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.
 

Adam entered the IT industry in the 1990’s initially through channel sales in distribution. His first exposure to Security and Networking was at Sphinx CST, in a division which was then acquired by Ingram Micro.

In 2002 he relocated to Australia and joined Cisco, first in direct sales and then in sales management, running the Mid Market sales team. As part of the ANZ leadership team, he was an active member of ANZ sales council – responsible for sales strategy and execution across the region. Whilst in Australia, Adam also took an active role in corporate social responsibility as member of ANZ Civic Council. 

After 8 years in Sydney, Adam relocated within Cisco to Singapore to lead strategy, operations and business development across Cisco’s core portfolio of Switching, Routing, Wireless and Security, in the nascent Borderless Networks organization. His role spanned Asia, India, Australia, China and Japan.

Most recently, Adam returned to his native UK to lead Cisco’s Security practice across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia. This includes leading Cisco’s dedicated, highly specialized Security sales organization in close partnership with the product development business unit and Cisco’s broad field sales and leadership community.

His primary objective is to position Cisco as our customers’ number one security partner, helping them accelerate their digital strategies and effectively protecting them against the associated cyber risks. He is active in promoting Security information sharing and thought leadership within the security and networking community through social media, press, blogs and events.

He is married with two children and enjoys music, Muay Thai, snowboarding and running. 
 

Bernd Storck is a German former football player. Since 2015 he has been the head coach of the Hungarian national football team. Storck made his player debut in the Bundesliga with VfL Bochum then in 1983 he moved to Borussia Dortmund where he played for six years. After ending his playing career he became the head coach of the Kazakh U19, U20, later the national team. Storck was appointed the head coach of the Hungarian national U-20 team in 2015 then the national A team. His key achievements as coach: Greek champion in 2013-14 with Olimpiakos, FIFAU20 world championship round of 16. After 44 years, in November 2015 Hungary qualified for the UEFA Euro 2016 after beating Norway in the first leg of the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying play-offs. The national team reached the best 16 at the Euro 2016.

Mr. Mattheisen studied economics at Indiana University of Bloomington and at Columbia University. He first came to Hungary in 1990 to start a strategic planning and business consulting company. In 1993, in his capacity as a marketing manager of U.S. West International, Mr. Mattheisen helped launch various Hungarian, Polish and Czech mobile service operators. He worked as the marketing and sales director of Westel 900 (TMH) between 1993 and 1996. Between 1997 and 1999, he ran sales and marketing activities of MediaOne in London and later worked in Britain as a business, sales and marketing director of BT’s Cellnet. In September 2002, Mr. Mattheisen became Chief Officer of Residential Services of Magyar Telekom and in January 2005, Chief Officer of the Wireline Lines of Business (“T-Com”, including Residential Services, Internet and Network divisions). From December 6, 2006, Mr. Mattheisen has been the Chief Executive Officer of Magyar Telekom.

Commissioner of the Hungarian Prime Minister responsible for the the coordination and implementation of the Digital Success Programme. Born in Budapest on the 27th of July 1966. Married, father of five children. Jurist (Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, 1999), lawyer from 2012. Founding member of Fidesz (Alliance of Young Democrats). Between 1990 and 2009 Member of the Hungarian National Assembly, as of 2009 Member of the European Parliament. Has held several prominent public functions since the change of regime (1999-2002 Minister of Youth and Sports, Vice-President of the Hungarian National Assembly (2004-2006), Commissioner of the Hungarian Prime Minister (as of 2014). Vice-President of the Hungarian Olympic Committee (1999-2001 and from 2012), Vice-President of the Hungarian Paralympic Committee (from 2011) and President of MTK as of 2010.

