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Krzysztof ZanussiDirectorEducatorRobert KaminskiAdvisorBusiness GrowthAleksandra PaniskoScriptwriterDirectorDorota ZwierzchowskaProducerLawyerJoanna UniwersalStrategyAdi SidemanCEOFounderMaciej ZientaraEntrepreneurAngel InvestorMinh DoCEOProducerJames DrakePhilanthropistFounderStuart CrippsSupervisorVFX / AIAffan ImranCEOFounderArtem PetrovCEOFounderThomas R. CarringtonDirectorFounderBilguun AriunbaatarPresenterActorPaweł DelągActorDirectorKarol ŻbikowskiCEOProducerJaroslaw GrzywinskiCEOLawyerMichał "OverJK" OwerczukDirectorFounderRobert MoscickiCEOMike WolniakCEOFounderJan KepinskiProducerDirectorLukasz KowalskiDirectorJournalistMaciej KaweckiLawyerEducatorKatarzyna StaroslawskaData & AIAI RegulationPiotr SliskowskiCinematographerEducatorCezary GrzesiukEditorFilmmakerKamil PrzeleckiProducerEducatorMatt TokarzVFX SupervisorCreative DirectorMeggie MiaoProducerEducatorMargarita GrubinaVoice AIBusiness GrowthOscar BurgosVFX SupervisorDirectorCaroline KoziolComedianCreatorJakub SzymczukPhotojournalistJournalistRobert GulaczykActorPolicy ReformAndrzej NejmanActorDirectorBartosz TrzopArchitectCEOAureliusz GorskiFounderEntrepreneurEdmond YangArtistCreative DirectorNik Preston KujavecProducerDesignerPeter Chulmin KrellPublisherArtistJunho HerDirectorFounderMarc HorguesCreative DirectorFounderArtur KurasinskiEntrepreneurAuthorMarcin GrabarczykCybersecurityEngineerEdi PyrekFuturistAuthorJustin Trevor WintersScriptwriterEducatorAdrien BodsonProducerScriptwriterMatthew SzewczykDirectorCreative DirectorBen ChimoyDirectorFilmmakerMarcus GripFilmmakerEducatorMarta SolikCreative DirectorFounderMeg ButtonCreative DirectorProducerMatt SwulinskiBusiness GrowthFounderJoshua KappelLawyerPolicy ReformMichal KibilLawyerTech LawFilip KonopczynskiLawyerAI RegulationMariusz BusiloLawyerMedia LawPiotr SenkusScientistEducatorSylvain PerretCreative TechnologistFounderDominika Aurelia KoryckaArtistFilmmakerMarta Mary SoltysiakMotion CaptureAnimationLaura TorngaProducerEducatorDiane LaidlawFilmmakerCreative TechnologistCaroline ThireauCreative TechnologistEducatorMonsieur MoyenDirectorFilmmakerBrogan WassellFilmmakerDirectorAlbert BozesanFilmmakerScriptwriterAdrian Daniel BotnariuFilmmakerFounderBilly BomanFounderProducerPawel PotakowskiAccessibilityLawyerThemo "themojn" MelikidzeActorCreative DirectorMarkus & Tanja LaukkanenArtistsFilmmakersAmit LathCEOEntrepreneurMarcin SlaczkaCEOFuturistPiotr ZientaraFounderCEORadoslaw JareckiProducerCEOMichal RatajczakCEOFounderMariusz PolecCEOFounderCezary BrodaCEOBusiness GrowthMaciej Krystian SzymanskiBusiness GrowthAI RegulationMartin KunertDirectorScriptwriterEric ManesProducerScriptwriterMax SalamonowiczCEOGame DeveloperBartlomiej GlowackiFounderHealth TechKacper WikielFounderEngineerYonatan KraSoftware ArchitectEngineerIllarion KoperskiCTOE-commerceMikhail KorolevEngineerDeveloper ExperienceArtur ZochniakEngineerStephan V. BugajCreative DirectorProducerMassimo BenvegnùCriticCuratorDaniil RabizoSoftware ArchitectVoice AIJan Ignacy KrólikowskiComposerMusic ProducerAndre DanekMusic ProducerComposerPola LachnikModelAI RegulationJedrzej JezierskiActorPresenterPhilippe BukaTalent AgentFounderJolanta BorowiecChannel DirectorTVEmilia DudzinskaPhD CandidateBIMKrzysztof SolekProducerFounderPawel PierzchlewiczCEOScientistWojciech "Lozo" LozowskiSingerActorBoguslaw LesnodorskiLawyerFounderMira MarcinowAuthorScientistMarcin CeckoPlaywrightAuthorMichal KornackiCEOFounderEtienne DejongProducerCreative DirectorMichal Pronobis-PronskiBusiness GrowthStrategyLukasz KlimkiewiczSoftware ArchitectEngineerTomek OkuliczCreative DirectorDirectorLudwik SobolewskiInvestorLawyerIzabela PolecTalent AgentJoanna KocActorPresenterMarcin SchmidtFounderEducatorRobert KroplewskiLawyerAI RegulationArtur PaprockiCEOCreative TechnologistKate MolchanovaAnimationArtist
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Friday, Aug 28 · 14:00-15:00 · MAIN STAGE · Warsaw Presidential Hotel · in Polish

