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CONTENTS

Welcome Letter ................................................................................................................. 3

Agenda ....................................................................................................................................... 5

Biographies .............................................................................................................................8

Pitching Companies and Institutions ......................................................15

Steering Committee ...................................................................................................16

Institutional and Strategic Partners of US-Poland Innovation Week .......................................................................17

JamesL.SweeneyDirectorStanfordUniversityYang&YamazakiEnvironment&EnergyBuilding–MC4206;473ViaOrtega,Room389;Stanford,CA94305

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November 20, 2014

Distinguished Guests:

As director of the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center at Stanford University, I welcome you to Polish-American Dialogue: Research Opportunities and Challenges, one in a series of meetings and discussions marking U.S.-Poland Innovation Week, a California-wide event organized under the auspices of the Government of the Republic of Poland. The Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC) with the support of the US-Polish Trade Council is delighted to serve as the local host for this timely and important discussion, and we thank you all for joining us here today.

This year, Poland celebrates 25 years since the demise of a political and economic system that blocked free trade and stifled the exchange of scientific and technology ideas. A quarter-century of dizzying transformation later, Poland is home to vibrant democratic institutions and a healthy free-market economy, is a member of NATO, a staunch ally of the United States, and an active champion of embattled aspiring democracies in the region.

Today’s dialogue finds a natural home at Stanford University, an institution whose unparalleled commitment to fostering entrepreneurship and cross-industry, cross-cultural innovation has directly influenced development of Silicon Valley into the global epicenter for creative exchanges in business and technology. Working with our Polish partners – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Center for Research and Development –PEEC has developed a program for discussing research and development, especially energy R&D. Specifically, today’s event explores current and future options for affordable, environmental, and secure energy. Today we also will discuss issues related to collaborative efforts in health and technology –key areas of growth in this century.

At today’s event we welcome alumni of the Top500 Innovators program, a groundbreaking program pioneered by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and implemented at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Good having you back, Top500’s!

Like many countries, Poland has made substantial progress in securing equality of opportunity for women. We are pleased to have Poland’s Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Katarzyna Kacperczyk, at Stanford along with some of Silicon Valley’s accomplished woman in leadership, discussing the challenges to gender-equality in business, science, and politics.

We hope all participants will benefit from the time spent with us at Stanford University and look forward to many more productive exchanges with you in the years to come.

Welcome!

James Sweeney Piotr D. Moncarz Professor, Stanford University Consulting Professor, Stanford University Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center Chairman, US-Polish Trade Council

The rules of conduct at the “Opportunities and Challenges” sessions: “Each speaker will be allotted a maximum of five minutes for opening comments. The moderator will then make sure there is an exchange of ideas between the two speakers as well as take some questions or short comments from the floor. At the end of the session the moderator will ask the two panelists if they would like to make 30 seconds of closing comments.

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8:30 am - 8:40 am Welcome and introductionProfessor James L. Sweeney, Stanford University, Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency CenterProfessor Włodzisław Duch, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of PolandKatarzyna Kacperczyk, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland

8:45 am - 9:10 am UE funds for collaborations PL - US ScientistsProfessor Włodzisław Duch 10 minutes for introductory comments, 20 minutes for questions to Professor Włodzisław Duch from Professor James L. Sweeney and from audience.Moderator: Professor James L. Sweeney, Stanford University, Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center

9:15 am - 9:35 am Opportunities and Challenges in Regulatory Programs for Energy EfficiencyDian Grueneich, Senior Research Associate, Stanford UniversityMarek Woszczyk, President, Polish Energy Group, PGEModerator: Adam Ostaszewski, EnerNOC

9:40 am - 10:00 am Opportunities and Challenges for Smart Grid Infrastructure and Communication FeedbackMarek Duk, Head, R&D Unit, Department for System Development, Polish Transmission System Operator (PSE)Dr. Carrie Armel, Stanford University, Research Associate, Precourt Energy Efficiency CenterModerator: Luke Kowalski, Vice President, Oracle

10:00 am - 10:15 am Break and networking

10:15 am - 10:35 am Opportunities and Challenges in Energy ModelingProfessor Waldemar Skomudek, Head, Department of Project Management, Opole University of TechnologyProfessor Lawrence H. Goulder, Stanford UniversityModerator: Jolanta Kokosińska, Partner, Price Waterhouse Cooper

10:40 am - 11:00 am Opportunities and Challenges in Financing Clean New EnergyDr. Dan Reicher, Stanford University, Executive Director, Steyer-Taylor Centerfor Energy Policy and FinanceDr. Rafał Mrówka, KIC InnoEnergy Poland Plus, EiT+Moderator: Michał Ciepliński, Senior Counsel and Vice President, Mellon Capital Management

11:05 am - 11:25 am Opportunities and Challenges for Institutional Structures for Interdisciplinary Problem-Oriented ResearchProfessor Lynn Orr, Stanford UniversityProfessor Krzysztof Jan Kurzydłowski, Director, National Center for Research and Development of PolandModerator: Professor Channing Robertson, Stanford University

11:30 am - 11:50 am Opportunities and Challenges for Shale GasAndrzej Kozłowski, Chief Strategy Officer, PKN OrlenProfessor Mark Zoback, Stanford UniversityModerator: Dr. Davis Ford, P.E., Davis L. Ford & Associates, Texas

