Katarzyna Wawrzak

GIW | Specialist

I am vet working in Veterinary Inspection

Rafał Kandzia

Ministry of Finance | Naczelnik Urzędu

Alicja Jurecka

Ministerstwo Finansów | Zastępca Dyrektora Izby Administracji Skarbowej w Katowicach

Alicja Biela

Izba Administracji Skarbowej w Katoowicach | Kierownik Działu

Krzysztof Gorczyca

The Polish Financial Supervision Authority | Senior Specialist

Senior Specialist in the FinTech Department at the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (PFSA) with 11 years of experience in financial supervision. Master of arts in Law and Economics. In the PFSA he started from insurance supervision. He represented PFSA in Moldova as the chief expert in scope of insurance distribution in the EU Twinning Project for the “Development and consolidation of the National Commission for Financial Markets’ operational and institutional capacities in the field of prudential regulation and supervision”. Then he turned towards application of new technologies in finance such as Blockchain, Machine Learning and Cloud Computing. He’s represents the PFSA as a member of several working groups at EIOPA and EBA focused on Insurtech, Suptech and Regtech.

Magdalena Hryciuk

Ministry if Finance | Head of Unit

Karolina Szczepaniak

IAS Warszawa | Kierownik

Karolina Szczepaniak, Competence Center for Tax Proceedings. Karolina Szczepaniak work in tax administration for 10 years. Recently as a manager Competence Center and business expert in taxes. The focus of her work is help when operating the systems used in KAS as well as on specifying business requirements for IT systems used inside tax administration. I take part in IT projects as a team member or manager.

Małgorzata Burzynska

UKNF | Expert

PhD, attorney at law.

Tomasz Wiśniewski

UKNF | Dyrektor Departamentu Informatyki

My name is Tomasz, I have been working in IT in public institutions for 20 years.I started my career as a network infrastructure administrator and currently I am the IT Director.

Michał Ciołek

NCBC | Programmer

I have been programming for 15 years. I started with PHP. Then I fell in love with mobile devices and JVM technologies. Now I'm working with .NET solutions.

Hubert Gniadowicz

Ministerstwo Finansów | Zastępca Dyrektora

Paweł Ciechański

Aplikacje Krytyczne | Starszy Architekt Rozwiązań IT

Software engineer and IT architect with focus on data management, software development and service integration areas.

Michał Drelich

SE Group | CEO

Michał Drelich - founder and co-owner of the SE Group agency, one of the leading sports marketing agencies in Poland, which organizes several dozen different types of sports events every year; a specialist in sports marketing and sponsorship; in 2005-2007 he worked at the Warsaw Marathon Foundation, where he was responsible for sponsoring and public relations of the Warsaw Marathon and Half Marathon; exlusive licensee of IRONMAN in Poland; organizer of World Athletics Half Marathon Championchips Gdynia 2020.

Andrzej Turski

The Polish Financial Supervision Authority | Cheif Specialist

Cheif Specialist in Market Practices Department. Focuse on banking and payment services industry

Piotr Lisowski

Veteran Center | IT specialist

IT specialist in

Magdalena Melaniuk

Fundacja WWF Polska | Communications Specialist

Łukasz Milewski

BGK | IT administrator

infrastructure administrator for more than 10 years.

Przemysław Koch

Ministry of Finance | CIO

Experienced IT manager associated with the financial industry for over 17 years. A graduate of the Cybernetics faculty at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw and the Executive Master of Business Administration of the Apsley Business School of London. Started his career at Accenture, implementing the central banking system for PKO Bank Polski. In 2006-2011 worked for the KBC Capital Group: Kredyt Bank and the insurance companies TUiR Warta and TUnŻ Warta, responsible for IT transformation and global projects delivery. In 2011-2017 worked for PKO Bank Polski as the Director of the Transaction Applications Development Department. Played a key role in the Nordea Polska bank acquisition. From 2017 a head of IT at Ministry of Finance successfully conducting the digital transformation of the Ministry. Delivered among others Your e-PIT service, Standard Audit File for Tax, STIR – a system to transfer the banking sector data to Ministry of Finance, e-financial statements, SENT - a system to monitor on-line the transport of sensitive/excise goods, central tax collection system or on-line fiscal cash register. Currently implementing a new toll collection system in Poland.

Maciej Mycielski

Stowarzyszenie M LIGA | Prezes Stowarzyszenia

Organizacja imprez sportowych od 2016 roku - łącznie ponad 50 wyścigów w kolarstwie górskim i przełajowym oraz imprezy biegowe.

Artur Stachurski

NCBC

I'm a software developer since about 10 years. I also have some experience from many IT competitions including hackathons so I know a little bit what it looks like and how it works. Privately, I love playing football 🙂

Maciej Barysz

Totalizator Sportowy | Główny Specjalista Bezpieczeństwa Informatycznego

I have almost 30 years of experience in IT, of which almost 10 years in security.

Paweł Meyer

Główny Inspektorat Weterynarii | Dyrektor Biura Zdrowia i Ochrony Zwierząt

I am a veterinarian with considerable work experince in Veterinary Inspection in Poland. I worked for 20 years in Veterinary Inspektorat on all administration levels

Sebastian Sporniak

GIW | gł. spec. ds. informatyki

it specialist

Monika Łaskawska-Wolszczak

WWF Poland | Conservation Director

Monika Łaskawska-Wolszczak is a Conservation Director at WWF Poland. She was also managing marine projects and heading the international program working closely with WWF Mongolia, Malaysia and Myanmar. She holds a Masters from the Warsaw University as a double major of social and environmental psychology as well as geography.

Tomasz Celiński

Mariusz Świerczyński

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Joanna Pijewska

Ministry of Finance | IT Administrator

Przemysław Kulik

BGK | CSR Manager

Przemek is a social responsibility and sustainable development manager with experience in large corporations, start-ups and NGOs. 2006-2016 he worked in marketing and corporate communication team of the PZU Group; in recent years as a CSR coordinator and Health Programs Supporting Team Manager. In 2016-2018 he was responsible for the strategy and development of St. Christopher's Oncology Hospice Foundation, as well as for building the foundation's social entrepreneurship. Chairman of the board at “Znajdź Pomoc” Foundation. A Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK) since 2020.

