Speakers

Robert Pławiak – Since November 2022 as Chief Digital&Technology&Information Officer in Polpharma, Poland. He is responsible for all aspects of digitalization, and technology areas of IT&OT processes in the most significant pharma manufactures.  In the last four years (2018-2022), as the President and Group CIO, he implemented many changes in business processes in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. He contributed to the construction of a new system for the distribution of vaccines against COVID-19 in Poland, and optimized business processes based on implementing and modernizing IT solutions, including WMS, TMS, and ERP. In the Pelion Group, he was responsible for M&A processes and completed the transfer of the management of the Swedish pharmacy network and the IT ecosystem to Poland.

Additionally, Robert is involved in expanding NGO in Poland as President of the IT LEADER CLUB POLSKA foundation. During the last ten years, was established well knows IT Academy for public sector employees that can graduate MBA level.   He is a graduate of the computer systems course at the Military Technical Academy in Warsaw and MBA studies at the Warsaw School of Economics. In 2022 he finished studies at Cambridge University School in the field of Digital Disruption Transformation and Strategy. He has broad management and leadership experience reaching nearly 20 years in insurance, banking, leasing, pharmacy, and healthcare. It was gained by managing computerization processes and projects, cybersecurity, and building and deploying IT strategy in insurance and financial state institutions in Poland.

In his career so far, Robert Pławiak was related, among others, to the PZU Group (PZU SA, PZU Życie SA), the EFL Group, Bank Handlowy S.A., Inteligo Financial Services S.A., EFG Eurobank Ergasias S.A. (PolbankEFG brand), FunduszMikro Sp. z o.o. , FM BANK S.A., Raiffeisen Bank Poland S.A. He is also an active member of the PMI International&Polska, ISACA, and ISSA associations, and an active speaker at many IT conferences in Poland organized by PMI, ISACA, ISSA, Puls Biznesu, Rzeczpospolita. In the above companies, Robert Pławiak was developing and implementing IT strategies and team transformations and digital transformations in technology divisions subordinated to him. He was leading and acquiring IT projects on an international scale. Moreover, he was responsible for optimization and increasing cost efficiency in IT. As Chief Information Officer in the EFL Group, he was responsible for the development and implementation of the IT strategy, and IT transformation in the years 2017-2020, as well as the construction and implementation of the corporate architecture strategy and IT sourcing in the companies that are part of the EFL Group.

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