11:55 am - 12:15 pm Opportunities and Challenges in Bio-tech/Medical Tech/MaterialsDr. Ph. Geoffrey Lomax, Senior Officer, California Institute for Regenerative MedicineProfessor Mariusz Ratajczak, Developmental Biology Research Program at the University of Louisville/Department of Regenerative Medicine at Warsaw Medical UniversityModerator: Professor Piotr Waciński, Lublin Medical University

AGENDA

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AGENDA

12:55 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch1:30 pm - 2:25 pm Breakout sessions

HEALTH/BIO INDUSTRY/ACADEMIC EXCHANGES

ENERGY / CLEAN ENERGY CREATIVE INDUSTRIES /IT

1.30 – 1.35 Introductory remarks1.35 – 1.45 Find Yourself at the Center of Solutions – Poland  at the very center of solutions – people, competence & connections – Associate Professor Piotr Waciński, Lublin Medical University1.50 – 2.25 Pitching session by Polish companies1.50 – 1.55 Institute of Cera-mics and Building Materials 1.55 – 2.00 Optipharma2.00 – 2.05 Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology University of Gdańsk2.05 – 2.10 Translational Medicine Centre for Małopolska Region2.10 – 2.15 Lodz Technopark 2.15 – 2.20 University of Lodz Department of General Biophysics2.20 – 2.25 Eurochit2.25 – 2.30 Q&AModerator: AssociateProfessor Piotr Waciński,Lublin Medical University

1.50 Opening by the moderators1.55 – 2.15 Horizon 2020 Horizon 2020: possibilities for industry-academia projects – Katarzyna Walczyk-Matu-szyk, National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the European UnionEuropean Research Council – frontier research – Professor Tadeusz Burczyński, Institute for Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences2.15 - 2.35 US success stories in the EU framework programmes – case studies by US partnersOTOSTEM FP7 project – Professor Stefan Heller, Stanford UniversityIntricate FP7 project – Professor PJ Utz, Stanford University Representatives of US companies2.35 - 2.45 Discussion and Q&A sessionsModerator: Katarzyna Walczyk-Matuszyk, NCP and Isfandyar Zaman Khan World Bank

1.30 – 1.35 Introductory remarks by Michal Kobosko1.35 – 1.55 Presentations of KIC Innoenergy companies1.35 – 1.40 Gradis1.40 – 1.45 VIS energia 1.45 – 1.50 MarCelLi2.00 – 2.25 Presentation of Greenevo project, Agnieszka Kozłowska-Korbicz, Coordinator of Greenevo Project2.25 - 2.30  Q&AModerator: Michał Kobosko, Atlantic Council, Poland Office

1.30 –1.35 Introductoryremarks1.35 – 1.50 Building early stage companies and their internationalization Panel discussion with:Bartosz Ciołkowski, Country Manager, Poland MasterCardArkadiusz Świerczewski, PKN OrlenScott Buck, Program Director, Intel Labs1:50 – 2:20 Polish startups pitch session (startup battle) Introduction by Representative of Business Link1.50 – 1.55 Materialination1.55 – 2.00 Hashitashi2.00 – 2.05 Think2.05 – 2.10 K2Print2.10 – 2.15 Risk2.15 – 2.20  Printify2.20 Q&AModerator: Tom Murphy, General Manager & Editorial Director, CMS Wire

12:20 pm - 12:25 pm Assistant Professor Michael Lepech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University - Top 500 Program Introduction

12:25 pm - 12:30 pm Rafał Plewa, Media Drones - Why drones are taking markets by storm? My first start-up

12:30 pm - 12:35 pm Paweł Nowicki, BTM Innovation - Modern technology transfer in Poland

12:35 pm - 12:40 pm Wiktor Sroka, SHOPA - Design thinking is really working in Poland

12:40 pm - 12:45 pm Mariusz Tomaka, US-Poland Innovation Hub - The industry-academia-global market bridge based on Stanford tools

12:45 pm - 12:50 pm Katarzyna Walczyk-Matuszyk,  Association of Top 500 Innovators - Successful network of business-academia cooperation

12:20 pm - 12:55 pm Top 500 Innovators Program – Achievements

Top 500 Alumni representatives:

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BIOGRAPHIES

2:20 pm - 3:20 pm POLISH AMERICAN ENERGY ROUNDTABLEProfessor Włodzisław Duch, Under--Secretary of State, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of PolandProfessor Krzysztof Jan Kurzydłowski, Director, National Center for Research and Development of PolandKatarzyna Kacperczyk, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PolandMarek Woszczyk, President, Polish Energy Group, PGEAndrzej Kozłowski, Chief Strategy Officer, PKN OrlenProfessor Sally Benson, Stanford University, Director, Global Climate and Energy Project, Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Professor Arun Majumdar, Stanford University, Professor, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Senior Fellow, the Precourt Institute for EnergyMarek Samotyj, Program Manager, Power Delivery and Utilization Sector, EPRIProfessor James L. Sweeney, Stanford University, Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency CenterModerator: Consulting Professor Piotr Moncarz, Stanford University, Chairman, US-Polish Trade Council

