Learn from the brightest minds in tech AI and social impact. Gain new skills hear the latest insights and levelup your expertise from Hack To The Rescues mentors and speakers.

SPEAKERS

Shyamal Andakat OpenAI

Great examples of Global Community using GPT4 to solve social problems

Shyamal Anadkat is a member of the GTM team at OpenAI where he leads startup partnerships. Passionate about building products with a positive impact he is dedicated to ensuring that generalpurpose AI benefits humanity. With a background in computer engineering and computer science Shyamal studied AI and entrepreneurship at Duke. He has mentored various AI startups and is currently on the advisory board of the Duke Artificial Intelligence Product Innovation program as part of the Pratt School of Engineering. A tech enthusiast he is an On Deck fellow and a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. His experience covers various fields such as humancomputer interaction robotics data science fintech and software engineering.

Sandra Topic AI Advisor TTTR AWS

Responsible AI for climate action

Sandra is an IT Program Manager with a passion for using artificial intelligence AI for social impact. She is an avid supporter of finding new ways to use technology for good and is committed to promoting responsible AI development.

Maciej Cielecki 10Clouds

Embrace the Fear solving peoples problems with the scariest technology of all time

CEO of 10Clouds a fastgrowing tech company based in Warsaw. With a background in computer science and a passion for artificial intelligence he fearlessly embraces the potential of AI. Under Maciejs leadership 10Clouds has gained recognition as a global leader in software development with a diverse client base spanning multiple countries. Their work has been featured in renowned publications and the company continues to thrive with a team of over 140 talented professionals.

Filip Styczynski Tooploox

Identifying and Mitigating Risks of Generative AIbased products

Filip Styczynski is a problemsolver who applies his skills in product design. He specializes in working with startups supporting them from product discovery to development. Professionally he is interested in innovation new technologies and their impacts on work people and the environment. In the world of Generative AI he investigates the business and ethical implications of this technology and ways to utilize its potential.

Maria Parysz Elephant ai

How to upskill your staff to be GenAIready

Kaggle Days Creator and Community Leader over 12 mln AI experts CEO of LogicAI AI technology company CEO of Elephant AI digital transformation and bestselling AI courses Ph D Researcher in AI and AI book author. Founder of several successful AI companies including winners of multiple international Data Science competitions. Ph D researcher at DCU Ireland in AI and technology education. Parttime professor at Northeastern University and a visiting professor in Ireland Poland Kenya Canada and the US. Keynote speaker at several events including Google Next in San Francisco Gitex and AI Everything in Dubai and other AI conferences in London Tokyo Paris and Beijing.

Jacek Siadkowski Tech To The Rescue

Every Tech Company can change the world with Nonprofits

A social entrepreneur who has been connecting technology and social actions for eight years now. He is the founder of Gerere a digital agency that has accomplished over 80 projects for social organizations. Moreover he is a cofounder of an online platform the purpose of which is to organize employee volunteering for an incubation program creating social innovations. He is one of 30 young Poles who according to Forbes are changing the world. In Tech To The Rescue he connects all of his previous experiences together in order to build a genuinely global organization. Jacek Siadkowski has also been recognized as LinkedIn Top Voice and has received the prestigious title of Ashoka Fellow.

Adrian Gwozdziej SpeakLeash

Przygotowywanie danych w jezyku polskim w celu tworzenia duzych modeli jezykowych

A dedicated Machine Learning Engineer specializing in crafting artificial intelligence solutions for both the cybersecurity BTC and banking sector Bank Pekao S A. With a deep passion for artificial intelligence he devotes his free time to actively contribute to the Speakleash project. This initiative aims to gather highquality textual data with the end goal of developing comprehensive language models.

MENTORS AND JUDGES

Sandra Topic

Tech To The Rescue AI advisor

Sandra is an IT Program Manager with a passion for using artificial intelligence AI for social impact. She is an avid supporter of finding new ways to use technology for good and committed to promoting responsible AI development.

Santiago Mendez

Lenovo Head of Philanthropy

20 plus years of working experience in the private sector currently in charge of Philanthropy and Corporate Social Responsibility for Lenovo in EMEA. Slovak by heart Colombian by blood and wannabe activist working for a more inclusive and tolerant society.

Mateusz Kobos

Tooploox ML Engineer

Mateusz Kobos graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology and obtained a Ph D in Machine Learning from the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has worked as an academic teacher big data software developer data scientist and machine learning engineer. He is interested in good data science project practices and solving databased problems using appropriate tools.

Emily Miller

Twilio Sr Impact Fund Manager

Emily Miller is a social entrepreneur combat veteran and LGBTQ advocate. She currently leads the Impact Fund for Twilio org managing grants and impact investments. Emily is cofounder of Rumi Spice an awardwinning social enterprise that imports premium saffron directly from Afghan farmers. Rumi Spice was featured on Shark Tank. Previously Emily served as a Captain in the US Army. She led an engineer platoon in Iraq and served on two deployments to Afghanistan with 75th Ranger Regiment as one of the first women with allmale Special Operations teams. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her Bachelors from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Magdalena Skowronek

Said Business School University of Oxford Psychologist in AI

I am the first psychologist and social researcher studying Artificial Intelligence for Business at Said Business School University of Oxford. I aim to educate society about AI explain what the future holds what should we prepare for and what skills are necessary to learn so that instead of being replaced by AI we can collaborate with it and improve our skills and capabilities. I am researching the impact of artificial intelligence on society aiming to prevent the development of anxiety depression and burnout associated with the AI era. I prepare employees for the coming changes through practical AI education career counseling and psychological support.

Maciej Zieba

Tooploox AI Researcher

Maciej Zieba received a masters degree in computer science from the Blekinge Institute of Technology Sweden and a masters degree in economics and a Ph D degree in computer science from the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. He is currently an AI researcher with Tooploox and an associate professor with the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. He coauthored several research papers published in significant journals and presented at the top ML conferences including NeurIPS ICLR and ICML. His research interests include deep learning especially generative models and representation learning.