Four grim dreams of great technology
The non-technological world is virtually disappearing – it is becoming unknown and inaccessible. Any information one cannot look up on a web-enabled smartphone is considered to be either non-existent or of no consequence for the world. At least to my world.
Data Driven Investor: Time We Talked to Our Machines
Today, we can see creatures made by Boston Dynamics jump and run and perform acrobatics. Robots have become as agile as we are. In fact, AI has been acting ever more human-like, and not only in robotics.
The seductive business logic of algorithms
Certain machine behaviors never cease to amaze me. I’m astounded by their ability to learn from their accomplishments and from their interactions with we humans.
In the digital economy you are for sale
How should the company behave in order to strengthen competitiveness in the world of data for sale? What benefits can individual customers derive from a world dominated by huge data sets?
The blockchain smart contracts revolution
It is quite clear for everyone by now that smart blockchain-based contracts have the potential to revolutionize the way we conclude agreements, execute transactions and grant authorizations. They transform the way many industries work. What can the technology do for regular citizens and small businesses?
The Quantum Internet: A nightmare from a spy dream
Some people believe that quantum transmissions will provide absolute data security and one day become the foundation of all digital communication. Is that belief justified?
Quantum technology and quantum algorithms are evolving. What will they bring? I hope a lot of good.
What has made quantum computers so exciting lately? Perhaps the fact we are approaching the limits of computing capabilities of the kinds of transistor-based machines we have long been using. They are limited by the laws of physics, which prevent us from packing more processors on chipboard.
Will quantum computers enable us to defy the laws of physics?
Computers are used to solve problems, and the type of problems they solve depends on their algorithms and hardware as well as their capabilities and limitations. Imagine what would happen if you could lift these limitations once and for all? What would modern quantum computers be able to do then?
The Moguldom Nation: Will Blockchain Transform The Stock Market?
The rules that govern trades in financial assets have changed little over the past two or three centuries. Some say those rules have worked relatively well (apart from a few world-shattering crashes now and then). Does it need to change? Should it change? Can it change?
ODAILY China: Will blockchain transform the stock market?
Blockchain can make it easier to transfer property rights and other assets by reducing transactional costs and boosting trust between investors. But can it be used by the world’s largest stock exchanges?
Unlock – Blockchain will revolutionize Stock Exchanges
Today’s investor relies on a traditional system of buying, selling and accounting for transactions that are old enough to be called ossified. The system generates considerable costs and adds to the time needed to close transactions. This is because trading in financial assets requires multiple entities arranged in a complex web of intermediaries, settlement systems and business partners.
Will algorithms commit war crimes?
It’s clear that the military is developing smart technologies. We owe many of the innovations we know from civilian applications to military R&D, including the internet itself (which began as Arpanet), email, and autonomous vehicles. But today modern weaponry relying on machine and deep learning can achieve a worrisome autonomy.
Dear Citizen, blockchain will change your life!
Blockchain can bring huge benefits to the sectors of finance, energy and transport. But what about ordinary citizens, voters and entities that do not generate business value? Could this new technology prove its worth also in public administration?
Four Grim Dreams of Great Technology
Are there limits to this technological universe, which we’ve grown to take for granted? Are there serious warnings looming on the horizon that people are choosing to ignore? Here are a few threats affecting nearly the entire world of technology.
Machine, when will you learn to make love to me?
People’s lives are not all work. We need close human contact and emotional interactions with others. All this also concerns the area of eroticism. Are we in for a sexual revolution featuring artificial intelligence?
Want to know who the leader is? Ask him to make a key decision
One of the most valuable things that effective leaders can offer organizations is the ability to make the right decisions. The way they make them distinguishes outstanding leaders from those who are just average.
The Quantum Internet
Quantum computing and the quantum internet represent the most fascinating frontier of information science – extremely promising and full of yet-to-be-unraveled secrets. For global cybersecurity, quantum networks would be a real game-changer.
Seven tips how to use Artificial Intelligence to take your company to another level
Are you weary of all the talk of the impacts of Artificial Intelligence? Rather than listening to speculations on how robots will ravage the labor market, why not devise a plan to harness the full potential of artificial intelligence and advance your business?
Will blockchain transform the stock market?
Blockchain can make it easier to transfer property rights and other assets by reducing transactional costs and boosting trust between investors. But can it be used by the world’s largest stock exchanges?
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Congress
Use of future technologies. The most important industry trends in 2019.
Artificial Intelligence for Industry Economic Forum
The development of Artificial Intelligence opened a new stage of network and industry digitization.
Unfortunately, many business managers still think of AI as something that will be impossible for them to understand
I believe that knowing the fundamental principles that underlie the new technologies can boost managers’ confidence in them and help them make their companies more innovative.
Are we ready for military AI?
Will Artificial Intelligence weapons soon be able to launch military operations independently of human input?
Will There Be an Internet of Electricity?
Blockchain, whose popularity has grown in lockstep with developments in the cryptocurrency market (Bitcoin, Ethereum, et. al.), is poised to expand into new territories. The energy industry, which is decentralizing gradually, may well advance blockchain more than the financial system will. Or, it may simply adopt it more extensively, sooner.
Technologies that will change 2019
It is not easy to imagine a technology that will receive as much publicity as the blockchain did last year but there’s little doubt that other new and innovative technologies will make even greater inroads into our daily lives in 2019.
Want to know who the leader is? Ask him to decide
Every person makes hundreds of decisions daily, most automatically and without reflection. The decisions made in organizations also are mostly routine, practically automatic.
Data Driven Investor: The Technologies Poised to Change the World in 2019
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence will continue to be made and be widely reported. Autonomous vehicles will proliferate, and it would be good to see serious, in-depth articles about industry regulation rather than last year’s sensational coverage focusing on accidents and disasters.
Will blockchain trigger a shakedown of the global financial system?
