Speakers

Jakub Czerwiński is the VP CEE of the global payment provider Adyen. Having strong background in Fintech and Hospitality industries and over 10 years of experience in commercial roles, Jakub helps merchants find the best way to expand their business worldwide, connect online and offline payments in one unified system and optimize merchant’s operational effectiveness. His domains are Unified Commerce, platforms and marketplaces.

Since 2008 President of Polish Organization of Commerce and Distribution which associate the biggest international retail and wholesale companies in Poland. 2000 till 2017 Director of the METRO AG Representative Office in Poland representing METRO AG companies Makro C&C, Real and Media Saturn Holding towards state authorities, NGO’s and industry associations. Vice President of Employer’s Confederation Lewiatan. Vice President of the European trade association EuroCommerce in Brussels.
Since 2012 Chairman of the Central Eastern Europe Council, representing modern distribution channel of the CEE region towards EU institutions.

Rafal Reif manages Accenture’s advisory department for companies from the retail sector in Poland. He specializes in improving processes and implementing solutions for fashion industry companies, executing projects related to mergers and acquisitions, digital transformation and supply chain strategy. He also advises trade companies from the food, cosmetics and construction industries. He conducts analyses of changes occurring on the consumer market. He is the co-author of the report on the purchasing habits of Generation Z, published in April 2019. He has been working at Accenture for 12 years, previously associated with Daimler, where he held a managerial position in the financial services department.

Manager with an extensive, international experience gained while working for the global consulting companies. I managed and delivered projects on three continents and lived in eight different countries. After ten years of corporate life, spent mainly in the energy sector, the time has come for a radical change – nowadays, as a General Manager Poland in viafintech, I keep discovering the multitude of great business models and ideas in the fintech space. Together with my 70 colleagues we are busy “digitalizing cash” and building the largest, bank-independent cash infrastructure network in Europe.

Bartłomiej Wojdyło – acting Sustainability Director CANPACK Group, has joined aluminium industry in 2011 working on variuos positions including procurement and project management. He is a graduate of International Business, Logistics, Real Estate Brokerage and Spanish philology. Involved in many projects supporting Circular Economy, e.g. Executive Committee member of „Every Can Counts” a paneuropean campaign to promote the recycling of beverage cans, Board Member of Foundation for Recovery of Aluminium Packaging RECAL.

At Visa, Katarzyna manages a team responsible for relations with acquirers and retailers, and acceptance growth in the region of Central Eastern Europe (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary). She has more than a dozen years of professional experience in such sectors as banking, cashless payments and loyalty programs, and also in the FMCG industry. During her career, she has held a number of directorial positions with companies including Raiffeisen Polbank (formerly Polbank), POLCARD, and Premium Club. Most recently she was the President of the Management Board of Paymax S.A., a company providing a solution which enables card acceptance via payment application installed on a phone / tablet and mPOS Paymax card reader.