Presidium and Programme Council

Holds the PhD of Technical Sciences in the field of electrical power engineering and energy economics. Has been working at the Energy Regulatory Office URE since 2004, among others as the deputy director of the Department of Market Development and Consumer Issues. He took the position of URE President in 2019. Experienced in international cooperation: serving as an expert of the European Commission for the TAIEX programmes and twin-project in Ukraine related to the functioning of the electricity market, security of energy supply, the balancing market and congestion management. Expert at Florence School of Regulation on the development and operation of regional electricity markets. National expert with the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). In March 2021 appointed for the position of ACER Board of Regulators`s (BoR) Vice Chairman. Experienced in supervising energy companies, particularly in the field of financial reporting and audit as well as investment and development. Author of numerous publications and studies on the functioning of electricity markets, including the grid access principles, balancing and regional markets.

Doctor of legal sciences, legal counsel, graduate of law at the University of Warsaw and Doctoral Studies at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences

He is associated with the banking sector since 2003. From 2010 to 2020 he served as Director of the Legal and Legislative Team of the Polish Bank Association. Vice President of the Polish Bank Association since 2020. Chairman of the Steering Committee of the National Working Group on Reference Indicator Reform. Chairman of the Committee on Cyber Security of Banks. He has held numerous positions representing the banking sector at the national and European level, also within the European Banking Federation. He has participated in legislative work on numerous pieces of legislation in financial market regulations. Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration at the Financial Supervisory Council.

A graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, where he earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1988.
He began his career in the United States as a service engineer and as a service director for Hogan Technical Services, an industrial electronics equipment repair and maintenance company. From 1989 to 1991, he worked for a Canadian company that designs, manufactures and sells electronic equipment for the mining industry. From 1992 to 1993, he worked for Bull Poland and Digital Equipment Polska.
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From January 1994 to February 2006, he worked at HP Poland, serving successively as: the Director of Marketing and Partner Channels (January 1994-May 1996), the Director of the Computer Products Division (May 1996-July 1998) and the President of the Management Board (July 1998 – February 2006). In 2006, he assumed the position of the President of the Management Board of Oracle Poland. From June 2006 to November 2007, he was the Director of Oracle Fusion Middleware in Central Europe. From September 2013 to June 2016, he served as a Vice President of the Management Board of Asseco Poland responsible for the Infrastructure Division, Data Processing Center and ICT Department.
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Since January 4, 2016, he has been the Chairman of the Management Board of Asseco Data Systems, a company formed by consolidating six Polish companies from the Asseco Group and the Infrastructure Division from Asseco Poland. Since October 1, 2017, he has served as a Vice President of the Management Board of Asseco Poland. He is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board at ComCERT, Pirios and National Defence Systems, and a Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Asseco Cloud.

Diana is responsible for strategic risk management, payment ecosystem risk, fraud prevention and data security management in the CEE markets. She advises Visa partners on strategies related to complex operational, financial, legal and regulatory risks. In her daily work, she pays particular attention to combining up-to-date expertise with analysis of multiple data sources.

She has been working in the financial industry for 11 years. She worked, among others, at Citibank Europe and ING Bank Śląski. She carried out projects in the field of IT, corporate and strategic customer support and the launch of innovative projects. She also gained international experience in the New York branch of the ING Group.

Paula Januszkiewicz is an experienced cybersecurity expert, CEO, and the founder of CQURE Inc. and CQURE Academy. She is a Microsoft MVP, an honorable Regional Director for CEE, and a top-rated conference speaker at events such as Microsoft Ignite, RSA, Black Hat, and more. Her session was voted the best at Black Hat Asia Briefings 2019.

Paula has over 19 years of experience in the field, including performing penetration tests, consulting, and delivering sessions and trainings. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and has created security awareness programs for various organizations, including top management. Paula is also a member of the Technical Advisory Board at the Royal Bank of Scotland/Natwest and has been granted access to the source code of Windows.

Leszek Stypułkowski – MA in Management from the Warsaw School of Economics, scholarship at Mannheim Universitat. Held top management positions in Polish multinationals, co-created strategies and supervised subsidiaries in Europe, the Middle East, China and India for 20 years. CEO of a public company listed on the WSE.

Member of the Council of the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications
Plenipotentiary of the Board of PIIT for GAIA-X
CEO of Force System SA, CIO at Polski Gaz TUW (PGNIG Group), advisor at EdTech Hub Accelerator – public innovation. Previously: Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Finance for Informatization, Chairman of the Informatization Council of the Ministry of Finance, long-time member of the Board of Directors of the Social Insurance Institution supervising the Division of Operations and Operation of Systems, CEO of Post-Tel (Polish Post Group).
Graduate of the faculties of Finance and Banking and Computer Science and Econometrics at the Cracow University of Economics. He completed postgraduate studies in IT resource management at the Institute of Applied Informatics and Automation of the Warsaw University of Technology and the CIO Academy at the Said Business School of the University of Oxford. Engaged in management control in public administration member of the audit committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Founding member of the Polish Software Measurement Association in Poland dedicated to the study of complexity, measurement and valuation of software. Member of the Council of CIONET Poland.
In his career to date, he has worked in public administration, financial and consulting sectors. He has extensive experience in the implementation of large and complex IT projects.

