Previous Speakers
Browse among startups and new businesses from wide range of industries who honestly shared one of their current challenges, or problems, and check out what we came up with in those short 20 minutes available!
Chili Night - March 20 - Impact Hub Budapest
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Balázs Lévai, Co-founder & CEO, Engame Academy
Engame Academy provides students everything that is missing from the hungarian education system: career orientation, 21st century skills and useable language skills. Antónia Imre, Founder, uSchool
uSchool is the entrepreneurship educational programin and incubator for the Generation Z. Máté Gulyás, Partner & Instructor, Datapao
Big Data architectures, data analytics pipelines, operation of infrastructures and growing organisations by focusing on culture spanning more than a decade. |
Chili Night - April 19 - Impact Hub Budapest
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Imre Homer, CMO, FlashFans
FlashFans lets participants make breath-taking light attractions in stadiums or concerts James Walker, Founder & CEO, Informative Technologies
Informative Technologies solves the root causes of the digital divide by raising digital literacy rates, rethinking electronic waste, reinforcing STEM education and reconnecting communities Bence Újlaki, Co-founder, GalleryTool
GalleryTool enables you to keep your art organized and track client relations in one integrated platform |
Chili Night - February 21 - Impact Hub Budapest
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Sára Volom - PHOTON
The Uber for photoshoots, Photon provides expert photographers that perfectly matches your event. As a platform for connecting supply and demand, building both sides of the market can be challenging. Hear their issues and our solutions! |
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Szandra Cserta - KÍVÜL BELÜL BOLDOGSÁG
Your home ought to be a place that feels great to return to day after day. Instead, we tend to surround ourself with useless objects that holds us in the past preventing us from focusing on the more important parts of our present. Szandra helps you fix all this: consultation, courses, vlog, daily tips, and many more. |
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Zsuzsa Huszár @ Smart Sweeties
Sugar stimulates the same area of the brain as cocaine. But the short term happiness has got its price: obesity, bad teeth and diabetes are just the tip of the iceberg. Smart Sweeties gives you the same taste without the negative effects. |
Workshop in February 2018 @ Impact Hub Budapest
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Mohamed Geraldez @ Californian Investor, Entrepreneur and Public Speaker
Have you ever wondered what investors look at when it comes to the branding and marketing of your company? After the 30-minute LIVE presentation, there'll be plenty of time to ask questions and bring individual cases onboard. So come prepared and ready to get feedback about your OWN company's branding & marketing! |
Speakers in January 2018 @ Impact Hub Budapest
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Mathijs Koenraadt @ Creative Patents
'Creative Patents' offers an alternative way to stimulate innovation. Like a GitHub for technology, innovators can work together to solve problems. But unlike a traditional patent, their collaborative work is made available to the world for free, and in a way that big patent companies like Apple or Samsung cannot stop. |
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Zoltan Csernatony
Zoltan's is in the process of developing a service that checks whether you read an article or other online content completely and thoroughly instead of just scrolling through it & forming opinion without fully understanding the message. The goal is to improve the quality of comments and social interactions online. |
Speakers in December 2017 @ Impact Hub Budapest
Victor Gomez @ fotografodeviajes.es
Photography is one of the best examples for learning by doing. While books and blogs can give you enough material for the theoretical knowledge, you really need practice to improve your skills. Victor and his professional team created an online platform, say coursera for photography, that aims to boost your career through regular feedback given on practical homework and tasks.
Photography is one of the best examples for learning by doing. While books and blogs can give you enough material for the theoretical knowledge, you really need practice to improve your skills. Victor and his professional team created an online platform, say coursera for photography, that aims to boost your career through regular feedback given on practical homework and tasks.
Javier Varela @ whoisavi.com
Say your designer mind just came up with a product, and you are ready to sell it. What would you do next? What's the first step? Which channel to use? Is it going to be a success? To save you time and money Javier will create a new brand and promotion, boost your sales through digital channels both national and international and manage all digital funnel steps for you so you can move on to the next chapter in what you are the best: creating something new, again.