The financial crash of 2008 demonstrated (to some) that large financial institutions need to be closely watched and strictly regulated. The meltdown some believe also demonstrated the need for an alternative to complex, abuse-prone financial instruments held by few, and understood by even fewer.
Data Driven Investor: Will blockchain trigger a shakedown of the global financial system?
The financial crash of 2008 demonstrated (to some) that large financial institutions need to be closely watched and strictly regulated. The meltdown some believe also demonstrated the need for an alternative to complex, abuse-prone financial instruments held by few, and understood by even fewer.
How to handle DATA so that you do not go crazy?
Information and data are getting more market value. Therefore, how should the company behave in order to strengthen competitiveness? What benefits can individual customers derive from a world dominated by huge data sets?
Dear citizen, blockchain will change your life!
Blockchain promises big business benefits. And what about ordinary citizens and voters? Could this technology work well in public administration?
Shared economy – sounds like a utopia? Probably so
Imagine an economic system in which concepts such as profit, margin and supply-and-demand were replaced by trust, participation, sharing, and the responsible, sustainable use of resources.
Leadership in the Digital World – Interim Managers Association
Leadership in the digital age describes the skills needed by leaders in an ever-changing and more complex world.
The power of collective leadership
New leadership paradigm should be conceived as a continuous and collective process taking place within a network of employees and managers. The organization’s thinking would change from “who are our leaders?” To “what conditions does the organization need to meet for leadership to effectively strengthen emerging networks and relationships?”
The twilight of the leaders
What role will organizational leaders play in the future? They won’t go away, but some believe the charismatic-type company executive will see his role diminish as power, authority, and responsibility gets distributed among largely self-governing groups. Consequently, leaders will have to learn to live without some of the privileges to which they have grown accustomed.
Smart contracts on blockchain can revolutionize contracting mechanisms
One of the important features of the blockchain is that it eliminates intermediaries by directly connecting the parties to the transaction. Blockchain can be used to conclude contracts that would not require interference or confirmation by either party.
Data Driven Investor: Will There Be an Internet of Electricity?
Today’s energy users, who are still dependent on large distribution networks, will slowly become prosumers, free to choose how they will use their own resources, and perhaps contribute to creating the rules that govern the energy industry. We’re not there yet, but we will be within the next few years.
Organizational change begins with me
They teach us that a significant role in the transformation of an organization is played by clearly defined business goals, the relationship of a leader with people and well-chosen communication tools. And although I subscribe to this approach, I personally emphasize something else - individual experiences.
Effective leadership is about being flexible, thinking outside the box, taking risks, and being creative
They teach us that a significant role in the transformation of an organization is played by clearly defined business goals, the relationship of a leader with people and well-chosen communication tools. And although I subscribe to this approach, I personally emphasize something else - individual experiences.
Dear Voter! Blockchain will change your life!
Blockchain can definitely affect social organizations. Can the new technology be used successfully in public administration as well? Will it help governments inspire trust in citizens and make the latter feel they are better represented in public institutions?
BlockchainTech Congress II
The motto behind the event was "Revolution is comming". Is blockchain really a revolution? Frequently, there have been answers to such questions from industry specialists.
What is direction of transformation of the financial sector?
For centuries, trade has become an extremely complicated process, the complexity of which has deepened globalization - at the moment everyone can trade with everyone, anyone, anywhere in the world. If we change the perspective a bit, we will see that each transaction is de facto information.
The times of authoritarian bosses are over. What determines the success of the leader today?
Today, communication is important, the ability to discover potential in the team members, the partner flow of ideas between colleagues. A contemporary leader inspires and motivates others through his own commitment and passion.
Goals, relationships, experience? What plays the most important role in the transformation of the organization?
Without much problems we will find numerous studies on how to effectively manage change in the organization. I am convinced that a change in the organization that I want or intend - as a leader - to carry out, must also be based on personal foundations.
The potential of Artificial Intelligence and automation bring new challenges to contemporary leaders
Fixed business models in the modern digital economy have gone down in history, and the potential of artificial intelligence and automation put new challenges ahead of today's leaders in the organization.
Seven tips how to use Artificial Intelligence to take your company to another level
Here are a few tips which I hope will be helpful to transform your business through technology.
Business Insider: Will quantum computers enable us to defy the laws of physics?
Computers depend on the algorithms and hardware and their capabilities and limitations. Imagine what will happen if you manage to remove these restrictions forever? What would then the capabilities of modern quantum computers be?
We test our confidence in Artificial Intelligence and study the ethics lesson
Proponents of autonomous vehicles often cite the results of repeatedly repeated research results, which show that for 90-95 percent. The driver is responsible for accidents, not technology. Interestingly, modern technology - raising disputes and controversies - makes us think about basic values such as good and evil.
Myths of Artificial Intelligence
This text deals with the myths that revolve around Artificial Intelligence - in the media, in the network and in the minds of all of us. I dare say that this fear is highly unjustified.
Blockchain has earned admiration. Now is the time for trust
Blockchain has captured the attention of the financial sector because it handles high-volume transactions wonderfully. It is ideal in situations where settlements need to be instant and systems exceptionally efficient, and it has been proposed as a way to secure states against cyberattacks. In sum, blockchain is considered one of the most innovative and potentially useful technologies around.
How far we are from the global financial order change?
Perhaps everything that happens is a repetition of the history of Linux, which has already abandoned the image of the system created by the alternative and went to commercial ventures. Similarly, it will be with blockchain - after a time of heated discussions, it will become a standard for large companies, banks and even governments.
That is why leadership development programs do not bring the intended results
Today's leaders need many tools to help them lead or manage their increasingly complex organizations. Contemporary leaders also arrange their own continuing education programs, arranging external trainings, participating in webinars, tuning in to TED talks, and following the achievements of men and women they have identified as gurus.
Transformational leadership: Bringing order to chaos
The men and women leading the change need to be brave, aware of market trends and able to select the right people to help them. Even in an age of hyper-specialization, the leader’s versatility is the ultimate key to success.
Hello. Are you still human?
