17 years of IT industry experience, mixed with a pinch of passion and a whole lot of determination - that's what brought Dogtronic, Lublin’s thriving software house to life. In a conversation with Invest in Lublin, Marek Golan, the company's founder and CEO, shares valuable insights into the evolution of the tech scene in our city and the significant changes he has witnessed over the years. He also spills the beans on the company's most challenging projects and future plans. Enjoy the read!

OPTIMAL Poland has been operating on the market of mobile and fixed aluminium-glass walls since 2004. With an unwavering commitment to innovation, the company has made a great impact on the global market. In the interview with the company's owner, Sławomir Więsyk, we delve into the genesis of its groundbreaking ideas and solutions. Read the whole piece and discover how Optimal Poland's commitment to quality, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement has propelled them to the forefront of the industry.

In the era of progressive green transformation, as part of the European Union's Fit for 55 programme, there is increasing emphasis on efficient resource utilization, as well as the creation of new materials that contribute to achieving climate neutrality. Among the companies operating in line with environmental neutrality is Green Lanes, a group that develops innovative solutions based on industrial hemp for the food and furniture industries. Piotr Pietras, the company's CEO, will provide a more comprehensive overview of Green Lanes.

Over the past decade, the Lublin Special Economic Zone has experienced significant growth, attracting major international companies to invest and implement projects that align with the Industry 4.0 megatrend, particularly the automation of production processes. One of these prominent investors is the German company Turck, with Przemysław Brzeziewski serving as the director of the Lublin plant.

Headquartered in northern Italy, the Clevertech Group, designs, manufactures, and markets engineered front-line and end-of-line solutions for a range of sectors, including food and beverage, home care, pet food, and personal care. The company was founded in 1987 and now operates in seven subsidiaries across different countries worldwide. In 2022, Clevertech opened its latest branch in Lublin, which is responsible for installation, commissioning, revamping, and providing 24/7 technical support services. We had the opportunity to talk with the General Manager of Clevertech East Europe, Alin Stan, who shared with us insights into the process of entering the Lublin market. He discussed the reasons behind the decision to open a branch in Lublin and the company’s challenges and plans for the future.

Vistra, a leading fund administrator and corporate service provider, has been steadily expanding its operations across the globe. In 2018, the company opened a new office in the city of Lublin which has become Vistra's largest and fastest-growing site in Poland. To learn more about Vistra's success in Lublin, we spoke with Grzegorz Witek, accounting manager at Vistra to talk about the challenges and opportunities they have encountered along the way.

Lublin can boast itself with prestigious technical and vocational schools. This can be confirmed by the annual ranking of Perspektywy Foundation, which highlights the best schools in the whole of Poland in terms of educational quality and the successes of their graduates.

PwC's Financial Crime Unit (FCU) competence centre is expanding to Lublin, with plans to hire 300 people by the end of 2025. The FCU supports PwC's clients from all over the world in countering money laundering and terrorist financing.

The circular economy is a domain where modern technologies address environmental issues towards creating a sustainable economy. A crucial aspect of these challenges involves designing and manufacturing novel biodegradable materials, which include packaging utilized in our daily lives on a large scale. C2C is a company that provides innovative solutions for producing biodegradable films. To delve deeper into their revolutionary technology, we talked with Marcel Nowosielski, the co-founder and development director of C2C.

The term 'high-tech' is often associated with various advancements, including robotics, which has long exceeded its industrial and military applications. Nowadays, there are more and more robots designed for everyday use, including those used in medical and care contexts. Accrea, a company based in Lublin and owned by Bartłomiej Stańczyk, specialises in creating such advanced robots.

At a time of mounting challenges for the healthcare sector, there is a growing need to educate new generations of medical professionals. Fortunately, advances in information technology are addressing these challenges and providing increasingly accessible and effective educational resources. One such tool is Virtuar, a specialized platform that uses virtual reality to train radiologists. Professor Agnieszka Trojanowska, from the Department of Radiology at the Medical University of Lublin, is the creator of this innovative project.

EMBIQ is a technology firm that has been operating in Lublin since 2009. With its focus on developing advanced web and mobile applications, the company is committed to creating innovative digital products that enhance lives and strengthen the success of its clients. Over the past 14 years, EMBIQ has established a strong reputation in the global tech market, offering a wide range of solutions and services, from web and mobile app development to business process automation, software integration, and custom software design.

The Plastic Omnium Group operates in the broad automotive industry, primarily engaged in producing parts and accessories for vehicles. The Lublin plant is one of 137 production facilities located in 25 countries. Aware of environmental issues the world is facing today, the company is focused on designing more sustainable mobility, introducing alternative energy solutions, new mobility habits and increasingly smarter vehicles.

The revolution in unmanned aviation has opened up a new market for innovative drone solutions, with many companies emerging in this field in recent years. One such company is HD Air Studio from Lublin, which specializes in creating gimbals for stabilizing drone-captured images. Today, we had the opportunity to talk with Jakub Jakubczyk, the managing director, and Urszula Jakubczyk, the marketing director of HD Air Studio, about the company's activities.

The origins of brain-computer interfaces can be traced back to the 1920s, when German neurologist and psychiatrist Hans Berger discovered electrical activity in the human brain through EEG examination. Today, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) technology is also used in the study of the brain. We had the opportunity to talk with Slawomir Sobótka and Wojciech Broniatowski, the co-founders of Lublin-based Cortivision, about the potential offered by research carried out using fNIRS technology.

When we talk about high-tech technologies, we often refer to blockchain technology. The Lublin-based company, Quantum Blockchains, as its name indicates, deals with blockchain and quantum computers. Today we will talk about these ground-breaking technologies and their applications with the company's scientific director, Professor Piotr Kulicki.

The current value of the global virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) market amounts to approximately USD 11 billion. It is expected that the VR market in the coming years will grow at around 13% per year, while AR / MR at a rate of over 20% per year. According to analysts of Goldman Sachs, by 2025 the market of medical VR and AR / MR solutions will be the second most important sector in the entire VR / AR / MR market after the gaming sector. We discussed how to take advantage of these trends in the field of neurological patient rehabilitation with BioMinds Healthcare Ltd., the developer of a unique neurological rehabilitation system embedded in the Metaverse - VR.

The beginning of the year is a great time to set new goals and check out what investments are planned for the brand-new 2023 within Lublin’s budget.

The computer games industry, or to be more precise gamedev (video game development), is a relatively young and yet the most dynamically developing sector of the creative industries today. In 2020 alone, Polish game developers generated revenue of almost one billion euros. Its dynamic growth is not only a matter of satisfying entertainment needs in the virtual world, it is also the result of the increased popularity of game mechanics in other high-tech service and production industries. In today’s interview, we talked about the potential of gamedev in Lublin and the development of the latest gaming technologies implemented by the Lublin-based company - 'Pyramid Games’ with its CEO, Jacek Wyszynski and Julia Kurasz, the company's Chief Operating Officer

Artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted particular interest in recent years. One of the studies conducted in this area is the construction of machines and computer programs capable of realizing selected functions of the mind and human senses that are not subject to numerical algorithmization. We talked about the use of AI solutions and machine self-learning in the context of optimizing business processes and improving safety in an enterprise with representatives of the Lublin-based company CosmoEye.

A short while ago, the government program Poland.Business Harbor thanks to its great popularity among foreigners has been extended to include all countries in the world. There are numerous success stories of companies that managed to relocate their operations to Poland due to the facilitated visa path available within the program. Today we will take a closer look at one of them – ‘Productive Edge’ that even though it has only recently entered the Lublin market, it's already thriving!