Poland Day 2022

PD2022

US-POland Science and Technology Symposium
POLAND DAYS IN SILICON VALLEY 2022

AI – An Accelerator Towards A More Resilient World

JUNE 14TH – 17TH, 2022

Subjects:

  • In Industry 4.0 
  • In Transportation, Energy and Infrastructure 
  • In Healthcare, Medicine and Pharmacy
  • In City and Climate 
  • In Communication and Security
  • In Resilience build-up
  • In Charity and philanthropy
  • In Education and Knowledge Transfer 
  • In Blockchain 
  • In FinTech

Due to ongoing COVID-19 societal health concerns participation in the symposium is limited exclusively to individuals completely vaccinated

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Should COVID-19 restrictions prevent in-person participation, the on-site registration fee will be converted to the on-line registration fee, and the difference will be refunded.

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AGENDA

TUESDAY  – June 14TH

🇱🇷2:30 PM – 4:00 PM (PST)/ 🇵🇱23:30 – 1:30 (PL) Visit Stanford University with a guided tour by Professor Piotr Moncarz – Meeting in the front of Coupa Cafe – Y2E2 Building (Map); Nearest Visitor Pay Praking (Map, How purchase visitor parking)

🇱🇷4:30 PM – 6:00 PM (PST)/ 🇵🇱1:30 – 3:00 (PL) Stanford University (cocktail reception) – Sunken Terrace, The Shriram Center for Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering building, 443 Via Ortega (Map)

 

 

WEDNESDAY – June 15TH

ADDRESS: 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto CA, 94306 – Palo Alto Room (Map)

🇱🇷8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (PST) / 🇵🇱17:00 – 18:00 (PL) Coffee

🇱🇷9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (PST)/ 🇵🇱18:00 – 19:00 (PL) Plenary Session 

MC: Paul Marca (retired Assoc. Vice Provost and Director of Stanford Center for Professional Development)

  • Piotr Moncarz (Chair, US-Polish Trade Council; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University)
  • Mariusz Tomaka (President, US-Polish Trade Council, Poland)
  • Bogumiła Kaniewska (Rector, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
  • Marta Kosior-Kazberuk (Rector, Bialystok University of Technology)
  • Paweł Śniatała (Vice-Rector, Poznan University of Technology)
  • Rafał Dańko (Vice-Rector, AGH University of Science and Technology)
  • Marek Pawełczyk (Vice-Rector, SIlesian University of Technology)
  • Mark Chandler (Director, International Relations, San Francisco City Hall)
  • Shana Penn (Executive Director, Taube Philanthropies)
  • Michael Lepech (Professor, Stanford University; Vice-Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department)
  • Michał Kurtyka (2018-2021 Minister of Climate and Environment of Poland, President COP XXIV – 2018)

🇱🇷10:00 AM – 11:30 AM (PST) / 🇵🇱19:00 – 20:30 (PL)  Panel 1– AI in Industry 4.0 

Moderator: Marek Pawełczyk (Vice-Rector, Politechnika Śląska)

  • Paweł Poszytek (General Director, FRSE; Director, the National Agency of the Erasmus + Program and the European Solidarity Corps)
  • Michał Wieczorowski (Vice-Rector for development and cooperation with business and industry, Poznan University of Technology)
  • Luke Kowalski, (VP – Corporate Strategy, Oracle)
  • Dominik Schmidt (CEO, Translarity Corporation)
  • Jozef Glova (Professor, Technical University in Kosice Slovakia)
  • Artur Kozłowski (Director, Łukasiewicz EMAG)

🇱🇷11:30 PM – 11:45 PM (PST) / 🇵🇱20:30 – 20:45 (PL) Coffee Break

🇱🇷11:45 AM – 12:45 AM (PST) / 🇵🇱20:45 – 21:45 (PL) Panel 2– AI in Education and Knowledge Transfer

Moderator: Paweł Śniatała (Vice-Rector, Poznan University of Technology; EUNICE project leader)

  • Paweł Poszytek (General Director, FRSE; Director, the National Agency of the Erasmus + Program and the European Solidarity Corps)
  • Bogumiła Kaniewska (Rector, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań; Chairwoman of the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities)
  • Marta Kosior-Kazberuk (Rector, Bialystok University of Technology)
  • Danuta Zawadzka (Rector, Koszalin University of Technology)
  • Renate Fruchter (Professor, Director, Project Based Learning Laboratory, Stanford University)
  • Areen Shahbari (Social entrepreneur; business consultant; Lecturer at Harvard Extension School and Simmons School of Business)

🇱🇷12:45 PM – 2:15 PM (PST) / 🇵🇱21:45 – 23:15 (PL) Lunch

🇱🇷2:15 PM – 3:15 PM (PST) / 🇵🇱:23:15 – 0:15 (PL) Panel 3– AI in Montary Systems, Fintech and Blockchain

Moderator:  Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska (Assoc. Professor, AGH University of Science and Technology)

  • Paul Bryzek (Berkeley Co-Head of Consulting)
  • Kapil Chhibber (Managing Director, Technology Partnership development, Bank of America,)
  • Aleksandra Gren (​​Founder and President, Leopolda Wild Foundation)
  • Luke Kowalski (VP – Corporate Strategy, Oracle)

🇱🇷3:15 PM – 4:15 PM (PST) / 🇵🇱23:15 – 0:15 (PL) Panel 4– AI in Healthcare, Medicine and Pharmacy

Moderator: Marek Żywno (Chief Engineer, Cutera)

  • Janusz Bryzek (Exo Imaging, Inc, Founder, Executive Chairman, serial entrepreneur, internationally recognized his ground-breaking work on Microelectromechanical Systems – MEMS)
  • Karolina Nowak (Director of Innovation and Bio-Tech Medical Research Agency)
  • Zbigniew Nawrat (Professor, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice)
  • Beata Drzazga (President, BetaMed)
  • Cezary Mazurek (Director of Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center)
  • Waldemar Priebe (Professor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX)

THURSDAY – June16TH

ADDRESS: 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto CA, 94306 – Palo Alto Room (Map)

🇱🇷8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (PST) / 🇵🇱17:00 – 18:00 (PL) Coffee

🇱🇷9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (PST) / 🇵🇱18:00 – 19:30 (PL) Panel 5– AI Student Experience Exchange

Moderator: Jacek Chmielewski (Postdoc Fellow, Auburn University)

  • Jacek Marciniak (Associate Professor, AITech Program Coordinator, Adam Mickiewicz Univerity, Poznań)
  • Students (Poznan University of Technology)
  • Students (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
  • Students (Stanford University)
  • Michal Bańka (Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Warsaw University of Technology)
  • Marcin Seniuk  (Director Polish Agency for Enterprise Development)

🇱🇷10:30 AM – 10:45 AM (PST) / 🇵🇱19:30 – 19:45 (PL) Coffee Break

🇱🇷10:45 AM – 11:45 AM (PST) / 🇵🇱19:45 – 20:45 (PL)  Panel 6– AI in Smart City and in Climate

Moderator: John Townsend (former Smart City VP, Velodyne Lidar)

  • Mark Chandler (Director, International Relations, San Francisco City Hall)
  • Anne Kiremidjian (Professor, Stanford University)
  • Marcin Krupa (President, City of Katowice) / Mariusz Jankowski (Int. Relations, Katowice)
  • Michał Łakomski (Director of the Digitization and Cybersecurity Office, Mayor’s Proxy for Smart City, City of Poznan)
  • Andrzej Szarata (Dean, Civil Engineering, Cracow University of Technology)

🇱🇷11:45 AM – 12:45 PM (PST) / 🇵🇱20:45 – 21:45 (PL) Panel 7– AI in Transportation, Energy and Infrastructure

Moderator: Piotr Moncarz (Chair, US-Polish Trade Council; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University)

  • Arkadiusz Kawa (Institute Director, Łukasiewicz – Poznań Institute of Technology)
  • Ghazal Izadi (Vice-President, Geothermic Solution)
  • Celina Mikołajczak (Vice President of Manufacturing Engineering, QuantumScape)
  • Shad Laws (Principal, AV Robotics Engineer, Cruise)
  • Rick Tewel (CEO, AEye, Inc.)
  • Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska (Assoc. Professor, AGH University of Science and Technology)

🇱🇷12:45 PM – 1:30 PM (PST) / 🇵🇱21:45 – 22:30 (PL) Lunch

🇱🇷1:30 PM – 1:45 PM (PST) / 🇵🇱22:30 – 22:45 (PL) Award Session

🇱🇷1:45 PM – 2:45 PM (PST) / 🇵🇱22:45 – 23:45 (PL) Panel 8– AI in Charity and Philanthropy

Moderator: Shana Penn (Executive Director, Taube Philanthropies)

  • X Stanisław Dziekoński (Professor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw)
  • Tad Taube (Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland, Founder and Honorary Director, Taube Philanthropies; entrepreneur)
  • Jarosław Łasiński (Consul General of Poland, Los Angeles)
  • Aleksandra Gren (​​Founder and President, Leopolda Wild Foundation)
  • Beata Drzazga (President, BetaMed)

🇱🇷6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (PST) / 🇵🇱3:00 – 6:00 (PL) Gala Dinner

ADDRESS: 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto CA, 94306 – Grand Ballroom  (Map)

  • Keynote Speaker: Russell Berman (Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution)

FRIDAY – June 17TH

ADDRESS: 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto CA, 94306 – Palo Alto Room  (Map)

🇱🇷8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (PST) / 🇵🇱17:00 – 18:00 (PL) Coffee

🇱🇷9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (PST) /🇵🇱18:00 – 19:30 (PL) Panel 9– AI in Communication and Security

Moderator: Adam Januszko (Professor, Military University of Land Forces, Wroclaw)