Say your designer mind just came up with a product, and you are ready to sell it. What would you do next? What's the first step? Which channel to use? Is it going to be a success? To save you time and money Javier will create a new brand and promotion, boost your sales through digital channels both national and international and manage all digital funnel steps for you so you can move on to the next chapter in what you are the best: creating something new, again.
José Antonio López @ Bracelit
What's the second most important thing at a concert or festival? Right! Not losing your wallet. Jose revolutionizes payments at huge events with smart bracelets that allows you to leave your wallet at a safe place and still be able to buy that last beer.
Given to you by the organizer it comes with a whole management system that controls entry access, creates stats of consumption, etc.
What's the second most important thing at a concert or festival? Right! Not losing your wallet. Jose revolutionizes payments at huge events with smart bracelets that allows you to leave your wallet at a safe place and still be able to buy that last beer.
Given to you by the organizer it comes with a whole management system that controls entry access, creates stats of consumption, etc.
Speakers in May @ Cafe des Arts and Innovations
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Szelim Simándi @ XKK
http://xkk.hu/en/ X Communications Center (XKK) is the first social venture to use the power of communication to advance social causes and to reach youth in Hungary. Since its founding in 2012, XKK has contributed to the solution of numerous social causes with its own campaigns and by supporting representatives of civil society, and corporate clients. We aim to increase our knowledge, capacities and network in order to provide quality services for our clients that aim to have a larger impact on society. |
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Attila Áron Nagy @ Cognityv
cognityv.io Aron and his team have built a cloud platform that can be used to build and manage complex web, ios, android and IoT applications together with their backend. For validation they have built and sold applications on their platform, but now they are opening it in a few months to the public.
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Speakers on April 26, 6:20PM @ Cafe des Arts and Innovations
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Thomas Faure @ Danube Blanc
Getting healthcare abroad is possible thanks to medical liberalisation. It allows patients to save 50% on their treatment, but it also means that the medical relationship becomes a service relationship, which changes the rules of the game for the patient. Danube Blanc is a free online platform that guides foreign patients in their dental procedure in Budapest. |
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Márton Czigány, engineer, career consultant
Nowadays there are more and more emerging startups and highly progressive companies with friendly HR strategies where introvert engineers, programmers can thrive. But they still only employ a very small part of the working population. What happens to those introvert or socially undereducated employees, who work for traditional companies? Márton gives them the feeling of importance, trust, shows opportunies, so they can practice proactiveness, boldness, and grab the steeringwheel of their lives . |
Speakers on April 12, 6:20PM @ Cafe des Arts and Innovations
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Ildikó Pap, Gergely Gurmai @ Inspire Training
http://liveyourdream.hu/trening/ The creators of Inspire - a game designed to reach your goals by changing your daily habits - are ready to create a training based on the game. They already have the concept, but they'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions about how to reach more people and change more lives. |
Speakers on March 29th, 6:20PM @ Cafe des Arts and Innovations
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István Kerek @ Everengine
People love watching videos on social media. That's why Istvan wants to help companies to deliver their messages effectively with videos on social media. Istvan is a marketing expert and a serial entrepreneur since the age of three. He'd like to validate his idea and get feedback about possible solution packages and pricing. |
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Zoltán Katkics @ Hungaricum Pack
Zoltan and his team had an idea - why not sell everything in a pack that tourists need from Budapest? They are in the process of creating this new product, and they'd love to hear your feedback about B2B targeting and product development. |
