Astro Teller (The Moonshot Factory), Elica Kyoseva (Nvidia), Enrica Porcari (CERN), Siri Chilazi (Harvard Kennedy School), Ruth D. Jones (NASA), Aleksandra Rutczyńska (DLR), Psyho, Andrzej Dragan (University of Warsaw) − these are the names of just the few best known guests of the Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit 2026. On 10 and 11 June the Perspektywy Education Foundation would like to invite you to Warsaw for the eighth time, to take part in the biggest conference for women (and men) in technologies in Europe

The motto of the 2026 edition is “UNLEASH NEW ENERGY”.  And as the Summit brings together thousands of talented participants (in 2025 there were 13,5000 from over 80 countries!), unleashing this new energy might bring a significant change to the world of new technology.

“This year’s Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit is based on pure energy! From quantum technology to innovation in nuclear energy, from artificial intelligence to the future of industry, from personal resilience to large-scale leadership…,”… says Dr Bianka Siwińska, the Summit’s creator and the CEO of Perspektywy Education Foundation, who organises the event.

Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit 2026 in short:

2 days full of knowledge, inspiration, and possibilities for career development

2-days huge Job Fair with recruitment meetings and industry networking

5 stages with the most influential leaders, scientists, and engineers

9 special zones, including newly: Nuclear, Powered by Women, and Money Talks

HOT GUESTS!

Just as every year, the Summit will be visited by the top experts from the technology and science world, representing global rank institutions, such as CERN, NASA, or global brands (e.g. Hitachi, Honeywell, Ericsson). Among over 500 speakers we will have the opportunity to listen to our special guests, and in 2026 these will include:

ASTRO TELLER, CEO of X, or the “ambitious projects factory” of Alphabet. He is a man professionally creating the future − he is managing one of the most incredible places in the technology world: a laboratory whose task is not to improve existing products, but to systemically create things that originally sound like a too risky experiment. X’s (formerly Google X) best known projects include Waymo autonomous cars, Verily Life Sciences, Google Brain, and Wing delivery drones. Teller’s biography is inspiring: he got his BSc in computer science, his MSc in symbolic computation at Stanford University, and his PhD in artificial intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University. He also comes from a family that lived and breathed science: his one grandfather was Edward Teller, one of the most important physicists of the 20th century, and the other was Gérard Debreu, a Nobel Prize winner in economics. This combination of physics, mathematics, and systemic analysis clearly returns later in his way of thinking about technology. Before he ended up with Google, he built his own companies. E.g., he co-created BodyMedia – one of the first companies developing tools to monitor sleep, activity and vital parameters, long before the Fitbits and Apple Watches (this is why Astro Teller’s presence at the 2026 Summit is so important in the context of this year’s TOP-100 Women in Biotech!). He also managed Cerebellum Capital, where he was testing the use of machine learning in managing investments. These experiences gave him something more important than a startup success: very practical understanding that even the most illustrious technology will remain just a curiosity without an operating model. Astro Teller’s biography here.

ENRICA PORCARI, Chief Information Officer, CERN. Technology and innovation leader with over 30 years of experience in managing global IT systems, digital transformation, and development of infrastructure supporting science at the highest global level (her former workplaces include the Food and Agriculture Organization – FAO). She is a pioneer of ICT solutions and knowledge management, to improve the organisation’s potential and human quality of life. As the first Chief Information Officer in CERN from 2026 she will take care of ensuring that data, computing resources, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and cybersecurity are always managed in a coherent and integrated way, directly supporting scientific discoveries. More about CERN here.

DR RUTH D. JONES, Deputy Division Chief at NASA, physicist and leader with over 25 years of experience in the aerospace sector and long academic career. One of the most notable characters combining science, technology, and values-based leadership! A motivational speaker with rich experience including leadership, women’s activity in men-dominated industries, and work for local communities. Dr Jones is the second African American in Alabama to obtain PhD in physics, as well as the first woman to obtain BSc in physics at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

SIRI CHILAZI, Senior Researcher at Harvard Kennedy School, specialising in gender equality, and a co-author of Make Work Fair. One of the leading international experts analysing how to design fair and effective workplaces using the data and knowledge obtained from behavioural sciences. She works as an advisor and speaker for various organisations, including startups, large international corporations, leading companies providing professional services, governments, non-profit organisations and academic institutions, in order to promote gender equality. Chilazi’s work regularly appears in leading media and she herself spoke about gender equality at hundreds of large events all over the world. Siri, along with Iris Bohnet, is a co-author of the award-winning book Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results (HarperCollins, 2025).

ALEKSANDRA RUTCZYŃSKA, Senior Software Engineer, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt, DLR. She was one of the scientists (and one of the two Polish women) working on the manned flight to the Moon orbit project, Artemis II. An expert specialising in creating space software and machine learning systems. She has been working on international space projects for 15 years. She participated in missions involving low Earth orbit (LEO), Moon missions, and projects related to the robotic exploration of Mars. Graduate of the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at the Warsaw University of Technology

PSYHO, one of the world-class coding masters, multiple winner of international programming competitions, expert on algorithmics, artificial intelligence, and data exploration. In 2025, at the AtCoder World Tour Finals, he took the 1st place, beating AI.

ANDRZEJ DRAGAN, professor at the University of Warsaw Faculty of Physics, an eccentric Polish theoretical physicist and audio-visual artist, one of the most rebellious, charismatic, and probably most listened to science popularisers in Poland. At present, he’s a Professor at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw (FUW) and a visiting professor of the National University of Singapore (NUS). At the Theoretical Physics Institute of the University of Warsaw, he leads a research group focused on relativistic quantum information. In 2020, together with Professor Artur Ekert, he published The Quantum Principle of Relativity, which may turn out to be the biggest breakthrough in the understanding of quantum theory since Einstein.

HOT NEWS!

Every year during PWiTS, we announce a list of TOP 100, i.e. a list of the best women experts specialising in various technologies, science, and innovation (AI, cloud computing, 5G, cybersecurity, data science). In 2026, the list focuses on biotech, and on 5 May, we published the list of TOP 100 Women in Biotech in Poland. Details: https://womenintechsummit.pl/top-100-women.

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