CONFERENCE
AV-POLAND

SPEAKERS

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  Andrzej Adamczyk
  Minister of Infrastructure

  On November 15 2019 he was re-appointed to the position of the Minister of Infrastructure. Since 2005 he has been a Member of the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th term Sejm. Long-term vice-chairman of the Parliamentary Infrastructure Committee and member of the Committee for Liaison with Poles Abroad. He participated in the work of the following subcommittees: for construction, spatial and housing management, for monitoring the use of European Union funds, and for land transport. He specializes in road and rail infrastructure as well as construction. In the parliament, he dealt with, inter alia, the government bill on special purpose road companies, the amendment to the “Construction Law” act and the bill on simplifying the investment process in housing construction.

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  Adrian Mazur
  Ministry of Infrastructure

  Director of the Department of Transport Strategy in the Ministry of Infrastructure. He joined the Ministry of Transport in 2009. Since 2019, he is the Director of the Department of Transport Strategy, responsible, inter alia, for preparation of the financial perspective 2021-2027, revision of the Trans-European Transport Network TEN-T and programming of the transport policy. He is a co-author of the Strategy for Sustainable Transport Development until 2030 and the transport component of the National Recovery Plan. He has extensive experience in development strategies and policies, international negotiations, sustainable mobility, digitization of transport, and project management. He is the project manager of AV-PL-ROAD – project in the field of road transport automation. He holds an MBA degree in “Innovation and Data Analysis” from the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Woodbury School of Business of Utah Valley University.

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  Marcin Ślęzak
  Motor Transport Institute

  Specialist in the field of ICE, vehicle diagnostics and environmental protection against pollution from the automotive industry. Expert in topics related to autonomous vehicles and electromobility. An expert in the field of road safety. Author or co-author of 3 scientific monographs and author or co-author of over 120 publications. Member of the program councils of scientific journals from the list of Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Manager and contractor of several international and national research projects. He has been professionally associated with the Motor Transport Institute since 1999. Since 2013, he has been managing the unit as a director. Member of the Presidium of the Main Council of Research Institutes. Member of scientific societies, including: the Polish Scientific Society of ICEs, the Partnership for Road Safety Association, the Polish Scientific and Technical Exploitation Society, the Transport Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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  Iwona Grabarek
  Warsaw University of Technology

  Professor and the head of the Department of Information and Mechatronic Systems in Transport at the Faculty of Transport of the Warsaw University of Technology. Author and co-author of 16 monographs and over 100 articles. She is a specialist in the field of ergonomics of transport systems. The area of scientific interest includes ergonomic diagnosis and modeling and simulation of human-machine systems, designing innovative public transport systems, the human factor in automated transport systems, the availability of means of transport for people with special needs. Manager and contractor of many research projects.

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  Andrzej Czerepicki
  Warsaw University of Technology

  Habilitated engineer of technical sciences in the discipline of Civil Engineering and Transport. Professor at the Faculty of Transport. A specialist in the field of databases, programming and production of complex information systems. He has many years of experience in cooperation with the industry in the field of elaborating and implementing the results of research and development works. Author of scientific publications on the use of modern databases in modeling and design of transport systems. He took an active part in international and national projects in the field of modeling electric vehicle power supply systems, modeling passenger traffic systems in public transport, analyzing the impact of advertising on road safety, and others.

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  Maciej Kozłowski
  Warsaw University of Technology

  Habilitated engineer of technical sciences in the discipline of Civil Engineering and Transport. Professor at the Faculty of Transport of the Warsaw University of Technology. He deals with the analysis of the operational properties of electric vehicles with the use of modeling and simulation methods of electric traction device systems and methods of assessing their effectiveness. The research works carried out concern, inter alia, analysis of the use of a supercapacitor for energy recuperation, the use of wavelet analysis methods to extract the characteristics of one-dimensional traction signals, analysis of the driving properties of an electric car with a steer by wire steering system and an electric differential using simulation models, synthesis of the wireless power supply system for PRT vehicles.

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  Mikołaj Kruszewski
  Motor Transport Institute

  A graduate of the Faculty of Transport of the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2019, he obtained a doctoral degree in engineering and technical sciences in the discipline of Civil Engineering and Transport. Since 2010, an employee of the Motor Transport Institute, where he is now the Head of Transport Telematics Centre. Involved in numerous national and international research projects covering the application of IT services in road transport, including the development of driving assistance systems and autonomous vehicles. Expert in research using high fidelity driving simulators and eye-tracking techniques. Specialized in research on driver state monitoring and human-machine interaction. Currently supervising ITS’s contribution in Trustonomy project concerning autonomous vehicles (H2020) and the coordinator of the AV-PL-ROAD (NCBR) project aimed at the implementation of AV technology in Poland and the EU.

