Speakers

Doctor of Technical Sciences in the field of electrical power engineering and energy economics. He has associated his career with the energy sector from the very beginning. At the Energy Regulatory Office since 2004, recently – since 2014 – as the deputy director of the Department of Market Development and Consumer Issues. Civil servant official (since 2007).
Rafał Gawin has experience in supervising energy companies, particularly in the field of financial reporting and audit as well as investment and development.
He has wide experience in international cooperation. Rafał Gawin was 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. He was also an expert at Florence School of Regulation on the development and operation of regional electricity markets. He has also repeatedly represented the Energy Regulatory Office on the international forum.
In 2013, he was a national expert with the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) in Lubljana, where as a member of the market monitoring group he worked, inter alia, on the Agency’s report on the assessment of national energy markets, on Regional Initiatives and issues related to unplanned energy flows. He was also responsible for cooperation with national energy regulators.
A lecturer. As an expert in the Energy Law Act Rafał Gawin is an author of publications and studies on the functioning of electricity markets, including the grid access principles, balancing and regional markets. Co-author of i.a. commentary on Polish Energy Law Act (2010 and 2016).
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki appointed Rafał Gawin President of the Energy Regulatory Office on 24th July 2019.

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.

A graduate of the University of Agriculture in Poznań (1990) and a holder of the European Union scholarship FH Weihenstephan (1991-1992). Between 1994 and 1999, he was an expert and a Project Manager working on Phare and USAID support programmes. He started his professional career in the Voivodeship Office in Poznań, and in the years 1993-2005 he was a member of the management and supervisory boards of commercial law companies related to business consulting, information technology and power industry. Since 2006 he has been working for the Asseco Group, where he currently manages the power and gas division. He is a co-author of a number of energy market studies, development strategies for energy companies, restructuring programs and studies on energy market development. He is a member of Steering Committees in several major Polish IT projects for the power sector. He is a co-author of the development strategy for Asseco’s business operations in the domestic and foreign markets. In addition, he is responsible for the supervision over the development of Asseco’s products as well as their internationalisation and globalisation.

Jan specializes in consultancy for Polish and foreign companies from the power and production sectors. He focuses on improving efficiency, process optimization and customer support in choosing the optimal investment options. In addition, Jan supports clients on business aspects and business cases in the field of digitalization and automation of production processes.

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.

Expert providing advice to Polish and foreign companies from the power and production sectors. Specializes in determining investment options, improving the efficiency of processes, creating development strategies, cost optimization and restructuring. She leads a team of strategic advisors who support clients in the analysis of technological data, digitalisation and automation of production processes.

He is an associate professor, habilitated doctor of economic sciences and a graduate of the University of Szczecin, the University of Economics in Poznań and the University of Warsaw. He specializes in energy economics and energy security management, in international economic relations and international logistics.
He is the head of the Department of Logistics at the University of Szczecin and the director of the University’s Energy Management Center. Author of over a dozen analyzes and strategic documents for enterprises from the energy sector, over a hundred scientific publications in the field of energy security, logistics, electromobility, energy management, financing infrastructure investments and transport infrastructure.
He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Power Engineering in Warsaw and the Steering Committee of the INNOSHIP program at the National Center for Research and Development.
He has been associated with the Enea Capital Group since 2014. He was an advisor to the Management Boards of Enea S.A. and Enea Trading, then a member of the management board of Enea Operator Sp. z o.o. in the function of vice president for economic and financial affairs, and since October 2016 he is vice president for innovation and logistics.

Specialist in the field of computer forensics, software security and reverse engineering. He is certified as a court expert in the field of cybersecurity, enterprise class issues, copyright and criminal analysis in computer science. He independently carried out foreign commercial projects related to decompilation and reverse engineering of software and databases. Author of analyzes and tests of hardware and software security ordered by their producers. Author of publications and trainings on software security, cybersecurity and software licensing issues.

Before taking up the position of the President of ComCERT S.A. he was, among others, the author of software for state authorities covered by the highest clause for the protection of classified information. He cooperated with government administration offices, combined government administration bodies and units of the public finance sector, including state public-law institutions.

In the years 2016-2017, co-founder and Member of the Management Board of the company Aplikacje Krytyczne belonging to the Ministry of Finance, creating analytical IT systems supporting the Tax Administration and other state authorities in the field of penal and fiscal activities. In 2017-2019, Vice President of the Social Insurance Institution for IT, responsible for the implementation and implementation of the e-Contribution, e-Files and e-ZLA projects.

