Nationality Hungarian Residence Budapest, Hungary | Occupation entrepreneur | |
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Full Name Gergely Böszörményi-Nagy Born August 1, 1984 (age 32) ( 1984-08-01 ) Budapest, Hungary Alma mater Corvinus University of Budapest CEU Business School Known for Founder of Brain Bar Budapest Title Executive Director of Design Terminal | ||
Gergely b sz rm nyi nagy volunteering in the creative industry
Gergely Böszörményi-Nagy (born August 1, 1984) is an entrepreneur and former public servant who founded Brain Bar Budapest.
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- Gergely b sz rm nyi nagy volunteering in the creative industry
- Education
- Career
- Brain Bar Budapest
- Awards
- References
Böszörményi-Nagy is also executive director of Design Terminal, a nonprofit agency based in Budapest, Hungary that helps startups to reach the global marketplace.
Education
Böszörményi-Nagy studied International relations at Corvinus University of Budapest. He's currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration at CEU Business School with a focus on entrepreneurship.
Career
From 2010 to 2012, Böszörményi-Nagy was deputy head of strategic communication for the Government of Hungary. Among other campaigns, he led the public outreach of Hungary's first Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
In 2012 Böszörményi-Nagy joined Design Terminal, the government agency responsible for design and innovation as strategic director, where he was subsequently promoted to general director in January, 2014. During his leadership, the company launched an extensive portfolio of early stage, non-equity incubation services for innovative enterprises, for which Design Terminal was awarded European Enterprise Promotion Awards by the European Commission in 2014, and was also named the "best startup accelerator in Hungary" two years later. In 2015, UNESCO selected Budapest for its global Creative Cities network, mostly in recognition of the services and projects of Design Terminal. In 2016, Böszörményi-Nagy and his team was appointed to prepare the country's official startup strategy, the government's legislative package to stimulate the innovation ecosystem by incentives for entrepreneurial education, business incubation and angel investment. Later in 2016, following a general restructuring in the Hungarian public administration, Design Terminal made a transition to the private sector, and continues its operations as an independent nonprofit.
Brain Bar Budapest
In June, 2015 Böszörményi-Nagy founded Brain Bar Budapest, a global festival focused on the future. The annual event revolves around a three-day concentration of talks and debates on business, social, cultural, technological and political trends, and attracts 3-5000 international visitors per year with past speakers including historian Niall Ferguson, WPP plc founder Sir Martin Sorrell, robotics artist, writer and inventor Ken Goldberg, sociologist Philip Zimbardo, astronaut and former International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield, cyborg Neil Harbisson, urbanist author Richard Florida and education technologist Sugata Mitra. In its second year of operation, Google joined as key partner and WIRED as media partner of Brain Bar Budapest. Other strategic partners include Magyar Telekom, General Electric, BMW, Heineken and KPMG.
Awards
In 2014, the Hungarian edition of Forbes named Böszörményi-Nagy in its '30 under 30' list of successful young leaders, and Google, the Financial Times and the International Visegrad Fund named Böszörményi-Nagy among the 'New Europe 100', a list of Central Europe's key figures in the digital economy.