During June 4-6, Hungary’s capital will be the world’s center for exploring technological and philosophical boundaries between humanity and machines, as many renowned experts arrive here for the first-ever Brain Bar Budapest “inspiration festival”. We showcase some of the groundbreaking individuals from near and far who are sharing insight at this multifaceted global gathering of diverse presentations, debates, and panel discussions, all aiming to identify ways that future innovation could alter society and everyday life – interspersed with unpredictable performances of fresh live music.

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Happening in multiple venues of downtown Erzsébet Square, Brain Bar Budapest is organized by Design Terminal, , and We Love Budapest, with Hungarian Telekom as the primary sponsor. The lineup of speakers includes modern entrepreneurs, analysts, and experts in a wide variety of fields – and although the complete program is still being finalized, we can now reveal many of the esteemed guests that will shine light on our contemporary computerized age and what the future may hold for our organic ways of thinking. Check out the teaser for this illuminating meetup below, followed by details about some of the event's premier speakers.

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Eileen Bartholomew

Eileen Loretta Bartholomew’s story started typically, but her present and future are unique. She began her career as a management consultant – but now she helps companies break out of linear thinking and leverage exponential tools and enablers like crowd communities, big data and new technologies to make 10X+ gains and thrive in an environment that doesn't say “why?” but asks, “why not?”. Today, she also leads the prizes team at XPRIZE and oversees a $100M portfolio of prizes that strive to solve the Grand Challenges of humanity.

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Sara Davidson

Sara is the founder and CEO of Hello Fearless, a school for female entrepreneurs, and the creator of Boss School, a proven step-by-step online course that teaches women exactly how to build profitable, scalable companies from scratch in just 90 days. After years of building major brands and tech startups, she is the go-to person for all things related to women’s entrepreneurship. She has been featured as an expert in Forbes, Fast Company, Entrepreneur and Cosmopolitan.

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Daniel Epstein

Daniel believes that entrepreneurship is the answer to nearly all issues that we face today. He is the founder of the Unreasonable Institute and Unreasonable Group, and is a founding partner at Unreasonable Capital. All his work is dedicated to supporting and investing in fast-moving startups across emerging markets that are solving seemingly intractable social and environmental problems. He’s been recognized by Inc. magazine as a “30 under 30 entrepreneur” and by Forbes as one of the “top 30 most impactful entrepreneurs” of the year. In 2013, he received the prestigious “Entrepreneur of the World” award along with Richard Branson.

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Richard Florida

Richard Florida is the Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, a Global Research Professor at New York University, and founder of the Creative Class Group, which works closely with governments and companies worldwide. He is perhaps the world’s leading urbanist, “as close to a household name as it is possible for an urban theorist to be in America,” according to The Economist. Florida is the author of several global bestsellers, including the award-winning The Rise of the Creative Class.

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Ken Goldberg

Ken Goldberg is an artist and UC Berkeley professor. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed technical papers on algorithms for robotics, automation, and social information filtering. Goldberg directs the Automation Sciences Research Lab, and his inventions have been awarded eight US patents. His art installations are related to his research and have been exhibited at venues such as Buenos Aires Biennial and the ICC in Tokyo.

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Tina Saaby

Tina Saaby has been the Chief City Architect at the City of Copenhagen since September 2010. She inspires, facilitates, advices, and coaches the politicians and City Administration. Her responsibility is to help define architectural guidelines and visions in developing the city based on its Architectural Policy. She is also Visiting Professor at Sheffield University and an external examiner at University of Roskilde and University of Copenhagen, while she is also the Chair of the Advisory board at The Royal Academy of Arts School of Architecture, Design, and Conservation.

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Adam Somlai-Fischer

Adam Somlai-Fischer is an architect and interaction designer. He is also the co-founder of Prezi. He is the principal artist of the company. In 2007 Somlai-Fischer co-founded “Kitchen Budapest medialab”, where he worked as the program director until 2009. He wrote his first prezi in 2001. In his own words: “I hand-coded my first prezi in 2001, just as a personal tool to develop my ideas by seeing relations, the big picture, and then focusing the attention of the audience by creating a visual journey.”

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