He was a member of the Digitization Council appointed by the Minister of Digitization, a member of the NASK Scientific Council and an Advisor to the Steering Committee of the e-ID project – being jointly appointed by the Minister of the Interior and Administration, the Minister of Digitization and the Min

Magdalena Dziewguć is a manager with many years of experience in the new technologies sector. She studied law and psychology. Magda holds an Executive MBA from SGH and completed the GMP at Harvard Business School. She has been working for Google since 2014. Before that she was a vice-chair of Exatel SA and a member of a number of supervisory boards. Since the year 2000, she co-created a telecommunications services market for online business for companies such as Orange and Plus. She is the co-founder of Digital University and LiderSHE in Poland.
Magda’s expertise focuses on new technologies and their impact on business processes within organisations. She is an expert in the fields of innovation, restructuring and building the culture of engagement and partnership. On a daily basis, she is a mum of three: Adam, Sonia and Franek. She actively works on projects which develop the presence of women in the public sphere. Magda strongly believes that two factors change the world for the better: new technologies and more decisions taken by women.

He graduated from the University of Economics in Katowice with a degree in Economics, specialization: Finance and Banking. He also completed postgraduate studies at the University of Wrocław at the Faculty of Law and Administration, majoring in Taxes. He is a Certified Auditor.
Manager with over 20 years of experience in IT and financial areas. For 10 years he has been working in the IT area in managerial positions. He has been associated with the energy sector for almost his entire professional career.
He is experienced in restructuring processes in the financial and IT areas and in building Shared Service Centres. He participated in the development and implementation of IT strategy. He also has experience in implementing ERP and billing systems in organizations. In managing processes and organizations, he combines financial and IT knowledge.
He sat on the Supervisory Board of ZOWER Sp. o.o. and recently on the Supervisory Board of PGE Systemy, where he held the position of Secretary.
Since 01.01.2021 he has been a CO-CEO of the Management Board of PGE Systemy S.A. Hi is responsible for the LTE450 network construction project.

At the PKP Energetyka Capital Group, he is in charge of the following areas: sales of traction energy and fuels, relationships with key accounts and R&D activities. He is a Deputy Chairman of the Program Board Bureau for the Center for Railway Energy Efficiency – CEEK. Previously, in the years 2012-2016, he held two functions simultaneously at the Orange Group – Sales Director for Key Accounts and Corporate Customers at Orange Polska together with a President of Integrated Solutions. Under his management, Integrated Solutions grew from a start-up to a leading player on the IT market in five years. In the years 2009-2012, as a Project Director of Orange UEFA Euro 2012, he managed a team of more than 1000 people responsible for technological service in Poland and for the activation of marketing rights in 11 European countries.
Mr. Hołda is an effective manager specializing in complex strategic projects that strengthen the position of enterprises in the main segments of the business market (B2B). His economic domains also include electromobility, development of technology for transformation of the energy market and marketing of B2B solutions.
Leszek Hołda completed an MBA program at the Warsaw University of Technology Business School. Prior to that, he had graduated from the AGH University of Science and Technology and the Academy of Economics in Kraków.

At PKP Energetyka he is responsible for a.o. continuation of the Modernisation of Railway Catenary Power Supply Systems (MUZa) megaproject, introduction of innovative solutions in the distribution area, including development of the Intelligent Integrated Railway Power Distribution Management System. From 2018, he was the director of the Services Department at PKP Energetyka. He was mainly responsible for railway traction network maintenance. Previously he was, i.a., Vice-President of Tauron Dystrybucja and member of the Vattenfall Board of Directors. He is a graduate of Automation at the Silesian University of Technology. He also completed an MBA program at the University of Business Lancashire.

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.

In his current SAP position, he is responsible for cooperation with Energy & Utility companies and Industry Associations to set and bring new ideas where innovative SAP Technology can help to grow, drive additional value and answer to industry trends. Big enthusiast of Digital Transformation and IoT being also a part of various innovative SAP initiatives focused on Utility value chain. He is also a member of Era-net smart grids plus initiative working group and plays an active role in FutureFlow initiative conducted with four Power Transmission Companies under Horizon 2020. Before joining SAP, he worked for 15 years in big consulting companies conducting several big projects in the area of process & cost optimization, asset management, corporate planning in Utilities & Energy industry.

In 2007 Jerzy joined CMC Poland. He is responsible for all Polish operations .
Prior to joining CMC, he served as Country Manager for Foster Wheeler in Poland.
He also worked at Arthur Andersen.

Jerzy is a graduate of City University of New York.

Jarosław Leszczełowski earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Military University of Technology in Munich and a post-graduate diploma in organization and management from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw. In recognition of his academic achievements, he was awarded a NATO Manfred Werner scholarship to the Military University of Technology in Munich in 1999. He has managed large enterprises’ IT and telecommunications departments for the past 25 years. At the Military University of Technology, Poczta Polska SA, and Energa Wytwarzanie, he gained professional experience managing the entire IT and telecommunications field. He also specializes in large-scale project portfolio management. He joined the boards of IT companies Postel Sp. z o. o. and Energa Informatyka i Technologie Sp. z o.o. He has been professionally associated with the Energa Group for 11 years, and he has been the director of the IT and Telecommunications Division at Energa-Operator SA for five years.

