Speakers

Graduated from the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and received a scholarship in quantum optics from the National Institute of Standards and Technologies in Washington (DC), where he worked under the lead of William D. Phillips, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics. During his studies, he also specialised in economics, with particular emphasis on market organisation under the lead of Professor Jean Tirole, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics in 2014. He also studied international economics at the University of Louvain La Neuve and was awarded a Master`s degree at the Warsaw School of Economics. He defended his PhD dissertation at the University of Warsaw. In the past, he worked as a professor, teaching change management, economics, market organisation and industrial strategy at the University of Warsaw, Collegium Civitas, Oxford Programme on Modern Poland. He co-authored the concept of effective change management in an enterprise, described in the book Zarządzanie zmianą. Od strategii do działania, he also wrote Od restrukturyzacji do modernizacji. Opóźniona transformacja polskiego sektora elektroenergetycznego w latach 1990-2009. He began his professional career in the Office of the Committee of European Integration, in the team of Minister Jan Kułakowski, responsible for conducting accession negotiations with the European Union, where he led an analytical team and was directly responsible for the area of energy and transport. Later on, he carried out the modernisation processes in numerous Polish companies, where he supported adaptation to the challenges of the European and global market. He promoted European cooperation in the field of industrial changes and adaptation of European industry to the challenges of globalisation within the framework of the European University of Labour and the Dublin Foundation. He created the governmental programme for the development of electro-mobility in Poland, described for the first time as a concept in New Electricity and New Cars, a book written in 2013-2015, together with Prof. Leszek Jesień. He also serves as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Electro-mobility Programme. Since 1 January 2016, he has been working as the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Energy, where he has been directly responsible for technological development and innovation in the energy sector, implementation of climate and energy policy in the fuel and gas sector, international relations with countries and international organisations. His duties also included supervising the participation of the state in the largest Polish energy companies in the oil and gas sector, such as Orlen, Lotos and PGNiG. He was the initiator of the “Electro-mobility Development Plan” and then piloted the creation of a law on electro-mobility and alternative fuels, thanks to which these forms of transport will be able to develop dynamically. On the 27th of April 2018, he was appointed as the Plenipotentiary for the Presidency of the COP 24 Summit.

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.

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.

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.

At Instrat Michał is responsible for energy transition and environment, economics of taxation and inequalities. He worked in business associations, transaction advisory firm and in the public sector, in both Poland and Germany. Graduate of Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), he held scholarships at the University of Mainz (DAAD) and at University of St. Gallen (SEMP)

Employee with the longest experience in the Polish branch of Microsoft, where he has been working since September 1994, currently as the National Technology Officer. At the same time, he is a Member of the Management Board of Microsoft sp. z o.o. (since 2013). Member of the Working Group on Data Protection at the Ministry of Digitization (2018). Vice-Chairman of the Council of The Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications. He regularly publishes in “IT Professional” and “IT in Administration”.
Graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Precision Mechanics (1985). If he came back from a trip, it means that he is already planning another one. He would most willingly find time for one more book or a longer walk with his dog.

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.

Director – Department of Cybersecurity, The Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Poland 
A graduate of the Military University of Technology in Warsaw – Cybernetics Faculty 
1994-1998 Expert in Cipher Bureau of the Office of State Protection. 
1998-2006 Deputy Director of the ICT Security Department in the Internal Security Agency. 
2006-2008 delegated to Ministry of Interior as deputy director of the Implementing Authority for European Programs responsible for Schengen Information System (SIS) and the Visa Information System (VIS). 
1998-2008 Polish representative to NATO INFOSEC/Information Assurance Sub-Committees
2008-2018 at Microsoft CEE HQ in Munich – Director of the National Security and Defense sector in the Central and Eastern Europe region, covering 23 countries. 
2018-2020 Director – Department of Cybersecurity – Ministry of Digital Affairs.

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.

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 graduated from MBA Energetyka managerial studies at Lazarski University, international relations at the University of Warsaw and managerial studies at the Warsaw School of Economics.
In 2018-2020 he was the Vice President of the Management Board for development at ORLEN Serwis S.A. and the President of Board of Directors at ORLEN Service Lietuva. From 2020 he is Member of the Supervisory Board of Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A.
In 2016-2018 he was the President of the Management Board of the Logistic Operator for Liquid Fuels. After he worked for PKN ORLEN S.A. as the Executive Director in charge of logistics.
Between 2006 and 2016 he was the Deputy Mayor of the City of Ostrołęka. Before he was also the Deputy Director for Foreign Investment and Economic Development in the Department of Regional Development Strategy in the Marshal’s Office of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship.

André joined Veritas in 2007 as a technical trainer and consultant for the Enterprise Vault Family and moved between enablement and technical development roles until 2018 where he joined the Sales Engineering team as the Digital Compliance specialist for much of EMEA. 
Along the way he became an eDiscovery specialist and GDPR Practitioner focusing on customers regulatory requirements. 
 Now André supports the EMEA and APJ technical community in a Practice Lead role for the Veritas Insights Portfolio which includes the Enterprise Vault Family, EV.cloud, Data Insight, eDiscovery Platform and Aptare.

Doctor of law at the University of Warsaw with transactional and regulatory experience gained in the Banking & Finance departments of international law firms. Mariusz Sudoł graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, he also participated in a scholarship funded by the Swiss government at the University of Zurich. Nowadays, as Operations Director for the region of Central and Eastern Europe at Hitachi Europe Limited, he is responsible for regulated sectors (banking, modern energy), including banking law practice, new technology law practice, negotiations, preparation of contracts, commercialization and development of innovative products and business development strategy. Lecturer and author of many scientific publications on commercial law.

A graduate from the Faculty of Physics at Warsaw University, Roman Szwed received his habilitation in high-energy physics. He has significant scientific achievements. In 1991, he led a team of engineers responsible for the historical event of connecting Poland to the Internet. Co-founder and President of ATM company, he now manages the stock exchange listed company Atende, which derived from the separation of IT services from ATM. Atende is the leading network integration company in Poland. With 25 years of experience in the realization of technologically advanced IT infrastructure projects, today Atende as a Capital Group specializes also in software integration, offering among others its own cloud services and highly innovative software solutions for the financial, telecommunications, energy, public and medical sectors. During his professional career, Roman Szwed has earned numerous awards.. He is a member of several professional associations, , among others the Council for the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications. In 2013, Roman Szwed was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit by the President of Poland for promoting the development of the information society.

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.

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.

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.

Founder of Columbus Energy, the largest service provider on the photovoltaic installation market in Poland. He graduated engineering studies in electrical engineering at AGH in Krakow. Since 2007, he gained managerial experience working for Heiderlberg Technology Center, Air BP and MARS Polska. In 2009, he focused on renewable energy sources. For 6 years, he has been successfully developing the Columbus Energy group, which offers modern solutions in the field of renewable energy. Every day a charismatic entrepreneur, visionary, supporter of unconventional solutions, lover of ambitious challenges.