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Editorial Note British Polish Chamber of Commerce 2022-08-30 By Michael Dembinski, chief advisor, and Dorota Kierbiedź, membership director, BPCC
Taking the UK-Poland relationship to a new level British Polish Chamber of Commerce 2022-08-30 By Michał Obiegała, corporate affairs director for BP, chairman of the board of the BPCC
Practical insights from digital transformation projects IT Vision 2022-08-30 By Pawel Prymakowski, CEO of IT Vision Digitalising business – an added benefit or a necessity? EY 2022-08-30 By Sylwia Wójcik, senior, Business Tax Advisory EY The accounting profession in the digital age: new challenges and opportunities Forvis Mazars 2022-08-30 By Bogumiła Szymczak, director, Innovation & Optimisation Department, Forvis Mazars in Poland 12 things to include in your SAP cloud migration plan SoftwareOne 2022-08-30 By Pierre-Francis Grillet Global Director, SAP Business Development When you run a global business, think about Binding Corporate Rules CMS 2022-08-30 By Dr Damian Karwala, counsel in the IP/TMC Practice at CMS Prepare for a new wave of cybersecurity laws from Brussels Osborne Clarke Poland 2022-08-30 By Szymon Ciach and Norbert Lutowski, Osborne Clarke The EU AI Act – what businesses need to know Linklaters 2022-08-30 By Szymon Sieniewicz, head of TMT/IP practice, Linklaters Warsaw The AI Act and GDPR: synergy or divergence? Kochański & Partners 2022-08-30 By Natalia Kotłowska-Wochna and Mikołaj Kuterek, Kochański & Partners Digital employee documentation – a step into a paperless organisation PCS Paruch Chruściel Schiffter | Littler Global 2022-08-30 By Bartosz Wszeborowski, advocate, senior lawyer, and Julia Łuszczewska, paralegal, PCS Paruch Chruściel Schiffter Stępień Kanclerz | Littler Digital transformation in HR – trends and challenges PwC 2022-08-30 By Karina Kozera, tax, law & people manager, PwC Polska Digitisation of HR processes – how to effectively implement technology into an organisation? OstendiHR 2022-08-30 By Bożena Roczniak, founder & CEO OstendiHR Cybersecurity talent: a crucial element of any digital transformation Hays Poland 2022-08-30 By Alicja Malok, senior director, technology recruitment at Hays Poland Is EU’s digital landscape overregulated – or is it the world’s safest? Grayling Poland 2022-08-30 By Monika Cymerys, public affairs manager, Grayling Poland Digital transformation in pharmaceutical R&D: navigating the industry with data and AI AstraZeneca 2022-08-30 By Piotr Maślak, director, Operational Data Intelligence, member of Warsaw AI Centre of Excellence Governance, and Joanna Sasin-Kurowska associate director, clinical programmer II member of Warsaw AI Centre of Excellence Governance Can you trust AI with your translations and copywriting? Task Force 2022-08-30 By Stanislav Gorbachevsky, CEO, Force Group of Companies The advantages of curative AI in digital compliance Wunderman Thompson 2022-08-30 By Leon Suchocki, growth manager, VML How to turn the post-Brexit situation to the benefit of Polish tech firms – six ways to enter the UK market MFW Fiałek 2022-08-30 By Kacper Rydz, associate, MFW Fiałek How can IT nearshoring support UK companies in the digitisation process? GS Services 2022-08-30 By Barbara Lesiak, head of sales at GS Services Construction: Excel is here to stay Trebbi Polska 2022-08-30 By Dr Bartosz Zamara, Trebbi Polska, and Rafał Bałdys Rembowski, editor of Biuletyn Konsultant. Both are postgrad lecturers at Warsaw Technical University and Lazarski University. Digitalising office-space management Globalworth Poland 2022-08-30 By Julita Sulinska, business development manager – IT & Technology, Globalworth How to claim your UK pension for time worked in the UK LEXeFISCAL LLP 2022-08-30 By Dr Clifford J Frank, Angelo Chirulli, Yuliya Shved and Justyna Szymaszek (LEXeFISCAL LLP)
