Filiberto Amati is an hands -on leader and change manager, with nearly 15 years of International experience. He combines top-notch strategic skills with an eye for operational details, in which he does not mind getting involved. He presents his know‐how in marketing, innovation, branding and international expansion at many congresses and conferences. The consumers of conferences are owners, presidents, directors, top managers of the largest companies in the world and in Poland.
Since 2007 Filiberto has been active in the Wines and Spirits industry, by working first for Gruppo Campari and then for ILLVA Saronno, which he joined as Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe. Beyond the European challenge he has been managing part of the Caribbean, the domestic and duty free Central American markets, the North American duty free market, as well as Canada and Mexico. Prior to this experience he was in Amsterdam, where he worked as a consultant and freelance for Auberon –a boutique marketing innovation consulting. In this period has been staffed on a number of projects for global companies e.g., Phillips, Heineken, SS+K. In between Auberon and Campari he spent 6 months as Sr.Director of End User Innovation in Philips Consumer Electronics. In 2003 he earned his MBA at IESE business school in Barcelona – which follows his Master in Engineering and Management from University Federico II in Naples, Italy – where he graduated in 1998 with honours. In 1999 the University Federico II awarded him with the Guido Dorso prize for his research in the field of southern Italy SME.
Filiberto is the author of several publications, „Co-‐creation:mystery solved!“ (2014), „Understanding Open Innovation‐A Primer“( 2017).
He is also European Judge for the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge.
His mother tongue is Italian,and he speaks fluent English,Spanish as well as good French. He is currently studying Polish and has lived in Italy, Belgium,Spain , Netherlands ,Netherlands Antilles and –for shorter periods – in Mexico , USA and Montecarlo.

Mehmet Atici is Principal at Earlybird Digital East Fund, one of the largest VC firms in Turkey and CEE. He was part of the founding team, his investments include Uipath, Hazelcast, and he is currently board member at Obilet, Vivense, Apsiyon, and Tapu. 

Mehmet holds a BS in Computer Science from Bogazici University (summa cum laude), he is a Global Shaper @ World Economic Forum and member @ Global Relations Forum.

Evren is a tinkerer, collaborator, polyglot, serial entrepreneur, technology-enthusiast, father and gentleman farmer. He is also the founder of MotaWord - the world’s fastest human translation platform. Evren spent 15 years in the language services industry, in every possible role, and was the President of Link Translations, a leading translation agency serving Fortune 500s and US Government. He created MotaWord as the disruptive force in this sleepy, sprawling $40 billion dollar industry with antiquated processes, high prices and low service quality.

Co-founder of bValue Angels VC passionate about technology innovation and entrepreneurs with 12 years’ operational and investment experience. Most recently within Integer Group as Vice President of Inpost Paczkomaty, and previously CFO at easyPack, where he was managing operations on 15 markets and was responsible for obtaining financing for the international expansion for the total amount of EUR 200mln. Before Maciej was VicePresident at PineBridge Investments, US growth PE fund investing in CEE, where he was responsible for searching and managing new investments and the supervision over portfolio companies. He graduated from Poznań University of Economics and Management Program at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is a statutory auditor and fellow ACCA member.

Magdalena specializes in public policies that develop the digital economy. She co-authored numerous publications including Złota księga venture capital w Polsce 2018 (The Golden Book of Venture Capital in Poland 2018, Startup Poland, 2018); Polish Startups Report 2017 (Startup Poland, 2017); and Visa Policy for Startups (Startup Poland, 2016). She has been involved in the sector of economic diplomacy since 2006. 

Magdalena studied the European Single Market at the College of Europe and earned degrees in International Relations and Economics from Tischner European University and the Université de Fribourg in Switzerland. She has gained economic policy experience at the Trade Department of the Royal Danish Embassy in Warsaw, the European Commission, and the Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU. 

She is the Head of Public Affairs at Startup Poland. She is responsible for think tank projects, legislative consultation, the positions of the IT sector towards projects of EU law, and representing Polish startups in Brussels.