2:30 pm - 4:50 pm WINE AND CHEESE NETWORKING SESSION

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BIOGRAPHIES

Wlodzislaw Duch, Under-Secretary of Sate, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of PolandProfessor Duch was born in 1954. He graduated in theoretical physics from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of the Nico-laus Copernicus University in 1977, where three years later he defended his PhD thesis in quantum chemistry. In 1987, a degree of Doctor of Science was conferred upon him by this University (his postdoctoral thesis was dedicated to applied mathematics). He was awarded a pro-fessorship in 1997. In addition to theoretical physics and applied computer science, he is also involved in cognitive science, neurocognitive computer science and philosophy of the mind. He is the author or co-author of over 300 publications in professional journals, co-editor of more than 20 books, a member of numerous scientific societies and editorial boards of more than 20 international specialist journals. He has worked at many universities, including the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (1980-1982), the Max Planck Institutes (of Astrophysics and Psychology) in Munich (1984-2001), several universities in Japan, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (2003-2008, 2010-2012) as well as at several other scientific institutions in Europe and the USA. For two terms he held the position of the President of the European Neural Network Society. He is a fellow of the International Neural Network Society and a member of technical committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He was an expert as regards the EU’s Fifth and Seventh Framework Program for Research (FP5 and FP7) and a member of three Committees on the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2012-14 he was Vice-Rector of the Nicolaus Copernicus University for Research and Computerization. On 22 April 2014 he was appointed Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry for Science and Higher Education.

Michal Cieplinski, Senior Councel and Vice President, Mellon Capital MenegementMichał Ciepliński is an SEC registered investment adviser and a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon, with over $380 billion assets under management and multiple domestic and foreign offices. At Mellon Capital, Michal is responsible for all aspects of secu-rities and corporate legal issues with a particular emphasis on private funds (US and foreign domiciled, including UCITS,QIFs and SICAVs), managed accounts and regulatory matters affecting asset management industry. Prior to Mellon Capital, Michal was a senior asociate in the investment management department of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP practicing in both New York and London offices. Michal is a graduate of the George Washington University Law School where he was a recipient of the Thomas Buergenthal Scholarship and of the Jagiellonian University Law School.

Marek Duk, Head, R&D Unit, Department for System Development, Polish Transmission System Operator (PSE)Marek Duk has spent his entire professional career with the Polish Transmission System Operator. He is responsible for all innovative and R&D activities. Mr. Duk is the Leader of a Demand Side Response project and is also involved in the widely named new technology, Smart Grid and Smart Metering related activities.

Carrie Armel, Research Associate, Stanford University, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center Dr. Carrie Armel is a research associate at Stanford’s Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC) where she investigates the diverse ways in which an understanding of human behavior can lead to improvements in energy efficiency. For example, the application of behavioral principles can produce significant energy reductions through interventions implemented at the policy, technology, built environment, me-dia/marketing, and organizational/community levels. Dr. Armel co-chairs the Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference; oversees Precourt Institute’s Behavior and Energy Bibliographic Database and Website; and teaches courses on behavior and energy at Stanford.

Davis H. Ford, P.E., Davis L. Ford & Associates, Texas Dr. Ford is a practicing environmental engineer with over forty-five years of experience in the field. In addition, he serves on the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin as an adjunct professor, has published more than one hundred technical papers, has co-authored or contributed to ten textbooks, and written two biographies and co-authored one children’s book. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and in countries of Europe, SouthAmerica, and Asia. Ford received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Texas A&M University and his master and doctorate degrees in environmental engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a Distinguished Engineering Graduate of both Texas A&M University and The University of Texas at Austin as well as a Distinguished Alumnus of Texas A&M. Ford was elected into the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has served as president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and chairman of the Academy Ethics Committee. His honorary affiliations include Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Chi Epsilon. Ford serves on the Board of a publicly-owned oil and exploration company (CWEI, NASDAQ) and the Board of the Texas A&M University Press.

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Lawrence H. Goulder, Stanford UniversityProfessor Lawrence H. Goulder is the Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at Stanford and Director of the Stanford Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis Center. He is also a University Fellow at Resources for the Future and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Goulder’s research examines the environmental and economic impacts of U.S. and international environmental policies, including policies to deal with climate change and pollution from power plants and automobiles. His work also explores the “sustainability” of consumption patterns in various countries. He recently chaired a committee to advise the California Environmental Protection Agency on the design of a cap-and-trade system to help meet the state’s targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions. At Stanford Goulder teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental economics and policy, and co-organizes a weekly seminar in public and environmental economics. He graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in philosophy and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford.

Dian Grueneich, Senior Research Associate, Stanford UniversityDian Grueneich is a nationally and internationally recognized energy expert, with 37 years’ experience. Her expertise covers energy efficien-cy, demand response, smart grid, renewable energy resources, transmission, and climate change. She has extensive experience in energy policy and regulation, utilities, market development and innovation, and key factors driving U.S. and global energy investments. Dian Grueneich is a nationally and internationally recognized energy expert, with 37 years’ experience. Her expertise covers energy efficiency, de-mand response, smart grid, renewable energy resources, transmission, and climate change. She has extensive experience in energy policy and regulation, utilities, market development and innovation, and key factors driving U.S. and global energy investments.

