Panelists

Iga Bałos earned her PhD in Law in 2015. Her theses concerned arbitration in patent disputes. She is and Assistant Professor at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University where she teaches Entertainment Law, Patent Law and Private International Law and also serves as an expert on the ethical use of AI tools in the research and teaching process. Iga is a national expert in a project commissioned by the Observatory of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights across EU member states. She is a member of the team working on developing and launching of the ENOIK Arbitration Court, the first arbitration court of such kind in Europe supported by AI tools. She is an author of several publications on IP rights and Artificial Intelligence. As a practitioner, she provides legal assistance to Polish Screenwriters’ Guild and the Filmmakers’ Union.

Anna Bałdyga is Doctor of Economics, manager of educational business projects and local government officer. She has been elected three times as a member of the Council of District I Stare Miasto (in 2014) and the Council of District III Prądnik Czerwony (in 2018 and 2023).

She completed her Master's degree at the Jagiellonian University and in 2016 she defended her PhD in economic sciences with distinction at the Cracow University of Economics. She specialises in energy security and factors of development and competitiveness of economies.

Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič is the founder and head of the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute, ODIPI. She has also been the head of the Institute for Intellectual Property since its establishment in 2004.

Maja is an Associate Research Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. She co-chaired the Data Governance Working Group of The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) in 2020-2023. She is also a board member of Communia, an organisation committed to expanding the public domain and access to and re-use of culture and knowledge, and has been the representative and legal lead of Creative Commons Slovenia since 2004.

Maja is a copyright expert; her recent work focuses on open science, open data, data governance and artificial intelligence, as well as open science issues and the legal framework of copyright and data for research and science. Maja is the National Coordinator for Slovenia and the Regional Coordinator for the 6 Western Balkan countries of the Knowledge Rights 21 project. Maja has been appointed by the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation as the ERA (European Research Area) Action 2 promoter for Slovenia; ERA 2 actions focus on the impact of copyright and data regulation on research and innovation.

Maja graduated from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana (1996), obtained her LL.M. from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana (1999, Economics), Harvard Law School (2000, Law) and Facoltà di Giurisprudenza di Torino (2005, Intellectual Property), and her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana (2006, Copyright).

Dr Natalie Byrom is a researcher and policy adviser with expertise in justice system reform, AI, data-driven technologies and justice data governance. She has a track record of leading high-quality research and translating this into policy impact. Between 2018 and 2020 Dr Byrom was seconded to the UK Ministry of Justice as expert adviser on data in the context of an ongoing £1bn programme of digital court reform. She has also completed projects for the OECD and the Law Society of England and Wales on justice data and AI.


Dr Byrom has given evidence to a number of parliamentary committees including the Justice Select Committee and the House of Lords Constitution Committee on issues relating to justice system reform, data collection and governance. Her writing on these issues has been published in the legal and national press. She is part of the BBC Expert Women Network, holds several public appointments, and is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL Faculty of Laws

Konrad Ciesiołkiewicz - president of the Orange Foundation in Poland specialises in information, media and digital education of children and youth. Chairman of the Social Dialogue Committee of the Polish Chamber of Commerce. Laureate of the Korczak Prize 2023. Psychologist, political scientist, PhD in social sciences. He heads the Center for Information Society Analysis at the Korczak University.

Wojciech Ciszewski – PhD (2016) and habilitation (2020) in legal sciences; assistant professor at the Jagiellonian University (Department of Legal Theory, Faculty of Law and Administration). His main research interests include different topics in legal and political philosophy, in particular issues of justice, democratic theory, and contemporary bioethics. He published in Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, American Journal of Bioethics, and Journal of Law and Biosciences.

Chair of the board and head of policy and advocacy at the Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation, sociologist, researcher, project manager interested in the impact of technology and copyright on culture, education and access to knowledge.

