Dr. Hana Abdullah Ali Al Nuaim

Dean of Women’s Campuses,
Professor at Department of Computer Sciences, King Abdulaziz University
(Saudi Arabia)

Associate professor in Computer Science and the Dean of King Abdulaziz University women campuses since 2009, and acting Dean of the new Jeddah University women campuses, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She received her Bachelors in CS from the University of Texas at Austin and Masters and DSc in Computer Science from George Washington University, USA. Her previously held positions include CS Department head, and as the first Vice Dean of e-Learning and Distance Education launched the first higher education e-learning program in the kingdom for women. She has published and refereed papers for publication in Human Computer Interaction, user-centered design, usability, multimedia, e-learning, e- government, m-government and knowledge cities. In addition to teaching and being graduate thesis advisor, she has extensive faculty training background, and has been involved in many administrative Web-based projects and program accreditation endeavors university-wide.

Gulnora Alvarova

Head of the Center of Staff professional development
Tajik Technical University (Tajikistan)

Head of the Center for Staff professional development of Tajik technical University named after academician M.Osimi.

In 2010 has graduated Power-engineering faculty of the Tajik Technical University named academician M.Osimi. The same year has started to work as lecturer assistant in Power Supply department of Tajik technical University. In combination with teaching activity, is engaged in scientific researches in areas of the Estimation of possibility of use of renewed energy sources for electric power generation in RT and Ecological aspects of use of renewed energy sources. For four years was a Leader of Women Council of Power Engineering faculty and also creator of Community club for girl-students where they can improve their English in STEM field.

Has participated in different international conferences and workshops, and alumnae of such international programs as JICA program on solar energy and Techwomen 2015.

Line Berg

Project manager Girl Project Ada
NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Project manager Girl project Ada, where she is responsible for the Career Network. She is also Project Manager of Technology Camp, Technology Day and Project Team Meber of Girl’s Day. Holding a MBA and Bachelor International Business. She’s been project manager in Girl project Ada since 2013, working on increasing the female share in ICT studies at NTNU. She has published articles about recruiting female students to the ITC-Studies and others.

Dr. Agnieszka Besiekierska

Lawyer, blogger,
CMS law office

He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Szczecin and a PhD in law. The degree of Doctor of Law from the University of Rostock (Germany), writing on the impact of changes in circumstances commitment law Polish, German and English. Agnieszka Besiekierska works in the Department of Economic Law specializing in telecommunications law and competition law, with particular emphasis on issues related to the telecommunications industry.

Dominika Bettman

CFO Siemens Poland

Vice President Financial in Siemens. She is an economist, graduate of the Faculty of Foreign Trade at the Warsaw School of Economics in Warsaw. She is also Vice President of Association Congress of Women. Since 2009 Vice President in Siemens, with which became involved in 1996, working in the sectors of logistics, sales, and finance and in various business areas. Her interests are related to aspects of financial management, economic trends on the Polish market and in the world, as well as aspects related to the theme of team management. She active participates in projects aimed to the participation of young people in public life and the promotion of active citizenship.

Magda Borowik

Strategic advisor specializing in risk technology

She is strategic advisor specializing in risk technology. Since 18 years online. Hers professional experience including work for telecom operators, software houses, online media, and global consulting companies. She was co-organizator of SWWAW, which is warsavian edition of Startup Weekend by TechStars. She operates since 15 years in new technologies, 12 years of innovation, and 6 years at the start-up environment, 4 years in online media, 3 years in venture capital. Her focuses: digitization, FINTECH, blockchain, decentralization.

Prof. Jill Bystydzienski

Ohio State University (USA)

Jill M. Bystydzienski is a professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University in Columbus, USA. Her current research examines the barriers for women in STEM fields. She has been a co-principal investigator and researcher on two National Science Foundation's ADVANCE Institutional Transformation awards and a PI on a Research on Gender in Science and Engineering (NSF) collaborative grant that supported a seven-year study of a cohort of young women who explored pathways to engineering. She is the author of many articles and book chapters as well as books. Selected recent publications on gender and STEM include: Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, co-edited with Sharon R. Bird (Indiana University Press, 2006), I Just Want to Help People: Young Women's Gendered Engagement with Engineering, authored with Adriane Brown, and published in the journal Feminist Formations in 2012, and Changing Institutional Culture through Peer Mentoring of Women STEM Faculty, with Nicole Thomas and Anand Desai, in Innovative Higher Education, 2015. In autumn 2015 she had a Fulbright Research Fellowship to study women’s organizations that work to improve the status of women in STEM in Poland.

Dr. Shannon Chance

Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland Marie Curie Research Fellow

Dr. Shannon M. Chance is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland. Shannon is a licensed architect with Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Architecture from Virginia Tech University in the United States. She also earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration (Policy, Planning and Leadership) from the research-intensive College of William and Mary in Virginia. She seeks to integrate design thinking into educational planning and STEM education. In the past, she served as a Fulbright Fellow in Engineering Education in Ireland and she taught architecture and education in the USA for 15 years, serving as Professor of Architecture at Hampton University and adjunct Associate Professor of Education at William and Mary. Shannon has expertise in architectural and urban design, history, and theory, as well as learning sciences, educational planning, and environmental sustainability. She serves as an expert evaluator for Horizon2020 programs in the EU and chairs Visiting Teams for the National Architecture Accrediting Board in the USA.

