The 10th edition of IMPACT’25 attracted over 6,500 attendees, with more than 1,600 companies showcasing themselves during the event. “This edition of IMPACT surprised participants with both its quality and its scale,” noted Katarzyna Sokołowska, Head of Communications at IMPACT, the company organizing IMPACT’25 in Poznań.
IMPACT is known for its short, concise presentations and 25-minute debates, which this year took place across ten stages. The organizers divided the 2025 program into 23 thematic tracks.
Participants of IMPACT’25 had the opportunity to attend speeches and debates on ten interactive stages featuring 650 invited guests. This was the tenth edition of the congress, which brings together politicians, local government officials, business leaders, and representatives from the media and cultural sectors from Poland and around the world. This year, on May 14–15, the congress welcomed prominent guests including: former U.S. President Barack Obama, former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, political scientist and philosopher Francis Fukuyama, former Director of the Ukraine Task Force at the U.S. State Department Daniel Lawton, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski, and Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk.