Georgiu Achilles is leader of IBM Technological Services Division, director of the CEU Business School Technology Management and Innovation program, industry director of the Business analytics program, as well as senior lecturer for the subjects Digital Transformation and e-Management in the programs provided by MBA. In addition to his degrees in program design and technological management, he has more than 18 years of experience obtained in multicultural regions, and worked for a number of companies as service sales specialist. As opinion leader, his primary goal is to record images in people’s heads with the help of metaphors and visual stories in order to shape them into e-Leaders: people who understand the development of technology and are capable of adapting it in their everyday working environment, putting particular emphasis on the humans side and personalized motivation.
 

He graduated as an economist from the Budapest University of Economics, went on to study law at the Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Law of the Eötvös Lóránt University, and then in 2005, he obtained CFA qualification (as a chartered financial analyst) via the training course of the International CFA Institute.
He started his career at BudaCash and then he was employed by K&H Brokerage as an equity analyst. In 1998 he joined MATÁV Rt., the legal predecessor of Magyar Telekom. Initially he worked as a business analyst, in 2001 he became head of the department responsible for business planning, and from 2004 he acted as Deputy Director for Controlling. In 2008, he was appointed Director of Finances, and since then he has held various financial managerial positions at Magyar Telekom. Most recently, he was Director of Magyar Telekom’s Strategic Investment Management. In the past few years he held various positions in the boards of directors and supervisory boards of several companies. 
From January 2014, he is Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Finances at T-Systems Hungary.

From December 1, 2015 he manages T-Systems Hungary Plc.’s Vertical Solutions Division.
 

Neil Jacobstein Chairs the AI and Robotics Track at Singularity University headquartered at the NASA Ames Research Park. He is a former President of Singularity University. Jacobstein is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Stanford’s Media X Program. He was a Senior Research Fellow in the Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University. He has served as an AI technical consultant on projects for leading business, government, and defense organizations including Deloitte, XPrize, GM, Ford, Boeing, ING, Wells Fargo, FMC, P&G, Hershey, Coca Cola, Loews, Harman, GE, Wipro, Dow, Genentech, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Applied Materials, NSF, DARPA, NASA, NIH, EPA, DOE, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force. Jacobstein was CEO at Teknowledge Corporation, an early AI company. He chaired the 17th Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s (AAAI) Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) Conference. Jacobstein is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He was a Graduate Research Intern in Alan Kay’s Learning Research Group at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and a consultant in PARC’s Software Concepts Group. Jacobstein was appointed by the United States National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to their Division on Earth and Life Sciences Committee for the period 2015-2018. He became a founding Editorial Board Member of AAAS Science Robotics in 2016. Neil advises corporations, governments, and startups, and speaks internationally on AI, Robotics, and the Implications of Exponential Technologies.

He graduated at the Budapest Technical University and attended the Flemish University in Brussels with a scholarship.
He started his career at HP in 2010 as a technology consultant. He went on to become Product Manager of the Data Storage Division then the Head of the Large Business HW Division. In this position he was responsible for the development of the Hungarian product sales strategy. Since September 2015 he has been the Head of Commerce of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Mr. Goldenits (born in 1970) received a technical mathematics degree from Technical University Vienna. He started his career in telecommunications at Mobilkom Austria in 1998 in the IT department, and then from 2003, as Head of IT. After 2007, he has held multiple executive positions in Telekom Austria group, first heading the IT and Network’s division of si.mobil, and then served as Chief Technology Officer in Telekom Austria wireline, where he was responsible for optimisation of the organisation, technology lifecycle management and IT transformation. In 2010, upon the merger of Mobilkom Austria and Telekom Austria into a single entity to form A1 Telekom Austria, he was appointed as Chief Technology Officer, where his principal responsibilities involved the integration of the wireline and wireless technology units, rollout of LTE and fiber technology and IT hamonisation. From January 1, 2013 he has been Chief Technology and IT Officer of Magyar Telekom. Walter Goldenits shall leave his position with effect from December 31, 2016 to take over the position of Director of Technology at Telekom Deutschland with effect from January 1, 2017.
 

