Robert Plawiak

Robert Pławiak is CIDO / CTO at Polish multinational pharmaceutical company Polpharma, where he is responsible for all aspects of digitalisation and technology areas of IT & OT processes.

Prior to this role, he was President and Group CIO at logistics firm ILS for over four years, where he implemented many changes in business processes in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.

In his career, Pławiak has developed and implemented IT strategies, increasing cost efficiency in IT, and has implemented team and digital transformations in technology divisions for which he was responsible at a national and international scale.

His greatest successes include the IT transformation of the PZU Group; the implementation of a new and innovative solution to support Guidewire insurance processes (the largest project of this type in Poland at the time); IT change and transformation in the EFL Group; the creation of an IT system for the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines during the pandemic; and launching IT systems supporting migrants from Ukraine during the war.