Keynote Speeches at Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit 2026
This year’s Main Stage keynotes go straight into the questions defining the next chapter of technology: how AI changes leadership, how critical infrastructure is built and protected, how data becomes a strategic asset, how aerospace and space missions are engineered, how quantum and cybersecurity reshape trust, and how people keep organizations moving through pressure, uncertainty and transformation.
Across two days, the keynote programme will move from cybersecurity, AI and software leadership to energy, aerospace, cloud infrastructure, data quality, telecom, space technology, quantum cryptography, career courage and organizational culture. The Day 1 Main Stage agenda includes keynote speeches by Aneta Legenza, Paulina Święcicka, Astro Teller, Nina Schmarander, Giuseppe Petrelli, Virginia Shepardson-Serna, Enrica Porcari, Anastasia Zemskova, Yuliia Shtukaturova, Miruna Stratan, Aleksandra Rutczyńska, Anna Fogtman, Monika Chajdacka, Jessica Hayungs and Siri Chilazi. The Day 2 Main Stage agenda continues with Adela Caushi, Ruth Faller, Beatrix Weimann, Andrzej Dragan, Madhu Subramaniyan, Ruth D. Jones, Paola Lucetti, Google, Point72, Rebecca Little, Psyho with Pamela Krzypkowska, and Paula Januszkiewicz.
Aneta Legenza: “Breaking the Myth of the Perfect Expert. What Happens When We Stop Pretending?”
This keynote will confront one of the most damaging myths in expert cultures: the belief that competence requires constant certainty, invulnerability and flawless performance. In the context of global IT security, Aneta Legenza will open a conversation about what becomes possible when experts stop performing perfection and start working with more honesty, resilience and responsibility.
Paulina Święcicka: “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: How to Grow and Innovate in the Middle of AI Revolution”
This keynote will focus on innovation under pressure: how organizations can grow with AI without losing sight of quality, responsibility and trust. Paulina Święcicka will bring the AI revolution into the world of data management and data quality, where technological acceleration has to be matched by governance, standards and accountability.
Astro Teller: Special Guest keynote
Astro Teller’s keynote will bring the moonshot perspective to the Main Stage: how to think, build and lead when the goal is not incremental improvement, but breakthrough innovation. The session will take the audience into the logic of ambitious technological bets — the kind of work where failure, experimentation and scale are part of the operating model.
Nina Schmarander: “Leading in the Age of AI: Why Culture is Your Strongest Technology”
This keynote will show why AI transformation cannot be reduced to tools, platforms or automation. Nina Schmarander will speak about culture as the system that determines whether AI actually works inside an organization: how people make decisions, how leaders build trust, how teams learn, and how companies adapt when technology changes faster than structures.
Giuseppe Petrelli: “From Megawatts to Mindsets: How People Power”
This keynote will connect energy transformation with the human systems behind it. Giuseppe Petrelli will move from infrastructure and megawatts to the mindsets, leadership choices and communication needed to carry major energy transitions forward.
Virginia Shepardson-Serna: “Designing Aircraft Engines with Energy in Mind”
This keynote will take the audience into aerospace engineering through the lens of energy. Virginia Shepardson-Serna will focus on what it means to design aircraft engines when efficiency, complexity, performance and responsibility all matter at once — and when engineering decisions have consequences at industrial scale.
Enrica Porcari: Special Guest keynote
Enrica Porcari’s keynote will bring the audience into the technology infrastructure behind frontier science. The focus will be on the systems that make discovery possible: computing, data, cybersecurity, AI, quantum technologies and the digital foundations required by one of the world’s most advanced scientific environments.
Anastasia Zemskova: “From Managing People to Designing Systems: How AI Redefines Leadership in Software”
This keynote will examine how AI changes software leadership. Anastasia Zemskova will focus on the shift from managing individual output to designing the systems in which people, AI tools, workflows and engineering decisions operate together.
Yuliia Shtukaturova: “Leading in the Age of AI: Why the Future of Technology Is a Leadership Decision”
This keynote will place AI where it increasingly belongs: at the center of leadership strategy. Yuliia Shtukaturova will speak about AI as a decision-making challenge for leaders — not only a technical implementation, but a question of priorities, operating models, organizational courage and responsibility.
Miruna Stratan: Keynote Speech
Miruna Stratan’s keynote will bring the infrastructure layer of global technology to the stage. The focus will be cloud platforms, foundational infrastructure, data and AI from the perspective of a large-scale organization where digital systems are not support functions, but core strategic architecture.
