Keynote Speakers

Tim Tabrizi
Board member & CEO, Your Coaching Institute
Manager, coach oraz przedsiębiorca z 21-letnim doświadczeniemw dziedzinie sourcingu zarządzania łańcuchem dostaw. Jest uznanym ekspertem w dziedzinach transformacji biznesu, digitalizacji i przemysłu 4.0. Dzięki znajomości trzech języków obcych i doświadczeniu zdobytym w międzykulturowym środowisku pracował w różnych regionach świata jak USA, Singapur, Wielka Brytania, Chiny i Bliski Wschód. Kompetencje zawodowe pozyskał między innymi w Daigler AG (Obecnie Mercedes-Benz AG) Siemens, T- Systems International oraz Sivantos Group. Dodatkowo, na swoim koncie posiada udokumentowany rozwój i restrukturyzację organizacji o międzynarodowym zasięgu. Jako przedsiębiorca z wieloma start-upami w swoim portfolio, zakłada i rozwija nowe przedsięwzięcia, w dziedzinach sprzedaży, R&D, marketingu, IT i infrastruktury. Jest absolwentem zarządzania na Uniwersytecie Steinbes oraz MBA na IESE Business School. Ponadto uzupełnił swoje wykształcenie o studia podyplomowe z zakresu negocjacji w Harvard Business School oraz księgowości i analizy finansowej w London Business School.
Jan Vašek
Assistant Professor, University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague (UCT Prague)
He is one of the best specialists in the field of purchasing management, and passes on his acquired experience to students and professionals. Practitioner and theoretician. He teaches at the University of Technology and Chemistry in Prague and is the author of numerous scientific publications on supply chain management and energy economics.

Graduate of numerous universities. He studied at Palacký University, Harvard University, Oxford University and Cranfield University.

He gained extensive practical experience in purchasing at Toyota, Inergy, Automotive Lighting and Swiss Krono.

He is an inspiring speaker, and his speeches literally draw the audience into the heart of the issue. This has been repeatedly confirmed by the evaluations of the participants of the largest purchasing conference in Poland PROCON/POLZAK, placing him among the top speakers.

Special Guests

Maciej Kawecki
Digital EU Ambassador
Popularyzator technologiczny, dziennikarz naukowy powołany przez Komisję Europejską na funkcję Digital EU Ambassador. Prezes Instytutu Lema. Prorektor ds. innowacji Wyższej Szkoły Bankowej w Warszawie. Autor cyklu technologicznego w programie Dzień Dobry TVN. Stawia na człowieka, który rozumie, że technologia to tylko i aż narzędzie w jego rękach, którym powinien pozytywnie zmieniać świat. Promuje to co polskie i innowacyjne.
Maciej Błaszak
Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University
Cognitive scientist, biologist, habilitated doctor of humanities, professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Scholarship recipient of the University of Kiel (DAAD Scholarship, Germany), University of Edinburgh (Tempus Scholarship, Scotland), and University of Berkeley (USA). Lecturer at Leon Koźmiński Academy in Warsaw, Poznań University of Economics, SWPS University in Poznań, and Poznań University of Banking. His research interests revolve around the epigenesis of the mind, which involves the brain's ability to be shaped by environmental stimuli. He engages in universal design psychology, neurodidactics, and brainfitness issues. For years, he has conducted training sessions and expert lectures for management staff and educational leaders. Author and co-author of five monographs and dozens of scientific articles. Privately, a father of Julia, Tosa, Milena, Olga, Jasio, and Jerzyk.

Speakers

Andrzej Zawistowski
Member of the Board, PSML
Senior International Manager with documented thirty years of experience working in international environments, creating and effectively managing teams for logistics, distribution, purchasing and strategic relations with suppliers, at local, regional and global level.
Has many years of experience in managing people and managing projects in the field of Global Supply Chain (product costs, purchasing and managing relations with suppliers, transport, warehouse management, sales and production planning, distribution of finished products together with full customer service, etc.).
He gained extensive experience in process optimization and implementation of comprehensive IT platforms - including J.D. Edwards, SAP and Oracle.
A long-term negotiator, with the ability to persuade and implement cost-effective optimal solutions in complex and demanding organizations.
Working for over 13 years in one of the world's largest tobacco concerns, he created from scratch an organization responsible for supply chain management in a production plant in Poland, and then in the company's headquarters was responsible for global purchases in the non-working area.
After returning to Poland, he built one of the first Purchasing Group in the country with the participation of 10 large companies and for the following years he was responsible for negotiating global contracts on behalf of the Group.
For over 8 years he has been active in the Polish Association of Managers of Logistics and Procurement of PSML as a Member of the Board. He runs many training courses and shopping workshops throughout Poland and is responsible for the substantive side of the largest Polish Procurement Conference POLZAK.