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  Sylwia Bęczkowska
  Warsaw University of Technology

  Doctor of technical sciences in the discipline of Civil Engineering and Transport. Assistant professor at the Faculty of Transport. She deals with issues in the field of transport of dangerous goods, risk optimization, transport safety, quality management and ergonomics in means of transport. Author of many scientific publications. She is actively involved in research in the field of transport and ergonomics. Participated, inter alia, in the work of a scientific and research team dealing with the development of modern solutions in metro construction technology. Currently, she is involved in the project AV-PL-ROAD Polish road to road transport automation from the GOSPOSTRATEG program

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  Michał Niezgoda
  Robotec.ai

  Expert in road transport automation. Founder and CEO of Robotec.ai, specialized in software development and testing of AV ADAS systems. Member of the Autoware Foundation, the largest international open-source initiative in autonomous mobility. Previously consultant to Euro NCAP on driver monitoring systems and contributor to ISO international technical committees – human factors in vehicle automation.

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  Sławomir Lewandowski
  Ministry of Infrastructure

  Highly-qualified public sector professional with knowledge and expertise in i.a. transport innovations. Since 2017 involved in the Polish Way To Road Transport Automation project – AV-PL-ROAD.Experienced in international cooperation. Active in European Commission working groups in the area of connected and automated mobility, road transport automation, research and innovation. Executive MBA. Experienced team leader. Took several managerial positions.

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  Małgorzata Pełka
  Motor Transport Institute

  Head of Autonomous Vehicles’ Laboratory in Motor Transport Institute and Deputy Head of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Competence Centre. National Expert participating in the activities of CCAM Platform of the European Commission. Author of several scientific articles related to Intelligent Transport Systems, ADAS, driver training and their impact on road safety. She has been involved in numerous national projects (National Centre for Research and Development) and EU-funded projects (Erasmus+, Horizon 2020) most concerning the development of driving simulator use for infrastructure research, ITS, driver research, innovative driver training methods.

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  Andrea Conti
  AVL

  Graduate Engineer in Electrical Engineering (Berlin). Has almost 20 Years’ experience within the automotive field.
  Currently working as Global Business Field Leader ADAS/AD. Andrea also has a Management background:
  – Senior Director of Business Development for Smart Mobility in the EU
  – Deputy Vice President Business Development EU

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  Łukasz Majchrzak
  VITRONIC

  Certified Project Manager and specialist in the field of road safety and ITS. An active participant in the program of building a nationwide system of automatic traffic supervision – one of the most advanced solutions of this type in Europe. Traffic project coordinator at VITRONIC.

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  Monika Ucińska
  Motor Transport Institute

  Transport psychologist, Head of Transport Psychology and Driving Simulators Laboratory of the Motor Transport Institute.
  A specialist for psychological tests of people driving vehicles. A coordinator from ITS and a lecturer at postgraduate studies in Road Safety and Car Appraisal organized in cooperation with other research organizations (WAT, PW, SRTSiRD). An expert in creating and giving opinions on legal acts related to traffic safety and psychological research of drivers. Author of several scientific publications including “Methods of psychological research in the field of transport psychology”.

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  Ewa Odachowska-Rogalska
  Motor Transport Institute

  Transport psychologist, pedagogue, psychotraumatologist. Currently, she is an assistant professor at The Maria Grzegorzewska University at Warsaw (APS) and a Head of Department of Clinical Psychology of Children and Youth at APS. She is also a lecturer at the SWPS University and specialist in the Transport Psychology and Driving Simulators Laboratory of the Motor Transport Institute. A main expert in social campaigns on road safety. Substantive expert in creating and giving opinions on legal acts related to traffic safety and psychological research of drivers.

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  Michał Polończyk
  BLEES

  A graduate of a faculties of Automatic Control Engineering and Robotics, Mechatronics Systems at Silesian University of Technology.
  At company he has been leading Autonomy Team, dealing with implementation of autonomy level 4 for commercial vehicles. He supervises software developers and testers in a field of autonomous driving algorithms and robustness of critical vehicle safety systems.
  He has been always passionate in automotive. Over the years, he gained experience at General Motor’s factory, where for 9 years he specialized in components & production.

