Co-Founder, CEO of Solvo Biotechnology, Hungary’s largest independent biotech company. Mr. Duda is also Founder and President of the Hungarian Biotechnology Association and Co-Founder and Chairman of Aquincum Technology Incubator. He has founded or co-founded over 20 companies including Copy General quick printing chain and a corporate finance consulting company focused on high-tech Hungarian start-ups. He is also Associate Professor at the University of Szeged.

Dr. Attila Erdos was graduated as a medical doctor at Albert Szentgyorgyi Medical University and worked at the Department of Pathology. He received his MBA degree at INSEAD (France) in 1996 and then worked in executive roles at SmithKline Beecham (SB) Pharmaceuticals, Diversified Health Systems and GE Healthcare. He is currently managing a portfolio of healthcare related ventures, mostly high tech biotech companies. In 2007 Dr. Erdos was nominated to become the Minister of Health of Hungary.

Sebastian is a shepherd of Hungary’s innovative companies. After 10 years in Alternative Investments, he is now helping to align local startups along a demand driven model where inventors can select or request access to international validation. Beyond helping to integrate local innovation with global ecosystems, he is on a quest to stabilize the country’s deal flow liquidity for future tech companies by adjusting how universities & hospitals incorporate startups into their business models.

Lucas Legrand is part of the IoT Valley, biggest IoT startup ecosystem in Europe. With a background in marketing and management, he is in charge of the startup recruitment for Le Connected Camp the acceleration program for IoT startups. Le Connected Camp’s focus is on the industrialization process and the business part, especially on the B2B market. It makes the connection between startups and big companies executives.

External Affairs and Communication Director of Servier Hungaria Economist, Public Affairs and Public Relations specialist. Responsible for the market access, governmental affairs and corporate communication field at Servier, being responsible for several e-health projects at the company. Also being the co-president of the Healthcare Committee of JVSZ Investors’ Association and used to head the Communication Working Group of the Association of Innovative Pharma Manufacturers’ earlier.

Dr. Bertalan Meskó, PhD is The Medical Futurist analyzing how science fiction technologies can become reality in medicine and healthcare. As a geek physician with a PhD in genomics, he is also an Amazon Top 100 author. With 500+ presentations including courses at Harvard, Stanford and Yale Universities, Singularity University's Futuremed course at NASA Ames campus and organizations including the 10 biggest pharmaceutical companies, he is one of the top voices globally on healthcare technology.

Mr Ascsillán is the Vice President of GE Hungary and Director of Strategic & Government Affairs in the CEE region since 2013. He has more than 10 years of experience in financing projects in the Central European healthcare sector, rising to a Strategic and Government Affairs Director position at GE Healthcare in 2011. Before, he was an EU & State Aid Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers Hungary and a Legal Advisor in the EU & PHARE Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

Business developer at the European digital innovation and entrepreneurial education organization EIT Digital, partner at SmartWare.tech, an accelerator specialized on hardware and IoT, and managing director at the Hungarian Mobility and Multimedia Cluster. Earlier he was business development director at AVEC, a startup accelerator, director of external relations and development at Kitchen Budapest and senior advisor at Magyar Telekom’s Innovation and Business Development Directorate.

She graduated in 2013 from the Institute of Business Administration of Grenoble (IAE Grenoble). As the Student Entrepreneurship Project Manager of PSL Research University since 2014, she contributed to implementing the French Ministry of High Education’s initiative: Pépite (Student Pole for Innovation, Transfer & Entrepreneurship). She launched an entrepreneurial training and created a coworking space for students-entrepreneurs, encouraging about 100 students to entertain a professional project.

Working in Budapest for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology as KICs Project officer dealing with EIT Health and EIT Food. Previously, working at the Executive Agency for SMEs, dealing with H2020 projects on Eco-innovation and Circular Economy. Lecturer at several academic institutions and co-author of articles on leadership and teamwork in innovation ecosystems. Past experience also includes setting up Climate-KIC and coordinator of the Valencian Regional office in Brussels.

Peter Kilian, PhD, board member at MultiplexDX, a biotech company focusing on personalized molecular diagnostics. Over the years, he spent time at various positions in the area of fundamental and applied research, clinical diagnostics and biotech company management. He’s also working as Managing Director at BioScience Slovakia, a biotech startup in the field of cancer diagnostics. His experience covers tech transfer, IP management and implementation of projects funded by EU structural funds.

