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Radek Kokot is heading up Google's advertising services operations in Central and Easter Europe. He is also responsible for management and development of Google's office in Wroclaw. Before joining the company in 2010 Radek has spend 12 years with Dell in multiple roles in both Poland and United Kingdom, including management of marketing, programs and operations of Dell EMEA channel business.
Radek's experience in business include corporate strategy, transactional and relationship sales, marketing, program management, product management, new business development, acquisition integration and operations management.
Sebastian Kwiecień is the founder of Epic Ventures where he helps Internet startups get funded. Focused on business models analysis and company valuation.
Earlier on, founder of social lending startup Monetto and very early stage fund Venture Incubator. Before that he worked in international interactive agency Janmedia Interactive, all the way bottom up starting as a programmer, then becoming analyst, project manager and then COO.
In love with Internet since 1996.
Aleksander Kusz has been involved in Money.pl for nearly four years, holding the company’s President of the Board position since 2011. Formerly, as vice-president and managing director, he
was responsible for creation and execution of the budget, supervision of the Money.pl Group’s daughter companies and realization of major projects.
He is also president of the board at Legalsupport, the owner company of E-prawnik.pl, BusinessClick (contextual advertising network) and board member of Favore (online directory of services).
After work, he is also a zealous runner.
I am an entrepreneur at heart with a high level of creative and analytical skills. I have wide-ranging experience in jump-starting the process of introducing fresh concepts in new markets and love to make people smile as we move forward. I am, above all, focused on the goal of selling and signing but I also find establishing and making a team grow very rewarding. When my schedule permits I love to hunt and fly-fish in my spare time.
Currently working as a member of Advisory Board at SocEntLab, member of the board of Directors at Startup Weekend Norway, Manager at VikingAngels.com, partner at Entrepreneurial Growth Strategies, and member of Norwegian Entrepreneurs Forum.
Holger Dieterich works as the Lab manager of YOU IS NOW – The Startup Incubator of ImmobilienScout24. Holger acts as the connective element of teams, capital and professional support of ImmobilienScout24 for a first proof of concept. Besides the fact that he hosts the Lean Startup Meet up and acts as the curator for the Berlin edition of the Startup Digest he is one of the initial founders of wheelmap.org.
She defines herself as startupholic, most of her days spin around startups and entrepreneurs.
Since 2009 she's been helping to create a tech-entrepreneurial community in Spain through different programs and events like Iniciador, MobileCONGalicia or Entrepreneurship Days.
Startup Weekend Spain Coordinator, founder of StartupGalicia, first startup school in the region and Managing Partner Galicia Affiliate for StartupSpain, a private initiative to promote entrepreneurship and investor's activity in Spain.
After a couple of #fails, now about to launch StartupSpotting, a website focused on European startups and events.
Lived in UK and Russia, passionate about challenges and hopeless maverick.
Maciej graduated from University of Economics in Wroclaw and University of Cincinnati specializing in econometrics. Since 2008 he has been working at Google looking after process and systems improvements and recently joined customer support team with goal to establish best in class service platforms for users.
Maciej is a passionate runner and hiker and with 4 completed marathons including NYC, he is looking forward for a strong man competition.
Szymon is in charge of the Mobile group, which is responsible for development of mobile channels of access to nk.pl., including the version of the Portal adapted to portable devices and mobile phone applications. During his professional life he has gained vast managerial experience, international certificates and a solid understanding of theoretical and practical aspects of Agile Project Management.
Throughout his over 10-year career he has been engaged in various projects relating to the Internet and mobile access to data and information, working for companies like Siemens and Nokia Siemens Network, which gave him practical knowledge of both IT and telecommunications.As a consultant he implemented methodologies and project management systems in the companies of all sizes and diverse corporate cultures.
Initiator and coordinator of inkubator, certified by Scrum Master and Prince Foundation. He graduated from Technical University of Wroclaw with a major in technical physics and completed postgraduate managerial studies at Wroclaw School of Banking.
He started his professional career in Bank Zachodni WBK, where in 2006-2010 he was working as a project manager. Since 2010 he’s been working in Nasza Klasa, initially as a project manager responsible for functionality of the desktop version of NK.pl platform and since the beginning of 2011 for mobile products of the service.