Till 2016 she was a senior associate in the Agora Energiewende – international think tank on energy. Earlier she was the director of the department for market development and a managing board member of the Danish Dong Energy. In 2007 – 2011 she was working in the Ministry of Environment. During the Polish EU presidency she was undersecretary of state and represented Poland on the international forum. She led the team which executed the pilot sale of the Kyoto protocol’s AAUs to the Spanish and Irish governments which gave more than 500 mln PLN for low-emissions investments. She contributed to the climate negotiations – especially the preparation of the UN COP14 climate summit in Poznań, Poland. Author and co-author of number of energy focused publications and strategies. Holder of a number of scholarship programs for research and support of young professionals. She was a student and an employee of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and of the Potsdam University. PhD in impact assessment of investment projects.

He joined DTEK team in March 2010 as the Deputy Legal Director, becoming the head of department in 2011. Following the introduction of a new corporate governance structure, Dmytro Sakharuk was appointed Executive Director in August 2014, and was subsequently appointed as acting CEO of DTEK Energy in October 2016. In September 2017, Mr. Sakharuk was named CEO of DTEK Energy

Michał Skorupa has over eighteen years of experience in sales, development and implementation of corporate strategies and processes, as well as in building teams in the various corporate areas .
For ten years he has been engaged in the industrial power, and for six years in photovoltaics and renewable energetics, at the national and foreign level. As an expert in this industry, he actively participates in issuing opinions on legal acts and statutes dedicated to the energy technology sector.
In July 2019 he has been appointed to the Chief Executive Officer of FOTON Technik Sp. z o.o.. With the E.ON Group and innogy Polska S.A. he has been related since 2011, including a member of the Supervisory Board position. Successfully developing business in the area of strategy, sales and operations, thanks to which Foton Technik is one of the leading companies in Poland in the Renewable Energy Sources sector.
He is the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) graduate, where in 2017 he obtained the title of Master of Business Administration (MBA).

IT manager with a wide range of experience in new technology, fin-tech, production, commercial and transport companies. He has in-depth knowledge in the field of IT, IT security and automation supported by many years of practice. Has the ability to translate business needs into the language of computer science. The brand’s strength is its efficiency in solving IT problems, defining IT strategies, creating processes and optimizing the costs of IT departments.

Vice President of the Management Board for Asset Management
A graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics and Electronics of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow. He also completed the postgraduate studies in the field of energy enterprise management and new techniques in power engineering management.

He has professional experience with respect to the operations of the power sector, including management of the development of the distribution grid and the provision of electricity distribution services. He was involved in setting up the organization of the electricity market in Poland.

From the beginning of his professional career, he had been associated with the energy industry and TAURON Group or its legal predecessors, i.e. ENION S.A. and Zakład Energetyczny Kraków S.A.

Since 2016, he was the Vice President of the Management Board for Operator at TAURON Dystrybucja S.A. (Issuer’s subsidiary), where he was responsible, among others, for the development of the distribution grid, provision of electricity distribution services, metering and grid operation management.

In addition to the above mentioned position, in 2016 he was the Director of TAURON Dystrybucja S.A. Cracow and Tarnów branches. In 2015-2016 he had worked as a coordinator and had been responsible, among others, for customer service quality. From 2013 to 2014 he had been the chief specialist, and in 2011-2012 he had been the head of the Office of Tariffs and the Energy Regulatory Office (URE) Relations.

In 2010-2011 he had been holding the position of the Director of the Tariff Department at ENION S.A. and had been responsible in particular for regulated revenue management. In 2007-2010 he had been the Director of the Distribution Services Department and had been responsible for ensuring profitability of the distribution services sales. From 2005 to 2007, he had been the President of the Management Board, in 2004–2005 – a Member of the Management Board for Trading, and until 2004 – a Member of the Management Board and the Director of Energy Trading.

In 1989–2000 he had been holding the following positions at Zakład Energetyczny Kraków S.A.: the director of the high voltage region; deputy head of the high voltage region for technical affairs as well as the grid foreman and engineer.

Mr Józef Węgrecki is a Member of the PKN ORLEN Management Board since March 23rd 2018. Between February 5th and March 23rd 2018 a Member of the Supervisory Board temporarily delegated to perform the duties of the PKN ORLEN Management Board Member responsible for Investments and Procurement.

He is a graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Faculty of Mining and Metallurgical Machines.

Mr Węgrecki holds qualifications to serve on the supervisory boards of companies in which the Polish State Treasury has interests.

In 1978-1990, Józef Węgrecki worked at Zakład Remontowy Energetyki Kraków, where he held the position of Member of the Management Board, Chief Technical Officer. In 1990-1993, Mr Węgrecki served at employee-owned company Remak Opole as its Vice President. From April 1993 to June 2017, he was President and Member of the Management Board of Remak-Krak Sp. z o.o.