Katarzyna Kacperczyk, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland (MFA)Katarzyna Kacperczyk has been an MFA employee since 2002. She worked at the Foreign Policy Strategy and Planning Department, then, between 2005 and 2009, switched to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations in New York, and from 2009 served at the Foreign Economic Policy Department. After 2010 she was Deputy Director of the Economic Policy Department, and was subsequently appointed Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation. She also worked – as part of the European Commission’s internship program – in DG Enterprise and the Centre for Energy and Public Policy at the Columbia University. Katarzyna Kacperczyk is a graduate of Warsaw University, Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken and the prestigious Columbia University in New York, where she specialized not only in economics, but also in energy market management. She also studied at the Warsaw School of Economics, where she completed a European Studies Program, implemented jointly with the French Institut d’Etudes Politiques. She also received a DAAD scholarship. In 2011, was awarded by the President with the Gold Cross of Merit. Katarzyna Kacperczyk speaks fluent German, English and French and has a working knowledge of Italian, Russian and Arabic. On November 2013 she was appointed Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Isfandyar Zaman Khan, World BankIsfandyar Zaman Khan is the Financial and Private Sector Development Sector Leader for Central/Eastern Europe and the Baltic Countries, based in Brussels, coordinating the Bank’s programs in the Financial Sector, Business Environment, Competitive Industries and Innovation. Prior to his current assignment he worked on issues related to crisis management and access to finance in Turkey, Bosnia, Kosovo, Ukraine, Moldova, and Armenia. Prior to the Bank, Mr. Zaman Khan worked for Salomon Smith Barney in New York. Mr Zaman Khan holds a degree in Economic Policy Making and International Finance from Columbia University in New York.

Stefan Heller, Stanford UniversityProfessor Stefan Heller’s academic appointments: Professor, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery), Member, Bio-X, Member, Stan-ford Cancer Institute, Member, Stanford Neurosciences Institute. He has received numerous honors and awards, among which: Mem-ber, Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum (9/2011), Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Professor, Stanford School of Me-dicine (7/ 2010), McKnight Neuroscience of Brain Disorders Award, McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience (2005-2007), Albert and Ellen Grass Faculty Grant Award, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (Summer 2004, Summer 2005), James Wiggins Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School (4/2005), Burt Evans Young Investigator Award, National Organization for Hearing Rese-arch Foundation (2005), Franklin M. Rizer Lectureship, The American Neurotology Society (2004), Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Rese-arch Award, March of Dimes (2001-2003), Juergen Tonndorf Award, Deafness Research Foundation (2001). His professional education: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, Sensory Neuroscience (2000), Dr rer nat (Ph.D.), Johannes Gutenberg Uni-versity, Mainz, Germany, Genetics (1994), Dipl Biol (M.S.), Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, Biological Sciences (1990). The research interests at Professor Heller’s Lab are: how the inner ear forms from an early anlage called the otic placode. Their goal is to describe the otic lineage from an early placodal progenitor until it splits up into multiple cell types making up the sensory epithelia, innervating ganglia, and accessory structures.

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Jolanta Kokosińska, Partner, Price Waterhouse CooperJolanta Kokosińska is a Partner in the Transactions group, she is also the Leader of innovative services, research and development. She has over twenty years of professional experience in financial and management advisory services. She specialises in strategic consulting as well as innovations and commercialisation of inventions. She has implemented a number of projects related to restructuring and privatisation of enterprises, she is also experienced in leading works on sectoral studies that have been used by the National Research and Development Centre to launch grant programs for the From the beginning of her career, Jolanta participated in more than 500 valuations and financial analyses, including valuations of intellectual property rights, and in more than 150 projects relating to evaluation of research teams, as well as inventions and their commercialisation.

Luke Kowalski, Vice President, OracleLuke Kowalski is a VP in the corporate architecture group. He helps with technology policy, industry standards, community engagement, security, and government affairs. He also works on M&A integration planning with internal counsel and corporate development. He is in charge of a few corporate controls and approvals, including accessibility, interoperability, and external presence. Before coming to Oracle, worked for various startups, as well as for Netscape’s Server and E-commerce divisions. He holds several patents, a CPE Certification, and serves as an ISO representative for US through ANSI. His educational background includes advanced degrees from UTA, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.

Andrzej Kozłowki, Chief Strategy Officer, PKN ORLENAndrzej J. Kozlowski has been with Orlen since 2009. He is also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ORLEN Upstream, Member of the Board of Directors of Unipetrol, and Member of the Board of Directors of TriOil Resources Ltd. Andrzej Kozłowski graduated from the WSB – National-Louis University in Nowy Sącz with a BA i Management and Marketing. He also holds an MBA in Corporate Strategy & Industrial Policy from the Maastricht School of Management. Mr. Kozlowski completed several international and domestic management trainings, including PMI – Project Management, SLII – situational leadership and STL - situational team leadership, the art of public presentations. Prior to his career at PKN ORLEN, for over a decade he was involved in the sectors of telecommunications, new technologies and media. He started his professional career in 1998, initially gaining experience as a consultant at American Management Systems (now CGI) and Avantis Consulting Group. He participated in numerous consulting projects in Portugal, Germany, USA and Poland. Between 2001-2005 and 2006-2009 he worked for Telekomunikacja Polska Group (TP), where he was initially responsible for strategic projects for the Management Board. Afterwards, he served as the Director of Strategy, Project Management and Regulatory Relations at TP Emitel. His focus was on developing the firm’s strategy, cooperation with external organizations and partners, and key strategic initiatives. Between 2005-2006 he worked as a Project Director at Prokom Software. Andrzej J. Kozlowski is one of the founders of Polish Association of Knowledge management.