He is a president and founder of Design it Poland, which supports Polish industrial designers in contacts with entrepreneurs and in effective promotion of their activities. The mission of Design it Poland is also presenting Polish industrial design on the international stage.
Mr Piotr Krzysztofik is a graduate of Electronics and Telecommunication Faculty of Technical University Wrocław and MBA studies at Nottingham Trend University. Since July of 2011 he became a System Integration Line Director at Atos Polska where he’s responsible for a business development of Solutions, SAP and Application Management. He deals with implementation of tasks for the Polish market and continues coordinating activities concerning the SI Offshoring Center.
Related to Siemens since year 2000 where he worked first as a Project Manager, Manager of Quality Department and Head of IT Service Line. Since 2008 Head of Siemens IT Solutions and Services Sp. z o.o. and Service Global Delivery in Wrocław, in the mean time also a Head of Regional Siemens Sp. z o.o. Office.
He is passionate with sports like sailing, diving, golf and car racing and new technologies. Privately father of two children, whom are his main priorities.
Entrepreneur with a 14-years-long experience on both local and international markets, in medium and large companies of the advanced technologies sector (such as T-Mobile, TDC, Ericsson AB), as well as in startup projects (Effortel, Carrefour Mova, FM Mobil).
Marcin has many years' experience in management positions and management boards of companies connected with business development and the introducing of changes in complex organizations. He has also worked on plenty of major projects on "business development" and "market development"in the telecommunications and Internet sector in Poland, Europe and Asia.
Nowadays, Managing Partner at AMXVENTURES (micro-fund of the seed type), and consulting company EVERGOPARTNERS.
A graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), CIM Associate Member, School of Economics and Warsaw University of Technology.
Six years of experience connected with the capital market as well as Private Equity and Venture Capital funds.
Between 2004 and 2008, investment manager (earlier senior analyst) with MCI Management SA Venture Capital (responsible for investment analysis and support of such projects as ABC Data sp. z o.o., Belysio sp. z o.o., Digital Avenue SA, S4E SA).
During 2008 and 2009, investment director of Private Equity Capital Management SA fund (creating investment portfolio with the value > PLN 10 m
Matthias Metternich is a co-founder of Believe.in, a social charity platform currently preparing to launch in July and the founder of Brave.is, a London based digital thinktank focused on disruptive digital proposition ideation and design.
He is also the Managing Partner of Poke London in Istanbul, where he is responsible for business strategy and Poke's commercial growth across emerging markets. Poke is a creative digital thinktank and one of the creative industry's most awarded agencies globally. Headquartered in London and with offices in New York, Poke works across clients including Skype, Mulberry, Diesel, Orange, American Express and others.
Business development executive with 5+ years of experience in TMT, including strategic consulting in corporate IT and on-line media. For the past 2 years building international partnerships as well as expanding the reach of portfolio companies for one of the largest Central European media groups - Agora SA.
Jacek Artymiak got on the internet for the first time in 1992. He's an avid fan of Open Source, Apple, and new technologies. Jacek has published over twenty books, over a hundred magazine articles and over 500 blog posts. He runs a book/e-book publishing company and a mobile app/game development company. Jacek is also involved in the OpenStack cloud computing project.
Michał Sadowski graduated Master Degree at the Faculty of Computer Science and Management at the Wroclaw University of Technology. From 10 years associated with the Internet industry.
Founder and Chief Executive of Brand24 S.A. He is also co-founder of services such as PinoTV.pl, Moblo.pl, Slajdzik.pl, Livesite.pl. He is a blogger and commentator of the phenomena associated with the IT industry.
Also, he is an author of technological videocast – Digerati.
Paweł Sołyga, computer science graduate from Wrocław University of
Technology, Tooploox mobile apps studio founder and Natural User
Interface Group co-founder.
Participant at Google Summer of Code, first as a student then mentor and organization administrator for NUI Group.
Worked for NUITeq where he developed multitouch hardware and software applications, Google Open Source Programs Office as a software engineer then project lead on Melange, Gadu-Gadu where he worked on first version of Gadu-Gadu client for iOS. Recently managed development of social and 2nd screen TV solutions at San Francisco based startup Numote, where he now holds an advisory role.