Jarosław Dąbrowski

Vice-President, GTECH (Poland)

Vice-President and Member of the Board of GTECH Poland. Since 2008 he has been responsible for the delivery and implementation of the technological system GTECH lottery for customers in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has worked for GTECH since 1991. As a computer operator, he participated in the launch of the first GTECH system in the Polish national lottery. In 1992, his knowledge and experience were put to use in the international market by taking part in the implementation of on-line software for the lottery in Slovakia (1992-1993), Estonia (1994), Lithuania (1995) and Turkey (1996). Simultaneously, he led innovative and logistically complex projects to introduce TV games in several European countries.

Alina Dolgikh

SPACE, Belarus

An experienced executive in IT education and community building in Belarus and abroad. An IT event manager with the impressive track record of communities launched. The managing director of SPACE venue and team. Responsible for over 90% of IT related conferences in Belarus.

Michał Dżoga

Corporate & Government Affairs Director, Europe Region

Director of Corporate Affairs at Intel Corporation, responsible for strategy of innovation programs Intel EMEA. His responsibilities include contacts with governments, maintaining relations with international non-governmental organizations, as well as the support of the company in Brussels. Previously, he worked in the advisory of the President of the Polish Republic in the field of educational projects related to new technologies. In 2004-2007 as an advisor to the President of Telecom, responsible for corporate matters. Then he founded Polish largest corporate foundation - Orange Foundation. Then he held the position of head of the Department of Risk Management at Deloitte, where he created advisory team for corporate affairs, working with international clients in business strategy on external relations.

Dr. Marek Dziubiński

Scientist, innovator, and businessman
CEO and CTO of Medicalgorithmics

He is a scientist, innovator, and businessman. As the CEO and CTO of Medicalgorithmics, established in 2005, he has been developing the company from start-up to the current stock exchange-listed company that is worth several hundred million PLN. Mr. Dziubiński is a graduate of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunication, and Information Technology of Gdańsk University of Technology and author of an acclaimed Ph.D. dissertation that dealt with the analysis of periodicity of quasi-harmonic signals, separation of quasi-harmonic signals, application of artificial intelligence in separated signal interpretation. He is the originator of the PocketECG system, a world-leading, unique, non-invasive technology of diagnosing heart arrhythmia. He also invented algorithmic solutions used by Medicalgorithmics to analyse and process signals in the PocketECG system.

Eva Fabry

Director, European Centre for Women and Technology - ECWT (Norway)

Eva Fabry is Director of the ECWT since 2008 and worked until recently as European Affairs Manager at the Norwegian Regional Innovation Centre Papirbredden Innovasjon in Drammen. Ms. Eva Fabry was 2009-2010 Project manager and responsible for delivering the European Directory of Women in ICT. Under Eva’s leadership ECWT has grown from 16 founding members to 130+ multi-stakeholder based organization with 300+ individual members. Eva is a frequent speaker on gender and ICT issues in the leading European and global conferences and is project manager in ongoing projects focused on women’s entrepreneurship and business start-ups, gendered innovations and multicultural integration through innovative ICT tools.

Jean Fan

PhD at Harvard Medical School, CEO Custemized.com

She's pursuing PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics at Harvard and also she studies in Peter Kharchenko's lab at the Department of Biomedical Informatics. She also closely collaborate with Catherine Wu's lab at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Research interest centers around developing computational approaches for interpreting heterogeneity in single cell populations, particularly in the context of hematological malignancies such as CLL and MM. She currently work on computational algorithms to identify and characterize subpopulations using single cell data. Outside of research, she teach Computer Science Without Intimidation for 5th graders at The Innovation Institute. She is also the founder and lead developer at cuSTEMized.

Robert Firmhofer

Director,
Copernicus Science Center

Historian of philosopher. Co-founder and director of the Copernicus Science Centre. Co-founder and organizer of the Science Picnic - Europe's largest outdoor event popularizing science. In 1994-2004, as deputy director of Polish Radio BIS co educational radio program, and in 2004-2005 he was editor of the local editors Popularization of Knowledge. He is the author of popular radio and press releases. Since 2008 he is a board member ECSITE - European Association of Science Centres and Museums, in 2011-2013, he served as chairman of the board of the organization. Robert Firmhofer is also a member of the Council for Science and the Academy of Sciences of the Program Council of the Festival of Science. For years, he deals with modern scientific communication. He is an expert advisory groups 'Horizon 2020 Advisory Group for Social Challenge 6' Europe in changing worlds and Human Brain Project's Science Museum Advisory Group. For outstanding organizational achievement in the field of modern scientific communication in 1998 received the prestigious prize. Hugo Steinhaus, and in 2012 for outstanding achievements in activities to popularize science in Poland and in the world, with the support of international scientific cooperation, President Bronislaw Komorowski awarded him the Officer's Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Polish. In 2014, he awarded the French National Order of Merit.