Magdalena Swoboda-Młynarczyk

Ministerstwo Finansów | Zastępca Dyrektora

Deputy Director, Communication and Promotion Office, Ministry of Finance since 2015. Communication and marketing expert with strong PR background and professional approach with over 16 years experience. Worked across a variety of teams in a different environments - international media and finance companies, my own PR boutique and finally governement administration.

Agnieszka Kruszyna

Ministry of Finances | Chamber of Tax Administration in Katowice

almost a quarter of a century of professional experience (public administration employee), knowledge of work organization and substantive knowledge in the field of government administration, KAS and tax law

Patryk Ciebień

ITminds | CEO / Solution Architect

My history in the IT industry began 10 years ago with a career as a programmer. Over the years, I have expanded the scope of my competencies by working in companies implementing projects, including for the European Space Agency, NASA, and by winning the top laureate places in competitions such as the Microsoft Imagine Cup. Currently, I design highly-scalable systems as an IT solutions architect. As CEO at ITminds sp. z o.o., I operate-between business and technology in order to provide the highest quality products that drive my clients' business. I consider the constant exchange of knowledge about new technologies and an open-minded approach to creating business solutions to be the most important issue in the career of people associated with the IT industry.

Martin Jules

Scaleway | Solution Architect

Currently working as solution architect for Scaleway, I have both technical and business point of view

Rafał Tadasiewicz

Aplikacje Krytyczne

Arkadiusz Jedynak

Ministerstwo Finansów | Dyrektor Departamentu Poboru Podatków

Joanna Sadowska

Ministry of Finance | Head of the Faculty | Naczelnik wydziału

Anna Siembida

BGK | Recruiting and Employer Branding Expert

I am recruiting and employer branding expert currently working and supporting IT area in BGK. I do my best to match both candidates expactations and business needs. I have gained my professional experience working at The Boston Consulting Group and Ernst and Young. I graduated Computer Science and Econometrics at Warsaw University of Life Science (SGGW) and postgraduate studies in Career Developing and Coaching at Warsaw School of Economics. I am passionate about kids psychology and non-authoritarian parenting.

Louis MOREAU

Scaleway | Product Marketing Manager

I started my career connecting African rhinoceroses ????! I'm a teacher for embedded Programming & IoT communication protocols ????, and also a former Javascript & Typescript full-stack developer ????‍????.

Roman Janczarek

Ministry of Finance | head of unit

Roman Janczarek is a physics graduate of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He is currently working as the Head of the Corporate Architecture Unit at the Department of Strategic Management of the Ministry of Finance. He has extensive experience in the area of complex transformation projects in the public sector - implemented at the interface between core IT and business. He managed a projects related to the design and construction of banking and tax settlement systems as well as systems integrating systems supporting the technology of building telecommunications equipment. He managed projects related to the construction of tax settlement systems and the exchange of information on intra-Community VAT transactions. For several years, his work has been related to the practical use of the concept of corporate architecture in public administration.

Szymon Domurat

Aplikacje Krytyczne | ETL Developer

ETL Developer with expertise in following areas: DWH, Hadoop, ETL and Data Marts Design. Has a 6-year of professional experience. Understands problems related to big data using Spark. Also oriented on web development using Angular, Node.js, JavaScript, Python, PHP. Good consulting personality, communication skills and dedicated of team-player.

Mateusz Włodarczyk

UKNF | Senior Specialist

Senior Specialist in the FinTech Department at the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (PFSA) with experience in the area of analyzing and implementing new technologies. He gained experience in supervised entities, where he dealt with(i.a.) internal control, risk analysis and process management. He represented the compliance team in the implementation of tools such as marketing automation, cloud computing, remote identification using biometrics, voice bots based on AI and open banking services. Currently he supports the FinTech Department at the PFSA in the field of technology, in particular in the areas of cloud computing, open banking and blockchain. Participant of postgraduate studies in the field of digital transformation of business at the Kozminski University.

Małgorzata Bartczak

Izba Administracji Skarbowej w Łodzi | Kontroler Skarbowy

My name is Małgorzata Bartczak, I have been employed at KAS (National Revenue Administration) for 30 years as an employee associated with direct customer service. I am currently working in the Electronic Services Support Department in e-Services Competence Centre, which supports taxpayers in submitting documents electronically. Each new experience gained motivates me.

Maria Kazulak

Izba Administracji Skarbowej w Łodzi | Starszy kontroler skarbowy

Mariusz Legart vel Legar

Izba Administracji Skarbowej w Łodzi | Samodzielny Referent

Many years of professional experience I gained while working in the KAS (NRA) , now I am useing in the electronic services support sector working for e-Services Competence Centre. Applications delivered by the MoF are a convenient solution for users in relations with tax offices. Knowing how they work, I am able to effectively resolve problems taxpayer are reporting.

Waldemar Buda

Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy | Secretary of State

On 4 June 2019, he was appointed Secretary of State at the Ministry of Investment and Economic Development which was transformed into the Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy on 15 November 2019. Since 23 July 2019, he has also been the government plenipotentiary for public-private partnership. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Łódź. In 2007-2011, he completed legal training as a legal advisor. In 2011, he was granted powers of a legal advisor and opened a legal advisor's office.