The intellectual currents that accompany advances in technology can be as fascinating as the technologies themselves. Right now, the belief that humanity is on the cusp of a big breakthrough is taking hold. What could it be?
Lecture at Leon Kozminski Academy – one of leading Polish ecomic universities
I was privileged to be a lecturer at Leon Kozminski Academy. It is a great pleasure, honor but also a lot of fun.
What do leaders dream about?
Today's leaders need many tools to help them lead or manage their increasingly complex organizations. They have been designed to help leaders respond quickly to new challenges such as global digitization, rapidly advancing technologies and fierce competition.
Cognitive Computing – the most serious manifestation of Artificial Intelligence
In essence, cognitive computing is a set of features and properties that make machines ever more intelligent and, by the same token, more people-friendly. It can be viewed as a set of skills often treated as the most serious manifestation of artificial intelligence.
BlockchainTech2018
Meeting of the Advisory Board of BlockchainTech2018
FORBES: The energy industry may be a more supportive of blockchain than the financial system
There is a common believe that blockchain for the world of energy transactions and settlements can be what the Internet has become for global communication. Like the network protocols, will it lead to the transformation of the energy industry?
How far are we to ethical machines?
Will we be safe when surrounded by machines? Cautious estimates say that in 2025 the share of autonomous cars in the total car market will increase to 13% and reach USD 42 billion.
Reflections on ethical leadership
The modern leader operates in a world of conflicting interests, expectations and patterns. How does one practice the art of leadership when political and economic systems are in constant flux?
The new world of quantum computers
What will the world look like in which every information will be available in the blink of an eye? In the blink of an eye, but of course not for everyone, only those who will be equipped with quantum computers.
Automation will not destroy all jobs
It is commonly believed that robotization inevitably will destroy the labor market. Although I am certain that work will change in many ways, either rapidly or slowly, I don’t think all robotization’s impacts will be entirely adverse.
Machine Learning. So what is the computer’s ability to learn?
It is not only people that learn from experience by acquiring knowledge from the outside world. We are now witnessing a time when sophisticated information technologies are also emerging from infancy.
Is the blockchain really as safe as they say?
My article in BrandsIT: Is blockchain really a safe technology, as claimed by its followers and promoters? The optimism of those who trust it can slightly weaken information about the possibilities of quantum computers.
Uncertainty has its upside. Leadership in digital economy
It may be a cliché, but the assertion that everything in business changes kaleidoscopically perfectly describes today’s global economy. In the digital age, business leaders must be prepared to reset their habits and views continuously.
Blockchain in 3 minutes
Corporate Logging Conference - Payments. Why blochchain can and should revolutionize finance and the banking sector.
From dictator to partner
Being an organization’s leader today can be as fascinating as it is challenging. In a rapidly changing world, role models do not have it easy. The responsibilities of the person at the helm of an enterprise can never be taken for granted, nor the power he or she wields.
Blockchain has the potential to become a useful tool in almost every industry
An article in BrandsIT: Realms where blockchain should work its fastest and best because of its structural features.
Hand to hand with the robot. How to use the potential of automation in Poland
Report by McKinsey & Company in Poland, prepared in cooperation with the Forbes monthly. We analyze the impact of automation on the Polish economy and the labor market. We also present a catalog of activities that can prepare Poles for changes in the labor market.
YouTube interview: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, technology and its impact on us, people
I have been watching for years how technologies change our lives. I believe that the next wave of development will be driven by technologies and trends such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, Robotization and Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Blockchain.
Blockchain poised to shake up our lives
As we know, the Internet changed the world profoundly and, considering how fast it happened, dramatically. Now, there is another big breakthrough coming fast around the corner: blockchain. It has a potential to become a universal tool offering useful applications to just about every industry and sector.
Norbert Biedrzycki asks in FORBES: When will we stop being human?
I still remember the question asked by my friend in the first year of high school. Listen, what do you think the monkey felt, the first monkey who became the first man?
Business Insider: Authoritarian model of management in the digital economy
Nowadays, being an organization leader can be fascinating and difficult at the same time. Authorities in a rapidly changing reality are not easy, and the power of a person at the head of a company is certainly not given once and for all.
Business Insider: An outstanding or just average leader. What distinguishes them?
Risky decisions today are decisions that will take into account all customer behavior available in each of the possible sources, including social networking sites, geolocation data, watched videos or IoT device in his home.
Business Insider: In the era of digital economics, the versatility of a leader is worth its weight in gold
Every contemporary organization must undergo a change process leading to full digitization. Some people may treat it only as an element of adaptation to the contemporary market, and others will see it as a chance for a revolutionary change in the scale of operations.
Business Insider: Artificial Intelligence will generate a lot of new jobs
In the common opinion, robotization will lead to the destruction of the labor market in the future. Changes in this area are inevitable, I do not think that they must have a clearly negative overtone.
Will quantum computers doom the blockchain?
Blockchain technology is barely 10 years old but it’s not too soon to ask if blockchain security will be possible in a post-quantum world. Let me be more direct: Will quantum computers render blockchain technology obsolete?
Artificial Intelligence for Big Players Only
Will Artificial Intelligence be a big competitive advantage for the big digital companies only?
The “sharing economy” was envisioned nearly 100 years ago
Sharing economy grew at 22% in 2016, up to 12.6 million users and was predicted to grow to 14.5 million in 2018. These figures need to be increased by the addition of online shopping data from such websites as Pinterest and eBay, which are used by a self-declared 50% of the adult population.
Business Insider: Morality of algorithms and ethical code of the leader in the artificial intelligence era
The challenge for the modern leader is to convince both clients and colleagues that the new technology will not be self-destructive. That everything really depends on us.
Is a strong leader in an organization equal to an innovative strategy?
Organizations in the entire business world know that without a strong leader in their own ranks, there is no chance of implementing an innovative strategy.
Artificial Intelligence will do everything for us – say enthusiasts
Article in BrandsIT: Man will become unnecessary - the pessimists who predict the destruction of humanity from the hands of conscious machines answer.