Dr. Nigist Tilahun Gebremedhin

Coordinator of the Hawassa – University STEMcenter (Ethiopia)

I secured my MBA, PGDMM (post graduate diploma in marketing management), PGDIM (post graduate diploma in management), DIM (diploma in management) from IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) India. My first degree is bachelor of education in langage and literature from Jimma University, Ethiopia. I have diploma in mathematics and cirtificate in computer. Iserved six years Head, external and public relations department of Hawassa Universiy. Before this I have been teaching social sciences in high schools and preparatory schools.

Dr. Aleksandra Wójcik-Głodowska

Deputy Program Director, Copernicus Science Center (Poland)

She has a PhD degree in solid state physics. Currently she is working as a Deputy Program Director at the Copernicus Science Centre (CNK), where she manages a team of nearly 300 coworkers. Her main task is to introduce the philosophy of User Experience to CNK organizational culture. She has many years of experience in building and managing teams. For several years, as a member of the strategic team, she has coordinated strategic planning for the center. In 2010, she was directly responsible for organizing the opening of CNK - Poland's first and the biggest science center. Over the years she has been involved in team building and the brand CNK.

Paulina Gorska

HR Business Partner Intel Poland

She is responsible for the project of building a culture of innovation and the Great Place To Work - a project building employee commitment and support internal communication. Experience gained in an international trading company in the FMCG sector to support managers in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Certified business coach.

Whitney Hischier

Faculty Director
Center for Executive Education,
Haas School of Business
University of California Berkeley

Faculty Director at Haas Schools of Business (Berkley). Design and deliver customized learning solutions for executive clients. Focus on experiential leadership development, succession planning, career management and ROI on employee educational investments. Core industries include oil and gas, technology, shipping and pharmaceuticals. Teaching expertise in managerial skills, performance management, and leadership presence o executives. As the second-oldest business school in the United States, the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley is one of the world's leading producers of new ideas and knowledge in all areas of business — which includes the distinction of having two of its faculty members receive the Nobel Prize in Economics over the past 20 years. Education: BA, Stanford University, MBA, Haas School of Business DELOITTE, CONSULTING, San Francisco, CA KPMG, Consulting.

Prof. Ewa Okoń-Horodyńska

Professor of Economics at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (Poland)

Prof. Okoń-Horodyńska is a specialist in the field of institutional economics, innovation, national and regional innovation systems, strategy and policy innovation and foresight. Professor of the Jagiellonian University, Head of Department of Economics and Innovation, during 2003-2005, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Science, a member of international and national scientific organizations, member of Congress of Political Economists, EEPE, Forecasting Committee Poland2000Plus Academy of Sciences, Polish Economic Society, Vice-President of Human Knowledge Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Ms. Okoń-Horodyńska has gained her experience in research and expertise at American and European universities. She is the author of over 150 publications, actively collaborates with industry, central and local government, the current expert strategic RISWM expert NCN and NCBiR, MR, expert of the European Commission for foresight, RIS, DG ECFIN. Since 2011, she has been Director of the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists for Central and Eastern Europe.

Agnieszka Hryniewicz-Bieniek

Country Director, Google Polska

A graduate of the Business Administration and Postgraduate Studies PR School of Economics in Warsaw, has extensive experience related to the industry, FMCG, media, telecommunications and technology. She joined Google in 2008 as director of sales. From 2013, he serves as head of the Polish office. Her tasks include planning strategy for long-term business development in Poland and the management of relationships with key partners. Previously linked to, among others, the Polish Telefonia Cyfrowa. Actively supports activities promoting good marketing practices - is co-founder and vice-president of the association Marketing 4 Business. As a member of the association Technology in a skirt Agnieszka promotes diversity in the technological support talented, ambitious and valuable women in achieving success in the field of professional and private. Fulfilled working mother of two children, with whom he spends a very active free time. He travels a lot - not just business.

Jolanta Jaworska

Government & Regulatory Affairs Manager IBM Poland & Baltics

Responsible for cooperation with public administration, universities and NGOs in the area of innovation, workforce policy, investment CSR and diversity. Expert in various areas of workforce management, public support, digital transformation and building the necessary conditions for the development of innovative investment in business services, R&D and smart cities. Member of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce Poland & Co-chair of the Human Resurces Management Committee of the American Chamber. One of the Founders of Polish Professional Woman Network and Vital Voices start in Poland.

Graduate of Warsaw School of Economics and Henley Management College, UK

Renata Kaczoruk

Co-founder of Girls in Tech Poland
Model

Besides being a successful model, Ms. Renata Kaczoruk is also engaged in education and empowerment of girls and women who are passionate about technology. She is a co-founder of Girls in Tech Poland (GIT). GIT is a global non-profit project focused on supporting females in technology. GIT’s aim is to accelerate the growth of innovative women who are entering into the high-tech industry and building successful startups.

Halima Kayumova

Cisco Girls (Tajikistan)

I am Dean assistant for social issues in Join Tajik-Ukraine Faculty at Technological University of Tajikistan. Generally I work with girls who live in the hostel and with orphans students. And also I observe for students who study by the contract. I organize computer and Cisco courses for girls. I am leader of Cisco Girls-TUT team!