In 2017, Mr Węgrecki was appointed Vice President of the Management Board of Energa Wytwarzanie S.A., where his management responsibilities covered water and wind turbine operation, photovoltaic farms, cogeneration and coal-fired power plants, innovation, heating asset acquisitions and setting development directions.

On February 5th 2018, Mr Węgrecki was delegated to temporarily serve as Member of the PKN ORLEN Management Board for Investment and Procurement, and then in April he was appointed Member of the Management Board, Chief Operating Officer.

He is interested in monitoring and analysing the latest technical solutions in the field of power generation: alternative energy sources and their potential industrial applications.

Mr Józef Węgrecki has received a number of awards, including the Galicia Construction Grand Award for his contribution to the advancement of the construction industry, a Badge of Merit for exceptional services to the construction industry, a Gold Medal for long service, and an Honoris Gratia badge for charity and community service.

Jakub Wiech – lawyer, journalist, deputy editor-in-chief of Energetyka24.com. In his work, he covers issues in the field of energy and information security. He was awarded and distinguished in many journalistic competitions (Studencki Nobel, MediaTory, GrandPress). Author of the book “Energiewende. Nowe niemieckie imperium” regarding German energy transition. Awarded with the James S. Denton Transatlantic Fellowship’s scholarship.

Jarosław Zacharski graduated with an MSc in geology in 1995 at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He completed postgraduate programmes in petroleum engineering (1998) and petroleum geophysics (2003) at AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, and Management of Public Companies (2004) at the Warsaw School of Economics. Mr. Zacharski has dedicated almost his entire career to the oil industry and to the exploration and production sector.

Between 1996 and 2009, he worked at PGNiG: first at Geological Office Geonafta, then at the company headquarters in the exploration division (Warsaw) and then in the department of analyses, designs, and geological documentation of the Sanok Branch. His analytical work enabled the discovery of new natural gas deposits in Poland.

Between 2009 and 2021, Mr. Zacharski worked at ORLEN Upstream, a company belonging to the PKN ORLEN capital group, as head of the geology and geophysics department and as exploration director. He held the latter position for almost nine years.

He has participated in the evaluation of exploration assets located in North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the USA, Canada, Argentina, and Colombia. The effectiveness of his exploration activities is exemplified by the discovery of natural gas fields in Poland; natural gas, oil, and condensate in Canada; and the acquisition of production and exploration areas in multiple countries.

He gained particularly valuable experience in 2010–2014 as a member of the technical committee of an international exploration project, implemented jointly with Kuwait Energy Company in the Latvian economic zone of the Baltic Sea. In these years, he also served as a member of the steering committee of the Blue Gas – Polish Shale Gas programme.

Since August 2021, Mr. Zacharski has worked at the Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute; since December 2021, he has served as the head of the regional geology division.

Since 2015, he has been involved in teaching. He has conducted seminars on selected research methods in petroleum exploration at the Faculty of Geography and Geology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Since 2016, he has been an active member of the geophysics committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of two teams appointed by the Polish Ministry of Climate and Environment: the Advisory Team for Geology, Raw Materials and Industry, and the Team for the Development of Carbon, Capture, Utilisation and Storage Technologies. He is also a member of the Polish Geological Society and the Association of Engineers and Technicians of the Oil and Gas Industry.

Born in 1969. He is a graduate of Electrical and Control Engineering Faculty at the Opole Higher Engineer School. Furthermore, he completed postgraduate studies in accounting and finances and energy at the Wrocław University of Economics.
He has been involved in energy sector since the beginning of his professional career. He commenced work in 1994 in electricity distribution company in Opole where he performed the function of Head of Department of Carrier Service Realization. He was a Director of the Department of Distribution System Management in EnergiaPro concern as well as Head of Carrier Service Office in TAURON Dystrybucja. He was also a member of the Technical Committee by the Polish Committee for Standardization. In recent years he performed the function of Distribution Director in the Gliwice branch of the company as well as the function of Distribution Services Sales Department Director.
Since 2002 he has been participating in activities conducted by working teams of the Polish Society of Transmission and Distribution of Electricity (PTPiREE) in the scope of energy market, smart metering and legal regulations in the area of power engineering. He is the Vice-President of this Society.

Izabela Żylińska, M.Sc. in Robotics, graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering, specialization: Automation and Robotics. She has over 15 years of experience in the publishing market as, among others, publisher and editor-in-chief of industry magazines and portals. Organizer of industry events, including the series of Conferences “Intelligent Energy”. Associated with the energy industry for over 10 years. In 2021 nominated to the “Women’s Energy” award by the chapter of the first edition of the “Women of Energy 2021” competition.