Zoltán Kaszás graduated from the Technical College of Szabadka after which he obtained an economist, then an MBA degree from Corvinus University. During his career he worked at Szerencsejáték Plc., as the IT strategic manager of the Hungarian Post Plc., at the Budapest Airport and as the IT manager of MOL Group and OTP Serbia. During his career, besides designing, implementing and managing IT strategies, he participated in several major projects and as a sponsor he managed several acquisition processes from IT side. 

From December 1, 2015 he works as the manager of T-Systems Hungary Plc.’s Info-communication Solutions Division.
 

He was graduated from the Technical University of Budapest, at the Mechanic Engineer faculty. He started his ICT career as a software tester in 2001. From 2006 he worked as a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the IT audit and IT consultancy areas where he mainly worked on the automated analysis of big quantities of data as well as the examination and the design of the corporate customer’s IT control environment. He has been working at T-Systems Hungary - and its legal predecessor IQ SYS - since 2009 as a project manager and business advisor. In the past seven years he acquired extensive professional experience in complex system integration projects. Based on his project experience he obtained the PMP qualification.

Ádám Weiler is the senior portfolio manager of T-Systems’ commerce and media sales business unit. His main responsibility is to map and exploit those potential services that could be of key importance for the players of the commerce and media market thereby widening the T-Systems service and product portfolio. He started his career at Samsung Electronics Hungary Plc. in the audio-video area from where he shifted to the direction of telecommunication and ICT. He started his career at Magyar Telekom in 2008 as a business developer where he had various tasks and responsibilities. He worked on several successful projects in the media, mobile marketing areas and on the non-core strategy of the company. He started to work at T-Systems in 2014 where he focuses on the future opportunities in the commerce and media business unit.

Andrea Gulyás: Graduated as administration manager at the College of Public Administration. Following the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Defense she was transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture in 2010. After filling different positions she was appointed as administrative under-secretary in December 2015. In this capacity she oversees the ministry’s investment projects, including the IT developments of high importance.

Arthur Keleti has worked for T-Systems Hungary. since 1999, currently as an IT Security strategist. As author of the book titled “The Imperfect Secret”, he is an active researcher of security of personal and business secrets present in the cyberspace and of the future of this field. As the inventor and organizer of the Information Security Day (ITBN) conference he has a comprehensive picture of the entire Hungarian IT market, and makes his best efforts to actively assist in its development. With respect to his market activities, after some time spent working for the Hungarian Foreign Trade Bank he joined to the EasyCall, then Eurohívó team, from where he switched to KFKI, as division director for ICON security area. Earlier he used to deal also with the development and design of computer games, composed music for games and worked as a journalist.

Having graduated as an agricultural engineer and English language translator-interpreter he continued his studies at the Technical University of Budapest. During his career he worked for several local and multinational IT companies, in the area of sales and management. He worked as an SMB manager at IBM and from 2005 he was a partner relation director and member of the management board. Between 2009 and 2015 he was the managing director and co-owner of USER Rendszerház Kft. From October 2015 he has been working as the director of T-Systems’ commerce and media business unit. The main focus of the business unit is to become a wide-spectrum service partner of market players with the provision of T-Systems products, services and sector-specific solutions.

Attila Sárándi joined MÁV-START in 2013, where he manages the IT organization. During this period they implemented a number of developments also concerning the passenger community, such as the development of the Train info mobile application or integration of the railway timetable into Google Maps. Former specialist and group level executive at Mol Plc. Father of four children, graduated as an engineer and economist.

Hadházi-Borsos Balázs (MSc) was graduated in 1999 at the Babes-Bolyai University (Kolozsvár, Romania) and at the Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria) at the faculty of IT. Currently he is in the process of obtaining his PhD at the University of Debrecen, working on software development methodologies and software ergonomics. He has been working on medical IT topics since 1999 and he supported the development as well as the Hungarian and international implementation and operation of the eMedSolution system’s development as a leading expert, system designer and advisor. As TSM’s business analyst he was leading the design and development of a German cardiology telemedicine system for T-Systems International. Since 2015 is being responsible for the design and development of the EHCS as a business analyst and system designer.

