P&G is a global company, which serves nearly five billion people around the world with its brands. Operating in 180 countries, the company has been serving consumers with one of the strongest, most diverse and innovative brand portfolio with 65 trusted, quality, leading brands including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Vizir®, Fairy®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Old Spice®, Oral-B®, Pampers® and Pantene®, which make a difference in people’s everyday life.

For P&G innovation is the cornerstone of its business and Poland is considered by the Company as one of the world's most important sources of IT based innovations. Poland is also a location of major P&G investments, with 3 state-of-the-art manufacturing centers, exporting to more than 70 countries, a General Office, European Planning Service Center and Global Business Service Center which is the second, after the US, largest IT center of P&G in the world.

P&G is an active member of ABSL. Since its first edition, P&G has been supporting the ABSL Start-up Challenge, being its main partner. Working with start-ups P&G offers young companies a wealth of business knowledge and an opportunity of implementing their solutions on a global scale, in return gaining access to the innovative, based on the latest technologies ideas of startups. Every year, the company starts new pilot projects in cooperation with the participants of the ABSL Start-Up Challenge.

Citi's mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We have 200 years of experience helping our clients to embrace its greatest opportunities. Our 220, 000 employees globally conduct business in more than 160 countries.

In Poland Citi was among the first international companies to establish a Service Center in 2005 and is one of the largest and fasted growing sites in the global Citi Service Centers (CSC) network. Over the last years, we have increased employment in our business services centers in Warsaw and Olsztyn from 1000 to over 4,300 employees, expanded the range of services and almost doubled the number of countries we support.

The site is a vibrant and dynamic place to work with more than 80% of Millennials, 83% percent of the staff has a university degree, we speak 29 languages, we hire more than 12 % of foreigners. CSC has a well-balanced female-male composition with 40 % of women on managerial positions.

CSC Poland continuously working on attracting best candidates from target universities by programs run by our ambassadors. Only in 2017 we organized 41 events, had more than 140 summer interns. 87 % of managerial position are being filled internally.

Citi fosters a culture of Diversity and Inclusion that attracts the best of the best, where we value others and expect respect from them in turn through many initiatives including existing Volunteers’ networks like Citi Women’s Network, Women in Technology, disAbility network, Multicultural network, Citi Pride.

The team is not only committed to performing at high quality standards but they are very actively engaged in supporting the community through a large number of activities through campaign Citi for Cities.

DSV is one of the world’s leading companies in TSL sector, present in more than 80 countries. DSV International Shared Services with headquarters in Warsaw and Manila provides business services within numerous business processes, such us Finance, Master Data Management (MDM), Claims Handling, Customs Administration, Operational Shared Services, Customer Reporting & Data Quality. DSV ISSC has been operating since 2012 and is rapidly developing. Now DSV ISSC employs in Warsaw more than 1000 people.

Randstad Polska, leader in the Polish HR advisory services and temporary work market, is part of the Dutch Randstad N.V.

Randstad is a trusted partner for companies that require support in their search for temporary workforce (including recruitment and management of large groups of employees at the client’s office) and permanent employees, including specialists in the field of finance, IT, engineering and advanced business services. Randstad also supports employers through professional advisory and labor market analysis services. It assists in payroll and personnel files management.

Randstad specialists support jobseekers in finding the best job to match their needs and qualifications, thus creating a friendly space of communication between the employees and employers.

Randstad uses new technologies for the benefit of jobseekers and employers. It operates globally, but also locally. You can meet Randstad specialists in one of over 120 offices throughout Poland.

We are a VC-fund, founded by Grupa Pracuj (Pracuj.pl), focused on first-sales/early-traction HR and Learning & Development -Tech start-ups.

Upon investment we help companies to scale using our experience as founders, entrepreneurs, investors, consultants, and advisors. We also leverage Grupa Pracuj know-how while working with over 40.000 businesses every year and thus have a deep understanding of HR-tech market and which solutions are most likely to transform that market.

We invest in teams of talented entrepreneurs with proper values and believes who can develop efficient companies of their dreams.

