Speakers 4. Data Economy Congress

Leader, manager and architect with over 20 years of experience in digital transformation in financial and manufacturing organizations.

He has extensive professional experience in performing the functions of:

• CIO of the bank,
• director of business strategy areas,
• program and project portfolio management,
• digitization of processes.

He gained the above experience in oil & gas companies, as well as in the consulting, banking and central government industries.
Currently, he is responsible for the digitization of refinery and petrochemical production in one of the largest companies in Europe.

Emil Andryszczyk is a promoter of an organized approach to the transformation of organizations based on:

• business process automation – BPA,
• intelligent IT tools and employee competences.

He believes that through the use of modern technologies, data platforms, AI and ML, companies face a unique opportunity to create value and competitive advantage based on data.

Manager who understands the value of data in making business decisions. She has experience in developing direct customer communication strategies, evaluating marketing effectiveness and supporting sales. Throughout her career, she has worked in the fields of banking, loyalty programs, retail, and e-commerce. With her knowledge of cloud solutions and data engineering environments, she collaborates with both business and IT teams, as well as executive management. Her experience includes leading data science and analytics teams, where she excels in leveraging data to gain actionable insights and optimize decision-making processes through machine learning and AI techniques.

Development Manager and Business Intelligence Architect at EBIS, specializing in designing and implementing advanced analytical solutions using Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and Microsoft Azure. With over 10 years of experience in the data field and extensive knowledge of tools, he creates advanced solutions that enhance the efficiency of decision-making processes within organizations.

He is a co-founder of the Krakow Power BI & Fabric User Group and a regular speaker at industry conferences, where he shares his knowledge on the latest technologies and trends in data analysis.

A graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics, she has completed postgraduate studies at the French Institute of Management and Strategic Leadership Academy at the ICAN Institute.

She has worked at Adamed Pharma since 2010. She is responsible for the company’s global activities in the area of: Public Relations, Public Affairs, ESG, as well as the development and implementation of the reimbursement strategy for Adamed Pharma products.

She is a Co-founder and Member of the Management Board of the Adamed Foundation, whose flagship programme is ADAMED SmartUP, a programme for young people gifted in exact and natural sciences. She is the Vice President of the Management Board of the Polish Association of Pharmaceutical Industry Employers – Medicines for Poland. At the Polish Business Roundtable, she is the PBR Board’s Proxy for Promotion of Entrepreneurship. She is a Member of the Advisory Board for Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility of the Maria Grzegorzewska University and a Member of the Business Council of the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw. In 2024, she was selected 5. of the 50 most influential women in the health care system in Poland by the “Rynek Zdrowia” website.

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.

She has been associated with the renewable energy industry and PGE PGE Energia Odnawialna for 10 years. As a graduate of geodesy at the Warsaw University of Technology and geography at the University of Warsaw, she started as a GIS analyst. As drone technology developed and its increasing use for blade inspections, its area of ​​interest moved towards the operation of turbines. Currently, she is responsible for maintaining the wind turbine blades of the PGE Energia Odnawialna fleet in operational condition. From inspection to repair planning. She completed the GWO Blade Repair and IRATA rope access courses to be able to fully understand the technology and participate in the repairs performed. Thanks to the combined point of view of the manager and the technician, she knew what applications would speed up and improve field work. This directly translated into a positive effect of cooperation with PGE Systemy and enabled the creation of the BIMS (Blade Inspection Management System) application.

Karol joined Visa nearly 6 years ago. He is the co-founder of the Visa Data Science Lab in Central and Eastern Europe. Karol has over 12 years’ experience of the banking sector. He specialises in the use of data to build and implement new solutions and support business decisions in both the banking and payment industries. He promotes advanced data usage techniques, especially in model building, propensity testing and forecasting.
Karol is a data enthusiast who graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics with a degree in Quantitative Methods in Economics and Information Systems.

An expert with nearly 20 years of experience in IT consulting, sales, and business process consulting. Over the years, she has collaborated with leading organizations, successfully delivering numerous projects in the Data & Analytics domain. She specializes in leveraging data to create innovative solutions that support companies in their digital transformation. Karolina is passionate about sharing her knowledge, helping businesses unlock the full potential of data to achieve strategic market advantages.

