The 20th edition of WallStreet Conference

Dear Guests

With no doubt, the upcoming WallStreet conference, as the whole 2016, shall be exceptional,. We are so proud to announce the twentieth edition of this extraordinary event. Due to the jubilee we feel obliged to provide you with the highest possible level of professional expertise and knowledge. Our aim is to inspire all the participants of the capital market in Poland, as well as various groups of interest associated with it .
Taking into consideration not only the current condition of Polish and world’s economy, but also stock exchanges’ indices performance, we are highly motivated to put on agenda the key questions related to the future of the Polish capital market and address the challenges facing them.

Therefore it shall be my honour to invite you to participate in this unique twentieth edition of the WallStreet Conference.

Jarosław Dominiak
President of the Management Board
Stowarzyszenie Inwestorów Indywidualnych

Dariusz Miłek, founder and CEO of CCC SA, the biggest footwear retailer in Central Europe. He started the business trading off a camp-bed on a marketplace in Lubin. Today CCC group is an empire in retail, employing 11000 people in 15 countries across Europe. It includes the biggest leather footwear factory in Europe and almost 800 shops with the orange logo from Riga to Istanbul and from Frankfurt to Moscow. The company is also a leader in e-commerce in Central Europe (via www.eobuwie.pl). 

Under Dariusz Miłek’s command CCC debuted on Warsaw Stock Exchange back in 2004, and in December 2015 joined the biggest Polish public companies grouped in WIG20 index.

Since 2009 he’s been investing in commercial property, building state-of-the-art shopping malls. He revitalizes and rebuilds with passion Polish palaces – Łąck and currently Chróstnik.

Privately a fan and patron of cycling. His company is a sponsor of Polish Cycling Association and a pro cycling team CCC Sprandi Polkowice.

Prof. Małgorzata Zaleska - President of the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange; Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Central Securities Despository of Poland; Director of the Institute of Banking Warsaw School of Economics; the Chairperson of the Committee of Finance Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences; a Member of the NBP Economics Research Committee; a Member of the Central Commission for Degrees in Finance.
Her scientific and popular science achievements include more than 350 publications. She is a former Advisor of the President of the Bank Guarantee Fund (1998-2003); Member of a Supervisory Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (2000-2002); Member of the Banking Supervision Commision (2007); President of the Bank Guarantee Fund (2007-2009); Member of the Board of the International Association of Deposit Insurers and Chair of the Study Group European Forum of Deposit Insurers (2008-2009); Member of the Management Board of the National Bank of Poland 92009-2015); Member of the International Relations Committee at the European Central Bank (2009-2013).

Wojciech Białek – Main analyst of CDM Pekao SA. Author of numerous articles and commentaries since 1995. Since march 2008 running a blog "Wojciech Białek’s commentaries” na blox.pl

Many years’ lecturer at Wall Street and Professional Investor conferences. Honorary Member of Individual Investors’ Association.

Lecture subject: When is the Janet Yellen’s recession coming?

Sebastian Buczek, CEO of Quercus TFI SA – graduated from Warsaw School of Economics, with habilitated doctorate. Holds licences of stock broker and investment advisor. In 1996 worked in Capital Operations Centre of Bank Handlowy as Investment Advisor. Between 1996 and 2007 worked for ING Investment Management, since 2002 as Vice President, and since 2006 as President. Between 1999 and 2007 at ING TFI, as a Member of the Board since 1999, Vice President since 2002 and President since 2006. Since 2007 working at Warsaw School of Economics, since 2009 as Associate Professor. Between 1998 and 2002 Member of the Management Board of Brokers’ and Advisors’ Association. Since 2011 member of the Supervisory Board of Navigator Capital SA. Since 2007 main shareholder and President of Quercus TFI. Acting as General Director and Investment Department Director.

Honorary Citizen of his hometown of Jedlina Zdrój.

