Krystyna Wojnarowicz

Krystyna is a Founder, Chair and Chief Strategy Officer of MARSEC Inc. a maritime software engineering center of excellence specializing in Sea Traffic Management solutions. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, MARSEC Inc. brings in hi-tech user-driven innovation to the maritime industry.

For over a decade Krystyna has been working with organizations in the transition towards digitization of their products, services and operations. She has been managing research and innovation projects as well as technology transfer and collaboration between research institutions and industry.

Currently working on the implementation of the Internet of Things at Sea.

Krystyna is also involved in the definition and implementation of Sea Traffic Management in the MONALISA 2.0 project.

Krystyna holds a Master’s degree in Information Technologies Management specialized in Software Process Improvement. She is also a commercial mariner educated at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, specialized in fast vessels handling.

Prior to founding MARSEC she worked for the Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute - Europe.
Krystyna has been in management and leadership positions helping industries in transition from legacy systems to state-of-the-art digital technologies in various domains including maritime, automotive, defense, bank and finance, and government, where software dependency of products and services has been growing exponentially for the past decades.

Krystyna is a frequent speaker and presenter at maritime and ICT conferences and author of articles for various publications.
She is advocating increase in quality of maritime digital systems and reduction of ownership costs, promoting open standards and user driven innovation as well as increased interoperability, usability and reliability of marine software systems.

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