Speakers on March 1st, 6:20PM @ Cafe des Arts and Innovations
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Edina Takács @ Rehab Critical Mass
Everyone in the crowd has their own story: the autistic little boy, the girl born with a disease, the hearing and visually impaired, the ones injured in an accident, or the adult ones struggling with mental illness. Rehab Critical Mass works every day in their interest, to be able to live in a society based on solidarity and capability. Join us on Wednesday to hear the challenges of organizing a festive march that brings thousands of special people to the streets of downtown Budapest! |
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Bedrettin Gürcan @ hukukDeposu.com
Legal documents are something that usually we are all afraid of: does it represent my rights correcty? Is there something missing? Does it use the right words? Can it be understood differently? All these questions pop up whenever we accept a new job, move to a new place, buy a house, or leave our broken laptops at the service place. This young Turkish company helps you out with expert, prewritten, but editable contracts that you can download, fill out, and use right away. Find out the main challenges of Gürcan, and let's find answers together! |
Speakers on Feb 15th, 6:20PM @ Cafe des Arts and Innovations
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Tamás
Over the past two years he has worked on a computer network where the web pages are served by the visitors themselves. This is a non-profit, open-source application, which basically means he gave up on his copyrights - anyone can copy or modify it without restrictions. A few days ago, he got an offer for a bigger funding for this project. Currently he's working alone, doing UX, design, programming and he likes it this way, but he feels the offer is not something that he can turn down. So how should he spend this huge amount of money? |
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Benedek @ PingRing powered by boberdoo.com
PingRing is a location services and messaging application for use with Amazon Alexa. If you have an always worrying mom, this is the app for her while you're hiking in Nicaragua! You can also find your iPhone easily by asking the PingRing.com Alexa App where your phone is. You can also create groups of people who all have the PingRing.com App and communicate with them directly from your Alexa device or through the PingRing.com App itself. |
Speakers on Feb 1st, 6:20PM @ Cafe des Arts and Innovations
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Mick Colangelo @ Cafe des Arts and Innovations
Cafe des Arts and Innovation is the place where people can connect with each other, discussing about the exhibitions currently on; hanging at the bar and in the bistro area tasting delicious home made food and high quality wines and craft beers; utilizing the provided workstations and meeting room or the lounge area for working and getting inspired; exploring and making own productions with the 3D printers and design workstations available in our Techlab. And, concerts, lectures, events, nice people and great vibes! Their challenge: How to boost a coworking place? |
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Levente Kiss @ LL Racing
Levente has rebuilt his own BMW 315 (E21) car. He bought a BMW worth 35 thousand HUF with his friends to "play" with it over the winter. That's how the story of LL Racing started. He's been building his network with suppliers from all over the world, and now decided to open his own web shop with friends to provide an alternative to the Hungarian car lover society. Levi's challenge: Does he need a physical store, or a webshop's enough at this stage? |
Speakers on Jan 18th, 6:20PM @ Cafe des Arts and Innovations
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Marton Zimmer @ Hiflylabs.com
Hiflylabs creates business value from data. You may call us data miners, data scientist, business intelligence experts. We carry out consulting and/or development projects for enterprise clients. The core team has been working together for 15 years, currently with more than 50 passionate employees. What can a well established company do if they want to step outside their comfort zone and conquer a new continent? Which direction to go? Where to start? What to expect? |
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Szintia Szucsán @ Munkatippek
