Speakers

President of the Management Board of Sustainable Investment Forum Poland (POLSIF) and Leading Sustainable Development Specialist at ING Bank Śląski. Co-founder of 30%Club Poland and coordinator of the Club's Investor Group. Graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics in Finance and Banking, specialising in Investment Banking. She also studied in Singapore (Singapore Management University) and Italy (Universita Bocconi), where she completed the CEMS MIM international management programme. In addition to her investment advisor licence, she holds CFA and ACCA titles.

She began her professional career in the capital market in 2010 at the Wood&Co brokerage house. She then continued her professional career at NN Investment Partners TFI as a member of the fund's asset management team and Deputy Director of the Analysis Department and Sustainable Development Specialist.

Director of the Innovation and Competence Centre at the Euro-Centrum Science and Technology Park in Katowice, expert in innovation, EU funds and energy transition. Graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Silesia and postgraduate studies at the University of Warsaw.

He specialises in regional development, technology transfer, European project management, energy transition and just transition. He has extensive experience in the public and private sectors, gained, among others, as development director at the Krakow Technology Park and deputy director at the Regional Development Department of the Marshal's Office of the Silesian Province.

He is the founder and first president of the BoMiasto association and co-founder of the Silesian Climate Movement. He is actively involved in climate protection, serving as the social coordinator of Polish leaders of the Climate Reality Project. He is also the chairman of the Climate and Environment Committee of the Katowice City Council. Patryk Białas is a fellow of the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Programme.

He is the author of the book ‘Roots of the Future. Personal stories in the just transition of Upper Silesia’. He runs the blog and podcast ‘Zielona Śląska Opinia’ (Green Silesian Opinion).

His knowledge and experience cover a wide range of issues related to regional development, innovation, EU funds, ecology and energy transition.

He participates in the work of ENTSO-E, a pan-European organisation of electricity transmission system operators.
On 1 January 2018, he was elected to serve as a member of the Digital Committee of ENTSO-E, and on 1 January 2020, he was appointed Vice-Chair of the committee. As CIO since 1 July 2022, he represented PSE S.A. as a member of the new ICT Committee.
This year, he was elected by the ENTSO-E authorities and has been Chairman of the ICT Committee since 26 June 2025.

Since January 2024, he has been an ordinary member of the Polish Committee of Large Networks and CIGRE, where he participates in the work of the D2 Study Committee.

He began his professional career as a programmer, designer and constructor of industrial automation control systems in Germany. He then implemented various IT systems in Polish institutions, companies and large corporations. Since 2000, in successive positions, he has held the position of IT manager in Poland or in the region.

Grzegorz Bojar has experience in managing ICT in large international corporations as well as in Polish state-owned companies.

Throughout his career, he has led business projects related to system design – from assumptions and objectives, budgeting, process analysis, and resource allocation – through system implementation – to the development and stabilisation of operating procedures. He has been involved in building IT strategies, organising and reorganising IT services, and stabilising services provided by ICT departments. He has experience in creating and managing organisations and enterprises.

Recently, he has been heavily involved in the areas of strategic IT management and cybersecurity.

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Electronics at the Warsaw University of Technology, specialising in automation.

B2B, B2C – these letters are familiar to her from her marketing and PR practice, which she has been successfully pursuing for over 15 years in various industries – from education, through FMCG, NGOs and the public sector. Currently, at the Polish Chamber of Commerce, she is responsible for, among other things, promoting knowledge about ESG and sustainable development among the SME sector.

Director General of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce. Many years of experience in supporting entrepreneurs. Graduate of the Jagiellonian University and postgraduate studies in Human Resource Management at the Warsaw School of Economics. She gained her first professional experience as the right-hand woman of the director of one of the largest hospitals in Warsaw, where she learned first-hand about the challenges of managing an organisation in a way that requires reconciling conflicting interests. For many years, she has represented the entrepreneurs' self-government as an expert in economic and legal issues related to setting up and running a business, labour law and social security. She has risen through the ranks of a large organisation, the Polish Chamber of Commerce, from expert, through project manager, press spokesperson, director of the president's office, to director general of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce. She actively participates in the law-making process in Poland – in parliament, ministries and public administration bodies. She has successfully prepared and implemented projects financed by EU funds. She advises entrepreneurs and appears in various media outlets as an advocate for business interests. Since 2017, she has headed the largest arbitration court for entrepreneurs in Poland. On a daily basis, she deals with the challenges faced by micro, small, medium and large entrepreneurs in the course of their business activities. Member of the jury of the ‘Złote Spinacze’ competition. Co-author of a number of publications on, among other things, advocacy, business management and anti-corruption.

Graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Technology, Institute of Organisation and Management (1984), as well as the Vocational Education Pedagogical College (1983) and the Institute of Social Psychology (1984). In addition, he completed specialist courses for company executives and a state qualification course for participation in the supervisory boards of State Treasury companies.

Since graduating, he has been professionally involved in private enterprise, including the creation and management of waste management companies. He has many years of experience in business management and restructuring. He specialises in the optimisation of waste management systems, including the implementation of modern and effective organisational and technological solutions.