Blended worlds. Welcome to augmented reality
It would be a mistake to reduce augmented reality to mere entertainment value. In the near future, AR may support production and marketing, and soon reveal its innovative potential in architecture and industry.
BlockchainTech Congress 2018
A revolution is coming. Blockchain is changing reality and the functioning of the economy, just like the internet once did. BlockchainTech Congress allows the participants to get to know how this breaking technology works, its potential and implementation, as well as the legal-regulatory threat.
Fund Forum Analiz online conference
Fintech is changing reality - say hello to the robot. Future of the banking sector in the context of the development of the FinTech industry, influence of blockchain technology on the development of financial services, future of the financial advisor profession in the context of progressing automation and robo advisory.
Business Insider: Ledger of all ledgers. This is what blockchain is and why it will change everything
A distributed, secure, widely available and trustworthy database. There is definitely something amazing and unbelievable in this.
FORBES: Will a quantum computer become a curse of cryptocurrency?
Theoretical foundations of quantum computers were described in the 1980s of the last century. It is only recently that technology has caught up with theory, allowing it to build the first quantum computers. Will their appearance cause the blockchain to become obsolete?
There is nothing to be afraid of. Automation is not just about removing jobs. It’s also creating new ones
Article in BarandsIT: In general opinion, robotics will lead to the destruction of the labor market in the future. Although I am sure that changes in this area are inevitable, I do not think that they must have a clearly negative connotation.
Who will gain, and who will lose in the digital revolution?
By 2030, the digital revolution will push 75 million to 375 million workers around the world out of their current jobs. However, while many occupations will disappear from the employment landscape forever, many new professions will take their place. What skills will be in demand in the future?
Reality merges with the digital world. AR is not just Pokémon Go
Will traditional interfaces be unnecessary and go to a museum of technology? Perhaps a breakthrough in the development of the latest technologies would be to eliminate the monitor and keyboard that today mediate in access to information?
When will we cease to be biological people?
Artificial Intelligence is a great promise to many of us. Better, easier, longer life. Maybe even something more. Perhaps soon we will see a race aimed at increasing the overall human intelligence at the level of entire countries.
FORBES: And when will your lawyer be a robot?
In my opinion, it is not enough to be aware that reality has accelerated, and that legal codes are aging at a rapid pace. Politicians, legislators and lawyers now have a great responsibility for changes that may or should not be made.
Who will gain, and who will lose in the digital revolution?
Article in BrandsIT: The changes we are witnessing today are being driven by the growing use of technology in everyday life. Artificial intelligence (AI) and self-learning machines are already altering the ways decisions are made and information communicated.
FinTech Congress 2018
A meeting of the FinTech Congress Program Council was held on 5 February at the Sheraton Warsaw Hotel. We talked about the next edition of the congress, agenda and subject matter, as well as the main global trends in the FinTech and financial industry.
Blockchain Tech Congress
Meeting of the Blockchain Tech Program Council 2018. We determined the thematic scope of the congress, the list of invited speakers and the scope of individual presentations.
Artificial intelligence is new electricity
The intellectual currents that accompany advances in modern technology are as fascinating as the technologies themselves. What kind of a breakthrough could this be?
Robots awaiting judges
Planet of the Machines: Questions for a New Age. Humans tend to become flustered when confronted with a rapidly changing reality, and let's not exclude our lawyers and legislators.
Looking for greater profits? Start sharing with me
Imagine an economic system in which concepts such as profit, margin and supply-and-demand were replaced by trust, participation, sharing, and the responsible, sustainable use of resources.
When will we stop being biological people?
Intellectual currents that accompany the development of modern technology are as fascinating as technology itself.
Why do we care about blockchain?
Will blockchain prove to be an attraction of one season? Everything indicates that no. Because this technology has the potential to move the fundamental pillars of our society.
FORBES: Artificial Intelligence is new electricity?
The view that humanity is at the threshold of a great breakthrough is spreading and sounds less and less fantastic. What would he depend on?
Code Europe Warsaw December 2017
Code Europe. The largest software development conference in Poland, 90 speakers, 150 workshops and 9000 participants.
FORBES: Sharing economy – utopia or future business?
Imagine a social system in which such economic categories as profit, margin, demand and supply are replaced by values such as trust, participation, sharing, deepening relationships, or sustainable resource management.
Norbert Biedrzycki, speaker at the Digital Champions conference
Take advantage of the rapidly evolving capabilities of automation, autonomy, prediction, and analytics to create truly intelligent products and organizations. Pioneers of algorithmic business confirm the well-known fact that the future of Artificial Intelligence has already arrived, is only unevenly distributed.
Blockchain on FinTech Digital Congress
Digitalization, technological progress, anticipation of changing digital consumer demands, innovative business models, regulatory changes and market unification drive the dynamic development of FinTech.
People will lose their jobs as a result of the digital revolution. And you?
Estimates say that as a result of the digital revolution more than 500 million people will lose their jobs. What skills will be key in the future? What groups of people will gain and what will they lose on the technological revolution?
Fourth Innovative Manufacturing Forum – Industry 4.0
Industrial production is the cornerstone of the competitiveness of economies and serves to build sustainable and sustainable growth. As a result of globalization, trade liberalization, innovation and ever-increasing competition, it is vital to develop new solutions, such as Industry 4.0.
Key speaker at HRcamp 2017. Impact of Artificial intelligence and robotics on the labour market
Will robots take our jobs or maybe create new ones? Artificial intelligence and automation and the labour market - what awaits us and how to prepare for the change.
BigData and Artificial Intelligence: Think Big Congress
Big Data analysis at the end of the twentieth century, moved the business into a new, innovative dimension. The new revolution is machine learning as well as artificial intelligence.
Will robots change the world?
Article in BrandsIT: Algorithm-based technologies, machine learning and process automation have come to a point in their development where morality-related questions and answers may seriously affect the development of all of our modern technologies and even our entire civilization.