Bence Hoffmann is the deputy chief executive officer of ShiwaForce.com Plc. with 10 years of executive experience.
Bence graduated as an economist in 2002 and started his career at Magyar Telekom, where he was assigned the task of introducing the BlackBerry service to the Hungarian and regional markets. Later he worked in the technical area of Residential Product Development and participated in the Digital transformation program of the Company. His tasks as head of Department included the contribution to the renewal of telekom.hu, and he also worked on the introduction of mobile applications.
In 2015 he joined to ShiwaForce, where he is responsible for the business development field. With his participation ShiwaForce has successfully served the business needs of OTP Group, Magyar Telekom, Erste Bank or Signal Insurance Company, thus representing practical daily application of the methodology represented by the Company.

Carl Legat has more than 30 years of IT experience in Systems Architecture and Design including International Banking and real time Airline Reservation Systems, before coming to Hitachi Data Systems to advise on high performance and highly available system architectures using the latest Hitachi technologies.
 

I graduated from the Gábor Dénes College as an IT engineer. Also, I laid down the foundations of my economic knowledge by graduating from the Budapest College of Economics as an economist engineer.
Since I joined the Hungarian Tax Authority in 2000, I have always worked in the collection area or closely related fields.
In 2007 I had the opportunity to join the Liquidation and Distraint Department of the Tax Authority.
Between 2010-2012 I filled various managerial positions at the IT department of the Tax Authority.
Since 2013 I have been the Head of the Arrears Management and IT  Support Department of the Tax Authority’s Central Office.

He graduated from the Budapest Corvinus University, at the finance faculty. He started his professional career at PSZÁF, at the department responsible for the supervision of bank groups where he was  working on the new Basel regulations and the implications of international accounting standard on banks. After this he joined a US-based business intelligence company where he worked on risk management and pre-sales as an advisor and project manager. Three and a half years ago, after his risk-management career in banks, he joined T-Systems Hungary’s business intelligence and analysis area as a business expert.

He graduated in the Technical University of Budapest in 1989 as Msc EE. Since than has been working in the Telco and IT industry in different multinational companies. (Ericsson and Motorola and Cisco.)
Last 16 years spent with Cisco and first as the client exceutive for Magyar Telekom was driving the transition towards the IP world.
During the last 3 years in charge for DT whole European  -outside of Germany-  business covering 11 countries/affiliates in Europe.  
Vice Chairmans of the Board of the HTTP Alapitvány and supporting the Cisco Networking Academy program.

Graduated at the Institute of Commerce, Catering and Tourism, Media-Journalism and Sociology Departments of ELTE. His area of expertise includes commerce, consumer panel researches, and the research of media use habits. He is the chairman of the Hungarian Marketing Association; chairman of the Advisory Board of the Budapest Business School Institute of Commerce and Marketing , board member of Commerce and Services Section of the National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers; Advisory Board member of the Budapest Business School; Professional Association of Market Researchers; Advisory Board of the Budapest Corvinus University Marketing and Media Institute, as well as ESOMAR European Marketing and Social Research organization. Holder of the Klauzál Gábor Award since 2008.
 
Author and co-author of numerous tertiary market research education materials.

Head of the Budapest 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games since August 2015. As the Government Commissioner of key Budapest investments, he is at the vanguards of the development of the capital and the revival of its cultural heritage. He has been responsible for managing high-profile projects in Budapest, e.g. Papp László Arena, the new FTC-stadium, the Ludovika Campus, the House of Fates and the Akvárium Klub. His current investment projects include the Dagály Swimming Arena, Puskás Ferenc Stadium, a Moholy-Nagy University of Art’s (MOME) creative technology laboratory as well as the Orczy-court.

