Speakers of the 1st edition of Data Economy Congress

I have 28 years of banking experience. I worked for HVB Group in Poland and Germany (4 years) and for Unicredit group (10 years). Since 11 years I am member of successful team changing largest polish Bank (PKO Bank Polski – check out our performance over this period). Every place I have been working I am perceived as somebody who dreams BIG and ACTS with success. I have broad experience starting from accounting, controlling, planning, market price risk controlling, CRM, Data analytics, Contact Center management, Self-service channels (mobile and internet), operational crm system for sellers, sales management, product development and much more. I was leader of the merger with Nordea Bank Polska in terms of retail business.I have participated in creation of the last 3 strategies of PKO Bank Polski. In PKO Bank Polski I am leader of strategic program of the advanced analytics.

Dominika Bettman, from December 2021 General Manager of Microsoft in Poland. For 26 years associated with Siemens Sp. z o.o. (the last years as CEO).
Entrepreneur, advocate of new technologies and sustainable business. Graduate of Faculty of Foreign Trade at Warsaw School of Economics and Advanced Management Program at IESE in Barcelona. Economist by education, humanist by nature. Propagator of the idea of diversity and inclusive leadership. Active participant in the public debate on digital transformation of the economy and society. Author of the book “Technological Magnolias”.

Profile/Background

Diego is a Consulting Partner at PwC UK with 20+ years of experience in Corporate Strategy, Performance Improvement and Transformation in Financial Services.

Industry Expertise

Diego provides strategic advice and implementation services to Insurance and Asset Management organisations looking to modernise their Finance and Operations. He is part of PwC’s CFO, Global IFRS and Operational Excellence Advisory Groups. He also leads Cloud Enablement and Digitalisation propositions in the UK. Diego is an independent Board Advisor and NED to external organisations.

Previously, Diego held several commercial, technical and operational leadership roles as a Group Change and Transformation Director (Technology and Business change), Divisional Deputy CFO and Deputy COO in industry (FTSE 100 and 250) and as managing director at boutique strategy consulting across FMCG, Engineering, Insurance and Investments/Asset Management. He has worked in the UK, Spain and several other European markets, the US and Latin America. These roles involved translating business strategy into action, leading change activities and innovation, and driving growth for large corporate and private equity organisations.

External Activities

Diego is a Fellow Global Chart Management Accountant (FCMA CGMA), Cloud Computing and Data Engineer and member of the Association of Management Consultants in the UK (MCMI ChMC).

Entrepreneur and expert with experience in the construction and development of IT solutions combining new technologies with geographic information systems (GIS). Co-creator of Cenatorium solutions. Since the establishment of the company, he has been responsible for product development and operational activities, including the implementation of the largest database of transactions on the real estate market in Poland and the automatic real estate valuation system (AVM).

Secretary of State, Government Plenipotentiary for Cybersecurity
A manager with extensive experience in the field of digital affairs.
In the 2018-2020 period, he served as the Deputy Minister of Health and was responsible for the computerisation of the health sector, including supervision of the Health Care Information Systems Centre. This period saw the successful implementation of such projects as Patient Internet Account, e-prescriptions and e-referrals. Since April 2021, he has been serving as the Vice-Chairman of the Council for Digital Affairs. Through their knowledge and expertise, the members of the Council support the Council of Ministers Committee for Digital Affairs and other bodies. The Council reviews documents, both strategic and others, related to digital affairs, connectivity and the development of the information society.
Between November 2020 and 7 June 2021, Janusz Cieszyński served as the First Deputy Mayor of Chełm. His responsibilities included raising funds for investment projects and supervising the preparation of a transformation plan for the municipal heating plant due to the need to comply with EU climate goals.

He also worked as an advisor to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at the Ministry of Development and the Ministry of Finance, and in the 2016-2017 period, he headed the Department of Small and Medium Enterprises at the Ministry of Development. Furthermore, Mr Cieszyński ran a company focused on providing business and legal consultancy for SME sector entrepreneurs, and in the 2009-2014 period, also worked for a leading telecom company.
The Secretary of State for Digital Affairs at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister performs tasks specified by the minister responsible for computerisation and coordinates the implementation of government administration and computerisation efforts. The Government Plenipotentiary for Cybersecurity coordinates actions and implementation procedures related to the government cybersecurity policy in the Republic of Poland.