Mateusz Borowiecki
Managing Director, OptiBuy - a WNS company
An experienced procurement industry expert with 20 years of practice in international procurement and consulting projects. Specializes in implementing comprehensive procurement systems and IT tools. Actively participates in numerous conferences in the Middle East, Europe, and the USA. Shares knowledge as a speaker at industry meetings, training sessions, and lectures for students (Leon Koźmiński Academy in Warsaw and Poznań University of Banking). Also an author of numerous publications on supply chain management.

Alpar Kamber
Chief Business Officer, WNS Denali
Alpar Kamber is responsible for executing business strategy, business analytics, and driving the overall growth and performance of key business units, including Hi-Tech and Professional Services, Manufacturing, Retail, and Consumer Products, and the Procurement Services function. He was the Founder and CEO of Denali Sourcing Services (now a part of WNS), a next-generation procurement services provider. Prior to Denali, Alpar held management positions at Ariba, FreeMarkets, Diamond Technology Partners, and E&Y.

Francois Dousset
Programme Manager, EIPM
François works as a consultant and trainer in Procurement. He specializes in leadership and strategy for the Procurement function and category-specific purchasing strategies. He is also an expert in Negotiation and Organizational Change Management. Over the past 10 years, he has led conferences, training sessions, and coaching worldwide for companies in various sectors such as banking, automotive, chemicals, energy, food, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, including BOMBARDIER, COCA COLA EUROPEAN PARTNERS, E.ON, ENEL, L'OREAL, LVMH, MICHELIN, PSA, SABIC, SCHLUMBERGER, SAINT-GOBAIN, VODAFONE, VOLVO...

Omer Abdullah
Chief Commercial Officer, The Smart Cube
Omer Abdullah is Chief Commercial Officer and Co-founder for The Smart Cube (a WNS Company). He works with Procurement and Strategy leaders at global organisations, transforming their teams to become value-driven and insight-led. 

Omer has more than 30 years of management consulting and global corporate and industry experience across North America, Europe, and Asia. His prior roles include A.T. Kearney (North America), Warner Lambert (USA), and The Perrier Group (Asia-Pacific). Omer has an MBA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA, and a BBA from the University of East Asia.

Monika Kiełtyka-Michna
Head of Global Procurement Services, Astra Zeneca
Monika is an experienced leader in business area transformation, professional negotiator with significant experience in management of multi-million spend of the companies. She is a goal–oriented person focused on achieving companies’ strategic targets by embracing change programs. ​

At Astra Zeneca Monika is leading Global Procurement organization providing support in the areas of sourcing and contracting as well as a part of Category Management, which she built across 3 continents.​

She joined Astra Zeneca from Kenya Airways, where she supported the turnaround of the airline and led strategic projects. Prior to that she was responsible for consolidation of the back office and embedding of the procurement shared services at LOT Polish Airlines, where she held a position of a Chief Corporate Officer.​

Before joining an airline, she spent many years in the pharmaceutical industry. She created Novartis’ very first world-wide shared service center in the capacity of a Head of Shared Country Procurement Organization and Administration. Prior to that, she held a range of procurement leadership positions at Polpharma. Monika spent her early career at Carlsberg and Phillip Morris.​

She graduated from University of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow and an MBA at the University of Minnesota and Warsaw School of Economics. ​

Maciej Zaleski-Ejgierd
CEO, Procurence
Ekspert z dziedziny zakupów, zarządzania dostawcami i zarządzania ryzykiem w łańcuchach dostaw, z wieloletnim doświadczeniem w konsultingu dla (projekty w EMEA i obu amerykach). Prowadził gościnne wykłady dt. zarządzania ryzykiem m.in. na LSE, UCL Louvain, EBS Universität, SGH, Ucz. Łazarskiego. Zwycięzca m.in. konkursu PSML Lider Zakupów 2021 i finalista Procurement Leaders - World Procurement Awards '22. Prezes i założyciel Procurence, wytwórcy oprogramowania dla działów zakupów i zarządzania jakością.

