Keywords Studios opens the largest video game office in Silesia!

The new location in Katowice’s Global Office Park complex (Cavatina Holding) employs more than 1,000 people working on video games. Keywords Studios is a leader in the video game industry, having provided a wide range of services to giants such as Ubisoft, Google, Nintendo, Microsoft and Electronic Arts since 1998. The company has over 70…

World Urban Forum in numbers

The World Urban Forum is the world’s largest event on urban development. It take place every two years. The first session was organized in 2002 in Nairobi. To date, the forum has been hosted in Vancouver, Kuala Lumpur and Abu Dhabi, among others, and has gathered from several to as many as 20,000 participants from…

Innovative start-ups will present themselves during WUF11 in Katowice!

Today, 27.06.2022, at 16.30 p.m., during WUF11, will take place a Showcase presentation, which is the culmination of the “Katowice Energy Innovation Challenge” competition organised together by UN-Habitat and the Rawa.Ink Municipal Business Incubator. Shortlisted winners of competitions: ‘Katowice Energy Innovation Challenge’, the partner cities of the City of Katowice and the Katowice Start-up Mine…

The growing role of Katowice in the business services sector

Business Services Sector in Katowice, a report prepared by the Association of Business Service Leaders (ABSL), clearly shows the increasingly important role that Katowice and GZM play in Poland’s modern business services sector, one of the fastest developing areas in the country’s economy. Katowice and GZM have gained six investors in the last year, the…

Start-up from Katowice the best start-up in Europe in the mobility area! 

Start-up from Katowice, StorkJet, developed by Piotr Niedziela with the team has received the award for the best start-up in Europe in the mobility area. The start-up deals with reading data from black boxes and optimisation of fuel consumption, which reduces the carbon footprint generated by aircrafts. The prize was awarded in a plebiscite European…

Nexi Digital celebrates the opening of its new Katowice offices and plans to increase its staff by an additional 200 tech profiles by 2025

The Technology and Software Development Competence Center devoted to Digital Payments will boost its growth in Katowice by recruiting new 40 skilled tech resources by the end of the year. Nexi Digital, the new Joint Venture between Reply and Nexi Group, is an Innovation Competence Center fully dedicated to deliver high-quality Digital Payments Solutions to…

P-TECH – international educational and workforce development programme is still evolving in Katowice!

As a multilateral educational initiative, it supports young people in the development of not only scientific and technical, but also workplace and vocational skills useful in their future careers, which is confirmed by the satisfied participants of the project. One of the partner companies is Fujitsu, which runs P-TECH programme with youth from the Śląskie…