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Experts in their fields.
Pioneers of the next big thing in their industries.
Leaders who define the future.
Practitioners and practical fanatics when it comes to the work they do.

We’re proud to present the curators of select Impact’23 thematic tracks.

Magdalena Namysłowska

BIO

In 1996 she graduated from the Medical Academy in Warsaw and a year later she started working at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, in the Department of Affective Disorders, thanks to which she gained a broad knowledge of depressive disorders. In 1999 she received her first, and in 2002 her second degree of specialization in psychiatry. Four years later she received a certificate in psychotherapy awarded by the Psychotherapy Section of the Polish Psychiatric Association. In the same year she also defended her doctoral thesis entitled:

The marital relationship picture of a person suffering from affective disorders and her spouse.

She worked at the Day Care Department of affective disorders for 2 years as the head of the department.

Today she co-founded the Warsaw Psychotherapy and Psychiatry Center. She is an author of many scientific publications.

She also takes active part in specialized conferences – also as a speaker. In her work she deals with people suffering from depressive, affective, anxiety and eating disorders (including anorexia and bulimia). She provides medical consultations, individual psychotherapy and marriage therapies.

Mental Health & Wellbeing

Magdalena Namysłowska

Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Warsaw Center of Psychotherapy and Psychiatry
Magdalena Namysłowska curates thematic track Mental Health & Wellbeing

Magdalena Bodis

BIO

Dancer of the Grand Theater – National Opera. She studied journalism, psychology and art history. Professionally, she deals with Public Relations and creating links between art and business, implementing projects for cultural institutions such as the National Museum, National Opera, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, and commercial projects such as Hotel Warszawa Art Fair.

Magda collaborates with galleries and art collectors. She is a member of the board of the Friends of the National Museum in Warsaw association. Founder of ArtRelated, a company dealing with the organization and promotion of art-related events. In addition to her professional work, she is involved in projects for people with cerebral palsy, cooperates with the Mazowieckie Centrum Neuropsychatrii and conducts ballet classes for children with disabilities.

Art & Culture

Magdalena Bodis

PR Manager, Member of the Management Board at The Society of Friends of the National Museum in Warsaw
Magdalena Bodis curates thematic track Art & Culture

Małgorzata Gałązka-Sobotka

BIO

Dean of the Center for Postgraduate Education and Director of the Institute of Healthcare Management at Lazarski University. Since 2015. Vice President of the Council of the National Health Fund (member of the Council since 2010).

She is also the Director of the “MBA in Healthcare” program and the content manager of many training programs certified by Lazarski University and dedicated to medical professionals, managers of medical facilities and employees of public institutions in the health sector. Initiator and leader of the Sector Council for Competence in Health and Social Care.

Author of numerous scientific and expert publications on economic and social aspects of health care and modern models of its organization and financing. Integrator of people and ideas. Propagator of the “Value Based Healthcare” concept. (Value Based Healthcare).

In successive editions of the STU LIST of the most influential people in the healthcare sector, she has been listed among the top ten individuals who exert the greatest positive impact on the Polish healthcare system.

Health

Małgorzata Gałązka-Sobotka

Dean of the Lazarski University Postgraduate Education Center and Director of the Institute of Healthcare Management at the Lazarski University.
Małgorzata Gałązka-Sobotka curates thematic track Health

Arek Szulczyński

BIO

The subject of the analysis of technological trends and consumer and their impact on development strategies I have been dealing with brands for over 21 years.

For 12 years I have been conducting lectures, workshops and training for cool people, and customers, among others Mastercard, Generali, Concordia, AmRest,
mBank, PKO BP, Bank PEKAO, Santander Bank Polska, Millennium Bank, BNP Paribas Bank Polska, ING Bank Śląski, Cooperative Banking Group, eService, Microsoft, Group BPS, Bank Pocztowy, BBC Poland, PGE, T-Mobile Poland,
Polpharma, Grupa Żywiec and Discovery Channel.

I also develop processes, systems, services and products in the methodology
Design Thinking.

I believe that the services we use and the systems in which we operate should be based on a deep understanding of the problems and needs of the people who
they use them. It should be valuable to them and useful. I believe that giving people that value is much needed today. And good. For people and for business.

Marketing & Digital Consumers

Arek Szulczyński

For 21 years I have been analyzing technological and consumer trends and their impact on brand development strategies.
Arek Szulczyński jest kuratorem ścieżki Marketing & Digital Consumers

Krzysztof Klincewicz

BIO

Professor at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw. Head of the EIT Food Consumer Engagement Labs project, where consumers work together with food companies to design innovative food products, and the EIT Food PSRAL project, which includes the InfraBooster program, facilitating universities and research institutes from different parts of Europe to make research infrastructure available to companies in the agri-food sector.

He has work experience in the high-tech industry in Poland, Finland and the UK, and has also worked at Japan’s Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was an expert coordinator of the GreenEvo Green Technology Accelerator, a member of the United Nations Executive Committee on Technology and the UNFCCC Committee on Climate Change Loss and Damage, a consultant to the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Observatory and the World Intellectual Property Organization, was a co-founder and member of the first board of directors of EIT Food, as well as managing the regional branch of the EIT Food Seedbed agri-food technology incubator.

He has authored numerous scientific publications, specializing in innovation and technology management issues.

Foodtech

Krzysztof Klincewicz

Professor at the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw. EIT Food Consumer Engagement Labs project manager. A specialist in innovation and technology management.
Krzysztof Klincewicz jest kuratorem ścieżki Foodtech