Speakers 39. EuroPOWER & 9. OZE POWER

A graduate of the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences, specialty – computer science and economic cybernetics (1979) And Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Postgraduate (1998), Doctor of Economics (1988). Since graduating in 1979 to 2011, professionally related with the Department of Economic Policy and Planning, since 1989 with the Department of Finance and Banking Faculty of Economic Sciences. Longtime lecturer at the postgraduate study “Money and Banking”. In the years 1990 – 1994 active in commercial banking structures. He was the President of the Management Board of the Bank Cooperative Crafts in Warsaw, and in the years 1993 – 1994 co-organized the activities of the Polish Investment Bank SA where he was, i.a., Director of the Credit Department and Traders and Vice President (1997), responsible for retail banking.
In the years 1994 – 1997 – Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Privatization and Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Treasury, responsible for capital privatization, the restructuring of enterprises and companies of the Treasury, for the use of aid funds and the division of economic analysis in relation to the assets of the Treasury and responsible for supervising companies with foreign capital. He collaborated with investors and privatization advisors, Securities and Exchange Commission and the Stock Exchange. In the 1997 – 2007 – President of the Energy Regulatory Office.
In the period of 2007 – 2012 – President of the Management Board of Mostostal Zabrze Holding S.A. (MZH SA), a public company listed on the Stock Exchange in Warsaw. In the years 1995 -1997 chaired the Supervisory Board of “Petrochemia Plock” S.A, and in the years 1996 – 1998 – Council of the Stock Exchange in Warsaw. He participated in the work of the Supervisory Board of Powszechny Bank Kredytowy SA Warsaw, 1995 – 1996. During 2007-2012 he oversaw a number of commercial companies in the Group MZH SA.
Currently operates expertise and advice, being i.a. consultant to the Center for the Antitrust and Regulatory Study Faculty of Management University of Warsaw and the advisor to the President of the Employers of Poland. He is the author and co-author of dozens of articles and several scientific books on finance, economic policy, including regulation in the energy sector, as well as privatization.

Vice President of Energy Regulatory Office since 2012, since 2013 – Acting President of ERO.
Maciej Bando graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology. He also completed postgraduate studies in business and management, as well as various courses and trainings in this field. During many years of his professional career he gained experience working in different entities as financial director and Member of the Board responsible for finance and investment. In the years 2002-2009, he was involved in the activities of Polska Grupa Energetyczna, being Vice President of the Board of Pumped-Storage Hydroelectricity Plant (currently PGE Energia Odnawialna) and director of the Investment Bureau of PGE Dystrybucja Warszawa Teren. He is the author of various analyses and reports on energy, he also cooperated as an expert with, among others, CASE group.

Holds the PhD of Technical Sciences in the field of electrical power engineering and energy economics. Has been working at the Energy Regulatory Office URE since 2004, among others as the deputy director of the Department of Market Development and Consumer Issues. He took the position of URE President in 2019.
Experienced in international cooperation: serving as an expert of the European Commission for the TAIEX programmes and twin-project in Ukraine related to the functioning of the electricity market, security of energy supply, the balancing market and congestion management. Expert at Florence School of Regulation on the development and operation of regional electricity markets. National expert with the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). In March 2021 appointed for the position of ACER Board of Regulators’ (BoR) Vice Chairman.
Experienced in supervising energy companies, particularly in the field of financial reporting and audit as well as investment and development.
Author of numerous publications and studies on the functioning of electricity markets, including the grid access principles, balancing and regional markets.

Responsible for the strategy and development of the FAMUR Group. He graduated from the Cracow University of Economics. He worked in Ponar Wadowice SA, Ponar Silesia SA and in Toyota Motor Poland Co. Ltd. He held the position of CEO at Odlewnia Żeliwa Śrem SA, Pioma-Odlewnia Sp. z o.o. and at PGO SA.

Vice-President of the Management Board of Grupa Azoty S.A. since 20th March 2024.
He has over 20 years of managerial experience in strategy, development and restructuring.
From 2016 to 2024 he served as the Director of the Łukasiewicz Research Network – The Ignacy Mościcki Industrial Chemistry Research Institute in Warsaw. In 2014–2016 he led the Corporate Strategy and Development Department at Grupa Azoty S.A. and in 2009–2013 he headed the Strategy and Development Division at Zakłady Azotowe Puławy S.A. Prior to that, he worked for Mennica Państwowa S.A., Mennica – Metale Szlachetne Sp. z o.o. and Endress + Hauser Polska Sp. z o.o.
He graduated from the Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, where he also earned his doctoral degree in technical sciences. He completed postgraduate studies in Management at the Warsaw School of Economics and the Strategic Leadership Academy programme at ICAN Institute.
Supervisory Board membership: Prochem S.A. (since 2023), Grupa Azoty S.A. (2019-2020), Zakłady Azotowe Chorzów S.A. – Chair of the Supervisory Board (2012–2014). He also serves as Deputy Chair of the Board of the Polish Chamber of Chemical Industry (since 2019).

