Speakers

Meet our speakers.

Featured Speakers & Contributors 2026

  • Prof. Łukasz Balwicki, National Consultant in Public Health, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland
  • Maria Belka, Co-Founder of the Mentors4Starters Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
  • Artur Białoszewski, President of the Association of Polish Prevention Specialists; Director of the Strategy and Analysis Centre, Warsaw Medical Chamber, Poland
  • Elaine Buckley, National Stop Smoking Services Coordinator, Ireland
  • Michał Byliniak, Director General, Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies (INFARMA), Poland
  • Dr. Magdalena Cedzyńska, Head of the Smoking Cessation Clinic, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland
  • Prof. Marzena Dominiak, President of the Polish Dental Society, Vice-Rector for Internationalization, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
  • Dr. Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor, Senator, Deputy Chair of the Senate Health Committee, Warsaw, Poland
  • Krzysztof Jakubowski, Co-Founder of the Mentors4Starters Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
  • Prof. Paweł Koczkodaj, Head of the Primary Prevention and Health Policy Unit, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
  • Nina Krogh Larsen, Project Manager for Tobacco Control – Smoking Prevention, Smoke-Free Environments and Smoking Cessation, Danish Cancer Society, Denmark
  • Prof. Alina Kuryłowicz, Dean of the School of Medical Sciences, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education (CMKP), Warsaw, Poland
  • Prof. Marta Mańczuk, Head of the Cancer Epidemiology and Primary Prevention Department, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
  • Andrea Manzano, Associate Research Manager, The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Marta Pawłowska, The STOP OBESITY Partnership for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, Łazarski University, Warsaw, Poland
  • Prof. Monika Raulinajtys-Grzybek, Head of the Department of Management Accounting, SGH Warsaw School of Economics; Head of the SGH Health Care Think Tank, Poland
  • Prof. Piotr Rutkowski, Head of the Department of Soft Tissue, Bone and Melanoma Tumours, Director’s Plenipotentiary for the National Oncology Strategy and Clinical Trials, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
  • Prof. Marek Svoboda, Director General, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MMCI), Brno, Czech Republic
  • And many others from key European institutions and research organizations

Prof Piotr Rutkowski

Head of the Department of Soft Tissue, Bone and Melanoma Tumours; Director's Plenipotentiary for the National Oncology Strategy and Clinical Trials, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw

Prof Beata Jagielska

Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology

Mr Adam Jarubas

European Parliament

Ms Monika Wielichowska

Sejm RP

Ms Mauer-Stender

World Health Organization Europe (WHO Europe)

PhD Magdalena Cedzyńska

Head of the Smoking Cessation Clinic, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology

Prof Łukasz Balwicki

National Consultant in Public Health, Medical University of Gdańsk

Ms Elaine Buckley

National Stop Smoking Services Coordinator

PhD Paweł Grzesiowski

Chief Sanitary Inspector, Warsaw

Ms Nina Krogh Larsen

Project Manager for Tobacco Control – Smoking Prevention, Smoke-Free Environments and Smoking Cessation, Danish Cancer Society

Prof Marta Mańczuk

Head of the Cancer Epidemiology and Primary Prevention Department, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw

Prof Michał Byliniak

Director General, Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies (INFARMA)

Prof Marzena Dominiak

President of the Polish Dental Society; Vice-Rector for Internationalization, Wrocław Medical University

Prof Andrzej Nowakowski

Head of the Cervical Cancer Prevention Clinic, Maria
Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland​

Prof Andrea Manzano

Associate Research Manager, The Swedish Institute for Health Economics, Stockholm

Prof Marek Svoboda (TBC)

Director General, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute (MMCI), Brno

Ms Marta Pawłowska

The STOP OBESITY Partnership for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, Łazarski University, Warsaw

PhD Artur Białoszewski

President of the Association of Polish Prevention Specialists; Director of the Strategy and Analysis Centre, Warsaw Medical Chamber; Medical University of Warsaw; SGH

PhD Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor

Senator, Deputy Chair of the Senate Health Committee, Warsaw

Prof Alina Kuryłowicz

Dean of the School of Medical Sciences, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education (CMKP), Warsaw

Prof Monika Raulinajtys-Grzybek

Head of the Department of Management Accounting, SGH; Head of the SGH Health Care Think Tank

Prof Paweł Koczkodaj

Head of the Primary Prevention and Health Policy Unit, Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw

Ms Maria Belka

Co-founder, Mentors4Starters Foundation, Warsaw

Mr Krzysztof Jakubowski

Co-founder, Mentors4Starters Foundation, Warsaw