Piotr is a data scientist and manager with many years of experience in building and leading teams with interdisciplinary competencies.
Piotr was awarded a Ph.D. (2008) and Habilitation (2016) degree in economics from Warsaw School of Economics where he is currently Associated Professor and the head of the International Comparative Studies Department. In his academic work, he focuses on the application of advanced machine learning tools (time series, panel data, and spatial data models) for the assessment of economic policies’ impact. He has a number of publications in prestigious international journals (like Journal of Economic Geography, Fiscal Studies, Economic Modelling, Applied Economics, Kyklos, or Empirica) focused on econometric modeling. He received over PLN 2M in grants for his research. As an expert at the National Science Center and Ministry of Science and Higher Education Piotr evaluated a number of research projects and entities, and coordinated works on strategy for the development of higher education in Poland.

Before joining StatXplorer he was a member of the Management Board at Luma Investment where he managed the portfolio of industrial companies with a total value of EUR 150M and ran several VC investments in data science companies. Previously, as a member of the Management Board of PKP Group, he was responsible for executing capital as well as real estate transactions and he implemented the most extensive railway transformation program in Poland. Piotr also has gained valuable experience in EY where he built and led the Economic Strategy Team – a unit providing companies with advanced econometric tools. He ran several data science projects in commercial banks and public institutions. He acted as a Supervisory Board Member in many publicly listed, state-owned, and municipal companies. “

Tomasz Dreslerski jointed Microsoft at the position of Enterprise Commercial Lead on November 1, 2022. The manager will be responsible for business transformation involving Microsoft technologies in the largest enterprise sector.

Tomasz Dreslerski is an experienced manager with more than 20 years of work history in the insurance, telecommunications or ICT sectors. Over the years he has been responsible for areas such as management and strategy, sales development and customer experience. He has been involved in many business model transformation projects. For almost 20 years, Dreslerski was associated with the Polish branch of Orange, where he served as, among others, Head of Mobile Bank, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Orange Group subsidiaries, and most recently Enterprise Executive Director. “

Prior to becoming President of ComCERT S.A., he was, among other things, an author of software for state bodies covered by protection of classified information. He worked with government administration offices, government composite administration bodies and public finance sector units, including state public law institutions.

In 2016-2017, he was a co-founder and Member of the Board of Directors (CFO) of Critical Applications, a company owned by the Ministry of Finance, developing analytical information systems supporting the Tax Administration and other state bodies in criminal and fiscal activities and countering financial irregularities. In 2017-2019, Vice President of the Social Insurance Institution, responsible for technical implementation of the 2017 pension reform and implementation of the e-Contribution, e-Act and e-ZLA (electronic sick leave) projects.

He served as a Member of the Council for Digitization Affairs appointed by the Minister of Digitization, a Member of the Scientific Council of NASK, and an Advisor to the Steering Committee of the e-Document project – being appointed jointly by the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, the Minister of Digitization and the Minister of Health. In 2019-2021, he served as an advisor to the Presidents of selected state-owned companies. He is certified as an expert witness in IT, reverse engineering, cyber security and IT copyright.

Strategy consultant and business leader, in the years 2016-2022 CEO & President of Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne S.A. PSE, state owned company, acts as the transmission infrastructure owner, system operator and balancing authority. Eryk has orchestrated and made the company walked through a deep cultural shift to the risk driven business model. Cybersecurity of company’s OT/ICS assets is one of the key objectives set out by the management board led by Eryk. Lawyer by education, prior to joining PSE he spent several years at various roles within the Polish business and public administration. Between 2015 and 2016 Eryk was a member of the board of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority. Between 2011 and 2015 he served as a general counsel at US company involved in the Polish shale exploration. Between 2006 and 2011 he was a partner in a local boutique law firm focusing mainly on energy law. Eryk also lectured at a number of university-level schools and served as an expert at several think-tanks.

A recognized expert with many years of experience in data and advanced analytics, CEO of TIDK. Propagator of knowledge about artificial intelligence, passionate about discovering knowledge from data. An experienced designer of enterprise-class analytics solutions. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP Data Platform and MVP AI distinctions for many years for his activity. Author of the podcast “Resistance is futile, AI is coming”, an experienced speaker.

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.

In 2018, she joined InPost Group as Marketing Director. Iza has over 20 years of experience in marketing, public relations, management and building CX – positive customer experiences with the brand. Previously associated with the entertainment industry as Marketing and PR Director at Cinema City and Cineworld Group. She also gained marketing experience at Unilever, working on brands such as Lipton, Amino, as well as Bakalland and Kamis -Przyprawy. Currently, she is involved in the development of all brands of the InPost S.A. Group.

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.

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.

Visa Country Manager for Poland, with more than ten years of experience in the organization (since 2011). On a day-to-day basis, he is responsible for the Polish market and shaping relationships with Visa card issuers, banks and fintechs, as well as with acquirers who work with companies that accept card payments, i.e. stores. He previously worked at the consulting firm KPMG and at Polbank EFG. Graduate of the School of Insurance and Banking in Warsaw (now Academy of Finance and Business Vistula).