Medical Doctor. Managing Director of the Polish Hospital Federation, the largest hos-pital organization in Poland. Leader of „AI Coalition in Healthcare” for Poland. Co-founder and Chair of the Board in Data Lake and Donate your Data Foundation. Listed among „100 most influential people in Polish healthcare” for the last 4 years, laureate of “25 under 25” and „30 under 30” Forbes list. Held managerial positions in leading polish medical startups. Speaker and moderator at the most important conferences related to the healthcare sector.

Business psychologist, Certified business and intermentoring trainer, Business Coach, Certified AC/DC Assessor. CEO of EXACT Coaching & Business. An experienced manager in managing development and HR departments in international companies. Since 2007, she has been cooperating with management staff in companies, implementing development projects for managers and teams and ensuring a culture of innovation. She designs dedicated programs for multidisciplinary teams in change and restructuring processes. Expert in the following topics: management, sales, change process, communication and negotiations, multigenerationality, managerial coaching, mental health, personal competences, intermentoring, Design Thinking in creating unique products and services. Trainer and author of innovative business development projects. Business partner.

Pamela Krzypkowska is an expert in digitization, with extensive experience in artificial intelligence and new technologies. She currently serves as the Director of the Research and Innovation Department at the Ministry of Digital Affairs, where she leads the strategy for responsible digitization of Poland in the AI era.
Previously, she worked as an AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, where she was responsible for leading flagship AI projects for the company’s largest clients in Poland. Her work at Microsoft spanned a broad range of activities, from MLOps to the development and implementation of models, as well as working with generative models. In addition to her professional work, Pamela is actively involved in educational activities. She lectures at the Kozminski University and the Warsaw University of Technology, actively sharing her knowledge and experience. Her classes are highly regarded due to her ability to convey complex topics in an accessible manner.

Sales Director of Key Projects at Asseco Data Systems — eID, eIDAS expert

A graduate of the Lazarski University. Vice-President and Expert of the PIiT Digital Administration Committee, Vice-President and Member of the Board of the Digital Poland Association. For almost 20 years, he has been associated with the issues of public key architecture (PKI), including electronic signatures. Current interests include trust and eIDAS services resulting from eIDAS regulation as well as digital transformation and paperless processes. He co-founded one of the qualified Certification Centers in Poland and participated in key IT projects in the field of identification and authentication. He joined Asseco Data Systems in June 2016.

Robert Pławiak – Since November 2022 as Chief Digital&Technology&Information Office in Polpharma, Poland. He is responsible for all aspects of digitalization, and technology areas of IT&OT processes in the most significant pharma manufactures. In the last four years (2018-2022), as the President and Group CIO, he implemented many changes in business processes in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. He contributed to the construction of a new system for the distribution of vaccines against COVID-19 in Poland, and optimized business processes based on implementing and modernizing IT solutions, including WMS, TMS, and ERP. In the Pelion Group, he was responsible for M&A processes and completed the transfer of the management of the Swedish pharmacy network and the IT ecosystem to Poland.
Additionally, Robert is involved in expanding NGO in Poland as President of the IT LEADER CLUB POLSKA foundation. During the last ten years, was established well knows IT Academy for public sector employees that can graduate MBA level. He is a graduate of the computer systems course at the Military Technical Academy in Warsaw and MBA studies at the Warsaw School of Economics. In 2022 he finished studies at Cambridge University School in the field of Digital Disruption Transformation and Strategy. He has broad management and leadership experience reaching nearly 20 years in insurance, banking, leasing, pharmacy, and healthcare. It was gained by managing computerization processes and projects, cybersecurity, and building and deploying IT strategy in insurance and financial state institutions in Poland.
In his career so far, Robert Pławiak was related, among others, to the PZU Group (PZU SA, PZU Życie SA), the EFL Group, Bank Handlowy S.A., Inteligo Financial Services S.A., EFG Eurobank Ergasias S.A. (PolbankEFG brand), FunduszMikro Sp. z o.o. , FM BANK S.A., Raiffeisen Bank Poland S.A. He is also an active member of the PMI International&Polska, ISACA, and ISSA associations, and an active speaker at many IT conferences in Poland organized by PMI, ISACA, ISSA, Puls Biznesu, Rzeczpospolita. In the above companies, Robert Pławiak was developing and implementing IT strategies and team transformations and digital transformations in technology divisions subordinated to him. He was leading and acquiring IT projects on an international scale. Moreover, he was responsible for optimization and increasing cost efficiency in IT. As Chief Information Officer in the EFL Group, he was responsible for the development and implementation of the IT strategy, and IT transformation in the years 2017-2020, as well as the construction and implementation of the corporate architecture strategy and IT sourcing in the companies that are part of the EFL Group.

