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„With the world being shaped by billionaires and tremendous wealth, we need to be smart about the world we live in, the choices we have and the potential that lies ahead of us. A society that is more educated and has the knowledge to make decisions will lead to generational growth.” – sais Kuczynska.

Kaja is a successful founder of several ventures focusing on bridging the gap between US and European public and private companies. With a background in finance and manufacturing, she has built several successful consulting companies developing strategic models for B2B, B2C, and consumer-based product businesses. Kaja works closely with other start-up entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, specifically female founder teams, to create an ecosystem of conscious driven companies.

Anna is an astrophysicistan and previous NASA Einstein Fellow at Harvard, living and working in Cambridge. The inventor of MindMics technology. Pilot and martial art enthusiats. Anna was looking for a better way to monitor stress and brain performance by applying her expertise in signal processing, data analysis, and modeling, software development she gained studying black holes. MindMics was born and incorporated in July 2018 with the founding board Charles Dornbush and Jim Maselan.

Prof. Heidi J. Larson is an anthropologist and Director of The Vaccine Confidence Project™ (VCP); Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, Dept. Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Clinical Professor, Institute of Health Metrics & Evaluation, University of Washington; and Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security Fellow. Dr. Larson previously headed Global Immunisation Communication at UNICEF, chaired GAVI’s Advocacy Task Force, and served on the WHO SAGE Working Group on vaccine hesitancy. The VCP is a WHO Centre of Excellence on addressing Vaccine Hesitancy. Prof. Larson’s research focuses on the analysis of social and political factors that can affect uptake of health interventions and influence policies. Her particular interest is on risk and rumour management from clinical trials to delivery – and building public trust. She served on the FDA Medical Countermeasure (MCM) Emergency Communication Expert Working Group, and is Principle Investigator of the EU-funded (EBODAC) project on the deployment, acceptance and compliance of an Ebola vaccine trial in Sierra Leone. Prof. Larson has recently joined the Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination (CEV) (University of Antwerp) as associate professor, as the CEV at the Antwerp University will host the European regional Office of the Vaccine Confidence Project as of May 15, 2019, and will closely collaborate with Vaccine Confidence Project partners at European level on implementing the Vaccine Confidence Index™ and developing and evaluating interventions to address vaccine hesitancy.

Jesus Cepeda cares about the future of cities and their sustainable growth. He says he has traveled to the future, and now can show us what he has seen, because everything as we know has been disrupted…With a PhD in AI and Robotics he has been a civic technology entrepreneur and software developer for the last +10 years. He is the Co-Founder and CEO at OS City, a company leading AI and Blockchain implementations in the Latin-american public sector.

While delivering cutting-edge technologies to Polish companies and scientific institutes, Andrzej Burgs created one-of-a-kind technological group consisting of the best Industry 4.0 specialists, scientists, engineers and designers. Fueled by unique R&D projects and dynamic change in business landscape, the team internalizes rapid prototyping methods and uses them to build its speed and agility. Andrzej Burgs is one of the most cited and well-known Polish 3D printing experts who also acts as an expert-advisor for Polish Accreditation Committee where he takes part in shaping the future of higher education in Poland. His main company Sygnis New Technologies grew from just 2 employees in June 2017 to 34 in October 2020. He also acquired more than 20 million zlotys from NCBiR for science projects in Sygnis.

Dr. Justyna Regan is an attorney licensed in Poland and in Illinois, and senior attorney in the firm’s Chicago office. She also works closely with the firm’s offices in Poland. She specializes in international transactions, advising clients on all aspects of their business activities. In particular, she concentrates on Polish companies carrying on their business in the United States and trying to enter the U.S. market, as well as on global businesses operating in Europe generally, especially Poland, and those interested in pursuing further greenfield investments, joint ventures, and trade with Poland.

“I want to live in a future that is defined by the concept of sustainability in all senses, where environmental justice, climate change, lack of education, gender gap and gender violence are words from the past because we have reached the point of equilibrium and justice for everyone and for the natural resources we use as well.

If we are not uncomfortable at some point with our projects, probably these are not innovative and ambitious enough to have a significant impact on our future.” – sais Sánchez.