We connect leaders and future leaders of this industry who identify themselves as Polish and share common values, regardless of their current place of living, national identity or ethnicity: migrants, transmigrants, expats, digital nomads or simply - global minds. Today, PLUGin chapters operate actively in London, Paris, Singapore, Wroclaw, and soon also in Warsaw, NYC, Dublin, Oslo and San Francisco and Gdansk. Polish Tech Day - our flagship event hosted in London since 2015 - brings together over 250 tech professionals every year.

The most important meeting of business and technology is coming soon - 8-9 May at Infoshare 2019. We invite you to participate in the 13th edition of the biggest technology conference in this part of Europe. The previous Infoshare attracted 6000 attendees to Gdańsk - investors, representatives of corporations, start-ups and specialists developing new technologies.

Two days of the conference include 9 thematic scenes, 200 speakers, over 150 speeches, as well as accompanying events, which are a great opportunity to make new contacts and exchange experiences.

Infoshare also offers a dedicated Speed Dating tool for companies and investors looking for business partners and innovative solutions offered by start-ups.

Go to www.infoshare.pl and register.
We have a 15% discount for ABSL members with a dedicated code: IS19_ABSL.

Proptech Poland is a community of leading innovators and experts who transform the real estate market in Poland. We are connecting the real estate professionals, start-ups, technology companies and investors. Our goal is to provide people with new quality experience in buildings through the digital transformation of the real estate industry. We are here to boost the innovation adoption, streamline investment processes, be the spark for technology deployments and educate the market, consult projects and animate the community of polish Proptech innovators.

Agora is one of the largest media companies in Poland, active on the market for 30 years. It operates in the area of the printed press and multimedia digital editions, outdoor advertising, radio, cinema, film and publishing projects, food business, as well as develops web portals and other Internet projects. Agora's websites are among leaders in terms of popularity in their respective categories. The company's dozens of online brands include Gazeta.pl, Sport.pl and Tokfm.pl, available online and through mobile applications. The Agora Group portfolio includes Internet companies offering innovative B2B services - including dynamically developing Yieldbird, specializing in the optimization of programmatic revenue, Online Technologies HR - a company developing a modern ATS application in the SaaS model and ROI Hunter - a marketing platform helping e-commerce businesses promote and sell products via Google and Facebook.

ff Venture Capital (ffVC) is a seed- and early-stage venture capital firm based in New York City. Founded in 2008 by John Frankel, ffVC focuses on investing in and growing technology and technology-enabled companies across emerging industries including artificial intelligence, cyber security, drones, robotics, and FinTech. With $180m AUM, ffVC's portfolio of 72 active companies has grown to a combined market cap of $4.9 billion. Together with the $2.4 billion in combined value from 21 exits, ffVC’s portfolio has created $7.3bn in value over the last decade

CIECH is an international chemical group with a strong position on European and global markets, supported by a reliable longterm strategic investor (Kulczyk Investments). The company exports its products to more than 100 countries around the world, offering soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, salt, plant protection products, epoxy and polyester resins, polyurethane foams, silicates and glass packaging. The company has eight production plants in three European countries - Poland, Germany and Romania. Since 2005, the company has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and, since 2016, on one of the largest stock exchanges in Europe - Börse Frankfurt.

For more information, please visit www.ciechgroup.com.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world. Our global businesses serve more than 39 million customers in 66 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper and, ultimately, helping people to realise their ambitions.

HSBC Service Delivery (Polska) Sp. z o.o. is HSBC’s leading global service centre providing a variety of professional services to the bank. We're the engine that drives HSBC, making the bank simpler, better and faster for our customers and colleagues. Our people range from technologists transforming the banking experience to operations professionals managing 1.7 trillion payments a year.

Our team include:
• Operations – run and deliver customer operations and help manage the change across the bank
• Technology – develops software and apps to transform the world’s banking experience
• Finance – provides financial insight, analysis accuracy and control to support our businesses
• Risk – supports the bank globally in all aspects of risk management, including quantitative risk model area
• Transformations – lead strategic transformation programmes to make customers’ lives easier

Since its beginnings in 2010, HSBC Service Delivery has expanded ten times, currently employing 3,000 ambitious individuals and continues to grow. Our inclusive and multinational team originating from 58 countries supports HSBC entities across 27 countries and in 11 languages.