MAIN STAGE
Day 1, 14 April
Stage Host
Wojciech Wiesner Co-founder XPRESS DELIVERY
09:00–11:00
Opening address from the Main Stage hostA short opening address by the Main Stage host, setting the context for the day through the lens of consumer and retail market realities shaping decision-making across Poland and CEE.
Anna Karpowicz Client Business Partner NIELSENIQKrzysztof Szczerbacz EE Lead Brand & Media NIELSENIQ
09:00 - 09:40
PANEL
The Promise Gap: Why Fast Delivery Expectations Collide with Logistics Reality
Exploring how delivery expectations escalate faster than logistics networks can absorb.
Examining why courier dependence, peak volatility, and cross-border complexity expose promise gaps early.
Integrating delivery ambition, network constraints, and cost-to-serve truth to ground customer promises.
Moderator:
Zofia Zaczek Courier Services Cooperation and Development Manager RTV EURO AGD
Panelist:
Łukasz Zembowicz Director of Sales and Marketing DPD POLSKA
Maciej Gawroński CEO IDKFA IDCLIP FOZZY GROUP
Małgorzata Sikorska Last Mile Logistics Manager LEROY MERLIN POLSKA
Piotr Wrzeszcz Supply Chain Director MEDIA SATURN
Tomasz Libiszewski Logistics Director SKLEPY KOMFORT S.A.
09:40 - 10:00
Cost out – how to sensibly increase efficiency and reduce costs. Lessons from practice
Maciej Kroenke Partner Strategy&
10:00- 10:20
A warehouse that sees and learns: the impact of Machine Vision and VR technologies on throughput and accuracy in order fulfillment
The use of AI in product sizing, based on the example of a fashion warehouse.
How computer vision impacts employee safety during order picking.
The use of virtual reality for effective employee onboarding in direct operational processes.
Adrian Fulczyk Senior Innovation Specialist ID LOGISTICS POLAND
Sławomir Rodak Commercial Director ID LOGISTICS POLAND
10:20 - 11:00
PANEL
Having more insight doesn’t automatically lead to better decisions.
Across organisations, visibility has increased faster than clarity about who can act. Signals are everywhere, but authority is often fragmented, escalated, or delayed. In environments where pressure is constant and time is scarce - and where decisions show up the same day in pricing, availability, and customer trust - decisions tend to slow not because information is missing, but because ownership is unclear.
This discussion creates space to re-focus attention on how authority - not insight - increasingly determines whether organisations can move.
Moderator:
Pedro Martinho Entrepreneur & Strategic Innovation Partner DIGITAL PARTNERSHIPS PEDRO MADEIRA MARTINHO
Panelist:
Maciej Herman CEO WEDEL
Marian Zych General Manager PSH LIVIO
Karolina Szuba COO/ Board Member SUPER-PHARM
Joanna Okła Senior Vice President Clients & Strategy/President of the Board ESSENCEMEDIACOM (WPP MEDIA)
Piotr Sprzęczka Regional Managing Director LOGWIN CEE
11:00 - 11:30
11:00–14:30
Block 2 — Returns, Reverse Logistics & Resilience
11:30 - 12:00
PANEL
Connecting systems doesn’t just increase efficiency - it reveals where organisations are exposed.
As systems become more connected, what was once isolated starts to interact. Dependencies multiply, handovers tighten, and small inconsistencies travel further than before. In consumer-facing operations where availability, fulfilment, and service are tightly linked, that exposure surfaces faster and closer to the customer.
What used to be contained can now surface quickly, exposing weaknesses that were previously buffered or invisible. This discussion brings leaders together to examine where integration has shifted risk - not as a failure of systems, but as a consequence of increased connectedness.
Moderator:
Grzegorz Przytuła Partner, Consumer Sector Leader for Europe Central EY-PARTHENON
Panelist:
Elisabet Ricart Roig General Manager Glovo Poland GLOVO
Agnieszka Talecka Sales, Marketing & Innovations Director Central EMEA DS SMITH
Kinga Wyganowska Senior Account Executive RELEX SOLUTIONS
Robert Stupak Member of the Management Board, Director of Marketing, Digital, E-commerce and IT CARREFOUR POLSKA
Wojciech Normand Vice President of the Board DEICHMANN-OBUWIE SP. Z O.O.