Innovator and independent consultant for business development and validation. Committed to contribute to solve the global grand challenges Andrea has founded 2 start-ups and worked in Silicon Valley.  Andrea started her career as a Strategic Innovation Manager and considers the agility and early experimentation as an essential part of a successful organization.  She also has experience in building Corporate Innovation Processes and Open Innovation Programs.

Anna Jankowiak, passionate about engaging people and a promoter of combining psychology and technology to change their behavior, including pro-ecological and pro-health habits. The owner of the GrywIT company, president of Justmotive and vice president of Innokrea. Formerly Managing Director of the IT department at BPH and Alior Bank. She has the title of the best gamification expert in Europe (Gamification Specialist of the Year 2019) and Poland (Golden Wings of HR 2019 for the most innovative HR product in Poland), he is the winner of Innovation 2018 in the Industrial Development Agency or Innovation 2017 Polish Market. She was speaker at TEDx, nominated for the title of Businesswoman of the Year 2017, 2018 and 2019. She is a speaker at national and European conferences. Privately, a mother of two teenagers, a singer, musical actress and social activist – supports mainly foundations and schools.

Andres is a graduate student from Mexico City at the MIT Media Lab with a background in Robotics, AI and Innovation. His main research goal is to understand ways in which we can humanize and democratize technology. His work aims to enable society to enjoy the most humane aspects of life through inventions that range from devices that rethink bikes as city sensors to neural network implementations that use environmental sensor inputs to classify human affective states. As an undergraduate student at Tecnológico de Monterrey, he co-founded an innovation firm (OGMA D+I) and was a member of MITʼs Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program in Monterrey, Mexico where he worked with city stakeholders on the development of the regionʼs innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities. His current work at MIT is focused on the development of multi-sensor systems and machine intelligence models capable of digitally interpreting human behavior, user well being and performance with the goal of enabling smarter communities.

Anna is a teacher of a mindful life and the founder of the School of Creation – an organization offering an effective way of combining spiritual teachings, with internal intuitive guidance, and a practical creation process that empowers people to transform limiting beliefs and become the conscious creators of their lives.

Alejandra is a mexican maker and tech lover. She studied architecture and did a Master in Advanced Architecture at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya. She has a diploma in digital fabrication and she is currently doing a PhD in Science of Engineering in Tec de Monterrey.

Her work focuses in the creation of projects across disciplines through experimental processes for designing and materializing ideas. She founded “Laboratorio DAFD”, a design studio that develops products, spaces and experiences with the help of digital fabrication tools. Alejandra belongs to the Fab Lab Network, where she leads “Fab Lat Kids”, an international organization that uses technology as a tool for learning.

How I imagine the world of the future:

The future is local

In the future, the world is distributed: education, production, and urban development are generated locally in a hyper-connected world. Spaces like makerspaces and fab labs provide the opportunity for individuals to learn, innovate, and connect with others in an open collaborative environment, creating sustainable solutions to the community’s problems.

Minerva Castellanos, co-founder and COO of Scintia, co-founder of Sinestesia, bio-enthusiast and biohacker. Fellow of the MIT Media Lab Global Community Biotechnology Initiative, Fellow of WeXchange and biotechnology engineer. Selected as one of the 100 young Leaders in Biotechnology in Latin America by the Allbiotech organization in 2017. Minerva has experience working in synthetic biology based projects. She is representative of in the open science community, participating at the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) in Shenzhen, China in 2018. Recognized by Premio Mujer Tec in the entrepreneurship category, a women award in 2019. Minerva seeks to promote STEAM education in young people and promote science communication through bioart events. In 2018, she coordinated the Lúcida exhibition at the contemporary art museum, MARCO. Supported by The National Fund for Culture and the Arts she coordinated the exhibition of Sinestesia, Natural y Sintético in 2019.

From nature to lab and from lab to nature. The future I want is the one in which we preserve our biodiversity and our economic systems are bio-inspired and bio-manufactured, avoiding natural resources exploitation, replicating the same resources with clean technology and synthetic biology. We need to start with science education.