Adrian’s interest in payments goes beyond working hours – he collects credit and debit cards as a hobby, with a collection of over 250 pieces issued in his name. As a tech savvy person he is a fan of mobile apps and fancies testing them out with regard to UX and their usability.

On the 21st of December 2018 appointed as the First Deputy Mayor of Wrocław, supervising the Department of City Development and Strategy and as a representative for international affairs. Responsible for creation and implementation of strategic studies for the city, agglomeration, region in the 2050 perspective. In charge of urban planning and land use plans, architecture, construction administration, city aesthetics, monument preservation, economic development, geodesy and land cadastre, sustainable development, blue/green deal, energy. Representative of the city and associations in governmental projects.

The first and only CEO of the Chmura Krajowa (OCHK – domestic cloud provider), a technology company whose goal is to stimulate innovation by disseminating cloud solutions in Polish enterprises and public administration. Within a year and a half of the establishment of OChK, his team negotiated strategic partnership agreements with Google and Microsoft, resulting in multi-billion investments by global public cloud providers in modern cloud infrastructure in Poland. Previously, for nearly 15 years, a manager associated with international companies from the IT sector. Directly before starting the construction of OChK, he worked for DXC Technology, a company specializing in digital transformation, providing IT services in the end-to-end model. At Hewlett Packard Enterprise, he was responsible, among others, for the successful implementation of a mobile banking platform in the largest Polish bank, as well as for the transformation of the BLIK system to the interbank model.

She is a recognized leader of business transformation in Poland. She founded Payback, one of the largest loyalty programs in Europe before it was acquired by American Express in 2011 as part of a multi-million dollar deal transactions. He has extensive experience in developing and implementing digital transformation for many business clients in Europe.

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.

She has been involved inthe marketingcommunications marketsince 2000. In 2013 shejoined Starcom Mediavest Group as ChiefDigital Officer, with theestablishment of PublicisGroupe in 2016 she tookthe position of ChiefDigital, Data & AnalyticsOfficer.
As a board member, shewas responsible for thedevelopment andintegration of thefollowing competencies: Data &Technology &Innovation, Analytics &Insights, Performanceand content. Currently,as Chief Data &Analytics Officer andboard member of theentire Publcis Groupe inPoland, she oversees the development ofcompetencies inanalytics, research,business intelligence,technology and datastrategy. She startedher professional careerat the Mindshare(GroupM) media house.
Since 2014, she hasbeen vicechair of theSupervisory Board ofthe Association ofInternet IndustryEmployers IAB Poland.For more than a dozenyears she has been alecturer at the WarsawSchool of Economics, aregular speaker atmajor industryconferences andworkshops, and ajuror in advertisingcompetitions (MixxAwards Poland andEurope, Effie). In 2011, she wasawarded the title of”Person of the Year” ofthe Internet industry bythe Internet AdvertisingBureau (IAB).
In 2016, she was amongthe finalists of theBusinesswoman of theYear competitio. She is an economist byeducation, a graduateof Finance and Bankingand PostgraduateStudies in Marketingand MarketingStrategies at the
Warsaw School ofEconomics. She hascompleted numeroustraining courses inmanagerial andleadership competencedevelopment
(“Management” ICANInstitute, “Maestro -orchestrating ClientValue” – WPP ExecutiveDevelopment and”Leadership Academy” –Center for Leadership).

André joined Veritas in 2007 as a technical trainer and consultant for the Enterprise Vault Family and moved between enablement and technical development roles until 2018 where he joined the Sales Engineering team as the Digital Compliance specialist for much of EMEA.

Along the way he became an eDiscovery specialist and GDPR Practitioner focusing on customers regulatory requirements.

Now André supports the EMEA and APJ technical community in a Practice Lead role for the Veritas Insights Portfolio which includes the Enterprise Vault Family, EV.cloud, Data Insight, eDiscovery Platform and Aptare.

Petter has been designing and building storage, data protection, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions for over 20 years. He started working with Veritas in 2001 and now serves as the Chief Architect for the International (EMEA & APJ) region, engaging with a broad range of customers and partners, advising on best practices for data protection, service resiliency, and digital compliance, while they progress on their journey of digital transformation and cloud adoption.

Member of the Management Board of the Polish Press Agency. Recently, he was the Director of the Office of Communication and Promotion of the Ministry of Finance. In 2013 – 2016 he was associated with PKO BP, where he was the Director of the Corporate Communication Department and the Press Spokesman. In the years 1999-2004 he was a journalist of “Puls Biznesu”; he also worked as deputy editor-in-chief of “Harvard Business Review Polska” and ICAN Research Director. He holds PhD degree in economics, and he is a lecturer at SGH.

