Winners 2024

Kinga Stanisławska i Katarzyna Piasecki

Founder and Managing Director of European Women in VC

Awarded for developing the largest community of female investors in Europe known as 'European Women in VC'. The aim of the initiative is to foster diversity in the VC world, develop startups founded and led by women and make it easier for them to raise funds for further development

Natalia Ćwik

former manager of Wikimedia Polska

Awarded for supporting, with a team of experts, a community of several hundred volunteers who maintain and develop the Polish-language Wikipedia and its sister projects. Advises EdTech startups and connects sectors and communities for inclusive technological development

Sebastian Kondracki

President of the SpeakLeash Foundation

awarded for the development of the Bielik.ai project community. The Polish Large Language Model (LLM) was developed in collaboration with the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH, which provided supercomputers to train the model. Hundreds of members of the Polish LLM development community are registered in the Bielik.ai model community

Michał Błaut i Jakub Marcinkiewicz

managers from PKO BP

Awarded for being the first in the banking market to implement a fully digital mortgage purchase process with UX at the highest level

Michał Kurasiński

Head of AI Transformation, Business Intelligence and Data Analytics at Polpharma

Awarded for digital transformation based on implementation of artificial intelligence and LOW/NO-CODE platform

Szymon Wałach

Executive vice-president for digital and strategy at InPost

Awarded for implementation and scaling of InPost Pay service

Ewa Gąsienica-Samek

Director of InstaKod Informatics and Mathematics Education Centre

Awarded for co-creating innovative educational projects such as InstaKod and InstaLogik, which have contributed to popularising programming learning among children and young people in Poland.

Jarek Łojewski

prezes Fundacji Dobra Porażka

Awarded for education on constructive approaches to failure encountered in innovative projects or startups. In 2024, he co-organised the conference Failure Day

prof. Jan Madey i prof. Krzysztof Diks

Uniwersytet Warszawski

Awarded for creating a unique training system that has enabled the university to qualify continuously since 1994 for the finals of the Academic Team Programming Championships (ICPC).

dr hab. Grzegorz Brona

prezes Creotech Instruments

Awarded for developing innovations in the space industry sector. The company has been carrying out projects for many years, for example for the European Space Agency (ESA) or CERN. In 2024, among others, a contract was signed with the Ministry of Defence for the supply of a satellite Earth Observation System in the MIKROGLOB programme and the EagleEye satellite was launched

Krzysztof Klimczak, Marek Rogoziński i Jarosław Sygitowicz

founders of Authologic

Awarded for the development of innovative digital identity verification and remote KYC solutions. In October 2024, they raised $8.2 million in a Series A funding round

Stanisław Dałek

współzałożyciel i dyrektor technologii CloudFerro

Awarded for developing cloud services technology for the space sector in Europe. The company is playing a leading role in the development of key European Earth observation initiatives. These include the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, Destination Earth Data Lake, CREODIAS.eu. In 2024, the company received funding under the European IPCEI-CIS initiative

Jakub Dwernicki

co-founder and president of cyber_Folks

Awarded for the acquisition of a 49.9% stake in the public company Shoper (producer of a platform for creating and operating online shops) for PLN 500 million

Rafał Brzoska

Founder and CEO of InPost

Awarded for the acquisition of UK logistics operator Menzies Distribution for £560 million

Wojciech Sass i Wojciech Sobieraj

co-founders of Aion Bank and Vodeno

Awarded for the development and subsequent deal to sell the company to the UniCredit group for €370 million

Jacek Dukaj

Writer

Awarded for discussing and predicting the development of artificial intelligence and its impact on culture and society

Łukasz Jankowski

President of the Supreme Chamber of Physicians

Awarded for his commitment to the development of e-health through the integration of modern solutions in medical practice, the revision of the 2024 Code of Medical Ethics, which sets out, among other things, the rules for the use of AI, and the co-founding of the Network of Innovative Doctors (NIL IN)

prof. Andrzej Dragan

University of Warsaw

Awarded for unique insights into the development of artificial intelligence and the popularisation of knowledge of quantum physics