Dariusz Kowalski is a professor in the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences, Augusta University (Georgia, USA) and a visiting professor at SWPS University (Poland). He received his PhD in computer science and MSc in mathematics, both from University of Warsaw (Poland). He was working at University of Quebec (Canada), University of Connecticut (USA), Max-Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany), IMDEA Networks (Spain) and University of Liverpool (UK). He designs, analyzes and applies algorithms in various fields, including distributed and parallel computing, network communication, fault-tolerance, security and privacy, search and clustering, game theory, discrete mathematics and biology. He supervised 7 PhD students, co-authored over 180 peer-reviewed publications (many in Core A or A* venues), book chapters and Encyclopedia of Algorithms entries. He received best paper award at the flagship EATCS conference ICALP 2018 for his work on anonymous dynamic networks (co-authored with Miguel Mosteiro).

Acting Director of Directorate CNECT H, Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity (Directorate-General Communication Networks, Content and Technology). Among others, involved in negotiations of the Cybersecurity Act, implementation of the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive, preparation of the Commission’s Recommendation for a common EU approach to the security of 5G networks, the EU cyber-security strategy’s actions on resilience and cooperation with the EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA). He also directly contributed to the production of the EU Cybersecurity Strategy. Previously Head of Unit 'Organised Crime and Relations with EMCDDA’ at the European Commission (Directorate-General Home Affairs), which has the lead responsibility for the fight against cybercrime, corruption, sexual abuse of children and confiscation of criminal assets. In relation to cybercrime, involved in negotiation and drafting of two directives (on cyber-attacks and sexual exploitation of children) and establishment of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). Previously worked on EU relations with Russia (Directorate-General External Relations). Before joining the European Commission, a Director at the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw and Policy Officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Warsaw (international relations, law).

Sir Julian King was EU Commissioner for the Security Union from 2016-2019, with responsibility for counter terrorism, cyber security, tackling hybrid threats, disinformation, and securing critical digital infrastructure. He joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1985. He has held various positions, including: UK Ambassador to France (2016); Director General Economic & Consular (2014); DG of the Northern Ireland Office London and Belfast (2011); UK Ambassador to Ireland (2009); EU Commission Chef de Cabinet to Commissioner for Trade (2008); UK Representative on EU Political and Security Committee, (2004). Sir Julian is a graduate of Oxford University and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Paris.

Lorelien Hoet is Government Affairs Director at Microsoft, and she works notably on EU regulatory files in the area of critical infrastructure, cloud regulation and telecommunications. Before joining Microsoft in March 2018, Lorelien worked as a legal executive at Proximus for 9 years, holding different positions including Head of Legal Consumer business – managing the legal support in the areas of consumer legislation, privacy law, IP law, criminal & security matters, etc. Lorelien started het career as an attorney specialized in competition law, working in law firms in Brussels and Stockholm. She was also active as Director Regulatory Affairs at Mobistar (Orange), in charge of the follow-up and application of telecom regulation and competition law files.

Krzysztof Silicki graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology. Since 2004 he has been representing Poland on the Governing Council of the European Union Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and in the Executive Council (from 2013). He co-created ENISA’s strategy and action plan on network and information security. In 2016 he was appointed Vice President of the ENISA Executive Board. In 1996, he organized the first team in Poland reacting to dangers on the Internet – CERT Polska. He is the originator of the annual SECURE conference – the first conference on ICT security in Poland. As vice-minister in the Ministry for Digital Affairs, he led the process of creating a law on the national cyber security system. He participates in many European and Polish projects and initiatives as an expert in the field of network and information security.

Tomas Jakimavicius is a Senior Director of Public Policy for the European region at the GSMA, the association representing over 750 mobile network operators and over 400 telecoms associated companies worldwide.

Tomas has worked in the telecommunications world for over 10 years and over 15 years within the wider technology sphere and brings a plethora of experience in telecoms, cybersecurity, and wider ICT policy and regulation. Tomas is passionate about technology and its security thereof, and leads GSMA’s work on European cybersecurity policy. He contributes to these topics both within the GSMA and beyond, such as by speaking at events, participating in roundtables and within the relevant interest groups.