Data commercialization Summit
Business growth driven by big data in the age of augmented human being. The future is here – based on predictions of what will happen tomorrow. Time for futurology – fourth revolution – what’s next?
Will a basic income guarantee be necessary when machines take our jobs?
Automation of work, robotization and artificial intelligence will reduce demand for human labor. By 2050, more than 250 million people will lose their jobs. Ensuring a basic income for citizens will become a political issue.
Can robots sin?
Each of us makes numerous decisions daily that concern essential ethical issues. Our daily choices between good and evil are largely habitual, many of them aren’t even noticed by us. However, in the world of artificial intelligence, morality is becoming increasingly problematic.
OUTSOURCING MAGAZINE: The blockchain may be a threat to the financial system’s status quo
All this is possible due to application of blockchain technology.
Machine, when will you become closer to me?
Contemporary debates on robotization focus typically on machines that populate workplaces. However, people’s lives are not all work. We need close human contact and emotional interactions with others.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Will the guaranteed basic income provide us with a happy senility?
By 2050, more than 250 million people will lose their jobs. Ensuring a basic income for citizens will become a political issue.
HBR: Will the machine become a perfect lover?
Our life is not just work, but also the search for intimacy, emotions, communication with others. And all this involves our erotica. Can a artificially intelligent machine become a perfect lover?
How I love to get scared in movie theaters – my favorite Artificial Intelligence films
The apprehensions, concerns and obsessions about the future that many people have been experiencing in recent years make perfect movie material. And, arguably, the most captivating of all recent characters to have appeared on the large screen is artificial intelligence.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Here are movies that show all our new technologies related fears
Advanced technology has been extremely alluring to the film industry and, at times, has been embodied in an evil character. Clearly, in the coming years it will unseat aliens in their role as the prime source of viewer terror.
The end of the age of humans
Big Brother has always been watching us, except that these days, he does it far more efficiently and thoroughly. And it is going to get worse. Because soon assembly lines in factories will be “manned” by emotionless robots…
FORBES: Will robots begin to sin? Humanity will soon have to make unequivocal decisions
Our daily choices between good and evil are automatic, often unnoticed by us. In the world of Artificial Intelligence, the issue of morality becomes increasingly problematic.
Key achievements in Atos Poland 2015-2017
#4 biggest Polish software house and system integrator, #1 IT player in e-commerce, CRM, cloud solutions in Poland.
McKinsey: I join the Leadership of the Warsaw office
Norbert Biedrzycki heads McKinsey Digital at CEE and joins the leadership of the McKinsey office in Warsaw
A machine will not hug you… but it may listen and offer advice
Cognitive computing – a skill-set widely considered to be the most vital manifestation of artificial intelligence.
Finally, I received a confirmation of admission to Leadership Academy
The Center for Leadership promotes the development of good leadership for Poland and connects outstanding Poles who will shape the future of Poland and the world.
Returning to McKinsey as Vice President McKinsey Digital
Norbert Biedrzycki will lead the Warsaw branch of McKinsey Digital Lab.
The biggest IT companies in Poland in 2016 by ITwiz BEST100
Atos won in a number of categories and reached the highest places in the annual ITWiz Best 100 IT Companies in Poland.
Living brains beget artificial intelligence
Machine learning, autonomous vehicles, the internet of things and the feats of IBM’s computer Watson are the work of living brains, people who seek to make the world a better place, make humanity healthier and perhaps even extend human life.
Atos again on leading positions in the biggest IT reports in Poland
Another time Atos won in many categories and is ranked on highest positions of annual reports prepared by two most important IT magazines in Poland: Computerworld and ITWiz.
Banking and Finance Forum. Interview on the future of blockchain
Interview. Impact of blockchain on financial sector and vision of bank of the future.
Meeting of the Advisory Board of III FinTech Digital Congress
Topics to cover: Artificial Intelligence in FinTech, blockchain, customer experience and cyber-security.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Artificial Intelligence Sexual Revolution
Our life is driven by a search for intimacy, emotions and communication with others. And that's all there is in sex. Is there a next wave of a sexual revolution but this time driven by a Artificial Intelligence?
FORBES: Living brains that breathes Artificial Intelligence
Despite the fact that artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, the internet of things and the feats of IBM’s computer Watson are the work of people.
LatoHR Summer 2017 Conference
During 2017 Summer edition I was a speaker on panel titled "Agile in Human Resurcess".
Artificial brains save the Earth
You don't have to be an environmental activist to realize just how vulnerable the Earth’s ecosystem is. Can modern technology help us protect it? Can we employ artificial intelligence to save the environment globally?
BUSINESS INSIDER: They are terrifying, but are they justified? Here are 4 myths about artificial intelligence
Big Brother has always been watching us. After all, he is online, meaning he can access our e-mails, bank statements, phone calls and social media posts.
FORBES: Cognitive computing, or how artificial intelligence works
Cognitive Computing – a set of skills often treated as the most serious manifestation of artificial intelligence.
BUSINESS INSIDER: How artificial brains save the Earth
Information technologies make it easy and, in many cases, they make it possible to implement interesting pro-ecological ventures.
Lecture at Leon Kozminski Academy
I was privileged to be a lecturer at ALK. Thank you Monika Sonta for the invitation. It is a great pleasure, honor but also a lot of fun.
Harward Business Review – How to discover talents within your organization?
Almost in every sector of the economy competitive advantage is gained by companies employing the most talented employees. Traditional methods of identifying them within the organization are failing, but there are ways to find talents hidden deep within the organization.
Can machines tell right from wrong?
Programmers involved in developing algorithms for use in autonomous vehicles should prepare to have their work become the subject of a heated ethical debate rather soon. The growing popularity of self-driving cars is already giving headaches to lawyers and legislators.The reason is the complexities of what is right and wrong in the context of road safety.