Since June 2021, CEO and then Member of the Management Board of Baltic Power, responsible for the construction of the first offshore wind farm of the ORLEN Group and Northland Power. Experienced manager and leader, expert in the field of energy and system innovation. Specialises in broadly defined business development from mergers and acquisitions, preparation and implementation of infrastructure investments, as well as in innovation implementation. Previously associated, among others, with Tauron, where, as vice-president, he was responsible for the implementation of the green turnaround. In addition, he was responsible for overseeing an investment portfolio of up to PLN 4 billion per year and supervised key investment projects such as the construction and restructuring of the Jaworzno 910 project. Previously, for about 10 years he was responsible for business development and strategy at GDF Suez Polska and led the M&A and development projects of GDF SUEZ Europe.

Jan Chadam is a practitioner with many years of experience in the management of companies and capital groups. In 2009-2015, he served as President of the Management Board of GAZ-SYSTEM S.A., and in 2015-2017 as President of the Management Board of Polskie LNG sp. z o.o. He was responsible for the implementation of the country’s largest infrastructure projects, including the strategic LNG terminal in Świnoujście along with the gas pipeline network. Mr Jan Chadam is also the author of numerous publications on finance and management.
Jan Chadam holds a PhD in Economics.

Anna has 17 years of finance and banking experience, including extensive expertise in structured finance.
Currently Anna is responsible for EBRD activity in Poland with focus on Power, Energy & Utilities as well as Natural Resources business segments. Her responsibilities involve structuring and execution of EBRD’s financings including project finance structures, public-private partnerships and privatisations.
Anna joined EBRD in 2006, and since then she has led numerous financing in different sectors (including also IT, transport, property) with an gradually increasing specialisation in energy and infrastructure. These transactions included wide range of complex debt, equity as well as syndicated deals. Prior to joining EBRD, Anna worked as an equity derivatives risk manager at Barclays Capital in London. Before that she gained experience at AIB in Dublin, HVB in Munich and National Bank of Poland.
Anna holds PhD in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, MA in Finance from the Warsaw School of Economics, CEMS Masters in International Management.

Head of the Ecotechnologies Laboratory at the Department of Biosystems Engineering, Poznań University of Life Sciences (PULS) –  the largest Polish biogas laboratory (over 250 laboratory scale fermenters and 20 biogas/biomethane plants under operation in PULS experimental farms). The creator of a scientific school in the field of anaerobic digestion and composting, and more broadly – biological methods of converting waste into energy. Expert cooperating with Polish government in the field of biogas, biomethane and biowaste management.

As the only Pole, was (2016-19) on the DBFZ scientific council in Leipzig (a federal institute monitoring the German biogas market) and (since 2018) is a member of scientific council of the Key Laboratory for Clean Renewable Energy Utilization Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, located at China Agricultural University. This unit, headed by Prof. Renjie Dong is involved in monitoring the world’s largest biogas market (over 45 million installations) and developing analyses for development ministries, preferred technologies for the Ministry of Agriculture of China, and suggesting the introduction or change of legal norms in this area.

Index h = 30, citations = 2,747 – according to Scopus. Author and co-author of over 450 scientific and popular science publications. The scope of conducted research mainly concerns the processes of biological biomass processing and organic waste (including anaerobic digestion, composting), greenhouse gas emissions and odors and the use of artificial intelligence technology in agricultural engineering. Co-author of 3 patents and 6 patent applications.

Deputy CEO of the Polish Biogas Group (now part of TotalEnergies), is in charge of preparing and implementing strategies to dynamize the development of PGB’s biogas and biomethane sector. She specializes in the energy sector. Since the beginning of her career, she has built and led the transformation of more than a dozen organizations within large corporations, including the Veolia group in France and Poland, Capgemini Consulting in France and Germany, and the Dalkia group in Poland.
Sabine Dujacquier has worked in the energy and environmental sector for 15 years, and has lived and worked in Poland for 12 years. She is Belgian and studied in France where she graduated from Institut d’Etudes Politiques Paris with a degree in Political Science and Economics.

Lukasz Gola is a manager with many years of experience in the Polish and European energy sector. He joined Hitachi Europe in 2009, responsible for analysis and business development in the energy sector in the CEE region. For several years, he also cooperated with the Regional Corporate Center on the preparation and implementation of the Hitachi Group’s development strategy in the region. Since 2014, Director of Business Development for Energy Transmission and Distribution Solutions in Europe. The projects he completed include some of the largest investment projects in the energy generation in the region, as well as smart grid solutions, distinguished as the most innovative implementations in the energy industry. Lukasz received PhD from the Warsaw School of Economics and is a graduate of management courses at MIT, INSEAD and IESE Business School.