Barbara Klein

Technology Director, Head of Capacity Planning IGT Poland (former GTECH)

Graduated from Warsaw University of Technology, faculty of Electronics and Information Technology. For more than 20 years Barbara is working for IGT group – worldwide leader in IT solutions for lotteries and casino industry. In the beginning of 1990th Barbara created, as first in the lottery on-line business, professional Quality Assurance team and methodology. QA processes invented by her were introduced in the projects for the lotteries all over the world. Since 2013 Barbara is responsible for capacity planning in EMEA and AP regions.

Petra Kotuliakova

Founder and director of AJ Ty v IT
(Slovakia)

She is a key leader of Slovak Initiative You too in IT (AJ Ty v IT), challenging young girls into study ICT.

She has long experiences in communication and public relation, working for Faculty of informatics and information technology STU in Bratislava, and previously on marketing department of DANONE International Brands in Paris. She had participated on International Visitor Leadership Program of US Department of State, on the topic Women in STEM fields.

Nowadays, she is a director of Confucius Institute in Bratislava, based at Slovak Technical University (STU). She is responsible for presentation of Chinese culture and language and leading cooperation between Slovak and Chinese universities.

Joanna Lisiecka

Sociologist - Perspektywy Education Foundation

Coordinator of Girls as Engineers!, Girls go Science! campaigns and projects: Lean in STEM, Girls Go Start-Up Academy. She has been connected with the Perspektywy Education Foundation since 2012. She graduated from Faculty of Management and Social Communication of Jagiellonian University and from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Her previous work experiences included: Office of Culture of the Municipal Office of the Capital City of Warsaw (secretary) and Akademia Łucznica Association (Cultural manager, Teacher, Member of the Board).

Bartosz Martyna

Doctor of arts (D.A.), graduated (M.A.) at The Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw.

Previously, he studied at the Inter- Faculty Individual Studies in Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice. Bartosz Martyna made his debut on stage in 2009, the role of Louis XIV in the play The Red Devil. As an actor, director and dramatist took part in more than 35 theater productions. He collaborated,among others, with: Scena Prezentacje Theatre in Warsaw, Nowy Theatre in Warsaw, Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw, Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw and Theater der Künste in Zürich. A special place,with which he often cooperates is Warsaw Dance Theatre. He's got many functions there – dramatist, acting consultant, performer and director. In 2013, he made his debut in the movie Canadian dresses. Currently, he has more than 25 appearances in front of the camera in movies, TV series and commercials. Writer, director and performer in the award-winning acting solo Performer. He conducted a lot of voice and acting workshops in Poland and abroad.

Dr Gina Mihai

Project Manager at European Schoolnet, Brussels, Belgium

Dr Gina Mihai has been part of the Science team at European Schoolnet (EUN) since October 2011. She is the project manager of Amgen Teach and deputy project manager of Scientix. Amgen Teach is a European programme funded by the Amgen Foundation designed to deepen student interest and achievement in science by strengthening the ability of life science secondary school teachers to use inquiry based teaching strategies in the classroom. Scientix, the European Commission’s DG Research’s community for science education in Europe, was created to facilitate regular dissemination and sharing of know-how and best practices in science education across the European Union, http://scientix.eu. Additionally, from day one, Gina has been involved in many international science education projects, including: inGenious, Global excursion, Pathway and UniSchooLabS. Before joining EUN, Gina was involved in two research FP7 projects funded by the European Commission, one in collaboration with the University of Antwerp, Belgium (for a period 2.5 years) and the second with the Linköping University, Sweden (for a period 1.6 years). Gina has a PhD in Chemistry, from the University of Al.I.Cuza, Iasi, Romania, on Oxide Mesoporous Materials.

Olga Malinkiewicz

CEO Saule Technologies

A physicist and an inventor of innovative method of producing solar cells based on perovskites. Her company - Saule Technologies is one of the first companies in the world who works on the commercial use of perovskites in the production of ultra-thin and flexible photovoltaic cells. Saule's main goal is to develop the technology which can integrate perovskites with the existing products. The company won the title of Startup of the Year 2014 and Ms. Olga Malinkiewicz, as the first Polish woman, received the title Innovator of the Year in the Innovators Under 35 competition, organized by the MIT Technology Review.

Jowita Michalska

CEO Digital University
Burda international, Chief marketing Officer

For 15 years, she has worked in marketing and advertising, 10 of which have been in the telecommunication industry where she dealt with brands such as Plus and Era (T-Mobile). She co-created the Heyah brand, which is considered to be one of the greatest business successes in the Polish telecommunication market's history. Ms. Jowita Michalska is an expert in brand communication strategies in the most competitive categories. She won many prestigious awards both in Poland and abroad, in particular for brand advertising campaigns. She is passionate about the phenomenon of social media and many modern communication channels to reach consumers. She is the founding member of the Association of Marketing Directors M4B and a member of the Program Council of the Congress of Women. As an advisor to the President of the Polish Energy Group she created a new strategy and rebuilt the structure of the company, bringing the company millions of dollars in savings. Ms. Michalska is a CEO of Digital University – an educational Think Tank, who supports professional development of executive management. She was a speaker at many conferences including TED'x, and she blogs about new technologies. Ms. Jowita Michalska is also a mentor of Girls Go Start-Up Academy program.