Krzysztof Jan Kurzydłowki, Director, National Center for Research and DevelopmentProfessor Krzysztof Jan Kurzydłowski is a graduate of the Faculty of Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics of the Warsaw University of Technology. He obtained a PhD degree from the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology and D.Sc. from the Technical University of Silesia. His research interests include the design of nano-materials. He has published over 400 papers in refereed journals and supervised over 50 PhD students. Over the past 10 years, Professor Kurzydłowski has held numerous positions in public science administration, including as Under-Secretary of State for Science and Higher Education (2006-2007). On 20 December 2010 Professor Kurzydłowski was appointed Director of the National Centre for Research and Development (NCRD) – a research funding agency with an annual budget of over 1 billion euro.

Assistant Professor Michael D. Lepech, PhD, Depatment of Civil and Environmental Professor Lepech’s research focuses on the integration of sustainability indicators into engineering design, ranging from materials design, structural design, system design, to operations management and finance. Such sustainability indicators include a comprehensive set of environmental, economic, and social costs. Recently his research has focused on the design of sustainable high performance fiber-reinfor-ced cementitious composites (HPFRCCs) and fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs), the impacts of sustainable materials on building and infra-structure design and operation, and the development of new life cycle assessment (LCA) applications for building systems, transportation systems, water systems, consumer products. Along with this he is studying the use of triple bottom line metrics in the financial services and banking sector. Michael joined the Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty from the University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Systems where he was a research fellow at the School of Natural Resources and Environment. He received his PhD in Materials Engineering from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also received his MSE in Structural Engineering from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his MBA in Strategy from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His industry experience lies in the design and construction of interstate highways and bridges, along with the design and construction of residential high rises in seismic zones.

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Geoffrey Lomax, Senior Officer, California Institute for Regenerative MedicineDr. Ph. Geoffrey Lomax is the Senior Officer for Medical and Ethical Standards and the Manager for Collaborative Funding Partnerships at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He oversees the development and implementation of oversight policies governing CIR-M-funded research. As the Manager for Collaborative Funding, he works with state, national and international partners to support collabo-rative research initiatives. As the Research Director for the California Environmental Health program, he worked to publish and implement a strategic plan for the development of an environmental health-monitoring networkin California. Throughout his professional career Dr. Lomax has continually worked to bridge scientific, policy and ethical issues in the development of health research programs. His doctoral and masters research was performed within the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley and his BS in Environmental Toxicology was conferred by the University of California at Davis.

Piotr Moncarz, Stanford University, Chairman, US-Polish Trade CouncilConsulting Professor Piotr D. Moncarz, Stanford University is also a Principal Engineer at Exponent, a publicly held engineering and scientific consulting company with some 400 Ph.D.’s on its staff, over 20 offices in the US and international offices in Germany, UK, Switzerland, and China, specializing in solving problems with science and technology in their nature. He is Chairman of the Board and co-founder of US-Po-lish Trade Council. He served as Academic Director of the Top 500 Innovators program at Stanford University. He chairs the Fund Subcom-mittee for the US State Department Council of Poland-US Innovation Program , PLUS-IP. For many years he has been closely associated with the shale gas global question. He has conducted energy policy studies focusing on gas for Central Asian Republics and Bangladesh, and numerous studies associated with the energy sector in Poland and Russian Federation.

Arun Majumdar, Stanford UniversityArun Majumdar is the Jay Precourt Professor at Stanford University, where he serves on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engi-neering and is a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. Prior to joining Stanford, he was the Vice President for Energy at Google, where he created several energy technology initiatives and advised the company on its broader energy strategy. He continues to be a consultant to Google on energy. In October 2009, Dr. Arun Majumdar was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate to become the Founding Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), where he served till June 2012. Between March 2011 and June 2012, Dr. Majumdar also served as the Acting Under Secretary of Energy, and a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Dr. Majumdar was the Almy and Agnes Maynard Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mate-rials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy and Environment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research career includes the science and engineering of nanoscale materials and devices as well as large engineered systems. Dr. Majumdar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. He currently serves on the US Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board, the Council for the National Academy of Engineering and the Electric Power Research Institute, as well as the Science Board of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is a member of the International Advisory Panel for Energy of the Singapore Mini-stry of Trade and Industry and the US delegation for the US-India Track II dialogue on climate change and energy.

Rafał Mrówka, Chairman, CC Plus PolandDr. Eng. Rafał Mrówka was appointed Chairman of CC Plus Poland Management Board in 2011. At the same time he started to perform func-tions of Co-location Manager of KIC InnoEnergy Knowledge and Innovation Node. This European company fosters integration of education, technology, business and entrepreneurship, strengthening the culture of innovation. KIC InnoEnergy is a world class alliance of sharehol-ders and additional partners - companies, research institutes, universities and business schools covering the whole energy mix. They are organised around six regional units, each of them coordinating one important energy topic for all partners, with CC Poland Plus responsible for Clean Coal Technologies. Dr. Eng. Rafał Mrówka was employed as an Assistant at AGH University of Science and Technology in 2007. From 2008 to 2011 he served as Rector’s Plenipotentiary for University Informatization. During 2000-2007 he was employed by Comarch SA as the executive vice-president of the Consulting Center Director. During this period, he implemented over 100 IT projects for telecommuni-cation, financial, insurance, service and industrial sectors. His responsibilities included implementation project management, domestic and international sales structure management, as well as implementation of Finance and Services sector strategy. In 2004 he obtained Project Management Professional Certification (PMP). It should be emphasized that the experience gained in project implementation not only include the elements of management, but also and above all, a very wide range of technological expertise.