Tomasz Gołębiewski has over 30 years of experience in the financial sector, specializing in data management, data analytics, electronic banking and process automation. For the first 10 years working in large banks, where he implemented automation of various banking products, and later with global suppliers of advanced solutions for the financial sector. With a strong focus on helping clients transform to digital, automated and data-driven enterprises.

Adam Góral is the founder and CEO of Asseco Poland, a leader in digitization in Poland and the largest IT company in the CEE region. He established and developed the Asseco Group, which is now present in over 60 countries and employs nearly 32,000 people. He graduated from the Kraków University of Economics and holds a PhD in economics. From 1979 to 1990, he was a lecturer at the Rzeszów branch of UMCS. A strong advocate of economic patriotism, he proudly pays taxes in Poland and prefers Polish products. He is the co-founder of the Rzeszów School of Management and the Podkarpacki Klub Biznesu (Podkarpacie Business Club), as well as the Honorary Consul of the Slovak Republic and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Podkarpacki Związek Pracodawców (Podkarpacie Employers Association).

Michal Gryz (born Sempember 17, 2000) graduated from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow in 2024, with a degree in electrical engineering. During his studies, he completed his thesis titled “Tests of Battery Energy Storage”. The thesis was focused on studying the quality of the supply of electrical power and the performance of energy storage facilities. Additionally, during his studies, he engaged in professional work related to the construction of industrial facilities in Austria. This
experience allowed him to gain practical knowledge of investment processes.

He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in electrical engineering with a specialization in power electronics and electric drive at the AGH University of Science and Technology. Michal’s interests include research and development of new technologies related to the generation of electrical power, power electronics, and quality of supply of electrical power.

Mr. Hinc assumed his position on February 12, 2024.

Sławomir Hinc has long-standing experience in natural gas industry, having been directly involved in the development of the concept of national gas transmission system operator in Poland since 2003.From 2004 to 2008, he held the position of Financial Director at PGNiG Przesył (currently GAZ-SYSTEM), where he was responsible for cooperation with the Energy Regulatory Office, negotiations of the lease agreement for transmission assets that were transferred to GAZ-SYSTEM by PGNiG as a dividend in kind. He also supervised the process of obtaining a gas transmission license by GAZ-SYSTEM. From 2006 to 2008, he served as a commercial proxy in GAZ-SYSTEM. He is the author of its first transmission tariff. He was responsible on GAZ-SYSTEM’s part for the transfer of Regional Transmission Branches from PGNiG S.A. structures to GAZ-SYSTEM in 2005.

From 2008 to 2013, he served as Vice-President for Financial Affairs at PGNiG, where he was responsible for the spin-off of the storage system operator (SSO) currently independently operating under the business name Gas Storage Poland and the launch of storage services on the market. From 2008 to 2014, he served as a member of the Supervisory Board of EuRoPol GAZ. In 2010, he was appointed to the Governing Board of the European Association of Gas and Oil Companies EUROGAS in Brussels where he served until 2015.

From 2013 to 2016, he served as President and CEO of PGNiG Upstream Norway, where he was responsible for the acquisition of PGNiG’s interests in 4 gas fields, and for this business deal he received the Gullkronen Award for the best oil transaction in Norway. He also supervised the company’s expansion of exploration activities in the north of Norway, including the obtaining of exploration licences in the Barents Sea by PGNiG. From 2019 to 2024, he was involved in the renewable energy industry, first as an advisor to the Management Board and then as a member of the Supervisory Board of Helioexpert. In 2019, he was appointed as President and Managing Director at Green Genius – a Polish branch of a Lithuanian solar power plant operator. 

He holds a degree in economics from the Institute of Foreign Trade at the University of Gdańsk and a Ph.D. in engineering and technology specialising in gas transmission tariff systems from the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology. He also studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. He completed postgraduate Business Management Programme organised by the Central Connecticut State University. Lecturer at postgraduate studies at the Warsaw University of Technology and the AGH University of Science and Technology in the field of transport, tariffs and regulatory affairs in the natural gas market. Author of numerous publications on natural gas tariffs and transportation.

Manager with 18 years of experience in the IT industry. At Hitachi Europe Ltd., he manages the product portfolio area in Central and Eastern Europe. A graduate of Executive MBA from the Leon Koźmiński Academy.
He has extensive experience in the nuclear, energy, and financial sectors, including significant international exposure. He has worked on several continents for blue-chip technology companies, including IBM, Hewlett Packard, and the European Space Agency. Throughout his career, he has been responsible for managing large and complex projects in asset management, integration, IT strategy, and broad digitalization, utilizing, among other technologies – artificial intelligence.

