25 September 2026 · EC1 Łódź, Poland
The biggest conference in the world by young women, for young women.
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Speakers and panelists
1,000
Participants from across Central and Eastern Europe
10+
Thematic panels and keynotes
25+
Cities participants come from
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About the Summit
The world’s biggest event run by young women for young women, putting a thousand young changemakers in the same building as the mentors, founders and executives they have been reading about. Keynotes, fireside chats, and a day of people to meet. A place where a first step gets taken.
Before you come
When & where?
Friday 25 September 2026
Who is it for?
Ambitious young women between 14 and 26 years old.
Is the gala included?
Yes - a Summit ticket admits you to the evening gala.
What do I wear?
Business casual, in pink and black only.
What do I bring?
A notebook, a water bottle, and your ticket QR code.
Goal of the event
Speakers
We are bringing to GFR Summit: the youngest Prime Minister, a self-made Billionaire and a Hollywood Actress.
Sanna Marin Strategic Counsellor, former Prime Minister of Finland Youngest head of government in the world 
Jenny Just Co-Founder and Managing Partner, PEAK6 Investments #75 on Forbes' 2025 list of America's richest self-made women 
Bailey Bass Actress, activist and student at Columbia University Actress in the Avatar films All speakers
Hanna Zdanowska Mayor of Łódź 
Dagmara Brzezińska Country Director, Google Poland 
Jade Bowler Education creator, founder of UnJaded Jade, host of the Future Ready Gala 
Joanna Oleśniewicz Country Sales Manager, Air France and KLM, Poland & Ukraine 
Irma Veberič General Manager, Roche Polska 
Anna Surdacka Global Head of AI Engineering and Operations, Roche 
Mariusz Mulas Site Head Poland and Global Head of Data and AI Business Operations, Roche 
Paulina Święcicka Global Head of Data Management and Quality Platforms, Roche 
Annacarola Coda Administrative Manager, European Parliament 
Agnieszka Kierner Board member, investor and professor of management 
Barbara Mierzwińska Vice President, GdziePoLek.pl 
Grzegorz Mazurek Professor and Rector, Kozminski University 
Ewa Zmysłowska Board member and People Director at Play (P4); President of Fundacja Wolność Wyboru 
Marta Majchrzak Founder and lead researcher, Herstories 
Ewa Navarro Mora Founder of Uważaj bo Spadniesz 
Natalia Barzon CEO and co-founder, GIRL 
Chloe Ariana Jepsen Founder, Chasing Cultures 
Nikola Stajszczak Founder, Scale With Me 
Oliwia Aziz Founder, Fundacja #niezamłodzi 
Wiktoria Nowak Co-founder of GenBoost and #Dziewczymy na Wybory 
Vee Kativhu Founder of Empowered By Vee 
Gabriela Smilgin Panel moderator 
Marcelina Maciąg CEO, Kintsugi Foundation 
Marlena Wojciechowska Social researcher and HerStory laureate, Girls Future Ready 
Zofia Kierner Founder of Girls Future Ready, CEO of 50one 
Oliwia Sagan Head of the HerStory programme, Girls Future Ready 
Weronika Wojnarowska Head of Marketing, Girls Future Ready 
Zuzanna Rowińska Head of Community, Girls Future Ready 
Kaja Posnik GFR Summit Ambassador Network Coordinator, Girls Future Ready 
Alicja Siejka Project Manager, Youth Advisory Board programmes, Girls Future Ready 
Featured panels
Past the myth of being in the right place at the right time: how young women from any background deliberately navigate global networks and get into international rooms.
How do you shift from protecting money in a savings account to growing it? Our speakers argue about how young women take ownership of their own economy.
What if the most interesting STEM careers of the decade have nothing to do with a lab coat, and everything to do with the problems you already care about?
How do you turn what you can do into an identity people want to work with - as a person, and as a business?
What if every conversation you are already having - deadlines, roles, projects - is a negotiation you did not know you were in?
Can you change the world while you are still learning it? Driving social impact before anyone has given you the title.
If AI already does everything a junior was hired to do, are you about to be left behind - or the first generation to skip the queue entirely?
Pre-events
All week before the GFR Summit our partners host pre-event workshops open to Summit participants, in their offices around Warsaw. These hands-on sessions are included in your GFR Summit ticket, and registration opens a few weeks before the event - by email, to the address you booked your ticket with.
The venue
A power station built in 1907, the first in the city, rebuilt as EC1: City of Culture. It is now Poland’s premier museum and cultural venue - a hub for science, art and film at the centre of the new Łódź, and five minutes on foot from Łódź Fabryczna station.
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Tickets
A thousand young women at EC1 Łódź, Poland, fifty speakers, seven panels and the Future Ready Awards gala to close the night. Tickets are open now.
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Before you come
Tickets and timings, how to get to EC1, what to wear and what the day includes. Anything we have not covered, write to us.
The Summit itself - the panels, the partner booths, the programme - is open to young women aged 14 to 26 from anywhere in the world. The GFR Gala and Future Ready Awards that follow welcome every Summit participant, along with mentors, role models and friends of the foundation.
Friday 25 September 2026, at EC1 in Łódź. Registration opens at 9:30am, panels and keynotes run from 10am until 5:30pm, and the Gala and Awards follow from 6pm to 9:30pm.
From within Poland, take a train to Łódź Fabryczna - EC1 is a five-minute walk from the station. From abroad, fly into Warsaw Chopin and take the train from there.
Use the ticket link at the top of this page. It takes you to our event on Luma, where a few questions are all it takes. Tickets are released in drops announced on @girlsfutureready - so “registration closed” often means the next drop has not opened yet.
Whatever you believe it is worth, from 20 to 20,000 PLN. All of it goes to the foundation’s programmes for young women.
Every main-stage session, the panel discussions, the networking zones and the partner showcases - and the evening Gala and Future Ready Awards ceremony.
Business casual, in black and pink.
Mainly English, so that everyone in the GFR community can take part.
Not for this one - volunteer roles are closed for the 2026 edition.