Łukasz Węgrzyn
Lawyer, IT contracts expert, Osborne Clarke Polska
Łukasz Wegrzyn, a partner at Osborne Clarke Poland, heads the IT & Data practice. He advises on technology contracts and regulation for regulated sectors: banking, insurance, health.

Recommended in the international rankings of Chambers TMT, Chambers Fintech and Legal500 as one of the best Polish lawyers in the area of technology regulation.
He was responsible for the legal side of Poland's first implementation of hyperscale cloud services in the financial sector. He was the legal leader in the largest IT outsourcing project in Poland to date in the telecommunications sector.

Lukasz is the originator and co-author of the first IT contracts in Poland consistent with agile methodologies of IT project execution (Agile), both for the private and public sectors. He is also a co-author of IT services procurement (IT sourcing) models and processes in regulated sectors allowing the engagement of IT vendors delivering services in agile methodologies, in particular Scrum.

He holds the technology certifications ITIL Foundation, PSMI (Professional Scrum Master), AgilePM Foundation, Professional Agile Leadership I. Member of the Institute of New Technology and Personal Data Law at Lazarski University. Member of the Association of New Technology Law.

Anna Grzesiak
Global Contracting and Procurement Operations Manager, Shell
Experienced and authentic Leader, holding several Global Leadership positions within Contracting and Procurement area. During the last 18 years, has gained rich CP background starting with local Procurement roles up to regional Category Management, global Supplier Quality Assurance and global CP Operations within the Energy Business, FMCG and Automotive sectors. As a member of a global CP Operations Leadership Team at Shell, helps people grow and develop their capabilities, as well as drives Digital transformation, Simplification and Sustainability for SHELL.

Miłosz Zachara
Global Portfolio Lead, Shell
Has more than 16 years of expertise in the IT and FMCG industry. 4 years in procurement / 8 years in retail as a buyer / 4 years in sales.
Due to the diversity of responsibilities during a professional career has a large perspective on the market, including all of its entities and the linkages that existed between them. Took part in multiple purchasing projects, supply chain optimization activities, and global contract negotiations.

In his current position responsible for global Telecoms procurement strategy with a portfolio of global and local contracts. Managing strategic IT vendors (including software, hardware and professional services), leading negotiations as well as regional and global tenders.

Diana Najtkowska-Sapryk
Expert and Trainer, ProcureMe
Trainer, lecturer, consultant (also in the ESG field), mentor for procurement management, member of PSML (Polskie Stowarzyszenie Menedżerów Logistyki i Zakupów), and a mentor in the Top Young 100 program aimed at talented students. TOP 3 Speaker at Poland's largest procurement conference: Procon Polzak 2021, which has been gathering dozens of people at her thematic roundtables for the past 2 years. Speaker in numerous industry webinars, conferences, and events across various sectors. Manages her own ProcureMe groups (bringing together industry professionals) on Facebook and LinkedIn, where she shares knowledge and (engaging fellow supply chain enthusiasts) builds a space for exchanging experiences. Through the ProcureMe Academy, which includes original workshops enhancing the work of buyers, she elevates competencies and awareness of the role of a Procurement Expert. Supports the transformation of the procurement department from a goods supplier to a business partner. Aids in change management and employee development through individual work, such as coaching and mentoring.

Professional motto: I HELP TO DISCOVER PROCUREMENT SUPERPOWERS!

Paweł Ciężki
Key Account Manager, Unite
With over 8 years of experience in the purchasing industry, he has a deep understanding of the procurement process both from the supplier and customer perspective. Having worked as a Supplier Manager he knows how to develop supplier networks. Currently as a Key Account Manager he is committed to supporting buyers. He has great expertise in indirect spending. After work he breaks new records in speed skating.

Anna Matus
Senior Key Account Manager, Mercateo
Having gained extensive experience working in sales in various sectors, Anna went on to become a Senior Account Manager in e-commerce. She is an expert in purchasing process optimization, successfully supporting customers and helping them develop growth strategies. She believes in the power of communication and relationships. She is passionate about travelling, especially to her dream destinations.