Zofia Dzik, Innovator, strategic thinker, CEO of the Humanites Institute – Human and Technology

Experienced C-Level manager, pioneer of the fintech market in the direct area in CEE (including CEO of TU Link4 S.A.). Long-term member of supervisory boards of listed companies (including CCC S.A., InPost S.A., PKOBP S.A., PKP CARGO S.A., Generali PTE S.A., Arctic Paper S.A., AmRest CE,) Member of the Board of Experts of the Forum of Supervisory Boards at the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the Association of Independent Members of Supervisory Boards .

Founder of the Humanites Institute, a think&Do tank for the development of Coherent Leadership™ and social capital, systemically combining the topics of People and Technology. Founder and chairwoman of the board of the international Center for Ethics in Technology.

Member of the Scientific Council of IDEAS NCBR - a Polish research and development center operating in the field of artificial intelligence and digital economy, and member of the Social Council of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

Lecturer, impact investor, mentor of start-ups (including MIT), juror (including the Orły Rzeczpospolita Chapter). Author of the following models: "Coherent Leadership™", the "Village" Model of Social Ecosystem Development™, "The Loop - Nonlinear Model of Long-Term Social Development".

In the TOP 10 of the Forbes Women Ranking - "Leaders of Sustainable Development 2022", winner of the Forbes Polska "Responsible Capital" title for 2023 and the "For the Common Good" award of the President of the Republic of Poland. Founder of the Humanites Social Investors Impact Circle, a community of entrepreneurs that financially supports projects with social impact. Author of the annual conferences (since 2010) "Coherent Leadership. Human&Technology". Founder of the Leadership Academy for Educational Leaders - the first program in Poland for shaping key competencies through the development of leadership in education (> 700 graduates, school principals from all over Poland; social impact approx. 1, 5 million children and youth). Initiator of the Global Social Movement Two Hours for Family/For Man to bring people together and counteract loneliness and change the culture of work and life (participation of employers from 59 countries).

Privately: wife, mother of three children, who likes hiking in the deserts of the world.

Policy Manager at Michael Culture Association: After studying European Literature in Bologna and European Affairs at SciencesPo Paris, Marco specialised in advocacy for the European cultural sector, especially in the cultural heritage and digital sphere. Raising awareness on critical issues for the sector and creating building dialogue are at the core of his actions. He cares about intersectional climate action through the lens of culture, ethical digital transformation and culture as a catalyst for societal change.

He is a lawyer and political scientist by education, and holds the professional title of attorney-at-law. For over a dozen years, he has been dealing with the law of new technologies, copyright, data issues, operations of digital platforms, and recently also the topic of artificial intelligence. He has been associated with the personal data area at Allegro for 4 years, where he works as a Data Protection Expert.

Marco is a Research Professor at the Private and Economic Law Department (PREC) and Co-Director of the Research Group on Digitalisation and Access to Justice (DIKE) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He has been involved in several collaborative research projects (co-) funded by the European Union. His work analyses the transformations of law in the field of Access to Justice with a special focus on the fields of Private International Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), consumers law and the application of economic principles into the field of law. His research combines approaches from legal theory, empirical and multidisciplinary studies. 

PhD in Law. Researcher at the Department of Intellectual Property Law at the Jagiellonian University. Legal advisor to the Board of the Jagiellonian Center of Innovation. Intellectual property expert at Centrum Cyfrowe. Lecturer at the H. Grotius Center for Intellectual Property Rights. He collaborates with the Kalecki Foundation. He completed doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and post-graduate studies in company law at the Warsaw School of Economics. He holds an LL. M. of the University of Turin in the field of intellectual property law. A graduate of the Top500 Innovators program at Stanford University on management and commercialization of scientific research. Laureate of the 2010 Minister of Science and Higher Education award for best master's thesis organized by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland. Author of “All rights reserved. The history of disputes over copyright. 1469 – 1928”. Co-author of the commentary to the Industrial Property Law Act (2016) and the Copyright and Related Law Act (2019).