Investment Associate @StarFinder Capital Fund
Business and Technology Expert / Startup Mentor @Startup Hub Poland

Admir is experienced in early-stage, deep-tech startup investments. Since 2014, he has been active in the startup ecosystem as part of: Startup Hub Poland, a foundation which advocates innovative Central Eastern European high-tech talents in starting up a global venture in Poland. Admir as a Technology & Business Expert has been supporting startups in finding investment, improving their solutions/products, IP transfer and RnD commercialization.

Admir is an Investment Associate at StarFinder seed investment fund. He is responsible for: scouting/identifying new innovative projects from the CEE region; providing Business Due Diligence for new investments projects, leading projects from pre-incubation portfolio; supervising, advising companies from investment portfolio; building and maintaining relations with follow-up investors-Exits of portfolio companies.

In the previous years, Admir has been a co/founder of various startups in Albania and Balkans, in IT and entertainment. Admir has healthy connections with Balkan, CEE, worldwide entrepreneurs and investors. Strong Engineering knowledge and Financial education/experience allow him to understand highly-advanced technologies and work closely with entrepreneurs. He holds both financial and engineering education. M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering (Warsaw University of Technology) & Finance and Management (ALK)

I am a multilingual investment professional with solid experience in valuing companies, coordinating multi-billion dollar energy projects and advising the world’s biggest asset managers on their portfolio investments. Passionate about innovation and impact investing. 

Specialties: Venture Debt and Equity Investments, Innovation and SME Financing, Business Development, Strategic Advisory, Investment Research, Energy and Infrastructure Finance, Project Management. 

Trilingual in English/French/Polish, fluent in Spanish.

Bryony is Chief Acceleration Officer at Arkley Brinc VC, investing in European hardware startups. She previously ran Brinc’s IoT Accelerator in Bahrain and served on their global Investment Committee. As a serial startup entrepreneur and enthusiast, she co-founded 3 companies by the age of 30 and was recently featured in the book ‘Dear Female Founder’.

As CEO of German innovation hub IXDS Labs, Bryony managed ventures such as ‘HINT’ (digital health IoT) and ‘Fritzing’ (an open-source hardware). Whilst CEO & co-founder of T Dispatch, a fleet management platform for transportation, the startup raised over $2.5 Million and acquired an international client base.

Artur B. Chmielewski has worked for NASA for 3 decades and knows the space business inside out. He worked on 15 space missions, was a director of 4 missions and developed many technologies for NASA including a telescope the size of a football stadium. His missions traveled to the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and landed on comets. He worked on getting images of cryo-volcanoes, black holes and extrasolar planets. He worked on software, hardware, was a consultant to Hollywood movies, and designed space sculptures. However, in Poland he is mainly known for being the son of Papcio Chmiel – the author of popular comics “Tytus, Romek i A’Tomek.”

Entrepreneur and educator. Educational Program Coordinator at Girls Code Fun Foundation and co-founder of Kids Code Fun. Created and implemented digital literacy programs for organizations in Poland and Indonesia. Initiator of Very Senior Developers project that trains senior citizens to become coding teachers to preschoolers.

CEO of Envelo (digital arm of Polish Post) since Feb 2018. Experienced exective with 20+ years in areas of IT management, business and technology strategy, innovation, product development and management, project portfolio management, B2B sales, customer service, telco. Start-up mentor. Change agent and transformation initiator. Innovation and new technologies promotor. Conducted outsourcing, reorganization, processes and operations improvements, cost optimization, project roadmap prioritization, product portfolio rationalization projects. Worked in T-Mobile Polska as CIO (2010-2016), Product Development Director (2004-2010), Product Strategy Director (2000-2004).

Startup growth and acceleration expert with 19 years’ experience in innovation programs. Most recently with leading Central Europe VC fund OTB Ventures, in charge of business development and portfolio expansion. 