Wojciech Osoba
Head of Procurement Office Eastern Europe, KION Group
Natural leader; I do believe people make a difference, are an extremely important asset. Procurement executive focused on delivering maximum possible value with procurement operations.

20 years of experience in global procurement world. My procurement professional career has been started in Honeywell Aerospace direct global sourcing organization, where I was responsible for growing & reshaping company supply base, resourcing activities and supplier crisis management, later took on Commodity Manager duties. Since august 2012 I am honored to lead various procurement Teams, Organizations, in various businesses – ALSTOM (rolling stocks), ORLEN (petrochemical), ENERGA (electro-energy) and KION (intra logistic solutions). Experienced in building as well as holistically transforming, developing procurement organizations.

M.Sc.Eng. in aircraft engines, however gave up R&D career after first two years because… fell in love with procurement!

Jon Kolasinski
Head of Countries, Markit
Jon has over 15 years of cooperation with leading international clients in Poland and across Europe. As Head of Countries for Markit, Jon is responsible for managing Markit offices in over 40 countries in Europe, the Americas and APAC. Prior to this, Jon grew Markit Poland into the leading IT hardware partner for international clients in Poland, while helping to manage dozens of IT procurement projects across EMEA and the Americas. Jon is currently also involved in the continued development of the Markit online Marketplace. Overseeing Markit’s sustainability efforts, Jon is also involved with Markit’s development of C02 reduction programs, dedicated to offering tangible benefits and off-set programs to clients.

Agnieszka Piątkowska
Managing Partner, Big Fish
International recruitment expert with almost 20 years of experience in managing recruitment projects in the CEE region for global organizations. Partner at Big Fish, an international recruitment and training company specializing in procurement & supply chain. He deals with recruitment processes of middle, senior and top management and highly specialized recruitment projects. He has many years of experience in so-called green field projects - recruitment of purchasing personnel for new investments. Member of an international team conducting competency assessment of candidates.

Career advisor and trainer, creator of career management tools many articles related to the topics of management and career development. Coach working with senior management in Career transition/outplacement programs.

Adam Bernacki
Academic lecturer and Bussines trainer, experienced procurement and sales manager
Adam Bernacki is a seasoned professional with expertise in transforming procurement and sales departments through consultancy, workshops, and interim management. With a background in economics and law, he holds a degree in Advanced Purchasing Management from Michigan State University and boasts over two decades of dedicated experience in sales, procurement, and supply chain management. Renowned for his managerial prowess, Adam is also a distinguished advisor, trainer, and academic lecturer, with an impressive track record of over 10,000 hours of client-focused workshop facilitation, customizing programs based on insights from Harvard Business School and the esteemed Eli Broad College of Business at MSU.

Łukasz Jędraszkiewicz
Chief Procurement Officer at TAURON Ciepło
Buyer by vocation, procurement promoter by passion. For 18 years he has been managing departments that spend companies’ money. He built and developed procurement departments in industries related to mining and railways, and for the last 7 years in the energy sector at TAURON Ciepło.

Co-creator of a podcast and YouTube channel related to procurement - #OkiemKupca.

Trainer of buyers and managers who is fascinated by working with people. He is able to build, remodel and motivate a purchasing team so that it becomes competently mature and independent.

On LinkedIn, showing the human face of a buyer, he created - #PiątekBrzmiDobrze - the only community on this platform focused around passion for music.

Jacek Jarmuszczak
Podcaster, Okiem Kupca
Practitioner, experienced manager of purchasing, purchasing negotiations and strategies for generating savings in international markets. He started his career in Polish FMCG companies, for which he led purchasing negotiations with suppliers from all over the world. Later, as Head of Electronic Purchasing at Carlsberg Group, he managed a team that conducted about 600 tenders per year for all plants worldwide. As Global Category Manager at the Carlsberg Group, he created purchasing strategy and led negotiations with key suppliers in the most demanding purchasing area: IT, professional services and vehicle fleet. Expert in electronic auctions and e-systems for purchasing management. He has practical experience in the implementation and improvement of electronic tools supporting the purchasing area (Supplier Assessment, Contract Management, Internal Demand Circulation, Electronic Auctions).

