Speakers

She started working at the National Chamber of Commerce in 2008 as an assistant to the President. In the following years, she managed the Office for Local Government and Statutory Affairs, while also serving as Director of Protocol in the Office of the President. In 2012, she became director of the combined offices of communications and membership affairs, and in 2016 became deputy director general of the PCC. By a vote of the General Assembly, in 2021 she became a member of the Board of Directors responsible for the areas of communications, member affairs, the Court of Arbitration and the Targowa Creative Center.

She is a graduate of the School of Foreign Languages in Poznań, majoring in English Philology, and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, majoring in Law and Administration. In 2021, she completed postgraduate studies in Finance for Managers at the Warsaw School of Economics.

Member of the board of directors of the Stonewall Group association and its president from 2019 to 2022. He studied international relations and journalism at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He gained professional experience in PR agencies and worked with brands such as Cartoon Network, TNT and PKO Bank Polski. He worked on the social channels of Allegro, the largest online transaction platform in Poland.

In early 2020, he left the company to focus on his work at Stonewall Group. He is currently involved in online marketing, special projects and coordination of the association's training activities. He has conducted several hundred hours of webinars and lectures on the LGBT+ community, inclusive language and the movement's demands for Endemol Shine Poland, Converse, Deloitte and Heineken, among others. Originator and coordinator of the Poznań-based employee network "LGBT+ in the workplace".

Coordinator of the transpraca.pl campaign, which aims to improve the situation of transgender people in the labor market. Co-coordinator of the social campaign "We are good at being together" (Golden Clip 2022). Co-organized eight editions of the Poznań Pride Week festival and the Poznań Equality March. In 2024, he was included in the list of 100 people supporting sex education in Poland by Forbes Women and SEXEDPL magazine.

During the previous term, he submitted nearly 900 interpellations. He is a member of the parliamentary Committees on Infrastructure and Justice and Human Rights, chairman of the Parliamentary Group on Migration Policy and the Parliamentary Group on Bicycle Transportation. During his term in office, he has dealt with topics such as public transport development, infrastructure quality, green protection, labor safety, judiciary, health care, humanitarian crisis and LGBT+ rights.

Councilman of the St. Lazarus Estate. Architect, activist, cyclist. Initiator of the Poznan Chain of Light in defense of judicial independence. Graduate of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Arts in Poznan. Animator of urban culture. Curator of events related to architecture and long-time collaborator of festivals such as: MIASTOmovie, Short Waves Festival and Malta Festival. Organizer of actions such as Picnic on Liberty Square, Snap, Winter Funeral, and Parking Day, which, in addition to their recreational function, act as a commentary on the state of the socio-urban fabric of the city. In 2018 - 2019, Coordinator for the Development Strategy of the Poznań International Fair, responsible for opening the fair to the city.

Trained as a Polish language teacher, editor, oligophrenopedagogue, teacher and founder of the "Baba from Polish language" website, which has already attracted the attention of more than one million users for eight years. She shows that modern school does not have to be boring, and that you can make a meme out of any reading, because the basis of learning is fun. In his online activities he focuses on exposing the linguistic image of the world and encourages inclusive Polish, points out the absurdities of the education system, and deepens sensitivity to topics such as non-neurotypicality or minority rights. She loves learning and exploring new branches, so in addition to Polish studies, she has also graduated in animal psychology, educational management, oligophrenopedagogy and language editing of texts.

Pedagogue, anthropologist and sociologist of education. He is a member of the Polish Pedagogical Society, the Polish Religious Studies Society, the Polish Society for Comparative Pedagogy, and the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. In his research he deals with issues related to cultural and linguistic diversity, the processes of formation of new forms of cultural communities, migration processes and multiculturalism policy in educational contexts. In this research he undertakes qualitative and quantitative analyses, both in the Polish and global contexts. Other areas of research interest include issues related to bilingual and multilingual education, cultural theory, contemporary and popular culture, history and theory of education, processes of cultural change, the problem of enculturation and transmission of socio-cultural patterns, integration of immigrants, the problem of social inequality, democratic education, transformations of contemporary religiosity, processes of identity construction and youth subcultures. Contractor in the NSC grant "Elite secondary education in contemporary Europe. A study in sociology of education and comparative pedagogy". Head of the international research and implementation consortium INTERACT.

A manager with over 20 years of experience. She is a specialist in the area of management and communication. Previously, the General Manager of Campiri Poland, launching one of the region's largest online campervan booking platforms in Poland and Slovakia. At Cenatorium-Inplus Group, as Operations Director, she was responsible for international projects, cooperation with partners, and the administrative and human resources area. During her career, she also headed the Partnership and Communication Department of the Polish Investment and Trade Agency. The former advisor to the board of directors at the Poland Cashless Foundation. Graduate of Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Warsaw and Human Resource Management at the School of Promotion. Graduate of the Vital Voices mentoring program. Volunteer and social activist.

Her group studies the mechanisms, processes, and principles that give rise to biological diversity and ecosystem function in a changing world. Her training is in demographic modeling and actuarial statistics, and her work is motivated by core principles in life-history theory. Her work is multidisciplinary and focused on developing collaborative research to synthesize and communicate robust science that can be used to inform the global restoration movement. Lalasia received her Ph.D. in 2017 at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and then did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tennessee. From 2019-2020, she held a joint appointment as a Research Assistant Professor at the U. of Tennessee Knoxville and the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis. In 2020, she moved to ETH Zürich to lead the Fundamental Ecology Group in the Crowther Lab.  In addition to her academic background, Lalasia has nine years of management experience running conservation monitoring programs and leading large-scale restoration efforts in Hawaii. 