Michał was leading the EMEA innovation team at Intel Corporation, had leadership roles in Global and regional startup acceleration programs with UC Berkeley, Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was managing programs in 40 markets and was responsible for global strategy, regional partnerships and international expansion. Subsequently, he co-created and managed first multi-corporate startup accelerator with Intel, Cisco and T-Mobile. He was working closely with Intel Capital, largest technology corporate venture fund in the World, gaining experience in startup preparations for VC financing rounds. Michał also acted as innovation expert in many European Commission innovation programs targeting top young scientists and entrepreneurs on our continent. Last year Michał co-organised Central Europe Bridge to Mass Challenge, a Boston based accelerator affiliate program. Before joining Intel, Michał held managerial positions at Orange Telecom and Chancellery of The President of Poland. 

He graduated from Warsaw University of Economics with a degree in International Affairs.

Since 1998 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Currently director of Economic Cooperation Department.

A diplomat with 18 years of experience encompassing multilateral formats, economic diplomacy and consular affairs. For ten years covered export control and disarmament issues, including COARM, ATT, Wassenaar Arrangement, CCW, and Ottawa Convention. He also worked in the area of consular affairs (Canada) and as a deputy director of Asia Pacific Department.

Graduated from Catholic University of Lublin (Law). Completed post-graduate studies in ADR at University of Toronto (2007), Executive MBA at Warsaw University of Technology (2009) and PhD studies at Warsaw School of Economic (2013). Speaks English, French and German.

Guillaume joined Credo Ventures after obtaining his MBA from INSEAD. He first started his career with an internship at Goldman Sachs in the US, and then worked as a strategy consultant in Kaiser Associates' London office. Prior to obtaining his MBA, Guillaume also spent a year gaining experience in VC as an associate in newly established fund Athene Capital. Guillaume enjoys bouldering, kite surf, squash and board games.

Aman is a Principal. He joined Finch Capital from Nordeus, one of Europe's leading mobile game
developers, where he started their London studio and was a product manager for new titles and
Top Eleven, a game played by 150m users. Prior to Nordeus, Aman was at Facebook, where he led
efforts in their mobile partnerships, distribution and ad network initiatives. Before joining
Facebook, Aman was an investor with Accel Partners, where he was actively involved in various
technology investments including Spotify, HouseTrip and Hailo. He was also a board observer at
Supercell and Space Ape Games. Aman started his career at Credit Suisse, where he was part of
their global technology group and was involved in various technology transactions including
Ogone, a leading pan European PSP, as well as IPOs and capital market transactions for Interxion,
NXP and Nokia.
Aman graduated with high distinction from Kelley School of Business, Indiana with a B.Sc. in
Finance and Accounting.

Marcin Hejka - Co-Founder and General Partner of OTB Ventures, VC fund investing $1m to $10m in Central Eastern European technology companies with global ambitions. 
Between 1999 and 2017 Marcin was Intel Capital’s Vice President, Investment Committee Member and Managing Director for EMEA and India. Prior to Intel Capital Marcin was Vice President at the Poland Growth Fund (1995-1999), Resident Polish Specialist at Banexi (1993) and Financial Analyst at Paribas Capital Markets Group (1990). Between 2004 and 2011 Marcin was Vice President of the Polish Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (PSIK). Marcin invested and served in Boards of several technology companies, including: AVG, Mall.cz, Sigfox, Elmodis, Centrum.cz, Nokta, Index.hu, WP.PL, Ailleron, CG Trader, Index.hu, SpaceKnow, Minit, Ozon, Api.ai and other. He also served in Boards of Kredyt Bank (1997-1999) and Bank Komunalny (1995-1999), two Polish banks listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, Agora SA (2010-2015) and was Deputy Chairman of Dromex (1998-1999) the largest Polish road construction firm.