Prior to joining the GSMA, Tomas has served as a diplomat with the Lithuanian Permanent Representation to the EU, where he represented Lithuania at the EU Council as the Telecoms and Digital Affairs Attaché in 2010-2014. He was also a Chairman of the EU Council’s ‘Telecommunications and Information Society’ Working Group during the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the EU, in the second half of 2013, where he conducted Member States’ negotiations on the Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive, among many other important EU legislation.

Tomas received a Masters of Leadership with an International Relations concentration from Boston University (Massachusetts, US), a Masters of Enterprise Information Systems from University of Westminster (London, UK) and a Bachelors of Informatics from the Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania).

Doctor of Humanities, assistant professor at the University of Warsaw (1977-1989). Activist of the underground „S” and head of the Mazovia region of „Solidarity” (1989-1990) Minister in many governments: Labor and Social Policy (1991) and secretary of state in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy (1992 – 1993) Member of the Sejm (1991-1993), founder and head of the Institute of Public Affairs (1996-1997), advisor in the government of Jerzy Buzek. Advisor to „Lewiatan” in EU projects (2002-2007). Head of strategic advisers to Prime Minister Tusk and the Permanent Committee of the Council of Ministers (minister: 2008 – 2011), author and coordinator of work on the POLSKA 2030 report and reports: YOUTH 2011 and YOUTH 2018. The first minister of digitization in Central and Eastern Europe (2011-2013), author of the program: DIGITAL POLAND. Member of the European Parliament (2014-2019), active in the Freedom and Justice Committee and the Industry and Science Committee (digital affairs). Rapporteur of, inter alia, legislation on data protection and privacy, access and information data as open data, the development of gigabit-society and 5G, the functioning of Artificial Intelligence, the establishment of the European Open Data Cloud for Science and Supercomputers in the EU, initiator of the establishment program and fund: Rights and Values addressed to civic organizations. Currently – SWPS and Senior Researcher Associate at Martens Center (think tank in Brussels). Author of many articles and works, including „Artificial Intelligence and Management Beyond Ethics” (Martens Center).

His strategy based on nanovectors improves the transport of therapeutic molecules for heart failure. Medical Doctor, BioNanotechnologist, and Entrepreneur. Works with Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard-MIT. At the age of 25 he was distinguished by MIT Technology Review as a laureate of the Innovator under 35 award.

Founder of Columbus Energy, the largest service provider of photovoltaic installation on the Polish market. He graduated from engineering studies in electrical engineering at AGH in Krakow. From 2007, he gained managerial experience working for Heiderlberg Technology Center, Air BP and MARS Polska. In 2009, he focused on renewable energy sources. For 6 years, it has been successfully developing the Columbus Energy group, which offers modern solutions in the field of renewable energy. On a daily basis, a charismatic entrepreneur, visionary supporter of unconventional solutions, lover of ambitious challenges.

Researcher. Psychologist. Assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw. Entrepreneur. Creator of Sotrender. Jan Zając. Hardly anyone knows more about data analysis and Internet research than him. He transformed his interests and scientific passions into the creation of a company unique on the Polish market – Sotrender, specializing in social media research and creating tools for their business analytics. They are used by over 500 companies in 38 countries.

As he says, Sotrender’s goal is to help companies and interactive agencies to collect and analyze data from social media and optimize their marketing activities. Graduate of the University of Warsaw and Warsaw School of Economics, scholarship holder of Bocconi University (Milan) and the University of Leuven, author of publications on Internet psychology and online research. Lecturer, trainer, start-up mentor and speaker at industry conferences. He willingly shares his knowledge and supports the development of modern business.

Simon is a part of LSHTM’s Vaccine Confidence Project, a research group directed by Heidi Larson. The purpose of the Project is to monitor public confidence in immunisation programmes and more recently public sentiment around COVID-19. Simon analyse data generated through media monitoring of social media and local media signals of vaccine sentiments and concerns in countries worldwide.Simon developed Hashtag Cloud Analysis – an innovative method for mapping trends on Twitter which enables analysis of hashtags behaviour over time and the identification of key users.

Doctor of Engineering from the University of Leeds with a specialization in product design and development, innovation management, and entrepreneurship. With experience in the design and development of air sterilization systems with UV light.