Katarzyna Krętosz

Ministry of Finance | Chamber of Tax Administration in Katowice

Krętosz Katarzyna - 28 years of work experience (public administration employee, chief specialist at the Tax Administration Chamber in Katowice), Trainer of IT systems used in public administration - participation in the implementation of IT systems and training of future users, 6 years of training experience in conducting training / implementations in the field of IT systems (administration, content) - Internal Trainer, member of many MF design / implementation teams Central coordinator of the Team for training and documentation of users of IT systems Knowledge of work organization and substantive knowledge in the field of government administration and KAS Trainer preparation - numerous courses and trainings Knowledge of the Trampoline methodology

Magdalena Domel

Ministerstwo Finansów | Ekspert

Ewelina Kiełbowicz

Ministerstwo Finansów | Ekspert Biznesowy

Ewelina Kiełbowicz has been working in the tax administration since 2012. In 2019, she started working at the Ministry of Finance, where she deals with defining business requirements for IT systems used both inside and outside the tax administration - services for taxpayers.

Mariusz Gojny

Ministerstwo Finansów | Dyrektor Izby Administracji Skarbowej w Katowicach

Maria Chober

Izba Administracji Skarbowej w Łodzi | Head of the CKUE Department

Piotr Buzar

Ministerstwo Finansów | Starszy Specjalista

Rafał Terpitz

Ministry of Finances | Senior Specialist

Senior specialist in IAS Katowice, cooperate with the Ministry of Finances. Rafał has higher education with a specialization in administration and management. He has 9 years experience in taxes, finances and 3 years experience in conducting trainings of income tax area. Interests: history, culture, books, travels, strategy games.

Tomasz Piechula

Ministry of Finance

Aneta Zachariasz

Ministerstwo Finansów | Z-ca Dyrektora

Rémy Léone

Scaleway | Cloud Developer Advocate

I'm a Cloud Developer Advocate, I maintain the French Kubernetes website. At Scaleway I am working on developer tools such as Terraform or the CLI to make your experience working with Scaleway as pleasant as possible. I used to work in academia and networking.

Małgorzata Helwich

Ministerstwo Finansów | Główny Specjalista

An “Environmental Protection” and “Finance and Accounting” field of study graduate with extensive experience of working in the accounting firm, subsequently in the tax authorities I dealt with income tax issues. Currently, I work as an Official of the Ministry of Finances. For 2 years I have been working on central reporting of sales transactions in the CRK system and innovative business solutions that allow to tighten the VAT system in the area of online and mobile sales registration (the so-called virtual cash register which is a mobile application).

Sebastian Gębala

UKNF | Expert

Data Scientist specializing in statistical analysis using Python language libraries (numpy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn). Familiar with the R and SAS language. Analyst creating of modules for aggregation financial statistical data in the area of financial market and their ongoing updating. Analyst creating visualization of aggregated data and interpreting the findings of the analysis. Currently working as a attorney at law in the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (UKNF).

Krzysztof Grzeszczak

Ministry of Finance | Chief Specialist

He graduated from law studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Białystok and post-graduate studies - Administrative enforcement of tax arrears. For 8 years he worked in tax offices, holding a substantive post related to the application of tax law. He started working at the Ministry of Finance in 2015.

Andrzej Rzechuła

Ministerstwo Finansów | Główny Specjalista

Jarosław Wyszyński

Ministerstwo Finansów | Radca Ministra

Civil servant with over 20 years of experience in the implementation of projects financed from EU funds and the national budget. A graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology and the National School of Public Administration. Professionally associated with the Ministry of Finance, where he is responsible for projects related to the modernization of the tax administration. In the past, he was the deputy director of the Tax Administration Department and the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the following projects: e-Deklaracje 2, e-Registration and e-Taxes. He implemented a solution that allows taxpayers to submit tax declarations electronically and sign them, the so-called authorization data. Currently, the manager of the "Virtual Cash Registers" project. For 2 years he was an employee of the tax office, where he gained experience in dealing with taxpayers. He is involved in social activities, including Social Labor Inspector at the Ministry of Finance.

Marek Bełdzikowski

MF | Główny Specjalista

Chief specialist a member of IT system development team in the Ministry of Finance. He is focused on the business aspect of the IT system implementation. He also participated in numerous IT projects implemented in administration, for example “your ePiT”, the largest IT costumer oriented system in the tax administration. A lawyer by profession.

Mirosław Bieniecki

Fundacja Bieg Rzeźnika | President

President of the Butcher's Race Foundation. The organizer of the most popular mountain running events in Poland. Sociologist. Director of the Migration Studies Institute.

Piotr Kuźmiak

Ministry of Finance | Naczelnik Wydziału

Piotr Kuźmiak works in tax administration for 16 years. Recently as a business expert in taxes and tax administration public services. The focus of his work is specifying business requirements for IT systems used both inside tax administration and outside it – services for taxpayers. Occasionally also works as project manager in IT

Jakub Karmowski

UKNF | Team Manager | OSINT Analysis Team

Jakub Karmowski is a graduate of the University of Wrocław and the Wrocław University of Economics. A longtime employee of the tax administration. From 2018 to 2020, he was the head of the Open Source Information Analysis Department (OSINT) at the Ministry of Finance. For years, he taught at the National Treasury School in the field of OSINT, including the search for assets on the Internet and conducting analyzes using OSINT techniques. Co-author of four editions of the OSINT tool guide, dedicated to tax and uniformed services. Speaker at many conferences on the use of OSINT in business intelligence and cybersecurity.

Jarosław Kaszyk

UKNF | Attorney at law

I'm a lawyer with a knack for IT and a growing experience in the subject of cyber crime and fraud.

Maciej Florys

Softie | Co-founder

Test analyst, trainer and entrepreneur with 10 years of experience in IT industry. Expert in test automation. Worked for e-commerce, energy, health and recruiting branches.

Joanna Bigos

The Ministry of Finance | Specialist

Specialist in the field of administrative law and analyst of data from open sources at the Ministry of Finance

Matthias Prost

Scaleway | Front Developer

I'm a Front End Developer at Scaleway and passionate about new technologies and programming languages. I worked on multiple web applications and mobile applications mostly with Javascript and Typescript.

Michał Golacik

MRiRW | Starszy Specjalista

A veterinarian, a graduate of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, a senior specialist at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development - deals mainly with the issues of combating infectious diseases in animals.

