Speakers

Tibor Rékasi graduated from the Budapest College of Foreign Trade, and then widened his professional knowledge at various business training programmes. He started his career at Integra Kft. as a client relationship officer. From 1997 he worked for Unisys Hungary as an account manager for financial partners and then as director of client relations. In 2000, he joined Cisco Systems Hungary, first in the position of a sales manager responsible for VIP clients, then as director of the large corporate business. In February 2007, he was appointed managing director of Cisco Systems Hungary, and in addition to managing the company’s affairs, in this position he was also responsible for the co-ordination of all sales in Hungary. In September 2008 he joined Magyar Telekom Group as managing director of IQSYS Zrt, a subsidiary in Corporate Services, where in addition to company management, he also attended to the tasks of a sales director. Between December 2010 and May 2011, on a temporary basis he also directed Magyar Telekom’s Corporate Services business line (T-Systems), while simultaneously performing the duties of IQSYS Zrt.’s managing director. Between October 2012 and 30 September 2013, he acted as Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Sales at T-Systems Hungary. Since 1 October 2013, he has been Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Corporate Services of Magyar Telekom, and Chief Executive Officer of T-Systems Hungary.

He took over the tasks associated with the general management of HP and the top position of the Enterprise Group in 2012. Before that, he had been responsible for heading HP Hungary’s retail chain, then later for the regional sales of the Wholesale Infrastructure Business Unit in the company’s Central-Eastern European region. He has supervised numerous business innovation initiatives, for which he has been recognized on many occasions even outside of the region.

Mrs. Günther (born in 1967) is an engineer in electronics with an MBA in finance. Prior her appointment as Senior Vice President Technology Europe on March 1, 2012, with responsibility for Technology, IT and the Technical Service in all 12 countries of the Europe Board area, she was a consultant and later corporate executive in Telecommunication Companies of the Deutsche Telekom Group. Kerstin is member of the board of directors of several companies of the Deutsche Telekom group in Europe. She was Senior Vice President Planning Technology for Deutsche Telekom Germany, Senior Vice President Service and Demand Management at T-Home. She lead the largest Technical Infrastructure Branch Office of T-Home and before that the Personal Service Centre of Deutsche Telekom. Before coming back to Germany Kerstin held the position of Senior Vice President Strategy and External Affairs at Slovak Telekom, Senior Vice President Wholesale at Magyar Telekom and Vice President Regulatory Affairs at Magyar Telekom.

Péter Hajdu (38) is the general director of CISCO Systems in charge of Central and South-Eastern Europe (Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania)
Previously, Mr Hajdu had worked for Cisco in several other positions. Among others, he was Director of Strategic and Business Development in the Emerging Markets division, and had a pivotal role in the development and implementation of Cisco’s strategy concerning Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the CIS countries.
Prior to Cisco, Mr Hajdu worked for McKinsey and Company, managing strategic and operative projects in numerous countries (including France, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania). His customers included banks, FMCG and global automotive businesses, chemical companies, air services as well as international retail chains.
Mr Hajdu holds an MBA in Technology Management from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed an executive training course at Harvard Business School. Previously, he studied at the Budapest University of Economics. He lives at Nagykovácsi with his wife and two children.

Christopher Mattheisen (born in 1961) graduated in economics at the Indiana University, Bloomington and at Columbia University. He started to work in the telecom industry in 1993 as Director of Sales and Marketing of Westel 900 in Budapest. Then he was involved in the launching of several Hungarian, Polish and Czech mobile operators for U.S. West International. Between 1997–1999 he directed the marketing and sales activities of MediaOne in London. Then he worked in the UK at BT Cellnet as Business Marketing and Sales Director. In September 2002, Mr. Mattheisen became Director of Retail Services of Magyar Telekom and
in January 2005, Director of Landline Services (“T-Com”, including Retail, Internet and Network divisions). Since December 6, 2006, Mr. Mattheisen has been the Chief Executive Officer of Magyar Telekom, and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors.

In 1991 he received his degree in electrical engineering from the Budapest University of Technology then in 2004 he graduated from the College of Foreign Trade as a PR marketing manager. He started his career at KFKI's predecessor company as a development engineer and then moved into sales. From 1999 he filled various sales manager positions in the organisation that had integrated in the meanwhile.
For two years, he worked as KFKI’s deputy general managing director and manager of horizontal sales. Since April 2012, he headed T-Systems Hungary's ICT division as Deputy Chief Executive Officer. From January 2014, he is the responsible head of the Vertical Solutions Division.

Géza Ragoncsa received his electrical engineering degree from the Budapest University of Technology.
He started his professional career in the area of industrial automation as a hardware and software developer. From 1989 for ten years he worked in office automation, logistics, corporate management, healthcare and telecommunication software development and design, as well as project management.
Following this, he fulfilled various managerial positions, heading IT system planning, development and operations for financial institutions, industrial and public administrative companies. In 2004 he became a member of the IQSYS team, initially acting as project manager responsible for financial institutions, and from 2009 as deputy managing director of the company. He directed the company's operations, and then from 2010 he headed its implementation division. From April 2012, he was leading T-Systems Hungary's Application and Business Integration Division as deputy Chief Executive Officer. From January 2014, he is the responsible for the ICT Solutions Division.