Experience as a leader in technological innovation in companies in the automotive industry in Mexico and HVAC in the United Kingdom. He has worked in the areas of new product development, incremental product design, disruptive innovation, research / development / technology management, launching new businesses and developing new business models.

Director of the INNOVaction GYM at the Tec de Monterrey campus Monterrey. Research professor specialized in innovation management, product development and technology-based entrepreneurship. Member of the National System of Researchers (Level C).

Expert in the field of the UN and the EU, in particular on the cooperation at the confluence of business and administration including the private sector to implement objectives and standards of the United Nations. Specialist involved in the social economy, social innovation, and corporate responsibility (CSR). A lawyer specializing in international law. He fights against human trafficking and other forms of modern slavery. In Poland, represents and coordinates Global Compact Network Poland. At the international level, Kamil Wyszkowski is strengthening cooperation between Global Compact representatives in European countries, the Commonwealth of the Independent States, Africa, and the Middle East. Specialist and practitioner involved in development assistance, multilateral cooperation, and transfer of knowledge. A former member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the Prime Minister in Poland. On behalf of the Team of Advisors to the Prime Minister, Co-author of the Long-term National Development Strategy until 2030 and coordinator of the Human Capital Development Strategy until 2020.

Dr. Alma Pineda has a degree of medical surgeon by the Monterrey Institute of Technology,  graduated with honors. She has studies in forensic criminology in Mexico; and a specialty of  biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and robotics at the MIT; and a master’s degree in administration focused on technological development and innovation. She is an expert in  consultancy and integration of technological services for the construction of smart cities, digital  cities, safe cities, and smart destinations in tourism. She is also a promoter of entrepreneurship and  supporter of startups in Latin America. She has carried out humanitarian work as an honorary  member of the United Nations in rural communities of Mexico, Africa, and Catalonia for the  implementation of telecommunications, ecological housing, and telemedicine services. She is  founder and C.E.O. of IDETI (Incubator of Business, Technology, and Innovation Development), founder and C.E.O. of Ping Pong Innovation, company dedicated to software  and hardware development with specialization in RFID, NFC and beacons, as well as the  development of new technologies in different areas such as: bio-nanotechnology, electronic  hardware, smart materials, telecommunications, domotics, multimedia and education. Ping Pong Innovation is part of the team that is building the project of the Smart  Community of Tesla in Nevada (The Hills by Tesla), for a sustainable life.  She is advisor and  member of the Business Council of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Government of Mexico.

Sara has been named “30 under 30” by Forbes and included on the list of 100 female founders to follow. Before co-founding Limitless, she worked for startups including Rocket Internet’s Foodpanda in Singapore and an Israeli online platform, having previously run her own B2B ventures. Sara has worked in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, getting to know each aspect of the startup ecosystem, including co-founding a non-gov Startup Poland, in cooperation with Google and running a corporate acceleration program for a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. Sara has spoken at the most important industry events including the World Economic Forum in Davos and Money20/20 in both Singapore and Amsterdam. Sara is a highly visible advocate for supporting women in tech and is in the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School.

Humberto Robles Méndez the manager of the artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and big data. Leads projects of digital transformation that are helping to improve a broad range of operations. Since 2016, he has been a professor of the Industrial Engineering Department at Tecnologico de Monterrey, as well as Counselor of the Undergraduate Program of Engineering in Innovation and Development from the same university. His interest in science and social leadership led him to found various social initiatives, and to work in the private sector and the academy. He was president of the Civil Association „International Forum for Women Empowerment” and he participated in the world’s largest poverty research project: NoPoor. He was awarded two Mexican Government State Youth Awards, a Honorable Mention by Tecnologico de Monterrey, the title of „Young Challenger” by the Nobel Peace Prize Muhammad Yunus, as well as the recognition „The Outstanding Young Person” by Junior Chamber International Osaka.

Co-founder of LoveKrakow.pl, Office & Cowork Center, Redi Games. Involved in the development of the Polska Innowacyjna Foundation, which creates the university of the future and the innovation system focused around it. A graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in the field of Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Computer Engineering in Electrical Systems, an entrepreneur from the new technologies industry.