The challenges, but also the enormous potential and opportunities arising from real, properly planned and effectively implemented investments in new technologies have long been recognized by European Union institutions. The latest comprehensive program, which is also the framework for one of the EU’s most ambitious projects, is the assumptions of the so-called European Green Deal.
Transportation, construction, finance, industry, electronics are just some examples of the sectors of the EU economy that will undergo changes to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.
Speakers
dr Marek Sutkowski
Marek Sutkowski, graduated from the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology, PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He has experience in the field of gensets and cogeneration units as well as conventional and alternative fuels, both gaseous and liquid. He has been dealing with methods of using hydrogen in piston engines for over 20 years. He participated in several innovative research and development projects, mostly financed by European funds. In the years 2006-2016 he was employed in the power plant technology department of Wärtsilä. Responsible for the development of gas gensets and cogeneration units, in particular in terms of increasing efficiency and unconventional fuels applications. Since 2016, he has been employed at Horus-Energia and is responsible for the development and implementation of innovative solutions aimed at increasing the reliability and optimization of the operation of genset and cogeneration units as well as the possibility of using a wide range of liquid and gaseous fuels, including special fuels and hydrogen.
Michał Orłowski
Vice President of the Management Board for Asset Management and Development
Graduate of Wroclaw University of Technology in management and Wroclaw University of Economics in finance and corporate accounting. He holds the title of CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst).
He has been involved in the energy sector for over 10 years. He has extensive experience in, among other things, preparing business strategies, evaluating investment and development projects, merger and acquisition processes, due diligence, and creating business plans for many companies in Central Europe and the Middle East.
From November 2021 to 2024, he was employed by The Boston Consulting Group, most recently as Principal.
From 2016 to 2021, he worked at TAURON Polska Energia S.A., holding positions including Executive Director for Mergers, Acquisitions and Disinvestments, Deputy Executive Director for Investments, and Head of the Project Analysis and Evaluation Team. From 2014 to 2016 he worked at The Boston Consulting Group, and from 2013 to 2014 he was a market analyst at Fortum Power and Heat Polska sp. z o.o. in the area of production optimization, fuel management and energy trading.
Mr. Michał Orłowski was a member of supervisory boards at TAURON Ciepło sp. z o.o. and TAURON Nowe Technologie S.A., and chairman of the Supervisory Board at: Nowe Jaworzno Grupa TAURON sp. z o.o., Magenta Grupa TAURON sp. z o.o., TAURON Ciepło sp. z o.o., TAURON Nowe Technologie S.A.
Robert Heukelom
CEO of Cobra Europe
Robert Heukelom, Dutch from origine has over 30 years of experience in various industrial sector and countries.
Since 2021 Robert has joined Rema Tip Top an international concern in the Automotion, Conveying and Surface Protection industry, with a global network of manufacturing and service companies.
Robert is responsible for the European conveyor market and as MD/President responsible for the manufacturing facilities in Poland and France and the trading companies in the Netherlands. The organisations in Europe are tuned to delivery high end value to the customers, combining products, with service and monitoring solutions and developing new solutions for specific applications and compliance to the circular economy.
dr. hab. inż. Marian Niesler
Leader of the Raw Material Processes Research Group at Lukasiewicz – Upper Silesian Institute of Technology (Ł-GIT) in Gliwice
Specialist in blast furnace process, iron ore sintering, application of new fuels and reductants in metallurgical processes and environmental protection. Originator of the Hydrogen Metallurgy Laboratory at Łukasiewicz – GIT.
He gained practical experience in iron and steel metallurgy during his many years of professional work in the blast furnace department of an integrated steel mill. Expert on BAT best available techniques in steel production and processing. Author of industry guides on the application of BAT techniques in the metallurgical industry. Co-author of 12 patents and patent applications in the fields of iron-bearing waste utilization, making steel directly from iron ore using hydrogen, and hydrogen production.
dr. Inż. Tomasz Matuła
Hastal, Silesian University of Technology
Tomasz Matula, PhD, an engineer, graduated from the Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Engineering and Metallurgy (now Materials Engineering) in Katowice in 2015. Since 2017, he has been an employee of the Department of Materials Engineering at Silesian University of Technology, where, as part of his scientific and professional development and professional development, he conducts research related to related to the recycling of materials in the broadest sense and the application of biomass in the metallurgical industry.
Dr. Matula is also an employee of SRRobotics, where he is employed as an implementation specialist. In addition, he is researching solutions related to metallurgical waste recycling and R&D cooperation in cooperation with Hastal. He has held research internships at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, the Central Mining Institute and ENG-SOLUTIONS S.C.
Dr. Matula is the author or co-author of more than 32 published scientific articles in reputable Polish and foreign journals. His main scientific interests include issues related to materials recycling, biomass application, modern technologies, hazardous waste disposal.
