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INDUSTRY DAY · GDAŃSK COCKTAIL WEEK

Attend bar industry talks and workshops.Turn your idea into a website or app.

You don’t need to code or understand how computers work.

Bring a phone or laptop and an idea for the bar industry — big or small.

  • Table bookings
  • Ingredient calculators
  • Accounting
  • Social media
  • Staff schedules
  • Stock tracking
  • QR menus
  • Bill splitting
  • Easy way to leave tips
  • Guest feedback
  • Loyalty rewards
  • Staff training
  • Lost and found

We’ll randomly divide all participants into teams on the day. Your team will choose an idea and build it together, with an IT expert to help.

An IT expert in every team. They will help if you get stuck.

5 000 zł for the winning team

I’d like to try Talks and workshops only

Plenum · GdańskView the programme

Describe. Try. Improve.

  1. Pick an idea together

    Choose one problem your team would like to solve.

  2. Type what you want to make

    You’ll get a web link. Describe in chat what you want your website or mobile app to do. The tool creates a first version. Try it and type what to change.

  3. Show what you made

    At the end, each team presents what they built.

  4. The audience votes

    Conference attendees vote for the best solution. The winning team receives 5,000 zł.

Talks and workshops

Times are local to Gdańsk.

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Industry Day
Poster: Q&A Panel #1

Panel discussion

Q&A Panel #1

Plenum · Gdańsk

About this event

Eight participants, two sessions, and a conversation about the issues shaping the hospitality industry today. Everyone on the panel is connected to hospitality, but they represent very different roles, professional backgrounds, and perspectives. This gives us a chance to look at the same topics from multiple angles — from working behind the bar and managing teams to brands, education, consulting, and developing independent projects. The format is built around open discussion and questions — no long presentations, with a focus on real opinions, practical experience, and different perspectives from across the industry.
Speakers
Magdalena Papke
Magdalena Papke
Paweł Rejniak
Paweł Rejniak
Edyta Steć
Edyta Steć
Dawid Kowalski
Dawid Kowalski

Manager and Head Sommelier at Fino restaurant in Gdańsk. He has been working in the hospitality industry for 8 years. Currently, he is exploring the world of fine dining and travelling through the world of wine, discovering new regions, grape varieties, and stories. His motto: “If food is the body, then wine is its soul.”
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Industry Day
Poster: SPIRIT’ON Quiz: Discover WSET Spirits qualifications, test your knowledge of spirits in a quiz, and win a discount voucher for a WSET course.

Event

SPIRIT’ON Quiz: Discover WSET Spirits qualifications, test your knowledge of spirits in a quiz, and win a discount voucher for a WSET course.

Plenum · Gdańsk

About this event

SPIRIT’ON Quiz An educational session in the form of a quiz on spirits, under the patronage of Barschool.pl × WSET. The session will include a short lecture/presentation followed by an interactive Kahoot quiz. Participants will be able to test their knowledge of spirits and learn more about WSET Spirits qualifications. The three participants with the best results will receive prizes — discount vouchers for WSET courses.
Speakers
Rafał Ciesielski
Rafał Ciesielski
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Industry Day
Poster: Q&A Panel #2

Panel discussion

Q&A Panel #2

Plenum · Gdańsk

About this event

Eight participants, two sessions, and a conversation about the issues shaping the hospitality industry today. Everyone on the panel is connected to hospitality, but they represent very different roles, professional backgrounds, and perspectives. This gives us a chance to look at the same topics from multiple angles — from working behind the bar and managing teams to brands, education, consulting, and developing independent projects. The format is built around open discussion and questions — no long presentations, with a focus on real opinions, practical experience, and different perspectives from across the industry.
Speakers
Hania Pawlik-Sroczyńska
Hania Pawlik-Sroczyńska
Kinga Kosidowska
Kinga Kosidowska
Mateusz Bombka
Mateusz Bombka
Mikołaj „Miki” Strzelecki
Mikołaj „Miki” Strzelecki
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Industry Day
Poster: Special Shift

Event

Special Shift

Plenum · Gdańsk

About this event

Drinks by the winners of World Class Poland 2025 and 2026
Speakers
Borys Trelewicz
Borys Trelewicz

Польский вариант 10+ years of experience on Gdańsk’s bar scene, co-founder of cocktail bar Tlen. Passionate advocate for Polish flavors in cocktails and promoter of the motto, “Best Polish pairing: vodka with herring.” Competed in many bartending competitions, including the global METAXA Twelve 2023 competition, which he won while representing Poland. In 2026, won World Class Poland Bartender of the Year.
Paweł Rejniak
Paweł Rejniak
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Industry Day
Poster: "Details Over Service" Service gets the order right. Hospitality turns your guests into regulars.

Talk

"Details Over Service" Service gets the order right. Hospitality turns your guests into regulars.

Plenum · Gdańsk

About this event

This seminar breaks down the difference between service and real hospitality — the organisation, timing, and small details that turn a guest into a regular. Every section comes with real, practical steps you can take straight back to your own bar.
Speakers
Igor Brovko
Igor Brovko

Igor has spent the last 12 years behind the bar, in every sense of the word — from consultancy projects across Ukraine, to creating cocktail programs as a Brand Ambassador for alcohol brands, to hands-on shifts behind the bar at Tayer + Elementary, one of the most recognised bars in the world. Along the way, guest shifts took him everywhere from New Zealand to Canada, and he shares his knowledge as a regular speaker at the world's biggest bar shows.
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