Accountancy’s super-connector ACCA Polska 2022-08-30 Agnieszka Jarosz, head of ACCA Northern and Eastern Europe, talks to the BPCC’s Michael Dembinski about the importance of the accountancy profession in today’s global economy Poland: a fast-improving environment for tech Bird & Bird 2022-08-30 Tomasz Zalewski, partner at Bird & Bird, is a lawyer noted for his in-depth knowledge of IT. He talks with the BPCC’s Michael Dembinski about Poland’s structural strengths and weaknesses in digitalisation Zeros and ones; bricks and mortar – what’s the future of retail? PwC 2022-08-30 By Krzysztof Konczyk, digital director at Strategy& in Poland The how of learning: life skills for a rapidly changing world The British School Warsaw 2022-08-30 By John Brett, Principal of The British School Warsaw Poland’s IT champion: UK is a springboard for global expansion Comarch 2022-08-30 Bartłomiej Wójtowicz, Comarch’s business consulting director, considers the next steps facing companies as digitalisation pushes further and further into every business process.
The BPCC’s annual Back to School, Back to Work business networking British Polish Chamber of Commerce 2022-08-30 The BPCC’s annual Back to School, Back to Work business networking evening took place on 26 September 2024. It was held in a new location – Barceló Warsaw Powisle, part of Warsaw’s… International Oktoberfest, Wrocław, 6 September 2024 British Polish Chamber of Commerce 2022-08-30 Over 900 guests attended this year’s International Oktoberfest in Wrocław, which took place for the 20th time this year. The venue for this year’s event, as for the previous three editions, was… Public affairs group at the Ministry of State Assets British Polish Chamber of Commerce 2022-08-30 On 25 July 2024, the BPCC’s Public Affairs Group met with Jacek Bartmiński, under-secretary of state in the Ministry of State Assets, and with representatives of the legal department, department of fuel and energy companies, and the department of international cooperation and European funds. BPCC expert meeting at the Ministry of Climate and Environment British Polish Chamber of Commerce 2022-08-30 The next step in the BPCC's public affairs strategy took place on 24 July 2024 in the form of an expert meeting at the Ministry of Climate and Environment. Representatives of the chamber’s public affairs group had the opportunity to discuss with representatives of the departments of planning and strategy... British-Polish economic relations discussed at the Ministry of Finance British Polish Chamber of Commerce 2022-08-30 Prospects for the further development of the strong Polish-UK relationship and current regulatory issues were the subjects of a meeting of the BPCC public affairs group with finance minister, Andrzej Domański, deputy minister Jarosław Neneman, and representatives from the ministry’s departments of public expenditure efficiency and accounting and international cooperation. The meeting took place in Warsaw on 19 July 2024.

