Speakers 5. Data Economy Congress

For more than 3 years as Director of Innovation iBusiness Excellence, he and his team of experts, among others, have been building and supporting business intelligence processes at AstraZeneca. He is responsible for business analytics, BI reporting, as well as data science projects.

Previously Data Driven Marketing Director at Gtupa Żywiec SA, and manager at Pandora CEE responsible for digitalization and e-commerce.

He also gained experience in the financial sector in Digital marketing and later in business transformation.

For over 10 years, she has specialized in developing and implementing digital transformation strategies for enterprises. She has designed advanced solutions based on data analytics and highly scalable data platforms. The projects she has delivered across various industries, coupled with her extensive experience, enable her to effectively transform organizations of any size towards a “data-driven” model. Currently, she leads Data Enablement Department at T-Mobile Poland, where she is responsible for enhancing the organization’s data maturity, implementing data governance program and democratizing access to data. She is a speaker at key industry conferences such as the Data Economy Congress, CDO Forum. Additionally, she is a member of the CDOs & CIOs Committee at the Data Economy Congress and the Program Council of the CDO Forum. She also lectures at the Tech MBA program at AGH University of Science and Technology and Kozminski University.

Agnieszka Kobylańska – Director of the Data Governance Bureau at BNP Paribas Bank Polska SA, Chief Data Officer.
For years connected with banking and finance, previously worked for Bank Millennium SA , Polbank EFG, Raiffeisen Bank Polska. She has based her development and career on experience in operational management in large structures, participation in strategic projects, often related to bank mergers, and in recent years, she has turned her attention to data management. For years, she has acted as a ‘liaison’ between Business and IT, where she applies her operational and business experience and knowledge of successful IT project implementation.
She says that the key to success in data management is to take a holistic approach to the subject and combine product, process and technology knowledge. As CDO, she is responsible for developing the ‘data ecosystem’ so that it becomes more and more important asset for building competitive advantage. In practice, this is expressed by building business processes that support high data quality, ensuring good communication and combining modern technology with the growing needs of the business.

Dr Krzysztof Korus is an attorney with a doctorate in law, and an economist. He is an expert on payment services, new technologies law, and banking law. Every year since 2015, he has been listed as a recommended lawyer in Chambers Europe in the Banking & Finance category (“strong experience in banking regulatory matters”, “deep knowledge and long experience”). He is a pioneer in advising on regulatory issues for the fintech sector in Poland. Among the issues he has advised on are implementation of PSD2 and opening banking, and he has advised on several dozen cases before financial market regulators in Poland and in Europe, on M&A deals on the fintech market, and on court litigation and arbitration cases between financial institutions. He has worked in the most important industry working groups for the fintech sector, such as the EC’s API Evaluation Group, the Polish API team, the fintech innovation development working group for the Polish Financial Supervision Authority, the Ministry for Digital Affairs “Blockchain and cryptocurrency” stream in the scheme “From a Paper to a Digital Poland”, and the Financial Market Development Council working group for implementation of the PSD. He co-authored the “Study Impact of the PSD” and “Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law” for the European Commission, and sat on the programming council for the monthly “Banking Law Monitor”. He is a member of the European Payments Consulting Association, and has worked with the Polish-German Banking Law Centre and London Economics. He has written several dozen publications, legal analyses, and commentaries and spoken at numerous industry events in Poland, Europe, the US, and Asia. He is involved in legislative work at the Polish and EU level.

Łukasz has over 20 years of professional experience, which includes comprehensive consulting services in the implementation of IT projects, digital transformations, and the deployment of innovative technological solutions that support business processes. He was responsible for business development and the sale of IT solutions, including billing solutions, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems (SAP, Oracle, IFS), integration solutions, reporting, and control systems. He was also responsible for building implementation and sales structures and delivering IT solutions for the energy market. During his career, he has implemented projects for the energy, gas, manufacturing, service, and commercial sectors.

CEO of Synerise – AI & BigData Company – 17th fastest growing technology company in Europe according to Financial Times in 2022. Lecturer & Researcher at AGH University of Science&Technology. Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Investor. CEO and co-owner of Wisla Krakow Football Club – one of the oldest and most titled Polish Football Club – founded in 1906. During his professional career, he used to work for/with Fortune 500 companies and got numerous prestigious national and international awards with the Synerise Team, including, among other things: Laureate of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 – 2021,2022 Edition; Winner @ ACM RecSys Twitter Challenge 2021, 2nd place; Winner @ ACM KDD Cup, OGB-LSC 2021, 3rd place; Winner @ ACM WSDM Booking.com Data Challenge 2021, 2nd place; Winner @ SIGIR eCom Rakuten Data Challenge 2020, 1st place; Title of one of the 30 most promising technology entrepreneurs in the world according to Ernst and Young 2018; Special Award in EY Entrepreneur of the Year Contest 2018; AGH University of Science of Technology 100th anniversary Award 2018; Digital Shaper Award 2018, Polish President Startup Award; Poland AI Person of The Year 2019; CEE x-Tech Awards 2019 – AI Innovation of the Year; EU Leading Innovator by Google, Res Publica and the Financial Times; Microsoft Partner of the Year 2017,2018,2019.

