SPEAKERS

Author inspiring others to live more by owning less. Christian. Husband. Father. Minimalist. Entrepreneur. The founder and editor of Becoming Minimalist website.

Joshua Becker

Polish comedian and actor. Graduate of a Teacher’s Training University. Worked in few comedy acts, first in “Potem” from Zielona Góra, then in “Ciach” and after it folded he set up “Hrabi”. Privately – Paulina’s husband and Stanisław’s father.

Dariusz Kamys

Polish polar explorer, first person to to walk to both the North Pole and the South Pole in a single year. Founder of Marek Kaminsku Foundation and Institute, also owner of Invena S.A. (Inc.). in 2016 he became an ambassador for World Youth Day (WYD) in Kraków. He is married and a father of two children.

Marek Kamiński

Living in Switzerland he used to be a flying dad, facing trying to combine a role of distant husband and father with developing business in far corners of the Earth. These days he writes, records and delivers workshops for entrepreneurs. Author of book and model of “ISRIKUZ Serene Leadership”. Has three children.

Bernard Fruga

Educated as an architect and a sociologist. Graduated from Warsaw University of Technology and from Warsaw University. Founder of Conservative Business Network and Gnyszka Fundraising Advisors – fist fundraising agency in Poland. Co-owner of Pracownia Synergii. Father of Maksymilian and Antoni.

Maciej Gnyszka

Founder and chairman of “Сім’я” (“Family”) organisation. Author of local and national pro-family policy programmes. Organiser of Tato.Net workshops in Ukraine and Russia. Married to Maria, father of two – Natalia and Andrzej.

Adrian Bukovinskiy

Co founder of Cyril and Methodius Foundation. Originator and coordinator of Tato.Net Initiative. Member of An Association of Social Innovators ASHOKA and Light-Life Movement. Doctor of theology, author of „Na drodze ewangelizacji i ekumenii” (“The Way of evangelisation and ecumeny”) and „Kolumbowie naszego pokolenia” (“Columbusses of our generation”).

Dariusz Cupiał

Lecturer at The Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw. Coach at Tato.Net Initiative, founder of Gdansk Academy of Maturity. Organiser of cultural life, laureate of Medal of the President of the City of Gdansk, in free time musician and composer.

Grzegorz Grochowski

Eastern Orthodox priest, Biblical Scholar. Since 1974 teaches New Testament in Sibiu, Romania. Member of Scientific Society of Orthodox Biblicists. Moderator of “Lords Army” – movement for rejuvenation of Orthodox Christianity in Romania. with wife Octavia they have 13 children and 24 grandchildren.

Ft. Vasile Mihoc

Psychologist and coach. Mainly interested in building social capital. Involved in Children’s Development Foundation, Tato.Net Initiative and Civic Polonus Foundation. Works for business, state and local administration organisations. Happy husband to Joanna and father of Jan and Zuza.

Michał Wroński

Educationalist and author of books in this field. Used to hold a function of the undersecretary of state in Department for National Education. Currently working as lecturer at The Faculty of Education at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.

Stanisław Sławiński

Graduated Business Administration on John Brown University in USA. Has 13 years experience in financial advising and 8 years experience of working with father as a chairman of Savvy Dads organisation. Shane and his wife Valerie have been married for 21 years, they have 3 daughters together.

Shane Barkley

Sociologist, probation officer, member of Family Team in Joint Commission of Government and Episcopacy in Poland. In Polish parliament he was an MP of the third term and a senator of the sixth and ninth term. Member of the Tato.Net Programme Board

Antoni Szymański

Is a coach and mentor, and a leader of En Cristo community of families. Privately has two sons and a daughter.

Michał Grzanka

Graduate of Academy for Physical Education in Warsaw. Quit a job in a big corporation in order to concentrate on his 2 passions: first and foremost – his family, and professionally – physiotherapy. Tato.Net coach, leader of the Tato.Net club in Łuków, member of Light-Life movement. Together with wife Adrianna they have four children.

Dariusz Szychta

Graduated from Private Business School in Kraków. Entrepreneur from 1991, member of the board for CROWN Poland. Also involved in Christian Ministry for Entrepreneurs and Employers TALENT, led by Priests of The Sacred Heart. Married since 1991, father of four.

Artur Kalicki

Educated as a psychologist of business. Currently member of board for Westhill Consulting and GameHill. Two of projects received HR INNOVATOR badge as most innovative in Poland in 2015 and 2016. Father of 7 year old Emilia.

Krzysztof Filarski

Mąż Klary, tata Róży. Z wykształcenia historyk i dziennikarz, zawodowo zajmuje się zarządzaniem i optymalizacją procesów. Pedagog skautowy, fan Sienkiewicza, rowerzysta, majsterkowicz, krytyk filantrop a ostatnio nawet piekarz-amator. Najbardziej lubi spędzać czas z rodziną.

Paweł Czuba

Recollectionist, jezuit, and professor of Ignatianum Academy in Kraków. Author of many books, including a few about fatherhood. Chief editor of “Życie Duchowe” (“Spiritual Life”). Long term assessor of sexual and family education handbooks in Department for National Education.

Ft. Józef Augustyn SJ

Politician, Member of Parliament of 6th, 7th and 8th term. Former director of Public Utilities Department in Opoczno and then a director of Voivodeship Environmental Protection Inspectorate in Łódź.

Robert Telus

Polish film music composer. Created scores for movies like “Psy” and “Bandyta”. He is a member of European Film Academy, Chech Film Academy and Polish Film Academy as well as three times laureate of Golden Lions Award. In 2016 he was honoured with The Order of the White Eagle by The President.