"Dr. Bertalan Meskó graduated as a doctor of medicine in 2009 as the Weszprémy-awardee of the University of Debrecen. In 2012 he obtained a PhD degree in the area of clinical genomics. In order to bring medicine and technology together he created a new profession, called “medical futurist” with the mission to bring in useful technological development into the everyday life of medical clinics. His book issued in 2014 under the title of “The Guide to the Future of Medicine” was among the global top 100 books of Amazon. He gave more than 500 lectures on the future of medicine at Yale, Stanford and Harvard universities, and in the headquarters of the World Health Organisation. He was also a presenter at the exclusive Futuremed course, organized by the Singularity University in the head office of NASA. As the only Hungarian he is on the international Future Health 100 list and in 2016 he was selected as the digital healthcare expert who has the biggest global impact. The “Kreatív” Magazine selected him into the list of the „25 most creative Hungarians”, while Forbes into the „30 most successful young persons under 30” in 2013. He published an article on the landing page of CNN on the medicine of future, and he was referred to in the New York Times, the TIME magazine, FORBES and BBC, too. He is a public member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Future Research Subcommittee. "

Dr. Dávid Mezőszentgyörgyi: graduated as certified agricultural engineer at Agricultural University of Pannonia, then he obtained a PhD degree and habilitated, is a university docent and honorary professor. After years spent in the breeding organizational and market sector he has worked in the Ministry of Agriculture and its background institutions since 2003, filling various executive positions since the end of 2004. Participated in a number of IT-related developments, including the institutional project management of the EKOP professional IT program supporting the deployment of Mutual Compliance. Ha has been a leader or member of a number of programs (GOP, TÁMOP, EKOP, GAZDANet). In 2013 he was awarded the MEMORIAL MEDALLION FOR AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY” founded by the Hungarian Association of Agricultural Informatics.

dr. Mónika Iszály acquired her telecommunications experience at Magyar Telekom (MATÁV) and Invitel (formerly Vivendi); later she was in the management of EU tenders, then continued her career in the compliance area at DIAGEO. She gained her project management knowledge at an information technology consultation company in Hungarian ownership, managing domestic and international projects. She has been a member of the T-Systems team since 2012. She is currently the project manager of the project team responsible for Smart solutions, including the implementation of the “SmartCity Nyíregyháza” project.

She was graduated from the Corvinus University at the marketing economist faculty. He continued his career at Magyar Telekom as a product manager. He was responsible for the development of data transmission services for large business customers. Currently he works at T-Systems and researches new business solutions and new business models. His responsibilities include to continuously improve the company's innovation management activities and to build internal-external partnerships to inject innovation into T-Systems’ structure at the most effective level of the processes.

He started his professional career at MATÁV as an engineer-developer in 1994, then worked in marketing and business communications areas. In 1999 he joined Deutsche Telekom AG, where worked mainly abroad and in international environment, mainly in the fields of international wholesale and business development, pre-sales and project management. Between 2005 and 2009 he held various positions as specialist and manager at MagyarTelekom. He joined the T-Systems team in the middle of 2011, after spending some time working for a project management consultation company recognized in the Hungarian market.

Gábor Bajkó graduated in 2003 as traffic engineer-manager and engineer-economist at the Air Transport Management Department of the Budapest University of Technical and Economic Sciences.
Parallel to his studies, he worked as system administrator at the Air Traffic and Airport Directorate from 2000, and as project manager at its legal successor, HungaroControl from 2002.
His main tasks as Head of Technical Development Department since 2012:
Development of technical design and development objectives necessary for the company to deliver their air traffic control tasks, taking into consideration domestic and international developments and expectations, overseeing the execution of and participation in the implementation of these technical development tasks. Management of the factory acceptance of new equipment, preparation of installation, supervision of installation activities. Together with his colleagues, preparation and execution of onsite acceptance and testing of newly installed equipment.
 