  • Michał Kosiński (Associate Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business)
  • Lech Grzesiak (Dean, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology)
  • Robert Hryniewicz (Director of Product Marketing, Cloudera)
  • Tomasz Górecki (Vice-Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University)

🇱🇷10:30 AM – 11:00 AM (PST) / 🇵🇱19:30 – 20:00 (PL) Closing Remarks

🇱🇷11:00 AM – 5:00 PM (PST) / 🇵🇱20:00 – 2:00 (PL) Networking & Bay Area Exploration

Recommended HOTELS NEAR THE CONFERENCE VENUE

  • Hilton Garden Inn Palo Alto, 4216 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
  • Dinah’s Garden Hotel, 4261 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306,USA
  • Courtyard by Marriott Palo Alto Los Altos, 4320 El Camino Real, Los Altos, CA 94022, USA
  • Palo Alto Inn,  4238 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA

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Speakers

Prof. Piotr Moncarz Chair, US-Polish Trade Council; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Exponent; CEO Geothermic Solution LLC
Jerzy Orkiszewski, President, US-Polish Trade Council; VP of Engineering, Cutera
Mariusz Tomaka President, USPTC Poland; Board Member at TRITEM, Board Advisor Euvic
Tad Taube Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland, Founder and Honorary Director, Taube Philanthropies; entrepreneur
Paul Marca retired Assoc. Vice Provost and Director of Stanford Center for Professional Development
Prof. Russell Berman Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

He graduated from the Surveying and Road Technology School in Poznań in 1968 and from the School of Engineering in the Stanford University with Ph.D. in 1981. He is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, where for 30 years he has been teaching post-license level. Since 1980 he has been an employee of the world’s leading Exponent Failure Analysis
Associates (www.exponent.com), where today he holds the highest professional title of Senior Fellow. In 2017 he was admitted to the National Academy of Engineering in the United States. He specializes in research and prevention of engineering and scientific disasters. He is an author of dozens of publications, lectures and speeches. Renewable energy, including especially GeoHeat, the goal of his many years of work (www.geothermicsolution.com).
He is the Co-founder and Chairman of the US-Polish Trade Council (www.usptc.org), an organization of professiona ls working pro-bono on knowledge transfer and strengthening cooperation between Poland and the United States.
He is vice-president of the Council of Polish Engineers of North America. Member of the 1st Council of NCBiR. Co-organizer and academic director at Stanford University of the MNiSW Top 500 Innovators programme. Co-founder
of the Polish electromobility programme, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Electromobility Poland SA. Engineer,
entrepreneur and academic teacher, actively involved in the activities of the Polish diaspora for Poland.

Mr. Jerzy Orkiszewski was born and raised in Poland. He holds an M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Warsaw Technical University, Department of Fine Mechanics (currently Department of Mechatronics) and École Nationale Supérieure de l’Electronique et de ses Application in Cergy, France and submitted his PhD thesis at the Warsaw University of Technology. Since 1989 he resides in California with his wife, a practicing medical doctor from Warsaw, and their daughter
who after completing her medical education in Poznan, Poland, practices medicine in the USA. In Silicon Valley he has been working for variety of product development biomedical device companies: Cutera, Inc., Ellex Medical, Lumenis, Inc. and Medical Group of Coherent, Inc., where he has been providing the technology and business leadership serving in various
engineering, management and executive positions. Jerzy used to be on Polish national modern pentathlon team and plays classical guitar. He is also a pilot with commercial and instrument ratings.Jerzy is a contributing editor of “Przeglad Lotniczy – Aviation Review” aviation magazine in Poland. He provides to USPTC a strong link to the US biomedical technology sector.

Mariusz Tomaka is active as organizer, co-founder, and CEO of innovative electronic and software companies in Poland focused on local and international markets. He specializes in building and running innovative companies – startups and medium size companies– focused on international markets and leading teams of engineers and managers to achieve challenging technology and business objectives. Prior to current activities at TRITEM (the guru company in Industrial Digital Twin and automated testing for critical systems) and EUVIC he worked as  CEO (PL) for DisplayLink in Poland and VP in Cambridge UK, at Neubloc,LLC  board adviser – share holder at ABF. Mariusz is a President of US-Polish Trade Council in Poland and extended board member in USA, Silicon Valley , he is a Chamber Council Member at The Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Mariusz is Vice-president of OG at Telecommunications and Polish Information Processing Society and member of the board of PTI at national level..

Bay Area businessman Tad Taube is the chairman of Taube Philanthropies and board president emeritus of the Koret Foundation in San Francisco. He is chairman and founder of the Woodmont Companies, a diversified real estate investment, and management organization. At his alma mater, Stanford University, Mr. Taube is the founder and advisory board chair of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, established in 1986. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution and serves on its Executive Committee, and was the founder and past chairman of the advisory board
of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). In addition, Mr. Taube is past chair of the Stanford Athletic Board. His involvement in Stanford Athletics includes his family’s principal gift to Stanford’s Taube Family Tennis Stadium and his significant support of Stanford’s new football stadium, built in 2006. He has served as a trustee of the University
of Notre Dame de Namur, the University of San Francisco, and as governor of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and was chairman and CEO of Koracorp Industries (successor to Koret of California) from 1973 until its merger with Levi Strauss in 1979. Born in Kraków, Poland, in 1931, Tad Taube immigrated to the United States in the summer of 1939, just months
before the outbreak of World War II. In 2003, Mr. Taube established a philanthropic program – the Jewish Heritage Initiative in Poland (JHIP) – which supports the revitalization of Jewish culture in now-democratic Poland. In 2007, the Republic of Poland named Mr. Taube Honorary Consul for the San Francisco Bay Area. In June 2015, then President of the Republic
of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski awarded Taube the Commander’s Cross of the Star of the Order of Merit, Poland’s highest- level official state distinction for a foreign civilian, which Taube adds to his Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit, received in 2004. Mr. Taube holds BS and MS degrees from Stanford University and served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force.
Assistant Professor in Organizational Behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. His research focuses on humans in a digital environment and employs cutting-edge computational methods, AI and Big Data. PhD in Psychology from the University of Cambridge. Previously Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford’s Computer Science Department and researcher
at Microsoft Research.

He has spent 29 years in various roles at Stanford and currently directs a portfolio of over 250 graduate and professional courses annually to industry. He has been instrumental in developing and implementing an international portfolio which includes Singapore, China, India, Korea, Malaysia, Brazil, United Arab Emirates and in numerous European countries including France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. In 2013, he launched a joint online non-credit
certificate program between the School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Business: the Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship certificate. This is the first formal online education cooperation between the schools. He has also developed a number of innovative university-industry and university-university partnerships to extend Stanford’s
educational reach with effective ‘go-to- market strategies’, including the award-winning Stanford Advanced Project Management program and the Strategic Decision and Risk Management program. Paul has also advised universities, corporations and governmental organizations how to develop and extend education as a means to sustain innovation. Externally, Paul has served as an advisor to numerous startups including xBrain, providing the automotive industry a connected car platform. Paul serves the International Association for Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE) as a council member and First Vice President. He has also presented keynote speeches and workshops around the globe on connecting innovation, strategy and execution. Paul has a B.A. in Communication, with an emphasis in Television & Film production, from Stanford University.

Professor Berman joined the Stanford faculty in 1979. In 1982-83 he was a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard, and in 1988-89 he held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Berlin. In 1997 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany. He has directed several National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College Teachers. At Stanford, he has served in several administrative offices, including Chair of German Studies, Chair of Comparative Literature, Director of the Overseas Studies Program, and currently Director of Stanford Introductory Studies. In 2011 he served as President of the Modern Language Association. Professor Berman is the editor of the quarterly journal Telos

Lukas Grabiec Google, BoD USPTC
Mark Chandler Director, International Relations, San Francisco City Hall
Prof. Michael Lepech Professor, Stanford University; Vice-Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Prof. Bogumiła Kaniewska Rector, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Chairwoman of the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities
Prof. Marta Kosior-Kazberuk Rector, Bialystok University of Technology
Prof. Danuta Zawadzka Rector, Koszalin University of Technology

Lukas Grabiec is Senior Corporate Counsel at Wing (an Alphabet company) and for the past 14 years held senior positions at Uber (Autonomous Vehicle team), GoDaddy, Microchip Technology, Intel Corporation, and Honeywell International. Lukas was recognized in the legal community as the “Up and Comer” Attorney of the Year for 2012 by the Association of Corporate Counsel and Arizona Business Magazine and also was selected to the prestigious School for Leaders (Szkoła Liderów) program in Warsaw, Poland sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Office of the President of Poland. He is heavily involved in various organizations including being the Chairman of the State Bar of Arizona In-House Counsel Committee, current Director and founding member of the US-Poland Trade Council (USPTC) Office in Arizona, Mentor at the US-Poland Innovation Hub in Silicon Valley, and frequent lecturer across the U.S. and Europe including at Cambridge University, the University of Arizona, the Stanford Center for Professional Development at Stanford University. Lukas received his Juris Doctorate (JD) from Case Western Reserve University, his MBA from École de Hautes Études Commerciales (EDHEC) (France), a B.S. in Political Science from the University of Houston Honors College as well as a Certificate of Polish Studies from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. During law school he worked with the U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone and wrote briefs helping prosecute War Criminals. This UN project which was organized by Case Western, American University and the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Lukas has been featured or interviewed by CNBC, TVP (Telewizja Polska) POLVISION – Kulisy Suksesu (tv program), Arizona Attorney Magazine, Gazeta.pl, Tygodnik Angora, FoxSports, Sport.pl, and Przeglad Sportowy.