Activities in chambers of commerce and industry associations related to waste management, including the Polish Chamber of Commerce – Chairman of the Environmental Protection Committee. Member of the State Environmental Protection Council, including the Council Presidium and Member of the Monitoring Committee for the Infrastructure and Environment Operational Programme 2015-2023, and since 2024, member of the Monitoring Committee for the EU FENIKS fund. Participation in various advisory and opinion-forming bodies, including since 2019 as an Animator in the work of the Sectoral Council for Competences in the Material Recovery Sector. Journalistic and publishing activity in the trade press. Participant in many national and international industry conferences, including as a lecturer.

Environmental Products Development Manager, responsible at SGS for the development of environmental products in the certification industry (carbon footprint, EPD, LCA, OCS, EMAS, environmental audits).

Expert in the areas of packaging waste management, plastic recyclates, packaging safety and labelling, recyclability, and circular economy.

She has experience in the waste management industry, administration, and environmental funds in the field of climate protection.

Lecturer at Kozminski University and WSB Merito Gdańsk.

Member and expert of the Natureef packaging manufacturers' association, the UNEP/Grid Climate Leadership programme and the Polish Environmental Management Forum association.

Managing Director at ENVIPOL. She specialises in supporting companies and organisations in the area of sustainable development (analyses, strategies, reports, training, etc.). Expert in sustainable development, circular economy, waste management, co-founder and long-time President of the coordinating company of the Waste Management and Recycling Cluster – National Key Cluster. Manager with many years of experience in strategic planning and business development.

Expert with many years of experience in sustainable development, circular economy, waste management, co-founder and long-time president of the coordinating company of the Waste Management and Recycling Cluster – National Key Cluster. A manager with many years of experience in strategic and operational planning, designing business models and eco-products, implementing sustainable projects, and ESG reporting. Coordinator of numerous sustainable projects implemented by small, medium and large companies in the chemical, waste management and recycling, packaging and clothing industries, among others.

Advisor and expert in the field of communication and public affairs, with fifteen years of experience in working with administration and decision-makers. In local government, he was responsible for spatial planning, revitalisation and investor relations. He was also jointly responsible for Łódź's bid for the EXPO exhibition. He has worked with local government officials and Polish and European parliamentarians, responsible for communication strategy, image and substantive support, especially in the areas of security and international cooperation. Currently, at WWF Poland, he conducts advocacy activities in the field of nature and climate protection: he monitors legislative processes and conducts dialogue with decision-makers.

Dariusz Lewandowski is the founder and CEO of SYSTEM 3E.

SYSTEM 3E is construction without water, mortar, glue, insulation, or the need for skilled labor.

SYSTEM 3E is the latest invention in the construction industry since 1924, when foam concrete was invented.

Today, SYSTEM 3E sends building materials to 11 countries, including as far afield as South Korea, Australia, and the United States. In 2026, materials produced by SYSTEM 3E will be sent to another 17 countries around the world.

SYSTEM 3E has won numerous awards in global industry competitions, including the Change NOW competition in Paris, the Tech Tour competition in Lausanne, and the Polish edition of Forbes magazine's “Polish companies that are changing the world” competition.

An expert in sustainable development, recognised in 2024 in the ranking of ‘15 women who are changing the ESG industry’ and in 2025 as one of the ‘Top LinkedIn experts in environment & energy from Poland’. She implements tools for collecting and reporting ESG data in companies and advises on reporting in accordance with the European Sustainability Reporting Standards. She creates and implements sustainable development strategies and assists in communication without greenwashing. She conducts training courses (ESG School of the Polish Chamber of Commerce) and dialogue sessions with stakeholders.

She ensures that the voice of business is heard in the media (regular column in money.pl), advocates for transformation processes towards clean industry, and develops the foundations of the green consumer movement.

She organises conferences, leads discussion panels, and lectures at universities – Warsaw University of Life Sciences and Poznań University of Economics (strategy, reporting, communication, sustainable development).

She is a member of the board of ESG Impact Network, an organisation supporting green business. She is the CEO and founder of Go Green. Strategy & Communication, an agency dealing with ESG strategies for companies and green communication. Member of the ESG Committee of the Polish Chamber of Commerce, the Grand ESG Award jury and the jury of the competition for the best ESG report of the Responsible Business Forum.

Former director of the Warsaw City Greenery Management Board. She coordinated communications and PR for Warsaw offices and units dealing with ecology and sustainable development: the Green Management Board, the Environmental Protection Office and the Air Protection and Climate Policy Office.

She was a member of the management team of the www.tvn24.pl portal, editor-in-chief of TVN24 Magazine, head of the Kontakt 24 department at TVN24, journalist for Rzeczpospolita and PAP, and academic teacher (SWPS University). Graduate of postgraduate studies in ESG Management at Collegium Civitas.

Director of Energy at the Danish Chamber of Commerce, representing Danish businesses on energy and climate policy. He has a background in the public sector, where he worked on energy and the green transition in both the Danish Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Finance. Esben holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Copenhagen.