Gábor Bóna graduated at the Budapest Corvinus University in 2001 as an economist specialized in information systems. As manager of the project delivery team of SAS’s Hungarian organization he supervised the implementation of many innovative analytic solutions during the past years, the most relevant of which are risk management, fraud prevention and CRM deployment projects allowing digital transformation for large companies. The SAS project team made these organizations capable of making sure of their partners’ solvency in a way integrated in their processes, and in real time, if necessary, to make the best offer to their clients in any given moment or to prevent misuses related to the disbursement of state aids or loans. In the course of the presentation, Gábor will share with the audience some of his related experiences.

He has been working in the private sector since the end of the 90s, in the area of ICT solutions and services. He had a key role at Hungarian IT service providers in searching international business opportunities and the introduction of services into new markets. He accumulated her professional expertise in the late 2000s at the biggest American multinational corporations (ESRI, HP) where he worked on key public administration and competitive market programs. He managed teams in the retail and business development areas that are responsible for complex corporate level strategies and the establishment of a sustainable ICT environment. He gives lectures at several higher education institutes on the practices of the industry, innovative solutions and the possibilities of supporting corporate strategies with ICT solutions. Since 2013 he has been responsible for managing the ICT operation solutions of T-Systems Hungary’s public utility, large state enterprise and healthcare business units.

Gábor Zborovján graduated as engineer-teacher and IT specialist in 2006 on the Széchenyi István University. During the past years he participated in the implementation of innovative business solutions and in the solution of numerous client-side challenges in the industrial sector.

György Gombár was graduated from the Technical University of Budapest at the electric engineering faculty where he also obtained his MBA degree. He started his professional career at Siemens and Motorola as a quality manager. Later he worked as business development program manager and from 1999 until 2001 he was the co-managing director of Motorola Hungary.
For almost 10 years he was managing the business development and sales areas of the telecommunication and media business units at Sun Microsystems then at Hewlett-Packard.
At the end of 2009 he joined Teradata where he was the executive officer of the Hungarian and Romanian divisions until 2014, managing the companies’ presence in the market and the sales activities in both countries.
Since February 1, 2014 he has been working as the executive officer of Avaya Hungary Kft. where he is responsible for the sales and Hungarian operation of the company.

Graduated as certified civil engineer at the Budapest University of Technical Sciences. I started my professional career in 1982, as land surveyor of BGTV. After this – as professional supervisor of the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Land Office, where I was involved in the development and introduction of IT support for land office work processes.
In 1993 myself and two colleagues founded the Geoform Mérnök Stúdió Kft, where we as a primary goal the formulation of geographical information system technical solutions. Our first really significant project was the GIS project of MATÁV called KLIPSZ, which we implemented in cooperation with Daten-Kontor Kft. The project won the special award of the Innovation Competition for the Year 2000. It was followed by our participation in the META project, which was a project of computerizing county land offices. Further major projects:
MIT – Technical Information repository for the National Infrastructure Development Zrt.
GRASS – Gas network registry system for TIGÁZ-DSO Kft.
VIKKA – National Authentic Water Public Utility Cadastre for the National Development Program Office

Professional background: I worked at Magyar Telekom - and its predecessors - in the area of investments as a project manager in various managerial positions until 2005. In these positions I was responsible for analogue and digital systems, voice, data and internet access networks.
In 2004 my 40 years of professional work was honored with the TELECOMMINICATION AWARD.
Since 2004 I have been actively working in the Telecommunication Branch of the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers.
From 2006 to 2014 I was the member and secretary of the Bureau of the Branch.
In 2014 I was elected as the Chairman of the Telecommunication and Information Technology Branch.
Our Bureau’s key task is the implementation of the super high speed internet program, announced in 2014.

 

He has worked in the IT field for more than twenty years. Started his career as a developer; later he participated in a number of large-scale projects as organizer and later as project manager. Held an executive position in the legal predecessor company of T-systems (Daten-Kontor), managing an organization specializing in the implementation of information technology projects. He is currently the leader of T-Systems’s GOV Competence Center – preparing and deploying solutions for state administration and state-owned corporate environments. 