David Roberts is passionate about transforming the lives of a billion suffering people in the world through disruptive technological innovation. He is an M.I.T. and Harvard educated, award-winning CEO and serial entrepreneur. He is also a former Special Agent, decorated military officer, and career officer in the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government. He is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on disruptive innovation in government and technology entrepreneurship.

David is a faculty member at Singularity University. He was the GSP Director in 2013 and 2012, the Faculty Director for Team Projects, Advisors, and Teaching Fellows in 2011, and is a GSP alum and elected class representative from 2010.

He graduated from the University of Szeged, Faculty of General Medicine in 1999. Previously, he had been a student at the Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA), the University of South Florida (Tampa, Florida, USA), and finally the Truman State University (previously Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, Missouri, USA).  Relying on his experiences obtained at numerous universities in the United States, between 1994 and 1996 he worked as a regional assistant manager for National Medical Care (Tampa, Florida, USA) and then between 1998 and 2000 as the coordinator of the International Management Center in Budapest. Between 2000 and 2006 he was a visiting lecturer at the Medical and Health Center of the University of Debrecen.

Marie-Theres Thiell works at RWE since 1990. She started in the legal department, later she was in various positions responsible for M+A and management of subsidiaries.
In 2005 she moved to Hungary, where she took over the position as a CFO of RWE Hungary, the regional leading company of RWE in Hungary and was in person union CFO of ELMŰ and ÉMÁSZ, the electricity supply companies in Budapest and north-east Hungary. In 2010 she become the CEO of RWE Hungária and ELMŰ/ÉMÁSZ. Since 2011 she is beside the positions in Hungary Member of the Board of Directors RWE EAST, the company in charge to manage the activities of RWE in CEE. Besides country responsibility for Hungary and Romania, her other responsibilities include grid related issues, IT, Purchasing, HR and diversity.
Her RWE Group initiatives:

• Head of the Diversity Project (establishment of the Diversity Office in 2006)
• Establishing RWE Women’s Network, including 450 female colleagues across the group, in which all regions are represented
• Initiation of Women’s in Energy Politics Workshops with groupwide participation

Mitko has worked in high technologies since 1996. He has worked for Service providers, Industrial and lately since 2003 for Cisco Systems.
He has lived and worked in Emerging markets and European countries, designing, implementing and operating very large-scale systems.
In 2013 he moved to Berlin and is CTO at openBerlin, Cisco IoT Innovation Center.
Mitko is supporting with due-diligence Cisco Investments and several partnering venture funds. 
He is active supporter of open data, open source and open hardware communities. 

Mark Yates brings more than 10 years' experience in marketing and market research to his role at IDC. As a member of the Insights and Verticals team for the CEE region, he works closely with other analysts to forecast markets and spending, provides strategic insight into how IT is shaping government decisions, and helps both vendors and user optimize their technology and market decisions.

Prior to taking up his position as analyst, Yates worked in communications and training consulting for companies in CEE and the UK. He also served as IDC EMEA’s interim marketing director and spent five years as IDC CEMA’s marketing manager. He holds a master’s degree in communications from the University of Oregon and a bachelor’s from Iowa State University. He has also passed the first two CFA® exams and lectures on business strategy at private educational organizations.
 

Ulrich Aberle, born 1958, has been active in Hungary since 2006, in the years 2008 – 2012 as proxy, since 2012 in his role of the managing director of RWE IT Magyarország. Concurrently, he is in the position of Head of IT Coordination at RWE East.
Ulrich joined RWE in 2003 and occupied various positions including that of Service Manager in Central and Eastern European region.
Over the years he has worked in international companies and had responsibility mainly for product and account management.
Ulrich Aberle studied business administration and currently lives in Budapest.

He has been with IBM Magyarországi Kft as a service sales assistant and a senior consultant for four years. Previously, he had worked in a similar job for other IT companies. He is a founding member of the Smart University team started by IBM. As the Central European University’s Director of MSC Programmes in IT and a senior lecturer, he has been teaching IT management and scientific management in the CEU Business School for more than six years. His specialisations include IT service management and the control and checking frameworks, with special focus on incentives to people, team building and performance management. He obtained his degree in programme planning from the ELTE, and his second degree in economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest.

He has a 10-year experience in project management, and in 2009 he obtained qualification as an IPMA B senior project manager. He has degrees in electrical engineering, economics for engineers and marketing. He started his career at MATÁV as a developer in 1994, then he went on to work in marketing and business communication. In 1999 he joined Deutsche Telekom AG, where he held various positions in international wholesale, international strategy, pre-sales and project management, primarily abroad or in an international environment.
In 2005 he returned to Magyar Telekom and worked primarily in project management and key strategic projects (e.g. the spread of LTO, Electronic Toll system), and obtained executive experience in Product Management, Custom Sale of Solutions and Project Management. In 2009 he joined a well-known project management consulting firm, and then in 2011 T-Systems Hungary. He was involved in the CRM and the Billing Consolidation project, and in 2011 he joined Transport, his current workplace.  Most recently he was in charge of the offer stage of the Electronic Toll system and the Bubi project.

