiO, ESOMAR) and honoured by Sir Martin Sorell (WPP) for his analysis of the 2008-2010 EU crisis. He is the author of several dozen publications in the field of market analysis, analytical methods and research methodology. He has also cooperated in the area of diagnosis and analysis of disinformation within NATO and the European Parliament.
Michał Kobosko
Vice President of Polska 2050
Michał Kobosko
Vice President of Polska 2050
06.03.2021
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Michał Kobosko is a journalist, media manager and the vice-president of the Poland 2050 association. From the early 1990’s he worked as a journalist for the newspaper “Gazeta Wyborcza”. Later, he acted as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of „Puls Biznesu” (Bonnier Business Press). In 2004 he joined Axel Springer group, where he worked as Editor-in-Chief of a newly introduced Polish edition of „Forbes”. For three years, since October 2006, he acted as Editor-in-Chief of “Newsweek Polska”. In 2009 he was responsible for an editorial merger of “Dziennik. Polska-Europa-Świat” with “Gazeta Prawna”. He became the first Editor-in-Chief of the “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna”. In 2011 he joined Platforma Mediowa Point-Group, where he was responsible for the negotiations with Bloomberg L.P. resulting with a launch of “Bloomberg Businessweek Polska”. Later he became the editor-in-chief of “WPROST” newsweekly, a position he held until January 2013. Since then, Kobosko has been involved in a large number of new projects, including the Polish edition of Project Syndicate, where he was an editor until late 2016. Starting October 2013 he became a Director of the Poland Office at the Atlantic Council, where he served as a Senior Advisor. In 2015 he began hosting a morning on-line TV political talk-show broadcasted by Wirtualna Polska. He was a member of the board of the Junior Achievement Foundation and the Leopolis for Future Foundation. In late 2019 he became actively involved in Polish politics. He joined the 2020 presidential campaign of Szymon Hołownia, an independent and non-partisan candidate (the third result in the 2020 election). Together with Hołownia, Kobosko started forming a new political movement in Poland, called Polska 2050.
06.03.2021
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Michał Kobosko
Vice President of Polska 2050
Michał Kobosko is a journalist, media manager and the vice-president of the Poland 2050 association. From the early 1990’s he worked as a journalist for the newspaper “Gazeta Wyborcza”. Later, he acted as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of „Puls Biznesu” (Bonnier Business Press). In 2004 he joined Axel Springer group, where he worked as Editor-in-Chief of a newly introduced Polish edition of „Forbes”. For three years, since October 2006, he acted as Editor-in-Chief of “Newsweek Polska”. In 2009 he was responsible for an editorial merger of “Dziennik. Polska-Europa-Świat” with “Gazeta Prawna”. He became the first Editor-in-Chief of the “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna”. In 2011 he joined Platforma Mediowa Point-Group, where he was responsible for the negotiations with Bloomberg L.P. resulting with a launch of “Bloomberg Businessweek Polska”. Later he became the editor-in-chief of “WPROST” newsweekly, a position he held until January 2013. Since then, Kobosko has been involved in a large number of new projects, including the Polish edition of Project Syndicate, where he was an editor until late 2016. Starting October 2013 he became a Director of the Poland Office at the Atlantic Council, where he served as a Senior Advisor. In 2015 he began hosting a morning on-line TV political talk-show broadcasted by Wirtualna Polska. He was a member of the board of the Junior Achievement Foundation and the Leopolis for Future Foundation. In late 2019 he became actively involved in Polish politics. He joined the 2020 presidential campaign of Szymon Hołownia, an independent and non-partisan candidate (the third result in the 2020 election). Together with Hołownia, Kobosko started forming a new political movement in Poland, called Polska 2050.
Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk
Member of the Polish Parliament, Campaign Director for Robert Biedroń’s 2020 Presidential Bid
Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk
Member of the Polish Parliament, Campaign Director for Robert Biedroń’s 2020 Presidential Bid
06.03.2021
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Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk is a member of the Polish Sejm, representing the 3rd Wrocław district as well as an associate at the Center for Social Thought in Wrocław (Ośrodek Myśli Społecznej). She has been a member of the DiEM25 pan-European movement since 2017, in 2019 she was elected as the groups Coordinating Collective member. In 2016, Foreign Policy magazine included Dziemianowicz-Bąk, on its annual list of the 100 most influential global thinkers. She holds a masters degree both in education and philosophy and has earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of Wrocław.
