General Director of Microsoft in Poland. Former CEO of Siemens Sp. z o.o. Entrepreneur, advocate for new technologies and sustainable business. Promoter of diversity and inclusive leadership. Author of the book “Technologiczne Magnolie”. Graduate of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Faculty of Foreign Trade, and the Advanced Management Program at IESE in Barcelona.

Lecturer of the Year of higher education in The Netherlands in 2016. She decided to use the prestigious Comenis Award to develop pilot projects on futures literacy, or the active imagining of future alternatives, in order to create action strategies. In addition to her research and teaching practices, she consults and trains staff of global organizations such as FutureWomenX, UNESCO, UNFCCC, ClimateKIC, FORMS, UN, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and Oxfam in multidisciplinary projects. She designs, develops and facilitates so-called Futures Literacy Labs: collective intelligence knowledge creation processes across the globe that challenge and raise fundamental questions on leadership, migration, climate change and technology. She is a Future Fellow at Hawkwood College and a steering committee member of the Futures Oriented Museum Synergies.

Simon has been working in Customer Success at LinkedIn for nearly 6 years, currently as the Customer Success Manager for the UK and Ireland, with a team looking after large corporate clients. Before joining LinkedIn he had worked in L&D for a decade doing everything from Induction revamps, leadership courses, LMS deployments and even making e-learning! He really understands the importance of learning and the impact it can have on businesses having helped some of the largest businesses in the world introduce on demand learning. He even won an award in LinkedIn for the most learning in LinkedIn across a year, clocking over 125 hours of LinkedIn content.

Experienced manager of projects, teams and organizations, as well as in the area of knowledge management. She studied linguistics, management & finance and banking. Mentor and founder of EduTech and other startups. Consultant of psychometric tools, coach, trainer. Author of publications in the fields of NGO management, business relationship building, sustainability and innovation. She has carried out numerous educational projects in Poland and abroad (including Africa), joining efforts to promote equal access to knowledge. Natalia Ćwik has been awarded the title of Ambassador of Women’s Entrepreneurship. She cultivates interdisciplinary approaches, constantly seeking new knowledge and experience from different fields (music, literature, economics, history, management, new technologies). She loves working with and for people.