Zakłady Przemysłu Ziemniaczanego (ZPZ, Potato Industry Plant) "LUBLIN" is a living industrial history of Lublin. The company started its activity in 1909 and since then have constantly supplied food manufacturers with the highest quality intermediate potato products. At present, the Lublin plant specialises in potato grits, which is the leading Polish producer; potato flakes whose quality is valued both by Polish and foreign recipients; as well as glucose syrup obtained from potato starch, which is the only producer in the country. This syrup is a unique product, completely safe for people with allergies and gluten intolerance.

Lublin, as the capital of the agricultural region, is an ideal place to do business in the food processing sector. Thanks to this excellent location, ZPZ can cooperate on a partnership basis with potato growers from the region, and thus take a rigorous care of the quality of the raw material that goes into production. The company, after the difficulties of transition in the food market, has put a high premium on quality and now supplies only the finest products to the market. The openness of the City of Lublin to prop up all actions supporting the locally operating industry is also particularly important concerning further ZPZ plant development planning and future investments.

The current situation of ZPZ, the satisfaction of contractors with the quality of products offered by the company and the development opportunities in Lublin allow us to look forward to the future with optimism and continue to write the history of this company well-deserved to the city.

Piotr Kaniowski
President of the Board
ZPZ "LUBLIN" Sp. z o.o.

We aim at providing customers with products of the best quality. This can be achieved only by being provided with raw materials of top quality. Production in Lublin, the capital city of the farmland region, offers excellent opportunities and direct partnership with suppliers. Close relations with farmers allow us to adjust crop cultivation and breeding new species in order to meet our production needs. Durum wheat, introduced to Polish agriculture as a result of our efforts, is a perfect example of such cooperation. Most of its fields are located in Lublin Region. We not only monitor its cultivation, from sowing to harvesting, but we also provide theoretical and training support to our partners.

Moreover, close ties with academic and scientific milieus are particularly valuable to us. We use the results of their research work and, at the same time, support them by providing materials and the opportunity to verify their studies in practice. We cooperate with the University of Life Sciences in Lublin in the field of innovation in the extrusion and cultivation of durum wheat. The Lublin University of Technology is our partner in organising trade conferences, as well as student apprenticeship and internship programmes. Graduates of higher education institutions in Lublin make up a significant group of our employees, especially in the quality assurance department, which handles the control of our products. This allows us to offer the best quality only.

Due to close bonds with Lublin City Hall, the entire Lubella production plant was incorporated into the Special Economic Zone. As a consequence, we will see further investment in the production and warehousing facilities and expansion of the entire enterprise.

Piotr Romańczuk
Vice President, Logistic Director
Lubella Sp. z o.o.

PolSource is a Polish IT company, founded in 2005 with offices in Poland and the United States. The company operates also on the British market, where it employs specialists in sales of services and management field. The company's activity is based on creating IT solutions for business using cloud-based Salesforce technology, of which we are an official Platinum Partner. Therefore, we have a tool available in every place on Earth and enriched with all the components needed to build a comprehensive application. This is what attracted to us global brands such as eBay, Volvo, Spotify, Converse, Nike, and Sony PlayStation.

The Lublin office was established in 2017. Initially, I worked remotely alone, but soon, a few good programmers, who were ready to take up exciting challenges offered by PolSource joined us. This is how a small team was formed, and then grew to almost 30 people. Projects in our company are conducted globally, which means that specialists from different locations are assigned to each of them. This makes that PolSource employees must have extensive IT knowledge as well as the common use of English, demonstrate communication skills while talking to clients, or support work teammates responsible for more business roles (Project Manager, Business Analyst, etc.). The multitude of orders allows us to make real plans for new jobs soon.

Lublin turned out to be an excellent location for investments due to its dynamic development, also in the IT sector. Apart from that, the city's great asset is the rich academic background. We cooperate, among others, with the Lublin University of Technology - we conduct lectures and workshops on IT faculties to familiarize students with Salesforce technology. For the best, we offer paid internships, which usually transform into permanent cooperation. We also acquire talents among IT enthusiasts during boot camps.