Wayne Holmes (PhD, University of Oxford) is Professor of Critical Studies of Artificial Intelligence and Education at University College London (UK) and a Senior Researcher for IRCAI (the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO). His research takes a critical studies perspective to teaching and learning with and about Artificial Intelligence (AI&ED), and their ethical, human rights, and social justice implications. Wayne is leading the Council of Europe’s AI&ED expert group, which is developing legislation to protect the human rights of students and teachers engaging with AI-enabled systems, and for which he co-wrote ‘Artificial Intelligence and Education. A critical view through the Lens of Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law’. He is also Consultant for UNESCO, for which he co-wrote ‘AI and Education: Guidance for Policy-makers’ and ‘Guidance for Generative AI in Education and Research’, and an AI&ED expert for the United Nations. Wayne has also co-written ‘Artificial Intelligence in Education. Promise and Implications for Teaching and Learning’ (Holmes et al., 2019), ‘Citizens Interacting with AI Systems’ (for the EU JRC, Vuorikari and Holmes, 2022), ‘State of the Art and Practice in AI in Education’ (Holmes and Tuomi, 2022), and ‘The Ethics of AI in Education. Practices, Challenges and Debates’ (Holmes and Porayska-Pomsta, Eds, 2022). He has given invited keynotes about AI&ED in countries around the world.

Dawid Juszka is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Electronics and Telecommunications at AGH University of Krakow and an attoney-at-law. He graduated with two degrees - Electronics and Telecommunications at AGH University of Krakow, and Law at Jagiellonian University. He received two PhDs in 2019 - the first in technical sciences (ICT) at AGH University of Krakow and the second in law (legal theory) at Jagiellonian University. He is researching Quality of Experience for video services and applications of AI methods in law. He has extensive international teaching experience - he has lectured at universities in Italy (Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Università degli Studi di Palermo), Spain (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), Portugal (Instituto Politecnico do Porto) or Turkey (Akdeniz University).

Paul Keller (1974) is co-founder and Director of Policy at Open Future and President of the COMMUNIA Association for the Public Domain. Paul has over 20 years of experience as a media activist, open policy advocate, and systems architect for improving access to knowledge and culture. A political scientist by training, Paul has a deep understanding of the digital transformation’s political, social and legal implications. Prior to founding Open Future Paul was co-director of Kennisland, an Amsterdam-based think-tank working on issues related to the knowledge economy.

Paul is a research fellow at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam and sits on the advisory boards of the Glushko & Samuelson Information Law and Policy Lab and the Europeana Foundation and on the board of Public Spaces, a coalition of Dutch civil society organizations working on public digital infrastructures.

Karol Kościński is an attorney at law. Since February 2022 he works as the Deputy CEO and Chief International Officer of ZAiKS – the biggest collective management organization in Central Eastern Europe. He is responsible for areas of licensing, collection of revenues and international relations.
Between 2012 – 2018, he was responsible for preparation of domestic legislation in field of copyright and media law in Poland, acting as the Director of the Department of Intellectual Property and Media in the Polish Ministry of Culture. He coordinated preparation of various implementations of the EU law (e.g., seven directives in the field of copyright, directive on collective management of copyright, the directive on audiovisual media services, communication of the EU Commission on the public media remit). He also represented Poland in the negotiations of copyright and media law within the EU Council, acted as the Vice-Chair of Standing Committee of Copyright and Related Rights in WIPO and supervised public film institutions.
In last six years he has taken part in several technical assistance projects, mostly but not only regarding the implementation of international IPR standards under umbrella of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the US Department of Trade, and the United Nations Development Programme in Montenegro, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Serbia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bhutan, Southern Korea, Moldova and Azerbaijan. He also constantly cooperates with the European Audiovisual Observatory.