06.03.2021
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Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk
Member of the Polish Parliament, Campaign Director for Robert Biedroń’s 2020 Presidential Bid
Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk is a member of the Polish Sejm, representing the 3rd Wrocław district as well as an associate at the Center for Social Thought in Wrocław (Ośrodek Myśli Społecznej). She has been a member of the DiEM25 pan-European movement since 2017, in 2019 she was elected as the groups Coordinating Collective member. In 2016, Foreign Policy magazine included Dziemianowicz-Bąk, on its annual list of the 100 most influential global thinkers. She holds a masters degree both in education and philosophy and has earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of Wrocław.
Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka
Director of Władysław Kosiniak Kamysz’s 2020 Presidential Campaign, Representative of PSL Party
Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka
Director of Władysław Kosiniak Kamysz’s 2020 Presidential Campaign, Representative of PSL Party
06.03.2021
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Magdalena Sobkowiak was the campaign manager for Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz during the 2020 Polish presidential elections and has been his chief advisor since January 2019. Previously, she was one of the main authors of the PSL parliamentary campaign in 2019. Before joining Mr Kosiniak-Kamysz’s team, she worked in the European Commission as a communication advisor and speechwriter for Commissioners. She worked at the EC from 2016 to 2018. Between 2015-2016 she worked as the chief correspondent in Brussels for the Polish main evening news channel ‘Wiadomości’. She covered European affairs, the Paris and Brussels attacks, UK elections and the 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 plane crash in the Alps. Before moving to Brussels she worked as a journalist for the Polish national television ‘TVP’ and private broadcaster ‘Polsat’. She mostly covered Politics, both domestic and international, the 2012 United States Presidential elections and the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. She was also the host of a morning political show. In 2016 she took part in The German Marshall Fund Young Professionals summit in Brussels. Magdalena is an author of the publication: ‘Transatlantic trade and investment partnership – chances and threats’. She is currently working on her PhD at the Warsaw School of Economics, covering the impact of COVID on the global economy. She holds an undergraduate diploma in diplomacy and international economy.
06.03.2021
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Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka
Director of Władysław Kosiniak Kamysz’s 2020 Presidential Campaign, Representative of PSL Party
Magdalena Sobkowiak was the campaign manager for Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz during the 2020 Polish presidential elections and has been his chief advisor since January 2019. Previously, she was one of the main authors of the PSL parliamentary campaign in 2019. Before joining Mr Kosiniak-Kamysz’s team, she worked in the European Commission as a communication advisor and speechwriter for Commissioners. She worked at the EC from 2016 to 2018. Between 2015-2016 she worked as the chief correspondent in Brussels for the Polish main evening news channel ‘Wiadomości’. She covered European affairs, the Paris and Brussels attacks, UK elections and the 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 plane crash in the Alps. Before moving to Brussels she worked as a journalist for the Polish national television ‘TVP’ and private broadcaster ‘Polsat’. She mostly covered Politics, both domestic and international, the 2012 United States Presidential elections and the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. She was also the host of a morning political show. In 2016 she took part in The German Marshall Fund Young Professionals summit in Brussels. Magdalena is an author of the publication: ‘Transatlantic trade and investment partnership – chances and threats’. She is currently working on her PhD at the Warsaw School of Economics, covering the impact of COVID on the global economy. She holds an undergraduate diploma in diplomacy and international economy.
Agnieszka Kubal
UCL Scholar
Agnieszka Kubal
UCL Scholar
06.03.2021
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Agnieszka is an interdisciplinary socio-legal, migration and human rights scholar with area studies interest in Central Eastern Europe and Russia. She is the author of two monographs, Socio-legal Integration. Polish post-2004 EU Enlargement Migrants in the UK (2012, Ashgate/Routledge) and Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia. Socio-Legal Perspectives (2019, Cambridge University Press). Together with Marina Kurkchiyan, Dr Kubal co-edited a volume on Sociology of Justice in Russia (2018, Cambridge University Press) acclaimed by the critics as ‘the most analytically sophisticated and empirically rich volume ever produced on the everyday operation of the Russian legal system.’ Dr Kubal’s current research ’Who are the humans behind Human Rights?’ explores the everyday experiences of pursuing human rights claims before the European Court of Human Rights from Central and Eastern Europe.