Małgorzata Radziak
Founder & CEO, MMR ESG Consulting
Małgorzata began her foray into sustainability in 2004, working in Mars' global teams on the creation and implementation of the "Sustainable in generation" strategy. She was also responsible for the implementation of this strategy in Central Europe and led the global team responsible for sustainable procurement and the palm oil supply chain. These activities resulted in numerous contacts and collaborations with sustainability organizations and associations, as well as access to best practices and innovations. Margaret has been investing in her education in the area of sustainability for years. She stays abreast of all global and European initiatives, new regulations, and attends programs organized by the best in the industry like Schumacher College and MIT. She founded MMR ESG Consulting, which helps companies achieve their sustainability goals. Margaret has more than 20 years of business experience in global corporations, in various industries, in the role of CEO and board member in the areas of purchasing and logistics or sales. Her knowledge of business needs, the ability to develop and motivate her colleagues, combined with her extensive knowledge of the ESG field, helps her create inspiring and effective training programs

Wojciech Żarniewski
Head of Procurement Central & Eastern Europe, DHL
Experienced Head Of Procurement with a demonstrated history of working in the logistics, FMCG and supply chain industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Strategic Sourcing, Warehouse Operations, Management, and Continuous Improvement.

Krzysztof Ducal
Sales Director and Board Member, Dell Technologies

Michał Gazda
Senior Account Executive, Financing Sales, Dell Technologies

Michał Czernek
B2B Business Lines Director, Digital Care
Experienced sales manager and business developer. Over 20 years, he has worked on building sales channels in telecom, energy, SaaS and HR services. He managed both direct sales forces and indirect partner channels. He has worked with major brands such as Ferrero, Inditex, PGE and Żabka, to name a few. He is a social psychologist by training, which probably influenced his deep love and belief in gamification mechanics - both in business and personal life.

Paweł Skorupski
Senior Consultant, EcoVadis
Przez ostatnie 10 lat zaangażowany w projekty rozwoju biznesu, budowy strategii oraz wspierania zagranicznych inwestorów w wejściu na polski rynek. Współpracował z klientami z sektora farmaceutycznego, chemicznego, inżynierii, IT, lotnictwa oraz obronności. W tym czasie z powodzeniem zrealizował ponad 50 złożonych projektów doradczych.
Od 2017 związany jest z EcoVadis, gdzie wspiera firmy z Polski w obszarze budowy oraz rozwoju programów w ramach zrównoważonych łańcuchów dostaw. Doradza firmom jak skutecznie współpracować z dostawcami w celu wykrywania potencjalnego ryzyka, monitorowania oceny oraz rozwoju programów w temacie środowiska, aspektów społecznych oraz etycznych.
For the past 10 years, he has been involved in business development projects, strategy building and supporting foreign investors in entering the Polish market. He has worked with clients in the pharmaceutical, chemical, engineering, IT, aerospace and defense sectors. During this time, he successfully completed more than 50 complex consulting projects.
Since 2017 he has been associated with EcoVadis, where he supports companies in Poland in the area of building and developing programs within sustainable supply chains. He advises companies on how to effectively work with suppliers to detect potential risks, monitor assessments and develop programs on environmental, social and ethical topics.
Paul helps companies implement a comprehensive supplier assessment service that improves the management of purchasing departments and facilitates long-term cooperation with suppliers and business partners. He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, the Warsaw School of Economics and Leibniz University in Hannover.

Paweł Kamiński
Marketing Director, Lyreco Polska
Pawel Kaminski combines nearly 30 years of experience working in B2C and B2B markets managing marketing in multinational corporations. Since 2010, he has been managing the marketing of Lyreco Poland, a leader in the workplace products and services industry. He gained his first experience at Unilever managing marketing and building the position of the Algida brands, in order to take over responsibility for the development of the Home Care category within the same corporation a few years later. Later he served as a member of the board of Diageo Poland being responsible for the development of the Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and many other brands. He was also marketing director, a member of the board of Coty Poland acting in the fragrance and color cosmetics industry.
He is a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, postgraduate studies at the Warsaw University of Technology Business School and an MBA from the University of Minnesota (WEMBA).

Ryszard Szefler
Safety Business Director, Intersafe a Lyreco company
He has more than 22 years of experience both as a regional category management director of Śoi in pan-European corporations, and in sales development in the markets of many CEE countries. He has been successful in the development and implementation of private label products in the CEE region, but also in the markets of Western European countries. He is an MBA graduate and author of numerous publications on selection and management of the śoi sphere. As a practitioner and passionate about safety, he shares his experience and knowledge with postgraduate students.

