Speakers

Co-founder and CEO of SentiOne – AI-powered social listening and omnichannel customer service automation platform. Economist, CEMS International Management graduate, EY Polish Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 finalist, experienced in managing IT projects and building start-ups. Proud to manage a team of over 60 talents building cutting-edge technology used by over 350 brands such as Procter&Gamble, Huawei, mBank, Electrolux all over the world.

The PKO Bank Polski Management Board President since October 2009, with appointment for a new term in 2011. Prior to this he was the Pioneer Pekao TFI S.A. Management Board President for nearly nine years. Also, within the global structure of Pioneer Investments he was responsible for the CEE region distribution. In the late 1990s he was, among others, active in establishing PKO/Credit Suisse TFI S.A. investment funds company, in the function of its first Vice-President. In his more than ten-year long career in the financial markets he can be credited, among other things, with:

• Successfully steering PKO Bank Polski through the critical period of turmoil in the international financial markets, while strengthening the Bank’s position of leadership in terms of assets, equity funds and earnings in Poland and the CEE region;
• Development and implementation of the PKO Bank Polski’s strategy for the years 2010-2012, which resulted in strong efficiency gains as measured in terms of ROE, ROA and C/I ratio as well as in increased interest in the company among domestic and international investors (PKO continues to lead the market in terms of the value of its free float and as a major corporate debt issuer )
• Adjustment of PKO Bank Polski to the requirements of the ever more competitive financial market through increased attractiveness of its product offer and quality of its customer service;
• Refocusing of the PKO Bank Polski Group’s operational model toward its core activity of providing financial services.

Zbigniew Jagiełło is actively involved in development and promotion of the most demanding financial market standards in Poland. He is a member of the Council of the Polish Bank Association and of the prestigious Institut International D’Etudes Bancaires, which brings together the international banking community. His previous functions included, among others, that of the Chairman of the Chamber of Fund and Asset Management.
A graduate of the Wrocław Technical University, School of Computer Science and Management, he also completed Postgraduate Management Studies at the Gdańsk Foundation for Management Development and the University of Gdańsk, with Executive MBA certified by the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
The President of the Republic of Poland decorated him with the Officer`s Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland and he was awarded the Social Solidarity Medal for promoting the idea of ​​corporate social responsibility. His is the Deputy Chairman of the Programme Council of the PKO Bank Polski Foundation, an entity formed at his initiative in the year 2010.
Chosen the CEO of the Year 2011 by Parkiet daily; the recipient of the Wektor 2011 granted by the Polish Employers’ Chapter and of the Golden Banker in the Personality of the Year 2011 category; he was also lauded the Manager of the Year 2011 in a competition ran by Gazeta Bankowa. In the year 2012, Bloomberg Businessweek Polska singled him out as one of the Top 20 Managers in Crisis.
In 2013 Zbigniew Jagiello was honoured by Bank monthly with the title of “The Innovator of Banking Sector 2012”, and received the title of “Visionary and Man of the Year” from Brief monthly and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily in appreciation of his contribution to financial sector development, his consistency in strengthening Bank`s position of market leadership and determination in changing its image.

Mr. Witold Jaworski graduated from the Poznan University of Economics with the PhD title in the economics area.
He has a wide professional experience in the insurance sector.
His career began in 1995 from working for an American company Tillinghast Towers Perrin in Frankfurt. The following five years he spent covering analytical positions in the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
From 1996 to 2010 he was a part of a scientific team and being in charge of teaching and research assignments in insurance finance and strategy at Poznan University of Economics.
Mr. Witold Jaworski from May 2004 till December 2012 was linked to the PZU Group and he filled the following positions:

• Supervisory Board Member in PZU Lietuva and PZU Lietuva Life
• Head of Motor Insurance Product Management, Head of P&C Product Department, Managing Director P&C, Products and Sales in PZU S.A., Product Management Department / Sales Department
• Supervisory Board Member in PZU Pension Fund (Vice Chairman), PZU TFI (Chairman) Board Member in PZU Non-Life and PZU Life

After two years at the position of CEO in Polish branch of Allianz, once more he joined the Management Board of PZU Group. He is responsible for Marketing Department: Bureau of Product Management, Marketing Office, Analysis and Actuarial Office, the area of analytical CRM, Director of the Individual Client Segment, Director of Customer Segment SME).

Dr. Krzysztof Korus is an attorney at law, doctor of laws and economist, lecturer on public business law at the Foreign Legal Systems School Coordination Centre at the Jagiellonian University (Ośrodek Koordynacyjny Szkół Praw Obcych przy Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim), works with the Polish-German Centre for Banking Law at the Jagiellonian University (Polsko – Niemieckiego Centrum Prawa Bankowego Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego), is an associate member of the European Payments Consulting Association in Frankfurt, a member of the programming board at the monthly publication “Banking Law Monitor” (Monitor Prawa Bankowego), and a member of the working group of the Financial Market Development Council at the Polish Ministry of Finance, dealing with implementation of Directive 2007/64/EC. He has worked for renowned law firms in an of counsel capacity. Legal expert of the Polish Organization of non-bank Payment Institutions (PONIP). His specialist practice focus is commercial law. He has authored several dozen publications and legal analyses on legal issues relating to electronic payment instruments, and is invited to speak at numerous conferences and seminars relating to this issue.