Agata Tyburska, Ph.D. – retired junior police inspector, police officer
with thirty years of service, currently employed at the Police Academy in Szczytno, where, as a professor at the academy, she teaches classes in state security, critical infrastructure and civil protection. She holds a PhD in social pedagogy (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) and a postdoctoral degree in social sciences, discipline: security sciences (Academy of National Defense
Warsaw). From 2000 to 2007 she headed the Department of Preventive Services. In turn
from 2018 to 2019, she served as pro-rector for studies and then, until 2021, as pro-rector for development at the Police Academy in Szczytno. She was also chairman of the scientific council of the quarterly Police Review, editor-in-chief of the semiannual Internal Security and the quarterly Police. Police Executives Quarterly (academic journals published at the Higher School of Police in Szczytno, now the Police Academy in Szczytno)

Manager and executor of tasks and research projects
in the field of security and defense, among others, on behalf of the Police Academy in Szczytno, she managed the performance of tasks under the NCBiR-funded research project “Mobile distribution point of data communications infrastructure (MPDIT)” implemented in 2018 – 2023, (project leader: Warsaw University of Technology, project manager: Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Poźniak). The aforementioned project during the Second International POLSECURE Fair in Kielce (2023), received the prestigious POLSECURE award, was also awarded by the Editorial Board of portal-mundurowy.pl and the Competition Jury
in the “Innovations for Security and Defense” competition (2024).

The research interests of Agata Tyburska, PhD, are directly related to
with the internal security of the state. In the last fifteen years, the scientific and research activity of Dr. Agata Tyburska oscillates mainly around the issues of critical infrastructure, civil protection and threats to security and public order She is the author of many scientific studies in the field of internal security and public order. In 2025, she received a distinction from the Polish Society of Security Sciences
of Security Sciences, based in Siedlce, in the Competition for the best monograph and scientific article in the field of security sciences published in 2020-2024, for the scientific article entitled Research on linkages and dependencies of critical infrastructure systems as a basis for immunization of critical infrastructure of the state and large urban agglomerations(“Journal of Modern Science”, Volume 3/52/2023).

Prof. dr hab inż. Jarosław Wołejszo, dr h.c., retired Colonel, is a research and teaching staff member at the President Stanisław Wojciechowski Kalisz University.
In 1998, he obtained a doctoral degree in military sciences with a specialization in command. The title of his doctoral dissertation was: “Operations of First-Use Forces in the Border Screening Zone.”
In 2004, he was awarded a postdoctoral (habilitation) degree in military sciences with a specialization in command (Faculty of Land Forces, National Defence Academy). The title of his habilitation dissertation was: “Modification of Organizational Structures of Tactical-Level Land Forces Commands in the Polish Armed Forces.”
In 2010, he was granted the title of Professor of Military Sciences by the President of Poland.
At the National Defence Academy (1996–2015), he held various academic and teaching positions, from assistant and adjunct, to Head of the Department of Command Systems and Training Methodology, Commandant of the Institute of Management and Command, Deputy Commandant-Dean of the Faculty of Land Forces, Commandant-Dean of the Faculty of Land Forces, and Dean of the Faculty of Management and Command.
He was the organizer, main author, and director of the exercise code-named “PIERŚCIEŃ …” (RING…) at the National Defence Academy, focusing on coordination, cooperation, and synchronization of actions between County and Municipal Crisis Management Teams (in Pułtusk and Ciechanów) and Mechanized Divisions, Mechanized/Armored Brigades, battalions/squadrons during crisis and wartime scenarios.
Currently, he serves as the Director of the Institute of Security Sciences at the President Stanisław Wojciechowski Kalisz University and Chair of the Scientific Council for the Discipline of Security Sciences.
He specializes in issues related to security and defense, particularly command and control within the national security system (Polish Armed Forces’ command system, command and control in crisis management), art of war, research methodology in security sciences, praxeology in security, management and command, decision-making processes, training (professional development) of personnel in hierarchical organizations, and implementing change within such organizations.
He is the author of numerous theoretical and practical publications. In his academic and educational career, he has supervised many doctoral, master’s, and bachelor’s students.
He is also the author of numerous scientific works, research projects, publications, and articles, as well as a supervisor of diploma and doctoral theses in the areas of security, national defense, and management and command. He is the chair and organizer of a series of scientific conferences dedicated to Praxeology in Management and Command, Praxeology in Security Sciences, Art of War, and National Security Systems, including Praxeology in Crisis Management, such as:
the 2nd National Scientific Conference in the series “Praxeology in Security Sciences” on “Effectiveness of Cooperation between Entities Responsible for Crisis Management” (Kalisz, November 22–23, 2022),
the 2nd Congress of Security Sciences on “Scientific Centers – Areas of Research and Education” (Kalisz, November 20–21, 2024),
and the 1st International Conference of Incident Commanders during War and Peace (Kluczbork, March 6–7, 2025).
He has been repeatedly honored with state, ministerial, and university rector’s awards.
Website: http://jaroslawwolejszo.pl/ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7216-3496