Mark Chandler is the Director of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of International Trade and Commerce. Mark has been a member of the Mayor’s Office for over thirty years and eight mayors. Mark is responsible for the international programs of the City of San Francisco, including innovation and technology exchange, Smart City dialogue, trade missions, investment promotion, sister city partnerships, diplomatic relations and global policy formation. Mark has coordinated over thirty overseas missions to locations diverse as Mexico, China, India, France, Israel, Vietnam, Ireland, Australia,
The Philippines, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada and Japan. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Global Trade Council, Advisory Board for San Francisco State University International Business Department and is Co-President of the San Mateo High School Foundation and is a recipient of the National Jefferson Award.
In June of 2017 he was named “Citizen Diplomat of the Year” by the Northern California World Trade Center. He has a BA in Economics from U.C. Davis and an MBA in International Marketing from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
and studied at the Tokyo Academy of Japanese. Mark is married to Carolyn and has one daughter Lea, who is in University.

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University. Professor Lepech’s research focuses on the integration of sustainability indicators into engineering design,
ranging from materials design, structural design, system design, to operations management. Such sustainability indicators include a comprehensive set of environmental, economic, and social costs. Recently his research has focused on the design of sustainable high-performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs) and fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs), the impacts of sustainable materials on building and infrastructure design and operation, and the development of new life cycle assessment (LCA) applications for building systems, transportation systems, water systems, consumer products. Along with this, he is studying the effects that slowly diffusing sustainable civil engineering innovations, and the social networks they diffuse through can have on achieving long-term sustainability goals.

Prof. Bogumiła Kaniewska (Professor, Ph.D., D.Litt.) is Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University and professor of Polish Studies specializing in contemporary fiction. Rector Kaniewska is the chairwoman of the Conference of Rectors of Polish Universities. She was involved in research followed by several spectacular successes such as the acquisition and implementation of the POKL project called “Adjusting the model of education of Polish philology students
to the challenges of the modern labor market”. Between 2009-2012 prof. Kaniewska was responsible for modernizing the teaching process in this 15-million grant. She was also participating in an international E-LOCAL project, co-created by universities from Belgium, Finland, Portugal, and Hungary, and coordinated by the University of Bologna.
Prof. Kaniewska represents AMU in EPICUR consortium, an assembly of universities from Poznan, Strasbourg, Freiburg, Amsterdam, Karlsruhe, Vienna, Saloniki and Mulhouse, which is one of 17. structures across European Union. Among others, prof. Kaniewska has authored “First Person Narration in contemporary Polish Fiction”, “Following Tristam Shandy’s Steps” and “A Story Has Been Told”. Moreover, she has written about works by Wiesław Myśliwski as well as authored popular scholarly works and co-authored a number of academic and school textbooks on literature and multilinguistic connections between literary works. As a literary critic, she publishes her articles in a magazine “Nowe Książki”.
Her scholarly interests include children fiction, which she also translates from English. Professor Kaniewska is the Head of the Department of Semiotics and Literature, a unit of the Institute of Polish Studies, AMU. Formerly she was the Dean of the Faculty of Polish Studies and Classical Languages.

Assoc. prof. Marta Kosior-Kazberuk, DSc, PhD, Eng. is a holder of postdoctoral degree (DSc) in the discipline of Civil Engineering.
Since September 1, 2020 she has held the position of Rector of Bialystok University of Technology. In the 2016-2020 term she held the position of Vice-Rector for Education and International Cooperation. From 2015 to 2020 she headed the Department of Building Structures. Between 2005 and 2012 she was Vice Dean for Student Affairs and Education at the BUT Faculty of Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering.
Her scientific interests include effectiveness of material and structural protection of building materials, application of composite reinforcement in concrete structures and various aspects of durability of structures. She has conducted research on historical mortars used in the construction of hydrotechnical structures of the Augustow Canal. She is the author and co-author of nearly 200 scientific publications and 14 publications on academic didactics, internationalization, creating study programmes and quality assurance of education.
She is the author of an effective strategy for internationalization of the Bialystok University of Technology, the implementation of which has contributed to significant development of diverse forms of international cooperation and increased recognition of the university. She actively expands the Erasmus+ programme, including cooperation with universities from outside the European Union. She has contributed to the development of many double diploma agreements as well as other international scientific and educational projects. She has taught at several foreign universities. She was a visiting professor at Tianjing Chengjian University. She coordinated EU-funded projects aimed at developing BUT teaching potential. She has managed and participated in the implementation of NCN (National Science Centre), NCBiR (National Centre for Research and Development), Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships and NAWA (Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange) projects. She carries out R&D works in cooperation with companies from the construction industry. Since 2009 she has been an expert of NCBiR; since 2016 an expert of PKA (Polish Accreditation Committee), in 2017-2020 she was a member of KAUT (Accreditation Commission of Universities of Technology). In 2018 she was elected to the Administrative Council of European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (currently vice-president of AC). From 2012 to 2018 she represented Bialystok University of Technology in the European Civil Engineering Education and Training Association. In 2021 she was awarded the Builder’s Laurel.

Dr. hab. Danuta Zawadzka is the associate professor, the rector of the Koszalin University of Technology, and the head of the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Economic Sciences. In the years 2012 – 2020 she was the Vice-Rector for Education at the Koszalin University of Technology and chaired the University Council for Education Quality. In the years 2002 – 2012 she was the coordinator of the Socrates – Erasmus Program (currently LLP – Erasmus Departamental Coordinator). She was a member of the Quality Committee, and currently she is the chairwoman of the Program Council in the field of Finance and Accounting.

Prof. Marek Pawełczyk Vice-Rector, SIlesian University of Technology
Prof. Paweł Śniatała Vice-Rector, Poznan University of Technology; EUNICE project leader
Prof. Rafał Dańko Vice-Rector, AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow
Jarosław Łasiński Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles
Prof. Michał Wieczorowski Vice-Rector of Poznan University of Technology for Development and Cooperation with the Economy and Head of Division of Metrology and Measurement Systems
Magdalena Diering PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, USPTC

Vice Rector for Science and Development of the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, Head of the Measurements and Control Systems Division at the university, Vice President for Professional Relations of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (formerly the President), Managing Editor of International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration (JCR recognised), expert in adaptive control, active noise control, signal processing, author of 3 books on active noise control, about 200 journal and proceeding papers, co-author of 3 academic textbooks, co-author of 9 patent applications, supervisor of 8 PhDs. Coordinator of over 20 research projects sponsored by state institutions or industry, with many solutions commercially available. Coordinator of 3 EU-sponsored structural fund projects. Chair or Co-chair of about 10 International Congresses on Sound and Vibration Congresses with participants from more than 50 countries.

Prof. PUT, PhD, DSc Paweł Śniatała Vice-Rector of Poznan University of Technology for International Relations (2020-2024) and the Coordinator for EUNICE European University project (https://eunice-university.eu/ ). He received the M.S. degree in Telecommunication, M.S. degree in Computer Science and Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics – all from Poznan University of Technology, Poland. He obtained the habilitation degree (D.Sc.) in electronics in 2016. From 1998 to 2002 he worked at the Department of Computer Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology (USA). He returned to Poznan University of Technology to take a position at the Faculty of Computing. He holds a position of the Vice-Dean for Industrial Cooperation in the period 2016-2020. He has also graduated from the international MBA study in joint programme George State University and Poznan University of Economics. His area of interests focuses on VLSI circuits for digital and mixed analog-digital signal processing systems: Ultra-Low Power ASIC design, Implantable IC, Signal/Image processing hardware-software co-design, Hardware accelerators. However, following his computing science background, he is also involved in research projects related to the eHealth area and Cybersecurity issues. He was involved in several industrial projects e.g.: control and monitoring systems for gas mine systems, control systems for water treatment plant and teletechniques systems for airports. Currently he is involved in H2020 project CAPABLE – “CAncer PAtients Better Life Experience” (https://capable-project.eu/). He served in several international PhD and MS committees (Portugal, USA). He was a visiting professor in several universities outside Poland in: USA, Portugal, Peru, Taiwan. He is an author and co-author of over 100 papers including three monographs.

Rafał Dańko – profesor of Materials Science with specialiation of Foundry Technology. Vice Rector of AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. Member of the Executive Committee of the World Foundry Organisation (WFO). Vice President of Polish Foundrymen’s Association. His research activities are focused in the following areas: a) design and tests of foundry machines and equipment; b) high pressure die casting process; c) AI applications in metalcasting industry; d)reclamation of used moulding sands processes; e) mould and core production processes; f) additive manufacturing processes; g) environmental protection problems in metalcasting industry. He has participated in 35 scientific and industrial projects. Author and coauthor of 320 scientific papers, 8 books and 10 patents.

 

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Prof. Michał Wieczorowski, PhD, BSc Vice-Rector of Poznan University of Technology for Development and Cooperation with the Economy and Head of Division of Metrology and Measurement Systems.

His scientific interest are topography analysis, nanometrology, coordinate measurement technique, optical scanning, photogrammetry, reverse engineering and computed tomography as well as artificial intelligence in metrology.

Fulbright scholar at Northwestern University (USA), visiting professor at Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis (France), invited lectures at: University of North Carolina in Charlotte (USA), Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Ecully (France), Universidad de Vigo (Spain),  University of Cluj, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Technical University of Sofia, Sofia (Bulgaria), Technical University of Chisinau, Chisinau (Moldova), University of Montenegro, Podgorica (Montenegro)

Associate Editor of Measurement, Measurement: Sensors and Metrology and Measurement Systems, Guest Editor of Wear and MDPI Materials. Auditor Expert at Polish Accreditation Center, Economic and business expert at National Center of Research and Development in Poland, BGK, Polish Development Bank and Polish Agency for Entrepreneurship Development. He was involved in over 30 scientific in industrial projects.

