Poland Technology

This week I speak to the directors of the Wolves summit. Martin and Mike share with us the unenviable prospect of cancelling their event due to #COVID19. With a meer 11 days before the summit they would have incurred massive losses, had they not successfully moved the #event online. This process prompted them to create a new monthly #event service to connect #investors and #startups.

Listen to how this was achieved with amazing #creativity and #innovation from the Wolf pack team alongside exceptional #technological support courtesy of Hopin and Microsoft Teams platforms. Learn from the challenges they overcame to successfully host this 2 day event with 2,500 attendees incorporating 4,500 1:1 meetings.

Phenomenal thinking outside the box!

#virtualevents #events #innovation #covid19 # Poland

In this week's podcast I speak to Borys Musielak, cofounder and managing partner at SMOK Ventures, a Polish-American fund that invests in early-stage startups in Poland. We talk about:

Borys gives us an in-dept insight into innovation and investing in Poland, This is a must listen if you would like to learn more about this thriving sector. 

In this weeks podcast episode, my guest is Eoin McCoy who has successfully setup and run multiple centres over the last 20 years in Krakow for companies such as Oanda, IG, GE Healthcare, Huawei & Sabre.  He answer questions such as: 

1. Why Poland? 

2. How would you setup a centre here?

3. Biggest challenges and how to overcame them?

This is extremely valuable knowledge Eoin shares, so learn from his experiences and check out the podcast. 

We all know Polish IT engineers are fantastic but the country does not rank very well in the #innovation reports. This is because of the way #innovation is measured and it is not a true reflection of the country. 

I believe Poland is rapidly becoming a country of #entrepreneurship, #innovation and #openness and this weeks Podcast is a great example of this as I learn all about Space technology, which up until 5 years ago was unheard of here. I speak to Greg, the cofounder of SatRevolution. 

I learn about his incredible entrepreneurial journey from starting in the restaurant business to gaming where his company T-Bull currently has over 500 million users with titles such as Top Speed. 

He always loved Space and in 2016 co-founded SatRevolution to develop satellites and will launch 5 satellites this year, which were designed and built in Poland. His vision is to be the biggest company in real time imaging with over 1000 satellites.

I loved listening to Greg's fascinating story and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did :-). As always please leave your comments.

How can your company successfully enter, grow, innovate and export sales in #Poland?

Poland is a massive market of 40 million people and is in the top 3 fastest growing economies of Europe.

I speak with Bartosz Siepracki, Senior Market Adviser ICT Enterprise Ireland (responsible for Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia; Digital Entertainment Global Lead). He shares his knowledge of:

This is a MUST, for anyone thinking about, or already doing business in Poland.

As always, please share your comments and give us a review.

Thanks

Ken

#Poland #business #leadership #technology #technews #nearshoring #outsourcing #innovation #entrepreneur

It was fantastic to chat with Gareth Lewis and hear his experiences of delivering global AI and Blockchain solutions from Poland for UBS Bank. It was also great to get his insights on emerging technology trends in Poland.

Gareth is the founder of PopLocker crypto wallet. Prior to this he was the Head of Investment bank Technology at UBS bank for Poland and Eastern Europe. He has over 20 years experience in the Finance domain with expertise in FinTech, blockchain research and emerging financial technologies.

Please do leave comments to share your experiences?

Enjoy the Podcast

Ken

We speak to Martin about Poland, the quality of talent there and how he built up Bank of New York Mellon's delivery center from 85 to over 1500 people.

He currently leads the Wolves summit, one of largest technology conferences in Poland. Prior to this, he was the MD of BNY Mellon and during this time he was also the Vice president of the ABSL, which is the leading organisation representing the business sector in Poland. Martin has over 30 years experience with 14 of these years in Eastern Europe. 

This is a great listen for people who want to learn about more Poland, the quality of talent there and how to access and build your talent there.