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PoLAND of IT masters

03.01.2022

The aim of the English-language portal, which premiered on November 25 this year, is to promote the international achievements of Poles, the companies they develop and their products in the field of new technologies. Inspired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the project is carried out by the Polish Information Technology Society and the Scientific and Academic Computer Network, and a group of outstanding specialists, creators and observers of the achievements of Polish IT, which forms a team of its ambassadors and correspondents.

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Polish IT specialists can boast of considerable successes in each category, represented on the portal: IT corporations, technology startups, innovative products, awards won in the most prestigious IT competitions and international IT conferences attended by thousands of participants from all over the world.

IT corporations are led by Asseco, the largest IT company in Central and Eastern Europe, which operates in over 60 countries and employs 29 thousand people. Its revenues in 2020 exceeded $3.4B.

Among technology startups, Poland already has the first "unicorn", the valuation of which has just exceeded $1B – DocPlanner. It owns the medical appointment portal, which operates in 15 countries, employs 1,500 people and has 67M customers with 7M bookings per month. The Booksy portal stomps on his back, which allows him to arrange meetings at hairdressers and beauty salons. It operates in 20 countries, has 13M customers, and the number of bookings reaches 9M per month.

Poland is also boldly entering the area of ​​innovative IT products. The Elproma's time servers are used in Western Europe by NATO and the Galileo satellite-terrestrial structure. The algorithms of the Polish research team MI² related to the exploration of machine learning models are used to build predictive models in the area of ​​health, including risk calculators for severe viral diseases, such as COVID-19. On the other hand, byteLAKE managed to reduce the time of mixing chemicals from hours to minutes thanks to artificial intelligence, and its CFD Suite product was among the top five solutions in the world in this category out of 400 offered on the market.

For a long time, Polish programmers have also been successful in various competitions. In the ICPC finals, the most prestigious team competition, over 60 thousand students from over 100 countries participate every year. And Polish universities have won 6 gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze medals since 1995, winning them twice. On the other hand, in the history of 33 years of competitions in the International Olympiad in Informatics for secondary schools with 119 medals, Poland ranks third after China (131) and Russia (120), taking first place twice. Professional teams of Polish programmers are also awarded prizes. The Google Cloud Customer Award 2021 was awarded to a Polish state-owned company for the e-Registration system for mass vaccination against COVID-19.

In addition, there are numerous international IT conferences. This year, Poland will host the UN Digital Summit: Internet Governance Forum and previously organized the Game Industry Conference, one of the largest B2B conferences in Europe devoted to the production of computer games. Next year, it will be sponsoring Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit, the largest conference for women on new technologies in Europe, in which 10 thousand people from over 100 countries have confirmed their participation.

You can read about these and other successes of Polish IT on the website https://hub.landofitmasters.pl/en/home/. We invite!

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