Entrepreneur and Investor in E-business and Tech sector.
Managing Partner and Co-founder at Market One Capital, a marketplace first VC fund based in Warsaw and Barcelona.
Managing Partner and Co-founder in Protos Venture Capital, an early stage VC fund.
Co-founder of Pomocni.pl group including niania.pl, remontuj.pl, pomocedomowe.pl
Investor and supporter in +20 companies, i.e.
Docplanner.com, Brainly.com, Unamo.com, Allani.pl, Restaumatic.com, Shoplo.com, Starofservice.com, Depilacja.pl, Pushpushgo.com.
Main focus: marketing, product, business development

President of the Board MIT Enterprise Forum Poland- acceleratiorn program for technology startups. 
Beside her expertise in running acceleration programs, she is a professional with 15 years of experience in business consulting (Deloitte, PwC) in the area of optimization of costs of business activities, obtaining public funding and grants, processes optimization, innovation strategies, management and implementation of complex innovative and R&D undertakings. Judge and mentor in startup events and acceleration programs. Her mission is to build bridges between Startups and Corporation for the benefit of both.

Angelika Jarosławska - Coordinator of the Programme Poland 3.0, Vice President of National Cluster of Innovative Enterprises. 
Forbes 30 under 30. 
Member of the Euro-Atlantic Association, Team Expert Member operating at the Parliament Water Roads Development Team  
Euro-Atlantic Industrial Committee Expert, Participant in Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski Polish Industrial Lobby works, Member of Supervisory Board of City Security, Ambassador of the International Network of Women Entrepreneurship Ambassadors. President of Foundation In Memory of Polish Pilots Fighting in Poland and in Exile. 
Member of Polish Craftsmanship Academy Presidium.  She was a lecturer and actively participated in international congresses organised by the European Parliament, European Commission, Tri-Seas Initiative, UN, TCI, IESE, Economics Forum in Krynica-Zdrój, Welconomy Forum in Toruń and many others. 
Jagiellonian University graduate where she studied international economics, and later applied economics. Graduate from Cluster Programme at IESE Business School in Barcelona. At the same time she is studying at  Management College in Warsaw.

Christian Lindener, (35) works for Wayra Germany since February 2017. As the Managing Director he accounts the strategic orientaton of Wayra, the selection and assistance of the start-ups and young technology corporations such as the increased integration of Wayra within the international start-up ecosystem.
During his career in the start-up and venture-capital-scene, Christian Lindener got to know thousands of start-ups.
As an independent tech consultant, he initiated, implemented and advised over 20 incubator and accelerator programs. As Director at TechFounders, the high-tech hardware accelerator in Munich, he was responsible for the assistance and development of more than 50 high-tech-start-ups. In June 2017 he helped to bring the InsurTech Hub Munich on the way. He is one of the regional leaders of Bavaria in the Federaton of German start-ups.
He cofounded two companies, one being a hardware startup which went insolvent in 2013 and the other one being an augmented reality startup exited to booking.com in 2014.
Christan Lindener was born in Brasil
and grew up in Mexico. He studied international business administraton and economics at the Leopold-Franzens- University in Innsbruck, the university of New Orleans and at the Universitat de Barcelona.

Paweł Lipkowski joined PFR Ventures as Investment Manager of the Starter program in February 2018. Paweł has 10+ year experience in Corporate Finance, including Transactions Advisory at EY and Mergers & Acquisitions at Santander Poland. Paweł graduated from Warsaw School of Economics, holding Master's degree in Finance and Banking.

Innovation and New Business Director Since 2017 co-creates and leads innovation department in Medicover called Health Innovators. His responsibilities focus on monitoring, piloting and implementing new, innovative solutions around wide scope of health. Health Innovators goal is to create better and new services and products, increase patient satisfaction, optimize cost and create unique solutions that will increase medical quality. In years 2010-2017 Maciej was working in IBM. He had various roles within the company, starting with consultant role, project manager on e-Health National programme, ending on two years of leading role for development and selling of IBM Watson ar

Stanford graduate, global citizen, heads strategy at Startup Hub Poland. Has the mission and single minded focus to make Poland the centre of innovation in the world by promoting technology startups in Poland and attracting the best global entrepreneurial talent to the country.