Aleksandra Rutczyńska: ARTEMIS II Speaker
Aleksandra Rutczyńska’s keynote will take the audience into software engineering for space missions. The session will show what it means to build technology for environments where reliability, precision and mission-readiness are non-negotiable.
Dr Anna Fogtman: ARTEMIS II Speaker
Anna Fogtman’s keynote will focus on the human safety dimension of space exploration. The audience will hear about radiation protection, astronaut safety, operational preparation and the technologies needed to protect humans as space missions move further from Earth.
Monika Chajdacka: “The Trap of Management Tricks and Why Gender Matters”
This keynote will cut through simplified leadership formulas and management clichés. Monika Chajdacka will focus on what actually happens in organizations when gender, power, career progression and evaluation enter the management equation.
Jessica Hayungs: “The Spark of Crystal: Experiences That Shape and Ignite New Energy”
Jessica Hayungs’ keynote will focus on the experiences that form leaders inside complex global systems. The talk will connect supply chains, innovation, automation, product thinking and personal leadership energy — showing how careers are shaped by the moments that test people and expand their sense of possibility.
Siri Chilazi: “AI Isn’t Changing Everything: What Actually Drives Performance in the Workplace of the Future”
Siri Chilazi’s keynote will challenge one of the loudest assumptions about AI: that technology alone will decide the future of work. The session will focus on what really drives workplace performance when pressure rises — decision quality, fairness, diverse perspectives, management discipline and the ability to build organizations that do not amplify dysfunction under the cover of innovation.
Adela Caushi: “Leading Beyond Technology: Human Transformation in the Age of Agents”
Adela Caushi’s keynote will focus on the human transformation behind the rise of AI agents. The talk will explore how organizations, skills, teams and leadership models change when technology becomes more autonomous and deeply embedded in everyday work.
Ruth Faller: Keynote Speech
Ruth Faller’s keynote will bring data leadership into the AI conversation. The focus will be on how data, infrastructure and solution design shape the value organizations can actually create from AI and generative AI.
Beatrix Weimann: “The Power of First Times”
This keynote will focus on the career-changing force of first steps: first risks, first leadership moments, first major decisions, first moves into unfamiliar territory. Beatrix Weimann will speak about the energy that comes from doing something before it feels fully safe, familiar or guaranteed.
Prof. Andrzej Dragan on Quantum Cryptography
This keynote will take the audience into quantum cryptography: why quantum technologies matter for security, what they change in the logic of encryption, and why the future of trust may depend on physics as much as on software.
Madhu Subramaniyan: “Rising Together - Resilience, Recovery, and the Power of Our People”
Madhu Subramaniyan’s keynote will focus on resilience in technology organizations: how teams recover, adapt and keep critical infrastructure moving when pressure, change or disruption hits.
Dr Ruth D. Jones: “I Belong”
Ruth D. Jones’ keynote will focus on belonging as a force in STEM: what it means to enter, remain and lead in spaces where people have historically been underrepresented. The session will bring representation, courage, mentorship and scientific ambition into one story about claiming one’s place.
Paola Lucetti: Keynote Speech
Paola Lucetti’s keynote will focus on generative AI from the perspective of a global technology organization. The session will move beyond experimentation and into the practical question of how GenAI becomes part of enterprise technology, productivity, product thinking and business transformation.
Rebecca Little: “Do it scared - Top tips from a career in tech”
Rebecca Little’s keynote will speak directly to career courage: how to move forward in tech before confidence is complete, how to take opportunities that feel intimidating, and how to build a career without waiting for fear to disappear.
Psyho with Pamela Krzypkowska
This keynote will bring competitive programming, AI and human capability into one of the most anticipated conversations of the Summit. Psyho and Pamela Krzypkowska will take on the question of what remains distinctively human in the age of increasingly powerful AI systems — especially in fields built on logic, code, speed and problem-solving.
Paula Januszkiewicz
Paula Januszkiewicz’s keynote will bring cybersecurity back to its most practical and urgent form: how systems are attacked, where organizations are vulnerable, and what security professionals need to understand when threat landscapes keep evolving. Her session will add a sharp security layer to a programme already shaped by AI, infrastructure, cloud, data and critical systems.
Together, these keynotes create a Main Stage programme about technology in action: AI as leadership pressure, data as infrastructure, cybersecurity as survival discipline, aerospace and space as engineering reality, quantum as a new security frontier, and culture as the condition that decides whether transformation works.
The result is a keynote programme built around real questions: how do we lead when AI changes the rules? How do we build systems people can trust? How do we keep critical infrastructure resilient? How do we design technology for space, aviation, energy, health, finance and global platforms? And how do people grow the courage, judgment and responsibility required to lead all of it?