Rafał Glinicki, VSA TRADER - Trader, expert at Volume Spread Analysis methodology, practical approach to Elliott’s waves theory and advanced geometry of the market. Founder of VSA TRADER. Many years’ experience in trading, twice achieved top 10 place in „World Top Investor” contest. The only trader in Europe to receive recommendation from Tom Williams, creator of Volume Spread Analysis methodology and an extraordinary and successful trader from USA. Author of “Contracts, Commodities, Forex”. Inspired by the story of Curtis M. Faith – student of Richard Dennis, currently working on Polish edition of “Group of Turtles” project. The aim of the project is creation and development of a carefully picked group of traders with one common decision making process, investing successfully on world’s leading markets.

Lecture subject: Use of macroeconomical data in day-trading.

Grzegorz Zalewski, Dom Maklerski BOŚ S.A. -  In the financial markets since 1993. Worked as an analyst, later as manager of the analysis dept at financial newspaper Parkiet. Founder and manager (2001-2010) of web portal futures.pl focused on futures market. Founder of Linia publishing house. Honorary Member of Individual Investors’ Association since 2010, appointed due to exceptional input into education of investors.

Lecture subject: Impossible – In the markets happens more often than you’d think

Piotr Rybicki -Licensed auditor, specializes in corporate finance, reporting, corporate governance and creative accounting. Experienced as CFO of a public company, member of supervisory boards. Veteran of over 500 lectures and author of 400 publications.

Lecturer at courses for supervisory board member candidates, initiator of “Supervisory Board Conference”, Vice President of Regional Commercial Chamber in Katowice, lecturer at the University of Dąbrowa Górnicza, President of NadzórKorporacyjny.pl.

Lecture subject: Creative accounting – facts and legends about adultery in public companies’ reporting.

Albert Rokicki, Longterm.pl –  investor with 15 years of experience, economist and independent analyst of financial markets. Editor at Longterm.pl and author of numerous articles for the likes of Akcjonariusz, Equity Magazine, Trend and Market Voice. Periodically publishes reports on ranking of selected, recommended by him, Polish public companies after quarterly reporting. Since 2016 running a channel “Questions to Longterm” on Inwestorzy.tv.

Lecture subject: Dividend stocks – perfect investment under IKE.

 We will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Longterm.pl's blog during the WallStreet Conference

Paweł Biedrzycki, StrefaInwestorow.pl – active investor, mostly on Polish equity markets. 11 years of experience. Master of science in management, specializing in capital markets. Former team member of one of leading banks’ dealing room. Founder and editor in chief of StrefaInwestorow.pl Since 2007. Co-creator of a tool for stock investors – market scanner Sindicator.net. Leader of a complex on-line investment classes “Practician in Stockmarket Investment”.

Lecture subject: #stockexchange #beauty – how science can support investment

Krzysztof Łucjan - on stock market since 1995, first as an analyst, then fund manager at DM Penetrator/Trigon and later TFI Copernicus and W Investments. Between 2004 and 2005 Director of analysis dept at IDMSA and, upon return from USA, trader at DI XELION. Analyst at leading financial portals and lecturer at Kraków University of Economics. Enthusiast of technical analysis with special focus on Japanese methods, on which he bases his own transaction systems employed in professional trading under LucjanTrade.

Lecture Subject: From Dusk Till Dawn – development of trading between WallStreet 1 and 20.

Paweł Cymcyk, President of Brokers’ and Advisors’ Association – experienced stock broker and analyst, connected with stock markets for over 8 years, for the last 6 years regular commentator of market and economic situation in domestic and foreign media.

Licensed broker since 2007, also licensed for investment advisory, CFA since 2013. Since 2014 President of Brokers’ and Advisors’ Association. Educated in IT and mathematics, out of passion – capital markets guide, which has already trained over 8,5k people on numerous courses for brokers, analysts and financial advisors.
For the last 5 years running his own channel “Market DNA” involving weekly coverage of economical curios. Author of a blog www.DNARynkow.com.

Lecture subject: What is (not) going to happen in 2016 and why you’re (not) going to make money on it.

