Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Blikle
Prof. Andrzej Blikle is a professor of mathematical sciences, an outstanding computer scientist, a long-standing academic researcher and lecturer, as well as a master confectioner. Professor Blikle specializes in the mathematical foundations of software engineering and is also an experienced business trainer.
Between 1990 and 2010, he developed his family confectionery business, founded in 1869, from a single pastry shop in Warsaw into a network of fifteen establishments including pastry shops, cafés, restaurants and delicatessen stores in Warsaw, as well as eight additional locations operating within a nationwide franchise network.
Since 2018 he has been running the training and consulting company Andrzej Blikle Doradca, offering programs both for individual companies and organizations as well as within MBA studies, including those conducted at the Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
His book “The Quality Doctrine – On Effective Management” won first place in the category “Best Economic Guidebook” in the Economicus 2015 competition organized by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. In 2016 it also received an award from the Collegium of Business Administration of the Warsaw School of Economics for the best work in the field of enterprise studies published in 2014–2015.
Professor Blikle is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, the Polish Language Council, and more than twenty other professional and scientific organizations.
Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Hausner
Prof. Jerzy Hausner is a professor of economics, Chairman of the Program Council of the Open Eyes Economy Summit and Chairman of the Council of the Foundation for Public Economy and Administration. He previously served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy, Labour and Social Policy, and was a Member of the Polish Parliament from 2001 to 2005. He also served as a member of the Monetary Policy Council (third term) and is a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Kisiel Award, the Władysław Grabski Award and the Edward Lipiński Award, and holds an honorary doctorate from Warsaw School of Economics.
For many years he served as the Social Plenipotentiary of the Rector of Krakow University of Economics for Culture and Sport. Over the years he has coordinated numerous research projects, including international initiatives, and has significantly contributed to promoting Polish scholarship and economic knowledge abroad.
Professor Hausner is the author of more than 550 publications in the fields of political economy and public management. In recognition of his outstanding public service, he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He has received many distinctions, including the Kisiel, Władysław Grabski and Edward Lipiński awards.
In 2020 his book “The Social Spacetime of Economic Activity: Towards an Economics of Values” received the Copernicus Prize of the City of Kraków, awarded by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Edward Lipiński Prize of the Polish Economic Society.
Prof. Anton P. Fenik
Professor Anton P. Fenik is a professor at Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University. He earned his PhD in Marketing from the University of Tennessee. Prior to that, he completed an MBA and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at the University of South Carolina.
His research interests focus on decision-making processes, supply chain and logistics strategy, and international marketing. His work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management and the Journal of Transportation Management.
Professor Fenik also has managerial experience in the international business sector, having held leadership positions in marketing and B2B relationship management. He is a member of the American Marketing Association and the Society for Marketing Advances, and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the Journal of International Marketing.
Prof. dr hab. Joanna Ejdys
Prof. Joanna Ejdys is the Dean of the Faculty of Management Engineering and has been affiliated with Białystok University of Technology for many years. She received the title of Professor of Social Sciences in 2020.
Her research focuses on foresight studies, trust in technology, and smart and sustainable urban mobility. She currently leads an international research project funded under the Horizon Europe programme – LAND EUROPE (2023–2027), as well as a project financed by the National Science Centre Poland examining the determinants of social acceptance of smart and sustainable urban mobility (2023–2025).
Professor Ejdys is the author and co-author of more than 200 scientific publications and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Engineering Management in Production and Services, indexed in Scopus (Q2).
Keynote speakers - business
Grzegorz Błażewicz
Salesmanago Founder & Board Member, Entrepreneur, Advisor, Investor
Adam Leszkiewicz
President of the Management Board at Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa
Wojciech Pantkowski
Vice-President of the Management Board at Krajowa Izba Rozliczeniowa
Magdalena Tokarczyk-Cyran
CEO KFA Armatura
Ewa Wachowicz
TV personality, producer, journalist, owner of the Zalipianki Ewa Wachowicz Restaurant
XVIII INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE OF THE COLLEGE OF MANAGAMENT AND QUALITY SCIENCES OF KRAKOW UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS
Knowledge – Economy – Society