Jacek Trojanowski
R&D Team Leader, OptiBuy - a WNS company
Physicist, data scientist, researcher in his heart. For several years of work in academia and business he gained experience as a researcher, a team leader, and a project manager. He is focused on optimization and automation using AI techniques. For last few years he’s been developing new AI tools for procurement – to make it a smart procurement!

Agnieszka Sitarska-Zalewska
Procurement Director - Poland and the Baltics, Coca-Cola HBC Poland
Agnieszka is a manager with over 20 years of experience working in international companies in both Direct and Indirect categories. The last 11 years associated with Coca-Cola HBC Poland, where she effectively manages a team dispersed in several countries.
Her passion is working with people therefore she is eager to share her experience, is a mentor supporting her team in their daily work and projects, developing future leaders and focusing on the development of people in the team.
In her work she not only builds and implements strategies for managing purchasing categories or optimizing costs and processes, but also, together with her team, focuses on developing suppliers and strengthening strategic relationships with them. What sets her apart is her talent for building business relationships with suppliers, which contributes to achieving mutually shared goals and a sense that each party is a winner. So it's only natural that she and her team manage to involve suppliers in the joint development and implementation of sustainability practices.
Through cross-team collaboration both within the supply chain and with other departments, but also internationally within the company, he takes a holistic view of the significant impact of suppliers in both the direct and indirect purchasing areas, as well as the benefits of engaging suppliers in joint ventures.

Wojciech Żarniewski
Head of Procurement Central & Eastern Europe, DHL
Experienced Head Of Procurement with a demonstrated history of working in the logistics, FMCG and supply chain industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Strategic Sourcing, Warehouse Operations, Management, and Continuous Improvement.

Aneta Kruk-Biskup
Business Development Manager, Client Solutions, Dell Technologies
She started her career at Dell 8 years ago with the opportunity to develop her experience and skills in many areas of Dell Technologies including Partner Channel Collaboration, Technical Pre-Sales and Large Enterprise. Today, she holds the position of Business Development Manager, Client Solutions and is responsible for driving business development in the Client Solutions product area among large commercial customers, developing networks to attract new customers and exploring new market opportunities and overseeing development projects.

Łukasz Ostrowski
Łukasz Ostrowski, Head of Group Strategic Procurement, Allegro Group
Łukasz Ostrowski is an experienced manager in the area of procurement with many years of experience gained in large, international organisations . During his 17 years of experience, he has successfully completed many projects thanks to his unorthodox and strategic approach to both supplier relationship management and cost optimisation.

For many years, he has successfully managed highly complex procurement projects in a variety of industries ranging from telecommunications to manufacturing and then e-commerce. He has an uncanny ability to identify savings potentials beyond the expectations of top management and the best evidence of this is the generation of multi-million euro savings.

As a manager leading a team for many years, he has become known as a leader focused on cooperation and relationship building, open communication, and a culture of constructive feedback, creating opportunities for his team to grow. He adheres to the principle that effective communication and active listening are key to achieving organisational goals and shaping a culture of continuous improvement.

For some time now, his passion, which he continuously and intensively develops, has been the topic of "artificial intelligence in purchasing", recognising the huge potential of this technology, but at the same time skilfully pointing out the risks and challenges associated with it. He obtains his knowledge from many conversations and meetings with manufacturers of AI solutions for the procurement area.

Michał Pawłowski
Michał Pawłowski, Head of Procurement, Santander Bank Polska
In his almost 20 years of work, Michal Pawlowski has gained extensive experience in a wide range of procurement activities, particularly in the area of transformation projects and in IT and telecommunications procurement.

He graduated in law from Lazarski University of Warsaw. He is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics.

Michał started his professional career in 2005 at Bank Pekao, where he implemented projects in the area of procurement, cost optimisation and transformation.
He then linked his career with UniCredit Group, where he was Global Category Manager from 2007 to 2011, defining and implementing global procurement strategies. Awarded a special recognition by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for integrating environmental aspects into purchasing.
Since 2011, he was again associated with Bank Pekao, where he held senior positions in the Bank's procurement structures related to procurement management and transformation. From 2018, he was Director of the Operational and Tactical Procurement Office and then Director of the IT and Telecommunications Procurement Office.