He graduated as an electrical engineer and then as an economist at the University of Pécs.
Since 1999, he has been employed by nearly all companies producing electronic items on hire as a process development manager or other executive.
He also has a few years of international experience (gained in the Ukraine and Sri Lanka) in the field of programme management and quality assurance. His favourite field is the improvement of business processes by custom-developed integrated systems in a high mix - mix volume environment.

 

He has graduated from the Technological IT faculty of the Pécs University of Sciences in 1993. He speaks three languages (English, German and Romanian). He started his career at the Planning Office at the Pécs Directorate of Magyar Telekom (at that time Matáv). His main tasks included exploiting the potential offered by IT assets in telecommunication network planning and operation. It was as a result of these processes that the CAD and GIS practice still applied was developed and has become widely accepted. He joined Daten-Kontor LLC, one of the predecessors of today’s T-Systems Hungary, in1997, where he worked as Head of Group, Head of Department and then Deputy Director in the Development area, after which he became Managing Director and Partner. Following Daten-Kontor’s acquisition in 2011, he was asked by the new owner to head the company, forming a part of Magyar Telekom Group’s affiliate, in a Managing Director position. In this period, the company achieved significant growth (30%). In the following years, he was also requested to simultaneously manage the Large Enterprise Application Development Branch of IQSYS Ltd. Co. and Daten-Kontor, prepare the integration of the different units and their merger into T-Systems Hungary Ltd. Co, then being established. From 2014, his tasks include the management of the Medical and ERP Solutions area, thus the Large Enterprise and Account Management Solutions Branch is established under his leadership.

Graduated as administration manager and certified economist at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration. During his professional career he filled a number of executive positions in the field of electronic administration and government infocommunication. Since 2010 he has been the managing director of the Puskás Ferenc Public Foundation then, as of 2013, managing director of Kopint-Datorg Information Technology and Asset Management Plc. As of August 2013 he has been the Chairman of the National Council for Telecommunications and Informatics, the IT and telecommunications consultation organization of the government. On June 25th 2014 he was appointed as Deputy Secretary of State of the Prime Minister’s Office, responsible for the coordination of infocommunications.

Imre Bogdán graduated as a marketing communication specialist from the International Business School in 2003. His professional career started at Alltech Hungary Kft., then between 2004 and 2006 he acted as head of key account management for Xerox Magyarország Kft. (Xerox Global Services).
In 2006 he joined the Motorola Solutions team as a key account manager.
Since 2010, he has been the managing director of the Hungarian division.

He is an engineer specialised in wired telecommunications, and has a degree in economics for engineers. He started his career in the technological team of the Hungarian Post in 1988. Since then he has worked on several wired network areas from customer service through network operation to network development. In the recent years he has been engaged in the introduction of fixed broadband technologies and the expansion of network coverage (xDSL, GPON, ED3) and the modernisation of old platforms (PSTN replacement).

Ákos Csóka started his career as a system engineer at T-Systems Hungary’s predecessor in 1998.He has been working with cloud solutions for five years, and is the architect of our company’s own cloud infrastructure. He participated in the cloud infrastructure development project performed at several customers, and undertook a leading technical role in Hungary’s largest cloud infrastructure project.

He graduated as an electrical engineer from the Technical University of Budapest in 1998.Following graduation he was employed  by Lias-Networx Kft as a system engineer specialising in Cisco data, and after a few years he switched to voice communication within the company. Following 2006 he was a chief voice engineer and in 2008 he was appointed technical manager of the same professional area for the successor companies. Since 2011 he has been acting as head of the infrastructure technology competence centre in the combined audio, video and contact centre.

He was born in 1974 in Budapest. Following secondary school he studied at the Budapest College of Economics and the University of Debrecen, and obtained a degree in economics and advertising, and a Master of Business Administration qualification. He gained professional and executive experience in economics and the marketing of advertising, and then in IT, with various institutions and corporations. He was employed as a specialist, a senior specialist, an independent consultant and in public administration, a commercial director and a company manager for numerous businesses in public administration and in the private sector.  He has experience of nearly a decade in public administration and another decade in the private sector, including about 5 years’ experience as an executive or senior executive.   Currently, he is a key account management advisor to T-Systems Hungary’s Healthcare business line and is the owner and managing director of a consultancy firm. He has been a member of the Club of Hungarian Healthcare Managers.

He graduated in 1994 as an electrical engineer from the Budapest University of Technology. He started his career as a network engineer for ICON Kft., one of the legal predecessors of T-Systems Hungary. Having held numerous jobs and positions during various company transformations, since 2007 he has been the head of T-Systems Hungary’s Security Competence Centre. He became a Certified Information Systems Security Professional in 2006 and a Certified Information Security Manager in 2013.