Pamela, the Director of Research and Innovation Department at the Ministry of Digital Affairs in Poland, leads Poland's strategic efforts in responsible digitalization within the AI and emerging technology landscape. Her department focuses extensively on legislative aspects related to technologies such as AI, IoT, and HPC such as AI Act Implementation. They actively collaborate to integrate these technologies into projects targeting public administration and society at large. An integral component of their mission involves facilitating comprehensive educational initiatives concerning new technologies, catering to entrepreneurs, public servants, and non-governmental organizations.

Prior to her current role, Pamela served as an AI Architect at Microsoft, where she played a pivotal role in steering flagship projects for enterprise clients in Poland. This experience has equipped her with profound expertise in AI technology and its multifaceted applications. Her proficiency spans across various domains, including MLOps, ML model development, and the nuanced considerations surrounding generative models. Pamela diligently addresses the implementation, ethical implications, and societal impacts of these technologies.

Furthermore, Pamela generously shares her wealth of knowledge through her role as a lecturer at both Koźmiński University and Warsaw University of Technology, contributing to the broader dissemination of insights and expertise in the field.

Robert Kroplewski is a legal adviser, a long-term practice of technological convergence and a specialist in the field of new technologies law and their transfer, electronic media and social communication services.
Founder and owner of kroplewski.com law firm and its Stewardship AI Laboratory. Vice director of Strategy and Development Unit in State Foundation of Future Industry Platform. Former Plenipotentiary of Minister of Digital Affairs for Information Society.
His practice was born out of the connection of three passions to creativity, technology and law. Since 1994 he constantly advises taking into consideration the experience of the transformation process of the system, the economy and the market and understanding human position versus information revolution.
Since June 2018, he has been a member of the high-level expert group on AI Strategy for the European Commission (AIHLEG), and since November 2018 he has been nominated by OCED also as an AI expert in the AIGO group. He also was co-author, as a member of AHEG, of first UNENESC’s Recommendations of Ethics for AI. Additionally in Octobre 2019 he was nominated as a member to CAHA and CAI in Council of Europe the expert group for drafting first AI Framework Convection. He was a main negotiator with the mandate of the Polish government in drafting and negotiating the AI Act. He is a member of the Data And Artificial Review Board in NATO. He is a member of the network of experts without borders for UNESCO’s Recommendations of Ethics for AI. He is a co-chair at Innovations and Commercialization Working Group at Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). He is a member of the network expert group

Bartek Kucharzyk holds a PhD in law and a MA in psychology. His research interests include law of evidence, law & cognitive science and empirical legal research. As a former CEO of the Copernicus Festival he also takes care of FLL’s activities outside the Academia.

Bartek specialises in the philosophy of law from an interdisciplinary perspective. He also has extensive experience in conducting research projects funded by the National Science Centre, Erasmus+ or the National Agency for Academic Exchange. He is co-director of the Future Law Lab and spiritus movens of the whole Lab.

Habilitated doctor (PhD habilit.), LL.M. (Heidelberg); former research postdoc visitor at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge; WIPO expert and active member of international scientific associations (ALAI, EPIP, ATRIP). Head of the Future Law Lab.

Awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science (2016), Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2018-2020), Polish Patent Office (2016). PI of several research projects funded by the Polish National Science Center (2012, 2017), DAAD (2012-2013), Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2017).

PhD, attorney-at-law, managing partner at Lubasz i Wspólnicy – Law Firm. Expert of the European Data Protection Board, legislative expert of the Chamber of Electronic Economy on e-commerce and data protection. Member of the Working Group on AI at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and Scientific Council of the Center for Personal Data Protection and Information Management at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Łódź. Recognized in The Legal500 EMEA as "Leading Individual" in Data Privacy and Data Protection, in Chambers and Partners Europe in the TMT: Data Protection and recommended by Who's Who Legal as a Global Leader in the sector "Data - Data Privacy & Protection" in Poland.