Paweł Niedziela
Director, Salesforce Technical Services
PolSource

DataArt is an IT company present on the global market since 1997. It has branches in 11 countries, including Ukraine, Poland and the United States. The Lublin team of specialists deals with the implementation and support of IT systems according to individual customer needs. Years of experience and expertise have allowed us to become a reliable technology consultant. We have the know-how to respond to the needs of clients in such diverse fields as finance, tourism, healthcare, developers of online games or IoT solutions, communicating with them in “their language”.

In contrast to companies that rely on products, the highest value of DataArt is its employees. Projects are assigned to teams, but the flat management structure makes their members autonomous in their tasks. The official language of communication in the office is English, which makes the company an attractive place to work for foreigners. We employ specialists from Ukraine, Russia, Italy, Spain or the United States, as well as Poles who have returned from abroad. Almost 180 specialists work in Lublin alone, but we are still planning future development of our team.

The DataArt in Lublin was established on the initiative of one of the company's vice-presidents in 2014. The choice of location was determined by the human capital consisting of graduates of IT and linguistic faculties of local universities, the presence of the airport, the involvement of the Municipal Office in activities for the benefit of the business and the dynamic development of Lublin IT industry. From the perspective of time, we can see other factors conducive to the development of the company - high quality of life and unprecedented friendliness of Lubliners towards foreigners.

Julia & Jarosław Diatczyk
Members of the board
DataArt Poland

Capgemini is a French company, present in Poland for 23 years. Over the years, it has been developing, responding to the current market demand, the emerging new business solutions, and modern technologies. Today, Capgemini employs over 200,000 people worldwide, including 8,400 in Poland. The global reach of the company can be proved by the fact that its employees speak 24 languages professionally. Many global brands are our clients. We can also boast of the opinion of a socially proactive company that conducts an ethical policy towards its clients and competitors.

Lublin is one of the six Polish locations of Capgemini. We have established the Cloud Infrastructure Services department here, which deals with introducing innovations and modern services for business, using the latest IT technologies involving automation, artificial intelligence, robotics and cloud processes. The projects undertaken are aimed at developing teams for existing customers and attracting new customers.

The choice of Lublin as the next location of Capgemini was not accidental. Every year, domestic and foreign graduates of the local universities enter the Lublin labour market, and their knowledge and competences largely correspond to the preferred profile of our employees. The Lublin IT Upland initiative and comprehensive support from the Lublin Municipal Office in obtaining all necessary information, statistical data and in establishing contacts with universities were also decisive factors in the process of selecting the location.

Tomasz Trzaska
Delivery Centre Manager | Cloud Infrastructure Services
Capgemini

The company was established in 2008 on the initiative of Polish managers from the FMCG sector. Since the beginning of its activity, Lingaro Group has been specialising in the area of analytics and data visualisation. Currently, the company has extensive experience in working on advanced IT solutions for international Fortune Global 500 clients, including global companies such as Procter & Gamble, Randstad, Asahi and Saint-Gobain. The company employs over 700 consultants in four locations around the world - in its headquarters in Warsaw, Manila in the Philippines, Cincinnati in the USA, as well as in its newest branch in Lublin.

Lingaro, as a company of Polish origin, decided to develop new branches not only around the world but also in the home country. Several important factors determined the choice of Lublin. First of all, the Orba company operated here before - today, it is our eCommerce brand. An important aspect was also the modernised infrastructure and the dynamically operating Lublin Airport. In the investment process, we could count on the help of the Lublin Municipal Office, which is hugely involved in the promotion of the local economy, and we also obtained a support decision within the project ‘Polish Investment Zone’.