He has been working at the European Investment Bank since 2008, where he focuses on financing investment projects in the fields of conventional energy, renewable energy, industry and innovation. He participated in the structuring of financial transactions in the public and private sectors (including ‘project finance’ deals). From February 2015 he has been the Head of the Warsaw Office of the EIB Group in charge of institutional relations. 
He graduated from the School of Economics in Warsaw (finance and banking). A graduate of Hult International Business School in Boston with Master of Business Administration (MBA). He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Piotr is an Executive Director of Digital Poland Foundation which wants to make Poland as one of the leading digital innovation hub in Europe. Prior to joining the foundation, Piotr worked for EY, Cyfrowy Polsat, Polkomtel, Orange and Shell. Experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the consulting, telecommunications, media and IT industry. Hands-on experience in transformation, business strategy and valuation, strategic project management, business development, digital and e-gov. Familiar with latest business, regulatory & technological trends including Electronic ID, robotic process automation (RPA), big data and monetisation, machine and deep learning, cloud, IoT.

Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation of Technology and Youth Business Poland Programme Manager. Youth Business Poland is part of the Youth Business International network of 2 000 mentors in 52 countries around the world.
Adrian has created an entrepreneurial ecosystem in YBP that includes accelerating, training and mentoring projects. Has 8 years of experience supporting start-ups and traditional businesses in development. Adrian is engaged for implementation strategy and development plan of the program Youth Business Poland and develop association of business mentors. In addition, responsible for finance and operations throughout the Foundation.

Head of Growth and Product Development Manager at INCREDBOTS, Project Growth Executive at Startup Spark Accelerator in cooperation with corporates such as Procter & Gamble, Ericsson or PGE, Head of Growth at Wolves Gate and INCRED HOUSE Agency. Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science lover, strongly believing in transhumanism. In the constant search for augmented intelligence. Focusing on making an impact in way machine understand humans. Working with the biggest corporates in Europe in fields of technological transformation, implementing startups technologies within their structures.

Basia Nasiorowska - Founder of companies , Entrepreneur, Innovative Technologies Evangelist and Enthusiast, Mentor and Startups developer.
Basia is the founder of companies in Telecoms, ICT,Robotics and Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies.
Over 23 years ago she established her first company in the field of Fibre Optics , then in 2001 in Biometrics .
Now Basia’s interest is in Robotics, AI, NeuroGaming, Blockchain ,VR/AR,Satelites and other futuristic innovations.
In 2013 she was recognized internationally for her work in promoting Facial Recognition Biometrics Technologies in the World and was awarded the ID Outstanding Achievement Award.

Areas of expertise: Telco, IT, innovations, project mamagement, postal services, technical infrastructure maintenance. Professional experience: Orange, Ericsson, Emitel, Polish Post

Since 2006, he has been involved in the field of innovation. He has been the director of Innovation center of the University of Latvia. Starting from 2014 he was running the Green technology incubator in Riga and in 2017 he became the Managing Partner of the Accelerator of the Things – “Buildit Latvia”.
Meanwhile – he has started several Startups, but … failed.
He believes innovation is not about earning more money, but about generating wealth for society in a responsible way

Patrick Ney is a British filmmaker, presenter and businessman living in Warsaw, Poland from 2010. Having learnt Polish, Patrick went on to achieve over 35,000,000 video views on Facebook and YouTube with videos on Polish history, culture and business in less than 2 years. Currently, he is the presenter for a flagship Polish Press Agency programme, #HeartofPoland as well as for the new Polish-language business portal, HiCash. Patrick also works in digital marketing and regularly appears in Polish and English media channels on all things to do with Poland. Previously he worked in consultancies assisting British investors to invest in Poland.