Aleksandra Szymura

Ministry of Finance | Specialist

Specialist in the field of Data Science and Machine Learning at the Ministry of Finance, working mostly with R, Python and SQL.

Jagoda Morawiec

Ministry od Finance | Specialist

Specialist in the field of Data Science at the Ministry of Finance, mostly working with SQL nad R.

Marcin Olszewski

Aplikacje Krytyczne | Programista Java

Self-taught java programmer. Big fan: bot programming, algorithmic riddles and SQL.

Kamil Bachanek

Aplikacje Krytyczne | ETL Developer

A graduate of Computer Science at the EiTI Faculty of the Warsaw University of Technology. Professionally, he deals with the broadly understood subject of data processing.

Piotr Marszałkowski

Ministry of Finance | UX Lead

Piotr Marszałkowski has been building things online for decade. His career has been focused on helping financial sector navigate large-scale transformation; and navigating digital products from ideation to post-launch. He speaks at events on various topics on experience design. Right now, he leads the UCD team at Aplikacje Kryczne (Ministy of Finance). He is also author of a blog https://ux.marszalkowski.org one of the most popular blog about UX in Poland.

Piotr Wysocki

ARM | Web Developer

A programmer who took his first steps in this profession back in the times of Amiga 500. Currently, specializing in the development of web applications.

Emilia Zajączkowska-Tarasewicz

UKNF

Emilia focuses on legal aspects in the field of innovative solutions and fintech industry. In Fintech Department she advises on a broad range of issues regarding the financial sector throught Innovation Hub Programme. Her experience also includes cases related to commercial law as well as litigation and administrative proceedings. Member of the Warsaw Bar Association and attorney-at-law.

Marcin Pachucki

UKNF | Expert

A government official with over 20 years of experience. Former Deputy Chairman of the KNF. He is responsible for combating irregularities on the financial market, including unlicensed activities and Ponzi schemes. Author of UKNF’s publication – Ponzi schemes and other frauds on the financial market. He graduated in law at the University of Wrocław and in finance and banking at the University of Economics in Wrocław.

Przemysław Rodziewicz

UKNF | Team Manager

Head of Analytical Tools Unit in the Insurance Supervision and Risk Monitoring Department with over 10 years’ experience. Responsible for data management and creating IT tools supporting effective supervision. Representative of KNF at EIOPA IT & Data Committee. Passionate about AI, data and motorcycles.

Daniel Wierzbicki

ARM | IT Director

Over 20 years in IT from own company, education to Goverement Enviroment

Natalia Meredyk

UKNF | Starszy Specjalista

For almost a year I have been working in the fintech financial innovation department in the office of the Financial Supervision Commission. I deal with the subject of innovation in finance from the legal side. I am a legal advisor. For several years I have been dealing with financial and banking law.

Andrzej Mazur

Enclave Games | Founder, HTML5 Game Developer

HTML5 Game Developer and Technical Evangelist, Enclave Games indie studio founder, js13kGames competition creator, Gamedev.js community firestarter and Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter publisher. Excited about cutting-edge Web technologies like WebXR, Progressive Web Apps, and Web Monetization API. Likes eating sushi and playing Neuroshima Hex.

Przemysław Marcinkowski

Fundacja Widzialni | Board Member, Expert on accessibility

Conducting expert research, preparing rankings and holding audits regarding the accessibility of websites, documents and mobile applications based on the WCAG standard

Lena Kruk-Pielesiak

BGK | HR Business Partner / IT Dep.

My name is Lena Kruk-Pielesiak and I've been working in HR for almost 15 years, the last 3 years in IT. Responsible, among others for recruitment and employer branding. I've gained experience at Deilotte and McKinsey. After hours I run Facebook page NieMówDoMnieKadrowa

Florian Hollandt

Amazon | Solutions Architect

Florian is a Solutions Architect in the Amazon Alexa DE team. He is passionate about the intersection of Alexa Skills, games, Lego robots, maker projects (Arduino & Co), and open sounrce, and has built a number of high-profile Alexa Skills himself.

Bartosz de Boulange

BGK | ESB/Java Developer

"I work as a Java developer at Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego - data integration is my field of expertise. Additionally, I study quantitative methods at Warsaw School of Economics where I used to be president of the board in Students' Association for Computer Science."

Patrycja Tomaszewska

BGK | Internal Communication Specialist

I am an internal communication specialist. I have 2 years of experience in this area. I like working on the intranet the most. I work with people and help them get to know the intranet.

Sebastian Gos

BEC Poland | DevOps & Frontend Competency Manager

Last 15 years working on various positions like developer, designer, team leader, product owner, platform architect, lecturer, trainer, mentor and manager. Fan of Agile, Innovation, DevOps, Test automation, Front-end and good UX Design (web & mobile). Curious, open minded & focused on creating concepts, leading digital transformations and providing top quality IT services. As a true leader always taking care about his people and team spirit. ---Technical skills:--- - DevOps: Hg, Git, Atlassian stack(Jira, Confluence, FishEye, SourceTree, Bitbucket), Hudson, Jenkins, Sonarqube, OpenShift, MS Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform. - Front-end stack: Angular (with ngrx & rxjs), React, Vue, ReactNative, TypeScript, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, Jade, CSS3/Sass/SCSS/Less, Bootstrap, Material Design, Node.js, NestJS, npm, ng-cli. - Test automation stack: Jasmine/Karma, Jest, Protractor, Cypress, Appium, Selenium, Provar. - UX Design: Research(Personas and empathy maps), Product strategy(Business models, value proposition mapping, customer journey maps), Modeling (Information architecture, user flows), Prototyping (Axure, UXPin, Sketch, Marvel, InVision, Balsamiq, Paper prototyping, Accessibility), UX testing (Usability testing, Eye tracking, Heatmaps, A/B testing). Workshops: Design Thinking, Design Studio, Google Design Sprints, Lean UX. ---Non-technical skills:--- - Agile skills: Development team member, Scrum Master, Product Owner, SAFe practisioner, SAFe DevOps - Business expertise: Financial, Banking, Fintech, Innovation, Public sector, Marketing. - Other: Competency manager(recruitments & career development), Trainer(workshops), Lecturer(conferences), Mentor(graduate programme), Judge(hackathons) - New interests: Automation, AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, IoT, Startups, Hackathons (winner of Fintech Startup Weekend 2018 in Copehnagen/DK).