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  Łukasz Wójcik
  BLEES

  Chief Technology Officer, Blees. Has many years of experience in programming and managing software teams. Advocate of agile methods and short feedback loops. Since 2021 has been working on autonomous minibuses where he works with engineers from different fields: mechanics, electronics, software, and where connects automotive and IT.

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  Łukasz Borowski
  Yunex Sp. z o. o.

  A graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Transport, specializing in road traffic control. For over 15 years associated with the ITS industry. Currently, he is the Head of Service and Traffic Engineering at Yunex Sp. z o.o. He participated in the implementation and implementation of integrated traffic management systems in many cities in Poland – incl. Rzeszów, Warsaw, Kraków, Poznań and Białystok. He was also responsible for the implementation of traffic management and control projects in tunnels and expressways in Poland.

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  Konrad Małek
  Łukasiewicz Research Network - Automotive Industry Institute

  Chief Specialist and Deputy Head of Research Group for New Automotive Technologies in Łukasiewicz Research Network – Automotive Industry Institute with many years of experience in coordinating research and development projects in the field of electric and autonomous vehicles. PhD Student conducting research on the development of an autonomous driving mode for unmanned ground vehicle. He is involved in programming solutions based on artificial intelligence and image processing. Participant of the European partnership CCAM (Connected, Cooperative & Automated Mobility).

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  Xavier Sellart
  Applus Idiada

  Xavier Sellart is a Technical Coordinator from the Electronics department. He holds an MsC in Industrial Automation and Electronics and a Bachelor of Telecommunications with the speciality in electronics systems by UPC (Polytechnic University of Catalonia). Xavier Sellart has developed his career in the development of automotive systems. He has contributed on defining requirements and also developing embedded software for ADAS & CAV applications. Since 2018, he is responsible for the technical coordination of the Electronics department from IDIADA HQ with special focus on connected and automated driving.

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  Tomasz Bęben
  Stowarzyszenie Dystrybutorów i Producentów Części Motoryzacyjnych

  Managing Director SDCM, member of the Board of the European Association of Automotive Suppliers (CLEPA). A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University. Attorney at law at the Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law in Warsaw. He gained experience in law firms in Krakow and Warsaw. He has been closely associated with the automotive industry for several years.

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  Mikołaj Kwiatkowski
  Trapeze

  Representative of generation Y, supporter of new technologies, promoter of changes in public transport. Expert in the field of autonomous vehicles and innovative forms of transport organisation. Aims to develop mobility of tomorrow in Poland. Since 5 years responsible for marketing, sales and implementation of innovative solutions in Trapeze Poland. Led two pilot implementations of autonomous vehicles in Gdansk.

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  Adam Sobieraj
  Polski Związek Motorowy

  President of the board of the “Drogi Mazowsza” Foundation, owner of the “PRO.So Adam Sobieraj” company, Project Manager of “Drive 2 the Future” in the Polish Automobile and Motorcycle Federation (PZM), Coordinator of Road Safety Projects in PZM, Press Spokesman of the City Roads Management in Warsaw (2008 – 2016). Author of the road safety campaigns, author of the educational platform “Droga z klasą” for primary school teachers, author of educational projects “Bicycle license for Mazovia”. Licensed bicycle tourism guide.

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  Maciej Panek
  CEO PANEK Carsharing

  Maciej Panek, CEO of PANEK Carsharing. He graduated from capital investments at WSB in Poznań as well as marketing and management at the Wrocław University of Technology. Many business solutions and inspirations come from observing the world. He transfers to Poland foreign models that he finds during numerous, distant journeys. He is actively involved in photography, composes film music and runs. He has been a certified mentor since December 2016.

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  Rafał Zatorski
  ZF Group

  Director ZF Engineering Center. Graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the Lodz University of Technology. Over 24 years in R&D area, mainly related to electronics and automation. Since 2009 as the Director ZF Engineering Center. He is responsible for management Poland Electronics Engineering in two locations Częstochowa & Łódź with current headcount 800 employees.

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  Paweł Skruch
  Aptiv

  Habilitated doctor of technical sciences in the discipline of automatic control and robotics. Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. Employee of the Aptiv Technical Center in Krakow, where he deals with the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in cars with a high degree of driving automation. He has over 20 years of industrial and academic experience. Chairman of the Polish chapter of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, IEEE Senior Member, member of the Technical Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Polish Mathematical Society, working group for national smart specializations. Author or co-author of 4 monographs, 9 patent applications and over 100 scientific papers in the field of automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, mathematical modeling, computer simulation, software and systems engineering.