Łukasz Żyła

Workshops

Academic teaching
  • Lecturer in the Social Informatics programme at AGH University of Science and Technology (2022–present), teaching “Social Startups” and “Data Storytelling”.
  • Coordinator of the Data Storytelling postgraduate programme (AGH).
  • Author of the course syllabi “Access to Digital Information” and “Legal Aspects of Data Processing”.
Business & public administration
  • Coordinated training in the “Przestrzeń from Facebook” programme, with Facebook and Freeformers — 800+ people (aged 18–25) in digital skills and task automation.
  • Trained open-data officers across all ministries and central government offices in automation and APIs.
  • Ran digital-skills and AI courses for Humanitas University, the Jagiellonian University, the University of Wrocław and the Silesian University of Technology.
  • Led sessions and talks for Facebook and SAP, including workshops on prototyping apps that solve social problems.
Law — new technologies & access to information
  • Taught new-technology law to student research groups at the Jagiellonian University, the University of Wrocław and the Pedagogical University in Kraków.
  • Ran right-to-information training for the Diplomatic Academy (Polish MFA).
Media & journalists
  • Trained journalists from Gazeta Wyborcza, Polska Press, Axel Springer, Wirtualna Polska and Newsweek (2015).
  • Ran training for local media (Silesia region, 2017).
  • Taught data-visualization and content-creation for the Polish MFA (information department, 2015).
  • Ran Media Labs 3.0 (Gliwice) — new-media workshops for journalists.
  • Led new-media workshops for the Information Society Development Foundation (FRSI), with ICT training across southern Poland.
Youth education & creative coding
  • Founder and coordinator of the Hack Heroes contest (EU Code Week; partners: Ministry of Digital Affairs, GovTech, SAP Poland, HP Inc).
  • Workshops on programming, electronics and creative coding (e.g. Warsztat Miejski / Urban Workshop).
Conference & event organization
  • Organizer of Databeers — the first data-focused conference in Poland (part of the international Databeers format).
  • Organizer of Data 3.0 in Warsaw — an event dedicated to data and new media.
  • Organizer of Poland's first new-technology workshops and conferences for journalists.

Reach out: hello@lukaszzyla.com.