Paweł Nowicki, CEO, BTM InnovationsPaweł co-founded four technology limited liability companies: Simplicardiac, Glia, and Humon, as well as a consulting firm BM Consulting. He is one of the founders and a board member of the Foundation Innovative Poland - www.innowacyjna.pl Its goal is to undertake socially or economically useful activities related to increasing innovation and competitiveness of Polish science and economy. Co-founder and organizer of the International Conference of Managing Innovation www.managinginnovation.pl cycle . Since 2010 Paweł has been associa-ted with Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology (Polish Academy of Sciences), where he has been responsible for developing technology transfer and co-operation with industry. Graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics and of the Top 500 Innovators program at Stan-ford University.

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Rafał Plewa, Media DronesRafal Plewa, Software Engineer and Scrum Master at Millward Brown, Co-founder and CEO of Media Drones, a startup that is using unman-ned aircrafts for aerial videos and data acquisition. His main interests and research areas include mobile technologies, decision support sys-tems and use of lightweight autonomous aircrafts to support media, industry and agriculture. Previously, he worked at SGT in France, where he dealt with software development for the French TV company. He also worked in the UK on the development of e-commerce software. He holds a master’s degree from the Faculty of Cybernetics at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw and also an MSc from the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Coventry University. Graduate of the TOP 500 Innovators program at Stanford University.

Mariusz Ratajczak, Developmental Biology Research Program at the University of Louisville/Department of Regenerative Medicine at Warsaw Medical UniversityDr. Ratajczak is Professor of Medicine, the Henry M. and Stella M. Hoenig Endowed Chair in Cancer Biology and the Director of the Deve-lopmental Biology Research Program at the University of Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center. He is also a head of Department of Regenerative Medicine at Warsaw Medical University in Poland. Dr. Ratajczak earned his M.D. at the Pomeranian Medical University and his Ph.D. and D.Sci. and habilitation at the Center for Clinical and Experimental Medicine of Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. He completed fellowships the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA and subsequently established in 1997 as Associate Professor his own laboratory at University of Pennsylvania. He is an internationally known specialist in the field of adult stem cell biology. His 2005 discovery of embryonic-like stem cells in adult bone marrow tissues has the potential to revolutionize the field of regenerative medicine. This discovery may lead to new treatments for cancer, heart disease, eye disease, diabetes and neurodegenerative disorders.

Dan W. Reichel, Stanford University, Executive Director, Steyer-Teylor Center for Energy Policy and FinanceDr. Dan W. Reichel is Executive Director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University. Reicher came to Stanford in 2011 from Google, where he served since 2007 as Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives. Reicher has more than 25 years of experience in energy and environmental policy, finance, and technology. He has served three Presidents including in the Clinton administration as Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Department of Energy Chief of Staff, as a member of President Obama’s Transition Team and Co-chair of the Energy and Environment Team for Obama, and as a staff member of Pre-sident Carter’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. In 2012 Reicher received an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and was also named one of the five most influential figures in U.S. clean energy by Oilprice.Com.

Channing Robertson, Stanford UniversityProfessor Channing Robertson is the Ruth G. and William K. Bowes Professor in the School of Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford University. His research encompasses mathematical modeling of mammalian kidney function, compact bioreactor design, protein behavior at inter-faces and interfacial enzyme reactivity. He is a member of the WHO Study Group of Tobacco Product Regulation and is active in enacting the articles of a global treaty directed at addressing issues associated with nicotine addiction and the adverse health effects of smoked and smokeless tobacco products. He served on the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on Science, Law and Technology, the NAS committee that recently published an evaluation of the state of forensic science in the US, and helped to revise the 3rd Edition of the Refe-rence Manual on Scientific Evidence under the auspices of the NAS and the Federal Judicial Center. He is the recipient of the Stanford Asso-ciates Award, the Stanford Associates Centennial Medallion Award, the Richard W. Lyman Award and most recently the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award. He was appointed the Yumi & Yasunori Kaneko Family University Fellow and the Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education in recognition of his contributions to undergraduate education at Stanford University and has received both Faculty of the Year and Teacher of the Year awards. He was also featured in Upside Magazine’s special issue on “100 People Who Have Changed the World”.