Member of Board of Committee on Machine Building of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Regional Council of Industry of the Future and Polish Fulbright Alumni Association. Member of Advisory Board for Minister of Science and Higher Education for implementation of doctorate procedure and Polish Metrology programme. Member of committees of Polish Standarization Committee and Polish delegate for ISO TC 213.

An author and co-author of 6 books and over 25 chapters, 3 books as editor, over 150 papers in journals and over 100 articles at congresses and conferences

Acknowledged by Wear journal for the most internet downloaded paper in 2011 and 2012. Awarded a title of Fair Play Ambassador in Business (2019) and a Special Award for Innovative Activity (2019)

Dr. Magdalena Diering, Assistant Professor at the Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Management, Chair of Management and Production Engineering. She is an education quality specialist. She is an expert in statistical measurement and control system analysis. Trainer in quality engineering (MSA,
SixSigma, APQP, Lean). Her interests focus also on project management and science commercialization. She has extensive experience in organizational, scientific, and structural project management. At work, she promotes a culture of teamwork and innovation among Polish scientists and entrepreneurs. She is a graduate of the Top 500 Innovators program at Stanford University (2012). She is the Vice-President of the USPTC Board in Poland and Program Coordinator of the US-Poland Innovation HUB.

Prof. Andrzej Nowak President, Council of Polish Eng. in N.A., Chair, CEE Dept. Auburn University
Jacek Chmielewski PhD, Associate Professor, Cracow University of Technology
Rafał Stroiński Board Member, US-Polish Trade Council; Senior Partner, B2RLaw
Luke Kowalski Vice President, Oracle
Robert Hryniewicz Director of Product Marketing, Cloudera
Areen Shahbari Social entrepreneur; business consultant; Lecturer at Harvard Extension School and Simmons School of Business

A graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, in the United States since 1976, currently the dean of Civil Faculty Engineering at Auburn University. Before that, he was a professor at the University of Nebraska, University of Michigan and the State University of New York. His main scientific field is the theory of reliability and its applications. He made a fundamental contribution to the development of the American AASHTO bridge standard and ACI 318. Prof. Nowak
is an honorary doctor of the Warsaw University of Technology, an honorary professor of the Cracow University of Technology, he received the title of professor from the hands of the President of the Republic of Poland. He is the
president of the Polish Council Engineers in North America and was awarded the Officer’s Order of Polonia Restituta, Moisseiff Medal (American Society of Civil Engineers), Bene Merentibus Medal (Warsaw University of Technology), and Casimir Gzowski Medal (Canadian Society of Civil Engineering). Prof. Andrzej S. Nowak is a Fellow of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, and Fellow of the American Concrete Institute. He is the supervisor of 41 doctoral students.

He is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Auburn University, academic teacher, researcher in: transportation network planning, road safety improvement and implementation, bridge live load and fatigue analysis in the USA, Weigh-in-motion data processing and analysis, big data processing, SQL databases developer. He is a Bentley MicroStation user and application developer (MDL and VB.Net), and software developer: C++, Visual Studio, VBA, MATLAB. He prepared a few four-stage transport demand models in PTV VISUM, microsimulation in PTV VISSIM for cities and counties. He was involved in Florida, California, and Montana Department of Transportation research projects. Lots of professional projects for private companies and public sectors in the field of transport were prepared by him, mainly in the field of road safety improvement, road network planning, traffic prediction, and feasibility studies.

Rafał is an advocate registered with the District Bar Association in Warsaw and a US-qualified attorney admitted in the state of New York. He holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in Law from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. He was also a Fulbright Commission and Polish Science Foundation Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School. Rafał is one of the three founding and senior partners of B2RLaw. He has over twenty years of experience in the practice of law. Prior to establishing B2R legacy firm JS Legal, for several years he was a partner at the
Warsaw office of a leading international law firm where he set up and managed the capital markets practice and was one of the leaders of the private equity practice. Rafał has held positions on various Supervisory Boards (including Vice
Chairman of PFRVentures, the largest Polish fund of funds (2016-2018)), and is a founding and board member of the Harvard Club of Poland.

Vice President, Oracle. Luke Kowalski is recognized for his loyalty and pragmatism, but he also excels in his ability to work across disciplines. He has executed projects involving legal issues (antitrust, IP, audits, litigation), acquisitions (due diligence, integration, or divestitures), technical standards (document formats), government affairs (EU/USA trade,
IP reform, repatriation), and even managed functions like physical security, user interface design and accessibility.
He currently serves as a VP in the corporate architecture group at Oracle reporting to one of Larry Ellison’s EVPs.
Before coming to Oracle, he worked for various startups in technical, design, and business roles, as well as for Netscape’s Server and E-commerce divisions. He holds several patents and professional certifications, serves as an ISO representative for the US through ANSI, and lectures frequently at conferences and universities. His educational background includes advanced degrees from UTA, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University. He is currently teaching a blockchain challenge
lab at UC Berkeley’s Engineering School on Mondays and pursuing a distance learning PhD at the University of Leicester in his free time.

Robert is the Director of Product Marketing at Cloudera driving messaging and technical content on the Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) and the integrated data lifecycle. Prior to Cloudera, Robert was an AI evangelist at Hortonworks, CTO at Authentise (a 3D printing security & analytics startup at Singularity Labs), Software Engineer at Cisco, NASA et al. Robert’s graduate work at Case Western Reserve University focused on AI & robotics, including early work on autonomous vehicles. He is a frequent speaker at enterprise data conferences.

Areen Shahbari has been providing consultancy to hundreds of startups and companies in the US and overseas since 2011, specializing in human centricity, strategy, innovation, leadership, and the intersection between business and psychology. Shahbari is also a business instructor at Harvard and Stanford Universities and has developed and led over 200 business courses, workshops, and training programs in the U.S. and seven other countries in the past 10 years. She founded Cactus International in 2013 to promote women’s entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa regions and was formerly a journalist and TV host of six TV shows. Shahbari is a Fulbright Alumna and a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. She has an MBA from Simmons University and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Communication. She is also an award-winning entrepreneur and business instructor.

Janusz Bryzek Exo Imaging, Inc, Founder, Executive Chairman, serial entrepreneur, internationally recognized his ground -breaking work on Microelectromechanical Systems – MEMS
Prof. Michał Kosiński Associate Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Michał Kurtyka 2018-2021 Minister of Climate and Environment of Poland, President COP XXIV – 2018)
Marcin Krupa President, Katowice
Beata Drzazga President, BetaMed
Aleksandra (Alex) Gren Founder and President, Leopolda Wild Foundation

Janusz Bryzek received his MSEE and Ph.D. from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. He completed the Executive Management Program at Stanford University. Janusz is considered as one of the pioneers of MEMS and Fatherof Sensors. He cofounded eleven Silicon Valley MEMS (micro-mechanical integrated systems) companies: Sensym (acquired by Honeywell), ICSensors (acquired by EG&G), NovaSensor (acquired by Lucas Automotive, then GE Healthcare), Intelligent MicroSensor Technology (acquired by Maxim), Transparent Networks (technology acquired by Intel), InvenSense (public), LVSI (acquired by Atmel), Jyve (acquired by Fairchild Semiconductor), JB MEMS (consulting), TSensors Summit (non-profit) and eXo Imaging (active). Products from Janusz’s companies included MEMS sensors (pressure, acceleration, gyro). MEMS microstructures (mirrors), sensor-based systems-on-chip (wireless pressure sensors, motion sensors with embedded sensor fusion) and systems (optical switches, medical ultrasound imagers). Selected exponential technology based products shipped cumulatively billions of units, grabbing majority of world market for disposable blood pressure sensors, about half of wireless tire pressure sensor market, large fraction of motion sensor market in cellphones, gaming and VR devices. Inspired by Peter Diamandis’s Abundance concept, Janusz launched TSensors Initiative focused on finding the sensor-based Internet nodes likely to reach volume of trillions units by mid 2030s, as an enabler for world without hunger and with medical care, clean environment and clean energy to all. This resulted in organizing 8 conferences (at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Florida, Munich, Shanghai and twice in Tokyo), with invited visionary speakers outlining the future, and concluded in converging on extracting 5 sensor based application with potential for trillions. One of the outcomes of TSensors Initiative was the founding of eXo Imaging to develop a disruptive ultrasound imager aiming at democratization of medical imaging (75% of global population has no access to medical imaging). Bryzek has performed due diligence for top tier VC firms, including USVP (Irwin Federman), Mayfield, Benchmark, Morgenthaler and Panorama.
He also worked as an advisor or Board member for over 40 startups. In 1989 he was recognized as “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Arthur Young. In 1994 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by Sensors Magazine and in 2003 by MANCEF. In 2016, he got the award Outstanding Polish Business Executive by Polish Embassy in the US and accepted to “Zlotej Ksiegi Absolwentow Politechniki Warszawskiej”. In 2018 he received Industry Impact Award for Engineering Excellence from Sensors Expo. Bryzek has published over 250 papers, wrote sections of 4 books, organized and chaired many international conferences. He authored 30 US patents and multiple pending patent applications.
He started several sensor standardization efforts, including AAMI Disposable Blood Pressure Transducers, IEEE-1451 Smart Sensor Communication, and Trillion Sensors Initiative. Dr. Bryzek serves on several Advisory Boards. He is also a member of IEEE-MEMS Program Committee (http://sites.ieee.org/scv-mems/).

Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He studies humans in a digital environment using cutting-edge computational methods, AI and Big Data. He has co-authored Modern Psychometrics, a popular textbook, and published over 90 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals including Nature Scientific Reports, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP), and Machine Learning, that have been cited over 14,000 times. His research
inspired a cover of The Economist, a 2014 theatre play “Privacy”, multiple TED talks, a video game, and was discussed in thousands of books, press articles, podcasts, and documentaries. Michał was behind the first press article warning against Cambridge Analytica, research warning against the privacy risks that they have exploited, and research examining the efficiency of the methods they used. Michał Kosiński holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Cambridge and master’s degrees in psychometrics and in social psychology. He was the Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, a researcher at Microsoft Research, and a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford’s Computer
Science Department.