He was born in 1967 in Kiskunhalas. After his graduation as an electrical engineer at the Budapest University of Technology in 1991 he started to work at INT, a research company of France Telekom in Paris. Subsequently, he was sales manager at Lab-COM GmbH, and afterwards he fulfilled the position of the CEO at the newly established Hungarian LAB-COM Softwarehouse Ltd. In 1996 he was one of the co-founders of ISH Informatika Ltd (later ISH Ltd) where he served first as strategic director then as sales director. After the successful merger of five companies in 2012, Kálmán Fábián became the Head of the Healthcare Competence Center at T-Systems Hungary Ltd. In this position his tasks include broadening the portfolio of the DT subsidiaries and positioning the T- brand in the healthcare markets; creating business development and presales strategy in the CEE region; sharing knowledge, mapping the market, searching for funds and financing and last but not least elaborating tenders.

András Fazakas started his career in 1996 at Westel Mobil Távközlési Rt, the predecessor of T-Mobile. He gained direct and indirect sales and customer management experiences in various positions at the company. In 2006 he joined Nav N Go, a company engaged in the development of navigation software and mobile applications, as an operative director and had an outstanding role in the identification of new business opportunities and the introduction of the company’s services into new markets in Hungary and abroad.

He devised and built the structure of the 270-strong company and then rebuilt it several times. The resulting organisation flexibly responds to the constantly increasing and renewed requirements of the international market, and is highly recognised in professional circles.

In 2008, Deloitte awarded the title “Most Dynamically Developing IT Company in Central Europe” to Nav N Go. In the same year, the Association of IT Businesses selected András Fazakas as the “Young IT Businessman of the Year”. In 2009 he joined Theoryc, an investment association established by Hungarian businessmen, left for T-Systems from a managing directorial position.

In 2012 András Fazakas joined Deutsche Telekom AG’s newly established European team in charge of business customers (“Business Excellence Europe”). Initially, he acted as an advisor for new price revenue streams (ICT, eHealth, M2M), and went on to specialise, as head, exclusively in the European machine-to-machine business line. Currently, this line comprises the go-to-market and business development strategies of 12 countries throughout DT’s European subsidiaries.

Obtained his degrees at the Technical University of Budapest and Corvinus University. His career in information technology started at MOL in 1997, where he was the leader of the Change Management Teams for SAP and VIR (MIS) projects. Later he worked as the director of the Project Management and Consultancy Business Unit at Synergon. As partner, he has been a member of the T-Systems team since 2009.

György Gombár obtained a Bsc and then MBA degree from the Faculty Electrical Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology. He began his professional career at Siemens and Motorola as a quality assurance manager, then as a business development manager and a program manager. Between 1999 and 2001 he was the managing co-director of Motorola Hungary. For nearly ten years he led the Telecommunications and Media Division of Sun Microsystems, and then Hewlett-Packard, in a position where he was in charge of business development and  sales.
At the end of 2009 he joined Teradata and until January 2014 he acted as managing director responsible for building market presence, sales and organizational matters in Hungary and Romania. Since 1 February 2014 he has been managing director of Avaya Hungary responsible for sales and all the business activities of the company in Hungary.

Szilárd Gombos has been working for the Telekom group for 15 years, and has been in executive positions for the last 8 years. He is responsible for the preparation and support of the company’s large projects.

Since 2011, he has been director of T-Systems Hungary’s Business Intelligence and Information Management Solutions sector.

He obtained his degree in economics at the University of Delhi and his MBA at the Central European University of Budapest. In the course of his career as a project manager, he qualified as a PMP and as an ITIL Manager. For nearly 15 years he worked as an advisor, project manager, line director and project director.
He also worked in India and Germany. He has been living in Hungary since 1997. He joined T-Systems Hungary in 2007, and for four years he was the head of the CORE (basic banking systems) competence centre.
In his current position as line director, his key objective is to ensure long-term growth and success for the Business Intelligence and Consultancy line through competitive solutions tailored to customer requirements.

He started his career at KFKI ISYS in 1999, and worked as a developer-advisor for several banks and companies in various sectors. As an employee of K&H Bank, he participated in its warehouse introduction project. He spent three years in the Netherlands as a person in charge of the development of the GE Plastics European sales warehouse and services provided to users. For a year he has been the head of MKB Bank’s warehouse development team. Previously, for five years he had been the organiser and team leader of the warehouse for five years.

As Global Sales Consultant for the Allianz account at T-Systems International based in Munich, Germany, Alan ensures successful sale and delivery of the full portfolio of TSI network and ICT solutions to Allianz.  Prior to joining TSI, he worked for 12 years as the Commercial Director of Dataplex, the leading colocation provider in the CEE region.
He has lived in Hungary with his wife and three children for the past 17 years, previously working for IT solution and consulting businesses in Japan and Germany.  Most recently, he completed an international MBA from Purdue University of the U.S.A.

He obtained a degree in finances from the Corvinus University of Budapest. He started his career at the unit responsible for bank groups in the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority, where he was engaged primarily in the new Basel regulation and the various banking aspects of the international accounting standards. Then he joined a US-owned business intelligence company, where he performed pre-sales, consulting and project activities. Following a banking risk position, eighteen months ago he joined T-Systems Hungary’s business intelligence and analysis unit as a business analyst. He is currently in this position.

