Director of International Business Development, Bob Spence talks to Linsey Brown, Projects & Communications Manager about the first two days in Poland for C4DI International.
22nd November
Doncaster
Dave, John, and Bob (AKA Team C4DI International) meet up at Doncaster airport Monday 07:30 hr for the Wizz Air direct to Warsaw Chopin airport.
Warsaw
10:50 GMT we are in Warsaw and 12:35 GMT eating delicious Pierogi dumplings on a slick PKP Pendolino train in 1st class accommodation direct to Lublin.
Lublin
Big thanks to Krzysztof Buczyński Investor Relations Manager w City of Lublin Office for a train station welcome and driving us to Hotel Vienna on the edge of Lublin Old Town.
Time to freshen up exchange emails and WhatsApp.
17:00 GMT our first Lublin business meeting. Meeting Marcin Stachyra of CMS Media.
C4DI received wonderful hospitality from Marcin, fellow director Piotr Marek and Marta Smulkowska-Marek at Restaurant 2PiEr.
A terrific evening to get great insight to why CMS Media has been the success it has.
We were then joined by Krzys and Phillip Poynton.
Phillip is the PwC SalesForce recruitment specialist and probably the most successful networker you could meet in Poland!
(If you are not connected to Phillip, then you should be)!
Brilliant to catch up in the Lublin Old Town at Pubie U Ufotografa Craft Beer Pub and get a real feel of the Lublin software developer scene.
23rd November
Lublin
After breakfast straight to it!
In 6 meeting packed hours Invest Lublin introduced C4DI to:
Three outstanding Lublin software businesses.
A software developer academy.
A premium/elite co-working space.
This included an excellent lunch at 'Spokojna 2'.
Thank you to the highly recommended Krzys Buczyński and the Investor Relations Office at Lublin for such an excellent day. 18:00 and we are sitting on our train to Krakow with a change at 22:30 hr to arrive at the city of Katowice for 23:50 hr!