Zdeněk Gütter, PhD has been working in healthcare since 2003. His main focus is on the development and implementation of eHealth projects. He coordinates projects related to innovations in healthcare for University Hospital Olomouc (UHO) and its Czech National eHealth Center (NTMC). He is particularly involved in research in the area of telemedicine use in care of patients with chronic diseases. He co-ordinates memberships of UHO-NTMC in projects and partnerships in EU.

Mr.László Károlyi has been working for 21 years at the Legrand Group and was appointed CEO for Legrand Hungary in 2004. A successful business executive can help to propel your business forward by sharing the success and mistakes he has learned over a thirty-year career. Strong business and technical qualifications with an impressive track record of hands-on experience in strategic planning, business development, marketing and brand building, project and product management and change management.

Mr. Bacsa has over a decade of experience in managing technology and knowledge transfer activities at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME). He is the director of BME Technology and Knowledge Transfer Office, director of BME Venture Mentoring Service modelled by MIT, founder and head of Demola-Budapest open innovation platform and senior advisor of Demola Network International. He works also as business development coach and mentor in several start-up accelerator programmes.

Project Director of Foreign Direct Investments from Central and Eastern Europe to France, at Business France, the French national agency supporting the international development of French economy, supporting France-based companies with their international development, facilitating job-creating foreign investment in France and promoting France’s attractiveness to business world. Former experience: 12 years in China and South Korea, supporting French companies’ development in these countries.

Graduated of ESSEC BBA and a MBA in wealth management, I worked 4 years as an Internal Auditor for Inditex Group’s French Subsidiaries. I joined Oseo in 2010 as a Corporate Business Manager where I have been developing a portfolio composed of small, mid and large caps companies and structuring their financial needs with the partners. Since last September, in Warsaw I represent Bpifrance in CEE, Scandinavia & Russia promoting Bpifrance’s range of tool and export credit in particular.

CEO of DBH Group, CEE headquartered in Budapest. He is a seasoned professional in venture capital and foreign direct investments as well an entrepreneur in the CEE region and the Chairman of the board of the ultimate parent company of the group, DBH Group B.V. In the last 5 years DBH Group invested in several health industry companies: Nanoform Therapeutics, Indiso International, Norma Instruments and health service provider HandInScan.

CEO of X-Ventures and associate professor at Corvinus University of Budapest. Before, he was an investment banker at UniCredit CAIB, director of capital market transactions at Hungarian State Motorway Management Company and adviser for institutions like the Budapest Stock Exchange, the Hungarian Development Bank, the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority but also worked on the World Bank's project for the development of the Hungarian Student Loan System.

Dr. Lőrincz graduated from the Law Faculty of ELTE and Warwick Law School. He attended an Executive MBA Program of Purdue University and Tilburg University. Later he accomplished several investments, operational assignments and turn-around projects at investee level. Benedek is the managing partner of ABC Venture Capital Investment Management Ltd. where 6 projects are managed including two in the health care industry, Health Value Services and No Panic Application Ltd.

As head of bizdev and startup of Széchenyi Venture Capital, I have gained a broad knowledge of SME businesses. My involvement with start-up and SMEs has developed my understanding of the multiple issues that face such enterprises and the strategies necessary to manage them successfully over the long and short-term. As the leading participant in innovative investments, I have a hands-on role in the whole incubating and investment process of 20+ investments, including IT, biotechnology and mobile.

Péter Sraud is the sales & marketing director of HandInScan Zrt, a health-tech company focusing on the unmet and critical need of reducing healthcare-associated infections. He’s been in the medical equipment industry for more than 15 years. Before HandInScan, Péter managed the business development of a world-leading US resuscitation brand in the CEE region, ZOLL Medical Corporation. Earlier he was export sales director of a Hungarian med tech manufacturer, Innomed Medical Zrt.

Mr. Zémor leads the Strategy of Sanofi’s Global Integrated Care team. This approach goes beyond the pill, offering more than medicines by combining drugs, services, devices and data management to enable people to live the life they want. After a broad experience in Finance and Strategy, Florent worked as a Business Developer in an m-health startup that leverages big data analytics to offer innovative solutions for people with migraine.