assistant professor, Ph.D. holder from JU, has excelled in international project leadership, particularly in film and creative industries. From 2006 to 2014, she managed the Cinema Development Foundation, overseeing digitalization projects like the Malopolska Network of Digital Cinemas. Affiliated with Jagiellonian University's Department of Management, Media Economics, and Advertising since 2016, Marta co-authored and managed the "ErasmusXR" project (2020–2023), recognized as 'good practice' by the National Agency of the Erasmus+ program.
Since 2020, she has contributed to developing the EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community for creative sectors within University Alliance Una Europa. During EIT Culture & Creativity's startup phase (2022–2023), she served as Interim Education Director. Marta actively participates in Horizon Europe projects like PACESETTERS and IMPULSE. She is a guest researcher at Lusofona University in the CRESCINE project, focusing on enhancing the international competitiveness of small European film markets. As Chairwoman of the Working Group for National Smart Specialization - Creative Industries at the Polish Ministry of Development and Technology, she shapes policies in the creative sector.

Maciej Maryl, Ph.D., assistant professor and the founding Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CHC IBL PAN). He cooperates with OPERAS as Executive Assembly member and the leader of OPERAS Innovation Lab. He chairs ALLEA E-humanities Working Group, and co-chairs DARIAH Digital Methods and Practices Observatory. He participates in committees important for digital humanities infrastructures as a member of SSH Open Cluster Governing Board, DARIAH-PL Steering Board, Polish Science Contact Agency (PolSCA) Advisory Board, and Digital Repository Ireland Advisory Board.

Karolina Mojzesowicz is the Deputy Head of Unit of the unit responsible for data protection at the European Commission (DG Justice and Consumers). She represented the Commission in the interinstitutional negotiations with Parliament and Council on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). She is now responsible for its implementation in the EU and for the streamlining and ensuring coherence of provisions concerning processing of personal data in all legislation within the EU’s Digital Strategy. Mrs Mojzesowicz previously served for over 10 years as a member of the European Commission's Legal Service, focusing on EU Competition law and International Trade law. In that capacity, she represented the Commission in over 80 cases before the European Courts and before the WTO panels and Appellate Body. Mrs Mojzesowicz studied law in Poland, the Netherlands and Germany, where she obtained her PhD in 2001.

He is a Public Policy and Government Relations Manager for the CEE region at Google.
Prior to his current role he was a civil servant within the Polish public administration, most recently at the Ministry of Digital Affairs, where he headed the team working on Internet-related issues – spanning from personal data protection and security to video-on-demand services. As an expert on digital economy regulatory issues, he is a member of supervisory boards of several Polish business associations.
Marcin graduated from the National School of Public Administration and he holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Warsaw.

Przemysław Pałka is an assistant professor of law at Jagiellonian University and an affiliated fellow at Yale’s Information Society Project. His research concerns the intersections of law, technology, and psychology. In particular, he studies the intersections of economic law, data law, artificial intelligence, and online platforms. Currently he’s the PI in the “Consumer Law and Attention Economy” project, devoted to mapping and surveying solutions to the mental health problems users encounter online. He holds a PhD (’17) and an LLM (’14) from the European University Institute in Florence and a master's in law (’13) from the University of Warsaw. Before joining Jagiellonian, he worked at Yale Law School (2018-2020) and the EUI (2016-2018). More information at: https://przemyslaw.technology/about/

PhD, DSc, Associate Professor at Artificial Intelligence Department, Wrocław University of Science and Technology CLARIN-PL Coordinator, works in the fields of natural language processing, computational linguistics, lexicography, and digital humanities. He is one of the co-founders of CLARIN-PL, the Polish part of the European language technology research infrastructure CLARIN ERIC. From 2018 to 2022, he served two terms as chairman of the National Coordinators Forum of CLARIN ERIC. CLARIN-PL supports researchers with language resources, tools, and computational infrastructure, and also promotes open science in Poland from its very beginning. He is also a coordinator of the PLLuM project – Polish Large Language Model, aimed at developing a family of open LLMs for Polish and a virtual assistant for users of public institutions. PLLuM is built transparently in cooperation with many publishers, and on new sets of instructions focused on the Polish language.
Since 2005, Maciej Piasecki has been a leader of the plWordNet project a large relational semantic dictionary of the Polish language also mapped onto Princeton WordNet for English. He is a member of the Global WordNet Association Board and the chair of the Computational and Corpus Linguistics Board at the Committee of Linguistics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2024). He has coordinated and managed the work of many large research, R&D, and infrastructure projects, including CLARIN-PL-Biz - one of the largest projects in the development of AI in Poland. He is a co-author of many open language resources and tools, especially for the Polish language, and numerous research publications.