Paulina Wójciak

UBS | IT Service Delivery Manager

Paulina brings over 10 years of experience in the technology industry, building and developing not only products and services but also growing software engineering and product teams. She also has years of experience in UX. She currently works at UBS where she is responsible for dev tools and test automation teams for WMPC Tech. Before that she was a CEO of Qualaroo, a user research platform for UX Designers, owned by Texas-based venture equity fund. She was driving the company’s growth by being at the intersection of product management, design, analytics, marketing, and operations. She also served as a consultant helping companies with things like validating their products, understanding their users, designing the right business model or pivoting. She also has vast experience in HR and recruitment. Paulina is a keynote speaker and mentor and has been a pioneer for leading the path for women in the technology industry. She is an avid book reader, has a passion for UX research and neuroscience and loves to travel.

Edyta Blachowska

BGK | internal Communication Manager

Over 10 years of experience in internal communication in a banking sector. Specialized in planning creative information campaigns, plain language and implementing communications tools. A project leader of the implementation of the new intranet portal in BGZ BNP Bank. Internal communication manager in Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego responsible for coordination communication campaigns for employees.

Monika Grządziel-Bańkowska

BGK | Internal Communications Expert

I'm an internal communications expert with experience in IT and financial filed. Currently, I'm developing the Bank's communications tools, of which SharePoint-based solutions are my favourite.

Agnieszka Mirowska

The Raknroll Foundation | Coordinator

I look after the protégés participating in the project “Łeb do Słońca” and I am in charge of the projects “I po Raku” and “Biblioteczka Rak’n’Rolla”. I graduated from the Academy of Physical Education and Leon Kozminski Academy. For many years I have been participating as a volunteer for various nonprofit organizations. I fulfill my dreams by giving assistance to others so no matter how busy I am, I always find time to help those in need. My biggest dream is to go on a service mission to Africa where I could use my experience and knowledge for a good cause. I am an optimist who is always ready to work. In my free time I travel and explore Spanish culture.

Weronika Przychodzień

The Raknroll Foundation | Fundraising Specialist

Former biology student. In fundraising activities, I’m the most interested in entire analytical side. Mountain climbing enthusiast.

Anna Konopka

Fundacja WWF Polska | Digital Fundraising Specialist

I handle websites at the Fundacja WWF Polska and I coordinate the work of agencies providing technological solutions to the foundation. Before that, I was employed as a PM in technology department in a publishing house.

Aleksandra Kuna

The Rak’n’Roll Foundation | Corporate fundraiser

I graduated of Tourism and relation, Most of my live I have spend on travelling. I love sports, and mountains, most of my free time I spend in beautiful Tatra Mountains. In Rak`n`Roll Foundation, I manage projects and deal with business partners. I never give up!

Sebastian Piotr Depta

Fundacja Widzialni | Specjalista ds. dostępności cyfrowej

"Digital Accessibility Specialist As a blind consultant I take part i.a. in website and mobile application availability audits"

Małgorzata Ciszewska - Korona

The Rak’n’Roll Foundation | Psycho-oncologist. Coordinates the program of Divine Mothers

Psycho-oncologist and family mediator. Her profession is also a passion. She herself suffered from cancer twice. Experience helps her a lot in contact with people who are ill and their relatives.

Łukasz Kościuczuk

The Rak’n’Roll Foundation | Fundraiser

Fundraiser. Co-author of fundraising campaigns such as „Nie ma Rak’n’Rolla bez procentów”, „Pijani życiem”. Also co-creator of social campaigns inter alia „Autyzm wprowadza zmysły w błąd” involving actor Bartek Topa. Social psychologist. Runner & cyclist.

Agata Kryś

The Rak’n’Roll Foundation | Optimizes technological processes & creating graphics

A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Łódź. She likes to create a shinkansen, not to ordinary trains. Invite you to create together a new shinkansen in our tasks spaces.

Jarosław Zieliński

Welastic | Head of Delivery and Trainings

Jaroslaw Zielinski is an IT consultant with 20 years of professional experience. He is currently developing his own company Welastic as the CEO and Head of Delivery and Trainings. He has worked on around 40 projects related to computer networks, the private and public cloud, migration to the cloud and monitoring of IT infrastructure. His responsibility is to support customers on their road to the cloud using cloud adoption patterns. He works as a trainer, IT architect and academic lecturer. Jarek is a speaker at conferences and an author of expert articles. He calls himself an enthusiast of the IoT, smart homes and good coffee.

Andrzej Pomirski

Amazon | Software Development Engineer

Software Engineer at Alexa Offline TTS, I have been working at Amazon for over 5 years teaching computers to speak, briefly staying in Cambridge, UK to help create a cloud-connected security camera (Amazon Cloud Cam). Currently working on neural networks for speech synthesis. Just graduated Gdansk University of Technology with Master's Degree. Outside of work I like to fly gliders, also very keen on night driving.

Monika Czokajło

BGK | Strategic Advisory Manager

Monika is an experienced sustainability advisor. Having scientific background in the area of climate change, she had been leading climate and energy projects in WWF and then joined sustainability consulting teams in PwC and Deloitte. Currently working in BGK as strategic advisory manager. Passionate about education and social innovation, she served as a mentor of many youth social projects carried out by both individuals and teams.