Since 2000, he has been associated with TAURON Dystrybucja, in the area of ​​metering, smart metering infrastructure and systems, and the energy market. He was responsible for the implementation of the AMI smart metering system in the area of ​​the city of Wrocław. Formly, Director of Advanced Metering Infrastructure at TAURON Dystrybucja Pomiary, Director of the Distribution Services Sales Department at TAURON Dystrybucja, Currently, he is Executive Director of Business Continuity Management System and IT at TAURON Polska Energia.
He is expert of AMI in Poland, member of Working Group at the Ministry of Climate and the Environment, related for smart metering. He is co-author within PTPiREE on the feasibility study for the implementation of smart metering in Poland. He is member of ITAM Forum Polish Chapter. He was in charge of AMI Working Group at Polish Power Transmission and Distribution Association (PTPiREE), and was member of cybersecurity IT/OT working group at PTPiREE. He was member of Working Group for Smart Grid networks at the Central Office of Measures, the Polish Committee for Standardization.
Author of many publications at conferences on smart metering, cybersecurity, smart grid, digitalization (including ENLIT Europe, Smart Grid Security Summit, IT Systems in Electricity Market, Picnic of Power Quality, Smart Communication and Techology Forum Metering Billing / CRM Europe, SmartHomes, Energy Losses , Advanced metering systems – smart metering, European Electricity Market).

In addition to the position in OSGE, Rafał is also CEO of Synthos Green Energy and a member of BWRX Europe board (SGE’s JV with GE Hitachi Nuclear). He also serves on management boards of other companies engaged in nuclear projects. For nearly two decades, he was Managing Partner of a private consulting firm advising a number of companies from energy, oil, telecommunications and commodities sectors, including PKN ORLEN, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Mercuria Energy Trading, Orange, Polkomtel, GE Capital, KGHM Polish Copper and others.
Between 2000 and 2002 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of PGNiG, where he oversaw conclusion with Norway of the first contract diversifying Poland’s gas supplies. Rafał also served as a gas and oil sector consultant for the Ministry of the Treasury under a World Bank project (2000-2002). In the 1990’s he worked in media (1994-2000).
Rafał graduated from the University of Warsaw (1998), Warsaw School of Economics (2002). He gained an MBA, University of Quebec, Montreal (2004); and is currently studying for a PhD at Polish Academy of Science (2021).
Sailor, father, optimist.

Executive professional in energy transformation sector. He has been associated with the Polish and European power sector for 20 years.
He has international and local experience in development and construction of energy transformation projects, working previously for companies such as Vattenfall, Polish Oil and Gas Company PGNiG, Tauron, GE Power, PGE, EdP Renewables and TotalEnergies.
Specializes in management, advisory and project management of energy transformation projects.. From 5 years being involved in offshore wind projects.

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology and also being awarded with MBA diploma.

A graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemical Technology and the University of Management in the field of Management. Sylwia has 25 years of experience in managerial positions in companies from the engineering and construction industry, experience in the field of scientific research, human resource management, organization of production processes as well as trade and services, development of renewable energy projects. An expert in the field of technology selection and process optimization in enterprises, in particular biogas plants, biomethane plants and photovoltaic farms. She has experience in planning, management, coordination and financial control of projects related to the renewable energy industry. Sylwia has experience in cooperation with government and local government units in Poland, Germany, Ukraine and the European Commission. She is an active member of several parliamentary working groups and working groups of the Ministry of Climate and Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Former President of the Management Board of the Union of Producers and Employers of the Biogas Industry (UPEBI), former President of the Management Board of the Polish Electromobility Association, President of the Management Board of the Green Gas Association for Climate, Member of the Management Board of the Ukrainian Renewable Energy Association and Member of the Management Board of the European Biogas Association, Member of the Coordination Council of the Biogas Agreement at the Ministry of Climate and the Environment. Speaker at many international conferences. Initiator of training programs in the renewable energy industry. An expert in the field of legal and regulatory provisions in the energy sector, in particular biogas and biomethane. Decorated with the medal for the 100th anniversary of Independence by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki for services to the Polish economy.

Vice-President of the Board, General Director, Polish Chamber of Energy Storage
An expert in the energy industry with 20 years of professional experience. He gained experience in energy distribution and transmission companies as well as in consulting companies. A longtime publicist in the field of energy market in economic media. A consultant in the field of system solutions in the power industry cooperating with government institutions and the Parliament. The first president and co-founder of the only Polish organization of companies in the field of energy storage technologies (electricity, heat, hydrogen and cold) and electromobility (vehicle charging infrastructure, battery and hydrogen technologies) and energy management in energy clusters.

A graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (1990). He started his professional career at the Research and Development Center of WSK PZL Mielec, since 1992 he has been involved in the creation and implementation of IT solutions for the energy and gas industry, an expert in the area of the CIS class systems. Since 1999, he has been associated with the Asseco capital group, where he has held many managerial and expert positions in the team of solutions for the energy and gas sector. A co-author of the HANDEL, JUPITER, HANDEL-MAX, AUMS, ADSM systems, a project team member in an architect role in several major Polish IT projects implemented for the power industry.