Piotr Orzechowski is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Infermedica which is one the leading Artificial Intelligence health companies dedicated to improving the medical diagnostic process. Infermedica’s goal is to increase healthcare accessibility, minimize the rate of misdiagnosis and streamline costs of providing quality care. Their products have been used by over 3 million users worldwide and are offered to health insurance companies and health systems. Piotr is an energetic IT entrepreneur with strong technical background with key interests in digital health and machine learning. Prior to funding Infermedica he was engaged in numerous startup ventures including a successful Polish Dropbox-clone, mobile games studio and a software house specializing in expert systems.

Serial entrepreneur with previous 10 years of corporate experience, co-founder of Wolves Summit, Wolves Gate, See Bloggers, IncredBots. Having worked in companies like Procter & Gamble, RWE, BMW Polska, Orange, Empik in the past, she decided to build her first company, which turned out to be a route full of challenges that, after nearly two years, has ended with a hard, 7-digit lesson. Learning her lessons, she transformed the way she builds businesses thanks to which, the following companies she built have so far managed to attract customers from over 60 markets globally and gained over 35 million online coverage. Each project she gets herself involved with is gaining momentum. The phrase "it is not possible" does not exist in her dictionary. She is a leader and relational salesman who builds strong organizations focused on constant competence development and fast scaling.

Marketing & communication expert, Blockchain advisor, Fintech/Insurtech influencer, Public speaker. Startup mentor, providing consultancy to fortune 500 companies.

CEO and a founder StethoMeⓇ

At the moment, he is focused on developing the product StethoMeⓇ, which is about to revolutionise healthcare. It is the first medical diagnostic device of its kind – one that monitors the respiratory system.

Wojciech has over eleven years of experience in leading and developing the company Programa.pl. He is one of the co-founder of iTraff Technology - image recognition technology used by companies like CocaCola, EA or PepsiCo.

He works great in a team, the idea which he is convinced about becomes his passion, which he is fully devoted to. When it comes to the quality of products, he does not like compromises. He is interested in things, which are crucial socially and advanced technologically.

Vladimir provides executive management both strategic vision and plans to back it up. He has a unique ability to take complex, multi-geo, multi-product and multi-routes to market plans and articulate them into plans for everybody to get behind. A broad base of experience including strategy, finance, process management, people management and business development make him a valuable senior problem solver with ability to not only develop solutions but ensure they are communicated and implemented.

Aleksander has more than 10 years of experience in corporate finance and M&A transactions with corporations, venture funds, private equity funds, start-ups. Prior to cooperation with RE:ACTOR: Since 2010 worked in EY, Corporate Finance and M&A - managed M&A transactions in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Poland. headed the investment department in the Ukrainian investment group Volvest Group Aleksander worked in the international trading and investment holding Midland Group Managed the World Bank's Private Sector Development Project in Ukraine. Aleksander closed more than 10 mergers and acquisitions involving PE and VC funds in agro, alternative energy, retail, financial, FMCG and e-commerce sectors. The initiator and one of the founders of the UVCA - associations of PE and VC funds in Ukraine. At the moment more than 30 PE and VC funds are members of the association. Leader and creator of EY Start-up Accelerator and co-organizer of Ukraine's first corporate accelerator KyivStar.

At Innovation Nest I focus on finding interesting European startups and investment analysis. My previous finance and consulting jobs confronted me with problems of more advanced companies. VC, however, has captivated me with its particular dynamics, proximity to ideas, and a good mix of both art and science. I am a holder of BEng in Computer Science from AGH and MSc in Finance and Economics from Bocconi University.

Co-founder and President of Startup Hub Poland Fundation, which advocates innovative Central Eastern European high-tech talents in starting up a global venture in Poland. IP transfer specialist and RnD commercialization analyst. Seed and startup investment manager. CEO in seed-funds supporting early-stage tech-based projects. Member of the National Development Council to the President of the Republic of Poland as well as the Committee on New Technologies and Innovations to the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Polish Philosophical Society.