Sylwia Migdał

WWF Poland | Marine Conservation Specialist

Sylwia Migdał works at WWF Poland as a Marine Conservation Specialist. The focus of her work concerns marine litter, especially derelict fishing gear (DFG, ghost nets) and its impact on the marine environment. She has been involved in the MARELITT Baltic project (one of the first international initiatives aiming at finding a systemic solution to DFG problem) as a coordinator of work package regarding DFG search and retrieval operations. She’s particularly interested in marine biodiversity and wildlife conservation.

Marek Multan

PKP Informatyka | Manager

Manager and engineer with over 20 years of experience in the area of ​​IT, finance, startups, investments and restructuring. A graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology and the University of Warsaw, he studied civil engineering at the University of Sheffield, obtained an EMBA title from the University of Illinois. Professionally associated with PKP Informatyka, where he is responsible, among others for international projects and the development of research and innovation, including those related to door-to-door mobility. In the past, vice president of an investment fund and advisor to VC funds investing, among others, in in IT startups, he was also a business angel and investor in IT startups. He implemented one of the first in Poland audio and video streaming solutions on the Internet and for mobile phones, and a number of solutions in the area of ​​e-commerce. For 8 years he was a member of the management board and financial director in several IT companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. He is also a licensed property manager. He is involved in social activities, he is, among others member of the Audit Committee of the British Alumni Society.

Magdalena Wrońska

Gorrion Software House | CLO

Magda is an experienced law expert working with multiple IT and eCommerce companies, startups, and small businesses. She is currently working as a Chief Legal Officer in the Gorrion Software House.

Antonina Konarzewska

Fundacja WWF Polska | Circular Economy Specialist

Antonina is an experienced circular economy specialist, with a strong focus especially on plastic packaging waste, working at WWF Poland. Antonina has experience working in IKEA's Sustainability Team, and she has been involved in scientific works around marine litter and plastic pollution (at the University of Warsaw, University of Houston-Downtown, University of Malta, University of Porto).

Katarzyna Deresz

WWF Poland | Fundraising Manager

I have gained my professional experience in marketing and advertising sales, my specialization is digital marketing. I am creative person with the strong building relationship skills. Achieving goals, completing projects, driving solutions and gaining new experience motivates me.

Jacek Jabłonka

juniorjavadeveloper.pl | Mentor, Trainer - from zero to Junior Java Developer

People are most important for me, technology is just a tool. I'm a problem solver type of guy. I have over 12 years of experience related to computers, internet, and Java programming language. I was working as a Software Engineer. I have experience as a tutor. I like working with people, teaching, and helping others is my passion.

Anna Brudek

Talent Alpha

I am a UX Designer with more than 3 years of experience and a co-founder of Juicy UX organisation. I am an enthusiast of Product Management and Design Thinking.

Tomasz Pietrucha

Sii Polska | Software Developer

Tomasz has 7 years of experience in software development in a variety of sectors such as: loans, healthcare and e-commerce. Tomasz has experience with creating technical documentation, designing and developing new functionalities and covering code with proper tests. Tomasz is oriented mostly for development as Front-end developer, but also has experience with backend technologies.

Klaudia Purchała-Przybyła

Kruk S.A.

Professionally Project Manager.I like it when the schedule is on time, the plan is implemented and "things are happening". Working with people, coordinating events, combining threads, making events go on in a fixed mode - this is my quintessence of everyday life. I know how difficult it can be to gain new knowledge, that's why I tirelessly care about my own and others' development. I am a fan of all kinds of knowledge, The guardian of tasks performed on time, passionate about new challenges. I value well a structured calendar, great books, and also lazy afternoons.

Wojciech Walczak

Sii | Senior Software Engineer

Experienced software engineer with background in pharma, finances & startups

Tomasz Zagórowicz

ABB | DevOps Engineer

"Automating stuff for IoT/Cloud Platform project in ABB. On daily basis, taking care about removing complexity and obstacles from others, with maintaining scalability of project. Big fan of IaC approach. Out of work usually update wetware with data about cognitive science, different cultures and history… or Cthulhu stuff"

Kacper Szmigiel

Freelancer | Backend Developer

I have been programming since I reach the keyboard. During my high school days I was fascinated by electronics, but today I mainly solve backend problems. Working in several Polish and foreign companies, I got to know Python and Django in depth, and this year I developed this framework during the Google Summer of Code. Apart from programming, I am involved in various social initiatives, such as Hackespace Łódź, I am also the chairman of the university organization (NZS). I study Applied Computer Science at the Lodz University of Technology.

Zbigniew Wiliński

The Polish Financial Supervision Authority | Director of the FinTech Department

The Polish Financial Supervision Authority | Director of the FinTech Department A graduate of the University of Wroclaw and the University of Economics. A long-time employee of Polish tax authorities. Between 2016 and 2019 he was managing the Standard Audit File for VAT Tax project for the Ministry of Finance. He was responsible for the project and for that was awarded with the Poland Chapter of the Year (PMI) prize. He was also managing the MinFinTech project in the field of innovative IT tools, engaging start-ups and improving the operation of the National Revenue Administration. The project was conducted in the framework of GOVTECH Poland Programme, where he was also a mentor and ambassador. He was a lecturer at the Tax&Customs; Academy and the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution, where he was focusing on the aspects of tax audit, OSINT, e-commerce and tax fraud.

Krzysztof Marczak

UKNF | Acting Manager

Head of the Strategy, Analysis and Monitoring of Financial Innovations Team in the UKNF. Business practitioner, manager, expert in innovation, strategy, research and development, analyst. Psychologist by profession, PhD student at SGH. The main area of professional and scientific interest is innovation, in particular the financial market, modern ICT technologies and corporate strategies. Author of many industry reports and analyses, co-author of enterprise business strategies. He has experience in the field of submitting project initiatives, management and coordination of innovative strategic projects (e.g. based on blockchain technology). An employee of units responsible for research and development. Member of research teams in projects for incl. SGH, IBE, MORP, WUP, Ministry of Development. ISO 27001 standard auditor.