Michał Kurtyka was the Minister of Climate and Environment of Poland in 2018-2021. In April 2018, he was appointed as Government Plenipotentiary for the Presidency of COP24 – the United Nations Climate Summit in Poland. In December 2018, he became the COP24 President, which ended with a success. At the 24th UN climate summit, the international community agreed on the Katowice Rulebook, implementing the Paris Agreement. He is a graduate of the prestigious Parisian École Polytechnique and a scholarship holder in the field of quantum optics of the National Institute of Standards and Technologies, located near Washington, D.C., where he worked under the leadership of Nobel laureate in physics William D. Phillips. During the course of his studies, he also specialised in economics, with particular focus on market organisation, studying under Professor Jean Tirole, the 2014 Nobel laureate in economics. In the field of international economics, he studied at the University in Louvain-la-Neuve and he acquired his master’s degree at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics. He defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Warsaw. He was a lecturer in the field of change management, economics, market organization and industrial strategy at the University of Warsaw, the Collegium Civitas and the Oxford Programme On Modern Poland. He is a co-author of the concept of implementation of effective changes in an enterprise, described in the book Change Management. From Strategy to Action, as well as the author of the book From Restructuring to Modernisation. Delayed Transformation of the Polish Power Sector in 1990–2009. He began his professional career in the Office of the Committee for European Integration, in the team of Minister Jan Kułakowski – responsible for conducting accession negotiations with the European Union – where he led the analytical team and was directly responsible for the field of energy and transport. Later, he oversaw the modernisation of many Polish companies by supporting them in adapting to the challenges of the European and global markets. He was a promoter of European cooperation in the area of industrial change and adjustment of the European industry to the challenges of globalisation at, among others, the European University of Labour and the Dublin Foundation.

A graduate of the Faculty of Transport of the Silesian University of Technology (doctoral dissertation in the field of Machine Construction and Operation). He worked as an assistant professor at the same university. He also completed postgraduate studies in Organization Management. Mr. Krupa is a tax expert for means of car transport and Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Koleje Śląskie. In the years 2006–2010 he was a councilor of the Katowice City Council, and in 2010–2014 he was the deputy mayor of Katowice. In 2014, he announced his election program – “Agreement with the inhabitants of Katowice”, and was elected the president of Katowice. In 2018, after winning the first round of the elections, he was re-elected to the office of president. He was the Plenipotentiary for the creation of a metropolitan union in the Silesian Voivodeship, with statutory rights to prepare the organizational and legal union. He is a member of the board of the Union of Communes and Poviats of the Central Subregion of the Silesian Voivodeship and the co-chairman of the team for infrastructure, local development, regional policy and the environment at the Joint Government and Local Government Committee of which he is a member.

Founder and President of the largest medical company in Poland, BetaMed SA, providing medical services in the patient’s home and in the Medical Center Clinic in Chorzów. Employs approx. 3,200 people, takes care of over 6,000 patients. It has 91 branches of home care in the 11 voivodships in Poland.

The owner and President of BetaMed International in Las Vegas.

The owner of the Drzazga Clinic brand – the Laser Therapy and Aesthetic Medicine Clinic offering exclusive facial and body treatments using state-of-the-art lasers.

The owner of the “Dono de Scheggia” store, an exclusive fashion store offering the latest collections from world fashion capitals such as Milan, London, Paris or Vienna.
Beata Drzazga is a speaker at many Polish and international economic and medical conferences. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at GWSH in Katowice. Expert in the field of health service management. Participant of many economic missions e.g. to Nevada, California, Peru, Chile, China, Germany, Czech Republic, France.

Winner of over 200 prestigious awards and distinctions awarded in Poland as well as internationally.
She owes her success to passion, self-denial, self-discipline and loveing people. Her life sentence is: “Success is to be successful, but always remain yourself”.

A FinTech and Banking Technology senior executive with Fortune 500 US-based leading technology company and Non-Executive Director with over 25 years of experience in the financial services technology sector in the US and EMEA. Member of the Board of Trustees at Vital Voices Europe in London, UK, the European arm of Washington-based Vital Voices Global Partnership, investing in women leaders around the world. Through her business and social impact activities, Alex is focused on creating value for all stakeholders, pushes the boundaries and brings people together to invest in sustainable and impactful initiatives. Holds a B.A. in International Relations from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and an MSc in European Policy Making from London School of Economics in London, UK. In 2015,
participated in the prestigious Fortune Most Powerful Women/US State Department Global Mentoring Program in the US, matching emerging global women leaders with US-based women CEOs. Job shadowed Katheen Murphy,
President of Fidelity Personal Investing in Boston, USA. In 2016 and 2018, shortlisted in the Top 10 for the “Woman in Technology” Award by the Banking Technology Awards in London and in the Paytech Leadership Award in July 2018 respectively, recognizing individual contributions to the innovation in IT in the payment industry. Invited to the 2016
Leadership Exchange Program by the Forum for Dialogue Foundation, a program co-organized with the American Jewish Committee in the US. In October 2018, named the winner of the 2018 Goldman Sachs & Fortune Global Women Leaders Award in the US, recognizing global women leaders paying it forward. In March 2019, named Global Ambassador by Bank
of America at the BoA’s Global Ambassadors Program advancing women’s economic empowerment through leadership development and skill-building. In 2019, launched a youth empowerment and entrepreneurship-focused
foundation in the name of her great grandmother, Leopolda Wild. A trusted adviser to leaders, mentor and a mother of four children.

Michał Łakomski Director of the Digitization and Cybersecurity Office, Mayor's Proxy for Smart City, City of Poznan
Celina Mikołajczak Vice President of Manufacturing Engineering, QuantumScape
Prof. Zbigniew Nawrat Professor, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice
Kapil Chhibber Technology Partnership Development executive, Bank of America
Prof. Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska Associate professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Automatic, Control and Robotics at the AGH University of Science and Technology
Mariusz Jankowski Director, Investor Assistance Department, Katowice City Hall

Michal Lakomski is the Mayor’s Proxy for Smart City and the Director of Digitalization and Cybersecurity for the city of Poznan. A graduate of the Poznan University and a respected smart city expert. Michal has been the driving force behind Poznan’s digital transformation since 2017. Responsible for the implementation of innovative systems and e-services for both the residents of Poznan and the employees of Poznan City Hall. Michal is a champion of innovation with a keen interest in open data and new technologies. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences.

As QuantumScape’s Chief Manufacturing Officer, Celina Mikolajczak leads teams spanning the battery development process — from materials sourcing and cell engineering to automation equipment design and EH&S — and is responsible for bringing QuantumScape solid-state technology into mass production. Celina has held several leadership roles in her more than 20 years of working in Li-ion batteries. Prior to joining QuantumScape, she was Vice President of Engineering and Battery Technology at Panasonic Energy of North America, which produces Li-ion cells for Tesla at the Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada. Celina worked at Uber as Director of Battery Engineering, leading the design of battery packs for micro-mobility and urban air mobility applications. Before that, she led Cell Quality and Materials Engineering at Tesla as the company launched its Model S, Model X, Model 3, Powerwall and Powerpack products.
Celina has a particular passion for battery safety; she frequently publishes and speaks on the topic and has served on various Li-ion battery safety standards committees. Earlier in her career, she helped found the battery consulting group at Exponent and developed battery failure analysis techniques and safety standards related to consumer electronics devices

Zbigniew Nawrat is a theoretical physicist, who devoted his professional life to advancing the field of medical robotics and artificial organs. He pioneered research in the artificial organs domain, especially heart valve prostheses and blood pumps (POLVAD), and created the Robin Heart surgical robot. He developed the application of computer simulation in surgical planning and founded the International Society for Medical Robotics and Bio-Cybernetics Laboratory.

Kapil Chhibber is a Technology Partnership Development executive in in the Global Technology. He is responsible for strategic partnerships with emerging technology companies and venture capital coverage. Key focus areas include consumer, small business and wealth management technology, financial technology, digital identity, marketing technology and enterprise software.
Prior to joining the bank, Kapil held roles in strategic planning and business development with Microsoft Corporation. During his tenure with Microsoft, he was a member of a team responsible for the long-term planning and strategic direction. In addition, he served as a founding member of Office Live, leading the development, planning and negotiation of partnerships across several online services.
He also held roles in venture capital / private equity with Portage Venture Partners and The Parthenon Group. He began his career as an investment banker.
Kapil was a recipient of the 40 Under 40 Award from the San Francisco Business Times in 2014. He currently serves as an executive committee member of the board of directors, and chair of the marketing committee for the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
Kapil holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Finance and Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Management Information Systems and Finance with Honors from the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.

Joanna Jaworek-Korjakowska, associate professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Automatic Control and Robotics at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland. In 2019 she obtained Habilitation in the field of technical sciences with emphasis in artificial intelligence. Prof. Jaworek has been awarded Bekker Fellowship from the National Agency for Academic Exchange to conduct research at the Department of Pathology at the Stanford University, USA.

She is an expert at the Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE), member of IEEE, Polish Artificial Intelligence Society, and International Dermoscopy Society as well as an alumnus of the TOP 500 Innovator programme at Stanford University, USA. She has been involved in several national (NCN, NCBiR) and international research projects including EPSRC, FAST Healthcare Network Plus, DAAD, National Institutes of Health and NAWA Spinaker, Bekker programs. Her main research interests focus on computer vision, data mining, artificial intelligence especially deep learning methods, anomaly detection as well as clustering. J. Jaworek has been awarded Honorable Mention Award during the CVPR’19 conference (ISIC workshop), MNiSW Scholarships for outstanding young scientists 2017-2020, and Individual award from the AGH-UST Rector for best publishing scientists 2017-2022.