Singularity Univesity Warsaw Chapter Opening
We believe our world has the people, technology, and resources to solve any problem, even humanity’s most urgent, persistent challenges.
Code Europe Warsaw 2017
The largest software development conference in Poland, 90 speakers, 150 workshops and 9000 participants. Place to share experiences, knowledge, best practices with international industry leaders, key developers, managers, clients on latest technology trends, case studies, projects.
Medicine of the future – computerized health enhancement
While the scalpel is unlikely to disappear from operating rooms any time soon, it is bound to have new company in the form of 3D printers, virtual reality interfaces and nanorobots. Doctors may get excited over the prospects of rapid advances in IT and modern technologies.
Only God can count that fast – the world of quantum computing
The progress seen in IT over the last few years is truly mind-boggling. And yet the computational power of classical computers appears to be limited. Therefore everyone whose sights are set on boundless technological advances turns their attention to a technology promising to deliver another big breakthrough – quantum computing.
FORBES: Ethics of autonomous cars
Programmers involved in developing algorithms for use in autonomous vehicles should prepare to have their work become the subject of a heated ethical debate rather soon.
Machine Learning. Computers coming of age
The machine learning technology proves that today’s computers are acquiring ever more astonishing skills. Perhaps their ability to take in and process newly acquired knowledge will one day enable them to sustain artificial intelligence. What exactly is the computer’s ability to learn?
Modern medicine observes the rise of the latest technologies
Modern medicine confronts such challenges with attention and hope, even a growing appetite as it observes the rise of the latest technologies. Doctors, researchers and patients have a good reasons to be upbeat about the future.
Technological Einstein. Everything you need to know about quantum computers
The computational power of classical computers appears to be limited. Therefore everyone whose sights are set on boundless technological advances turns their attention to a quantum computing.
The invisible web that surrounds us, i.e. the Internet of Things
In 2008, there were more of them than people. By 2020, their numbers are set to reach between 25 and 50 billion. Devices connected to the Internet of Things increasingly dominate our lives.
Banking and Insurance Summit
Banking and Insurance Summit is a periodic event held successfully for many years that brings together the most prominent individuals and companies representing the Polish financial sector.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Computers coming of age. Time to machine independence
The machine learning technology proves that today’s computers are acquiring ever more astonishing skills. Perhaps this is a beginning of a Artificial SuperIntelligence.
FORBES: The Internet of Things
By 2020, there is going to be in between 25 and 50 billion of them. Devices connected to the Internet of Things increasingly dominate our lives.
3rd Innovative Manufacturing Forum
Innovative Manufacturing Forum, is a discussion platform which is focused on crucial elements that determine the business success of production companies and implementation of new technologies.
25th EuroPOWER Energy Conference
Discussions held during the event relate to the most important changes in the market, technology trends, new business models and electro-mobility.
According to our computers… you don’t exist
A foreign friend of mine struggled for nearly three weeks trying to prove to his country’s authorities that he... existed. All because of an error in the country’s personal identification number database, which had simply “deleted” him.
Surviving in the digital age, future-proofing your business
Our friends and us have gone on a weekend trip into the wilderness lately, leaving behind all trappings of civilization. All worked wonderfully until our friends’ teenage son threw a fit over his smartphone which he shook anxiously, bellowing: “No Internet?”
V edition SmartCity Forum
Smart City Forum is a response to the transformation, which takes place on a global scale, relating to the construction and operation of intelligent cities.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Can a man still exists, if is wiped-out by computer?
Unfortunately, data processing errors can lead to situations with dangerous social consequences.
Interview on the future of new technologies: blockchain, bitcoin, artificial intelligence
Impact of future technology on finance, energy and car industry.
What a machine will think when it looks us in the eye?
Artificial Intelligence will do all of our work for us – it will even find a cure for cancer, claim enthusiasts. It will render man useless, respond pessimists, prophesying a doom of humanity at the hand of conscious machines.
Blockchain – the ultimate financial crash
Financial institutions are facing the difficult dilemma of whether to support or fight the development of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Regardless of their views on the matter, they realize that the new system that is emerging will inevitably undermine their raison d'etre.
Matrix, Dolly the Sheep and bacteria of the future
I make an effort to stay abreast of the latest developments in science, especially where biological research combines with information technology. Some ideas in particular prove to be quite an intellectual adventure.
FORBES: How to prepare your company for “Generation C”?
Surviving in the digital age, future-proofing your business. Members of generation C are particularly well adjusted to living in the digital world. It is natural for them to believe they will be able to stay connected indefinitely.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Matrix, Dolly the Sheep and bacteria of the future… What is synthetic biology?
Synthetic biology is gaining popularity. From a niche field of science, it is evolving into one that draws much attention from industry and business.
Blockchain has the potential to upend the key pillars of society
Blockchain could reshape the basic principles of trade, influence economies and change the way people see trust and ownership. It may, but will it manage to? Will cryptocurrencies really revolutionize the financial system?
Fall of the hierarchy. Who really rules in your company?
Today’s hierarchical business management models require major changes or at least some degree of tweaking. After all, we are facing a market whose ground rules are created by innovative organizations that promote a new approach to both clients and employees.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Cashless society through cryptocurrency
The fundamental idea about the blockchain is to create new blocks for transaction sets by arranging them into blockchains and sending them into the network.
Invasion of Artificial Intelligence – this is what we can expect in 2017 (part 1 of 4)
The term ‘Artificial Intelligence’ has made an incredible media career. This is no wonder considering how much it gives us to think and talk about. Prepare to see it gain even more publicity this year.
Artificial Intelligence for all – this is what we can expect in 2017 (part 2 of 4)
In 2017, we will see better than ever how seemingly abstract algorithms transform into technological organisms that affect the lives of vast human communities.
The lasting marriage of technology and human nature – what we can expect from 2017 (part 3 of 4)
We have learned to talk to computers and telephones and grown to expect them to surprise, entertain and advise us as well as make us feel secure. Technology has become an integral part of our emotional lives.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Blockchain – the ultimate financial crash
Blockchain is not humanity’s last word in creating decentralized financial systems that are globally accessible and independent of state governments, stock exchanges, financial institutions, banks and other middlemen.
