28 February Olivia Business Center in Gdańsk will host a free seminar organized by Flex, during which representatives of brands such as Flex, Cisco, Microsoft, RNT, ICANN, Sevenet, Pivotal and Kontakt.io will talk about how IoT and innovative solutions will change today’s business and our everyday lives.

Do you know that you are participating in a revolution? Soon, all devices in the world will be “smart” by communicating with each other.

We are living in another turning point in the development of our civilization—a revolution of such speed, scale, and power that it is permanently changing the face of industry
and business. It will change the way we live, work, learn, do business, interact socially and even behave.

By 2020, 50 billion devices will be directly connected to each other, creating vibrant communities and improving communication, and the economic value generated by the Internet of Things market in 2025 will be $11 trillion.

This new era requires rethinking and redesigning the goods, products, services and processes that surround us. Those who survive will be the ones who innovate together, design and build products that integrate with intelligent systems.

What can you expect from the seminar?

• You will learn how IoT creates new business models and changes business and our lives
• You will learn case studies of large corporations and successful startups
• Inspiration and interesting business contacts

The partners of the seminar are the American Chamber of Commerce, Invest in Pomerania, Olivia Business Center and Business Center Club. The media patron is the industry portal evertiq.pl.

Registration for the event is free of charge through the Evenea portal. The organizers warn that the number of places is limited, and the order of applications does not determine whether you will receive a ticket for the event.

Agenda:

9:30 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10.10 Welcome by the organizer and partners

10:10 – 10:50 Stanisław Motylski, Flex

10:50 – 11:30 Konrad Napieralski, Cisco System

11.30 – 12.10 Michał Furmankiewicz, Microsoft and Sebastian Sokół, RNT

12.10 – 12.30 Gabriella Schittek, ICANN and the Ministry of Digital Affairs

12.30 – 13.00 Coffee break

13.00 – 13.20 Paweł Maziarz, Sevenet

13.20 – 13.40 Michał Skorupowski, Pivotal

13.40 – 14.00 Szymon Niemczura, Kontakt.io

14:00 Lunch and networking

Speakers:

Stanisław Motylski, Program Management and Business Development Director, Flex

Stanisław Motylski has been associated with Flex since 2002. He is part of the management team of the Polish branch of the corporation, which generates an annual turnover of USD 1 billion. Currently, he manages teams of program managers, business development managers, business development specialists, and the marketing and communication department. He is responsible for creating the company’s operational strategy and planning
and sales optimization.

During his career at Flex, Stanisław Motylski got to know many areas of the company, having previously held the following positions: Test Engineer, Quality Engeener, as well as Project and Program Manager.

Stanisław Motylski is a Six Sigma Green Belt coach. He completed an Executive MBA at the Gdańsk Foundation for Management Development, validated by the AIX-Marseille Graduate School of Management, as well as postgraduate studies in “International Business” at the University of Gdańsk. He holds a master’s degree in high-frequency electronics from the Gdańsk University of Technology.

Konrad Napieralski, Senior Business Development Manager, IoT Business Unit Cisco

He has been with Cisco since 2006. During this period, he was responsible for sales in the telecommunications operator sector and for the development of managed services
and XaaS in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Russia, as well as for the development of the IoT market in Poland. Currently, he is a Senior Business Development Manager in Cisco’s IoT Business Unit. He works with Cisco’s largest customers in the EMEAR region to technologically evolve their infrastructure and IT organization in line with strategic commercial goals. It implements, among others, projects in the following industries: energy, transport, industrial production.

For over 20 years in the ICT industry. For many years he worked with the largest telecommunications operators in Poland as a product director. A graduate of Physics at the Lodz University of Technology, he gained additional education at University College London, the Warsaw School of Economics and IESE Business School.

Michał Furmankiewicz, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft

Michał Furmankiewicz, currently works at Microsoft as a Cloud Solutions Architect. He has spent the last 9 years working as a productivity consultant
and then an architect for the financial sector, working m.in. with clients such as ING Bank, Millennium Bank, PKO BP and mBank. During his career, he was also responsible for some of the largest private cloud projects in Central and Eastern Europe. Michał is passionate about new technologies and their use in business. He sees the cloud as a tool that can help transform the company. In her free time, she willingly shares her knowledge with others by appearing at conferences, group meetings or through blog entries, and also builds her own solutions, e.g. a system for monitoring bees.

Sebastian Sokół, Founder and CEO, RNT

Engineer and entrepreneur in the field of modern technologies. Founder and CEO of RNT, a company specializing in
in IT solutions for industry and developing a MOLOS.cloud project, including solutions in the area of IoT
and software designed to acquire, present and analyze data from all industrial processes.
His portfolio also includes the GARMORY online game studio, and in the past BSIPG, a company offering 3D design services and BIM solutions for heavy industry. In his spare time, he is a motorsport enthusiast and racing driver.

Gabriella Schittek, Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Central & Eastern Europe, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Gabriella Schittek joined the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in January 2007. Previously, she worked for the Council of European Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) and Nominet – the .uk registry. She led ICANN’s country code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) for many years before moving into her current role as Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager for Central and Eastern Europe. In this role, she is responsible for liaising and collaborating with all ICANN stakeholders in the region, including business, government, the private, technical and academic sectors.

Michał Skorupowski, Sales Director, Pivotal

For most of his professional life he has been associated with the IT industry. In his career, he has progressed from the position of a sales representative, business analyst and systems consultant (ERP, CRM, BPM, ECM), a consultant in the field of design and implementation of CRM applications and a sales support specialist to the position of sales director. Currently, he is responsible for sales and business development at Pivotal Polska. He has had the opportunity to work with many companies on the Polish market, both from the financial and B2B sectors, including m.in: Medicover, Luxmed, Getin Bank, BGŻ BNP Paribas, Union Investment TFI, Credit Agricole, Toyota Bank, Mercedes Bank, BZ WBK, TIM, Wielton, Strauss Cafe, Wielton. He specializes in process optimization in accordance with the Lean Six Sigma and TOC methodologies. He is an inspirational speaker and has extensive experience in giving business presentations. In addition to his interests closely related to his professional work (in particular web applications), he is a passionate traveler. Its belts have always been: mountaineering, skiing, windsurfing and sea sailing. Recently, he has also been a golf enthusiast.

Szymon Niemczura, Co-Founder and CEO at Kontakt.io

Founder and helm of one of the most important startups creating solutions based on Bluetooth Low Energy in the world. Beacons Kontakt.io help to build personalized experiences based on geolocation as many as 17,000 people. customers in 120 countries around the world. Szymon is a declared advocate of the idea of the Internet of Things, associated with
with new technologies since 2009. Graduate in Economics
and finance at the University of Business in Nowy Sącz.
After hours, a happy father and glider pilot.

Paweł Maziarz, IT Security Architect, Sevenet S.A.

Paweł Maziarz – as an expert and architect of security systems, he has been gaining experience for the last 15 years, initially as an administrator of networks and Unix/Linux systems, then as a programmer, and later as a member of the Red Team. Over the last few years, he has been conducting advanced simulations of APT attacks on both IT and OT infrastructure, creating publicly unavailable software simulating complex malware, bypassing antivirus, IPS, IDS and other next-generation firewall protections. It also specializes in social engineering attacks and physical security (proximity cards, access control systems, etc.).