A leading executive with extensive background and knowledge of the Polish energy market. Since May 2021, as President of Westinghouse in Poland, he is in charge of the realization of investments in the field of nuclear technology, including the implementation of AP1000® technology for the first nuclear power plant in Poland.
Mr. Kowalik brings more than 25 years of experience in the energy sector, with expertise in business leadership, strategy, new project acquisitions and business development, gained while working in senior leadership positions, among others, in SNC Lavalin, Alstom and ABB. Most recently, Mr. Kowalik has held the position of President of Enea, one of Poland’s largest energy companies.
Mr. Kowalik is a graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Gdynia Maritime University. He received his MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management in cooperation with the Gdańsk Foundation for Management Development and completed post-graduate studies in corporate finance management at the Warsaw School of Economics.

He cooperates with Energy clients and Industry Associations in his current SAP role. Advocate of Digital Transformation, Industry Cloud and Business Networks. Big enthusiast of Green Hydrogen. Before joining SAP, he worked for +15 years at Accenture and IBM consulting, conducting several big projects in IT strategy, process & cost optimization, supply chain, asset management, margin management and corporate planning.

Graduate of the XIV S. Staszic High School in Warsaw; 3rd year student at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) in the field of Finance and Accounting (specialisation “International financial markets” and “Polish-German business management”); member of the Polish-German Academic Forum at the SGH and scholarship holder of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst at the J. Gutenberg University Mainz (2022-2023); founder and chairman of the SGH Fintech Club; co-author of the textbook Teens4Teens Statistics (2020); internship at the EAR Innovation Hub Dusseldorf (Toyota Group, project on charger infrastructure for EVs); student internship at the Polish Financial Supervisory Commission (Department of Investment Firms) and Investment Fund Company (analysis of ESG factors).

He is responsible for creating and implementing the development strategy for the Utilities&GB Sector at Sygnity S.A., part of the TSS Group, a leading provider of software for vertical markets worldwide. Adam Larysz is a graduate of the Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science at the Silesian University of Technology and the “Management” development program at ICAN Institute and Harvard Business School, a practical alternative to an MBA.

Expert on IT solutions for the energy and utilities sector. Author of the concept of data collection and management of network assets, co-author of the concept and architect of the first implementation in Poland of a predictive maintenance system based on GIS and SAP PM/PS/MM platform. Co-author of a number of articles and concepts of IT solutions for the Energy Market and Power Market. Since 2003, he has been associated with ComputerLand and Winuel (today’s Sygnity S.A.) as a solution architect of key IT implementations in the Polish power industry, several times awarded in the “most interesting of the best implementations in the industry” competition. For the past 10 years he has been supervising strategic projects on behalf of Steering Committees.

Since 2013 Director of the Business Area of Asset Management and in the following years he successfully developed various functions and business areas of the Utilities sector. He is passionate about talent development. Advocate of inclusiveness and diversity. Enthusiast of modern tools and work methods and new technologies such as ML, AI gen I cloud
solutions.

Privately a biohacker, lover of Sci-Fi, basketball and calisthenics, transferring an athlete’s attitude to business results.

A graduate of the Faculty of Telecommunications and Electronics at the Bydgoszcz University
of Technology, the Institute of Electrical Engineering (specialization in industrial electrical engineering). He has more than 23 years of experience in the implementation of IT projects providing comprehensive support for all areas of the power sector from generation, transmission and distribution to the sale
of products and services.
At Asseco’s Power and Gas Division, he oversees project management for the construction
and implementation of IT solutions for power and gas companies operating in the Polish and foreign markets (systems of different classes: Billing & CIS, metering, client portals, migration tools).
He is responsible for the implementation of research and development (R&D) projects involving proprietary products and the development of new solutions and technologies.
Since 2016, he has served as the Director of the Project Management and International Relations Department at Asseco.

Bartłomiej Nieścierowicz, SVP at CGI, has been associated with this organization for almost 15 years. He has been working at CGI since 2006 and has gone through all levels of career in the company. Since 2017, he has been managing the branch in Poland and supervising the area of CGI’s activities in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. CGI is present in many sectors, such as energy, finance, telecommunications, insurance, space, government sector, and commercial services. Bartłomiej Niescierowicz is the PLLE BU Leader at CGI Poland and since 2017, he has been managing the branch in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, where CGI employs nearly 900 people in total.

A graduate of the Electrical Engineering Faculty at the Higher Technical School in Zielona Góra and an MBA validated by Erasmus Rotterdam. His entire professional life has been connected with the energy sector. He started his career in 1994 as a Shift Engineer at the Pumped Storage Power Plant in Dychów.

Since 2018, he has been associated with EWE. As a member of the board of EWE Polska, he was responsible for the commercial side of the German company EWE’s operations in Poland. Since 2023, he has been the CEO of EWE Polska and EWE Energy. From 2011 to 2018, he served as the CEO of Duon Marketing and Trading S.A. At Fortum Marketing and Sales, as Vice President of the board, he was responsible for the energy and gas trading area. Previously, he was responsible for integrating trading companies during the creation of PGE S.A. He also has experience in building many trading and sales organizations from scratch, including for PGNiG Energia and Energa.
He is a founding member of the Energy Trading Society.