For 29 years, a researcher at the Institute of Ecology of Industrial Areas (IETU), until February 2022, IETU Lead Expert in the field of Soil Remediation, Nature-Based Solutions and Urban Agriculture, since September 2020 Scientific Secretary of IETU, since March 2022 Director of IETU.

Education: Doctor of Technical Sciences in Environmental Engineering, Habilitated Doctor of Agricultural Sciences in the field of agricultural, forestry and veterinary sciences in the discipline of environmental protection and shaping, Professor in the discipline of environmental engineering, mining and energy. Specialisation: environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering and protection, environmental ecotoxicology. In 2011-2022, she headed the research area of Soil Remediation, NBS and Urban Agriculture at IETU, conducting research within national and international projects on phytoremediation (phytoextraction, phytostabilisation) of soils contaminated with heavy metals, assessment of phytotoxicity of substrates for plants, creation of plant cover in contaminated areas and substitute substrates from waste materials. Currently, she focuses on research on the use of energy crops in soil remediation processes and the use of biomass as an energy source. She is a member of the Presidium of the Committee for Environmental Protection and Waste Management of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Environmental Protection Programme Committee of the University of Silesia, and the International Phytotechnological Society. Her scientific achievements include over 90 publications. From September 2019 to January 2022, she was a member of the Management Board of the Horizon Europe 2021-2027 Framework Programme Mission in the area of ‘Clean Soil and Food’ (‘Soil Health and Food’), and in 2020-2021 she was an expert in two European Commission EIP AGRI focus groups: ‘Protecting agricultural soils from contamination’ and ‘Sustainable industrial crops in Europe’. Since 2020, she has been an expert at the Ministry of Education and Science, supporting Poland's participation in a new European partnership under the Horizon Europe Programme, ‘Joint Undertaking for a Circular Bioeconomy in Europe’.

For 15 years, he has been working at the intersection of project acquisition, consulting services, lobbying, sales, management, and marketing. He is the author of numerous expert opinions and analyses. He advises entrepreneurs on process management and optimisation, and cooperates with accounting and audit departments. Przemysław Ruchlicki also participates in consultations on draft laws and regulations concerning economic law and national strategies.

He is currently involved in legislative processes concerning economic law and ESG. At the same time, he is responsible for non-financial reporting for a large Polish company in the medical industry.

Statistician – graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics. He has over twenty years of analytical experience as an economist or chief economist in the financial sector. He has worked at Bank Handlowy in Warsaw, Bank Ochrony Środowiska, and Korporacja Ubezpieczeń Kredytów Eksportowych. He also has experience in management. He was the president of the board of the Export Credit Insurance Corporation and undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Finance, responsible for macroeconomic analysis, public debt management and financial market development. In his professional and private life, he considers curiosity about the world to be the most important thing, and in pursuing this curiosity, he has found mathematics, geography and history to be the most useful subjects since his high school days (IX LO Hoffmanowa in Warsaw). He prefers to listen to heavy music.

He heads the Institute for Reform and supervises analytical work focused on climate policy and energy transition. He has over 10 years of experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative assessments of the impact of public policies (including in the areas of innovation, regional development, digitalisation, and sustainable development) and preparing strategic documents. He focuses on creating and managing systemic projects that promote the improvement of public policy in both Poland and Central and Eastern European countries. He gained his experience through the implementation of national and EU research projects, including those under the Horizon 2020 programme, and through consulting for public administration and the private sector. He graduated in economics from the Warsaw School of Economics.

Member of the management board of KAN-WO-BUD. An experienced expert in ESG, strategic and operational management, and business process optimisation. For over 15 years, she has worked in international corporations, building effective teams, managing projects, and supporting management boards in planning and implementing operational structures and developing business strategies.

Since 2021, she has been combining ESG regulatory challenges with organisational business models. In particular, in the area of building ESG management structures and shaping and implementing ESG data management models. In 2022-2025, Head of Group ESG Data Governance and member of the CSR Steering Committee of a global IT capital group.

Graduate of the MBA programme at EADA Barcelona University. Lecturer in the Executive MBA programme at Kozminski University. Expert in the UNEP/GRID Climate Leadership programme.
Accredited CCA Coach and professional mentor. Actively supports women's communities in business and IT. She conducts workshops and individual development programmes for leaders in the areas of ESG and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Winner of the titles: ESG Angels 2024 – women setting the tone for the ESG industry in Poland and Strong Woman in IT – global edition 2023. Motivational speaker. Twice nominated for the Annual Speaker Awards (Women Tech Global Conference network).

Prof. Małgorzata Zaleska is Director of the Banking Institute at the Warsaw School of Economics, Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and Member of the Supervisory Board of mTFI.

Previously, she was, among others: President of the Management Board of the Bank Guarantee Fund, Member of the Management Board of the International Association of Deposit Insurers, Member of the International Relations Committee at the European Central Bank, Member of the Economic and Financial Committee at the Council of the EU, Member of the Management Board of the National Bank of Poland, and President of the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Prof. M. Zaleska obtained her PhD in economics in 1997, her postdoctoral degree in economics in 2000, and the title of professor of economic sciences in 2004. She is the author of over 500 publications.