Speakers

Aleksandra is a senior leader with P&L responsibility, experienced in business development and innovation scaling. Her skills cover restructuring, customer intelligence, customer experience, digital & direct sales management. She lead complex teams of up to 1k people. Her most important engagements included creating first in Europe payment marketing platform offered by bank, introducing agile analytics approach to bank’s direct communication as well as agile transformation of Contact Center. Before joining mBank she worked for Big4 consulting company in business advisory.

Agnieszka Kobylańska – Director of the Data Governance Bureau at BNP Paribas Bank Polska SA, Chief Data Officer.
For years connected with banking and finance, previously worked for Bank Millennium SA , Polbank EFG, Raiffeisen Bank Polska. She has based her development and career on experience in operational management in large structures, participation in strategic projects, often related to bank mergers, and in recent years, she has turned her attention to data management. For years, she has acted as a ‘liaison’ between Business and IT, where she applies her operational and business experience and knowledge of successful IT project implementation.
She says that the key to success in data management is to take a holistic approach to the subject and combine product, process and technology knowledge. As CDO, she is responsible for developing the ‘data ecosystem’ so that it becomes more and more important asset for building competitive advantage. In practice, this is expressed by building business processes that support high data quality, ensuring good communication and combining modern technology with the growing needs of the business.

An experienced leader who bridges the worlds of technology, business innovation and psychology. Karolina acts as a technical lead and catalyst to stimulate curiosity, helping to adapt to fast-changing IT environments and driving organizational agility. Karolina has supported biotech & life science companies in executing complex digital transformations, building and executing high-growth strategies, launching new technologies, innovative products and services for global, multinational brands, as well as growth hacking at startups around the world.
Karolina, as a technical advisor for companies and institutions, mainly from the financial sector, acted in the field of increasing organizational efficiency and introducing new IT solutions, such as: Blockchain / DLT, artificial intelligence, IoT, quantum computing. At A4BEE, she is the Chief of Growth and a Board Member.

A graduate of the Cracow University of Economics. Obtained an MBA from the Business School of the Warsaw University of Technology. Passionate about new technologies and automobiles. Director with more than 12 years of experience in the area of company digitization, process optimization and building and implementing innovation and technology transformation strategies. He has successfully implemented innovative solutions in the banking, telecommunications and insurance sectors.
In 2010, he started his career at Alior Bank, where, after gaining experience in sales, he joined the “innovation and strategic projects” area and took charge of implementing modern banking. He then explored the telecommunications industry, implementing projects at Orange Polska, Poland’s largest telecommunications company. He worked with both the Polish and French branches of Orange Labs, where he was part of many innovative initiatives, including international ones. He gained recognition by winning, among others, the prestigious award directed to creators of innovation “Telekreator”. In 2017, he joined the ranks of one of Poland’s most innovative insurance companies, LINK4, where he created and took charge of the “innovation and robotization of business processes” area. He was the winner of the 10th anniversary edition of the PNSA competition in the “Innovation in Sales” category, and was recognized in the additional category “Super Salesman.”

Joanna is a senior IT leader, having 20 years of experience in financial sector and consulting. She started her career in IT consulting at Deloitte. Then she gained experience within Nordea and PKO BP Groups, managing operations and strategic transformations. Within the structures of BNP Paribas Bank Polska, Joanna leads IT strategy & transformation. She focuses on scaling technology to increase operational efficiency and digital resiliency.
Joanna graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Warsaw, she is also alumni of Advanced Management Program at IESE Business School. Joanna was recognized as Strong Women in IT 2023.

Manager with over 25 years of experience. Ask me how to transform vision into strategy and business results. My professional ethics is built around partnerships, therefore I believe in open banking, open finance and open economy having impact. I’m an avid innovation hunter motivated by change and new challenges. I appreciate sharing ideas.

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.

Prof. Krzysztof Piech is an experienced economist and one of Poland’s foremost experts in blockchain technology and innovation. A professor at Lazarski University, where he directs the Blockchain Technology Center, he combines academic insight with business practice, specializing in macroeconomic forecasting and strategic consulting. As the author and editor of over 30 scientific books and hundreds of articles, he notably predicted economic crises in 2000 and 2008. He also advises blockchain startups and mentors in new technologies. Currently, he is collaborating with leading experts on an blockchain trilogy.

Artur Rudzinski has over 25 years of experience working in the financial sector. He currently works at Alior Bank S.A. serving as Director of the IT Risk and Business Continuity Department, responsible for all aspects of IT risk management, compliance and business continuity. Previously, he worked at Bank BPH S.A. GE Capital Group serving as Director of the Bank’s Security Department-Chief Security Officer, responsible for IT security, data protection and Business Continuity Management.
Artur Rudzinski actively participated in the work of Polish and foreign organizations.
He was a member of the Presidium of the Electronic Banking Council and the Electronic Transaction Security Forum at the Polish Bank Association. He also represented the Polish financial sector in the work of the IT Fraud Working Group at the European Banking Federation, and FI-ISAC Europe-(Financial Institutions-Information Sharing and Analysis Center Europe) by European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He participated in the work of the Working Group established at the Polish Bank Association which developed the Standard for the implementation of public or hybrid cloud computing service – “Standard Polishcloud 2.0”.

Since 2012 leads UNILINK – the largest insurance multiagency in Poland, with annual premium written of PLN 350 million. The company focuses on P&C insurance and has been developing its life and health insurance business for 2 years. Unilink partners with 6 000 insurance Agents in whole Poland.
During 2010-2012 Igor Rusinowski had a role of Management Board Member at Link4, with responsibility for development of traditional sales channels.
Before that he worked for the British insurance group RSA, where starting from 2008 r. had a role in Regional Management Board with responsibility for strategy and business development in Central and Eastern Europe. RSA was the owner of Link4 at that time.
Earlier Igor worked in leading consulting companies: PricewaterhouseCoopers and McKinsey & Company, advising banking and insurance clients in Poland, United States and Europe.
Igor graduated from Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) and holds MBA from Kellogg School of Management in Chicago. He is also a member of international association of chartered accountants – ACCA.

Having graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, she also completed postgraduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics and at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Executive MBA).
At Santander Bank Polska, her career began in legal support of the brokerage area before she advanced to the position of Director of Business Legal Services. Currently, she serves as the Director of Legal Affairs, overseeing all legal areas of the Bank. Since 2023 she also holds the position of General Counsel for the Santander Group in Poland