19-20.05.2026
The aim of the Sektor 3.0 Festival is to inspire and showcase trends from the world of new technologies, as well as demonstrate how to practically implement modern digital strategies and tools in everyday social activities. It is attended by individuals who share a passion for exploring new technologies and sharing knowledge with others.
Aleksander Kwaśniewski
- President of the Republic of Poland (1995–2005)
Born on November 15, 1954, in Białogard. A graduate of the Bogusław X Secondary School there. He studied Economics at the University of Gdańsk. An activist of the Socialist Union of Polish Students. Editor-in-chief of the student weekly itd. (1981–1983) and later editor-in-chief of the daily Sztandar Młodych (1981–1985). Member of the Council of Ministers – Minister for Youth Affairs. Chairman of the Social and Political Committee of the Council of Ministers in the governments of Zbigniew Messner and Mieczysław Rakowski (1985–1989). Participant in the Round Table Talks (1989), co-chair of the working group on trade union pluralism (together with Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Roman Sosnowski). Co-founder and Chairman of the National Council of the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland (1990–1995). Co-creator of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) electoral coalition (1991). Member of the Polish Parliament (Sejm) from the Warsaw constituency (1991–1995). Chairman of the SLD Parliamentary Club (1991–1995). Chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the National Assembly (1993–1995). President of the Republic of Poland (1995–2005).
dr Ewa Woydyłło
- PhD in psychology ,
- therapist
A specialist in addiction and co-dependency therapy, she also provides marital and family counseling and support in resolving workplace conflicts. At the Stefan Batory Foundation, where she led the Regional Program for the Prevention of Addictions, she contributed to the dissemination in Poland and other countries of addiction treatment based on the Minnesota Model, which emphasizes collaboration between professionals and peer support groups such as Anonymous fellowships. Her publications include: Secrets of Women, We, Parents of Adult Children, In Harmony with Yourself, Hold Your Head Up, Soul Cancer: On Alcoholism, Shoes of Happiness. For Soul Cancer, she received the Teofrast Award from readers of Charaktery magazine. Last year, Wydawnictwo Literackie celebrated a double anniversary related to its collaboration with Dr. Ewa Woydyłło—the publication of her 15th book and 20 years since her first one. On February 25, her latest book, Four Seasons with Ewa Woydyłło, will be released.
dr Otto Scharmer
- MIT ,
- Presencing Institute
Dr. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan and Founding Chair of the Presencing Institute. Known for pioneering Theory U and the concept of presencing, he works with leaders and changemakers to transform the systems that shape business, education, society, and governance. His latest book Presencing: 7 Practices for Transforming Self, Society and Business explores how cultivating our “social soil” — the quality of relationships and awareness — is key to regeneration in times of rupture.
Iwona Szylar
- Microsoft
She joined Microsoft in 2025 as the General Manager of the company’s Polish subsidiary. She is a recognized leader with extensive international experience in building and effectively executing business strategies, as well as in creating diverse and inclusive teams that drive innovation and organizational growth. In her work, she successfully combines strategic expertise with a deep understanding of a values-based organizational culture. Prior to joining Microsoft, as General Manager of SAS Germany, she was responsible for the strategy and development of the company’s German branch in the fields of analytics and artificial intelligence. Earlier, she led SAS operations in Australia and New Zealand and served as Director of Strategy for the Asia-Pacific region as well as emerging markets in Europe and the Middle East. She promotes an inclusive organizational culture in which diversity of perspectives and experiences is treated as a key element of innovation and business success.
Prof. Danah Boyd
- Cornell University
Jacek Santorski
- Academy of Leadership Psychology
Graduate of the University of Warsaw, a clinical, health, and social psychologist. During the first two decades of his career, he contributed to the development of innovative approaches to psychotherapy. At the same time, from the very beginning of his professional path, he was an entrepreneur—a co-founder of the Psychoeducation Laboratory and a publishing house specializing in psychological literature. In the mid-1990s, he began to gradually withdraw from psychotherapy, transferring his knowledge of personality and relationships to working with business leaders. He is the founder of the consulting company Values (together with Dominika Kulczyk), where 15 years ago the Academy of Leadership Psychology was established.He is an experienced lecturer, mentor, media authority, and the author of 10 popular books. His latest one is: “i” – reflections on the leadership of tomorrow.
