Szabolcs S.

"I believe in God and in the work that has been done. All the rest doesn’t really interest me." — Father Imre Kozma (1940 - 2024) Hungarian Roman Catholic priest, the founder of the Hungarian Charity Service of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta) >>>>>>>>>>> B I O G R A P H Y CURRENTLY, as the Deputy State Secretary for Technology, Space and Defense Industry at the Ministry for National Economy of Hungary, my primary mission is to design and implement programs which foster technological maturity level improvement among Hungarian SMEs and the industry. I am also an Associate Researcher at John von Neumann University. Regarding INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, I am the Hungarian head of delegation at the European Space Agency (ESA); delegate at the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA); member of the European Artificial Intelligence Board (AI Board) and Governmental Advisory Committee member at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). EARLIER, as the Chief Innovation Officer to the President of JvNU my primary assignment was counseling and generating project initiatives related to university-centric innovation ecosystems. As the founder of an international NGO I dealt with innovation and humanitarian technology transfer. Earlier, as Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Valorisation at Express Innovation Agency my role was to make scientific insights available and useable for the industry as well as transforming knowledge and technology into tangible form for the benefit of the society and the economy. I used to be Deputy CEO for Innovation and Business Development at EAC Group, the most rapidly emerging multi-strategy firm in the CEE region, operating consulting, investment and IT technology development arms. Between 2017-2021 as the diplomat for scientific and technological affairs in Tel-Aviv, my job was initiating projects mainly in cybersecurity, fintech, life sciences, mobility and space-industry. I am also the former head of startup relations of the governmental Export Promotion Agency (HEPA) and former head and concept developer of Budapest capital city’s municipal startup incubator and microfinance provider (BVK).