He is responsible for the total sales of SAP Business One in the Central and Eastern European region. His duties include the extension and efficiency optimisation of the sales network. Introduction of the product in the Visegrad countries and building and operation of the sales channels are to his credit. On several occasions he was elected as the most successful sale expert of the software company in global terms.
Previously, he worked as a project manager and then as head of the sales department in the SAP Introduction Consultancy Business Line of KFKI ISYS Informatikai Kft. He graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and speaks English and German.

He received his electrical engineering degree from the Budapest University of Technology (1986). In 1991 he joined Westel Rádiótelefon Kft, where he met mobile technology for the first time. In the past 23 years, he held various positions at Westel, Westel900, T-Mobile and Magyar Telekom and participated in the development of 1G (NMT), 2G (GSM), 3G (UMTS) and currently 4G (LTE) networks. Since 2010 he has been line manager of Magyar Telekom’s wireless network developments.

He works for BlackBerry as an advisor in the Security Group, interfacing with security agencies, governmental bodies and strategic enterprise customers.  His primary focus is to assist them in understanding the various BlackBerry security counter-measures and the truly extensible nature of the solution.
Marcus Klische has more than 20 years of experience in IT industry and in a broad range of IT Security, Product Management, and Government solutions. For the past five years, Marcus has been working internationally as a consultant in the areas of national electronic identity. Previously, Marcus worked with a number of system integrators to drive the adoption of state-of-the-art technologies in the Government and Enterprise space. Some of his recent projects include the introduction of biometric use in the German and Swiss Armies, and the implementation of automated Border Crossing Projects and ePassport projects.
Since mid-2013, Marcus has been an elected Member of the Internet Security Advisory Board for the EC3 European Cybercrime Center of Europol.

He graduated as an economist from the Budapest University of Economics and Public Administration. He started his career in innovation, and went on to engage in e-business research, first as an analyst and then as a project manager. In 2004 he joined BellResearch, where he attended to the tasks of customer segmentation projects, ICT market modelling and consultancy, while also acting as a deputy director for the ICT business line. He joined T-Systems Hungary in 2013, and currently he is the head of the Communication Products and Solution Management team. In addition to the staff providing voice and data services, those in charge of the strategic product management of convergent communication services also report to him.

He graduated from the Budapest University of Economics and State Administration in 2003. He started working in the IT and innovation area even during his university years. From 2003, he undertook project management tasks at Hungarian IT companies, and contributed to the elaboration of development strategies. Since 2008, he has worked for Magyar Telekom’s Innovation and Business Development Directorate. As an Innovation Expert, his responsibilities include heading the T-City Project, launch new projects, as well as lifecycle management and product sales tasks.

Graduated at the Foreign Trade Faculty of the Budapest College of Economics. Started his professional career at Hewlett-Packard Hungary Plc as sales representative, where he was involved in information technology services for SMB customers. In 2003 he joined IQSYS Plc (predecessor of T-Systems Hungary) as account manager. Since 2010 he has been the leader of the Transportation Business Unit.

He started his career in 2003 in the software business line of HP Magyarország, where he attended to technical presales duties related to IT infrastructure management solutions. In 2007 he joined the system integration business line of AlphaNet, where he participated in the sale, design and implementation of and support to complex solutions provided mainly to banks and telecommunication customers. In 2012 he became the senior consultant to CA Technologies Magyarország, where he performed pre-sales duties related to IT service management in addition to the management of Hungarian partners. Since March 2013, he has been a pre-sales engineer in the Management Systems Competence centre team of T-Systems Hungary, where his main duty is to find solutions for the IT management challenges of our customers by the selection of the appropriate solution components.

In T-Systems Hungary’s technological coordination team he is responsible for the Smart City portfolio. During the 15 years of his career, he gained experiences at Magyar Telekom (where he started as an intern), KFKI and TcT Hungary, in addition to setting up his own business. First as a key account manager, a leader in telecommunications and IT infrastructure, then in application integration, and later on as an independent advisor and project manager also involved in business and enterprise development duties, as well as a start-upper private person. His current task is to frame the large number of smart city developments for the market, and to perform the internal coordination of more than 50 competence centres within T-Systems Hungary’s professional organisation.

He obtained a degree in System Engineering and Process Management from the University of Veszprém in 1987. He gained experience as a software developer in an industrial and business management environment, participating in the development of custom software tools for two decades. From 1993 he was employed by Daten-Kontor Kft as a system designer, project manager and line manager. He participated in numerous projects, in the past ten years primarily in industrial areas and logistics. He has extensive experience and knowledge in the solution of corporate application integration tasks (ERP systems, special industrial equipment and customer’s non-series systems). Currently he manages a team of a experienced developers engaged in logistics solutions and the Websphere ESB competence area.

She graduated from the Szent István University, specialised in human resources, and simultaneously she also obtained a certificate as a chartered accountant. In the course of her career she worked in finances in the service sector, principally for companies engaged in human resources. First she was employed by Grafton the head of finances and FSSC. Later on she acted as head of finances for Hogg Robinson Magyarország, another company that offers corporate services, and then she joined her current workplace, CPL, where she is again employed as a finance executive.
CPL has been mediating and hiring out labour, and providing managed and outsourcing services, as well as HR consultancy in numerous countries. Its customers are mainly multinational large companies and business assistance hubs.