Professionally associated with the Pekao Group since 2004. From 2018 till 2021 he has served as the Chief Transformation Officer and subsequently as the Chief Strategy Officer of Bank Pekao, responsible a.o. for the digital and operational transformation, as well as for the coordination of the work on the strategy of the Bank. From 2017 till 2018 he was responsible for the Transformation and Services Division, where he managed a.o. IT and Operations of the Bank. In 2010- 2017 he was Member of the Management Board of Pekao Leasing Sp. z o.o., where he assumed responsibility for IT, operations, insurance business, and customer service.
Previously, from 2004 till 2010 he held various leadership roles in the Corporate Banking Division of Bank Pekao,including participation in the taskforce preparing the merger of Bank Pekao with the BPH Bank. Before joining Bank Pekao, he worked as consultant for McKinsey and Co. in Frankfurt (Main) in Germany. He also served as a research associate at the University in Frankfurt (Oder) and in Giessen (Germany), as well as professional experience at Dresdner Bank. Since 2017 he has served as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Centrum Kart. In addition, from 2017 till 2020 he was also the Vice-chairmen of the Supervisory Board of Pekao Financial Services.
From 2017, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Centrum Kart S.A. From 2017 to August 2020, in the Supervisory Board of Pekao Financial Services Sp. z o.o. he was the Deputy Chairman and Secretary of the Supervisory Board. He was reappointed to the Supervisory Board of Pekao Financial Services Sp. z o.o. in March 2021 and serves as the Chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board.
He has a Ph.D degree in economics from the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). He participated in numerous courses and trainings in Poland and abroad, a.o. Unifuture in cooperation with the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne (Switzerland).

Karol Tokarczyk analyses digital economy at Polityka Insight. Previously, he worked for Polish Radio News Agency, where he was responsible for coverage of major economic and business events. A graduate of history and post-graduate studies The Mechanisms of the Euro Area at the University of Zielona Góra.

Graduate of the Economics and Socjology Faculty at the University of Łódź, in the field of Computer Science and Econometrics. Since the beginning of her professional career she has gained experience managing urban and international projects such as Enter.Hub and now European Climate Pact. In 2018 received her PhD degree in economics. Project Manager of Expo International 2022 in the years 2014-2017, and from 2018 Project Manager of Expo Horticultural 2029 in City of Łódź Office. Since 2019 Director of the Environmental Management Division in the City of Łódź Office.

Robert is a strategic advisor and a visionary bubbling with new ideas.
He believes that valuable solution should go beyond client’s current needs and explore new possibilities hidden in the data. He appreciates creativity and commitment in his team.
Robert is experienced data warehouse architecture expert with vast knowledge of many business areas. Currently involved in Elitmind’s strategic projects.
Excited about cloud technologies and implementation of machine learning (ML) as well as artificial intelligence (AI) in data analytics.

From January 2021 Marta Wrochna-Łastowska manages the team responsible for economic security and financial services as well as analytical support for operational activities. In her previous position as CFO, she was responsible for effective and efficient management of the company’s finances, planning and forecasting, treasury area related to business analyzes and internal audit. She gained her professional experience, e.g. during many years of work at Ernst & Young Corporate Finance in Poland and abroad. A graduate of Finance and Accounting and Management at the Warsaw School of Economics. She holds the title of ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).

Tomasz Wyszynski is an experienced, strategic data, analytics & AI leader with 15+ years of experience across many industries (consumer goods, energy management, industrial automation, retail). He has worked across several different domains (sales, marketing, supply chain, pricing, finance, HR) leveraging data & AI to drive large-scale business transformation in 60+ countries. He pioneered several AI-driven data products, incl. some of the first AI-based assistants in B2B industry. He is a big advocate of Product Thinking & Agile with laser-sharp focus on quality assurance. In his work, he contributes to fighting fake news and explores the frontiers of AI.

He has more than 15 years of working experience in cybersecurity gained in Polish and international companies. She currently works as a Senior Security Engineer at Tenable, where she designs, consults and implements risk and vulnerability management programs, ICS/OT security and cloud security projects. She holds a M.Sc. in computer science. She also completed a PhD program in computer science and postgraduate studies in Cloud Security at the University of Maryland. In 2022, she completed a certified postgraduate program in cyber security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is a public speaker, an academic lecturer and a member of ISSA Poland. She is a host and producer of “Cyberbezpieczni” podcast (eng.: CyberSecure).