Munkatippek (work-tricks & tips) is the very first business in Hungary targeting youngsters, helping them in all aspects of entering and succeeding in the labor market. How? With a blog, a biweekly workshop and 1:1 job interview rehearsal and CV consultation. Luckily (or unfortunately?) Munkatippek does not have competitors at the moment, so as the pioneer of the market it has to build trust in the future clientele and find creative ways to sell the service and educate the market. Munkatippek could get good use of a brainstorm for these topics. Looking forward to hearing your inputs! |
Speakers on Dec 7th, 6:20 @ Impact Hub Budapest
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Tamás Gémes @ Wyze
http://wyze.me/ FULL PICTURE IN YOUR FINANCES, AUTOMATICALLY. With the help of easy-to-use and free Wyze.me you can finally get the full picture in your finances. Just a few minutes after registration you can see where your money went. |
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Tano @ Fleed International Student Network
http://www.fleedisn.com/ Fleed International Student Network is an online platform designed to help students find a better future in a foreign University. Although it starts as a tool for Spanish students looking for a scholarship in the U.S.A, our final goal is to create a worldwide community for students from any country who are looking for an opportunity outside. The U.S.A is an obvious destination thanks to it’s scholarship system but we think it will soon not be the only one. With our exclusive filtering systems both Universities and students can focus on their needs. Fleed responds with profiles that meet their expectations. When both profiles match, a negotiation window opens so they can negotiate a scholarship based on the academic, athletic, artistic or all of them together, talents of the candidate. |
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Andres @ Room4Exchange
https://www.room4exchange.com/en/ Room4Exchange was born from the need for travelers to save money when traveling. At the present one of the main costs that people have throughout his life is to have a decent home to live. In fact in the Spanish Constitution is a right. With Room4Exchange want through the exchange of rooms travelers save money on their travel and promote travel more economically. |
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Luis @ Motor2go
Motor2go it's rental shared vehicles with 2 and 3 wheels with a very competitive price. Our intention is to give people the opportunity to do more for less. No traffic, no waiting, without having to search an impossible parking ls city. |
Speakers on Nov 23rd, 6:20 @ Impact Hub Budapest
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Ferenc Szalai @ Flekkel
Too many books and not enough time? We discussed potential failure points of one of the newest Hungarian innovations on content (video, audio, text) mining and shortening with Artificial Intelligence! Could this be the future of learning new things? |
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Rita Csernai @ Project hART
http://hartvirgin.weebly.com/ Rita introduced her team's new idea about a market place and community specially dedicated for young yet-unknown talented artists who currently have almost zero channels to sell their unique paintings on a reasonable price. |
Speakers on Nov 9th, 6:20 @ Impact Hub Budapest
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Márton Banyó @ Lab.coop
http://www.lab.coop/ Building Ventures. Together. Lab.Coop is a tech venture builder, co-owned by its entrepreneurs. It develops and services the portfolio companies: a digital product lab, a school, an accelerator, and a sales house so far. |
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Edit Bárányos @ Trainer, coach
http://baranyosedit.hu/ Edit is a trainer and coach, she creates an online place that provides self-discovery courses, tests, trainings and many other useful content for anyone who is interested in better understanding of themselfes or needs guidance in life. |
Speakers on Oct 26th, 6:20 @ Israeli Cultural Institute
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Attila Krátky @ Nyugtalotto Kft.
http://nyugtalotto.hu/ Nyugtalotto.hu is a one-year old website that gives users the opportunity to win with the invoices of their purchases. The business model is the following: They sell marketing services based on the users' purchase data. They already have more than 45 thousand registered users with more than 2.1 million purchase data uploaded in the system. They also identify the users based on where they shop and use big/smart data to improve their service. |
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Renáta Tamási-Irsai @ Samebug, Inc.