Sociologist and cultural scientist who holds a PhD in the humanities. He specialises in the socio-cultural aspects of new technologies, data activism, and research methods. He works as an assistant professor at the Department of Culture and Media at SWPS University in Warsaw and leads the SpołTech (SocTech) program at Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation.
In 2022, he published a book titled "Excluding Technologies. Measurement, Data, Algorithms," in which he examines the sources of bias in new technologies and proposes solutions to overcome them.

Henry Prakken is a professor of artificial intelligence and law at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Prakken has master degrees in law (1985) and philosophy (1988) from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. In 1993 he obtained his PhD degree (cum laude) at the Free University Amsterdam with a thesis titled Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument.

Prakken's main research interests concern artificial intelligence & law and computational models of argumentation. Prakken is a past president of the International Association for AI & Law (IAAIL), of the Foundation for Legal Knowledge-Based Systems (JURIX) and of the steering committee of the COMMA conferences on Computational Models of Argument. He is on the editorial board of several journals, including Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Dr Mia Ridge is the British Library’s Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections. Part of the Digital Research team, she provides advice and training on computational research, AI / machine learning and crowdsourcing. A Co-Investigator on Living with Machines (2018-23), she co-curated the Living with Machines exhibition with Leeds Museums and Galleries (2022-23).

Daniel leads Google News Lab in Central & Eastern Europe, a part of a global team at Google that helps journalists fight misinformation and thrive in the digital infosphere. He joined Google in 2022, after working for over a dozen years in a range of editorial and leadership roles in European newsrooms. He studied at the University of Warsaw and holds an MA in financial journalism from City, University of London. He also graduated from the Council of Europe's Visegrad School of Political Studies as well as a number of journalism fellowships around the world.

Dr Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga is an adjunct professor at the Institute of Spatial Development and Urban Studies (UNESCO Chair in Heritage and Urban Studies) at the University of Economics in Krakow, a consultant at the Center for Culture Statistics at the Statistical Office in Krakow, and Deputy Head of the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub for Central and Eastern Europe. She is a graduate of the University of Economics, where in 2017 she defended her doctoral dissertation on the role of culture in urban development, based on the case study of the competition for the title of the European Capital of Culture 2016 in Poland. She has experience in working in public administration (Department of European Affairs at the Ministry of Culture), the cultural sector (Institute of European Heritage in the International Cultural Center in Krakow) and cooperation with the non-governmental sector (as the Polish coordinator of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures). She conducts research on the socio-economic potential of culture in urban development, the use of cultural heritage in innovation and diplomacy processes, the impact of mega-events on historic cities and the historic cities’ resilience as well as creative sectors and the contemporary challenges they are facing. She is an author and editor of publications on the role of culture in local development, cultural policy, European Capitals of Culture and intercultural dialogue. She is part of the UN-Habitat UNI MetroHub Consortium on Heritage and Metropolis (Heritopolis) and a member of the Working Group on National Intelligent Specializations 12 – Creative Industries at the Ministry of Development and Technology.

Ida Schrøder, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, working on the VELUX FOUNDATIONS-funded project, Algorithms, Data, and Democracy. Her current ethnographic research explores the impact of generative AI on governance structures within Danish universities. Broadly, her research focuses on the organizational and societal transformations prompted by new technologies in various sectors, including education, social services, and child welfare. She holds a Ph.D. from Copenhagen Business School and was, prior to her postdoc position, associate professor at the University College Copenhagen, Department of Social Work.

