Martin Markiewicz is the co-founder and CEO of Silent Eight, a Singapore-headquartered regtech that builds AI models banks use to screen names, transactions and alerts for money-laundering, sanctions and terrorist-financing risk. A mathematician by training with roots in Poland's tech scene, he has spent the last decade convincing tier-one banks to let algorithms make the first call on suspicious activity.
Michael Mazur is co-founder and CEO of AI Clearing, an Austin-based platform that ingests drone imagery, BIM designs, schedules and ground data to produce autonomous progress tracking and quality control for large infrastructure builds. A former PwC partner who ran the firm's global Drone Powered Solutions unit, Mazur left in 2020 with co-founder Adam Wisniewski to spin the idea out as an independent company; in October 2023 the company closed a $14M Series A led by Prudence, on the back of 15x revenue growth.
Natalia Panowicz is the CEO and co-founder of Codility, a technical assessment platform used by enterprise engineering teams to evaluate developers. Trained as a psychologist, she joined Codility in 2012 as a business developer, became COO in 2014, and stepped into the CEO seat in July 2019. She has helped grow the company past 140 employees across Warsaw, London, Berlin and San Francisco, and led the raise of a $22M Series A in 2020.
Robert Kowalski is the co-founder and CEO of Gyfted, a behavioral-science recruiting platform that matches people to jobs and teams on personality, culture fit and ability rather than CVs. A Stanford GSB MBA and LSE economist, he built Gyfted with Stanford computational psychologist Michal Kosinski and engineer Adam Szefer to make remote hiring faster and less biased. He signs his own title 'Village Idiot ie. CEO' and frames the entire recruiting industry as broken and worth flipping over.

Wiedza i Praktyka (WIP) is one of Poland's largest providers of specialist professional information. Founded in Warsaw in 1997, it equips accountants, HR and payroll specialists, occupational-safety officers, healthcare managers, educators, lawyers and public administrators with the practical, up-to-date guidance they need to apply constantly changing regulations. WIP blends print and e-letters, industry web portals, software tools, expert helplines, and the Educado online learning platform, plus open and in-house training through Akademia Wiedza i Praktyka. Since August 2025 it has been wholly owned by Germany's VNR Group.

Wojciech Zaremba is a Polish-American AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-4. A former International Mathematical Olympiad silver medalist from Kluczbork, Poland, he holds dual master's degrees from the University of Warsaw and École Polytechnique, and a PhD from NYU under Yann LeCun. At OpenAI he has led robotics (including the Dactyl hand that solved a Rubik's Cube one-handed), the Codex project powering GitHub Copilot, and the RLHF human feedback infrastructure that shaped ChatGPT's alignment. One of the few original co-founders still at the company after a decade, he is regarded as one of the most technically consequential and quietly influential figures in modern AI.

Paweł Huryn is a Warsaw-based product management expert, creator of The Product Compass - a Substack newsletter with 133,000+ subscribers ranked #1 in product management worldwide by Favikon. A former software developer turned CPO turned full-time educator, he brings 15+ years of hands-on product experience to weekly deep-dives on AI product management, strategy, and discovery. His philosophy: build it first, test it, then teach it.