Start Your Business

Inspirational keynotes, talks & networking with BME alumni start-ups, serial entrepreneurs, VCs and VC consultants

Venue: Room B402, Building Q, BME
Date: May 20, 2025

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Programme:

17:45 Opening doors
18:00 Welcome speech - Gabor Dehelan (BME) & Judit Budai (Amcham - HVCA)
18:05 Startup success stories - inspirational keynotes

The Radoop/Rapidminer story - how to convert a uni research and study to a successful start-up | Zoltán Prekopcsák, SVP Strategy & analytics at Prezi
The Commsignia story - converting the smart city dream to reality and building an internationally expanding start-up | Szabolcs Patay, CEO at Commsignia

18:35 Panel discussion: ups and downs of building a start-up (from CEE)

Zoltán Prekopcsák  –  SVP Strategy & analytics at Prezi, Founder of Radoop acquired by Rapidminer
Szabolcs Patay  –  CEO at Commsignia
András P. Tóth  –  STRT CTO, serial entrepreneur
Vivien Róka  –  M&A Lead at PwC Hungary
Judit Budai  –   Senior Partner, Szecskay Attorneys at Law, M&A, Finance and co-managing the firm

19:20 Q&A
19:30 Networking with finger foods & beverages
20:30 End of event
21:00 Closing doors