Bartosz Sokoliński
Industrial Development Agency
Meet our speaker - Bartosz Sokoliński
Bartosz Sokoliński
Industrial Development Agency
BIO
Managing Director for Innovation and Technology at the Industrial Development Agency JSC. Advisor, investor, visionary. For over 15 years he was a co-owner and president of a group of marketing and IT companies. He founded the first crowdfunding platform for the third sector – Fundujesz.pl, a socio-political think tank – Forum Od-Nowa and the movement for better science in Poland – Citizens of Academia. He deals with management, creating visions, supervising strategies, development of innovations as well as training and creative workshops.
He started his professional career while still studying at the University of Warsaw (Institute of Applied Social Sciences), in the international – one of the best and largest in Poland – public relations agency – Alcat Communications Ltd. After two years of working in Poland and the United States, he became head of the Warsaw office. He was responsible for Poland and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. He led a team of several dozen people there.
He completed postgraduate studies with a specialization in PR and press journalism at the Journalism Center run by the American Free Media Foundation. In 1998-2002 he was a councillor in the municipality of Michałowice.
He worked and advised, among others, on the following issues He worked and advised such companies and organizations as Agora, Al Khalediah, Alpha Consulting, Ardo, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego, Billenium, BlackPoint, C&A Polska, Cemex, Colgate-Palmolive, Compress SA, Cussons, Dynamics PR, Enevis, European Tennis Centre, Fomar Borg Automotive, Information Society Development Foundation, Dialogue Forum, Good Education Foundation, Nobody's Children Foundation, Gorenje, Schuman Foundation, Haier, Ignitus, Infor, KGL Corporation, Kluthe Poland, Konstancin, Kwik-Fit, Infor, Marcato, Merkator, City of Warsaw, Murator, National Bank of Poland, PIAP, Civic Platform, Polish-American Freedom Foundation, Law and Justice, Project: Poland, Propsyche, Prokom SA, Republic of Poland, President. pl, Profile PR, Shell Autoserv, School of Leaders Association, Sygma Bank Polska, Top Employer, Unilever, World Young Business Achiever International.
He advises and conducts training in communication through traditional and social media, content marketing, crowdfunding, presentations, creativity, strategy, ux and education.
Privately he is a husband, father of three children and a fan of squash, tennis, volleyball and basketball. He has a weakness for good food and white wines. He usually reads several books at once – that's why he sometimes confuses these books.
