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ELTE faculty of law
Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law Building "A" Budapest, Egyetem tér 1-3, 1053
Budapest, Budapest, 1053
Hungary

András Volom

Head Youth Delegate of EU to G7, Founder of V4SDG, Leader of Sustainability, 1st Youth Delegate of Hungary to UN

András Volom is a youth and sustainability advocate born and raised in Budapest. During his university studies, he successfully lobbied the Hungarian Government to start sending youth representatives to the United Nations, becoming the first UN Youth Delegate of his country. Subsequently, they held similar positions at the Council of Europe and Group 7, speaking up for the interests of future generations. Currently, they are leading the V4SDG - Visegrad for Sustainability, a nonprofit organization that strengthens leadership and partnership for sustainable development in the Visegrad Group, an issue that is crucial for all living in the 21st century.

Andrea Pánczél

Chair and co-founder of the Women in Energy Association , owner of White Paper Consulting

Andrea had worked in television for 15 years before kick-starting a new career path in the energy sector. After being Director of Communication at MOL and GDF Suez (ENGIE), she co-founded Women in Energy, a nonprofit association promoting women leaders in energy in CEE countries. Her talk will mainly concern the energy sector and how we can benefit from gender equality in leadership.

Anna Molnár

Faculty of Law, Criminology MA, special education teacher at a reform school

Anna has just started working at a reform school. The choice to dedicate her life to youth delinquency was induced by being attacked and seeing the attackers on trial. She aims to explore in her speech how we can re-integrate young criminals, emphasizing that attitude matters most in every relation.

Fanni Ferencz

Currently, Fanni Ferencz is pursuing the last year of her Master’s Degree in Finance at Corvinus University of Budapest, in parallel with this she also studied International Management in the CEMS program. She joined the organization Amigos for Children 2 years ago as a volunteer – as they call it an “Amigo” – a charity with the aim to accelerate the recovery of chronically ill children through the joy of learning. She just started working for this association as the Chief Happiness Officer, who is responsible for sustaining and improving the core activity, the hospital visits as well as the Amigos-community. In her talk she brings the audience closer to the amazing world of the Amigos, and shows their strong motivation even in the tough moments.

Gergely Csizmazia

CEO of Enjoy Robotics

Enjoy Budapest Café is the only place in Budapest where robots serve the guests. At the cafe, visitors can meet a variety of robots who can talk to and play games with. The café’s main aim is to bring robots and AI closer to people and to participate in humanoid robot development projects side by side with universities. Gergely will talk about the future of robots and also bring them on stage.

Lilla Valentina Bálint

Faculty of Humanities, English Studies student

AHA! moments. Guiding, Observing. Learning from others. These values were important milestones in Lilla's personal development, as she upgraded from the school's drama group to the experimental theater, working with people from various, often underprivileged backgrounds. Realizing how much lessons and methods you learn from playback help her navigate in a competitive academic environment, she would love to share her story to spark a discussion on the importance of mental health for university students.

Mirjam Donáth

Writer

Mirjam lives and works in New York City for seven years-she is the recipient of Fulbright grant, has an MS in Journalism from Columbia University and an MA with a special degree in Business and Economic Reporting from New York University. She worked as a journalist for Reuters, the largest multimedia news agency in the world. She currently lives in Budapest and in Brazil with her husband and two children. She will explore the role our roots play in defining who we are and the directions we take in our search for home and happiness.

Péter Halácsy

Startupper, engineer, co-founder of Budapest School , co-founder of Prezi

Péter is the co-founder of Budapest School, a network of 11 micro-schools of 300 children launched in 2015 in Budapest. He is also the co-founder of Prezi, a presentation platform launched from Budapest. Prezi currently has three offices in San Francisco, Budapest and Riga with 240 employees and 100M users globally. He has also co-founded several social organizations such as Bridge Budapest and Hero's Square Initiative.

Teodóra Márkovity

Faculty of Humanities, English Language and Literature Student and Collection Intern at Eaton Enterprises

Teodóra was assaulted sexually when she was a child. With the help of her psychologist, she is in the process of healing. She often remarks about how people, men, and women equally, tend to blame the victim. That is the reason why she speaks out against assault: she wants to help those with similar experiences to be able to talk about what happened to them, so they can start healing and shape public discourse.

Zsanett Váradi

Student at the Faculty of Law, Department of Constitutional Law, Law student

In the Big Data Universe, our perception of privacy has changed in a negative way that poses a real threat to human rights and democracy. Zsanett raises two questions: 1) WHY do we need new safeguards that are able to protect our privacy? and 2) HOW can we do that? Even though the legal protection of yesterday is not suited to the problems of tomorrow, spreading the decentralized network of blockchain could ensure privacy and motivate us, citizens, to shape democracy 2.0.