Lynn Orr, Stanford UniversityProfessor Lynn Orr is the Keleen and Carlton Beal Professor in Petroleum Engineering in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering and a senior fellow in the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. He served as Dean of the School of Earth Sciences from 1994 to 2002, as Director of the Global Climate and Energy Project from 2002 to 2008, and as director of the Precourt Institute for Energy from 2009 to 2013. He joined Stanford in 1985. Previously, he was employed by the US Environ-mental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, Shell Development Company in Houston, and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Tech-nology in Socorro. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. from Stanford University, both in Chemical Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Board of Directors of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

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BIOGRAPHIES

Waldemar Skomudek, Head, Department of Project Management, Faculty of Production Engineering and Logistics, Opole University of TechnologyProfessor Waldemar Skomudek graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Opole. He has over 25 years of pro-fessional experience in the energy sector. In 2001 - 2008 he held various management positions in electricity companies in the provinces of Lower Silesia and Opole, while in 2008-2010, he was Vice President of the company’s Polish Network Operator PSE. He participated in the creation of groups EnergiaPro KE SA and TAURON SA and separating the Distribution System Operator. His research concerns mainly the operation of the electricity market, the problems of stability of the national electricity system, investment and operating electricity ne-tworks, management of the electricity sub-sector in terms of competition, threat assessment and the effectiveness of protectionagainst the effects of the phenomena of a wave (electromagnetic), which is accompanied by atmospheric discharges and states of a fault in the power networks. He has published over 100 scientific articles and papers as well as co-authored two books and monographs.

Wiktor Sroka, SHOPAWiktor Sroka was born in Bydgoszcz where he studied and works. He graduated from Clinical Chemistry at the Nicolaus Copernicus Uni-versity, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz. After graduation he started working at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Medicinal Che-mistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz. His scientific work focuses on cancer biomarker discovery and drug chemistry. He was awarded a Short-term Fellowship in Melbourne, Australia funded by the European Molecular Biology Organization. After the Top 500 Innovators Program at Stanford University in 2013, Wiktor, together with Radosław Ratajczak, Piotr Szewczykowski, Piotr Szymański and Paweł Żebrowski initiated the SHOPA Design Thinking Workspace at the University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz.

James L Sweeney, Stanford University, Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency CenterProfessor James L. Sweeney is Director of Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stan-ford. His focus is economic policy and analysis in energy, natural resources, and the environment. Currently he is Senior Fellow of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; Hoover Institution; Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Precourt Institute for Energy; the U.S. Association for Energy Economics; and the California Council on Science and Technology. Sweeney serves on the External Advisory Council of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. At Stanford, Professor Sweeney has directed the Energy Modeling Forum, chaired the Institute for Energy Studies, and directed the Center for Economic Policy Research (now SIEPR). Soon after the 1973 energy crisis, he direc-ted the Office of Energy Systems Modeling and Forecasting of the US Federal Energy Administration, predecessor of the US Department of Energy. Sweeney’s books include the three volume Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics (jointly with Alan Kneese) and The California Electricity Crisis, an analytical history of the economic and policy issues associated with California’s electricity restructuring and 2000-2001 western electricity crisis. Professor Sweeney holds a B.S. degree from MIT in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Engineering-Economic Systems.

Mariusz Tomaka, US-Poland Innovation HUBMariusz Tomaka is active as organizer, co-founder, and CEO level manager of innovative electronic and software related companies located in Poland with focus on local and international markets. For years he has been involved in building business structures which allow groups of ambitious engineers to gather around challenging projects. He is specialist in building and running innovative companies – startups - fo-cused on International markets and leading teams of engineers and managers to achieve challenging technology and business objectives. Prior to DisplayLink he worked as an Area Manager - Poland at Neubloc, board adviser - share holder at ABF sp. z o.o. and CEO at Neubloc sp. z o.o. “Poland is the best Gateway to Europe for US companies, US is a global market Gateway for Polish businesses” – Mariusz motto.

Marek J Samotyj, Program Manager, Power Delivery and Utilization Sector, EPRIMarek J. Samotyj currently manages energy efficiency-related end-to-end use energy delivery and utilization efforts within Energy Efficien-cy and Demand Response Group. Under his supervision the efforts related to nation-wide initiative on Advanced Manufacturing are being developed and implemented at large industrial customers’ sites in cooperation with electric utilities. He was also responsible for develop-ment and implementation of R&D plan for IntelliGrid Consortium, public-private initiative established by EPRI in 2001. Before that, he held a position of the Business Line Manager responsible for EPRI Retail Sector’s Technical and Business Services. He was also a Power Quality Product Line Team Leader. He joined the Institute in 1985. As a project manager, he was responsible for the applications and field testing of adjustable speed drives and conducted research in the areas of power quality and end-use electromagnetic compatibility. He is a recipient of the Year 2000 John Mungenast International Power Quality Award for his lifetime achievements funded by Power Quality Magazine and The Financial Times.

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Katarzyna Walczyk-Matuszyk, Co-ordinator for Innovation, Polish National Contact Point for Research Programs of the European Union (KPK)Katarzyna Walczyk-Matuszyk deals with the participation of companies in and innovation aspects of the Horizon 2020 program. She is an expert with international experience gained e.g. at the European Commission (DG Enterprise and Industry ) and in foreign companies. Co-ordinated and participated in many projects funded under the umbrella of EU Framework Programs and Structural Funds. A graduate of the Top 500 Innovators program at Stanford University. Katarzyna is the president of the Association of Top 500 Innovators.