Eryk Mistewicz

Marketing strategies consultant

Marketing strategies consultant. Polish Pulitzer laureate. Counsellor for firms, institutions, public figures in Poland and France, writer and chief editor of Nowe Media quarterly.

Nasreen Sultana Mitu

Assistance Professor & Cartoon Artist
Science, Mathematics & Technology Education (SMTE)
University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Ms. Nasreen Sultana Mitu has been drawing Cartoon and Caricatures for around ten years. In 2006, she began Cartooning in UNMAD, prominent Bangladeshi Cartoon and satire magazine. She uses to draw Gag Cartoon and feature Cartoon for that magazine, currently she is serving UNMAD as one of the associate editors. Beside this she also does political cartoon for bdnews24.com, leading online newspaper of Bangladesh. Before joining there, she has worked in New age, another national daily newspaper for four years. Mitu started Cartooning more seriously after getting a National award for Cartooning in a Cartoon contest in 2009. After that she achieved number of nominations and special mention awards in following Cartoon contests. Recently she won the first award in the Cartoon competition on Climate Finance issues arranged by TIB on the occasion of COP-21 held in Paris in 2015. Mitu started Caricature in the year 2011. In 2014, her first solo caricature exhibition titled Meet the Faces took place in Alliance Française de Dhaka as the first ever caricature exhibition in Bangladesh. In 2012 after a devastating incident in Bangladesh where thousands of RMG workers died after a building collapsed, Mitu drew a Cartoon on the Garment sector of Bangladesh; where a Denim jeans Price tag is depicting the price as some drops of Blood. The Cartoon immediately strikes the social media. It was shared for more than a hundred thousand times nationally and internationally. Several National television Channels and international web media developed programs based on that Cartoon.

Damaris Muteti

Intel she will connect Africa (Kenia)

A Teacher with the ministry of Education Kenya with a background in Information Technology and Education. A champion of Intel she will connect Africa programs with emphasis on creating mobile application with young girls in high schools.

Derrick Ogrodny

Media Executive & Managing Director, Virtual Brain – Branded Content Agency

He is a Media Executive & Managing Director in Virtual Brain – Branded Content Agency. American of Polish descent, 18 years associated with the media in the United States, Poland, the United Arab Emirates, Montenegro. Responsible for the introduction of television channels Comedy Central and Nickelodeon to Polish. Since 2013. organizer of the Warsaw series of screenings of horror films Scary Stories.

Katarzyna Piasecki

CEO, Ennbow (Poland)

A trained economist with passion and vocation for entrepreneurship. The founder of ENNBOW, a fashion brand that takes advantage of modern technology to offer active, elegant women comfortable and practical business wear. Ms. Katarzyna Piasecki graduated from economics at the University of Bonn. She started her career in investment banking. She advised companies and investors on mergers and acquisitions, capital transactions and was also involved in building investment banking division of one of German private banks. In 2013, after 12 years she moved to Poland and set up her own fashion company. Katarzyna is always eager to share her extensive knowledge about dress code and dress as an aspect of nonverbal communication. She runs workshops and trainings for individuals and groups interested in the topic.

Melissa Rancourt

Entrepreneur, Engineer & Educator
Founder & Chairman
Greenlight for girls (Belgium)

Apart from being a self-confessed geek and unconditional fan of The Big Bang Theory TV Show, I have a tendency to wear many hats... and to continue to keep buying more. For over 20 years, I have worked as an Industrial Engineer and Business Leader in manufacturing, healthcare, private industry, association and small business environments. For the past 10 years, I also teach in the evenings for university Masters level courses in business and engineering.

Along the way, I have contracted the contagious entrepreneurial disease that entices me to keep starting new businesses. In the past three years, I have created just as many businesses - an international project management firm called greenlight, a non-profit organisation called greenlight for girls, and a wellbeing company called Serendipity Wellness.

Amber Schaub

Director of Education
New York Academy of Sciences

She is a Director in the Education & Public Programs Department at the Academy, leading international programs and focusing on key activities such as the launches of the Global STEM Alliance, NeXXt Scholars Program, and Nobelist Mindset Program. Amber is passionate about the intersection of international education and science, first coordinating and then managing initiatives for Portland Energy Conservation, Inc. and Conservation Services Group. She then taught English as a Second Language in Martinique, Costa Rica, and Spain. After, she merged her personal and professional interests, pursuing an MA in International & Transcultural Studies with a specialization in International Education Development in 2011 at Teachers College, Columbia University. During her graduate studies, Amber also served as Writing and Communication Center Coordinator at The Juilliard School. She graduated with Honors from Lewis & Clark College with a BA in History and French Studies.