Piotr Nowjalis, Vice President and CFO of CCC SA – graduated from University of Gdańsk (in economy and law) and Koźmiński University (Executive MBA).

Experienced CFO and Treasurer in large corporates - CCC SA, AB SA, KGHM SA and Lotos SA .
Vice President of the Board of CCC SA since 2008.
Many years’ experience in managing finance and multinational capital groups. Co-creator of CCC’s foreign expansion strategy. Also a member of supervisory boards of numerous companies, both public and private.

Lecture subject: Creating value for shareholders through the acquisition. M&A case study : CCC acquires eobuwie.pl

Piotr Grela, DiNapoli Expert,Tradercom Investments - He is the only Polish DiNapoli expert and one of only two in Europe. He has been a DiNapoli expert and authorized DiNapoli trainer for more than 10 years and is involved in trading on the futures markets, stock markets, and forex for almost 20 years, as well as ETFs and CFDs. Mr. Grela has also been involved in managing enterprises trading cash commodity goods for price risk management and hedging strategies. His trading has been related to whole procurement together with positions at risk and limits and is also involved in cross cash markets hedging but also financial instruments traded at several worldwide exchanges like CME, NYMEX, ICE, or EURONEXT. Mr. Grela is the publisher of a weekly report on the financial markets, MasterSwingNewsletter and in 2009 published his first book,Futures Markets--Concepts and Trading System. He also hosts private seminars teaching DiNapoli techniques (www.tradercom.pl). He was the first Polish lecturer at the prestigious Traders' Expo in London in March 2012.

Lecture Subject : DiNapoli techniques – practical usage on Polish stock market

Maciej Samcik -  economics journalist and blogger, since 1997 working for the economy dept of “Gazeta Wyborcza”. Covers stock market, insurance, pension and investment funds, banks and personal finance. Runs own consumer pages “Pieniądze ekstra”. Since 2009 running a popular intervention blog “Subiektywnie o finansach” (over 200 000 users a month and 31k likes on Facebook). Author of 5 books on personal finance (the last one: “My first pocket money”). Laureate of prestigious journalism prizes, including Grand Press twice (for the series of texts on misstatements at SKOKs and for the best economic journalist), Władysław Grabski prize under the auspices of National Bank of Poland and Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski prize.

Educated in economics, graduated from Poznań University of Economics. Apart from finance interested in photography and modern history of Poland, plays tennis.

Adrian Mackiewicz, Individual Investor's Association – stock market analyst, graduated from the Wrocław University of Economics, specializing in finance and accountancy. Author of numerous articles and market commentaries, co-founder of Newsroom pages on SII portal. Runs online classes, gives lectures at investors’ conferences. In investing prefers to merge technical and fundamental analysis. Participant of a week long Trading Camp with Birger Schaffermeier in Germany.

Lecture Subject: What if ZUS pays me high pension – on the sense of longterm investment.

Andrzej Powierża, Dom Maklerski Citi Handlowy – PhD in law, licensed investment advisor. In the past worked for Wood&Co, DI BRE Bank and DM PKO among others. As a stockmarket analyst he’s been covering financial companies, banks in particular, for the last 18 years, so he had more than one occasion to observe them in both good and bad times. He provides commentary on financial market situation for the specialised media on a regular basis. Regularly ranked on one of top positions in yearly stock analysts’ ranking published by “Gazeta Giełdy Parkiet”, based on ratings from investment and pension fund managers.

Lecture subject: Will Polish banking sector return to its old splendor?

Tomasz Filipiak, Ph.D. - graduated from Chemistry Faculty at the Lodz University of Technology. PhD in chemistry. Individual investor, financial trader for more than 20 years (WSE, Forex). Invented and developed of mechanical and automated trading strategies. Completed a significant number of educational projects for WSE and Instytut Rynku Kapitałowego (Institute of Capital Market). Delivered lectures at investors conferences organized by Stowarzyszenie Inwestorów Indywidualnych /Association of Individual Shareholders - "WallStreet" and "Profesjonalny Inwestor". Trained an impressive number of individual investors who managed to succeed on their own in the stock trading and forex strategies.