The local ecosystem focused around the idea of the Lublin IT Upland gives us a chance to develop among other internationally recognised brands in the industry. Coopetition is a guarantee of knowledge transfer, as well as the availability of experienced employees, previously educated by high-class universities in Lublin. Therefore, from the very beginning, we have been actively involved in LWIT activities, taking up cooperation with universities, organising conferences and industry meetings, as well as integration events.

Grzegorz Tkaczyk
CTO
Lingaro Group

EMBIQ has been operating in Lublin since 2009. Our offer has changed along with the latest trends and needs of the IT industry. We started from the embedded market, then we focused on mobile applications, and finally we have expanded our offer by backend & frontend products, IoT, sensors and tags. We have been trusted by both startups and large international corporations, for whom we have already completed about 300 projects. It required our specialists to be open minded, unconventional thinking and willing to look for new paths.

As one of the first Lublin IT companies, we had the opportunity to observe the dynamic development of the IT industry in the city. With time, it appeared here many competitive companies with significant capital resources. However, the constant global demand for IT products and our readiness to take up new and exciting challenges allows us to compete with the biggest one both as a diligent service provider and a credible employer. The company's strategy assumes the constant development of the team by adding new creative IT specialists.

Many factors contribute to the development of business in Lublin - highly qualified, ambitious graduates, moderate pace and quality of life in the city, and the dynamically developing Lublin Airport. An invaluable asset of the city is also a dynamic academic environment. As a technology company, EMBIQ successfully conducts projects in cooperation with research teams of universities in Lublin, especially the Lublin University of Technology.

Alexey Shabalovskiy
CEO
EMBIQ

Sollers Consulting was established in 2000 in Warsaw. Its key areas of expertise cover business consulting and integration of IT systems mainly for the financial sector, in particular in the insurance industry. The company offers its clients the implementation of core and digital systems to support contacts with the client. Currently, Sollers Consulting has four offices: in Warsaw, Lublin, Poznań and Cologne, Germany, and at the same time, it serves customers all over the world. Apart from Poland, its clients come from German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, the United States and Brazil.

When the need for more dynamic development appeared in 2012, we conducted detailed business analyses of the potential of locations of the new office. We checked, among others, the availability of IT graduates, IT specialists, the quality of university education and  connections with Warsaw and Europe. Based on that, we decided to go to Lublin, and we are satisfied with this decision. We have built a team of over a hundred people here, and thanks to the brand new office space we can double our staff in the coming years.

Lublin is a place where an IT company can grow dynamically. Universities focus on IT, and the rapidly developing city offers a high quality of life. Public investments make young residents want to stay in Lublin, and many decide to return to the city from abroad (e.g. from Ireland) or relocate. Our employees appreciate shorter commutes to work, greater opportunities in the real estate market in comparison with other cities. Thanks to that we are sure of our further development in this city.

Marcin Pluta
Sollers Consulting
Managing Partner

The history of Codete began in 2010 with my self-employment business activity in Częstochowa. Already in 2012, together with my partners, we opened an office in Kraków. Our first client came from the USA, and by recommending us by satisfied contractors, we started to build a reputation abroad. In the beginning, we specialised in PHP technology, but with the development of our business, we focused on the area of data science. Today, in three locations - Kraków, Lublin and Berlin - we employ over 100 people, serving customers from all over the world, including the most prominent global brands.

We came to Lublin in 2016 thanks to our employee, who decided to return to his hometown. Having familiarised ourselves with the possibilities offered by Lublin in terms of IT development: the presence of many universities offering IT studies, availability of qualified programmers and openness to employees from abroad, we decided to build our second office in Poland around him. This situation illustrates our approach to employees - the highest value of the company, thanks to which the Codete brand is already well renowned, especially on the German market, and appreciated for the quality and innovation of services.

Today Codete is a trusted partner in the field of data science and artificial intelligence development for such global giants as BMW, Kia Motors or Daimler from the automotive sector, Wells Fargo and HSBC from the banking sector, as well as Fyber, Motorola and Deloitte. We show that the Polish company can provide the largest companies with solutions of the highest global standard.