Maciej Kurzajewski

The Polish Financial Supervision Authority | Deputy Director

Deputy Director, Enforcement Department – Polish Financial Supervision Authority (Urząd Komisji Nadzoru Finansowego). Previously, Advisor to the Chair of KNF Board, responsible for Fintech area and new trends on the financial market. He has been associated with supervision institutions of financial markets in Poland since 2001. He has almost 20 years of professional experience in capital markets, including 12 years of managerial experience. His main focus is related in particular to the capital market regulations and brokerage services. He actively participated in legislative work preparing draft legislation regarding trading of financial instruments, including works such as: implementing MiFID and MiFID II in the Polish legal system. Author of several publications dedicated to the capital market e.g.: “Brokerage Services”, “Rights and Duties of client of investment firm”, “Investor Compensation Scheme”, “Profit and risk on Forex market” and “Compliance in Financial Institution”. As a participant or as a lecturer he took part in a dozens of seminars, training courses and conferences dedicated to the capital markets. Member of the examination committee for tied agents of investment firms and examination committee for investment advisers. He also was a representative of KNF at ESMA’s and IOSCO’s committee on market intermediaries.

Zbigniew Baranowski

Ministry of Finance | Minister’s Advisor in the Department of Tax Collection

Minister’s Advisor in the Department of Tax Collection, Ministry of Finance; innovation leader in the Ministry of Finance, ambassador of GovTech Poland Programme, organised under the wings of Chancellery of Prime Minister’s office. Experienced tax authority official. Expert in both procedural and material tax regulations. Academic teacher and active lecturer in Tax & Customs Academy. One of leading consultants in „VATMAN” project aimed against tax fraud and evasion, executed by National Revenue Administration. Analitician working on perfecting polish tax system. Project Manager, making SupTech real, working hard on developing crucial tools and applications supporting everyday work of tax authorities.

Krzysztof Śledzikowski

Ministry of Finance | Analyst

Konrad Miciuła

Ministerstwo Finansów | Main Specialist

Analyst, ETL Developer, trainer. Passionate about modern technologies and automation of work. With over 15 years of experience in system administration, databases, programming and computer forensics. Always looking for better, simpler and more optimal solutions. Genuinely excited about using open source software to create professional outcomes.

Marcin Skrzypczuk

UKNF | Ekspert

Long Time employer of the Tax Service, currently Analytics Manager in KNF. Experienced trainer in tax administration on topics related to IT tools supporting tax control. Multiple participant and lecturer in exchange program experiences of tax administrations of the European Union countries - FISCALIS. Educated developer. Author of many programs and scripts within the Tax Administration.

Jan Ziomek

Urząd Komisji Nadzoru Finansowego | Team manager

Attorney at law by profession. He work for over 3 years in the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (Urząd Komisji Nadzoru Finansowego) including 2 years with the FinTech department. He is responsible especially for Innovation Hub Programme and the Special Task Force for Financial Innovation in Poland.

Sylwia Mrózek

BGK | Servicedesk Manager

Servicedesk manager. She deals with employees, solving day to day problems. Sylwia has previously held several servicedesk realted positions in public companies. She graduated from Warsaw School of Economics, with master degrees in finance and accounting and project management.

Jakub Derulski

UKNF | Chief Specialist

Studied, then studied more and harder, then worked and still working.

Dariusz Kuszyński

BGK | Senior .NET Developer

Darek has 7 years of experience as a .NET developer. He worked for TVP and for the REGENERSIS insurance company. For two years he has been successfully implementing projects for BGK. Darek specializes in back-end, front-end and SQL technologies. A fan of computer games and programming.

Kamil Wysocki

BGK | Senior .NET Developer

I have 5 years of experience in software development. I work in many aspects of this issue - desing, developing, testing, creating technical documentation and deploying applications. I know .NET Core/.NET Framework, Angular 2+, Entity Framework, Dapper and SQL Server.

Filip Kołodziejczyk

UKNF | Senior Specialist

Adwokat, który interesuje się prawem rynków kapitałowych, prawem nowych technologii oraz grami/Advocate, interested in capital markets law, new technologies law and gaming.

Bartłomiej Jarosz

Ten Square Games | Unity Developer

Hi, I'm a game developer with 5 years of experience in Unity. I'm graduated from Wroclaw University of Technology and now I'm a student and lecturer at University of Lower Silesia. I have knowledge about VR, multiplayer, mobile optimisation and some other Unity deep stuff. I'm in love with gamejams and my student club - TK Games. Currently I'm working in Ten Square Games.

Marlena Olszewska

GE Healthcare | Application Operations Engineer

In my career life, I have always been somewhere between technology and business: studying Computer Science but also pursing degree in Strategic Management; testing forecasting algorithms and trying to understand the business case behind them; analyse and visualize data while driving process improvements and leading company’s initiatives and projects. I'm keen on data analysis and looking for improvement opportunities in business processes. My role requires understanding business priorities, getting to the real source of the problem and preparing effective solution. My life motto: ""People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Marcin Wylot

Data Scientist / AI Expert

Marcin Wylot is a Data Scientist, Machine Learning & BigData Consultant, and AI Advisor with almost 20 years of experience in industry and academia. Currently, he works on projects in healthcare, renewable energy, and fintech. He helps various international companies in building their AI-powered products and in preparing for their data transformations. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Berlin and a senior researcher at Fraunhofer FOKUS. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 2015. He graduated with a master's degree in computer science at the University of Lodz in Poland in 2010, doing part of his studies at the University of Lyon in France. During his studies, he was also gaining professional experience working full time in various industrial companies. Homepage: https://mwylot.net

Wael Naguib

HSBC | Architect

Technologist with 14 years of experience in IT, leading large scale enterprise projects; long journey from software development to architecture, worked in different software houses and technology corporates e.g. Vodafone…since 2014 with HSBC, technology stack breadth in Cloud architecture (Azure, GCP [Professional Cloud Architect]), DevSecOps, chatbots, Web development, Application architecture, Mobile architecture, .Net development, Application security, CI/CD, Agile, team leading, and automation testing. Participated in a couple of Hackathons as member, mentor, and Judge. The latest are HSBC Global virtual hackathon 2019, Technovation Families 2019-2020, and Technovation Girls Judging 2020. I believe that everyone has his own unique talent, your job is to dig deeper and find it out. Life is tough, you should know how to tackle this to achieve your goals; discipline is the magic key. Don't fear from failure, and don't quit because failure is the first step for success.