A graduate of Inter – faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the University of Silesia in Katowice. An M.A. in Political Science and Sociology, a PhD Student. Currently a local government employee and a social activist.
Adistinguished advocate of downtown revitalization and the return to city centers. Before the EU accession referendum, he had worked at the Regional Center of European Information in Katowice. Following his studies in Germany, he was involved in the creation of the Silesian Metropolis at the office of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Association. A schol arship beneficiary of the “Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Kolleg für Good Government” Program, Robert Bosh Foundation.
Mayor’s Representative in charge for Investors’ Service at Chorzów City Hall since 2015 and the Director of Investors Assistance Department at Katowice City Hall since 2019.

Clay Bullwinkel Founder and CEO, Silicon Valley Flow LLC, Tech Entrepreneur and Consultant
Prof. Tomasz Górecki Vice-Dean for grants and cooperation with business of Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Shana Penn Executive Director, Taube Philanthropies
Prof. Krzysztof Dyczkowski Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
Prof. Renate Fruchter Professor, Founding Director, Project Based Learning Laboratory, Stanford University
Prof. Waldemar Priebe Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
Mr. Clay A. Bullwinkel is Founder and CEO, Silicon Valley Flow LLC, an advisory firm in IT venture management.  For 35 years Clay has pioneered new businesses with measurable new value for customers, employees, and stock holders.  His disciplines cover general management, finance, team recruiting and building, product development, product management, sales and marketing.  He currently specializes in building companies through game changing rehabilitation and acceleration of product development, product management, and sales for companies in voice, text, and graphical communications.  Solution coverage can be consumer, professional, enterprise, or all.  He is a former executive of 3Com (network interfaces, protocols, infrastructure, and network management) and Hewlett Packard (vertical market solutions marketing).  More recently he was CEO of Aiton Caldwell Inc., a VoIP telecommunications venture with its parent in Gdansk, Poland.  In 2003 Clay co-founded the U.S. Poland Trade Council, and is a member of its Board of Directors.  Since 1983, seven years before official conversion to capitalism, he has been working with Poland-based businesses, including with Univex of Krakow, for which he co-designed audio products which influenced Apple’s iPod.  He has his B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University.  He speaks intermediate Polish and German.  A 4th generation San Franciscan, Clay resides with his wife Denise in nearby Portola Valley.  They have two professionally employed daughters.  With family and friends he enjoys history and science fiction reading, gardening, hiking, fly fishing, and a variety of sports including participation in middle distance foot races.

Tomasz Górecki is a professor at the Department of Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. His main research interests relate to methods of artificial intelligence, machine learning and time series analysis and their applications. He has many years of experience in cooperation with the industry, incl. Lidl, Samsung, OLX and Allegro. In addition, for years he has been cooperating with specialists in other fields of science, including economics, chemistry, geography or transport, combining practice with theory.

Shana is Executive Director of Taube Philanthropies and a scholar-in-residence at the Graduate Theological Union’s Center for Jewish Studies, in Berkeley. Her award-winning book, Solidarity’s Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland (University of Michigan Press, 2005) was published in Polish in 2014 as Sekret Solidarnosci (W.A.B. Publishers).
She has a Master’s degree in European Studies from Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Other books include Gender Politics and Everyday Life in Central and Eastern Europe, co-edited with Jill Massino (Palgrave USA 2009) and chapters in Beacon Book of Essays by Contemporary American Women Writers edited by Wendy Martin (Beacon Press 1996), and the Routledge
Handbook of Women in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2020)

Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Associate professor in Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His main research interests are computational intelligence methods in decision making, computer vision and natural language modeling. Co-author of an intelligent decision system supporting the diagnosis of ovarian cancer – OvaExpert.Currently actively involved in cooperation with a football club Lech Poznań on sports data analysis. He received Microsoft Research Azure Award (2015) and IBM Faculty Award (2010). Member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Tech­nology (EUSFLAT). He has many years of experience in IT project management. Co-founder and longtime CEO of an IT company producing and implementing an ERP class system. He is a graduate of the Top 500 Innovators program at Stanford University (2012). He was a co-organizer of US-Poland Innovation HUB.

Dr. Renate Fruchter is the founding director of the Project Based Learning Laboratory 
(PBL Lab), lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Senior Research Engineer thrust leader of Collaboration Technologies at the Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE), at Stanford. She leads a research effort to develop collaboration technologies for multidisciplinary, geographically distributed teamwork, and e-Learning. Her interests focus on R&D and larger scale deployment of collaboration technologies that include Web-based team building, synchronous and asynchronous knowledge capture, sharing and re-use, project memory, corporate memory, and mobile solutions for global teamwork and e-Learning. In addition, she has established in 1998 a strong research effort focusing on the impact of technology on learning, team interaction, and assessment. She is the leader and developer of the innovative “Computer Integrated Architecture/Engineering/Construction Global Teamwork” course launched in 1993, at Stanford, that engages universities from US, Japan, and Europe. Dr. Renate Fruchter has received her Engineering Diploma from the Institute for Civil Engineering in Bucharest, Romania (1981), her MSc. (1986) and Ph.D. (1990) from Technion Israel Institute of Technology. She has joined Stanford University in 1990.

Dr. Priebe’s research merges biology with chemistry and focuses on the design and development of drugs that selectively target DNA and inhibitors of signaling and metabolic pathways important to tumor progression and survival.
He has a long term interest in the field of carbohydrates ranging from organic chemistry of carbohydrates to the exploitation of carbohydrate metabolism in normal cells and cancer cells. Dr. Priebe is noted for his successful development of new therapeutic entities for the treatment of cancer. During his career, he has generated an extensive library of distinct, novel cancer-fighting compounds (numbering in the thousands) covering many structural scaffolds and diverse therapeutic areas. The invention of these agents has led to many patents and numerous licenses. Three of his drugs are in clinical trials and several others are in different stages of preclinical development. In addition to his position at M. D. Anderson, Dr. Priebe holds the title of Professor of Chemistry in the Republic of Poland. Dr. Priebe has published more than 200+ peer-reviewed journal articles and his work has led to over 40 patents. Additionally, he has organized at least 25 national and international conferences and been an invited lecturer on more than 150 occasions

 

Dominik Schmidt Managing Director, QVT Investment
Prof. Andrzej Szarata Dean, Civil Engineering, Cracow University of Technology
Marcin Seniuk Director of Startups Development Department at Polish Agency for Enterprise Development
Prof. Artur Kozłowski Director, Łukasiewicz-EMAG
Cezary Mazurek Director of Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) affiliated to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznan, Poland.
X Stanisław Dziekoński Professor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

Dr. Schmidt heads QVT’s Palo Alto office. He focuses primarily on technological investments. Prior to joining QVT
in May 2013, Dr. Schmidt was employed by Intel Corporation as Senior Director of Wireless Engineering from 2004 to 2010 and as Chief Technology Officer in the Intel Foundry from 2010 to 2013. Between 2000 and 2004, Dr. Schmidt co-founded and was the Chief Executive Officer of Airify Communications Corporation, a wireless multi-protocol semiconductor company, which was sold to Intel in August 2004. Prior to that he also co-founded Pixel Devices International, a CMOS
imaging company, in 1997, which was sold to Agilent in 2002 and served as Vice President of Technology there until 1999.
In addition, Dr. Schmidt has worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center/Argonne National Labs (from 1999 to 2004) and at Altera Corporation (as a Senior Engineer from 1989 to 1997). He has taught at U.C. Berkeley, Tsinghua University in Beijing and the International Technological University and written more than 70 technical papers and has over 90 patents. Dr. Schmidt earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Materials Science from U.C., Berkeley in 1989, an M.S.  in Electrical Engineering in 1995, an M.S. Management in 1998, a Ph.D. minor in Aeronautical Engineering, in 1999 and a Ph.D., Electrical Engineering in 2003 all from Stanford University.

Graduate of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice (1999), a specialist in the field of analyzes of the functional effectiveness of the development of transport infrastructure, with particular emphasis on the modernization of railway lines and the road system. In 2011, he was appointed to the Program Council for the Development of the Transport System of the City of Krakow, operating at the Mayor of the City. Since 2015, he has been a member of the Construction Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences Branch in Kraków. Professor Szarata has published over 80 scientific publications and one monograph. He is the author or co-author of over 140 project works and has been involved in many EU-funded projects, including Civitas Caravel, MAX, Tracit, Posmetrans, GSP and others.
He is active in the field of transport, an expert of the European Commission and a consultant of many projects implemented by local governments. He was awarded the Honorary and Gold Badge of the Cracow University of Technology and three times the award of the Association of Communication Engineers and Technicians (Ernest 2011, 2013 and 2014).

Graduated from the Collegium Civitas (Warsaw) in 2003 with MA degree in International Relations and University of Warsaw in 2009 in Evaluation of EU projects. For several years professionally related with European funds programs for entrepreneurs and local governments. At Polish Agency for Enterprise Development has been co-creating and implementing enterprise support instruments based on new products and cooperation with innovation centers creating the national startup ecosystem since 2008.

Currently participates in the creation of startups support programs under the 2021-2027 EU cohesion funds.

Artur Kozłowski, D. Sc., Institute Professor, Director of Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Innovative Technologies EMAG

Manager and scientist with 15-years experience in management. PhD of technical sciences. Professional experience in team management as well as the management of financial and intellectual capital gained during 18 years as a manager and chief executor of R&D projects and implementation projects, both in Poland and abroad. Mr Kozłowski uses fresh approach to challenges and long-term experience of an R&D manager in the implementation of new projects/technologies and in fulfilling the R&D strategy of the EMAG Institute.