Balázs Lóránd is the senior consultant of T-Systems Hungary’s Business Intelligence and Information Management Solutions Division. Currently he supports the Location Based Mobile Advertising project as a project manager and project coordinator.  He has extensive experience in business analytics. Previously, he had an active part in numerous research, consulting and training projects for multinational companies and in the public sector as well.
He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pécs, and has published several research studies of analytical results.

Between 2002 and 2010 he was manager of the Business Application Operation and Development Team of Erste Befektetési Zrt., in a period when (as a result of a series of acquisitions) the company grew to become one of the predominant and market leading participants in the Hungarian capital market. Expansion required constant IT development and affected the entire process.
After 2011, he continued his career at MKB Bank Zrt. Upon his admission, first he was in charge of the development of an IFRS-compliant Integrated Financial Report Base, and then he coordinated the design and implementation of the Integrated Corporate Design Tool. In 2013, he had a key role in the reformation of MKB Bank’s BI strategy. Currently, he is directing the implementation of this programme with focus on reporting. In addition, this year he managed the successful transformation of the MIS process. Currently he is a deputy department head at the Database Management Directorate.

He graduated as an engineer and IT specialist from the Budapest University of Technology in 2007, and started his career at KFKI Rendszerintegrációs Zrt. as a presales support engineer in the large corporations area. During the years spent with KFKI Zrt, he acquired ample experience in the LAN, WLAN and network security solutions of various manufacturers. From 2010, he was employed by Alcatel-Lucent Magyarország Kft as a regional presales support engineer engaged in the data communication solutions of the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Division.

He based in Frankfurt/Germany, lead since October 2012 the Global Service Provider/System Integrator and Cloud sales at Avaya in Europe. In this position he is responsible for all sales and channel activities at the Global SP/SI customers on a global level. Before he joined Avaya in 2010 he hold in his 30-years IT career several sales leadership roles with strong focus on the Service Provider/System Integrator market at Cisco, Telepo and Motorola.

He graduated a technical IT specialist from the Technical University of Óbuda (formerly: Kandó Kálmán College of Technical Sciences).
He started his career at ICON Számítástechnikai Zrt, a predecessor of T-Systems Hungary, where he was employed as a system engineer engaged in the introduction of service, application and network management. In addition to implementation, since 2009 he has also been in charge of pre-sales engineering tasks, and since 2012 he has been head of corporate activities in T-Systems Hungary’s Management System team.

He graduated in 1996 as programming mathematician at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of ELTE. He started his career as a trainer. He held exam preparatory courses, then a few years later was hired by Daten-Kontor Kft. as a developer. Later he gained 15 years of experience in the field of contact center technologies; participated in a number of projects as developer, architect and project manager in various European countries. Currently he is the leader of the Contact Center Solutions competence center of T-Systems Magyarország Zrt.

Driving Hungarian Telekom’s new payment and finance related solutions, with end-to-end responsibility including strategy, business planning, implementation and go-to-market. Strong innovative product development and management background with team leading experience. Dealing with local and international stakeholders, and senior executive management; building outstanding partnerships with the biggest mobile payment industry actors (banks, service providers, retailers). Recognized by management and the industry for deep knowledge in mobile payments sector, efficiency and personal integrity.

He graduated as a specialised physician from the University of Szeged. He specialised in anaesthesiology, intensive therapy and emergency care, in the first two specialisations his degrees are acknowledged all over Europe. He worked and obtained international experience at the Royal Preston Hospital and the Burney General Hospital in England for two years.
He is a member of the presidium of the Association of Hungarian Emergency Medicine. He is the head and physician expert of numerous projects related to emergency medicine. As an authorised presidential representative, he participated in the tender entitled “Development of Emergency Care at the Szent-Györgyi Albert Clinical Centre of the University of Szeged”. His duties included the preparation of the feasibility study, the provision of professional support, the performance of system analysis and development. One of his key areas of interest is the potential utilisation of advanced IT capabilities during daily operative work, the education of medical students and the efficient organisation of medical care.

Ajtony Ponori-Thewrewk joined the BI team at that time under IQSYS.  As a developer and then as head of development, senior architect  and project manager, he mainly worked on data warehouse, data mining and dashboard projects. During the years of his employment he obtained experience in several dashboard, OLAP and other relational database, report writing and data mining projects. As a deputy project manager, he participated in and contributed to the development of a warehousing solution for several hundred millions of data. Innovative solutions generally catch his attention, that is why he has shifted in the direction of Big Data solutions. For one and the half years he has been engaged in the Big Data phenomenon, technologies and the analysis of the business potentials inherent in them. Currently he is the head of a social media mining pilot project based on Big Data. In addition, he is committed to agile development methodologies.