Aleksander Włodarczyk

SKN .NET PŁ | CEO

Third year IT student in Lodz University of Technology. Helps with managing .NET Science Club. Works as VR&AR developer in Virtual Software House for about 3 years.

Krzysztof Tańcula

BlitzFUND / sembot.io | Project Manager

Project manager at Sembot/BlitzFUND startups factory, founder of PrzeKarpacie Foundation working in a startups field and 1st realtime marketing agency Momentalna. Former tech-journalist and PR specialist with a mission to help companies launch succesfully.

Łukasz Maj

Pega | System Architect

Lukasz gained his education at IT technical college, the Cracow University of Technology and the CISCO academy, which he graduated with scholarships for the best graduates. Leader of the winning team in the EU project called "Competences as a key path to career", a Google scholarship holder. His team took third place at the first edition of "HackYeah" hackathon - the largest stationary hackathon in Europe and also first place in the business category and third place in the technical category of the "MinFinTech" hackathon organized by polish government. Most importantly, all of his team's projects created as part of hackathons were later implemented in polish state systems. For over 2 years he ran his own business, after which he became involved with the company Aplikacje Krytyczne, software house of the Ministry of Finance. His role was to create software for eliminating the VAT loophole in Poland, which was a great success. To this day, he is associated with working for Poland as a contractor, bringing both technical and business knowledge. He also works as a System Architect at the American company called Pegasystems.

Karol Szymański

PKO Bank Polski | Startup Partnership Expert

"With 9 years of experience in project management in the field of implementing innovative solutions in the banking sector, including Laboratory Branches of PKO Bank Polski, the Innovation Center of PKO Bank Polski, PKO Junior and a durable medium for Blockchain. One of the initiators of work on blockchain technology and searching for its practical applications with PKO Bank Polski. Co-creator of the acceleration program ""Let's Fintech with PKO Bank Polski"" and Product Owner of the team responsible for the process of implementing innovation and cooperation with the startup environment under this program."

Przemysław Piątek

ABB | Fullstack Software Engineer

I am fullstack software engineer working at ABB Cloud Platform team focused on developing rich web applications for IoT solutions in technologies like Angular, .NET Core, NodeJS.

Mateusz Hoffman

ABB | R&D Group Leader / FE Development Team Lead

Technical speaker, blogger (http://zakodowany.pl), R&D manager and frontend developer. Delivering innovative web solutions that supports Industry 4.0 in ABB Ability™️. Passionate about cloud computing (Microsoft Azure), IoT and web development (working mostly with Angular, React, Node.js and ASP.NET). Privately, fan of productivity techniques, Asian Cuisine and ‘60s music.

Tomasz Żmuda

LABz // Smart Lunch | Innovation, Bussines & Product Designer

I Design products and services, with solid knowledge in fintech (innovation hub), for the B2B segment. I am an ardent supporter of agile. Constantly on the trail of an ideal design process, a fan of design thinking, a supporter of honest business-user relations. A Patient Experience advocate with experience in ehealth. As a mentor and lecturer, I teach digital ux students. At the same time, as a consultant, I work on validating business ideas in the free market. Starting from websites, through e-commerce, to start-up MVPs. I come from the creative industry, life has modified my career path and ""anchored"" as a specialist and consultant for usability and processes in digital products / services. Additionally, since the beginning of the year I have been honored as a fledgling podcaster (junior podcast specialist) in Digital Science Podcast, which fills me with a mixture of joy, enthusiasm and anxiety during the publication of each episode. I’m happy to share my knowledge, you can find my publications in the industry magazines: UX Magazyn and Product Design Magazine

Paweł Łukaszuk

.NET Software Developer, Speaker, Trainer

Software developer with over 10 years of experience. Specialist in web technologies built with .NET platform and novice security engineer. Big fan of organization and work automation. He believes that the processes and tools should be adapted to the situation and the cargo cult is one of the biggest problems of the IT world. Recently, he regularly performs at meetups and conferences. During weekends teaches next generation of programmers.

Maciej Kowalski

OPI PIB | Tech Lead

Tech lead with over 10 years of experience working with java technologies on research/semi-research projects, where one can put ai/ml knowledge into use. You can find me on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maciej-kowalski-9868268a/

Mateusz Kułach

ING Bank Śląski | Senior CyberSec Expert

Over 10 years in IT Security, Infra/Net/App Security monitoring, Red/Blue...

Piotr Chmielewski

WWF Polska | Nature Conservation Specialist

Piotr Chmielewski works as Nature Conservation Specialist in WWF Poland and he is the national coordinator of the projects „LIFE EUROLARGECARNIVORES: Improving human coexistence with large carnivores in Europe through communication and transboundary cooperation” and LIFE SWiPE ""Successful Wildlife Crime Prosecution in Europe". Piotr Chmielewski is also PhD candidate at the Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw. His dissertation project concerns “Social dimensions of human-wildlife conflicts between wolves and local communities in Poland”.

Wojciech Puzio

Hycom | Frontend Developer

I am interested in cyber-security and PC capabilities development. In my free time I like to shoot on the shooting range, play e-sport games and cook ????

Łukasz Wroński

Purple Deer Software Studio | CEO

Starting my IT career as a software developer I quickly became CEO of a successful software house. Now as an experienced consultant I've started a new agency to help startups and scaleups grow with bespoke software products crafted by our team.