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Friday duel: How not to invest in Poland. Maciej Zientara against Edi Pyrek.

Eight rounds, host­ed by pro­fes­sor Piotr Senkus. Fri­day, 12:00, the In­ter­na­tion­al Pro­duc­ers Fo­rum at the Warsaw Presidential Hotel.

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In the fi­nal agen­da the duel ran on Fri­day 28 Au­gust from 14:00 to 15:00 on the main stage at the Warsaw Presidential Hotel. The room was not the only judge: AI Ref­er­ee, an ex­per­i­men­tal tech­nol­o­gy built for this de­bate by Xfaang, the fes­ti­val's tech­nol­o­gy part­ner, read what was said in real time and ver­i­fied the ar­gu­ments. Pro­fes­sor Piotr Senkus and Piotr Zientara of WarsawJS also took part in the format.

Maciej Zientara is an in­vestor and busi­ness an­gel with more than twen­ty-five years on the Pol­ish cap­i­tal mar­ket and the founder of Su­per­no­va Group. Edi Pyrek is a fu­tur­ist, au­thor and psy­chol­o­gist, co-founder of the Glob­al Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Al­liance and the Acad­e­my of Future.

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