Zuzanna Nowak is analysis director at The Opportunity Institute for Foreign Affairs and expert of the Institute for Energy Policy. Previously, she was energy and climate analyst in the Global Issues Programme of the Polish Institute of International Affairs. Her research interests focus in particular on energy security issues, as well as multilateral climate diplomacy. She is a graduate of The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and the College of Europe in Bruges.

I work at reporting climate emissions. I’ve been a climate activist for the past few years. I’m a treasurer at Miasto Jest Nasze and I’ve run for a councilperson of voivodeship in the 2024 municipal elections. 

In the past year I organised discussion groups, prepared presentations and political proposals. I’ve coordinated, among other, proposals for investment in solar capacity on our rooftops – warszawskieelektrowniesloneczne.pl, organised a series of events about renewable energy for housing cooperatives. My campaign was based on sustainable rest outside Warsaw without a car. I also facilitate Climate Fresk workshops.

I act locally, because I want to help Warsaw in the green transformation, simultaneously improving life quality in the city and outside of it. I believe that Warsaw and Mazowieckie need ambitious climate goals.

Art historian, cultural worker, and student at Jagiellonian University. She collaborates with various cultural institutions, realizing projects at the intersection of art, education, activism, and cultural animation. She gained professional experience since 2017 while working with institutions such as Teatr Telewizji, TR Warszawa, Teatr Jaracza w Olsztynie, and Teatr Ochoty. In her work, she emphasizes the implementation of good production practices and supporting other employees. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Young Social Democrats Federation (FMS) and the New Left party. Since March 2023, she has held the position of Vice-president for of the FMS. She is also a member of the National Council of the NL. She shapes the the FMS association’s programme and supports activities for members’ development. She co-hosted the municipal convention of the New Left in Wrocław in March 2024. Currently, she is working on her master’s thesis at the Faculty of Polish Studies at Jagiellonian University. She participated in conferences at the Jagiellonian University and the Warsaw University. In her research she is interested in creating cultural practices that build social resilience in times of destabilization and crises.

A graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, where in 2006 he graduated in the field of Gas Engineering with a master’s degree in engineering. He also completed postgraduate studies at the University of Warsaw (Faculty of Management) in the field of Corporate Finance Management.
He started his professional career at PGNiG S.A. (ORLEN Group), then continued it at TSO GAZ-SYSTEM S.A., where he dealt with topics related to telemetry, IT systems in the field of gas transport, balancing and forecasting.
From 2007 to 2022, he was associated with HANDEN Sp. z o.o. and G.EN GAZ ENERGIA Sp. z o.o. (VNG A.G. Group), in which he carried out tasks in the area of portfolio management and trading, wholesale and retail, customer service, financial management and planning, regulatory and legal issues, tariffs, as well as participated in strategic projects in the capital group.
Since 2022, Member of the Management Board of Polenergia Obrót S.A. responsible for the Sales Segment of energy products and services. He actively participates in legislative work on the development of the broadly understood energy sector. He is a member of industry organizations, chambers of commerce and thematic committees.

By education she is an economist and IT specialist of computer network, but by passion energy specialist.
She has been involved in the energy sector for over 20 years. She took her first professional steps
in this industryin one of the branch of the Distribution System Operator. For several years, she has been managing the scope of electricity distribution services in the Distribution System Operator Energa Operator. Its everyday life is related to servicing customers connected to the distribution network and electricity sellers, providing of metering infrastructure, including AMI meters, settlement of the electricity distribution service provided to all customers connected to the grid.

dr bab. Eng. Waldemar Skomudek – has over 36 years of work experience in the professional power industry and over 15 years of work experience at the university. He graduated from, among others 3-year doctoral studies, managerial studies in the field of Modern Financial Management, managerial studies in the field of Modern Business Management Techniques and post-graduate studies in the field of Accounting and Finance. In the years 2001-2008 he held managerial positions in power companies in the Opolskie and Dolnośląskie provinces, and in 2008-2010 he was the Vice-President of the Management Board in Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne Operator S.A. in Konstacin-Jeziorna. He co-founded the EnergiaPro Koncern Energetyczny S.A. and TAURON S.A. capital groups, and in 2007 he participated in the separation of the Distribution System Operator from the EnergiaPro KE S.A. structure. In the years 2012-2020 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Production Engineering and Logistics at the Opole University of Technology, currently a professor at AGH in Krakow. In his professional work, he mainly deals with the functioning of the electricity market, management of large projects, implementation of innovative solutions in the domestic energy sector, management of entities in the electricity sub-sector in the conditions of competition, issues of the stability of the National Power System, including distributed generation, problems of power grid operation and problems of improving the quality and continuity of power supply to electricity consumers. He is the author / co-author of over 180 scientific articles and papers as well as seven monographic publications. Member of many industry organizations, both domestic and foreign.