Marek Woszczyk, President of the Management Board, PGE Graduated from Kozminski University in Warsaw (Executive MBA), Poland’s National School of Public Administration and Gdynia Maritime University (MSc, Navigation Faculty). Since April 1998 has worked in the Energy Regulatory Office (ERO), from 2011 as a President, earlier in years 2007-2011 as a Vice-President supervising the work of the Tariff Department, Department for Promotion of Competition and the Regional Branch Offices of the ERO, in years 1998-2007 held a position of Deputy Director in the ERO Central Branch. Mr. Marek Woszczyk was the ERO President’s plenipotentiary in European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG) and Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA) - from 2005 he was a member of Licensing Committee and from 2006 a member of ERRA General Assembly. In years 2011-2013 he was a member of the ERRA Presidium. Mr. Marek Woszczyk represented ERO in Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER), as from February 1, 2011, he was elected Vice-President of the CEER Board of Directors. Mr. Marek Woszczyk was a member of ACER Board of Regulators and took part in the proceedings of Panel on Polish Nuclear Energy - advisory body to the Prime Minister. He isan author of various publications on Energy Law. On 23 December 2013 he was appointed President of the Management Board at PGE.

Mark D. Zoback, Stanford UniversityProfessor Mark D. Zoback is the Benjamin M. Page Professor of Geophysics at Stanford University. Dr. Zoback conducts research on in situ stress, fault mechanics, and reservoir geomechanics with an emphasis on shale gas, tight gas and tight oil production. He currently directs the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative and is co-director of the Stanford Center on Induced and Triggered Seismicity and the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage. Dr. Zoback was one of the principal investigators of the SAFOD project in which a scientific research well was successfully drilled through the San Andreas Fault at seismogenic depth. He is the author of a textbook entitled Reservoir Geomechanics published in 2007 by Cambridge University Press, now in its 11th printing. He is the author/co-author of over 300 technical papers and holds five patents. He was the principal founder of GeoMechanics International in 1996, where he was Chairman of the Board until 2008. Dr. Zoback currently serves as a Senior Executive Adviser to Baker Hughes. Dr. Zoback has received a number of awards and honors, including the 2006 Emil Wiechert Medal of the German Geophysical Society and the 2008 Walter H. Bucher Medal of the American Geophysical Union. In 2011, he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and in 2012 elected to Honorary Membership in the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. He is the 2013 recipient of the Louis Néel Medal, European Geosciences Union and named an Einstein Chair Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2015 he will receive the Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award of the AAPG. He recently served on the National Academy of Engineering committee investigating the Deepwater Horizon accident and the Secretary of Energy’s committee on shale gas development and environmental protection. He also advised a Canadian Council of Academies panel investigating the same topic. Dr. Zoback also recently served on the National Academy of Sciences Advisory Board on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

PJ Utz, Stanford UniversityDr. Utz., while earning his M.D. degree in 1991 from Stanford, Dr. Utz co-discovered the transcription factor Nuclear Factor of Activated T Cells (NFAT) with J.P. Shaw in Dr. Gerald Crabtree’s laboratory. He completed his internal medicine residency, rheumatology fellowship, and post-doctoral training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston prior to joining the Harvard Medical School Faculty in 1996. He joined the Stanford Faculty in 1999 and was promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine in 2005 and Professor in 2012. Professor Utz is an expert in the study of human and murine autoantibodies and autoantigens, apoptosis signaling pathways, animal models of autoimmunity, pro-teomics and multiplexed assay development for biomarker discovery.

Piotr Waciński MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Cardiology at Lublin Medical UniversityProfessor Piotr Waciński is an interventional cardiologist (over 5000 PCI as a first operator) with over 6 years practice in leading cardio-vascular centers in Switzerland (University of Geneva), Holland and Canada (Montreal Heart Institute). He has completed exam of Board of Medical Council of Canada. Participant of major national and international interventional cardiology courses. He is lecturer in Poland and abroad. Author or co-author over 50 papers in field of cardiology. Nanodevices program leader in cooperation with Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies (Polish Academy of Sciences). Member of PCS (Polish Cardiac Society), ESC, CCS, SCAI.

BIOGRAPHIES

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BIO/HEALTH

Eurochit

Institute of Ceramics and Building Materials

Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdańsk

Lodz Technopark

Optipharma – Inwest – Rex Jerzy Sławiński

Translational Medicine Centre for Małopolska Region

University of Lodz, Department of General Biophysics

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES/IT

Hashi-Tashi

K2Print

Materialination Group

Printify

Risk

RISK. Made in Warsaw

Think

PITCHING COMPANIES AND INSTITUTIONS

ENERGY/CLEAN ENERGY

Boneffice

Gradis

MarcelLi

Vis energia

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Steering Committee

Professor James L. Sweeney, Stanford University, Director, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center

Dr. Hubert Gęsiarz, Head of Section, Department of Communication and Promotion,

National Centre for Research and Development

Consulting Professor Piotr Moncarz, Stanford University, Chairman, US-Polish Trade Council

Marek Samotyj, Master of Ceremony, Program Manager, Power Delivery and Utilization Sector, EPRI

Susan Sweeney, Stanford University, Conference Consultant

Professor John Weyant, Stanford University, Director, Energy Modeling Forum, Deputy

Director, Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency

Support Committee

Jerzy Orkiszewski, President, US-Polish Trade Council

Mariusz Tomaka, Chairman in Poland, US-Polish Trade Council

Monika Barycza

Henryk Błasiński

Magdalena Bryzek

Magdalena Diering, PH.D.

Krzysztof Dyczkowsi, PH.D.

Marek Konopnicki, Ph.D.

Ela Kozera

Justyna Leśkiewicz

Joanna Agnieszka Maryewska

Dariusz Wodziak

Tom Wojcik

Ula Wojdakowska

STEERING COMMITTEE

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