HOW TO NOT INVEST IN POLAND?

Eight rounds. One winner.

A duel over eight rounds. Two speakers, one subject and a room that decides. Edi Pyrek and Maciej Zientara take on the Polish investment market from the side people usually discuss under their breath: what scares money away, where founders lose time, which habits of the industry cost the most. The format is deliberately sharp, because a sharp format shows faster which arguments have numbers under them and which have only conviction. The room is not the only judge. The duel is also scored by AI Referee, an experimental technology built for this debate by Xfaang, the festival's technology partner: it reads what is said in real time, verifies the arguments and helps judge how a live public debate is going.

  • Two speakers, one subject, the room decides
  • AI Referee by Xfaang reads the debate as it happens
Edi PyrekMaciej ZientaraPiotr SenkusPiotr Zientara
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Who's on stage

Edi Pyrek

Futurist · Author · Poland

Futurist, author and psychologist, co-founder of the Global Artificial Intelligence Alliance and the Academy of Future, and an advocate of compassionate AI. Over a career spanning more than three decades he has advised three Polish prime ministers and several cabinet ministers, worked as a peace negotiator among tribal chiefs in Afghanistan after 9/11, and lectured as a dean of psychology at SWPS University. He has written ten books, including titles published by National Geographic, produced documentary series for Discovery Channel and TVP, and spoken three times at TEDx. His decades of fieldwork among traditional cultures, from Siberian shamans to the Blackfoot nation that adopted him as a Sun Dancer, inform his work on peak performance: pairing the state of flow with technology instead of losing ourselves to it.

At Warsaw Glitch 2026

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Maciej Zientara

Entrepreneur · Angel Investor · Poland

Investor and business angel focused on artificial intelligence, with more than twenty-five years on the Polish capital market. Founder of Supernova Group, which runs its venture, development and financial services lines, and since 2023 a partner and co-investor in the listed fund JRH ASI. He has taken part in financing over a hundred capital projects. In 2025 he acquired more than 6 million shares in the Prime ASI fund. Before that he put 10 million dollars into CampusAI, the record pre-seed round in the history of Polish startups, backing a virtual campus where people learn to work with AI through avatars and courses. His words: “AI is changing the rules of the game”.

At Warsaw Glitch 2026

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Piotr Senkus

Scientist · Educator · Poland

Habilitated doctor of engineering and a professor at the University of Warsaw and the University of Siedlce, for over fifteen years he has combined the science of process management with hands-on AI deployments across the public and private sector. He co-created AI4Executives at the University of Warsaw, a programme preparing leaders for the AI era, and co-founded the BPM Competence Center. A recipient of the US Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award and a member of Sigma Xi, the international scientific research honor society.

At Warsaw Glitch 2026

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Piotr Zientara

Founder · CEO · Poland

Warsaw entrepreneur and engineer who bridges the tech community and business: CEO of the software house Xfaang, co-founder of AskQL Technologies, co-owner of the K MAG magazine and an investor in Stimy AI. As a co-founder of the WarsawJS Foundation he has led Warsaw's JavaScript community of over 6,500 members for a decade, organized five editions of the ConfrontJS conference and founded Edukaton, a hackathon built around training new developers. A philosophy graduate of the University of Warsaw, he mentors at Rails Girls and WarsawJS and teaches mathematics and programming on YouTube.