Karol Przystalski
Codete
Chief Technology Officer

We are one of the fastest-growing tech companies on the Polish market. Since July 2015, our team has grown to over 300 employees, we have opened offices in 7 cities in Poland, a branch in the U.S. and have completed over 200 projects in Europe and the United States. The next step is to open an office in Lublin, a city with huge dynamics. A number of reasons stand behind this decision. The growth of the IT environment in that region triggers the local economy development. The city provides rich educational resources with an array of institutions offering IT courses. The number of IT related events is also on the increase.

Lublin IT Upland is home to the unusual diversity of this industry. The project is a result of the cooperation of the local authorities, leading academics and stakeholders. It is also significant that Lublin is a liveable city of big housing investments with compact structure and good transport connections.These factors contributed to the fact that we decided to mark our presence in Lublin and be part of the rapidly growing industry in this region of Poland. This is the perfect location to develop business based on new technologies. Creating an office in Lublin, we choose full professionalism of action. Our goal is to always assist our clients in the business development process, from needs analysis to building systems and post-implementation support.

Thanks to such cooperation, the customer is provided with a tailored solution, whereas we discover the sector's requirements represented by such organization. At Onwelo, we pay great attention to the high level of work quality and with the same capacity, step by step we build our Lublin office.

Dariusz Ossowski
Co-Founder and COO
Onwelo SA

Billennium was established in 2003 in Warsaw. It creates innovative IT solutions using its expertise in outsourcing, software maintenance and development, and Cloud computing. The company manages software of clients from around the world, including global brands such as ROCHE and ABB. Thanks to Asian offices, Billennium can provide services in line with the 'Follow the Sun' strategy - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days in a year. In Lublin, the company started its operations in 2011 with five employees - today there are already more than three hundred of them, and within a few years probably their number will exceed a thousand.

The idea of locating a branch in Lublin came from the employees of our office in Warsaw, who were from the Lublin region. It was Billennium's first location outside the capital city. Soon Lublin began to demonstrate its advantages - talented and committed employees, universities educating young IT specialists, and synergy achieved through cooperation between business, universities and local government. Thanks to that, today the largest branch of the company is located in Lublin, and the most significant global processes are managed from here.

Lublin has turned out to be a place that offers excellent opportunities for our company to grow. For this reason, in 2017 we moved to a modern office, which is ready to take on new challenges that are emerging with the global development of Billennium. It was an investment in the comfort of the team's work because it is their knowledge and commitment that determines our global success.

Bartosz Łopiński
CEO
Billennium

The company was established in 2002 by a group of IT specialists developing IT solutions since 1993. Infinite is a part of Emperia Group. Since its foundation, Infinite has become one of the major providers of IT services in Poland. One of its solutions, 'e-Wholesale Outlet' B2B platform, has been implemented in over one third of Polish FMCG and DIY shops. Infinite is expanding and aims at becoming the leader in EDI solutions in Europe.

The company seated in Lublin can provide its services to any part of the world. In spite of its dynamic growth and international expansion, company's management have never considered relocating. Lublin provides favourable conditions for running and developing business. Even today, when the ICT labour market in the city has become increasingly challenging - due to actions undertaken by the team of the Investor Relations Department. Infinite's position on the market makes it a highly competitive employer among large, multinational enterprises.

Infinite's members of staff are predominantly graduates of Lublin universities. They are hired for their open-mindedness and willingness to work.  It is frequently due to their unconventional ideas that the company can offer increasingly vast array of services.  Therefore, Infinite gets involved in a number of student-aimed projects, e.g. 'Start with Infinite', which provides students with opportunities to develop in the company or get equity investment for promising startups or companies associated within Lublin IT Upland.

Jacek Dudzik
Chairman
Infinite Sp. z o.o.