06.03.2021
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Agnieszka Kubal
UCL Scholar
Agnieszka is an interdisciplinary socio-legal, migration and human rights scholar with area studies interest in Central Eastern Europe and Russia. She is the author of two monographs, Socio-legal Integration. Polish post-2004 EU Enlargement Migrants in the UK (2012, Ashgate/Routledge) and Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia. Socio-Legal Perspectives (2019, Cambridge University Press). Together with Marina Kurkchiyan, Dr Kubal co-edited a volume on Sociology of Justice in Russia (2018, Cambridge University Press) acclaimed by the critics as ‘the most analytically sophisticated and empirically rich volume ever produced on the everyday operation of the Russian legal system.’ Dr Kubal’s current research ’Who are the humans behind Human Rights?’ explores the everyday experiences of pursuing human rights claims before the European Court of Human Rights from Central and Eastern Europe.
Marta Lempart
Leader of Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women’s Strike)
Marta Lempart
Leader of Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women’s Strike)
06.03.2021
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Marta Lempart is a Leader of Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet (eng. Women’s Strike), the women’s rights social movement in Poland
06.03.2021
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Marta Lempart
Leader of Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women’s Strike)
Marta Lempart is a Leader of Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet (eng. Women’s Strike), the women’s rights social movement in Poland
Agnieszka Golec de Zavala
Reader in psychology at Goldsmiths
Agnieszka Golec de Zavala
Reader in psychology at Goldsmiths
06.03.2021
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Agnieszka Golec de Zavala is a Reader, Goldsmith, University of London and a Head of the PrejudiceLab (collectivenarcissism.com). She is a visiting professor at University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poznań, Poland and ISCTE-CIS, Lisbon, Portugal. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and a Marie Curie Fellow. Her research is driven by a question: What makes people prejudiced and what makes them fight in conflicts. She has developed research on the concept of collective narcissism – the belief that one’s own group is exceptional but not sufficiently recognized by others – that predicts retaliatory intergroup hostility, prejudice, revengefulness, political radicalisation and belief in conspiracy theories. In her recent research she examines motivational underpinnings of collective narcissism. She also examines how reactions to intergroup exclusion are moderated by collective narcissism. PrejudiceLab uses methods of neuroscience and physiology to assess the mechanisms underlying those reactions.
06.03.2021
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Agnieszka Golec de Zavala
Reader in psychology at Goldsmiths
Agnieszka Golec de Zavala is a Reader, Goldsmith, University of London and a Head of the PrejudiceLab (collectivenarcissism.com). She is a visiting professor at University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poznań, Poland and ISCTE-CIS, Lisbon, Portugal. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and a Marie Curie Fellow. Her research is driven by a question: What makes people prejudiced and what makes them fight in conflicts. She has developed research on the concept of collective narcissism – the belief that one’s own group is exceptional but not sufficiently recognized by others – that predicts retaliatory intergroup hostility, prejudice, revengefulness, political radicalisation and belief in conspiracy theories. In her recent research she examines motivational underpinnings of collective narcissism. She also examines how reactions to intergroup exclusion are moderated by collective narcissism. PrejudiceLab uses methods of neuroscience and physiology to assess the mechanisms underlying those reactions.
Adam Bodnar
Commissioner for Human Rights Professor at SWPS University
Adam Bodnar
Commissioner for Human Rights Professor at SWPS University
06.03.2021
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He graduated from the faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and also from LL.M. programme in the field of comparative constitutional law at Central European University in Budapest. In 2006 he was awarded PhD degree at the University of Warsaw in the field of constitutional law. His PhD thesis entitled: “Multi-level society in the European constitutional sphere“ was awarded honourable mention in the competition organized by Przegląd Sejmowy (Parliamentary Review).
In 2004-15 Adam Bodnar worked for Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights, firstly as a co-founder and coordinator of Precedent Cases Programme and then as a head of legal department and vice-president of the Management Board. He is also an expert in the Agency of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In 2013-2014 Bodnar was a member of the board of directors of the United Nations Fund for Victims of Torture. In 2001-2004 he worked as a lawyer in Weil, Gotshal & Mangers law firm. Since 2006 he has been giving lectures at the law and administration department of the University of Warsaw.
Until the time of assuming the post of Ombudsman, Adam Bodnar, PhD cooperated with various non-governmental organizations, including Panaptykon Fund (chairman of the Foundation Council), ClientEarth Polska (a member of the Programme Council), Prof. Zbigniew Hołda Association (co-founder and the member of the Management Board). He was also a member of the Civic Legislation Forum operating at Batory Foundation and of the editorial team of kulturaliberalna.pl.