Since 2010 he has been a lecturer and researcher at the AGH University of Science and Technology (two faculties) in Krakow, where he co-founded (at the age of 23) award-winning courses and full-time program studies of his authorship from scratch, including; Social Informatics, E-Economy (the most innovative system of study in Poland in 2012 according to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education) and Digital Marketing. He is an ambassador of the AGH brand and a mentor in the Gov Polish Development Fund network. He graduated from two fields of study (computer science and sociology) and is currently working on an interdisciplinary Ph.D. He has participated in many conferences and is a guest lecturer at Polish and foreign universities. Together with partners, he rolled out Ph.D. Data Science Studies in Poznan. He is also the author of publications, including bestsellers, inter alia published as part of the PWN Scientific Publishers. He is the founder and creator of the AI School Program and Academy for schools and kindergartens rolled out in 2019 in Poland. Co-author of the first, the fastest, and the most significant crowdfunding action in the CEE region.

Deputy Chairman of Management Board, Chief Risk Officer of mBank S.A., Chairman of the Supervisory
Boards of the Commercial Banks Institutional Protection System S.A., mTFI S.A., mBank Hipoteczny S.A.
and an Assistant Professor at the SGH Institute of Banking.
He has over 25 years of international banking experience acquired at Bank Handlowy S.A., UniCredit
Group and Bank Pekao S.A., where he was, among others, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Risk Officer.
In 2014, he was awarded the title of Future Leader in Global Finance by the Institute of International
Finance in Washington, DC.
PhD in Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), alumnus of INSEAD and University of
Illinois (EMBA), B.Sc. in Computer Engineering.

Dominika Rogalinska, has held managerial positions at Statistics Poland since 2007 – most recently, from June 2023, as Director of the Innovation Department. She has many years of experience in the implementation of statistical surveys, methodological and conceptual work on the development of spatial statistics. In addition, she coordinates the implementation of innovation in Polish official statistics through modernization projects and internal development programs, such as recently launched Data Science Academy.
She holds a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Warsaw, and is a PhD candidate at the Warsaw School of Economics. Dominika Rogalińska is a member of the Committee for Spatial Economy and Regional Planning of the Polish Academy of Science.

CEO with over 20 years of experience in senior management positions in large organisations. Currently President and CEO of CANAL+ Polska, responsible for the strategic transformation of traditional pay TV to the Internet (IPTV and OTT). Previously associated with Ringier Axel Springer Polska as President of the Management Board, where she successfully led the digital transformation of the press segment to the Internet and significantly expanded the business with new digital revenue streams. A visionary and leader with strong skills in managing large and complex teams of people, with a high ability to motivate and develop teams while maximising financial metrics.

The Director of the Primary Market Department at the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), responsible for acquiring new issuers for the markets operated by the WSE, maintaining relationships with issuers, and implementing selected strategic projects of the WSE, including the ESG Data Hub project. She has over 24 years of broad professional experience gained in the financial market. Throughout her career, she has focused on developing business areas in financial institutions, primarily in banks, investment firms, and investment fund companies. She has managed numerous projects, creating and implementing corporate and communication strategies. She is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and Kozminski University in Warsaw. She is a member of the Project Management Institute, an international non-profit organization bringing together professionals from the project management industry. She is also an ambassador for Green Project Management, an organization promoting sustainable project management practices worldwide. Her mission is to transform strategic concepts into real, measurable results, taking into account the values and needs of stakeholders.

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Director of the Financial Institutions Market, responsible for the product offer and cooperation of BIK with banks, leasing and factoring companies.

He has over 10 years of professional experience in mortgage banking in the area of credit analysis and risk management, gained, among others, at in the PKO BP bank and in the Danish bank Nykredit RealKredit A/S.

Enthusiast of new technologies, innovative solutions and sport. At BIK, he identifies business opportunities and leads innovative projects.

Currently, he manages development work in the field of BIK solutions supporting the banking sector in the ESG area.