Mr Kozłowski is a member of steering committees of many projects in the realm of ICT, telecommunications, power engineering, new technologies, and security, such as National Scheme for Assessment and Certification of IT Products according to Common Criteria, Regional Cyber Security Centre, Public Administration Catalogues. He is also an active member of numerous associations, technical, scientific and organizational committees, scientific councils, expert councils, and technical committees.

Graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology, specializing in processing and use of electricity. Mr. Kozłowski completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science of the Silesian University of Technology in the field of “Computer networks, microcomputer systems and databases” and postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Organization and Management of the Silesian University of Technology in the field of “Modern methods of organization management”.  He participated in a number of national and overseas trainings which supplemented his education in the scope of science financing, commercialization, technology transfer, and projects management.

For over 25 years of professional activity at PSNC, Cezary has been involved in building Polish eInfrastructure. He has participated in many national and international research and development projects, focused on advancing technologies and services as well as fostering the digital transformation of science, industry and society. In his R&D activity, Cezary is mainly focused on integrating a variety of specialized software components into consistent systems for scientific experiments and end-user network services. His scientific interests are focused on big data analysis in the model of digital twins.

He launched in 2016 the operations of HPC4Poland Digital Innovation Hub at PSNC with the focus on deployment of services based on High Performance Computing technologies for Polish enterprises in leading industries.

Author or co-author of over 100 papers in professional journals and conference proceedings. Currently, the member of GÉANT Program Planning Committee. Since 2020 he is the President of Wielkopolska ICT Cluster.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cezarymazurek/

Polish Roman Catholic priest, professor of social sciences, academic teacher at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, rector of this university in the terms of 2012–2016 and 2016–2020.

X Dziekoński is the author of over 160 pedagogical and theological publications, including seven monographic books, and the co-author and co-editor of numerous books on pedagogy and catechetics. He is also a member of the scientific councils of journals in this field.

John Townsend Former VP Technology, Policy Velodyne Lidar Inc.
Prof. Lech Grzesiak Dean, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology
Anne Kiremidjian Professor, Stanford University
Karolina Maria Nowak Director of Innovation and Bio-Tech Medical Research Agency
Paweł Poszytek General Director, FRSE; Director, the National Agency of the Erasmus + Program and the European Solidarity Corps
Prof. Jacek Marciniak Associate professor in Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Former: VP of Technology and Policy. Responsible for communication and education regarding Lidar for Autonomous vehicle and ADAS. Engaging with government Concretional leaders and regulatory policies agencies both in US government, Europe, and China. Also, was an active member of the CAV Working Group, responsible for developing recommendations regarding autonomous vehicle policy in China. Velodyne is one of many members which also include GM, Ford, Tesla, Goodyear, Nvidia, etc. Ongoing projects, development of the Smart City applications, Military, Security, Maritime, Trucking and IOT.

Past projects have included a wide variety of technology and management skills including a (Full Ocean Depth Submarine Project) for Schmidt Ocean Foundation, Full ocean depth Autonomous Underwater Vehicle early stages research and development prototype build. Enabling’s programs for deep ocean mapping, Autonomous Sail drones, IOT, IMCI. Also, I was one of the founders of the Earth Air and Space Educational Foundation. I have work for Google, IBM, NASA, University Associates, Intel, Applied Materials, AMD

Lech M. Grzesiak (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Warsaw, Poland, in 1976, 1985, and 2002, respectively. In 1977, he joined WUT, where he is currently a Full Professor and holds the position of the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include applications of artificial intelligence in control systems, generally dedicated to adjustable-speed drives, servo drives, power electronic converters, and electrical energy generating systems.

Kiremidjian’s current research focuses on the design and implementation of wireless sensor networks for structural damage and health monitoring and the development of robust algorithms for structural damage diagnosis that can be embedded in wireless sensing units. She works on structural component and systems reliability methods; structural damage evaluation models; and regional damage, loss and casualty estimation methods utilizing geographic information and database management systems for portfolios of buildings or spatially distributed lifeline systems assessment with ground motion and structure correlations.

Dr Karolina Nowak  is a director of the Department of Innovation and Biotechnology Development.  She was a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She received a prestigious scholarship at Stanford University and did an Internship at Stanford Biomaterials and Advanced Drug Delivery Laboratory. Doctor Nowak is a graduate of Executive MBA at ESG University of Quebec at Montreal and SGH She is a patent inventor of new pharmaceutical drug formulation dedicated for patients with alveolar osteitis.

Graduated in English Studies from the University of Warsaw. In 2007, the University of Warsaw awarded to him a doctoral degree in humanities with specialisation in linguistics.

A long-term member of advisory and consultative groups on languages at the European Commission and the Ministry of National Education. In 2017-2018, he co-authored a core curriculum for general education in modern languages.

Author of many articles on the model of cooperation between science and business and on language education published in Poland and abroad (e.g. in Journal on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics and by such renowned publishing houses as Cambridge and Multilingual Matters).

In recognition of his academic achievements, dr Paweł Poszytek has been appointed an inter-disciplinary fellow of International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (2019).

Since May 2016, Director General of FRSE, the National Agency of the Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes. On 21 October 2020, appointed by the Minister of Education and Science a member of the Council of the National Agency for Academic Exchange.

As part of his official duties at FRSE, he is responsible for Polish edition of the European Language Label competition. Since 2017, the WorldSkills Poland official delegate.

Associate professor in Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Rector’s Proxy for Distance Education. His main research interests are Intelligent Tutoring Systems, adaptive e-learning content and ontological modelling based on wordnet based ontologies. He has experience in applications of ontology-based approach in Intelligent Tutoring Systems and semantic search engines, and  creation of interactive digital collections. He has many years of experience in IT project management. Founder and CEO of an IT company developing e-learning platforms and content.

Michał Bańka Assistant Professor at Warsaw University of Technology; Visiting Scholar at Stanford University
Paul Bryzek Berkeley Co-Head of Consulting
Shad Laws Principal, AV Robotics Engineer, Cruise
Rick Tewell CEO, AEye, Inc
Ghazal Izadi Vice-President, Geothermic Solution
Prof. Jozef Glova Professor, Technical University in Kosice Slovakia

Creator of the Polish start-up capital investment market. One of Poland’s most highly esteemed experts in cooperation between start-ups, accelerators, seed capital, venture capital funds, and public institutions.

(ex) CEO & Co-founder at Accelerator Accelpoint

An experienced technology leader, consultant, and developer with over 12 years’ experience across the entire software development life cycle: leadership, coding, DevOps, testing, and production deployment in multi-platform, peer-to-peer, programming environments. Experienced in high-level strategy consulting to C-level leaders in fortune 500 companies.

Engineer, designer, entrepreneur, leader. Driven by a desire to build teams to create new technologies, Shad enjoys leading programs by working across teams to develop product roadmaps and corporate strategies

Shad recently joined Cruise Automation. In this role, he is working on evolving their planning and control systems. Prior to this role, he was the VP of Advanced Development and Product Planning at Peloton Technology, where he led Peloton’s highly automated (L4) truck program, AutoFollow, including product planning, OEM / Tier 1 partnerships, technical development, and operational execution. Before this, he was the Autonomous Driving Lead for Renault at Renault-Nissan Silicon Valley, where he led their autonomous driving efforts in California, collaborating with academic labs, working with startups, collaborating with programs at HQ in France and Japan, and piloting their prototype vehicles. He has a background in control/mechatronic engineering, design thinking, startups, and software development.

Rick Tewell joined AEye from Velodyne Lidar, where he served most recently as Chief Operating Officer. During his career, Tewell has held progressively senior roles in both hardware and embedded software across industry-leading high technology companies, including NVIDIA, Freescale, NXP and VeriSilicon. He brings more than 30 years of engineering and operations experience, including two decades in automotive electronics.

Ghazal Izadi lead and manage the Geoscience & Petroleum Engineering team from a discipline and business perspective. Advise customers on specific solutions to drive improved outcomes in well construction as well as field production and recovery. Provide subsurface related advice and input to multi-disciplinary projects, from exploration through discovery and appraisal to field development and production.

Prof. Josef Glova has worked for over several years in academic and professional environments, of which the last fifteen years have been at the university level. He is enthusiastic about working with data and numbers that provide valuable insights into business decisions; his work experience includes managing complex projects, both individually and as part of a team on financial, statistical, research and economic analysis and management engagements (studies and reports).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Prof. Piotr Moncarz Chairman, USPTC; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
Jerzy Orkiszewki President, US-Polish Trade Council; VP of Engineering, Cutera
Mariusz Tomaka President, USPTC Poland; Board Member at TRITEM, Board Advisor Euvic
Robert Barski Jacob of Paradies Academia in Gorzów Wielkopolski,
Jacek Chmielewski Research Scholar, Auburn University
Magdalena Diering Assistant Professor, Poznan University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

Piotr D. Moncarz, Ph.D., P.E., NAE, born and raised in Poland, graduated from vocational high school program in road and bridge construction in Poznan, Poland, receives Ph.D. degree in earthquake engineering at Stanford University. Registered professional engineer in civil engineering in numerous U.S. states and Canadian provinces; member of the National Academy of Engineers.  Adjunct Professor, Stanford University; Senior Fellow and Principal Engineer, Exponent, Inc., an international science and technology public corporation initiated in Silicon Valley; President and CEO, Geothermic Solution LLC, green energy, disruptive technology company. With an engineering career focused on failure analysis and failure prevention led and participated in hundreds of studies, remediation and research projects. He is active in academic programs, consulting work, and international business from power plant development projects, energy technologies and economics, electro-mobility, to high-tech ventures. former  Board member of the of the Polish National Center for Research and Development, formerly Academic Director and co-organizer of Top 500 Innovators program at Stanford University; co-organizer and leader of Stanford University/ Silicon Valley workshops for Polish industry and government leaders.  Decorated by the President of Poland with the Officer Cross of Polonia Restituta. He is a frequent speaker in venues pertaining to system safety and performance, engineering knowledge transfer, trends in technologies, innovativeness, sustainable development, and stimulation of international cooperation and competitiveness.