Expert with numerous years of experience in the energy, construction, and mining sector.

He has experience in strategy development and organization transformation, project and risk management, and for many years he has been involved in energy projects.

A graduate of the Wrocław University of Technology, MBA course graduate at the Wrocław University of Economics. He also holds an MBA from the Gdańsk Foundation for Management Education. He also graduated from Stanford Business School and from the Strategic Leadership Academy course at ICAN Institute, organized by Harvard Business Review.

Between 2018 and 2023 he was a member of the Management Board of CIECH S.A., responsible among others for production, energy and maintenance affairs.

Before that he served as the president of Przedsiębiorstwo Budowy Kopalń S.A. within the KGHM Group, Polimex-Energetyka Sp. z o.o., Energa Elektrownie Ostrołęka S.A. and Energa Invest S.A., as well as PGE Elektrownia Opole S.A.

Agata Staniewska – Bolesta is a manager with many years of experience and an expert in the areas of energy, environment and climate. She specialises in analysing the policy and legislative environment at national and European level. She has been with Ørsted for six years. She was the first person employed in the offshore area in the Polish company of the Danish concern. Among other things, she was involved in talks with PGE Baltica regarding a partnership for the construction of two phases of the Baltica Offshore Wind Farm, which resulted in the signing of an agreement on 6 May 2021 and the establishment of joint ventures with a 50 percent share of each party. 

Prior to joining Ørsted, she held management positions at CEC Group and the Confederation of Leviathan, among others. She is a graduate of Interdepartmental Environmental Studies at the University of Warsaw. She also completed a course in climate change at the University of Melbourne. In 2022, Agata Staniewska – Bolesta was awarded the “Energy of the Future” award by the DISE Energy.

A graduate of the Poznan University of Economics. Engaged in the energy industry since 2016, joining EWE’s structures in 2017. Responsible for trading electricity, natural gas, including biogas, and guarantees of origin. His tasks also include developing and implementing pricing strategies for business clients.

Robert Tomaszewski is responsible for the energy and petroleum sector. A leading author of PI Energy, has been working at Polityka Insight since its launch in 2013. He graduated in International Relations from the University of Warsaw, he also completed postgraduate studies on the functioning of the energy market at the Warsaw School of Economics. A scholar of the Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago and Radboud University Nijmegen.

Łukasz Tomaszewski has been involved in renewable energy for more than 14 years. Among other things, he took part in the preparation of the Law on Renewable Energy Sources and its amendments. He has many years of experience in international cooperation, especially in economic and energy areas. From 2010 to 2015, he worked at the Ministry of Economy in the Renewable Energy Department. Then he moved to the Energy Regulatory Authority, where he headed the Renewable Energy Auction Department. In 2021, he became associated with the Polish Development Fund where he supported decision-making processes and participated in the development of a bridge financing offer for Renewable Energy Projects. In 2022, he rejoined the government administration and became deputy director of the Renewable Energy Sources Department at the Ministry of Climate and Environment, where he supervised, among other things, matters relating to regulations and support mechanisms as well as international cooperation. In May 2023, he was appointed director of this department.

Product Manager in the Power and Gas Industry Division, Asseco Poland

A graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków with a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications as well as Geodesy and Cartography. Since the beginning of his professional career, he has been working for the Asseco capital group, where he is involved in the design and implementation of IT solutions for the utility sector. He has expertise in the area of EAM class systems, as well as solutions for electromobility.

Mr. Winiarski has a degree in Information Technology from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at the Warsaw University of Technology. He has been affiliated with the electricity sector since the outset of his career. At the beginning of his professional career, he worked in an innovative company implementing metering systems to the industrial sector, commercial power sector, and electricity power systems operators. He has been working at PSE (Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne, previously PSE-Operator) since 2000. He started in the Metering and Billing Systems Unit, then he was the head of the IT Systems Division at the System Operation Services Department and participated in the implementation of the electricity Balancing Market in Poland. From 2011 to 2018 he held the positions of the Deputy Director and the Director of the IT Department. As the Deputy Director of the Metering Department, he’s been managing the OIRE (Central Metering Data Hub Operator) project since 2018.
Since 2003 he’s been a member of the international groups working on the standardization of the electronic data interchange in electric power systems. Currently, he is a member of the CIM Expert Group within ENTSO-E and Harmonization Group formed by ENTSO-E, ebIX®, and EFET.

Anna has taken up the position of partner in charge of Renewable Energy & Project Finance at CRIDO, where she advises her clients on the acquisition of financing for energy projects and in analysing investment processes. 