In 2011 he was awarded with the Tolerance Prize by the Polish LGBT organizations. In 2013 he received a scholarship within the scope of German Marshall Memorial Fellowship programme.
With the approval of 67 non-governmental organizations in 2015, he was notified for the post of Ombudsman by Democratic Left Alliance Parliamentary Club and by independent members of the parliament, and also by Civic Platform Parliamentary Club. The Sejm appointed him at this post on 24 of July 2015 and on 7 August 2015, the Senate of the Republic of Poland approved this choice. Then, on 9 September 2015, the Sejm took his oath.
In 2018 Commissioner for Human Rights Adam Bodnar and his Office were laureates of the Norwegian Rafto Prize awarded to human rights defenders across the world.
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Adam Bodnar
Commissioner for Human Rights Professor at SWPS University
He graduated from the faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw and also from LL.M. programme in the field of comparative constitutional law at Central European University in Budapest. In 2006 he was awarded PhD degree at the University of Warsaw in the field of constitutional law. His PhD thesis entitled: “Multi-level society in the European constitutional sphere“ was awarded honourable mention in the competition organized by Przegląd Sejmowy (Parliamentary Review).
In 2004-15 Adam Bodnar worked for Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights, firstly as a co-founder and coordinator of Precedent Cases Programme and then as a head of legal department and vice-president of the Management Board. He is also an expert in the Agency of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In 2013-2014 Bodnar was a member of the board of directors of the United Nations Fund for Victims of Torture. In 2001-2004 he worked as a lawyer in Weil, Gotshal & Mangers law firm. Since 2006 he has been giving lectures at the law and administration department of the University of Warsaw.
Until the time of assuming the post of Ombudsman, Adam Bodnar, PhD cooperated with various non-governmental organizations, including Panaptykon Fund (chairman of the Foundation Council), ClientEarth Polska (a member of the Programme Council), Prof. Zbigniew Hołda Association (co-founder and the member of the Management Board). He was also a member of the Civic Legislation Forum operating at Batory Foundation and of the editorial team of kulturaliberalna.pl.
In 2011 he was awarded with the Tolerance Prize by the Polish LGBT organizations. In 2013 he received a scholarship within the scope of German Marshall Memorial Fellowship programme.
With the approval of 67 non-governmental organizations in 2015, he was notified for the post of Ombudsman by Democratic Left Alliance Parliamentary Club and by independent members of the parliament, and also by Civic Platform Parliamentary Club. The Sejm appointed him at this post on 24 of July 2015 and on 7 August 2015, the Senate of the Republic of Poland approved this choice. Then, on 9 September 2015, the Sejm took his oath.
In 2018 Commissioner for Human Rights Adam Bodnar and his Office were laureates of the Norwegian Rafto Prize awarded to human rights defenders across the world.
Katarzyna Wężyk
Journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza
Katarzyna Wężyk
Journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza
06.03.2021
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As a part of our collaboration with Gazeta Wyborcza, Katarzyna Wężyk will be joining our Gender Equality Panel. Ms Wężyk is a reporter, journalist and publicist. She is also an author of a newly released book called “Aborcja jest” (eng. “Abortion is”). She graduated from the University of Warsaw, where she was enrolled as a political and American studies student. Katarzyna Wężyk is a Kościuszko Foundation scholarship recipient to Columbia University in New York. Since 2012 she has been working for “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Magazyn Świąteczny”, “Duży Format” and “Wysokie Obcasy”.
06.03.2021
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Katarzyna Wężyk
Journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza
As a part of our collaboration with Gazeta Wyborcza, Katarzyna Wężyk will be joining our Gender Equality Panel. Ms Wężyk is a reporter, journalist and publicist. She is also an author of a newly released book called “Aborcja jest” (eng. “Abortion is”). She graduated from the University of Warsaw, where she was enrolled as a political and American studies student. Katarzyna Wężyk is a Kościuszko Foundation scholarship recipient to Columbia University in New York. Since 2012 she has been working for “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Magazyn Świąteczny”, “Duży Format” and “Wysokie Obcasy”.