Architect, planner and consultant @ Real Estate market since 2003. Untill 2016 Partner and CEO in SAWAWA Design Studio as well as a Board Member of OW SARP (Association of Polish Architects). From January 2017 till June 2018 Deputy Director of the City of Warsaw Architecture and Spatial Planning Department. Since August 2018 Director of Economic Development Department
Co-designer of Warsaw Royal Route redevelopment, sorrounding of the Polish National Stadium development and many other public spaces, building complexes, and estates. Laureate of several architectural and urban competitions. Advisor in many RE investments – as well residential as retail, offices, mix-use and big sports & leisure complexes

Dr Mike Short CBE , after 30 years in telecommunications with Telefonica, joined the Department for International Trade as the department’s first chief scientific adviser in December 2017.
Mike has over 40 years’ experience in electronics and telecommunications and served as vice president of Telefonica, the parent company of the O2 mobile phone network, for 17 years to December 2016. In this post, he managed the launch of 2G (GSM) and 3G mobile technologies in the UK, and led research and development for Telefonica Europe. His career also includes the promotion of international technical standards in mobile technology, and he is also a former Chairman of the Global GSM Association, the UK Mobile Data Association, and president of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Mike also played an active part in the establishing and mentoring of Telefonica Wayra and its start ups .
He is currently a visiting professor at the universities of Surrey, Coventry, Leeds, Lancaster and Salford, where in recent years he has led the development on collaborations in areas such as smart cities, digital healthcare, cybersecurity and driverless vehicles.

Michal is the founder and CEO of a fintech company Twisto and a member of Forbes 30 under 30. He has lived 11 years abroad, in Russia, Great Britain and the US.

He began his career in London where he joined Barclays Capital investment bank after graduating from the prestigious King’s College.

Head of Industry Solutions at Microsoft, responsible for industry solutions for the Retail and Production sectors. An expert on Cloud Computing technology. A graduate of Warsaw University of Technology, faculty of SiMR, he also completed postgraduate studies in Project Management at the School of Entrepreneurship and Management. Koźmiński in Warsaw. Doctoral studies in Economics in the field of Management, Kozminski University. Lecturer at the Warsaw School of Economics and the Warsaw University of Technology.

Sonja is a passionate innovation and tech marketing veteran with profound tech and strategy expertise. She currently heads innovation company Navispace AG. Before she worked for embedded systems company ESG and the Boston Consulting Group. She holds a degree in business economics and won the annual university award for her phd thesis. She is author of several publications and "digitization" board member in consulting companies and universities. In her free time she loves skiing off-piste with her two daughters.

I am B2B marketer, constantly in search for a better way to approach customers. I desire to know how customers act, what drives their decisions, what do they struggle with and how we can be a game changer on their way to success. I am fascinated with what I do and I enjoy working with people who demonstrate passion, curiosity and willingness to break constraints.
I am always excited to lead marketing that makes a difference and creates unique experience for large enterprises and SMB's.

Marco Toja is Founder and CEO of See Your Box. He has started the company with two friends in 2014 and led it through Seed and round A investments, growing it to 10 people as of today. He can be considered a serial entrepreneur with 25 years of experience, both as a strategic consultant and manager specialised in Sales Restructuring and M&A. 
Marco has been an active player in the technology (Internet Telecom), Retail and Consumer Goods industries. Former McKinsey consultant, he has a long-time service record within the clean tech industry for the UK government. Previously as DTC De Beers Deputy Sales Director he has managed non-diamond-related activities in 72 countries around the world. Marco started his career buying a Tier 1 supplier in 1995 and followed by serving as a civil contractor for the NATO in Brussels.

Pharmacist by education, entrepreneur focused on med tech innovation by profession. Owner of event marketing company innoMED.co, co-creator of events brands as MEDmeetsTECH and Printed Health. She connects medical background with interest in new technologies helping build network between those two worlds. For past 3 years, she brought together 120+ med-tech startups and few thousands medics, tech experts, investors and scientists. Justyna cares about advancing medicine and believes that new technologies are crucial for progress in lifescience area.
She was part of a research team at University of Central Lancashire (United Kingdom) working on developing new ways to manufacture personalised drug dosages using 3D printing technology.
Activist and networker, alumni of Leaders in Health Sector, Lesław Paga Foundation, member of Young Healthcare Mangers by Polish Hospital Federation and member of Cracow Pharmaceutical Chamber.
Author writing about 3D printing and communication in med-tech sector for OSOZ, Świat Zdrowia, Mam Startup, manager Apteki.