Anna gained her experience working for, among others, PKN Orlen SA and Baltic Power (a PKN Orlen SA and Northland Power JV), where as project finance manager she was involved in preparing financial engineering and raising debt in the project finance structure for the first offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea basin (1.2GW). As an expert with experience in RES financing, Anna collaborated with 25 largest banks and financial institutions in the Polish and European market as well as export credit agencies (ECAs). The total budget of the project was EUR 4.37bn. In the project finance procedure, she was also in charge of financial engineering for the construction of one of the largest CCGT units in Poland. At Bank Pekao SA, Anna held the position of strategic client development director for the Oil & Gas sector, coordinating the financing of large-scale photovoltaic projects and onshore wind farms. She assessed and drafted project analyses for the construction of power plants and CHPs, including RdF-fired plants. During her time as Development Director and BoM representative for the energy sector at HOCHTIEF Polska SA, Anna was responsible, among other things, for the bidding process, contract negotiations, and consortium formation for the construction of the Thermal Waste Processing Installation (WtE) for Poznań (the first to be executed as a PPP) and negotiating the construction and installation contract package for the CCGT unit in Włocławek for PKN Orlen SA. 

Anna holds a degree in economics from the Radom University of Technology, a postgraduate degree in M&A from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University) organised in cooperation with the Gdansk Foundation for Management Development.

Ireneusz Wochlik, PhD, is a biocybernetic specialist in the field of artificial intelligence and digital transformation. He is the co-founder and CEO of Aigorithmics sp. z o.o., a member of the board of the AI LAW TECH Foundation, and a lecturer as part of the Business.AI postgraduate studies: Technology, Law, Application of Artificial Intelligence. He is also a co-creator of the “Cybersecurity Management” and “Chief Data Officer” – postgraduate studies conducted by Kozminski University and a member of the Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (GRAI) at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, where he is the leader of the Energy Subgroup.

From 1997 to 2016, he worked at the AGH University of Science and Technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor. In 2005, he obtained a PhD in technical sciences and has since published the results of his scientific work in over 50 publications. He is also a co-author of the document “An Analysis of the Selected Aspects of the Draft Artificial Intelligence Act” (https://www.gov.pl/web/ai/prawo), the report “The Potential of Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare Sector” and the book “Metaświat Prawne i Techniczne Aspekty Przełomowych Technologii”.

For over 20 years, he has been dealing with advanced data analysis based on Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning tools, as well as creating intelligent solutions to support businesses. He specializes in broadly understood digital transformation processes focused on the “data-driven” philosophy, using optimally selected technological solutions. He has also been a speaker and panelist at various scientific and business conferences.

Passionate about modern ICT technologies applied in business. He gained his first professional experience in 2005, creating applications for the financial, local government and telecommunications sectors. In the following years, participated in numerous projects for the energy industry, including modernization and development of the Energy Market Information System. Since 2015, he has been involved in business development in the largest IT companies offering their cloud services to the enterprise sector in Poland. Author of numerous product concepts, business models and press releases. At Google Poland, he serves as Market Development Manager and is responsible for the creation and sale of the concept of using Google Cloud Computing in the enterprise business. Graduate of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, WSB University and the University of Wrocław, certified Project Manager and cloud specialist.
Privately, a fan of hiking and water sports.

Dorota Zawadzka-Stępniak is a graduate of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology and Postgraduate Studies in EU Funds Administration at the Warsaw School of Economics. Currently, the President of the Management Board of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management.
She has extensive experience in the field of environmental protection, climate change and energy policy, which she has successfully used in her professional work on managerial positions in public institutions, e.g. in the Ministry of Environment, NFEP&WM, the City Hall of Warsaw, as well as in private institutions, i.e. PwC and the Polish Confederation Lewiatan. She is a scholarship holder of the Prof. Maciej Nowicki’s Foundation Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, a graduate of the 29th School for Political Leaders and a graduate of the Game Changers Academy Master of Business Change.

Co-owner of the company, lawyer, MBA diploma, specializing in issues related to the investment process – many years of practical experience in the preparation and implementation of investments, in particular infrastructure.
As a parliamentary and ministerial expert, co-author of a number of bills and regulations. By order of the Prime Minister of 4 October 2012, he was appointed to the Construction Law Codification Commission for a 4-year term of office. Expert in the Ministry of Economy on transmission corridors and financial consequences of establishing transmission easements. Expert at the Ministry of Regional Development in the field of EU support for access to broadband networks and the development of high-capacity networks. Member of the Main Urban and Architectural Commission.
Author of numerous publications, i.a. co-author of the largest and repeatedly republished “Commentary to the Act on Planning and Spatial Development” (Publishing House C.H. BECK, W-wa 2004 – edited by Zygmunt Niewiadomski), as well as published in autumn 2011 in the C.H.Beck Publishing House “Commentary to local government acts” (edited by Zygmunt Niewiadomski and Roman Hauser). Among the publications, also include: “Legal regulation of the investment and construction process. Conditions. Barriers. Prospects.” (LexisNexis Publishing House, W-wa 2009).