I am a doctor of law with "habilitation", assistant professor at the Department of Criminal Law and head of the Department of Bioethics and Medical Law of the Jagiellonian University.
I obtained the PhD degree in law on June 18, 2012 on the basis of a doctoral dissertation entitled "Criminal liability for improper treatment in the light of file research", prepared under the supervision of prof. dr hab. Włodzimierz Wróbel. I obtained the "habilitation" degree in law on June 20, 2022 on the basis of a book entiteled "Preventive deprivation of liberty".

In 2010, I completed my judicial training and passed the judge's exam. In the same year, I completed postgraduate studies in "Copyright, publishing and press law" at the Jagiellonian University. In 2016-2021, I conducted a research project entitled Preventive deprivation of liberty and human rights funded by the Polish National Science Center.

Technology entrepreneur, investor, manager and advisor. A graduate of computer science at the University of Warsaw. Enthusiast of transformative potential of digital technologies, with over three decades of experience in leveraging technology for business innovations.
In the years 1992-2015, co-founder and long-term president of the management board of the Infovide-Matrix group, then one of the largest IT consulting companies on the Polish market. Since 2016, a partner of RETHINK, specialising in supporting digital transformations ofenterprises and public institutions, and an investor in the areas of artificial intelligence androbotics, supporting product development, R&D, and strategic marketing.
Expert of the international think tanks Cutter Consortium, and Global Partnership for AI
(GPAI - www.gpai.ai). Responsible for development of GPAI responsible AI engineering framework.

Member of AI Working group supporting Ministry of Digitization engaged in AI policy, leader of Disruptive Tech committee of Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunication.

A lover of music, the Suwałki region, Czech Republic, skiing, diving, boating and all forms of
chilling out with his loved ones. Happily married for over 35 years, father of three,
grandfather of 5.

Katarzyna Szymielewicz is a lawyer, activist, publicist. Co-founder and 
President of the Panoptykon Foundation, the only NGO in Poland tackling 
the problems related to human rights and new technologies. 
Vice-president of European Digital Rights in 2012-2020, member of the 
Council for Digital Affairs advising Polish government and Ashoka - an 
international network of social entrepreneurs. She published, among 
others, in The Guardian, Polityka, Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik Gazeta 
Prawna and Pismo magazine. Since 2019 the hostess of Panoptykon 4.0 podcast.

Head of the Department of Technological Transformation at the Faculty of Economic
Sciences, University of Warsaw.

Member of Readie, an international scientific centre for digital economy researchers, the Polish Economic Institute, the Expert Team of the FOB Responsible Leadership Council, former member of the Council for Digital Affairs at the Ministry of Digitalisation.


She is the Managing Director at Digital Economy Lab at the University of Warsaw and
coordinates the Smart Economy & Innovation programme, which examines the impact of
digitalisation of Polish enterprises and digital competences of Poles on the economy. She
also manages international projects (including NGI Forward and Horizon 2020).

Her research interests focus on digital aspects of economy and Digital Single Market. She
lectures on the theory of economic integration and regional blocks, digital economy, and
analysis of macroeconomic phenomena using empirical methods.

Author of numerous reports and expert opinions in the field of digitalisation, co-author of the
book “Digital Industry. How New Technologies Change the World” (WUW 2020), author of
numerous publications in national and international specialist journals, scientific monographs
and academic textbooks.


She has extensive experience in both management and training.


She is a Certified NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner, internationally certified by IANLP
and IN, and has completed MBA courses, certified courses in Transforming Communication,
Fundamental Coaching Skills and Coaching Single Session Change.
In her academic work and training practice, she focuses on the digital transformation of
companies and public institutions, paying particular attention to the changes in work and
organisational culture that result from the introduction of solutions based on artificial
intelligence.

