Speakers

Professor Zoltán Cséfalvay is head of the Centre for Next Technological Futures at Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, where he teaches and conducts research on the territorial dimensions of digitalisation, robotics, and artificial intelligence in Europe. Previously, he worked as senior researcher at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Seville (2019-2020), he served as ambassador of Hungary to the OECD an UNESCO in Paris (2014-2018), and acted as Minister of State for Economic Strategy in Hungary (2010-2014). He was a professor of economic geography at Andrássy University Budapest (2002-2010) and has been a professor at Kodolányi János University in Hungary for more than two decades. As a research fellow, he worked in Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Heidelberg, and Cardiff. Recently, he has published his latest book, entitled TECHtonic Shifts, on the current industrial revolution.