Mr. Jerzy Orkiszewski was born and raised in Poland. He holds an M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the
Warsaw Technical University, Department of Fine Mechanics (currently Department of Mechatronics) and École Nationale
Supérieure de l’Electronique et de ses Application in Cergy, France and submitted his PhD thesis at the Warsaw University
of Technology. Since 1989 he resides in California with his wife, a practicing medical doctor from Warsaw, and their daughter
who after completing her medical education in Poznan, Poland, practices medicine in the USA. In Silicon Valley he has been
working for variety of product development biomedical device companies: Cutera, Inc., Ellex Medical, Lumenis, Inc. and
Medical Group of Coherent, Inc., where he has been providing the technology and business leadership serving in various
engineering, management and executive positions. Jerzy used to be on Polish national modern pentathlon team and plays
classical guitar. He is also a pilot with commercial and instrument ratings.Jerzy is a contributing editor of “Przeglad Lotniczy
– Aviation Review” aviation magazine in Poland. He provides to USPTC a strong link to the US biomedical technology sector.

Mariusz Tomaka is active as organizer, co-founder, and CEO of innovative electronic and software companies in Poland focused on local and international markets. He specializes in building and running innovative companies – startups and medium size companies– focused on international markets and leading teams of engineers and managers to achieve challenging technology and business objectives. Prior to current activities at TRITEM (the guru company in Industrial Digital Twin and automated testing for critical systems) and EUVIC he worked as  CEO (PL) for DisplayLink in Poland and VP in Cambridge UK, at Neubloc,LLC  board adviser – share holder at ABF. Mariusz is a President of US-Polish Trade Council in Poland and extended board member in USA, Silicon Valley , he is a Chamber Council Member at The Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Mariusz is Vice-president of OG at Telecommunications and Polish Information Processing Society and member of the board of PTI at national level..

Robert Barski, PhD –Since 2016 assistant professor at Jacob of Paradies University located in Gorzów Wielkopolski. Graduate TOP 500 Innovators Program of Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Graduate of Technical University in Zielona Góra Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Doctor of technical sciences in the field of construction and operation of machines. In the years 1990-2015, an assistant professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Zielona Góra. In the years 2006-2015 Director of the Academic Enterprise Incubator at the University of Zielona Góra. CEO at Smart Data Lights Sp. z o.o. in Katowice. Has many years of experience related to entrepreneurship, technology transfer and vehicle construction. Associate of the Center for and Technology Transfer of the University of Zielona Góra. Scientific interests: academic entrepreneurship, ecological aspects of the use of internal combustion engines, methods for measuring and limiting
the toxicity of internal combustion engines, electromobility and IoT. Member of the US-Polish Trade Council, member of the Polish Business and Innovation Centres Association in Poland and member of the Polish Scientific Society of Combustions Engines.

He is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Auburn University, academic teacher, researcher in: transportation network planning, road safety improvement and implementation, bridge live load and fatigue analysis in the USA, Weigh-in-motion data processing and analysis, big data processing, SQL databases developer. He is a Bentley MicroStation user and application developer (MDL and VB.Net), and software developer: C++, Visual Studio, VBA, MATLAB. He prepared few four stage transport demand models in PTV VISUM, microsimulation in PTV VISSIM for cities and counties. He was involved in Florida, California, and Montana Department of Transportation research projects. Lots of professional projects for private companies and public sectors in the field of transport were prepared by him, mainly in the field of road safety improvement, road network planning, traffic prediction, and feasibility studies.

Her main research interests are quality engineering and measurement system analysis. She is a trainer in SixSigma. Her professional interests also include project management, science commercialization and quality of education. She is an expert for the European Commission and a reviewer in several journals in the field of mechanical engineering. She has extensive experience in organizational, scientific and structural project management. She works in multidisciplinary, international teams and at work she promotes a culture of teamwork, design thinking and innovation. She is a coordinator and a member of the Steering Committee of the international scientific-technical MANUFACTURING conference (since 2010). She is a graduate of the Top 500 Innovators program at Stanford University (2012). She was a coordinator of the US-Poland Innovation HUB program, USPTC (2012-2017). Associated with the US-Polish Trade Council since 2012.

Prof. Krzysztof Dyczkowski Associate Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Aleksandra Gren Country Manager, Fiserv Poland
Kaja Grzywaczewska Strategy consultant at McKinsey and Company
Robert Hryniewicz Director of Product Marketing, Cloudera
Kamila Krawiec Program Coordinator, USPTC
Gregory Grabiec Head of US-Poland Investments and Initiatives, USPTC; US Strategic Partnership Catalyst, Euvic

Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Associate professor in Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His main research interests are computational intelligence methods in decision making, computer vision and natural language modeling. Co-author of an intelligent decision system supporting the diagnosis of ovarian cancer – OvaExpert.Currently actively involved in cooperation with a football club Lech Poznań on sports data analysis. He received Microsoft Research Azure Award (2015) and IBM Faculty Award (2010). Member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Tech­nology (EUSFLAT). He has many years of experience in IT project management. Co-founder and longtime CEO of an IT company producing and implementing an ERP class system. He is a graduate of the Top 500 Innovators program at Stanford University (2012). He was a co-organizer of US-Poland Innovation HUB.

Country Manager for Fiserv Poland (NASDAQ: FISV) responsible for new tech initiatives for major EMEA-based financial institutions, with a focus on CEE. Recipient of the Goldman Sachs-Fortune Global Women Leaders Award. 20 years experience in financial technology in EMEA.  Advisory Board Member of Vital Voices Poland and a Trustee of the Vital Voices Europe Board in London, UK, advocate of women’s leadership and women in tech initiatives. BA in International Relations from University of British Columbia in Vancouver, MSc in Policy Making from the London School of Economics.

Strategy consultant at McKinsey and Company specializing in operations, manufacturing, and growth strategy and transformation. She serves clients in the production, mining, energy, and pharmaceutical sectors worldwide. MBA candidate at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, MS in mechanical engineering at Columbia University,  MS in management and production engineering at the Lodz University of Technology, Fulbright Graduate Student Award alumna. Co-leader of Data Science in Practice initiative, Mentor at Flex alumni Mentoring program. Associated with the US-Polish Trade Council since 2017.

Robert is the Director of Product Marketing at Cloudera driving messaging and technical content on the Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) and the integrated data lifecycle. Prior to Cloudera, Robert was an AI evangelist at Hortonworks, CTO at Authentise (a 3D printing security & analytics startup at Singularity Labs), Software Engineer at Cisco, NASA et al. Robert’s graduate work at Case Western Reserve University focused on AI & robotics, including early work on autonomous vehicles. He is a frequent speaker at enterprise data conferences.

BA – graduated from the Silesian University of Technology in the field of Public Administration. Between 2012-2017 Kamila had worked for InPost Finance, a subsidiary of Integer.pl Capital Group, and Wiewiorka.pl LLC, a start-up in the environmental sector where she was responsible, inter alia, for obtaining EU funds. Currently, she works as an eCommerce Consultant for several start-ups. Her professional interests include e-commerce, shipping, and innovations. Associated with the US-Polish Trade Council since 2017.

Gregory Grabiec is a consultative problem solver with a creative, analytical and agile mind. He has a 22-year career managing global projects of $300,000,000+ for corporations, foundations, NGOs, and high-net-worth clients. His expertise is in creating bespoke strategic and operational solutions to drive market impact for the healthcare, biotech, non-profit, financial and IT sectors in both the United States and Europe. For the past 9 years, Gregory has focused on integrating business paradigms between US and Polish markets through consulting, coaching and engaging with innovative companies. Most recently, he has worked on enabling IT/ICT projects between Poland and Silicon Valley. Gregory holds a BA in Biology and MBA in Finance from the University of Houston, and a Masters of International Management (MIM) degree from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix, AZ, where he was a Presidential Scholar.  Currently, Gregory is engaged as US Strategic Partnership Catalyst at Euvic and serves as Head of US-Poland Investments and Initiatives at the US-Polish Trade Council (USPTC). Gregory strives to convey a personal touch in all his endeavors.

Prof. Andrzej Nowak Chair, Dep. Civil Faculty Engineering, Auburn University
Michał Bańka Assistant Professor at Warsaw University of Technology; Visiting Scholar at Stanford University

A graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, in the United States since 1976, currently the dean of Civil Faculty Engineering at Auburn University. Before that, he was a professor at the University of Nebraska, University of Michigan and the State University of New York. His main scientific field is the theory of reliability and its applications. He made a fundamental contribution to the development of the American AASHTO bridge standard and ACI 318. Prof. Nowak is an honorary doctor of the Warsaw University of Technology, an honorary professor of the Cracow University of Technology, he received the title of professor from the hands of the President of the Republic of Poland. He is the president of the Polish Council Engineers in North America, and was awarded the Officer’s Order of Polonia Restituta, Moisseiff Medal (American Society of Civil Engineers), Bene Merentibus Medal (Warsaw University of Technology) and Casimir Gzowski Medal (Canadian Society of Civil Engineering). Prof. Andrzej S. Nowak is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and Fellow of the American Concrete Institute. He is the supervisor of 41 doctoral students.

Creator of the Polish start-up capital investment market. One of Poland’s most highly esteemed experts in cooperation between start-ups, accelerators, seed capital, venture capital funds, and public institutions.

(ex) CEO & Co-founder at Accelerator Accelpoint

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