Technology putting pressure on business – this is what we can expect in 2017 (part 4 of 4)
The impact of the digital revolution on the economy is enormous. As modern technologies invade our lives, they transform business models and interpersonal relations between workers and companies, and thus strongly impact the entire labor market.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Blockchain – the Holy Grail of the financial system?
Blockchain could reshape the basic principles of trade, influence economies and change the way people see trust and ownership. It may, but will it manage to? Will cryptocurrencies really revolutionize the financial system?
FORBES: What a machine will think when it looks us in the eye
Artificial intelligence will do all of our work for us – it will even find a cure for cancer, claim AI research enthusiasts.
BUSINESS INSIDER: What are bitcoins? All you need to know
A cryptocurrency with a potential to become perfect money. Where has it come from, what is it worth and what can you buy with it?
A hidden social network lurks within your company. Find it!
Formal structures no longer do the job. Managers today are becoming increasingly aware of the value of informal networks – the relationships that actually drive their companies. By recognizing and harnessing these links, they stand to gain a powerful competitive advantage.
Top 5 technology events of 2016
Here is my TOP5 of most important tech related events of 2016: first landing of Falcon 9, Russian cyberpower invaded US, major cyber attack disrupts internet service across Europe and US, world’s largest hedge fund to replace managers with AI, scientists invent groundbreaking method to simplify construction of quantum computers.
BUSINESS INSIDER: What is blockchain? All you need to know
A system that can't be cracked and has the potential to transform industries.
End of the world we know, welcome to the digital reality
Any company that goes digital is inevitably looking to dramatically transform its structure. Its IT unit does not necessarily have to take over the helm and run its operations. The head of IT does not need to become a guru known for singlehanded decision-making.
FORBES: A hidden social networks lurks within your company. Find it!
Formal structures no longer do the job. Managers today are becoming increasingly aware of the value of informal networks – the relationships that actually drive their companies.
Code Europe Warsaw 2017
The largest software development conference in Poland, 80 speakers, more than 100 workshops. Norbert Biedrzycki as a key speaker.
Your clients are already in the future, and where are you?
One of the vital benefits of digitization is instant access to goods and services. Few customers today realize just how dramatically companies need to change to be able to enter the digital ecosystem and operate in it effectively.
BUSINESS INSIDER: End of the world we know
Any company that goes digital is inevitably looking to dramatically transform its structure. Its IT unit does not necessarily have to take over the helm and run its operations. The head of IT does not need to become a guru known for singlehanded decision-making.
FORBES: Fall of the hierarchy. Who really rules in your company?
Today’s hierarchical business management models require major changes or at least some degree of tweaking.
V BIG DATA: Think Big CEE Congress
Congress is an unique opportunity to confront and exchange experiences with experts active in this specific and highly promising topic of Big Data.
What are bitcoins? All you need to know
A cryptocurrency with a potential to become perfect money. Where has it come from, what is it worth and what can you buy with it?
What is blockchain? All you need to know
A system that can't be cracked and has the potential to transform industries. Blockchain revolutionizes the way transactions are made, settled and recorded.
FinTech Digital Congress CEE
FinTech changes the banking sector. Digitization, technological progress, innovative business models drives the dynamic development of the FinTech industry.
EuroPOWER Energy Conference
Discussions held during the event relate to the most important changes in the market, analysis of the new trends and allow to search common business models and pursue the most effectively market strategies.
Passion – I work because I like it
Passion is the key value in our work life. If you lack passion sooner or later your work results will be unsatisfactory regardless of the field or position.
The brain – a device that becomes obsolete
Most people today find it difficult to keep up with the break-neck pace of technological advances. Scientists increasingly claim that to understand the future, which surprisingly is now, people have to adopt their brains.
Innovative Manufacturing Forum
Industry 4.0, key topics: The fourth Industrial Revolution – theoretical concept or actual solutions? Whether Polish companies are ready and how will realize assumptions of fourth Industrial Revolution?
Atos does not exclude acquisitions in Poland
Atos Group, which worldwide grows through acquisitions, does not exclude acquisitions of other companies also in Poland – said in the interview for Polish Press Agency (PAP) Norbert Biedrzycki, Chairman of The Board of Atos Poland.
How machines think
Technological advances make you wonder: is this the start of a new world ruled by intelligent machines? Is there such thing as artificial intelligence?
Big Data: new player in sports
The latest data analytics help coaches understand their athletes and allow sports producers to anticipate spectator behavior. Athlete tracking sensors in playing fields are increasingly popular in stadiums.
Geomarketing Forum 2016
Main discussion topics: Business Intelligence, Location Intelligence, Location Analytics, Big Data, GIS, location-based services and GIS Smart City.
BUSINESS INSIDER: How machines think
The development of artificial intelligence in robotics is not as unlikely as you might think. A growing number of technologies enable machines to observe the environment in which they operate and choose the best course of action.
Atos Poland ranked highest in TOP200 report
Atos Poland ranked highest in three rankings of this year's prestigious Computerworld TOP 200 report on Polish IT market.
The Broadband Networks Conference
Access to high-speed Internet connection is becoming one of the most important advantage on competing markets.
Warsaw International Media Summit
The Warsaw International Media Summit addressed to the senior managers, who keep up with the market development latest trends, in Poland and worldwide.
FORBES: Big Data: new player in sports
Athlete tracking sensors in playing fields are increasingly popular in stadiums. Big Data has come to sports and gained many ardent fans.
International Banking and Insurance Summit
The Forum aims to gather all key market players who have influence on financial sector and allow to understand changes taking place in the sector.
Artificial intelligence – real threats or groundless fears?
Emotions vs. mathematics. People have traits that artificial intelligence will never possess: unpredictability, lack of logic and emotions.