For almost 2 years led iOS applications development for Allegro Group. Loves simplicity, great design and building awesome products.
Tomasz Kolinko launched a successful indie iOS development company -Motivapps- and currently is the founder of AppCod.es, a marketing toolkit for mobile developers.
He has experience in product design, app marketing and customer development.
Maciej is an entrepreneur, web business and analytics expert. His topics of expertise are web strategy, web developement business and advertising solutions.
He is CEO of Clearcode, software development company focused on custom web development for startups. Earlier, he was involved in Brand New Media, an advertising company acquired by Money.pl/Holtzbrinck.
Maciej is also a core member at Piwik.org - Open source web analytics.
Board President at Polish Public Relations Association. In Board of PSPR since 2008. Member of Public Relations Ethic Commitee. Founder and originator of Social Media Day - cycle of conferences focused on promoting revolution made by social media. Founder and President of OpenGov Association - think tank focused on communication transparency in public domain. Jury member at Polish and internetional competitions (Złote Spinacze, Bright Awards). Founder and the main organizer of PR for Regions conference.
A graduate from Journalism and Public Communication and Philosophy at University of Wroclaw. Lecturer at University of Wroclaw, Higher School of Education in Krakow and many other academies. Specialist and coach at Brand for Communes project. Coach at „Strategically for development” - a project of Ministry of Regional Development.
Creator and Co-Founder of AdTaily, a self-service advertising platform sold to AGORA. From 2009 Jakub held the position of Board Member and Head of Products at AdTaily, at that time considered by prestigious magazine CNBC Business to be one of the 25 most innovative European companies.
In 2012 he stepped down to become a minority shareholder and Supervisory Board Member of AdTaily and started work on his new "Internet of things" class project in Kraków, Poland.
Prior to founding AdTaily, he was a strategy and technology consultant for a Norwegian design and technology agency based in Oslo, working on projects for the Norwegian Government, airline companies and large corporations.
Jakub graduated from the Jagiellonian University with a degree in Applied Computer Science and Computational Physics.
Co-founder and first CEO of PressPad, a mobile publishing platform launched in 2011. Pawel is also a shareholder in Untitled Kingdom Ltd. a mobile app development company, in a game development studio and several other businesses and initiatives related to internet, mobile and being cool.
Prior to that awesome and exhausting period Pawel was a full time Apple-blogger (2005-2011), published two books, hosted or co-hosted audio and video internet shows and co-founded RadioJAZZ.fm.
Konrad 'ksy' Latkowski was PR for more than seven years. He knows (!) that most of the actions can be an interesting news. He believes in social media, e-commerce, and the necessity of the community to develope a project. Do not forget about the word "relations" in media relations.
He worked (and did a great PR) for: MIP, iriver, Cowon, MPIO, iGO, MP3store and VEDIA S.A. For two years co-founder of Manubia.pl & ManubiaGlobal.com. In his free time organizes the world into EventCookie.pl.
Vice President at InteliWISE S.A. He is mainly interested in artificial intelligence, image recognition, 2D & 3D graphics, augmented reality and social media. TIME magazine called him one of the pioneers of e-learning in Poland. He graduated from the faculty of Computer Science at Gdansk University of Technology specialized in Artificial Intelligence.
He was Head of the Internet Services Department of the Wirtualna Polska portal. The Colorful Pages service for children was sold to Wirtualna Polska S.A. He was President of the Management Board of Optimus Nexus, specializing in the production of original encyclopedias and multimedia programs.
CEO and co-founder at Monterail.com, a web and mobile consultancy. Member of the Board and seed investor at Droids on Roids Sp. z o.o., a mobile startup. Board advisor at e-point SA, internet software house building large J2EE solutions.
Organizes Bootstrap Wrocław, a monthly meeting for startups and people interested in building one.
He has experience in product design, sales, team building and business strategy. If you don't know how to start, set up your team, define your goals, design your product, ship it and lead your team, he's the one to help you.
CEO at Mobile Factory S.A. He is driven by passion towards internet, mobile and Lean Startup solutions which be uses everyday in the mobile app business. Radek believes that Polish people can be innovative and competitive in the global village and does his best to prove his point. He became the youngest CEO of a Polish public company present on the Warsaw Stock Market as Mobile Factory went IPO before he turned 25.