Dr Bianka Siwińska

Executive Director and Head of Research, Perspektywy Education Foundation

PhD of Political Science, journalist, researcher and initiator of social campaigns. Chief editor of the educational prospects and a correspondent for University World News. Polish coordinator of the study program conducted by the Polish Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools and Perspektywy Education Foundation. Initiator of the social campaign Girls Go Study, Girls Go Science, Lean in STEM and other campaigns. Expert of the World Bank in Central Asia. She studied at the Warsaw University, at the Humboldt Univeristät in Berlin and Columbia University in New York. She conducted research in Nifu - STEP in Oslo. Author of the books: University beyond borders. Internationalization of Higher Education in Poland and Germany and Education Goes Global. Strategies for Internationalization of Higher Education and an editor of Time Internationalization. Challenges for Polish Universities.

Karen Slavin

European Commission
DG Research & Innovation

Karen Slavin works for the European Commission and one of her responsibilities is managing the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS). She is a Computer Scientist and worked in energy research for 15 years before moving to the Directorate General for Research and Innovation in Brussels. She gained an interest in science competitions as a child growing up in Dublin where a visit to the Irish contest was an annual event. She is also responsible for Science Education projects and Science Education policy in DG RTD.

prof. Tadeusz Słomka

President of AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow

He graduated from the Technical Geological Survey, in Cracow and the Faculty of Geology and exploration of the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow. The works - doctoral and habilitation - were devoted to sedimentology sedimentary formations Carpathians. He is the author and co-author of over 240 scientific publications devoted to issues of economic geology, mathematical modeling of mineral deposits, and sedimentology deepwater clastics. It is also co-author of 6 books and scripts and editor of 9 books. Repeatedly he presented his findings at national and international scientific conferences, among others, in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Ireland, Greece, Mexico, USA and Australia.

For 12 years he headed the Department of General Geology, Environmental Protection and Geotourism, Deputy Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection (2 terms), vice-rector of the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, and since 2012 he has been rector of the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy.

Initiator and editor-in-chief of the magazine Geoturism, a member of the editorial committee of Acta Montanistica Slovakia. The Secretary and the Chairman of a number of regular international scientific conferences: Applied Mathematical Methods and Computer Science in Geology, Geotur. He directed more than 20 grants and commissioned works from the industry. He led (and still He leads) lectures, seminars and field geology general, mathematical geology, geological mapping, sedimentology, geotourism.

He was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit badge Honoris Gratia award by the Mayor of the City of Krakow and the badge Poczesna gramota for his contribution to the Lviv Polytechnic.

Doctor honoris causa of the Shibaura Institute of Technology and the Carpathian National University. Vasyl Stefanyk in Ivano-Frankivsk.

Aleksandra Sobiech

Biotechnology student at University of Life Sciences in Poznań

20 years old. Biotechnology student at University of Life Sciences in Poznań. Interested in psyhology, social problems, literature, antropology and art.

Kamila Staryga

Google's Advanced Technology and Projects Group
Google, Mountain View, US

She says I'm a builder. She enjoy the process of taking an idea and bringing it to life. From vision to execution, architecting and delivering the solution to a problem is my sweet spot. With a background in manufacturing engineering and experience in marketing and product management she has built brands, campaigns, strategy, process and products for Google and Procter&Gamble. Leading both the regional, cross-cultural projects as well as the big impact, country initiatives she has been always in small, nimble, international teams launching a new, innovative thing; She worked with other engineers on products, tech logic, system architecture. Last summer she was a participant in Singularity University Graduate Program held at NASA Research Park to build a med/tech product using technologies of the future. For that work she received MIT Technology Review Award for Innovators Under 35, Poland. Currently she is busy at ATAP with Project Soli.

Aleksandra Sroka

Director Boston Consulting Group

Expert in banking, mergers and acquisitions and marketing. She worked in the US, Western Europe and Ukraine. She studied, among others, at the University of Economics in Wroclaw and in Sweden. Ms. Sroka carried out projects in the United States, at the Middle East and in Eastern Europe. She's an expert at diligence processes, integration of businesses, improvement of efficiency and technology projects. She was a speaker at many conferences, including BCG CEO Dinner, Polish Economic Forum at the London School of Economics and Poland 2.0 at Imperial College London. Ms. Aleksandra Sroka is also a mentor in Lean in STEM program.

Marta Tondera

President at the Federation of Polish Student Societies in the UK

Old Antonian Marta Tondera has been elected President of the Federation of Polish Student Societies in the UK, an umbrella organisation that incorporates 30 Polish Societies from top British universities and reaches 3,000 students. Marta joined the Executive Committee of the Federation during her first year at University College London, where she is studying Natural Science, and has been appointed President after just two years. Marta manages a team of 20 people who run a number of projects, helping young Polish leaders by organising workshops and meetings and strengthening the community of Polish students by organising events with notable politicians, community leaders and scholars. The Federation also helps students with career guidance with options of internships both in Poland and in the UK and cooperates with a number of Polish organisations in the UK to improve the image of migrants in the UK. Recent campaigns included Bloody Foreigners - a campaign encouraging migrants to donate blood to the NHS, and Vote - you're at home - a campaign encouraging young Poles to vote in the local and European elections in the UK.