In 2008 he graduated from Military University of Technology in faculty Cybernetics with specialization in cryptology, with Master’s Degree. He also completed trainings in project management methods PRINCE2 and AgilePM and is ISO/IEC 27001 auditor. He began his professional career in KIR (National Clearing House), then he worked at the IMM (Institute of Mathematical Machines), COI (Center for Informatics Technology) and NASK (Research and Academic Computer Network). Since September 2021 has been working at Asseco Data Systems in Security and Trust Services Division. Since beginning of his career he has been involved in areas of trust services, especially digital signatures, PKI and IT security and electronic identification. He was leading projects to build and deploy polish eIDAS Node and support in supervising polish eID scheme. He was also representative of the Ministry of Digital Affairs in the European Commission work groups related to the area of the eIDAS regulation: eIDAS Technical Subgroup, eIDAS Expert Group, Cooperation Network, European Blockchain Systems Infrastructure. In Asseco Data Systems he continues work on electronic identification systems and on implementing post quantum cryptography in trust services.  He also participates in workgroups concerning trust services and electronic identification organized by European Signature Dialog and Polish Bank Association.

Dominik Rozkrut is the President of Statistics Poland, the President of the International Association for Official Statistics, and a Vice-President of the Polish Statistical Association. He is a member of the European Statistical System Committee, OECD’s Committee on Statistics and Statistics Policy. He is the Bureau Vice-Chair of the UNECE Conference of European Statisticians and the Co-Chair of the UNECE High-Level Group on Modernization of Official Statistics. At the UN level, he serves as a Co-Chair of the Working Group on Data Stewardship; he is also engaged in many other groups. He is a member of the ISI Committee on Agricultural Statistics (ISI-CAS). He served as a member of two European Commission Expert Groups: on Business-to-Government (B2G) Data Sharing (2019-2020) and on Facilitating the Use of New Data Sources for Official Statistics (2021-2022). His career began and continues at the Department of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Szczecin. He completed an internship at the University of Massachusetts, Lappeenranta University of Technology, and UNU-MERIT.

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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Mariusz Ustyjańczuk is a partner with more than 15 years of professional experience in risk management and technology-related advisory. In his role, he focuses on the use of modern IT systems to address the ESG needs of business. In recent years he has been very successful in the development of the Risk Advisory practice in Poland and Central Europe, including sustainability & climate, third party risk, cyber, regulatory advisory or financial crime offerings.

Present in the IT Industry for over 15 years.

Creates IT strategies and designs business architectures. His knowledge and competencies cover the full range of current IT aspects: from infrastructure, virtualization, services/cloud and serverless computing, to technology strategy and business transformation. He has proven experience in carrying out complex IT transformations and building comprehensive corporate IT strategies covering various domains.

Advisor to strategic clients in the area of business intelligence and the business application of AI. For 8 years, he has been co-founder of the Elitmind company, a leader in the market of professional data & AI services in Poland, Central and Western Europe and the Middle East, Microsoft Polska Partner of the Year 2023 in AI and Azure. He has been the CEO for two years. A graduate of the Lublin University of Technology, majoring in Engineering Application of Computer Science, speaker at many thematic conferences, especially in the area of energy, finance and controlling.