Michał Lorenc

Polski kolarz, zdobywca medalu olimpijskiego oraz medalista szosowych mistrzostw świata. Po zakończeniu kariery był kolejno dyrektorem Wyścigu Solidarności i Olimpijczyków, prezesem Urzędu Kultury Fizycznej i Sportu. Obecnie pracuje w Łódzkim Urzędzie Miasta., Został oznaczony Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski.

Mieczysław Nowicki

Przemysław Babiarz – a popular journalist and sports commentator, qualified actor, marathon runner. Father of two adult children.

Przemysław Babiarz

Tomasz Czechowski – co-founder and leader of Father’s Club in Cracow. He is a passionate learner in the development of fatherhood and leadership. Keen cyclist and skier. Husband of Iwona and father of Kuba, Gosia and Maciek.

Tomasz Czechowski

Piotr Synowiec

Jakub Lipiński

Paweł Wiktorowicz

Marcin Perfuński

Graduate of the State Higher Theatre School in Wroclaw. He began his career in the Dramatic Theatre in Warsaw. He performed many roles in film, theatre and television series. His role as a priest in the television series “Plebania” (‘Presbytery’) made him popular all over the country. Father of two children.

Marcin Janos-Krawczyk

Piotr Czekierda – Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Collegium Wratislaviense and co-founder of the Family and Entrepreneurship (Rodzina i Przedsiębiorczość) Foundation. Member of the Participation Council for the President of Wroclaw. Co-author of the book “Tutoring. Theory, practice, case studies.” Together with his wife they have four children.

Piotr Czekierda

Educator and IT specialist. Conducts computer training. On a daily basis, he works with young people and their parents in a Bytom high school. For over 20 years, he’s been using the computer as a learning tool. He specializes in assistive technology for the blind and visually impaired in their use of computers in every-day life, study and work. Grzegorz is a member of the Polish Association for the Blind and a Tato.Net coach. He’s a father of three sons.

Grzegorz Rzeszutek

Paweł Woliński – manager, since 2009 involved in social projects for families and family policy (Mum and Dad Foundation, Association of Large Families 3, Familion.pl). Married since 25 years ago, father of a son and three daughters and grandfather of one grandson.

Paweł Woliński

Zdzisław Hofman – Business coach, sociotherapist, supervisor, tutor and coach. Founder and president of the Polish Foundation for the Development of Volunteering. A teacher by trade, a radio journalist by passion. Long-term president of KLANZA Association. Proud father of three grown up children and grandfather of two grandchildren.

Zdzislaw Hofman

Marcin Ficek – Graduate of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow. Together with his wife Justyna he runs a dynamic company dealing with security systems and building automation. They spend their free time in the hillwalking, going on pilgrimages and good concerts. Dad of two daughters Iza and Ewa.

Marcin Ficek

Mikołaj Foks – worked as a radio journalist for over a dozen years, spent five years in television. For over three years he was a press spokesman in public administration, and later, as PR officer, he started working for the commercial sector. Father of three daughters.

Mikołaj Foks

Wacław Czakon – President and Founder of Happy Childhood Foundation. A graduate of psychology at KUL (Catholic University of Lublin). Co-author of the educational program implemented by the Foundation – Youth Academy. He is a father of four children.

Wacław Czakon

Zbigniew Korba – lawyer, partner at Deloitte Legal, a 100 staff strong law firm operating under the so-called Big Four. Husband of Ewa and father of five children aged 7 to 18, author of the novel “The Deal (Transakcja)”, whose hero is struggling with the so-called work-life balance in the fight for “freedom and discipline”.

Zbigniew Korba

Graduate of Family Sciences Institute, UKSW in Warsaw. He’s a family life counselor. For last 10 years together with his wife Olga, he’s been leading workshops for engaged couples, a childbirth school, family-oriented lectures and workshops. Author of the book “Way to Fatherhood”. He’s also the first graduate of Tato.Net Trainers’ School in Ukraine, founder and leader of Super-Dad club in Lvov. Since the beginning of Ukrainian crisis he coordinates the charity aid to the refugees within Caritas Ukraine. Fascinated by history, knighthood. Happy husband and father of Tyree daughters.

Maksym Bondarenko

Bertrand, graduate of SUPELEC in Paris, IT specialist. Currently manager and CEO of DIEHL Metering (previously MIROMETR) based in Cieszyn. Under his leadership, the company is undergoing dynamic growth and currently employs 300 workers. Bertrand is actively involved in Pro-Life movement and the local community “Nicodemus – men in prayer.” He fell in love with Poland and married a Pole. Father of four daughters.

Bertrand Bisch

Janusz Wardak – One of the founders and President of the Stowarzyszenie Akademia Familijna (Association of the Academy of Family). An author of lectures, workshops and articles dedicated to the education of children, marital love and family life; a regular guest on Warsaw Radio participating in the program titled ‘Wychowywać, ale jak?’ (To educate, but how?). A family counselor and deputy education director for the ‘Żagle’ (Sails) school for boys of the ‘Sternik’ (Skipper) Association in Warsaw, a happily married husband for 20 years and a father of nine children.

Janusz Wardak

Paweł Sopkowski

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MAX STATUETTE

MAX statuette is an award granted by Tato.Net Fatherhood Initiative Program Board in recognition for the contribution to disseminating of responsible fatherhood culture.

The nominees are:

men, who prove and promote the value and beauty of the fatherhood in their own lives,
people, who help discovering the importance of the fatherhood in their artistic output or public activity
institutions who excel in consideration to the social aspect of fatherhood in their activity.

The name MAX is inspired by St. Maksymilian Kolbe, who in a German nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz gave his life to save a father.

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