Prof. Marek Tukiendorf

President of Opole University of Technology

President of the Technical University of Opole in terms of office 2012-2016 and 2016-2020, a chemist, specializing in engineering and chemical apparatus, a professor of agricultural sciences, academic teacher. In 1983 he began his studies at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering College in Opole, from which he graduated in 1988 obtaining master's degree in mechanical engineering with specialization in machinery and equipment food and chemical industries. In 1996 he received a PhD degree in the field of Technical Sciences at the Technical University of Lodz. In 2004 he received his PhD at the Agricultural University in Lublin. In the same year he was appointed professor and took charge of the Department of Agricultural and Forestry PO. In 2009 he became a professor of agricultural sciences. Prof. Marek Tukiendorf in the Committee of Agricultural Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Opole Monitoring Committee for Regional Development Programs of the Governor of Opole and the Monitoring Committee of the Regional Operational Program of the Opole Province for the years 2007-2013 at the Marshal of the Opole Province.

Dr Ingrid Wünning Tschol

Vice President of Robert Bosch Foundation (Germany)

Senior Vice President Strategy, Robert Bosch Foundation.1985 PhD Biology, University Tübingen Germany. 1985 -1990, postdoctoral research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and State University of New York in Stony Brook, (USA). Further stations in her career were: Head of Molecular Biology, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in Bonn (Germany), Head of Medical Section, European Science Foundation in Strasbourg (France). She is or was member of numerous national and international committees, amongst them as Vice Chair of the European Research Area Board (ERAB), advising the European Commissioner for Research 2008-2011. More recent committee activities include membership in the Advisory Board, Max-Planck Institute, Magdeburg, ESOF Supervisory Board, Board of Trustees, Falling Walls Conference, the Universitätsrat Ulm or Advisory Board, Uppsala Health Summit.

Dr. Marta Du Vall

President of Polish Women's Scientific Network (Poland)

Founder of the Polish Women's Network Science. Media expert, expert on American studies, she has a PhD in the field of political science. Her research interests are: civil disobedience and protest politics, new media and their influence on contemporary social processes and gender in science and innovation.

Katarzyna Walczyk-Matuszyk

President TOP500 Innovators

A graduate of the Top 500 Innovators program, through which carried a 9-week course at Stanford University in California. She stands at the head of Poland's largest non-governmental organization - a think-tank bringing together scientists, specialists in the field of technology transfer and innovation. The Association promotes effective cooperation of science and business. Professionally, more than six years working in the National Contact Point for EU Research Programmes, which deals with areas related to innovation, science and business cooperation, management of international projects, research and innovation and international cooperation. She specializes in international project management research and innovation funded from the Framework Programmes, the Structural Funds and the Norwegian funds. She advises companies and institutions for the effective international networking.

Amanda Waliszewska

Blogger at Hakierka.pl
and Front-End Developer at Daftcode

She's a programmer and a social media expert. She's almost always online. When she's not, probably she's on her way to the places without any WI-FI access. The strange fact about her? Well, she studied law.

Also, she is an author of www.hakierka.pl - a space in web full of IT and a society gathered around new technologies.

And cats.

Caroline Wamubi

Intel she will connect Africa (Kenia)

A young high school girl at Embakasi Girls Secondary School Kenya. A young girl who has created a mobile application with a group of girls in Kenya through Intel she will connect program.

Prof. Lucyna Woźniak

Vice-Rector
Medical University in Lodz

Professor Wozniak is currently Vice-Rector for Research of the Medical University of Lodz, Deputy Director of the Healthy Ageing Research Centre (MUL) and Head of Department of Structural Biology (MUL). She serves as a member of the Scientific & Programme Board of the International School of Molecular Medicine (Medical University of Warsaw), member of the Innovation Board of the Łodzkie Region and the Monitoring Committee for the European Regional Development Funds in Łodzkie.

She is a member of the Steering Board of Healthy Ageing Research Centre (RegPot- FP7) and one of the initiators and moderators of EIT HEALTH Lodz participation in KIC program dedicated to Active and Healthy Ageing.

She is an author of more than 90 papers, book chapters and monographic articles and several international patents in the field of her scientific activity (DNA/RNA as antisense drugs, oxidative stress and antioxidants of plant origin, molecular mechanisms of diabetes, in particular GDM).

Steven Zipkes

Winner of National STEM Visionary Award (USA)

Steven Zipkes is the founder and president of Advanced Reasoning In Education, llc. (Global PBL Academies) and the former founding principal (2006-2015) of the highly acclaimed and nationally recognized Manor New Technology High School (near Austin, Tx). This school proposed new and successful method of learning based entirely on STEM projects. Now Zipkes helps to create such institutions around the US. Proven practitioner redesigned systemic whole school STEM change for all. Steven Zipkes, the founding principal at Manor New Technology High school, was awarded the National STEM Visionary Award by the International Association for STEM Leaders at the National STEM Leadership Summit in Washington DC on April 24th.