She is scientifically concerned with intra-psychic and environmental factors affecting human mental health. In recent years, she has focused on the relationship of a sense of community with nature (nature connectedness) with mental health,nature-based interventions and the mechanisms of influence of so-called "green therapy" on human mental well-being.

Research and teaching fellow at the Institute of Psychology at the Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. She has cooperated scientifically and didactically with the Piastów Śląskich Medical University in Wroclaw, SWPS University in Wroclaw, as well as the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw.

She has authored and co-authored more than 60 national and international publications, including the first Polish scientific monograph on the relationship between nature and mental health ("Nature and Mental Health," 2022). She carries out scientific research projects in the field of psychology and psychiatry. She regularly presents her work at national and international conferences.

Involved in the activities of the World Psychitric Association network (Climate Change/ Total Health Initiative), Member of the Committee on Climate Psychiatry of the Polish Psychiatric Association, reviewer in international scientific journals, popularizer of knowledge on mental health. Clinically, she works with individuals and couples experiencing mental disorders and psychosexual problems.

Graduate of the Faculty of Management and Mini MBA managerial studies at the University of Lodz. In addition, he is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics, where he completed the Annual Postgraduate Management Studies with distinction. For many years he has been involved in the topics of social responsibility and sustainable development and non-financial reporting.

Member of the team, within the Association of Stock Exchange Issuers, which developed the Non-Financial Information Standard (SIN), which enables Polish companies to meet their non-financial information reporting obligations. In addition, he is a member of the University's Social Responsibility Working Group operating within the Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility Team at the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy.

At the Warsaw School of Economics, he serves as head of the Sustainability and ESG Team and secretary of the Rector's Commission for Social Responsibility at SGH. 

She is interested in challenges in urban greenery management, as well as area-based nature conservation and social conflicts at the interface between economic development and the natural environment. She is the author of a series of scientific publications on the social context of the functioning of protected areas in the Carpathians and co-editor of the OPMR report "Greenery in the centers of Polish cities. Status, functions and challenges". Currently at OPMR IRMiR, she is working on the development of environmental issues for Polish sub-regional cities.

Borys D. Sawicki specializes in banking and finance, focusing on investment finance transactions, including project finance, particularly in the energy, infrastructure and real estate sectors. He actively supports clients on issues related to sustainable transformation and sustainable financing, including assessing business compliance with the EU taxonomy and reporting on sustainability issues.

She will head the green representative office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Warsaw, which implements projects in Poland and the Baltic countries, starting in October 2019. She studied German, Slavic and Spanish philology at Karls-Eberhardt-Universität in Tübingen. Before devoting herself to journalism professionally, she was a researcher at the Department of Economics and Business Law at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt in Geislingen/Steige. After journalism school in Munich, she worked as an editor and political commentator at the Südwest Presse (economics and economics section) in Ulm, the Märkische Oderzeitung in Frankfurt/Oder and the Neue Berliner Redaktionsgesellschaft (political section) in Berlin. Her commitment to diversity - including in the media - led her to the NGO - Neue deutsche Medienmacher, which advocates for diversity in the media and ensures that texts and articles are produced with sensitivity to cultural diversity. There she was a member of the board of directors and managed media projects.

Joanna Maria Stolarek continues to publish in various media, taking into account the Polish-German point of view, commenting on current political events in both countries, trying to explain Poland to Germans and Germany to Poles. She voluntarily supports the development of women in media and politics as a mentor.

Doctor of Economics in the field of management and quality, graduate of the School of Economics in Warsaw. She is Deputy Head of the Inter-University Climate Academy Postgraduate Program. Author and co-author of publications on risk management in the context of sustainability and supply chain. She is currently the stream leader of a project on the impact of the quality of management of ESG aspects on the resilience of companies (research grant at the College of Business Administration of the Warsaw School of Economics) and the head of the study "Climate risk Climate Risk in Investment Decisions" (research grant at the College of Business Sciences SGH).

Business practitioner and advisor with many years of experience. She is director of ESG at CVI Dom Brokerage Sp. z o.o.

Involved in key substantive initiatives related to ESG issues - Responsible Business Forum, Sustainable Investment Forum Poland (POLSIF), Council of Innovators Polish ESG Association, Chapter Zero, the Sustainable Supply Chain Team of the Climate Positive program at the UN Global Compact Network Poland, the #EndPlasticPollution initiative, the ESG Committee at the National Chamber of Commerce. He is a lecturer at undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and MBA programs and a trainer at the ESG School at the National Chamber of Commerce, among others.

Husband of Anna, father of Natalia, grandfather of Malina and Kazio. Author of the K3 podcast.

For years at Radio Trójka (including "Klub Trójki", "Trójka pod Księżyc", "All that matters"), and before that at Tok FM. He is the author of seven volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories, the art book "Brightening" (together with Wojciech Prażmowski) and the novel "Virus." He recently published a volume of poems "Correspondent of the Small Review".

Academic lecturer (SWPS University, UMCS, Institute of Literary Research). Teacher of communication and public speaking according to the author's method.