17-18 March 2026
A practical platform where research, technology, and business partners meet to turn innovation into market-ready solutions.
Transforming laboratory breakthroughs into viable products is a complex journey. Our mission is to provide the strategic infrastructure and support networks necessary to bridge the commercialization gap effectively.
On March 17–18, 2026, the Wrocław Technology Park (WPT) will become a strategic hub where scientific excellence meets industrial pragmatism. For stakeholders driving regional growth through innovation, this event is a vital opportunity for engagement.
A Strategic Forum for Scientific and Market Success
We are pleased to announce a dedicated session on the synergy between research and commercial implementation, highlighting strategies to transform intellectual property into scalable business solutions.
Join us in Wrocław to define the future of innovation.
“Digital Bridges” is more than a symposium; it is a convergence point for researchers and business leaders. We focus on facilitating effective technology transfer to fuel sustainable economic expansion.
Bridging the Gap Between Pioneering Research and Market Leadership
The “Digital Bridges” conference is organized to bridge the commercialization gap by providing the strategic infrastructure and support networks necessary to transform laboratory breakthroughs into viable products. We are doing this to fuel sustainable economic expansion through the integration of the academic community with the innovative business sector, ensuring that scientific excellence meets industrial pragmatism.
Join us in Wrocław to define the future of innovation.
Registration details are forthcoming—stay informed.
The Innovation Roadmap
The conference features two specialized tracks:
Dimension A focuses on the “Laboratory-to-Market” pathway, helping creators of high-tech research—such as AI, Cybersecurity, and HPC—transition their work into competitive commercial assets through TRL analysis and Proof of Concept strategies.
Dimension B aims to build “Digital Innovation Bridges” across the European Union, utilizing platforms to foster a borderless landscape for regional scaling and international R&D collaboration.
This initiative is a partnership between Wrocław Technology Park (WPT) and Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw Tech). Supported by the Unite!Widening Project, we have united the region’s primary innovation drivers:
WCTT (Technology Transfer)
AIP (Academic Business Incubator of Wroclaw Tech)
CiB (Research-Commerce intersection)
ARAW (Wrocław Agglomeration Development Agency)
Jesus Alcober is an EU Project Coordinator and Associate Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) with 30 years of experience in digital transformation. He leads the aUPaEU project, which is currently developing agoras for about 20 university alliances to promote open science and institutional transformation. As the Rector’s Delegate for the Digital Campus within the Unite! University Alliance, he manages European academic integration. He holds a PhD in Telecommunications from UPC.
Nuno Cunha is Founder and CEO at AAVANZ (Innovation and funding Consulting) former Associate at Beta-i (Entrepreneurship non-profit association) and Innovation Advisor in several high-tech Start-ups.
Experienced in performing and managing of technology development projects and in R&D innovation initiatives – particularly in developing ideas into project implementation, acquiring funding and taking developed solutions to global markets. Currently engaged in Circular Economy, Immersive AR/VR, Digital Twins, and AI projects.
Expert on funding mechanisms and incentives for business, Innovation and R&D initiatives: HORIZON, EuroStars/Eureka, CIP, FP7 and other European programs, PT2020/2030, PRIME, QREN and other Portuguese and structural funds programs for innovation and development. Has applied strategic analysis, finance planning, foresight and scenario planning for early-stage start-ups in volatile and uncertain business environments and managing technology development partnership networks in R&D and Innovation across Europe, Africa, USA and South America – actively stimulating cooperation initiatives and co-investments in high-tech projects.
Dr. Yash Chawla is the Founder and Head of CRAFT and Deputy Head of the Department of Computational Social Science at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. His research, didactics and consulting activities focus on the societal impact of DeepTech and sustainable innovation. He has received several recognitions, such as the Scholarship of the Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists, Interstudent 2021 and many more. He leads projects on the circular economy, such as MoSAic, and contributes to other large-scale European and consulting initiatives. He is always open to discussing potential collaborations with those who have similar interests.
Ph.D. Eng., Assistant. Prof., Researcher, lecturer, team leader. His scientific interests are transnational innovation management, Open Innovation, technology transfer, commercialization, knowledge management, new product development, distributed business systems. Management of over 30 national and international projects (8 international and 23 national), in the area of international innovation and technology transfer management and IT solution for enterprise management. Expert of local government involved in Innovation Strategy for Lower Silesia region development. He has also vast experience working in business support organizations: Lower Silesian Science and Innovation Park in Wroclaw (PL) and LETIA Technology Park of Legnica, Legnica Special Economic Zone (PL). Author or co-author of more than 70 national and international papers.
Dr Łukasz Jeleń is an Assistant Professor at Wrocław University of Science and Technology and a President of the WIBiR Foundation (Foundation for the Support of Innovation, Research and Development). His research focuses on the applications of computer vision and machine learning in the biomedical sciences.
He built his academic career at Concordia University in Montreal, where he developed one of the first automated classification systems for cytological specimens and defended his doctoral thesis on breast cancer malignancy grading. He has complemented his academic work with industry experience at Nokia Solutions and Networks, as well as a Vice-Rector for Research at the University of Applied Informatics at Wrocław.
