Speakers

Anna Stach
"The power of minimalism"
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Anna is a trusted People Team leader with experience in partnering with business leaders in times of growth, reorganization and delivering stretched targets.
Anna is passionate about people, communication, and leadership development. She seizes opportunities to overcome challenges and resolve issues, maximizing team members’ performance and productivity.
She holds a master’s degree from the Cracow University of Economics. Extended her knowledge at the University of Victoria in Canada on Business Faculty during the exchange program. She finished Human Resources Management and Coach and Trainer postgraduates’ studies at Tischner European University. Anna is also a certified facilitator.
Anna is engaged in the volunteering work, she is especially thankful for spending the 2018 summer in the Kasisi Africa mission.

Jerzy Stuhr
"Meeting the unknown!"
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Jerzy Stuhr - one of the most outstanding and popular polish actors, known from theater's performances and films like "Amator," "Trzy Kolory," "Wodzirej," "Obywatel Piszczyk", "Kingsajz", „Kiler", "Seksmisja". He is recognized by audiences and critics for his versatility, fitting perfectly in both comedy and dramatic repertoire. Film, theater and even opera director, book author and educator. In 1990-1996 and 2002-2008, he was the rector of the State Higher School of Theater in Cracow. Repeatedly awarded for his film's roles and directed pictures, including Złote Lwy, FIPRESCI, ANICA Flash, OCIC, winner of Złote Kaczki for the best actor of the last 50 years and for the best comedy actor of the last century, Winner of the Polish Film Award - Orzeł. Awarded, among others, Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski and Medal Zasłużony Kulturze – Gloria Artis

Magdalena Petryniak
"The curse of knowledge and how to lift it"
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She believes that "People are influenced to change by people they trust".
Her mission is to help people to hone their communication and connection skills in business and private life.
She is a communication expert and an entrepreneur who started two companies from scratch and created over 50 projects on a national and international scale. She founded her first business – a PR Agency in 2007 and successfully implemented more than 30 PR and lobbying campaigns, including enforcing ban on smoking in public places in Poland.
Currently, she is a charge of Story Seekers, a consulting and training company powered by Mike Bosworth Leadership™ License. Magdalena is a part of global team of coaches and consultants who help managers and business owners in high-tech industries communicate, influence and sell more effectively. For the last 7 years, she has conducted more than 150 projects and workshops for organizations located in the USA, Singapore, UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Norway, Armenia and Poland.

Daria Abramowicz
"The mastery is born in the head"
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Sports psychologist Daria Abramowicz - polish sports psychologist. For many years she has worked with athletes, coaches, sports and business organizations, both in individual and team sports. As a psychologist, she has worked with national teams of cycling and swimming, as well as medalists in championship events in other sport’s disciplines. She is currently supporting Iga Swiatek.

Jan Biela-Abreu
"Learning from an unexpected domain project - my way with Lego Masters"
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Jan is seasoned, people-oriented operational manager, currently in a role of managing director in Engenious company. Started his IT journey more than 16 years ago with many different technical and non-technical roles on the way. Passionate about people development, problem-solving and operational excellence. Privately father of 3 and AFOL (adult fan of LEGO). Running a charity initiative called BrickPirateCharity.

Anna Lichnerowicz
"Emapthy - your superpower"
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For several years she has been involved in empowering migrant women and families to enable them to integrate into the host society, develop their full personal and social potential and build a fulfilling life in their new environment.
She was a participant in the international project "MURAL - Mutual Understanding, Respect and Learning", co-funded by the European Commission under the programme "Rights, Equality and Citizenship". In connection with the MURAL project, she was awarded the statuette LEW - Lider Edukacji Wielokulturowej (Leader in Multicultural Education).

Maciej Antonik
"Is the next Robotic Revolution now?"
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For more than 10 years Maciej has been helping high schools and universities improve their engineering education and accelerate research. He has chosen some of the best automation and robotics system manufacturers from all around the world and delivers their technologies to polish academic institutions.

Wojciech Jamka
"Predict the Unpredicted"
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Wojciech is unconventional physicist who loves connecting with people and work on the verge of cloud, technology, business and finance. He started his career designing hydrogen tanks but quickly he found great passion in data science and data engineering and its relation to business problems. Where he finds no impossible but rather interesting challenges for creative ideas. When not „playing” with data he loves mountain biking and great cuisine not only from tasting but also from cooking side.

Oktawiusz Kacza
"Photography is (not) dead! Watching the invisible..."
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Experienced senior executive with over 20 years of experience in IT, banking and airline industry and demonstrated history of strategic and operational leadership. From the beginning of his career Oktawiusz has been associated with new technologies, innovations and strategic management. Overseeing IT/Operations areas in various managerial roles he gained a strong practice in merges and acquisitions, integration processes and digital transformation. A fun of simplicity and pragmatism. Privately, addicted to rock music and guitar(s), passionate photography amateur and enduro mountain biking hostage.

Magdalena Gondek
“Go with the flow! A personal perspective on why you should start welcoming changes in your life”
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People-oriented leader and a seasoned project and program management passionate with over 14 years of experience in the IT world. For years she has been leading and delivering large-scale projects for the insurance, banking, and travel industry. Currently, she is building and expanding a strategic program management team and supports Women in Technology and the Program Management Community of Practice. In her spare time, she finds room for unleashing her creativity through amateur oil and acrylic painting. Until she becomes a world-famous artist and quits the job to move to a small hut in the mountains, she dedicates her time to many different activities – listening to audiobooks while driving, watching a lot of movies (1600+ reviews on IMDB and counting!), weightlifting at the gym, voluntary service for people and animals in need and finally, raising her 15-year-old daughter to become a decent and caring human being.

Grzegorz Surma
"Do you feel trapped in corporate Matrix"
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Grzegorz is a customer-focused, goal-oriented engineer/manager with experience in bridging the gaps between technology and business.
When not working, Grzegorz likes to deepen his knowledge about history, politics, economics, demographics, and social sciences.

Krzysztof Wróblewski
"Accesible Technology for People with Limitations"
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Krzysztof's principle is that work should be a pleasure. He has more than 14 years of proven experience in creating commercial solutions for the most significant international corporations in the world, including Oracle, ABB, Bank UBS, and SABRE. In addition, Krzysztof is the cofounder of startup Matrix Dynamix in which he serves as CEO, developer, and project architect. He is also the author of the idea for which he obtained a patent: "A hand-mounted controller and how to control devices with such a controller". Member of the "Rozwiń Skrzydła" association, where he taught Lego Mindstorms programming in a local school. Finalist and representative of Poland in the international competition “Meet and Code” 2018 organized by SAP in Germany. He is a fan of Game Dev, WebVr, and Augmented Reality technologies.

Grzegorz Sikora
"Accesible Technology for People with Limitations"
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Over the past 5 years, Grzegorz's experience has been focused on Java Technologies. During this time, he has worked in frontend, backend, and mobile projects across categories like entertainment, currency exchange, and privilege management. He always strives to deliver business value quickly and at the highest level of quality. In addition to programming, he likes to project the visual layer and design corporate identity.