Dr Ewa Rumińska Zimny

UN expert

UN expert, lecturer at the School of Economics, is engaged in development issues and the role of women in the modern economy by promoting the idea that equality profitable companies and the economy. Has many years of international experience gained while working for the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Until mid-2009, the head of the program Women and the Economy, which created the European Economic Commission of the United Nations; 56 member states, such as Poland and EU countries, Russia, the US, Central Asia, the Caucasus. She initiated a pan-European conference, Women in Business, author of reports and publications minn Gender Gap and Economic Policy and Access to Financing and ICT for Women Entrepreneurs. PhD in SGH on the placement researcher at the Sorbonne-Paris I. Academic work in Economics and Georgetown University, Washington D. C (visiting professor). Presentations at conferences such as the Council of Europe (Athens 2009 Baku 2010) and the European Parliament (Brussels, 2011). Coach, summer schools Gender and Macroeconomics Global Network's academic - GEM-IWG (2009-2011). Member of the Programme Board of the Congress of Women, the board of the International Women's Forum at the Warsaw School of Economics, the International Association of Feminist Economists. With interesting - collect Japanese woodcuts.

Marta Zucker

Author, San Francisco, California
(US)

Marta's two recent books on the global success of Polish startups were published by PWN (the leading Polish provider of scientific, educational and professional literature). Each book is a selection of six interview-driven stories told by the startups' founders:

• Igrzyska talentów w Dolinie Krzemowej. Rozmowy z mistrzami start-upów. Warszawa, 2015 (Talent Olympics in Silicon Valley.)
• Kobiety globalne w świecie start-upów. Rozmowy w Dolinie Krzemowej. Warszawa, May 2016 (Global Women in the Startup World.)

Marta holds a Master's degree from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She began her career in Bucharest building the Romanian branch of an international company from scratch and founded a successful television and film production company in Warsaw. She has worked since 2002 with the Torun business consulting firm KarStanS Ltd. Marta also consulted independently in New York, and for the last two years Marta has been working with the startup community in Silicon Valley and in Poland.

Marta spent several years traveling through India, Nepal, Southeast Asia and New Zealand, and has climbed several Himalayan peaks. She currently splits her time between San Francisco and Torun, Poland.

Dagmara Kiarga

Robot Programmer, Copernicus Science Center

I've graduated from Warsaw University of Technology, where I've studied Automatics and Robotics. Currently I coordinate Robotics Laboratory at Copernicus Science Center. When I was young my independence was very precious for me and I enjoyed DIY activities - I knew how to change a chain on a bicycle or build a bird feeder. I got to know programming when I was in high school, but during my studies I have learned how to program industrial robots. I am interested in design thinking, team work and creativity - I use this knowledge while planing interdisciplinary lessons for robotics laboratory. I also discover a world of wearables when I manufacture jewelry with a 3D printer or create mechanism for robotic dresses in Mechanics Flowers collection from polish fashion designer Michał Starost. I wanted to encourage women in following their passions and discovering the world of mechanics, electronics and programming.

Agata Kurzyk

Avant-garde cellist and composer. Biotechnologist - cell biology specialist at Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Warsaw

She is a cellist and composer, actively giving music-tours in the country and abroad. She is Champion of Eastern Europe (Budapest, 2012) and reached the final of the world championships in looping (Anaheim / LA / USA 2013). She received a scholarship from the City of Warsaw (2013), winner of the award for the best artist Stoff Sopot Festival Fringe Festival. Currently she is studying for postgraduate studies composition at the University of Music in Warsaw. She works with the Polish art of painting, film and young Polish artists of the scene on the border of electronic music and hip-hop. She works as a specialist in Maria Skłodowska-Curie’s Oncology Centre and wrote a PhD on the use of mesenchymal stem cells, adipose tissue to construct the polymer-cell scaffolds for the regeneration of bone defects. The speaker series of meetings Meet Biotech Boost Biotech (2015) and this year's scene TEDx Warsaw University of Technology.

Kathryn Zazenski

Artist, US Fulbright Researcher to Poland: Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center and Institute of Experimental Physics at the University of Warsaw

She is an artist who has been living and working in Warsaw since October, 2015 as a US Fulbright Scholar. Her work is inspired by the philosophical and theoretical aspects of physics and astronomy and is physically realized through photography, installation, sound, and video. Conceptually she also works with the notion of fundamental dualities, her visual language borrows heavily from contemporary tropes of outer space and spirituality. She routinely collaborates with professionals in the science and medical communities to develop her work; currently she is affiliated with the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center and several researchers at the University of Warsaw, Department of Experimental Physics.

She has participated in several artist residencies, including Fountainhead and the Vermont Studio Center in the U.S., Red Gate Gallery in China, and Arteles Creative Center in Finland. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of California, San Diego, the Maryland Institute College of Art, the College for Creative Studies, as well as Visiting Faculty in Sculpture at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. And she has shown her work in solo, two-person, group shows, and experimental projects internationally, including Carol Jazzar Contemporary in Miami, FL, the Fringe Arts Festival in Bath, UK, the San Diego Art Institute, Icebox Projects at the Crane Arts Space in Philadelphia, PA, and the Mercedes Benz Americas Headquarters in Farmington Hills, MI.

She received her MFA in Sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2014.