think.BDPST Young Leaders’ Forum 2018
Draft Programme26 – 29 March 2018
Venue: Budapest Music Center and Várkert Bazár, Budapest
Day 1 - 26 March
Arrival of the participants
19.00 think.BDPST Young Leaders Meet and Greet Venue - TBA
Day 2 - 27 March Future Drivers of the Region
8.30 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 – 9.10 Opening Remarks by the Organisers 9.10 – 9.30 Opening Speech
Jakub Miller, CEO of InnoEnergy Central Europe, EIT (TBC)
9.30 – 9.40 Break
9.40 – 12.00 Brand yourself – How does your personal brand work on your behalf?
Attila Süle-Szigeti, HR & Marketing Lead, STILL Hungary
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.30 Driving Europe Forward – Central Europe as Hub of Automotive Industry
Tommaso Gecchelin, Founder, Inventor and CTO of NEXT Future Transportation Inc.
(TBA) 14.30 – 14.45 Break
14.45 – 16.00 Social Benefits of Mobility Development – How Can We Reduce Transport Poverty in CEE?
Andreas Boschen, Head of Connecting Europe Facility Department, Innovation and Networks Executive Agency, European Commission
Jeroen Bastiaanssen, PhD Candidate, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
Radim Jančura, Director, RegioJet (TBC)
17.00 – Field Visit
Demola Budapest
Day 3 - 28 March Smart Cities - Smart Transportation
9:00 – 10.30 Mobility as a Service – Integrated Personal Mobility and Urban Transport in Central Europe
Květoslav Havlík, Coordinator of South Moravian Integrated Public Transport System, SOLEZ INTERREG Programme Dávid Vitézy, Director, Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport
Patrik Križanský, President, Emocity – Cluster for Smart City Mark Boris, Public Policy Associate, Central and Eastern Europe, Uber Technologies (TBC)
10.30 – 10.45 Break
10.45 – 12. 30 Smart City Workshop
Bálint Kádár, Lecturer, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.00 Presentation of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology – Call for Proposals
Competition for new innovation communities: EIT Manufacturing and EIT Urban Mobility
14.00 – 15.30 Autonomous Car = Autonomous Traffic Law? How Development of Transportation is Affecting Our Legal System?
Radim Polčák, Institute of Law and Technology, Masaryk University
15.30 – 16.30 Break
17:00 -
Opening Remarks
HE Péter Szijjártó
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Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary17:15 -
Opening with the Science Ministers of the V4 and South Korea
HE Young-min You, Minister, Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea (TBC)
Levente Magyar, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affaris, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary (TBC)
18:40 – 19:20 Cultural Programme
19:20 – Reception
Day 4 - 29 March
9.30 – 10.00 Opening Speech – The CEE Region and Challenges of the 21st Century
Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary (TBC) 10:00 – 10:30 Keynote Speech
Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, European Commission (TBC)
10:30 – 12:00 Panel I – Humans and Machines and their Cooperation in the 21st Century – Perspectives of the CEE Region
Moderator: Professor David Winickoff, Secretary, Working Party on Bio, Nano-, and Converging Technologies, OECD Achim Heinfling, Managing Director, AUDI Hungaria Zrt (TBC) Dae-Sik Kim, President and CEO, Kia Motors Slovakia (TBC) John Ford, Director of GE Hungary Digital Hub
HE Dr Zoltán Cséfalvay, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the OECD
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13.30 – 15:30 Startup Expo
Innovative Ideas in Aeronautics – How Flying Machines Broaden the Way We Think About Mobility
Levente Varga, Founder and CEO, SaveSarah Michal Mazúr, PwC Drone Consultancy
Stefan Klein, Inventor of Aeromobil, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (TBC)
Representative of the Institute of Aviation (TBC) Tomáš Cholinský
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Project Manager, Dronet15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:30 Keynote Speech
Lord David Willetts, Board Member, UK Research and Innovation
16:30 – 18:00 Panel III – The Sky Is ‘Not’ the Limit – Technological Frontiers in Transportation
Moderator: Andrew Byrne, South-eastern Europe Correspondent, Financial Times (TBC)
Salim Ismail, Founder, Fastrack Institute (TBC) Kornél Szepessy, CEO, HungaroControl Ltd
Martin Bruncko, Advisor to the European Commissioner (TBC) Anat Lea Bonshtien, Chairman and Director, Fuel Choices and Smart Mobility Initiative, Office of the Prime Minister of Israel (TBC)
18:00 – 18:10 Break
18:10 – 18:40 Keynote Lecture
Dr Jacob Cohen, Chief Scientist, NASA AMES Research Center
18:40 – 18:50 Closing Remarks
Dr József Pálinkás, President, National Research, Development and Innovation Office Hungary
18:50 – Reception