Károly Fecske is a third-party energetic and urban management expert of T-Systems. During his professional career he was involved with all areas of industrial energetic and urban management. Transforming urban energetic systems into smart systems and organizing them into energy agency is the main task he is currently involved in. As one of the professional developers of the National Plan for Intelligent Energetic Networks, one of his major areas of expertise is the methodology of sensor network and dashboard system of Smart City implementations. He is the professional leader of the Community tender for Budapest H2020 scc1.

Professional background: He was graduated from ELTE and the Budapest University of Economics. He started to work on the design and development of company management systems. Since 2000 he spent 15 years with the design and building of data warehouses for public administration organizations, banks and industrial manufacturers.  Currently he works for MOL GROUP and his responsibilities include the implementation and spread of Big Data technologies within the Group’s member companies and to research application areas for IT technologies as the member of the innovation team.
I work as an external expert for the Telecommunication and Information Technology Branch of the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers as an IT Project Supervisor.
 

Born in Kaposvár, in 1956. Graduated in 1983 in Keszthely, as an agricultural engineer. Upgraded his degree in 1987 at the Agricultural University of Gödöllő, at the Environment Protection Faculty.
He was elected as the mayor of Kaposvár after the 1990 local municipality elections. He has been the mayor of the city since December 12, 1994.
Under his leadership housing estates, educational institutions and the entire inner city have ben renewed. City buses were replaced by natural gas fueled vehicles.
The city paid increased attention to the implementation of renewable energy sources. They consciously focused on environment protection and sustainability which is proven by the underlying city development efforts and city politics as a result in 2015 Kaposvár was given the “City of Tomorrow” award.

Mócsárné Katalin Ambrus graduated in 1995 at the Medical University of Debrecen and started her healthcare system integrator career in the Jósa András Hospital’s IT and Computer Technology Team. The first integrated clinical system was implemented in the hospital under her leadership in 1995 that later was replaced by a more advanced application in 2007. Between 2007-2011 she worked as the manager of Semmelweis University’s Operation Center. Between 1999-2008 she was teaching in the Zay Anna Secondary and Vocational School’s healthcare operator classes then at the University of Debrecen, in the Healthcare Faculty’s Medical Administration program. She took part in the elaboration of the modular requirements for the operator training course. Since 2011 she has been managing and coordinating the MedSol SMART development, first as a Product Owner, then as a Product Manager.

László Keller has worked for Audi Hungária for 17 years; during this time he worked in various areas – including project management activities in the Ingolstadt center for 4 years – and currently he is the leader of the engine factory IT team. He focuses on supporting the “technology of progress” with innovative IT solutions.

László Zelenyánszki started his professional career at EC Forum, where he supported the Hungarian introduction of EDI (Electronic data interchange), managed individual application development projects at Geoview Systems, then participated in IT security projects at SaveAs Kft. He has worked for T-Systems Hungary. (and its legal predecessor) since 2005 as senior project manager, where his main area is the management of transport information technology deployment projects. He has significant professional experience in GPS-based complex traffic management, passenger information and sales systems. Since 2008, he has been the leader of the local and intercity professional transport team.

Mátyás Dobó, business developer, Director of the Telekom Product House. His key focus at Telekom lies on the transformation of core products, management of the international IP transformation programme, development of new business opportunities as well as the management of Kitchen Budapest. He started his carreer with building startups. He was involved in the launch of many successful Hungarian digital products. He joined Telekom 4 years ago. First he led the residential product development area, and from the beginning of 2016 he has been the head of Product House. His key ambition involves the exploration of new business opportunities linked to Big Data, Security and AdTech products in the telco market.

Norbert Kiss is a two-time European Champion truck driver; he has been racing in real racecars for 11 years, before he used to play and practice only with simulation games, and an opportunity offered to him started his career. In 2011 he joined to the OXXO Racing Team and won his first title as European Champion after three years of work, in 2014. In the year 2015 he kept surpassing all his former achievements, and secured his second title two races before the end of the season. He was the first Hungarian driver winning 4 races also for reverse starting grid, and with this 19 first positions in one season he has become one of the most successful truck drivers of all times. In 2016 he joined the German Tankpool24 Racing Team as a two-time Champion of Europe.