At Warsaw Glitch 2026

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Krzysztof ZanussiDirectorEducatorRobert KaminskiAdvisorBusiness GrowthAleksandra PaniskoScriptwriterDirectorDorota ZwierzchowskaProducerLawyerJoanna UniwersalStrategyAdi SidemanCEOFounderMaciej ZientaraEntrepreneurAngel InvestorMinh DoCEOProducerJames DrakePhilanthropistFounderStuart CrippsSupervisorVFX / AIAffan ImranCEOFounderArtem PetrovCEOFounderThomas R. CarringtonDirectorFounderBilguun AriunbaatarPresenterActorPaweł DelągActorDirectorKarol ŻbikowskiCEOProducerJaroslaw GrzywinskiCEOLawyerMichał "OverJK" OwerczukDirectorFounderRobert MoscickiCEOMike WolniakCEOFounderJan KepinskiProducerDirectorLukasz KowalskiDirectorJournalistMaciej KaweckiLawyerEducatorKatarzyna StaroslawskaData & AIAI RegulationPiotr SliskowskiCinematographerEducatorCezary GrzesiukEditorFilmmakerKamil PrzeleckiProducerEducatorMatt TokarzVFX SupervisorCreative DirectorMeggie MiaoProducerEducatorMargarita GrubinaVoice AIBusiness GrowthOscar BurgosVFX SupervisorDirectorCaroline KoziolComedianCreatorJakub SzymczukPhotojournalistJournalistRobert GulaczykActorPolicy ReformAndrzej NejmanActorDirectorBartosz TrzopArchitectCEOAureliusz GorskiFounderEntrepreneurEdmond YangArtistCreative DirectorNik Preston KujavecProducerDesignerPeter Chulmin KrellPublisherArtistJunho HerDirectorFounderMarc HorguesCreative DirectorFounderArtur KurasinskiEntrepreneurAuthorMarcin GrabarczykCybersecurityEngineerEdi PyrekFuturistAuthorJustin Trevor WintersScriptwriterEducatorAdrien BodsonProducerScriptwriterMatthew SzewczykDirectorCreative DirectorBen ChimoyDirectorFilmmakerMarcus GripFilmmakerEducatorMarta SolikCreative DirectorFounderMeg ButtonCreative DirectorProducerMatt SwulinskiBusiness GrowthFounderJoshua KappelLawyerPolicy ReformMichal KibilLawyerTech LawFilip KonopczynskiLawyerAI RegulationMariusz BusiloLawyerMedia LawPiotr SenkusScientistEducatorSylvain PerretCreative TechnologistFounderDominika Aurelia KoryckaArtistFilmmakerMarta Mary SoltysiakMotion CaptureAnimationLaura TorngaProducerEducatorDiane LaidlawFilmmakerCreative TechnologistCaroline ThireauCreative TechnologistEducatorMonsieur MoyenDirectorFilmmakerBrogan WassellFilmmakerDirectorAlbert BozesanFilmmakerScriptwriterAdrian Daniel BotnariuFilmmakerFounderBilly BomanFounderProducerPawel PotakowskiAccessibilityLawyerThemo "themojn" MelikidzeActorCreative DirectorMarkus & Tanja LaukkanenArtistsFilmmakersAmit LathCEOEntrepreneurMarcin SlaczkaCEOFuturistPiotr ZientaraFounderCEORadoslaw JareckiProducerCEOMichal RatajczakCEOFounderMariusz PolecCEOFounderCezary BrodaCEOBusiness GrowthMaciej Krystian SzymanskiBusiness GrowthAI RegulationMartin KunertDirectorScriptwriterEric ManesProducerScriptwriterMax SalamonowiczCEOGame DeveloperBartlomiej GlowackiFounderHealth TechKacper WikielFounderEngineerYonatan KraSoftware ArchitectEngineerIllarion KoperskiCTOE-commerceMikhail KorolevEngineerDeveloper ExperienceArtur ZochniakEngineerStephan V. BugajCreative DirectorProducerMassimo BenvegnùCriticCuratorDaniil RabizoSoftware ArchitectVoice AIJan Ignacy KrólikowskiComposerMusic ProducerAndre DanekMusic ProducerComposerPola LachnikModelAI RegulationJedrzej JezierskiActorPresenterPhilippe BukaTalent AgentFounderJolanta BorowiecChannel DirectorTVEmilia DudzinskaPhD CandidateBIMKrzysztof SolekProducerFounderPawel PierzchlewiczCEOScientistWojciech "Lozo" LozowskiSingerActorBoguslaw LesnodorskiLawyerFounderMira MarcinowAuthorScientistMarcin CeckoPlaywrightAuthorMichal KornackiCEOFounderEtienne DejongProducerCreative DirectorMichal Pronobis-PronskiBusiness GrowthStrategyLukasz KlimkiewiczSoftware ArchitectEngineerTomek OkuliczCreative DirectorDirectorLudwik SobolewskiInvestorLawyerIzabela PolecTalent AgentJoanna KocActorPresenterMarcin SchmidtFounderEducatorRobert KroplewskiLawyerAI RegulationArtur PaprockiCEOCreative TechnologistKate MolchanovaAnimationArtist
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