László Posset holds a diploma in physics from Romania and one as a Computer Scientist from Germany. He has teached mathematics and physics at colleges in Romania and in Hungary, before joining Deutsche Telekom in Germany in 1991.  He started as a computer scientist by being involved in the development of large IT and business applications. Since 1996, he has been managing different large software implementation, enterprise solution and ICT projects for customers of T-Systems in Europe and in the US. In 2004, he started to build up, as COO of T-Systems India, the Systems Integration business of the company by leading the Sales & Operations in India. In 2008 he took over as Vice President the sales responsibilities of T-Systems in APAC and since 2011 he shares his experience with top level clients as Management Consultant by driving ICT innovation projects & developing global business and markets. Currently he is Product Leader for Mobile Advertising,  a Big Data Analytics Solution for Mobile Marketing.

He worked at the IT Operations of MKB Bank and was responsible for the infrastructure development and operations of Microsoft-based systems. Has been working for Microsoft Hungary since 2008 as sales representative of solutions, responsible mainly for large corporate customers. Currently works as key account manager.

He obtained his MsC in Information technology from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 2000, and a degree in economics from the Budapest Business School in 2008. For five years he worked as a Java, C ++ and database developer, and in 2003 he joined Oracle Hungary’s technology sales team. Initially, he worked as an Oracle Database pre-sales consultant, assisting in the deployment of optimum database environments in Hungary, and then for several years he was one of the leading experts of Oracle database management solutions. In 2012, he joined the CEE Engineered Systems Competence Centre, and  in October 2013, he was appointed team leader of the SCE area. Due to increased workload of the competence centre (cloud-based technologies), since June 2014, he has also been responsible for the Oracle Big Data Technologies.

He graduated as an electrical engineer from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2007. During his university studies he participated in a development project with Create-Net in the Open Source IP Telephony in Italy. Since then he has been working in pre-sales as well as post-sales on on-site and cloud Unified Communications systems built of Cisco solutions, first employed by KFKI and then by T-Systems Hungary, and has a CCNP Voice qualification. The FutureZone innovation centre and the integration of the Microsoft CIE laboratory are to his credit.

He graduated in 1993 from the University of Miskolc at the Faculty of Metallurgy and made his MBA in Finances and Economics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2001. In 2003 he obtained a qualification as a financial specialist from the Budapest College of Economics, Faculty of Foreign Trade. During his career he has worked in various economic, technical and consulting areas, and held positions as a director of finances, managing director and consultant for companies of the most varies profiles. Relying on his extensive experience and theoretical grounds obtained at the university, in 2010 he agreed to act as deputy general and technical manager of the Northern Transdanubian Waterworks. During the years spent with the company, he successfully participated in two research and development tenders. He managed to integrate the current leading technologies of the industry into the operational model of then Northern Transdanubian Waterworks.

He works as a data centre technology sales manager at Cisco Hungary. He has gained extensive professional and management experience in data centre and cloud solutions at several large multinational IT businesses. During the 20 years he has spent in the ICT market, he has been involved in numerous significant projects assisting customers, service providers and partners. In relation to Cisco data centre solutions, he also has regional responsibilities.

He was a teacher of physical education at the Sports School of Szolnok from 1980, the Münnich Ferenc Primary School from 1981, and the Szolnok Branch of the College of Trade and Tourism from 1988. Between 1993 and 1998 he acted as head of the teaching staff at the Sports School of Szolnok. Between 1981 and 1988 he played basket ball in the national league. In 1996 he became chairman of the Széchenyi István Leisure Time, Cultural and Sports Association; and in 1997-1998 he chaired the Supervisory Board of the Oil Miners’ Basket Ball Club. Currently, he is a member of the Citizens’ Cooperation for the River Tisza. Political career: In December 1994 he was elected as member of the general meeting of Szolnok in a constituency. In 1997 he joined Fidesz, and then became a member of the party’s city presidium. In May 1998, he stood as a candidate in the elections. With the joint support of Fidesz-FKGP-MDF-KDNP he ran for the mayor’s office and was elected. From the autumn of 2002, he was a member of the city’s general meeting, as chairman of the committee for education, culture and religion. Between 1998 and 2002, he was the vice-president of the Sports Committee in the Association of Cities with County Rights, chaired the regional development and tourism committee, acted as the deputy chairman of the county’s regional development council, and as the president of the county’s water management association. In April 2002, he was given a mandate from the third place on the joint regional list of Fidesz-MDF. Between May 2002 and June 2003, he was a member in the committees for regional development, youth policy and sports. Since 23 June 2003 he was the deputy chairman of the standing committee of local councils. In the autumn of 2003, he was the president of Fidesz Hungarian Civic Association for the city of Szolnok and the county. Simultaneously, he was also charged with the tasks of the chairman of the Szolnok constituency. Upon request from fraction leader János Áder, as from September 2004 he assumed the management of the Youth Policy and Sports Section. During the 2006 general elections, he won a seat in Parliament on the national list, as a representative of Jász-Nagykun Szolnok county. Since 30 May 2006, he has been a member of the Sports and Tourism Committee.

György Szamosvári graduated from ELTE University as a programmer mathematician and started his career working for several IT companies in Germany and Austria. Upon his return to Hungary in 1997, he was employed by International Business School of CEU as an IT manager. In 1999 he joined HP as an e-service sales manager responsible for the regional and the Hungarian market. After 2003, he worked for IQSYS Zrt in various sales positions, with focus on telecommunication solutions. Since 2012, he has been managing the sales line at 13 subsidiaries of the DT Group in 11 countries.

