Marshall of the Silesian Voivodeship

The future is being forged here! It's time for Poland, it's time for Silesia! This is a key economic center of the country, with a very strong export position. We have a huge investment potential including mainly human capital along with an excellent scientific and technological base. We focus our activities on effective economic promotion, investment attractiveness and internationalization of enterprises. Silesia is a power of attraction, creating the future and an excellent place for developing business projects! Confirmation of our potential is the possession of, among other things, the title of European Entrepreneurial Region 2021-2022 for outstanding and innovative entrepreneurial strategy. The Silesian Voivodeship is among the top ten European regions in terms of foreign direct investment attraction strategy and cost effectiveness in a compilation prepared by fDi Intelligence for 2022-2023 for the Financial Times.

PhD Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Honorary Committee of the 12th European Congress of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Chair of the Management Board of Metropolis GZM

Mayor of Katowice

I Wiceprezydent Miasta Katowice

To, co w Katowicach i w regionie zadziało, nie udałoby się bez przedsiębiorców i ich aktywności. Ale przed nami jeszcze bardzo, bardzo dużo do omówienia, myślę, że więcej niż zrobiliśmy. W trzystutysięcznych Katowicach mamy zarejestrowanych około 50 tys. podmiotów gospodarczych. To wspaniała liczba oddająca kreatywność mieszkańców naszego miasta. Dwie trzecie PKB dostarczają mali i średni przedsiębiorcy. Wielki szacunek za Waszą działalność

Member of the EU Parliament, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Energy from 2015-2019

President of the Katowice Special Economic Zone

Ombudsman for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Mayor of Zabrze

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, first polish winner of Dakar Rally

Traveler, socialite, motivational speaker

Wiceprezes KSSE

Wiceprezes KSSE

Vice-president of KSSE

Board Member, Social Insurance Institution (ZUS)

Chairman of the Board Provincial Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Katowice

The energy crisis has increased demand for green innovations among companies.

Entrepreneurs are asking for funds that will allow them to reduce production, energy or heating costs of industrial halls and facilities in the first place. They are also asking for funds for changes in 11 technological processes that can reduce the energy intensity of industry. The crisis has become a reason for interest in our funds and targeting investments by the company to reduce energy consumption. For us, the benefit is double: the reduction of energy intensity and the environmental effect, which we care about most.

President, QUEST CM Partner - President, QUEST Change Managers Partner

CEO of Mokate Group

LL.M. - Managing Partner and Attorney at Law at TIGGES Law Firm

President of the Management Board of the Wrocław Branch, Lower Silesia Branch of SKwP

Co-founder of the listed company Bakalland S.A., Vide Dean of the business school ASBiRO

President of Bajka Pana Kleksa

Tax Advisor, Managing Partner GLC Katowice

Director of Provincial Labor Office in Katowice

The 13th edition of the European Congress of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, will provide another opportunity to discuss in an international group the readiness for change in today's dynamic socio-economic reality. The Provincial Labor Office in Katowice will organize a special panel during the Congress to focus on the qualifications necessary for a fair transformation of the region. This key change that awaits our province in the coming years will be a huge challenge that we, as public employment services, will also have to face.

Senior Account Manager, EDORADCA Sp. z o.o.

Chairman of the Convention of Directors of District Employment Agencies of the Silesian Voivodeship

Ladies and Gentlemen
Once again we have the honor and pleasure as a Special Partner to be involved in the creation of the Congress.
Entrepreneurs, as employers, are key customers but also contractors of Labor Offices. Through cooperation, we support employment and implement activities for the unemployed.
This year, as part of the Congress, we are organizing a panel discussion: lifelong learning in the era of a dynamic labor market.
I hope that the promotion of the concept of lifelong learning will translate into the activities of companies. Lifelong learning in an organization has a positive impact on its development. It gives employees and job seekers a chance for professional development.
I invite you on behalf of the Labor Offices of the Silesian Voivodeship.

Lawyer and political scientist

Director of the National Contact Point for EU Financial Instruments

Vicepresident of JSW S.A

Today it can be said that JSW, as the largest producer of coking coal in Europe, has a good record, and we would like to see this product maintained on the EU's list of critical raw materials. The coking coal we supply is used for steel production, and the data - presented by the World Steel Association - assumes that production of this raw material will increase to about 150 million tons by 2035. In addition to coking coal, we have a variety of coal-like products, such as coking tar for the production of synthetic graphite. Demand for this raw material is expected to increase more than 25 times by 2040, as it is essential for battery production. What lies ahead, in the long term, is keeping our hand on the pulse, observing the changing market and diversifying production.

President of the Board, Węglokoks S.A.

It all depends on whether we need lithium in Europe, for example. Will it be consumed and transformed in countries where the cost of labor is many times lower, and then the finished product will come to us? Will it be so that scrap will flow out of Poland to Turkey and come back from Turkey in the form of finished products, the price of which will be lower than the price of the products we will be able to produce in Europe. There are many issues that indicate that this is the direction we are going in. I'm also talking about sheet metal, flat products that come to us from India, where no one is concerned about the carbon footprint, the ETS, carbon emissions. It's just cheaper, and ultimately it goes back to Europe.

Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Węglokoks S.A. Group.

Vice President of the Board of the Katowice Special Economic Zone

When we think of the economic zone, or Silesia, a stereotype that we often encounter in the opinions of locals still persists. Workplaces are seen like Henry Ford's factories of the early 20th century: simple production, physical labor and production lines arranged in a hall. Meanwhile, we are already in a very different place! The Korean plant in Dąbrowa Górnicza or the Brembo auto parts factory and many other investors scattered throughout the province - these are examples that are not only modern, but set trends in what is happening in the world.