Speakers

Attorney at Law, He has over 16 years of experience in strategic management, restructuring, new business development, mergers and acquisitions, investment PE/VC and project finance, mainly in the energy and infrastructure sector. Currently occupies the position of Partner in the Venture Investors Ltd. Previously, he worked at EDP Renewables (Energias de Portugal Group) on the position of General Counsel. Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at Warsaw University. He also has diplomas from University of Florida and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Member of the Regional Bar Association in Warsaw.

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.

Zbigniew Bicki has wide practical and technical knowledge of managing companies in energy power sector. He graduated the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering at the WU of Technology.
Professionally, his background is: -Deputy Director of the Power Plants Dep. at the Ministry of Mining and Energy, Deputy Minister, Chief Inspector of Energy Economy, Director of the Energy Dep. at the Ministry of Industry, General Director of the Polish Power and Brown Coal Board,CEO of the: Polish Power Grid Company (PSE S.A.), and BOT Górnictwo i Energetyka S.A.
Founder, owner and CEO of advisory company – EM &CA SA Member of many social organisations e.g. VP of the Polish Chamber of Power Industry and Environmental Protection (IGEOŚ), Chairman of the Polish Membership Committee of the WEC (PKŚRE), now Vice Chairman. Others: awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta /V cl/ , several patents, numerous publications.

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.

Ewa Krasuska PhD, strategic advisor, ational Center for Research and Development
For 20 years she has been involved in projects in the areas of biofuels, biogas, circular economy andsustainable development. At the National Center for Research and Development, she is a member of the team of “Innovative Biogas Plant” project, in which the first biomethane plant in Poland is being developed.

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.

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).

Doctor of engineering in technical sciences in the discipline of environmental engineering, specialization in heating, ventilation and air conditioning. He graduated the Faculty of Environmental Engineering of the Lublin University of Technology in Lublin and postgraduate studies in air-conditioning and cooling devices at the Cracow University of Technology. He received a Danish government scholarship holder at the Technical University of Denmark and a TOP 500 Innovators scholarship holder at Stanford University. He is authorized to design and direct construction works without restrictions in the installation specialty in the field of heating, ventilation, gas, water and sewage networks, installations and devices.
For over a dozen years, he has been conducting research and development projects regarding innovative heating, ventilation and air conditioning devices as well as designing energy-saving HVAC systems.
Since 2020 leads a project “Ventilation systems for schools and houses” at NCDR, financed from European Funds under Smart Growth Operational Programme, in which private entities conduct research and development work on the development of economically effective mechanical ventilation systems dedicated to existing classrooms and apartments. The ventilation systems developed as part of the project will improve the quality of the internal environment, increase the health safety of children and residents, using high-efficiency heat, cold and moisture recovery, reduce operating costs, and the central management of individual systems.

Biocybernetic specialist in the field of artificial intelligence and digital transformation. Co-founder and CEO of Aigorithmics sp. z o.o., member of the board of the AI LAW TECH Foundation, lecturer as part of the Business.AI postgraduate studies: Technology, Law, Application of Artificial Intelligence and co-creator of the Cybersecurity Management postgraduate studies conducted by Kozminski University, member of the Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (GRAI) at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Leader of the Energy Subgroup.
In the years 1997-2016 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. He published the results of his scientific work in over 50 publications.
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 business. He also specializes in broadly understood digital transformation processes focused on the “data driven” philosophy, using optimally selected technological solutions. He has been a speaker and panelist at various scientific and business conferences.

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.