Editorial note

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Editorial note, with Michael Dembinski and Dorota Kierbiedź

This issue focuses on IT in the broadest sense, and the ongoing digitalisation of business processes. Tech touches every aspect of business; whilst many processes are already digital to some extent, there’s still much that can be digitally transformed.

Interview with BPCC chairman

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Michał Obiegała, corporate affairs director for BP, chairman of the board of the BPCC

Michał Obiegała, corporate affairs director for BP, has been the chairman of the board of the BPCC since April. He talks about the bilateral trade and investment relationship between the UK and Poland, and about green transformation – the greatest challenge facing mankind.

Interview

Agnieszka Jarosz, head of ACCA Northern and Eastern Europe, considers the growing importance of the accountancy profession in today’s globally connected economy

Interview

Tomasz Zalewski, partner at Bird & Bird, looks at Poland’s structural strengths and weaknesses in digitalisation, focusing on the country’s competitiveness in tech.

Interview

Krzysztof Konczyk, digital director at PwC’s Strategy& in Poland, talks about how, in a competitive e-commerce market, players seek to increase market share by smarter use of data.

Interview

John Brett, newly arrived from Beijing to take up post as principal of the British School Warsaw, discusses education in an era of digitalisation and global mobility.

Interview

Bartłomiej Wójtowicz, Comarch’s business consulting director, considers the next steps facing companies as digitalisation pushes further and further into every business process.

Digitalisation

Pawel Prymakowski, CEO of IT Vision on the process of digitalising a company, and the questions that business leaders should ask themselves as they progress along the journey of digital transformation.

Digitalisation

EY’s Digital Transformation 2024 survey notes a surge in firms prioritising their digitalisation projects; Sylwia Wójcik from EY says that EU funds can help businesses adapt.

Digitalisation

Digitising data is an irreversible process. But the question, according to Bogumiła Szymczak of Forvis Mazars is not what to digitise, but how to do it effectively – and when to take up the challenge.

Digitalisation

Digitalisation doesn’t stand still. Software and hardware both need to be updated. Pierre-Francis Grillet from SoftwareOne considers the questions one should ask when planning SAP migration.

Digitalisation

Corporates whose activities span multiple jurisdictions face legal issues when sending data across borders. Binding corporate rules are the answer, says Dr Damian Karwala of CMS.

Digitalisation

Szymon Ciach and Norbert Lutowski, Osborne Clarke look at the scope of the wave of cybersecurity laws emanating from Brussels, and consider how these will affect business.

Digitalisation

The EU is the world’s first jurisdiction to adopt a comprehensive AI regulatory framework. Szymon Sieniewicz from Linklaters considers its scope, the deadlines, and what you need to do now.

Digitalisation

Natalia Kotłowska-Wochna and Mikołaj Kuterek from Kochański & Partners discuss where the EU’s AI Directive clashes with the GDPR, and where the two directives interplay with each other.

Digitalisation

Employee records take up shelf-space. Turning them into digital files makes sense – but how to do this safely and legally? Bartosz Wszeborowski and Julia Łuszczewska from PCS Paruch talk us through the process.

Digitalisation

Karina Kozera from PwC Polska lists the obstacles holding companies back from properly digitalising their HR processes, and offers solutions to make the HR function more effective.

Digitalisation

Bożena Roczniak, founder & CEO of OstendiHR addresses the benefits of digitalising HR and sets out the path to effective implementation of tech solutions to HR management.

Digitalisation

Cybersecurity is an absolute priority for every firm; specialists are hard to come by – and not cheap. Alicja Malok at Hays looks at supply and demand for cybersecurity experts on Poland’s talent market.

Digitalisation

Is EU’s digital landscape overregulated – or the world’s safest? Monika Cymerys from Grayling Poland balances these two points of view in the light of the Draghi report on EU competitiveness.

Digitalisation

Crunching big data is at the heart of advances in medicine. Piotr Maślak and Joanna Sasin-Kurowska from AstraZeneca explain how AI can speed up development of new treatments – and how is happening in Poland.

Digitalisation

To what extent should we trust AI in translating languages? Stanislav Gorbachevsky, CEO of the Force Group of Companies says the trained eye of the skilled human is still essential.

Digitalisation

Ensuring compliance with your brand, regulatory and business guidelines is a new use-case for AI that can save vast amounts of time and energy: Leon Suchocki from VML.

Digitalisation

Despite Brexit, the UK remains an excellent springboard for Polish tech firms looking to expand into global markets, says Kacper Rydz from MFW Fiałek.

Digitalisation

Poland has much to offer UK businesses looking to nearshore their IT functions effectively, argues Barbara Lesiak at GS Services.

Digitalisation

Dr Bartosz Zamara from Trebbi Poland considers the controversial topic of how best to digitalise the project management process across the construction sector.

Digitalisation

Digitalising office-space management offers landlords and tenants huge gains in convenience and comfort, for their staff and their guests. By Julita Sulinska from Globalworth.

Digitalisation

Crucial to anyone who’s ever worked in the UK and moved (or returned) to Poland. How to claim your UK pension for time worked in the UK, By Dr Clifford J Frank, Angelo Chirulli, Yuliya Shved and Justyna Szymaszek of LexeFiscal LLP.

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