12:00 - 12:20
BRANDSHIP - Make Effort Great Again
• How do consumers perceive the modern, shrinking world, and what do they expect from brands?
• Is the answer a race for convenience, or does rebuilding relationships through effort rooted in values and interactions become essential?
Agnieszka Śpionek Vice President MASTERCARD
Paweł Roge Vice President MASTERCARD
12:20 - 12:40
WMS on CITO: From necessity to competitive advantage
How to launch a fully functional warehouse in less than 4 months?
How to integrate and leverage modern technologies so that AI can support the team during critical moments and ensure operational flexibility?
Besides advanced technology, what else determines a project's ultimate success?
Piotr Picyk Director Sales & Business Development CEE PSI POLSKA
12:40 - 13:00
Last mile is the new battleground - Network Orchestration for the Future of Retail
The future of retail logistics.
Self-healing networks.
Dynamic re-routing and Agentic AI.
Rico Van Leuken CEO BLUEROCK TMS
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 – 15:30
Block 3 — Logistics Under Volatility: Disruption, Recovery & Resilience
14:00 - 14:30
PANEL
Shopper, needs, promotions, AI, Retail Media, managing cost… there are more options than resources
As pressure builds, more gets added: new priorities, new exceptions, new ways of doing things. Nothing breaks immediately, but running the organisation starts to take more effort than before - all while the core operation keeps moving and targets remain unchanged. Alignment needs more conversations, decisions take longer, and small inconsistencies begin to matter - often showing up for consumers as uneven availability, mixed signals, or inconsistent experiences. This discussion brings leaders together around that reality - not to simplify for its own sake, but to understand what coherence now quietly costs.
Moderator:
Robert Krzak Senior Advisor, Trade and Consumer Products Sector Expert EY
Szymon Mordasiewicz Managing Director Poland YOUGOV
Panelist:
Jan Starzyk CFO, Board Member AUCHAN POLSKA
Krzysztof Tokarz Chairman of the Board GRUPA SPECJAŁ
Paweł Wardziński General Director INTERMARCHÉ
Wojciech Czernek Chairman of the Board BALTONA
14:30 - 15:00
PANEL
Recovering on the Fly: How Omnichannel Options Absorb Logistics Shocks
Exploring ship-from-store, rerouting, and alternative pickup as recovery tools.
Examining why recovery options fail without inventory truth and decision clarity.
Integrating recovery playbooks and cost awareness to prevent chaos.
Moderator:
Przemysław Piętak Senior Director | Head of Industrial and Logistics Agency Poland KNIGHT FRANK
Panelist:
Bartłomiej Pomianowski Store Operations Manager VISION EXPRESS
Michał Mizerski International Delivery Manager ALLEGRO
Karol Robaczewski Chief Manufacturing and Logistics Oficer ,CEO Neolog X-KOM
15:00 - 15:30
PANEL
Change is constant. What must stay stable is not.
Constant change has become the normal state. Structures evolve, priorities shift, and organisations adapt while still moving at full speed. In that motion, what once held things together can quietly loosen: shared reference points weaken, boundaries blur, and execution starts to depend more on individual judgement than on common ground.
This discussion brings leaders together to recalibrate where stability still needs to hold - not to resist change, but to ensure the organisation remains workable while it continues to move.
Moderator:
Carolina Halladin CEO HALLADIN TRADE ADVISORY
Panelist:
Grzegorz Przytuła Partner, Consumer Sector Leader for Europe Central EY-PARTHENON
Rafał Lewandowski Contract Management Director ID LOGISTICS
Marcin Kuś President of the Management Board, Commercial Director CEE BAHLSEN POLAND
Tomasz Suffner General Manager Unilever Personal Care Poland UNILEVER
