Marcin Golębicki is a graduate of Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, and Indiana University. For the past 25 years, he has managed major multinational medical companies in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He has gained experience holding top management positions at Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical (SJM), Abbott, and Philips.

He is a co-organizer of the Shark Tank competition for innovative startups and medical companies, and an investor in medical companies and startups. He serves on the boards of medical companies and is actively involved in innovative projects that have changed the medical sector worldwide. Since 2012, he has also been a European member of YPO, supporting the development of managers and leaders of the future. In 2019, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of Medicalgorithmics. He currently serves as CEO of EP Solutions.

He founded the Higher School of Business – National-Louis University in Nowy Sącz and the Higher School of Business in Tarnów. He was the rector of these universities until 2007. In 2008, he took over as president of WSB-NLU in Nowy Sącz, into which WSB in Tarnów was incorporated. From 1997 to 1999, he was part of the higher education reform team, and from 1997 to 2000, he chaired the Conference of Rectors of Non-State Universities. He also co-founded the Business Center Club. From 1993 to 1997, he sat on the presidium of the National Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Polish Academic and Economic Forum board. Since 2007, he has been a member of the supervisory board of Pekao S.A. bank. PL

Paweł Pisarczyk graduated from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at Warsaw University of Technology.
For the past 25 years, he has been involved in software development and scientific research. He began his career at the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microsynthesis, where he developed a multi-frame image capture system. He is the author of the Phoenix-RTOS operating system and co-founder of IMMOS, one of the first Polish companies developing embedded systems software. Since 2003, he has been associated with ATM SA, initially as a System Engineer and Director of the R&D Department, later as President of the Board of ATM-Lab Research and Development Centre, and then as President of the Board of Atende Software. He is currently the CEO of Phoenix Systems, which has developed an operating system and software for embedded systems, and the CEO of Atende Industries. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 scientific publications.

He is a neurosurgeon by training and a professor by profession. He is actively engaged in precision and regenerative medicine research at Johns Hopkins University – one of the world’s top universities, and a leading academic hospital in the US. He initiated and coordinated the EXPLORE ME project funded by the NCBiR under the STRATEGMED I program. He successfully brought the results of his scientific research into the clinic by performing the world’s first real-time MRI-guided neuroendovascular procedure. Member of the Collegium of Eminent Scientists established by the Kosciuszko Foundation in the USA. Creator of 5 inventions filed with patent offices and founder of two start-ups on both sides of the ocean, Ti-Com in Poland and IntraART in the US, to implement his inventions. Founder and first President of a new scientific society: Society for Image Guided Neurointerventions (SIGN) – www.neurosignsociety.org. Organizer of many scientific events, including the inaugural SIGN conference. Participant in many meetings organized by the Embassy in Washington and the Kosciuszko Foundation, including with the President of Poland and the Ministers: Science and Higher Education and Health. Author of more than 70 scientific publications (cited more than a thousand times), reviewer of publications in more than 60 scientific journals, and originator of numerous scientific grants. All this, of course, would be impossible without his multiple collaborators.

He graduated from the University of Warsaw, the Warsaw School of Economics, and the first promotion of the National School of Public Administration. He began his career at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and later at the Office for European Integration and Foreign Aid. In 1996, he was appointed Director of the President’s Cabinet Team, and in 2005, he was appointed by Aleksander Kwasniewski as Head of the President’s Cabinet. In 2008, he was nominated Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Singapore, where in 2012, he was elected Dean of the entire Diplomatic Corps. He was involved in electronic media issues, serving a 5-year term as a member of the National Broadcasting Council. He also worked as Vice President of the telecommunications company Exatel S.A. and served as President of the Polish Tennis Association. He serves as Director of Business Development at PwC and has experience participating in supervisory boards of large companies, including PZU SA and PKP SA. He was the Polish Ambassador to Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia.

Co-founder of Verde Olarte, an art accelerator promoting emerging South American artists. Designer of highly innovative methodologies: “Moonshot Thinking” and “Fail in love”. More than 15 years of experience in the field of innovation. Lecturer, trainer of creativity, innovation, purposefulness, and sustainability of innovative projects. National Leader in Innovation and Exponential Thinking, former Director of the Department of Multidisciplinary Innovation at the Monterrey Institute of Technology, formerly Director of Innovation and Engineering Development. Co-designer and Director of the innovation spaces INNOVaction GYM and Campus Monterrey. For more than 3 years, she has been creating the innovation department at the Salinas Groupo in Mexico.

Professor, entrepreneur, innovator, and lecturer. He spent six years abroad, working in industry and academia in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the US, and Japan. In 1998, he founded the engineering company Energocontrol, which in 16 years of operation was transformed into a group of engineering companies called EC Group. The group consists of 14 companies, primarily spin-offs, which continue research work conducted at AGH. The company currently employs several hundred engineers in Poland and abroad, mainly graduates of AGH. EC Group carries out projects for clients worldwide in high technology in the energy, railroad, aerospace, and machinery industries.

Prof. Tadeusz Uhl is the head of many national and international research projects and the author of more than 700 scientific publications. His research has resulted in 41 national and international patents, of which he is author and co-author. In addition, he is a member of many prestigious organizations and scientific institutions at home and abroad, holding senior positions. He has received many honorable mentions: “Cracovian of the Year 2012” in the “Science” category, “Scientist of the 21st Century” awarded by the 5th Forum of the New Economy, “Man of the Year – Friend of Railways” 2008 in the ‘Science’ category, and in 2010 he was awarded a professorial subsidy in the “Master” competition awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science—creator of the most significant event promoting technology in Central and Eastern Europe – IMPACT.

Polish engineer and scientist. One of the specialists in the field of neural networks, awarded with American, Polish, and international honors for scientific, teaching, and organizational work. Since 1989, he has served as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisville, USA, and was additionally Dean of the Faculty in 2004-06. He has published about 300 scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings in neural networks, computational intelligence, knowledge extraction from data, image and signal processing, and VLSI circuits. He has authored or co-authored three books (RC Active Filters, 1979, WNT; Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems, 1992, PWS; Artificial Neural Networks, 1996, PWN) and co-edited many scientific items published by IEEE Press, MIT Press, and Springer.

From 1998 to 2003, he was editor-in-chief of the leading journal in the field of neural networks, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. He also served on the Editorial Board of Proceedings of IEEE from 2001 to 2003. He has held organizational positions in the IEEE since 1993. He founded the NNC Neural Networks Technical Committee in the 1990s, and served as President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2004-05. He received the Ministry of Education Award (1997) and the Jubilee Gold Medal of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (1999). He has been a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 2005, and is an honorary professor at two universities in China. In 2019, he ran for the international competition for President of the IEEE organization.

Internationally recognized expert in business development management and financing, advisor to governments in designing innovation policies. Co-creates and implements modern management methods and new business strategies. She is a lecturer at the Business School of the Warsaw University of Technology. She also supports the development of women leaders, first as the initiator of the Women MBA Networking club. She is a member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. She is the creator of the Networking IQ methodology and a High-Level Expert at the European Commission.

He ran his IT consulting firm for nearly 10 years, with projects in London, Oxford, Rome, Verona, and Milan. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Leicester, he also has extensive research project management experience from St. John’s College in Oxford. As CEO of OSTC Poland, he was responsible for the company’s day-to-day operations in Poland. He served as COO of the OSTC Group for 19 years. He sold his business and is now an advisor and investor.