He is a huge fan of Lean Startup methodology. Radek graduated from Wroclaw University of Economics with his master's thesis focused on global innovativity.
Piotr has been involved in developing small businesses and startups for quite some time already. Few years ago, he started his own company and, cooperating with an international Taiwanese corporation, he run its head office in Poland. Since 2011, he has been taking part in development of a High Tech startup, supported by Business Angels from PSAB-I network.
Piotr graduated from Wrocław University of Technology and he also holds a diploma from the University of Granada in Spain. He received postgraduate degrees in management from WSB and in psychology from SWPS.
He has very rich international experience. He spent few years working and studying abroad. Piotr worked in India and in Taiwan as a software developer and a project leader. He also developed a Wrocław branch of JCI - an international association for young active people and entrepreneurs.
Co-founder of Rezumey.pl, a brand new service that presents your resume in a form of infographic. General Product Manager at InteliWISE S.A. Supports key accounts on US and European markets. Responsible for worldwide SAAS Platform delivery, which enables customers to build Natural Language Conversational Agents supported by behavioural targeting tools.
Recent years spent in United States on business development of Silicon Valley division of InteliWISE USA Inc. Graduated from the faculty of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Gdansk University of Technology. He was also a researcher and developer of W3C Semantic Web standards at Digital Enterprise Research Institute in Ireland.
Friday 25th May the conference InnoExpo Startup Day will be held in the venues of the Regional Centre for Business Tourism within the Centennial Hall complex. The conference is being organized by Wrocław Agglomeration Development Agency and Economic and Social Sciences Foundation and will discuss issues like financing entrepreneurship and launching innovative projects through Business Angels support. The range [...]
Nk.pl is the largest Polish social networking site used by 13 million users. It all started 5 years ago when the company was run by four students from Wrocław. Now NK intends to share accumulated know-how and invest in new start-ups. A good idea, focused and skilled team, niche on the market – these factors [...]
Filip Głowacz, ‘Beermaster’ of Startup Weekend Wroclaw, tells you how to make your own SWWro Piwo. Just follow his making process: Ingredients I chose a set of grains of India Pale Ale (IPA) type of beer to make Startup Weekend Wroclaw beverage. The set consists in: - 4 kg of Pale Ale Weyerman malt - [...]
There must be good reasons to explain why over 21.000 entrepreneurs chose different Startup Weekends during 2011 to transform their ideas into reality, sharing the “more than worth to attend” conclusion at the end of the meeting. At Startup Weekend Wroclaw we believe that the following are our reasons to make people attend a one [...]
After selling every Early Bird ticket for Startup Weekend Wroclaw in less than a week, which confirms the massive demand around the event, the rest of the tickets are already available to purchase. Developers, designers and non-technical people will have a new chance to secure their attendance on Startup Weekend Wroclaw by booking their tickets through [...]
‘Piwo’ is one of the first words every expat living in Poland learns. Indeed, beer fights vodka for the title of ‘Poland’s favorite drink’. In fact, a graphic from CNBC situated Poland as world’s 18th country in beer consumption per capita. So deeply rooted tradition couldn’t be ignored by Startup Weekend Wroclaw… Thanks to ‘Beermaster’ [...]
Could there be a better beginning for your startup project than to be born in a UNESCO World Heritage Site? If you have ever dreamt about it, make it come true at Startup Weekend Wroclaw on 25th-27th May at the Regional Center for Business Tourism. Regional Center for Business Tourism Located in Hala Stulecia, a [...]
The most brilliant entrepreneurs, creative web designers and efficient software developers will have the opportunity to team up their talents during the celebration of Startup Weekend Wroclaw this May. What is Startup Weekend? A 54-hour event where youngsters with background in the mentioned skills –business management, web design, software development– come together with the purpose [...]
Startup Weekend events offer participants access to a variety of resources to help get you started! Before is a breakdown of the different resources that are made available during your event! Google is teaming up with Startup Weekend to help developers and entrepreneurs launch new startups by working with Startup Weekend to launch a series of pre-event Bootcamps! For [...]
Startup Weekends are 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups! Startup Weekends are weekend-long, hands-on experiences where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable. On average, half of Startup Weekend’s attendees have technical backgrounds, [...]
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