Katarzyna has been working in strategy and innovation for almost 20 years. She has a wide experience in financial industry – prior to Innovatika she was working for National Bank of Poland and for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, investment bank. At Innovatika, she was managing and supporting projects for financial institutions like: BRE, Millennium, ING, Getin, Bank Pocztowy, Generali, PZU, PKO BP, Metlife, EFL and for companies like Dentons, Deutsche Telecom, Avon, Wolters Kluwer, Lafarge, Polish Post, MTV, Warsaw Stock Exchange, Mars, Ministry of Economy (Development), Bunge etc. She helps organisations in exploring their opportunity areas and building solutions upon them. She has a broad experience in incubation and accelerations programs, she co-authored the first MIT Enterprise Forum Accelerator in Poland, worked with startups at Hub:raum (T-Mobile accelerator), worked with corporate entrepreneurs in many industries – from telecoms, publishing houses to e-services and energy companies. Business ideas mentored by her get awards and international recognition. She is the judge in MIT Innovators Under 35 competition in Poland and Spain. She is experienced in running projects under Design Thinking approach. She was the one to persuade Bank Millennium to do the first Design Thinking project that turned out to be a great success that generates hard business results. She also teaches Design Thinking at Warsaw School of Economics and Innovatika’s Design Thinking Masterclass.

Sławomir Łopalewski has graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Warsaw School of Economics and IESE Business School University of Navarra/ AMP. He also studied at the Poznań University of Economics. He completed management courses in Harvard Business School and Kellogg School of Management in the USA. Since 2008 he has been associated with Nordea Life&Pensions (now PKO Życie Towarzystwo Ubezpieczeń S.A.)- first as a Board adviser, later as a member of the Board of Nordea Life & Pensions responsible for the sales department. In 2010 he has been appointed a CEO of the company. What is more, he has a rich experience in work for a renown consulting companies like Coopers& Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers), Cap Gemini Ernst&Young as well as Deloitte Advisory, where he was a manager in charge of strategic consulting for the companies in the financial sector.

Marcin is a Managing Director at S&P Global Ratings since 2014, executing across three senior commercial roles:
– Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Relationship Management: leading a regional team managing entire EMEA existing client book & relationships across all business segments: corporates, financial institutions, sovereigns & public sector and also running the infrastructure and project finance business.
– Regional Head for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): driving the franchise, strategy and management of the ratings business across the region.
– General Manager for Poland, running day-to-day operations of the Warsaw office.
In parallel is a member of the Supervisory Board of MCI Capital S.A., Chairman of the Program Board for the Fintech Digital CEE Congress, Member of the Board of Directors at the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland (AmCham) and the Leslaw A. Paga Foundation. Before joining S&P was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Corporate and Investment Bank in London, where he covered Russia, CIS, CEE, and Israel for Markets and Investor Services. He was also the Deputy General Manager for J.P. Morgan CIB in Poland. Prior to 2007 spent five years with Citi Corporate and Investment Banking, operating in Poland and CEE.

Tomasz Sękalski – banking and fintech expert with a wide knowledge of legal and financial issues. Earlier he has worked as a CEO of Idea Money, Polkomtel Business Development, and Country Director of Lidya, a global fintech offering financing to small and medium enterprises.
Graduate of Law department at Łódź University, he has also finished postgraduate studies at Warsaw School of Economics in the field of Bank Management. He is qualified by the Ministry of State Treasury to sit in the Supervisory Boards of the state-run companies. Privately: husband, father, and Harley Davidson owner.

Manager and innovator with several years of experience in the insurance and financial industries. He created insurance premium financing market in Poland. Prior to founding Bacca Cezary worked as management consultant for the biggest financial institutions in Poland and in the CEE.

He started his adventure with finances in the banking sector and more precisely in Getin Noble Bank and Nordea Bank, where he dealt with the sales network and the loan offer. Afterwards, he worked at TU Europa, where he was responsible for the cooperation of the insurer with the non-banking loan industry. He’s the co-founder of the pozyczkaportal.pl and Loando.pl website as well as Co-Founder of the LOANDO Group. Tymon Zastrzeżyński is actively involved in all initiatives aimed at dynamic development and integration of the fintech sector in Poland. He regularly speaks in the Polish press and radio, giving expert comments on current events on the Polish and global financial markets. Privately, he is passionate about football and the stock exchange. He’s got a stockbroker’s license.