Speakers

Graduate of the Agricultural University in Poznan (1990), scholar of the European Union FH Weihenstephan (1991-1992).
In the years 1994 – 1999 expert and Project Manager carried out under the aid programs PHARE and USAID. He started his career at the Voivodeship Office in Poznań, in the years 1993 – 2005 member of the board and of supervisory boards of commercial law related to the economic consultancy, information technology and the energy industry. Since 2006 he associated with the capital group Asseco, where he is managing the energy and gas sector.
Co-author of a series of studies of the energy market, the development strategy of energy companies, restructuring programs and studies for the development of the energy market. Member of the Steering Committees in several of the largest Polish IT projects implemented for the energy industry. Co-author of the development strategy of Asseco on domestic and foreign markets, he supervises development of Asseco products and their internationalization and globalization.

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.

Polish politician and university professor, Jerzy Buzek is a former Prime Minister of Poland and former President of the European Parliament. A member of the European Parliament since 2004, he currently chairs European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). He is the chairman of the European Energy Forum, a platform for discussion between European energy stakeholders and policymakers. In 2010, together with Jacques Delors, he proposed the creation of a “European Energy Community”, a strategy to strengthen energy legislation and cooperation within and outside the EU which laid foundations for EU’s Energy Union. Led EP’s work on Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation, Gas Directive Revision, the Security of Gas Supply legislation, the EU Internal Energy Market, European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) and the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for Research. Lately the EP plenum backed his call for creating a Just Energy Transition Fund with a budget of €4,8 billion to support European coal regions.

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.

Mr Marek Foltynowicz graduated from the Politechnika Śląska (Silesian Technical University of Gliwice, Poland). He started his career as a research engineer at the Polymer Institute of PAN ( Polish Academy of Science).
He spent most of his career in the engineering side of the business working in several engineering offices and/or construction sites in Poland as well as abroad.
Based on that experience he moved to the industry to the Gdańsk Refinery where he was a Head of Development Department responsible for the development of refinery strategies and modernisation .
As a refining specialist he was appointed as Member of the Board of Directors of “NAFTA POLSKA S.A.” – holding company of polish oil sector. – responsible for Polish oil sector restructuring and privatisation and later on member of the board of directors for Polish Oil&Gas Company ( PGNiG SA)
He was a Chairman of Steering Committee supervising IPO of PKN Orlen S.A and Polish Oil&Gas Company.
He served as Member of the supervisory Board of different companies from Oil sector as well as Local Utilities Company.
He is highly recognised as an independent consultant for the Oil&Gas industry and innovator of waste oil splitting process- He set up his own consulting company PetroMark.
Most recently he worked on Hydrogen technologies and mobility projects.
Currently he is anexpert to RIGP and the Hydrogen Cluster in Gdańsk.

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)

He graduated from the Faculty of Drilling, Oil and Gas of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków in 1996 in Mining and Geology (major in Natural Gas Industry). He began his professional career in 1996 working in the Laboratory of Flow Metrology at the Oil and Gas Institute in Kraków as a gas industry engineer, and as an assistant from 1997. In 2004, he obtained a PhD degree in gas engineering at the Oil and Gas Drilling Department of the AGH University of Science and Technology.In 2004, he became Head of the Flow Metrology Department, and since May 2008 he has been Deputy Director for the Natural Gas Industry at the Oil and Gas Institute – National Research Institute. He has served as a member of the Management Board of the Chamber of the Natural Gas Industry since April 2015 and was its Vice President from July 26th 2016 to March 1st 2017.

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.

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.

He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering and Environmental Engineering at the Wrocław University of Technology. He completed postgraduate studies
at the Wrocław University of Technology in the field of Management and Marketing
and at the Warsaw University of Technology in the field of Gas Engineering. He completed postgraduate studies in Project Management at the Warsaw School of Economics.
He is a graduate of the Executive MBA studies organized by the Gdansk Foundation
for Management Development in partnership with the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises Aix–Marseille. He has the necessary qualifications to both design and manage works
in the field of gas installations and networks alongside with being the owner of the PRINCE2 Practitioner certificate.
He has extensive professional experience in the field of operation of energy facilities.
He has been connected with the gas industry for over 25 years. He initially worked
as a designer and later as a head of design studio in GAZOPROJKET S.A all while participating in the design of the most important investments in the power industry which included: Transit Gas Pipeline System, gas storage facilities in Mogilno and Wierzchowice, transit gas compressor stations, gas compression station in Hołowczyce, Jeleniów, Krzywa, Kotowo
i Załęcze and the biggest gas interchanges alongside with several dozens of gas stations.
After beginning employment in PGNiG S.A. head office he was involved in the most important strategic projects connected with the diversification of gas supply to Poland such
as the construction of the LNG terminal in Świnoujście and the Poland-Denmark connection project Baltic Pipe.
In recent years he worked for OSP GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. where he was responsible
for the development of the gas transmission system, planning new investment projects
and programs, as well as producing multi-annual development plans responding to the needs of the developing gas market in Poland. At the same time, he held the position of Deputy Director of the Gas Dispatch Centre.
He was awarded with the Bronze Cross of Merit and many industry awards. He also holds
the title of Mining Chief 2nd Grade and is a member of the Scientific and Technical Association of Technicians and Engineers of the Oil and Gas Industry.
On 1 October 2018 he was appointed as Member of the Management Board of Polska Spółka Gazownictwa and on 21 August 2019 he was appointed as Member of the Management Board of the Polska Spółka Gazownictwa responsible for technical and network maintenance.
On July 1, 2020, he was appointed the President of the Management Board of Polska Spółka Gazownictwa.