Vanessa Parli
- The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
As Managing Director, Programs and External Engagement at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), she leads initiatives that foster interdisciplinary collaboration and connect academic research with real-world impact. Her work includes managing HAI’s industry research partnerships, executive education, policy engagement and the AI Index, creating opportunities for leaders from diverse backgrounds to engage with cutting-edge AI research, its applications, and its potential for positive social impact. Before joining Stanford, she worked in management consulting, applying statistics, machine learning, and data science to advise government agencies, biotech firms, and nonprofit organizations. Her work centered on making complex methods accessible to decision makers, ensuring technical rigor translated into actionable strategies.
dr hab. prof. UW Marcin Napiórkowski
- Polish History Museum ,
- University of Warsaw
A semiotician and professor at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. His research focuses on cultural history, collective memory, and the role of storytelling in community building and decision-making. Author of dozens of academic articles and seven monographs, including *Contemporary Mythology*, *The Uprising of the Dead* (nominated for the Jan Długosz Award, finalist for the Kazimierz Moczarski Award), Turbo-Patriotism, and Fixing the Future (finalist for the Tischner Award and the Marcin Król Award). He also enjoys trying his hand at other genres: he ran the blog mitologiawspolczesna.pl, co-created the well-received musical 1989 and several other plays, as well as the audio series Narutowicz. Since September 2024, he has been the director of the Museum of Polish History.
dr Janaki Gooty
- University of North Carolina Charlotte
Dr. Janaki Gooty is a professor in the Department of Management in the Belk College of Business, and Organizational Science, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at UNC Charlotte. Her research focuses on leadership at multiple levels of analyses with a specific focus on three key intersecting domains: The role of inclusive sampling and research designs in leadership science, emotion as a central concept in leadership, and multi-level, mixed methods. Her second area focuses on the role of emotions, especially moral emotions in motivating leaders and followers to ethical action; and how leaders leverage values and expressed emotions in leader-follower relationships in creating shared realities.
Jacek Siadkowski
- Tech To The Rescue
Jacek Siadkowski is a social entrepreneur and the Co-founder and CEO of Tech To The Rescue, a global organization that connects technology companies with nonprofits to help scale their social impact. For more than 15 years, he has worked at the intersection of technology and impact. Together with the TTTR team, he has delivered over 1,000 technology projects for NGOs around the world. He is currently focused on transforming the social sector toward AI-native organizations — those that can operate faster, more efficiently, and at a much greater scale through the use of artificial intelligence. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, a TEDx speaker, and a member of the Impact Council at Fast Company
Małgorzata Kowalewska
- Orange Foundation
As a Member of the Management Board for Programs at the Orange Foundation, she is responsible for strategic matters, diagnosing social needs, and implementing educational initiatives that address challenges arising from digital development. She has many years of experience in carrying out projects at both national and international levels. She is a member of the editorial team of the report “Growing Up to Rights” – a monitoring study on children’s rights and agency in Poland in the era of the information society. She graduated in Management and Marketing from Kozminski University in Warsaw and is an alumna of the 29th edition of the School of Political Leaders run by the School of Leadership Foundation.
- Digital responsibility in practice
- Knowledge as a shared resource
- A culture of feedback and trust
- Change as a shared responsibility
- Leadership as a process
- Empowerment in Hybrid Work
- Problem first, then the tool
- Super Team: Humans + AI
- Data-driven decision-making
Sektor 3.0 brings together creative, complementary, and captivating speakers from around the world to an international audience. Leaders in their respected fields present relevant and thought-provoking topics and engage with participants throughout the festival. The event organizers are top-notch and allow for speakers and guests to seamlessly come together on a global stage and share ideas for a healthier planet and better world for all of us.
Sektor 3.0 team makes extra effort to ensure that the speakers and the content of each conference are unique and diverse. This is an opportunity for NGOs and public sector leaders to connect to a variety of high-quality topics from a myriad of sectors and geographies.
Sektor 3.0 Festival was a phenomenal experience, safely bringing together people in-person and online. The content was inspiring, useful and action oriented and the event management was world-class. Working with this team was a pleasure I’d look forward to again and something I’d highly recommend to others.
Sektor 3.0 brings together fascinating people from around the globe. They’ve thought through all kinds of different formats for engagement between the speakers and the participants. I was lucky enough to be a keynote speaker in 2018 and I continue to pull from my experiences there. I learned about everything from VR in educational settings to crowd sourced camel farming in Somalia. Sektor 3.0 helped me better understand my world and most invaluably created enduring friendships.