Work of the future – reinventing work
Machines will replace humans in performing the most repetitive jobs. However, this expected robotization and automation of repetitive processes will not be the only or even the most important change that we are likely to see in the future labor market.
Internet bubble 2.0
Is internet bubble threat real? Is it going to strike again? The memories of the spring of 2000 are still alive.
The bomb is still ticking
I find certain places and stories particularly moving. Last spring, I visited Chernobyl, which made quite an impression on me. Here is its history.
Augmented reality. Seeing more than just Pokemons
Virtual and augmented reality has been born amidst turmoil and confusion. Both of these projects appeal to people’s imagination promising to extend the limits of human perception. And they do in fact deliver.
SmartCity Forum
Smart City Forum is a response to the transformation, which takes place on a global scale, relating to the construction and operation of intelligent cities.
Advancements in Big Data are not driven by technology alone
Although technology has enabled us to collect and process large amounts of information, another often neglected factor behind the trend is human behavior.
Stop the deepening of the digital divide
Social advancement and economic growth today are not only about Internet access. The way we use the Internet is no less important.
Going into space
A box measuring 10x10x11.3 cm, weighing 1 kg. It resembles a Rubik’s cube. A team of students from the Warsaw University of Technology dedicated several years of their lives to building it.
Key trends in Microsoft development
Conclusions from Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2016 in Toronto.
On Tesla and the human right to make mistakes
Whether in business, technology or marketing, automation increasingly affects every person’s life. Some experience it more powerfully than others.
Modern technologies, old fears: will robots take our jobs?
The astronauts returning to Earth, find the world in which nobody works - artificial intelligence supported by modern technologies performs all duties.
Digital journey
It is important to approach the digitization in the right way - it is not the only one project, but investment into the process of changes, implemented over a longer time period.
Future of e-commerce in Cuba and prospects of digitization
Economic backwardness and digitization lagging resulting from the economic system operating in force 60 years could be noticed on this Caribbean island.
Sagrada Familia and the Internet of Things
Zillion bits of data are processed daily to allow the inhabitants in modern Smart Cities to work efficiently and live a peaceful life. Live better and better in the world of BigData and Internet of Things.
High jumps and supercomputers
Artur Partyka is a former Polish high jumper, two-time Olympic medalist. He advised us what mindset and attitude is necessary, both in sports and business, to be able to achieve excellence in competitive environments.
SmartCity platform – from ticketing to urban servicess system
My comments to Miroslaw Konkel’s article “Good spsce in Smart Cities" published in Puls Biznesu and referring to SmartCity solutions.
Supercomputers, Satellites and Olympics
Interview for Computerworld magazine. Atos in Poland strategy going forward.
BIG DATA: Think Big CEE Congress
Big Data is a main challenge for key company’s divisions, The possibility to confront the entire complexity of the Big Data problems is the biggest added value of the Congress.
Big Data advancements are not determined by technology
It’s about human behavior. The data we share, sometimes very carelessly, are subject for analysis on our behaviors, preferences, every day life choices, likes and dislikes.
EuroPOWER Energy Sector Conference
EuroPOWER Conference is neutral platform for dialogue, permanently inscribing itself in calendars of the most important economic events in our country.
An video interview for Inwestor.Newseria
Release of the market, admission of different telecom operators and natural competition.
Nearly 1150 places in Poland still with no internet access
An interview for Gazeta Warszawska/ Newseria. The problem with internet access in Poland is a result of geographical factors, technical feasibility and commercial business case.
The 11th edition of Banking & Insurance Forum
Forum is a continuation of event that guests key individuals – those who work in banking industry, companies that cooperate with banks and those that provides solutions for them.
The Broadband Networks Conference 2016
High-speed Internet connection in the modern world became one of the most important advantage between competing markets and a method to assure long-term economic growth.
Atos Poland: We increase employment, extend the offer and scale of operations
ITwiz. Interview with Norbert Biedrzycki, new President of the Management Board at Atos Poland and Vice President System Integration for CEE Region at Atos.
Telecommunication and Media World Symposium 2016
The Telecommunication and Media World Symposium event with an established position, which for 17 years permanently inscribed itself in the calendar of this industry sector.
SmartCity conference III eddition
Smart City Forum is a response to the transformation, which takes place on a global scale, relating to the construction and operation of intelligent cities.
Key achievements in ABC DATA 2012-2015
#1 biggest Polish IT company with revenue of 1,7 billion EUR.
ABC Data – number one IT company in Poland
In 2013, ABC Data reported a nearly twofold increase in profit compared to 2012. Group grew faster than the market in all relevant geographic and product segments, reaching revenues of PLN 4.5 billion, which enabled the Company to maintain the title of The biggest IT company in Poland.
ABC Data posts strong results for 2013
The company’s EBIDTA increased to 18,9m EUR which translates into a 35.3% growth when compared with 2012. The group’s revenue for 2013 rose by 31% to 1.15bn EUR.
ABC Data entering German market: interview with CEO Norbert Biedrzycki
Building B2B, B2C marketplace across CEE countries as one of strategic pillars of ABC Data geographical expansion (interview in German).
FORBES: Golden boy
They say that the consultant would not be able to manage the company. Norbert Biedrzycki, a juvenile of the consulting firm McKinsey, denied this, healing the IT integrator of Sygnity. What will he show now as the president of the ABC Data hardware trading company?
Key achievements in Sygnity 2010-2012
Second biggest software house and system integrator in Poland; 3000 employees.
IT distribution Central Eastern Europe market evolution in 2013
IT distribution Central Eastern Europe market evolution in 2013.
Computerworld TOP200: The most influential people in the Polish IT
Hostile takeover by major competitor is a theoretical exercise many CEOs of listed companies will never face in a real life, and not everyone is experiencing it firsthand.
Norbert Biedrzycki chosen the Player of the Year according to the Forbes magazine
Norbert Biedrzycki, Player of the Year 2012 according to the Forbes magazine in the B2B category – Production and Services for Companies.