Jakub Marszałkowski is an event organizer and networking person in the Polish and Central European game industry. For four years now he has been leading the Game Industry Conference in Poznan. He cooperates with several other conferences in the region, serving as an advisor, ambassador, networking speakers, providing visibility and promotion. Jakub is one of founders and Board Member of the Indie Games Polska foundation, where he works to help small studios with publicity, international contacts and marketing.
His day job is at Poznan University of Technology as a researcher in the areas of optimization, e-commerce and cloud computing and a teacher of game design and algorithms courses. In 2014 he was endowed with the highest award for Ph.D. candidates in Poland, the Ministry’s Scholarship, as the only person from the field of computer science.