https://samebug.io/ The Founder of Samebug has created a community for developers to meet, find and share solutions to software bugs. When a bug occurs the user can search our solution database. Samebug uses stack trace analysis to find the most relevant solutions, which enables developers to adopt new technologies faster, and develop more reliable applications by reusing bug fixing knowledge. |
Speakers on Oct 12th, 6:20 @ Impact Hub
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Robert Etropolszky @ Givme
http://www.givme.com/ The givme team is about to create the fastest and simplest solution for sharing photos within a group of friends based on the phone's GPS so noone has to wait weeks after a vacation, wedding party, or family reunion to get all the pictures. What kind of groups should be the target, how to communicate and position the app? Find out the suggestions on Wednesday! |
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István Ladjánszki @ BrianQC
http://brianqc.com/ Quantum chemistry; it sounds strange and it is still today. The academic audience is beginning to see that from small and middle size businesses to the huge pharmacies - this is something that everyone could use. They could all use the results ranging from nano-revolution and cancer research to the concept of healing smartphone screen and quantum computers. This academic community is slowly entering the market with innovative solutions. Encountering these two fields results in new problems and great results. How to do it well? |
Speakers on Sept 28th, 6:20 @ Impact Hub
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Ákos Dénes @ Kockacsoki
www.kockacsoki.com https://www.facebook.com/Kockacsoki Kockacsoki is a chocolate manufacturer, which produces handmade sweets from high quality ingredients. It is also a social enterprise with the goal to provide employment opportunities to young autistic adults. Currently their buyers are mainly companies but they are willing to open their gates to the public. Join us on Wednesday to figure out the strategy together! |
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Bea Borzási, Lili Galló, Anna Tóth @ 620ChiliNights
http://www.620chilinights.com/ https://www.facebook.com/620chilinights/ As a celebration of the 10th Chili, we would like to take a moment and contemplate on the past few months.. Yes, we arrived to a point in our Chili life when we also have questions and would love to hear what you guys think about the whole concept, what we do wrong, how to improve, and what way to follow in the future! Hopefully see you too on Wednesday! |
Speakers on Sept 13th, 6:20 @ Impact Hub
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Péter Murányi @ Természetes Nyelvtanulás
http://termeszetesnyelvtanulas.hu/ For the past 20 years Péter tried to find out what's the easiest way to learn new languages. Surprisingly, despite the known facts, every single human being is a born talent in foreign languages. According to him, no matter how old we are, we are perfectly able to pick up new languages, we just need to approach the problem from a different perspective. He has developed a method, it's ready, and all set. The question is what way to follow, and which channels to use to spread the word and make the method known in the market? |
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Petra Dobner, Emese Dobnerné Kocsis @ Görbe Bögre Kávézó
http://gorbebogrekavezo.hu/ GB opened up its doors as Hungary's very first logical coffee shop in the heart of Budapest. The excitement of board games goes hand-in-hand with the pleasure of coffee and delicious homemade cakes. Since it is very important for the GB team to create value, the coffee shop has a separate room specially designed for different events. Their current challenge is to find and host more events and increase the utilization of that space. What's the minimum infrastructure needed for different events, what are the top criteria when choosing a venue, and kind of additional services would people apply for? Join us on Wednesday and let's figure it out together! |
Speakers on Aug 24th, 6:20 @ Impact Hub
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László Somlyai @ Hair Studio App
https://hairstudioapp.com/ László and his team have developed IT systems and mobile applications specialized for beauty salons for the past few years. Recently they have received a major venture capital funding which helped them through the newest version of the product. The app is almost ready, and the next big step would be a professional communication of the new functions, then figuring out a solid marketing and sales strategy. |
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Leonóra Dér @ Bütykölde
http://butykolde.hu/ Since in Hungary the concept of maker is barely known, Nóri decided to take steps towards changing this. She created Bütykölde (~ Tinkering), and her main goal is to spread the word of DIY and electronics within a wider range of audience from elementary school kids to young professionals. She builds a community, maintains a website with project descriptions, references, and step-by-step guides, and holds courses for free. What business model to follow with this idea? How to reach investors? Are people even interested in such thing? We'll find out on Wednesday! |
Speakers on Aug 10th, 6:20 @ Impact Hub
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András P. Tóth @ Láthatatlan Egyetem
http://lathatatlanegyetem.hu/ Láthatatlan Egyetem (Invisible University) is present in 5 cities at 13 major universities. They operate with over 100 volunteers and organized events for over 400 participants - about everything that is missing from the curriculum. How and why were they founded and what are their main challenges currently? We're going to discuss all these on Wednesday! |
