Opportunities for innovation and new technology in Electromobility

Speakers for this event

• Demski, Patryk

  Demski, Patryk

  LOTOS Group, Poland

  Mr Demski has held the position of Vice President of the Management Board of Grupa LOTOS S.A. of the 10th term since May 22nd 2018 as a Chief Investment and Innovation Officer. Mr Demski is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In 2014 - 2018 he served as Mayor of the Pelplin Municipality. Member of the council of the Polish Tourist Organisation since 2018, and member of the Supervisory Board of the Provincial Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Gdańsk since 2017. From 2006 to 2014, Mr Demski was Deputy Branch Manager, acting Deputy Branch Manager, and Chief Specialist at the Gdańsk field branch of the Agricultural Property Agency. In 2011-2014, he served on the Supervisory Board of Zakład Gospodarki Mieszkaniowej Sp. z o.o. in Tczew. In 2006, Mr Demski was Deputy Director of the Pomeranian Governor's Office in Gdańsk.

  LOTOS Group, Poland

• Granger, Richard

  Granger, Richard

  President, European Office, Technology Partners Foundation Consulting

  Richard Granger is president of the Brussels office of Technology Partners, the association of Poland’s leading applied R&D institutes, and an independent consultant with 40 years’ experience in managing research, development and innovation. He directed the recent SINTRAS project, advising the European Commission on future transport policy. His chief interests include technology strategy; the management and commercial exploitation of R&D; and the organisational and cultural issues involved in technology transfer and in stimulating innovation. He has worked in these areas worldwide, for leading corporations in many industries and for public sector bodies. He also teaches technology and innovation management on MBA, MSc and executive programmes at several business schools.

  President, European Office, Technology Partners Foundation Consulting

• Ph.D. Eng Wieczorek, Piotr

  Ph.D. Eng Wieczorek, Piotr

  Specjalist in Department of Liquid Fuels and Bioeconomy, Automotive Industry Institute

  Ph.D. Eng., Specialist in Department of Liquid Fuels and Bioeconomy, Automotive Industry Institute. Alumnus of Warsaw University of Technology. Research topics: electromobility (particularly chemistry and application of Li-ion cells), low-emission transport, biofuels and their commercial applications, special-purpose fuels, catalysis of biomass conversion processes. Participant of 28th Economic Forum in Krynica, Poland.

  Specjalist in Department of Liquid Fuels and Bioeconomy, Automotive Industry Institute

• Prof. Szynkarczyk, Piotr

  Prof. Szynkarczyk, Piotr

  Director, Industrial Research Institute for Automation & Measurements (PIAP), Poland

  Ph.D. Eng. Piotr Szynkarczyk, prof. PIAP – director of Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP (Poland). Directs nearly 300 people in research and development in the field of automation and robotics, conducts analytical and expert work in the fields of automation and robotics. Expert in the fields of unmanned ground systems for special purposes, including civil and military operations. Prof. PIAP (2012), Lodz University Faculty of Administration – postgraduate studies on commercialization of innovations and new technologies (on license from IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin, USA, 2010), Ph.D. - Military University of Technology (2000), graduated from Warsaw University of Technology (automatics & robotics, 1992). Expert, member of Committee on Automatic Control and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Council of Polish Research Institutes, International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction

  Director, Industrial Research Institute for Automation & Measurements (PIAP), Poland

• Śliwowski, Dariusz

  Śliwowski, Dariusz

  Vice-President of the Management Board of the Industrial Development Agency (ARP)

  Dariusz Śliwowski graduated from the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology Faculty of Computer Science and Management. Throughout his professional career he has dealt with computer science and software projects for the banking sector, public administration and business. He has held management positions in international IT and consulting companies. He has participated in IT projects implemented in Poland and abroad. A member of the ARP S.A. Management Board since December 2016.

  Vice-President of the Management Board of the Industrial Development Agency (ARP)