Daniel Boniecki
Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company Poland
Daniel Boniecki
Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company Poland
06.03.2021
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Daniel is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. He leads the Telecommunications, Media, and Technology Practice in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Daniel specializes in strategy; large-scale transformation programs in areas of network operations, convergence and customer experience; and advanced analytics in churn, pricing, and capital expenditures. His clients include management boards and private equity firms, venture capital firms, and holding companies with telecom assets. He has also served clients in the energy and transportation sectors. Daniel joined McKinsey in 1994 and has served clients from offices in London, Dubai, Moscow, and Warsaw. He has also co-authored a number of McKinsey reports on the economy and digitization in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, including „Poland 2025”, „Digital Poles”, „5 opportunities for Poland”, „The AI Revolution”, „Digital Poland”.
06.03.2021
Back to Business: What Should We Start, Cease and Rebuild In The Post-Pandemic Reality?
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Daniel Boniecki
Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company Poland
Daniel is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. He leads the Telecommunications, Media, and Technology Practice in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Daniel specializes in strategy; large-scale transformation programs in areas of network operations, convergence and customer experience; and advanced analytics in churn, pricing, and capital expenditures. His clients include management boards and private equity firms, venture capital firms, and holding companies with telecom assets. He has also served clients in the energy and transportation sectors. Daniel joined McKinsey in 1994 and has served clients from offices in London, Dubai, Moscow, and Warsaw. He has also co-authored a number of McKinsey reports on the economy and digitization in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe, including „Poland 2025”, „Digital Poles”, „5 opportunities for Poland”, „The AI Revolution”, „Digital Poland”.
Krzysztof Krawczyk
Partner at CVC Capital Partners
Krzysztof Krawczyk
Partner at CVC Capital Partners
06.03.2021
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Krzysztof Krawczyk is the Head of Warsaw Office and Partner at CVC Capital Partners. Prior to joining CVC, Krzysztof was a Managing Partner of Innova Capital, one of the leading mid-market private equity firms in Central and Eastern Europe.
06.03.2021
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Krzysztof Krawczyk
Partner at CVC Capital Partners
Krzysztof Krawczyk is the Head of Warsaw Office and Partner at CVC Capital Partners. Prior to joining CVC, Krzysztof was a Managing Partner of Innova Capital, one of the leading mid-market private equity firms in Central and Eastern Europe.
Andrzej Sykulski
Managing Partner and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Trigon
Andrzej Sykulski
Managing Partner and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Trigon
06.03.2021
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Andrzej Sykulski is the Managing Partner at Trigon Dom Maklerski, where he manages the investment banking activities
06.03.2021
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Andrzej Sykulski
Managing Partner and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Trigon
Andrzej Sykulski is the Managing Partner at Trigon Dom Maklerski, where he manages the investment banking activities
Kinga Stanisławska
Managing Partner and Founder of Experior Venture Fund
Kinga Stanisławska
Managing Partner and Founder of Experior Venture Fund
06.03.2021
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Kinga has 20 years of experience in investments and finance. She is founder of Experior VC, investing in scale ups and growth, pure software with strong ML/AI in SaaS, including software deep tech, ecommerce, big data driven companies across all verticals with a CEE nexus.
She is active in supporting women-led companies as a mentor and investor. She established the European Women in VC platform with the aim of increasing the number of female partners at venture funds across Europe from the current low single digit percentage number it is today.
Kinga is Investment Committee member of the EIC Fund and advisor to European Innovation Council. Kinga was a management board member of Polish VC Association for 5 years. She sits on the board of private and public companies (TYLKO, Tourmedica, Ten Square Games). She is named one of the TOP 50 of Europe’s most influential women in the start-up and venture capital space by EU Startups and top 50 women in tech in Europe by Forbes.
06.03.2021
Back to Business: What Should We Start, Cease and Rebuild In The Post-Pandemic Reality?
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Kinga Stanisławska
Managing Partner and Founder of Experior Venture Fund
Kinga has 20 years of experience in investments and finance. She is founder of Experior VC, investing in scale ups and growth, pure software with strong ML/AI in SaaS, including software deep tech, ecommerce, big data driven companies across all verticals with a CEE nexus.
She is active in supporting women-led companies as a mentor and investor. She established the European Women in VC platform with the aim of increasing the number of female partners at venture funds across Europe from the current low single digit percentage number it is today.
Kinga is Investment Committee member of the EIC Fund and advisor to European Innovation Council. Kinga was a management board member of Polish VC Association for 5 years. She sits on the board of private and public companies (TYLKO, Tourmedica, Ten Square Games). She is named one of the TOP 50 of Europe’s most influential women in the start-up and venture capital space by EU Startups and top 50 women in tech in Europe by Forbes.
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