Patricia Pongrácz has worked for T-Systems Hungary. (and its legal predecessors) since 2000 as senior organizer, analyst and software developer, where among other things she is mainly involved in the design, implementation and deployment of public administration, economic and transport information technology projects. She has significant professional expertise also in the field of sales and ERP systems.

He started his career at an agency where he worked on PPC topics since 2006. In 2008 he established Omnicom Media Group’s first search marketing division. After this he worked as the digital manager of Nokia’s Central European region where he was responsible for managing the digital strategy of five countries. In 2011 he joined Google’s team in Budapest where he still works on the development of the Hungarian agencies as an industry-specific expert.

Rita is responsible for  EMEA business development in public administration entities and for support of the digitalization efforts in all sectors from the central ministries to local and regional entities  with a view to support better citizen’s quality of life, efficiency, transparency and overall service.

The lecturer has been involved in research and development related to sensor networks for the past 14 years. In the US, he was a member of a research facility team that worked on projects announced by DARPA. During the last 10 years he first managed the development of a sensor networked asset line, and later the development of application built thereupon. He is currently focusing on the spin-out of one of these projects, AgroSense.

Graduated in 2003, as an economist at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Pécs University of Sciences. In the course of my professional career I participated in a number of bank and public administration information technology development projects as advisor or project manager. Between 2012 and 2014 I worked as operative deputy chief executive officer of Eximbank Zrt. and Mehib Zrt. In the last eighteen months I have worked as Director General of the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture on the development and operation of the network representing the interests of and providing high level services for the players of the Hungarian agriculture.

He is a certified engineer-IT specialist, with a second degree of economist and professional engineer obtained in 2009. He worked at Accenture on process development and system integration projects of large energy companies, his career continued at one of the predecessor companies of T-Systems, besides the energy sector also in telecommunications and banking areas. His professional expertise focuses on transforming often under-defined business problems into information technology solutions from the development of the concept to operations.

After graduating from the Budapest University of Sciences, Péter started his career at Concorde Asset Management. After 3 years he became leader of the Concorde securities’ residential division. After 13 years spent on the securities market, in 2011 he started his first pharmaceutical company, Patikanet Zrt. By now, the company has grown into being a dominant player on pharmacy data broker market. Péter founded Medigen Zrt. two years ago, which company has since then developed and introduced to the market the Medigen smart prescription solution that extends the boundaries of the pharmacies and ensures an actually working e-pharmacy solution.

Viktor Szász has been dealing with the introduction of business analytic solutions and professional consultancy for more than 11 years. He started his career as a consultant in the consultation team of SAS Institute Kft. Later he provided project management and consultation services for SAS customers in different projects, as project manager. He is currently the senior Business Analytics expert of SAS Magyarország.

Zoltán Fekete’s field of expertise covers cloud and on-premise database and big data technologies of Oracle, as well as data integration and business analytic systems including sales assistance.  He has worked for Oracle since1998.

Zoltán Schweinitzer was graduated in 2003 at the faculty of communication-technology engineering. After his graduation he started to focus on managing protected systems and data and acquired his managerial experience during the implementation of quality management systems. He has been working in software development projects since 2009 as well as in logistics, heavy industry, production technology, hospital-healthcare and telemedicine fields of expertise. He is a demand management expert but he also used his business analyst and managerial skills in projects where he shifted the focus of his work on project management and project leadership areas. His professional way of thinking is characterized by agile development and he builds and delivers agile methodology projects and solutions to customers.

I have been dealing with Data Warehouse and BI development for 16 years. A worked in the former Westel data warehouse system from the beginning, than following the merger of the holding I headed the Central development department of the integrated MT Data Warehouse Center. As of October 1st 2015 I have been leading the newly founded Corporate data warehouse solutions department, which includes both development and operation.