Markus Vogt, Director Segment Healthcare & Wearables. Markus lives in Munich and works for EBV Elektronik since 1996. He helds a german Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electronics. With more than 25 years in the electronic industry, Markus supports customers in the Healthcare & Wearables market in Europe .

After studying communications engineering at the Technical University of Berlin, he started as a process engineer at OSRAM in Berlin.

In the period from 1998 to 2009, he was responsible for the development and expansion of manufacturing capacities in Germany and abroad in various production areas as production manager.

As of 2009, he led all German locations of the company to the successful DIN ISO 50001 certification as a trained environmental and energy efficiency auditor. He also teaches his knowledge as a supervisor, assessor and lecturer at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.

From mid-2015, as head of SP Services, he drove the topic of "open innovation" and industrialization of new developments through various collaborations with start-ups; he co-founded the Innovation Networks for Advanced Materials e.V.

Since October 2017, Thomas Waldmann has been responsible at WE eiSos as a start-up & venture manager for the cooperation and integration of innovative and creative young entrepreneurs.

Thomas Waldmann was born in 1970, he is with heart and soul Berliner.

Andreas Warta is Key Account Manager at VARTA Microbattery GmbH for rechargeable and primary battery systems in central- and eastern-Europe

Andreas have a long experience in electrical engineering starting from high frequency technology, network technology, measurement systems (x-ray, near-infrared) and electronic components.

Grzegorz Wójcik (CEO) –years of experience in managing and transforming Internet businesses as strategic 20 and operational executive with vast experience in digital media and e-commerce including RMF FM, Interia.pl, DreamLab, Onet.pl, TVN, Allegro Group (Naspers eCommerce).

Peter Wycisk serves as an Investment Manager at Fenox Venture Capital, managing investments in the US and Europe.

Peter started his career at a micro-sized hedge fund where he focused on development of systematic investment models that utilized trend following and mean reversion pattern recognition methodologies. Peter also spent a number of years working in investment banking and municipal finance. His responsibilities included execution of diverse analyses, and development of innovative financing and rating agency strategies for various issuers. To date he worked on over 30 transactions totaling approximately $2 billion.

Peter holds a degree in Management and Finance from the Weatherhead School of Management

Piotr is a digital marketing nerd who helps clients navigate and leverage the fast-paced digital environment. He also helps clients find new and innovative ways to utilize web, mobile and social media in their marketing strategies.

Born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, Piotr's experience has taken him all around the globe. He has lived in Jakarta, Des Moines, Tokyo and Chicago. Having worked in Polish, English and Japanese environments, he is now based back in Jakarta. He is fluent in English, Indonesian, Polish and has studied Japanese and German.

Piotr has worked with such brands as Danone, Adidas, Prudential, Telkom Indonesia, Coca-Cola, Samsung, McDonald's, Philips, Philip Morris among others.

Piotr will speak about "Lessons From Building Unicorns: The Power of Brand in Scaling a Startup"

Krzysztof Jakubczak, PhD, is passionate about high-tech and technological entrepreneurship. He is a MSc from the Institute of Optoelectronics of the Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland. He achieved his PhD in the technical sciences from the Czech Technical University in Prague. His technical background is in IT, medical devices, lasers, optics, infrared technology, secondary sources for nanolithography, vacuum systems and spectroscopy. Krzysztof has 12+ years of experience in R&D. As Deputy Project Manager he worked on design of HiLASE laser research center. He led the R&D team as a Research Program Leader working on development of lasers for industrial applications. His commercial experience covers production engineering and R&D projects in medical devices, consulting in tech-transfer and building technological companies. In his career he was responsible for revision of about 3500 projects for various institutions and investors.