From 1 September 2022, Michal joined Bank Santander Poland as Head of the Procurement Office.

He has completed numerous training courses in Poland and abroad, including procurment management, leadership and negotiation. Member of the Core Team in the PSML Dialog IT programme.

Szczepan Starowieyski
Szczepan Starowieyski, Account Executive, Dell Technologies

Filip Zwierzyński
Filip Zwierzyński, Systems Engineer, Dell Technologies
He has been involved in the IT industry for several years - previously as a network administrator and for 7 years as a technical consultant for Dell Technologies. In his direct work with customers, he deals with the selection and design of an appropriate Data Centre solution.

Piotr Chimko
Head of Procurement Excellence EMEA, Phillips
Piotr Chimko has more than 20 years of practice in management. Before entering the world of purchasing, he implemented integrated IT systems in global corporations for many years, and then realized himself in the area of internal audit and finance at the largest retail chain in Poland. Currently at Philips, he leads a multi-person team of buyers who contract services worth more than 400 million euros a year. Piotr specializes in business transformations and creating effective teams. In his work he is inspired by such figures as John Maxwell, Simon Sinek and Patrick Lencioni.

Justyna Aleksandrowicz
Procurement Buyer, Secondary Packaging, Coca-Cola HBC Polska

Filip Błoch
Founder, WorkTrips
Founder of WorkTrips.com, one of the fastest-growing travel tech startups in Central Europe. One of the most advanced technologies for automated booking and expensing platform for business travel.
Vastly experienced in tourism and business development. Expert in AI and automation.
Under his leadership the company has racked up numerous awards, achieved impressive revenue growth and is tipped as one of Poland’s top technology startups with global potential. Despide pandemic he created project that uniquely address current travel market situation Post-Covid.

Hosts

Kama Kępczyńska-Kaleta
Polyglot, Master of Polish Speech Vox Populi 2021
Winner of the Polish Language Mastery competition in 2021. A multilingual host, moderator, and translator at numerous sports and cultural events, such as the Youth Boxing World Championships, the Grand Finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, International Economic and Cultural Conferences. Frequently invited as an expert in the field of international projects by the European Commission for informal education matters.

For 25 years, she has been singing in the Bielinianki folk group and the Sabbaton choir, with a passion for sports and foreign languages. A graduate of law and management studies at the Warsaw School of Economics. Initiator and coordinator of over 90 international projects under EU programs. Conducts training in international project management in English. Since 2003, she has been coordinating international projects, translating, and an experienced teacher of English and French. She also knows Spanish, German, and Russian.

A promoter of the culture and traditions of the Świętokrzyskie region. For 25 years, she has been promoting the Świętokrzyskie folklore as a member of the folk group "Bielinianki." For 20 years, she has been a soprano in the Choir of the Friends of Bieliny Society "Sabbaton." The creator of a folk performance based on the works of Józef Ozga-Michalski entitled "Bieliny Chatter," involving actors from the Stefan Żeromski Theatre in Kielce and residents of the Bieliny Municipality. Author of multilingual camps for children and youth, using the traditions and culture of the Świętokrzyskie region, as well as other regions in Poland and Europe. The main goal of these camps is education, especially informal language learning, utilizing all intelligences and senses. Artolingua - learning through art, Theatrolingua - learning through theater, MUZOLINGUA - learning through music.

Grzegorz Turniak
Proffesional networker and speaker, GrupaYak
Inspirujący mówca, mentor, networker. Z sal wykładowych przeniósł się do internetu. W latach 2019, 20, 21 jeden z „10 Topowych Głosów Polskiego Linkedin” . Orędownik i pasjonat idei networkingu (2000 sesji dla 200.000 osób) i Linkedin. Wdraża z zespołem programy #FirmaNaLinkedin. Wykładowca na konferencjach, studiach podyplomowych: SGH, UW, PW i MBA na ALK i PK. Jego kariera to m.in. BNI Polska, jobpilot, SAP Polska, Założyciel Stowarzyszenie Profesjonalnych Mówców i Mówczyń.
Autor wielu książek, m.in. "Nigdy nie stój sam". Partner spółki szkoleniowo-doradczej GrupaYak. Od ponad 30 lat łączy ludzi różnych pokoleń i zawodów, pokazując im jak budować relacje.