A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University and joint Warsaw School of Economics’ and the Paris SciencesPo Programme of European Studies. Holds MBA diploma from WSE and University of Quebec at Montreal. Between 2000 and 2004 Mr. Lewenstein worked in the Polish public affairs sector, the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw and the Secretariat General of the European Commission. In 2004 he began his work for Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo S.A. in the field of European integration and the energy sector regulatory framework. In 2006 and early 2007 Mr. Lewenstein worked in the European Commission, in DG Information Society and Media. After returning to Poland, he became Head of Office of the Polish Electricity Association. In 2008 he rejoined PGNiG S.A., where he was responsible for planning of Group’s strategy, business expansion and development of the company’s power generation projects as the Director of Strategy Department. Since January 2016 he works for InnoEnergy as Innovation Officer and Thematic Field Leader for “Energy for Circular Economy” thematic field.

Michał Obiegała is a Government and Regulatory Affairs Manager at BP in Poland. He is responsible for oversight of all public policy and regulatory matters affecting BP and risk management within corporate affairs, which also includes regulatory aspects of merger & acquisitions. Michał sits on BP’s Leadership Team.
Michał joined Polish operations of BP in April 2018. Prior to joining BP, Michał held several positions in corporate affairs, public policy and legal, including Liberty Global CEE operations, Clifford Chance and Dentons.
Michał graduated in law and holds a Master Degree in Law from the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań. He also holds a Postgraduate Degree in European Advanced Studies from the College of Europe. He is a legal advisor admitted to practice in the EU.

Mr. Tomasz ROGALA President of Euracoal (European Association for Coal and Lignite) and Chairman of the Board at Polska Grupa Górnicza SA (PGG – Polish Mining Group), the largest hard coal producer in Europe, with an annual output of around 30 million tonnes. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia where he specialised in financial law. He also completed postgraduate studies in EU law at the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and in business management at the University of Economics in Katowice as part of the Harzburg Kolleg programme. Mr. Rogala is a state-licensed insolvency practitioner and expert on corporate valuations. Previously, he was the President of the Management Board of Kompania Węglowa SA, prior to its restructuring.

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.

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.

Artur Tomaszewski has been working in the banking sector already for over twenty years.
He has started his professional career in Invest Bank, later on he joined Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy and since 1993 – Raiffeisen Bank Polska, first as the head of the Wielkopolska Region, later the head of Western Poland Macroregion and finally as the head of Corporate Banking area.
In 2004 Mr Tomaszewski has joined DNB Bank Polska as the board member supervising the Corporate Banking and Treasury area. President and CEO of DNB Bank Polska since April 2012. Member of the supervisory councils of DNB Bank Polska’s subsidiary companies (DNB Leasing Sp. z o.o., DNB Financial Services Sp. z o.o.).
Mr Tomaszewski graduated from IT Faculty at Poznań University of Technology. Has successfully completed the Master of Business Administration program at the Nottingham Trent University and AMP program at the University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain.

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.

Dominik Wadecki, Vice-President of the Energa SA Management Board for Operations, graduate of the Law Faculty of the Catholic University of Lublin. Completed controller apprenticeship at the Supreme Audit Office with honours, and post-graduate studies at the Collegium of Business Administration of the Warsaw School of Economics. Working in the energy sector since 2008, and for the Energa Group since 2017. On the Energa SA Management Board since 31 May 2019.

Graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw and MBA studies at the School of Commerce and Lazarski Law in Warsaw. He has been with Viessmann for over 20 years, that is, since the beginning of his career. During his career at Viessmann, he had a short break: in the years 2009-2010 at the Mistral S.A. Investment Fund, he held the position of Managing Director of Business Projects, and then was President of the Management Board of Giełda Wschodnia S.A. In recognition of his managerial competence and extensive experience in the heating industry, he was appointed President of the Viessmann Management Board in 2011.

His individual achievements, effective management, many years of contribution to the company’s development, business intuition and support of initiatives important for the development of the industry were awarded three times with the title of Personality of the Industry (2017 – 2019).

When asked about his greatest success, he answers that it is the ability to build long-term relationships with clients, based on trust and respect. Privately, he is passionate about technological novelties, especially in the field of motorization. A great enthusiast of tennis and winter sports. Proud father of two sons.

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.

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.