However, her interests and expertise extend beyond digital transformation to include the
challenges in organisational management arising from changes in organisational culture,
neurodiversity, and adapting to the specific characteristics of Generation Z entering the
labour market.

This holistic perspective allows her to deeply understand and effectively manage today's
organisations in the face of continuous and complex social and demographic change.

She is currently developing training programs within the Digital Empowerment Institute.

Alek is the Director of Strategy at Open Future. He has over 15 years of experience with public interest advocacy, movement building and research into the intersection of society, culture and digital technologies. He is a sociologist by training and holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the Polish Academy of Science.

In 2010 he established Centrum Cyfrowe, one of the leading Polish organisations promoting openness and internet users’ rights. He led Centrum Cyfrowe for ten years as the Director and President of the Board. Before founding Centrum Cyfrowe, he was a strategic advisor to the Prime Minister of Poland.

In 2005, he co-founded Creative Commons Poland and had since then been an active member of the Creative Commons network. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Creative Commons organisation.

He is a member of the advisory board of the Inspiring Girls Polska foundation. He is also one of the co-founders of COMMUNIA, the European Association for the Public Domain. Together with other COMMUNIA members, he’s been involved since 2015 in European copyright reform advocacy, related to the European Copyright Directive legislative process. As a member of the Board of Strategic Advisors to the Prime Minister of Poland (2008-2011), he co-authored the strategic report “Poland 2030” (2009) and the Polish official long-term strategy for growth.

He is an alumnus of the Leadership Academy for Poland (class of 2017) and former Junior Fellow at McLuhan Program on Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.

Karolina Wilamowska – attorney, patent attorney trainee, mediator at the Mediation Center of the National Chamber of Commerce, where she leads the New Technologies in Mediation team, trainer, lecturer, mentor at the Women in Law Foundation, and Partnership Director at Singularity University Chapter Cracow. Her professional interests include new technology law, industrial property law, data protection, compliance, and mediation. She is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Current Challenges Section of the Polish Information Processing Society and an expert in the Artificial Intelligence Working Group at the Ministry of Digital Affairs. She is also a speaker at Polish and international conferences. She was recognized on the list of the 25 best business lawyers by Forbes Women in 2022 and awarded the "Attorney of the Year 2023" by the National Bar Council.

Wojciech Wiewiórowski is the European Data Protection Supervisor.
He was appointed by a joint decision of the European Parliament and the Council on 5 December 2019 for a term of five years.
Before his appointment, he served as Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor from 2014 to 2019 and as Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data at the Polish Data Protection Authority, a position which he had held since 2010. He was also Vice Chair of the Working Party Article 29 Group.

President of the Office for Personal Data Protection, legal advisor, director of the Constitutional, International and European Law Team at the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights (since 2007). Chairman of the Human Rights Commission at the National Council of Legal Advisors. He specializes in human rights protection, in particular privacy protection, personal data protection, constitutional law, European Union law and some aspects of modern technology law.
He is the author or editor of 75 articles, monographic works, commentaries and other legal scientific publications. From 2012 to 2017, he was a member of the management board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights based in Vienna. In 2019-2022, member of the management board of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (ENNHRI) based in Brussels, elected for a second term from April 2022. He is a certified trainer/tutor of the Council of Europe's HELP program. He was and is an expert in international research projects on the application of law.
In December 2020, he was included in the list of 100 people who contributed in particular to the development of digital skills in a competition organized by the Wide Agreement for the Development of Digital Skills.
He is a founding member of the nationwide Scientific Council of the Virtual Department of Law and Ethics dealing with the development of artificial intelligence. He was an expert preparing the assumptions of the "Artificial Intelligence Development Policy in Poland for 2019-2027". He is a co-author of the opinion prepared for the European Parliament by the AI ​​LAW TECH Foundation regarding the draft Act on Artificial Intelligence of the European Union.