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She graduated from the ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, then a master’s degree in survey statistics, and also completed the Human Resources Economist course at the Corvinus University Faculty of Economics in Budapest.
She worked in the civil sector in Budapest, then in Berlin as an employee of startup companies, gaining experience in the field of data science.
After that, he returned to Budapest as a data asset utilization expert at the Mayor’s Office, and then as a data management group leader, helping the capital’s data management.

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She completed his studies in Germany, the USA and Argentina, graduated in 1997 from the German economics university called European Business School, where she obtained her doctorate in 2001.
Katalin Walter worked for 15 years at the world’s leading consulting firm, McKinsey and Company, in Frankfurt and Budapest (for 8 years as a Partner). She managed the development of corporate strategies, the creation of growth and investment opportunities, as well as organizational and operational transformations, primarily for large companies in the financial sector. After managing McKinsey’s Budapest office, she was assigned an European regional role. Later, she led the integration of the retail business of Erste Bank and Citibank, and then as the Central and Eastern European sales manager of Allianz, she supervised the activities of 11 countries. From the fall of 2019, she managed the move of CEU (Central European University) to Vienna.
As the general manager of Budapesti City Operation Holding (BVH) Zrt, from January 2020, she was responsible for coordinating the business and investment policy and organizational operations of the capital’s utility companies.

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Prof. Vicente Carabias uses the synergies resulting from his longstanding experiences in scientific activities as coordinator of the ZHAW Platform Smart Cities & Regions for the implementation of Smart Sustainable Cities. Since completing his Master Studies in Environmental Sciences at the ETHZ in 1996, he has been involved in Sustainability research, services, teaching, further education and public relations at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. In addition, from 2019 on he supports part-time the transformation of the city of Winterthur as Smart City responsible.

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Silvia Spendier studied geo information at the University of Applied Sciences. She gained experience in data collection and data maintenance in the capital city Klagenfurt and also in the state government Carinthia. Then she moved to Vienna and started working as a location consultant at the Chamber of Commerce Vienna. She has now more than 17 years of experience in the fields of: location advice for business starters and companies, location analysis, implementing database systems especially empty space management system, data collecting, visualizing and analysing, monitoring the ground floor zone in Vienna and has a huge network to different players concerning property management, city marketing and revitalization city centres.

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Tamás Boros is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Equilibrium Institute of Budapest. Political analyst. Member of the Scientific Council of the Brussels-based Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), a leading European think tank. Co-author of the book Hungary 2030 – A Vision for Hungarians.

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Balázs Lengyel is an economic geographer and works on topics at the intersection of economic geography, innovation studies and network science. He aims to understand how social interaction facilitates economic and technological progress embedded in geographical space.
Balázs joined the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2013. Before establishing the ANET Lab, he was a visiting scholar at MIT Human Mobility and Networks Lab. Balázs completed his PhD in economics at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2010 and holds a master degree from University of Szeged.

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