Lecture subject : Investors vs. Robots. What is the future of Algo Trading.

Jacek Kubrak - investor, trader and coach. Invented cutting-edges investment projects and technological solutions. Collaborated with private equity and venture capital funds developing the financial structures for the purpose of M&A transactions. Completed interdisciplinary advisory & management projects focused on increasing the market value of the companies through the changes in the approach to innovation and implementation of new technologies -. Has been actively involved in the financial market since 1992. His expertise covers trading options, equities and currencies. - both as an individual and institutional investor.

Lecture subject : 15 years of war we left behind. There are still 13 to go. – The World that we used to know ceased to exist. What is going to happen?

Kornel Dybul - Co-founder and CEO of Invest Help, the only company in Poland exclusively taking care of investment management support.
Has an extensive experience in building investment portfolios and algorithms. Specializes in investment funds market. Active investor, for over 7 years deeply involved in the financial investments industry with an experience in the stock markets, futures and forex. Author of publications and workshops such as “Financial intelligence”, “Decent or starvation pension” or “Investment funds from A to Z”.
Life Motto - “Semper in altum - always up “.

Lecture subject : “Investing in investment funds. Professional investor workshop”

Tony Petrilli - he has 30 years’ experience in the capital markets providing global financial business solutions, whilst holding senior positions with Citibank, Morgan Stanley, State Street, Pershing and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Lecture subject: Portfolio building strategies on US stock market

Marek Zuber - Economist and capital markets analyst.Conducts financial and capital structure advisory services .Has been appointed as a Chief Economic Advisor to the Polish Prime Minister - Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz. Holds the title  “Political Advisor of the Year 2006” . Worked as an economist and analyst at Bank Przemysłowo-Handlowy, worked for TMS and Internetowy Dom Maklerski S.A. as the Chief Economist.

He is devoted to behavioral economics, especially decision making process, including investments. These aspects of behavioral economics are described in one of the chapters of his  „Psychology of business”, which sums up his knowledge and experience. Published a book on personal branding („Ja.com”). His third book :„Golden Matrix” is just about to be published. His hobby is sport (black belt in kickboxing) and literature: published some novel books, including detective story „Inspektor van Graaf”, nominated to the title of Detective Story of 2011.

Lecture subject :  Where the stop-loss came from?

Dorota Sierakowska, Dom Maklerski BOŚ SA – finance expert and enterpreneur. Commodity analyst at DM BOŚ, editor-in-chief of the TREND magazine on investing. Author of the “World of resources” book – the first comprehensive book in Poland on investing in commodity markets. Financial markets expert in Polish media (TVP1, TVP2, TVN24 Biznes i Świat, Polsat News, Polskie Radio Program III, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Rzeczpospolita, Puls Biznesu, Parkiet). Graduated from Warsaw School of Economics (Faculty of Finance and Accounting with specialization in investment banking). Travels and water activities lover, author of blog d-tour.pl.

Lecture subject : Scenarios on the  commodity market – what factors will affect the commodity prices in H2 2016

Lecture subject:  Algorythmic fundamental analysis. How to pick cherries from hundreds of public companies.

Marcin Daniec is one of the most popular Polish satirist and comedian. His phenomenon is associated with an excellent contact with the audience, whose reactions become a part of the program. He enjoyed his first big break in 1984 when, with Krzysztof Janusz, he formed stand-up duo Takich Dwóch (These Two). The pair were television regulars, and after a stint with Pod Egidą, since 1994 the Wielopole-born, Krakow-educated artist has been performing solo. He is best known for four stage incarnations: Mr Ignatius, Waldemar K, Highlander and the child-like Marcinek. Winner of four Telekameras at the national TV awards and four Charlie's Blue Bowler Hats at Gdansk's Festival of Good Humour, readers of Tele Tydzień named him Poland's greatest all-time satiris.