As the founder of a telemedicine-based MedTech start-up dedicated to cytological
image recognition, Dr. Jeleń combines the perspective of a researcher with that of an
entrepreneur. He has led and participated in numerous R&D projects funded, among others, by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR).
Dr. hab. Eng. Tomasz Kajdanowicz, Associate Professor, is a researcher in artificial intelligence. He is the Head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology of Wrocław University of Science and Technology. He graduated from Wrocław University of Science and Technology, where he completed his degree in computer science (2008) and defended his PhD with distinction (2012). He later obtained the degree of Doctor of Science (habilitation) in technical sciences (2020) at the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His doctoral dissertation was awarded as the best in Poland in the competition of the Polish Artificial Intelligence Society. He is also a graduate of the prestigious TOP 500 Innovators program at Stanford University (USA). He has worked as a visiting professor at the University of Technology Sydney (Australia) and completed research stays at Stanford University (USA), the University of Notre Dame (USA), TU Dortmund University (Germany), and the Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia). Professor Kajdanowicz specializes in representation learning, deep neural networks, social media analysis, and large language models. He has published more than 180 scientific papers, and his work has significantly advanced artificial intelligence methods for analyzing complex networks and textual data, enabling the development of systems that understand relationships between people, institutions, and documents on an unprecedented scale. His Department developed, among other projects, the Polish Language Model PLLuM, which is now used in the mObywatel application. He is a co-creator of the original “Artificial Intelligence” study program at Wrocław University of Science and Technology – one of the most competitive computer science programs in Poland. He has supervised more than one hundred engineers and master’s graduates as well as three PhD students, educating the next generation of AI specialists. He actively builds the artificial intelligence ecosystem in Lower Silesia, connecting universities, business, and public institutions, thereby contributing to strengthening the region’s position as a key center for the development of modern technologies in Poland.
Doctor of Medical Sciences, specialist in radiology, affiliated with the University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław since 2018. Author of over 20 publications and recipient of the PLTR award for the most-cited paper of 2023.
Co-founder of Hetalox, a company developing AI algorithms for the analysis of brain MRI scans in multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and other neurological disorders; actively involved in research projects and in the process of European certification in neuroradiology.
Additionally, co-founder of the company HETALOX: https://hetalox.com/pl/team/
Tomasz Matusiak has background PhD in electronics with business focus on Asian-based markets. He is former contributor to 3 startups, driving business strategy and global expansion. Tomasz is Operational Director of Dualtec Cluster for Asia and Oceania.
Pedro Rebordao has been working with tech SMEs and startups for more than 20 years. Fundraising, matchmaking, new business model development are part of his diary talks mostly with entrepreneurs, investors and corporates. At LISPOLIS its challenge is to bridge between all the ecosystem players trying to find common ground for new initiatives or business development. He has a clear vision of how hard it is to be an entrepreneur and deliver something new to the market – market validation is the real validation for any new business model. He believes that there are many opportunities to be explored, mainly the ones involving the universities, their students and researchers, and the creation of new businesses – and this is not just something he believes, it comes from the fact that companies with IP survive better to the 5 five years and pay best to their teams.
Małgorzata Szołucha is a dedicated expert supporting international research cooperation of Polish entities in EU Framework Programmes, with over 20 years of experience in this field. Since 2002, she has been working in the National Contact Point (NCP), for EU Research Programmes which in November 2020 became part of Poland’s largest research and innovation funding agency – the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR).
Over the course of her career, she has gained extensive knowledge of the functioning of EU Framework Programmes, including FP6, FP7, CIP-ICT PSP, Horizon 2020, and Horizon Europe. She currently serves as an expert for the Committee for Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space under Horizon Europe, a member of the States Representatives Group for the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU), and a Public Authority and Governing Board member for the Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU).
With passion and commitment, she supports innovators and research teams in achieving success in European projects, actively fostering international research collaboration in the field of digital technologies.
Roger Uceda is an expert in additive manufacturing and technology transfer, currently serving as the Director of Technology Transfer at CIM UPC, the Technology Center of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona. With a career spanning over two decades, he has been at the forefront of bridging the gap between advanced engineering research and industrial application.
At CIM UPC, Mr. Uceda leads strategic initiatives to integrate 3D printing and digital manufacturing technologies into the European industrial landscape. His work focuses on enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs through technological innovation and the adoption of Industry 4.0 principles. Under his leadership, CIM UPC has become a reference point for high-performance manufacturing and technology-driven regional development.
In addition to his management role, he is a dedicated educator and researcher. He serves as an Associate Professor at the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB), where he shares his expertise in manufacturing processes and product development with the next generation of engineers.
Mr. Uceda is also a key figure in the international innovation community, actively contributing to the Unite! Alliance and various European research consortia. He is frequently invited to speak at international conferences on topics such as the “Laboratory-to-Market” pathway, the scalability of additive manufacturing, and the role of technology centers in fostering regional innovation ecosystems.
Throughout his career, he has successfully co-founded technology-based spin-offs and led numerous R&D projects, solidifying his reputation as a “translator” between the scientific community and the corporate world.