He graduated as an electrical engineer from the Budapest University of Technology in 1994. He worked as a sales and then business development manager for the predecessor of T-Systems Hungary. From 2010 he was the sales director of the horizontal sales team in charge of T-Systems’ IT solutions. Since early 2014 he has been the head of the competence centre in charge of selling Integrated Communication Solutions.

She obtained a degree in business management from the College of Finance and Accounting. In 2010 she joined IQSYS Zrt telecommunication sales, and since 2012 she has been in charge of T-Systems Hungary’s international sales management. She is engaged in international tenders financed from EU funds, international partnership management and the sales of cloud-based service management solutions in the CEE region.

Dr Attila Szijártó is a 38 years old surgeon and a senior lecturer at the 1st Surgery Clinic of the Semmelweis University. He obtained his summa cum laude degree from the Faculty of Medicine of the Semmelweis University in 2001, then his PhD in 2007 and passed his special examination in surgery in 2008. His specialisations include the surgical treatment of liver, biliary and pancreatic diseases. In addition to his clinical work, he has an active role in Hungarian scientific life: since 2003 he has been Head of the Experimental Research Centre operative at his workplace, with numerous graduate and postgraduate students doing and having done research under his supervision. His work has been recognised by numerous Hungarian and international awards. He made his study tours in various European countries (United Kingdom, the Netherlands etc.) and Japan, where he established significant professional relationships and cooperation, and on their basis he organised congresses in Hungary and Europe. He was one of the founders, and since 2013 the chairman, of the Young Surgeons’ Section within the Association of Hungarian Surgeons. He is dedicated to battling for the creation of the professional foundations required for keeping young surgeons in Hungary. He is married with a son.

She graduated as an economist from the Corvinus University of Budapest and later on also obtained an MBA in economics. She started her career as a university teacher and then went on to become head of T-Mobile’s marketing analysis and planning area. That was the place where she started to engage in business intelligence solutions and data mining.  Later on she acted as the head of a data mining company’s analysing unit, and then she established a business of her own with a similar profile. She gained experience in telecommunication, banking and insurance in the classical topics of data mining: customer value computation, campaign target group determination, segmentations, dropout analysis, cost-based pricing and analyses in support of the introduction of new products.
In 2011 she started working for T-Systems Hungary’s predecessor and has been the head of the company’s data mining team since last October. In addition to traditional data mining, this area includes various topics related to network analysis, text analytics and web analytics.

He obtained a BA degree in economics from the University of Szeged in 2000 and then an MBA at the Oxford Brookes University in 2005.  He started to work in the telecommunications sector in 2000, where he was engaged in product development, corporate strategy and business development. He has been expressly dealing with healthcare developments since 2012, both in conceptual planning and in development management. His thinking is focused on the transformation of healthcare operation and its efficient IT support, capitalising on the potentials inherent in advanced technology. His two main areas of development include the utilisation of telecommunication capabilities to improve retail (patient) side customer satisfaction and to make the best of the opportunities offered in the patient information and management systems.

He joined LNX in 2000 as part the sales staff, then was promoted to a Sales Manager position in the industrial sector in 2001. From 2006, he worked as a Sales Manager for Magyar Telekom Plc., then as Account Manager in the Industry Department from 2008, and as Senior Sales Manager in the entity then still called KFKI in the Intelligent Building unit from 2010. As T-Systems Hungary’s employee, he has extensive experience and a lot of references in the areas of building structured cabling systems, server rooms and physical security systems.

For a long period following the very start of his career, Mihály Zala was active in diplomacy and economics. Since 2005 he has been head of the National Security Supervisory Authority’s “confidentiality high authority”, a unit in charge of the protection and professional supervision of classified national, EU and NATO data, which currently operates within the organisation of the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice. In this position he is responsible for liaising NATO and EU organisations at the level of enforcement in order to protect classified data and information. In relation to this, he is a member of the high-level decision-making body engaged in personal, data and industrial security questions and operating within the framework of NATO and the EU. He leads the negotiations on the conclusion of bilateral treaties between Hungary and other states for the protection of classified data and he is the appointed signatory of such treaties.

He was the founder of the Cyber Defence Management Authority (an e-security intelligence centre) within the National Security Supervisory Authority, which has assumed a leading role, both nationally and internationally, in defence against cyber threats, in prevention and in the coordination of the various mechanisms of action in the event of attacks. As a result of the uninterrupted increase in the institution’s duties and competences, since 1 July 2013, he has also been performing the duties of a specialised authority to ensure the security of electronic information for the governmental, local council and critical infrastructure.

Under his direction, the National Security Supervisory Authority has provided support to several European countries in the implementation of classified data protection processes in the framework of the European Union’s twinning programmes.

He obtained his qualifications as an engineer and IT specialist, and in 2009 he added a degree in special economics for engineers. At Accenture he was engaged in large corporate process improvement and system integration projects, and then continued his career at one of T-Systems Hungary’s predecessor companies, working in energy, telecommunication and banking. His specialisation is the translation of – frequently insufficiently defined – business problems to the language of IT, from concept elaboration to operation.