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Ildikó Pap @ Erdőterápia
erdoterapia.hu One day Ildikó was cycling next to a park in Copenhagen and realized the positive effects of nature on stress. Today she's coaching business leaders with her own method, and would like to spread the word, and start a movement. Where to start, what channels to use? But more importantly, is there a real need for this service in a wider market? Join us on Wednesday to help her figure it out! |
Speakers on July 27th, 6:20 @ Impact Hub
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Attila Kovács @ utazom.com
https://utazom.com/ Years ago Attila had a dream and started blogging, then started a travel business which provides premium services to travellers with a special taste far from the mainstream destinations. The business is beautifully thriving ever since having a stable income month by month, but they have become just another travel agency. How to communicate differently, how to reach the right people, what business model to follow to stay on the unique path they have originally planned? |
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Julia Gyulai @ Mysore Pack
http://mysorepack.com/ What challenges do a PR specialist, a lawyer and an IT person face when they open a restaurant? Mysore Pack is a vegan and raw vegan restaurant that opened mid-April this year as a result of a dream of three friends. The goal is to bring you a healthy, sustainable and supportive lifestyle full of love, and to create an atmosphere inspired by their journey in India. |
Speakers on July 13th, 6:20 @ Impact Hub
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Alex Horvath, Angloville
http://angloville.com/ Angloville provides a unique way to improve English communication. It is widely accepted that being in a native-speaking environment is the best way to learn a language: Angloville creates this English-language environment right here, without the need to fly to England or the US. |
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Hajnalka Horvath, Tense Map
http://www.tensemap.eu/en/index.html Tense Map games are innovative English grammar devices for language learners and teachers. Yes, grammar can be entertaining! Students like the Tense Maps because everything is displayed and practiced cheerfully and without long explanations. Teachers are crazy about the games because they can make their students enjoy grammar lessons for a long time without much of their own efforts. Where do the Maps navigate us on the market? |
Speakers on June 29th, 6:20pm @ Impact Hub
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Anna Magos @ Practify
http://practify.net/ Anna Magos, organizational psychologist, shared their concept on a new wave in educational tools and what they do differently at Practify. New ways also mean new type of challenges. We've found some innovative ideas to solve this startup's challenges and figure out the next steps together! |
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Petra Ambrus @ BAGázs
www.bagazs.org BAGázs is making serious differences in the rural side of Hungary by helping families and areas with low income by giving them a new hope not with charity, but motivation and reason to wake up the next day and be the change they want to see around themselves. Since they are a new team also, they face difficulties in reaching out to people, communicate and involve more and more people who are willing to help. |
Speakers on June 8th, 6:20pm @ Impact Hub
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Mark Engelhardt @ Attrecto Smartphone Solutions
http://attrecto.com Attrecto's main focus is mobile development, some call them a startup, but seems like they are just another software developer company with different pricing startegy. Their current position on the market is unclear even for the management. How to differentiate yourself as a service provider in an environment where your product is not even yours but your customers'? |
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Attila Gajdics @ Candy
https://www.candybank.com/ Candy is the flexible and visual way to organize the best things from the web.The team of Candy was interested in how clear the concept is for everyday users, what the main barriers are for using it, and what other opportunities they see for the app. |
Speakers on May 25th, 6:20pm @ Gorbe Bogre
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Tivadar Limbacher
http://www.maesteszinhaz.hu/ Tivadar founded his last minute theater ticket - selling website four years ago as both a mission for culture and a hobby project. The service is very popular since the beginning, each year 100k seats are filled. Join the coming event and see what are main challenges Tivadar is struggling nowadays. |
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Gergő Ambrusz
https://battlejungle.com/ Battlejungle is a web application for organizing corporate team building events and sport activities. The process is made fun and exciting through gamification motivating this way the colleagues to participate and truly engage. The goal of Battlejungle is to create a community within the company in a playful matter, help the newcomers integrate, and decrease the stress at work. |
Speakers on May 11th, 6:20pm @ Gorbe Bogre
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Gergely Gurmai, Inspire
Inspire webpage Inspire is mainly a card game that helps you realize where you go wrong with your everyday habits and by telling it to your mates you can also figure out what to change and how to improve. Read the full case study |
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Ádám Bodor, Webuni.hu
https://webuni.hu/ Ádám shortly talked about the challenges of generating customers on both sides: content creators and content consumers, which seems to be a classic chicken and egg problem. Read the full case study |