Budapest, Hungary · Person Agnes Molnar is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Regional Director (RD), one of approximately 160 Microsoft Regional Directors recognized globally as elite technology community ambassadors. She works as an independent consultant, mentor, and life coach with deep expertise in Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, and enterprise Microsoft technologies. Molnar is a widely recognized speaker at major European Microsoft ecosystem conferences and is known for combining technical depth with coaching on soft skills and career development.
Budapest, Hungary · Event Central Europe's largest AI conference, hosted at Magyar Zene Háza and Néprajzi Múzeum in Városliget. 12 sections and 100+ speakers cover AI across business, healthcare, employment, creative, and ethics.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup AImotive (originally Adasworks) is a Budapest-based deep-tech company building a full-stack automated driving platform — perception, prediction, planning, and control — designed as vendor-neutral software that OEMs and tier-one suppliers can integrate alongside their own hardware rather than buy as a locked Nvidia or Mobileye stack. Founded in 2015 by László Kishonti, AImotive also develops aiSim, a production-grade simulation environment used by automotive customers to validate ADAS and self-driving stacks, and its own NPU IP (aiWare) aimed at efficient neural-network inference for automotive workloads. The company has partnerships with Volvo, Bosch, and other tier-one automotive players, and was acquired by Stellantis in 2024 to become part of the group's in-house software and AD stack — one of the most strategically significant European automotive AI exits of the decade and a capstone story for Hungarian deep-tech.
Budapest, Hungary · Event Central and Eastern Europe's AWS community gathering at Kristály Színtér in Budapest. One-day event with keynotes from AWS specialists, hands-on workshops, and cloud networking.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Founded by the creator of syslog-ng, Axoflow provides an observability and security-data routing layer for modern SOC teams. The platform helps enterprises filter, transform, and route telemetry intelligently to reduce SIEM cost pressure and improve incident investigation performance.
Budapest, Hungary · Person Balazs Horvath is the Founder and Lead Architect of VisualLabs, a Hungarian technology company specializing in Microsoft Power Platform, Business Intelligence, and AI-driven automation solutions. He is an active speaker in the European Microsoft community, presenting on topics including multi-agent architectures and autonomous agents built on Microsoft's Business Application and cloud stack. Horvath also supports the Hungarian Microsoft practitioner community through sponsorship and participation in the annual Shift+Enter Summit.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Barion is a Budapest-based licensed e-money institution and payment processor that offers online card acquiring, wallet-based payments, and embedded-payment APIs for e-commerce merchants, marketplaces, and software platforms in the CEE region. Regulated by the Hungarian central bank (MNB) and passported across the EU under its e-money license, Barion is one of the few independent merchant-acquiring alternatives to Stripe, Adyen, and the big international PSPs for merchants that specifically want a Hungarian-language, locally supported, lower-fee payment rail. The company has been growing steadily into neighboring markets and into B2B verticals like iGaming and SaaS, and serves as the local reference for fintech founders who want to understand how small EU markets can build their own regulated payment infrastructure rather than reselling others'.
Budapest, Hungary · Person Specialist in applied artificial intelligence for commercial environments at Molin AI, focusing on how AI tools can be deployed in practical e-commerce and retail use cases. He is an announced speaker at the XXII E-Commerce Conference 2026 in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Bitrise is a Budapest-founded mobile CI/CD platform that automates the build, test, and deployment pipeline for iOS and Android applications. The platform enables mobile development teams to ship faster by providing pre-configured integrations, automated testing workflows, and release management tools purpose-built for the complexities of mobile app development. Bitrise has raised over $80 million and is used by thousands of mobile teams including companies like Virgin Mobile, Grindr, and Transferwise. As one of Hungary's most successful developer tools companies, Bitrise demonstrates the depth of Budapest's engineering ecosystem in building infrastructure software adopted by global development teams.
Budapest, Hungary · Event A future-focused festival in Budapest exploring how technology, science, and society intersect. Draws 5,000+ attendees including founders, researchers, and policymakers. Known for provocative talks on AI, biotech, and the future of work. Tickets start from EUR 100.
Budapest, Hungary · Event A distributed startup festival where Budapest's tech companies, coworking spaces, and VCs open their doors for two days of talks, workshops, and networking. Free to attend, with 3,000+ participants visiting 100+ venues across the city. Ideal for discovering Hungary's startup scene.
Budapest, Hungary · Person UK-based testing specialist and quality coach with over 18 years of experience across a range of industries and development methodologies, focusing on holistic quality engineering and exploratory testing. He is an announced rising-star keynote speaker at HUSTEF 2026 in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Colossyan is a Budapest-based generative AI company focused on turning written scripts into professional video content with AI avatars. Its core value proposition is practical enterprise video production rather than entertainment-first experimentation: teams in learning and development, internal communications, sales enablement, and customer education can produce multilingual training or explainer videos in minutes instead of coordinating studios, cameras, actors, and editing workflows. The platform supports scene composition, localization, voice selection, and collaboration features that fit recurring corporate publishing processes, which gives it a stronger operational use case than many general-purpose GenAI tools. In the European context, Colossyan represents the application layer of the region's growing creator-infrastructure stack, especially across Central and Eastern Europe where strong engineering talent has translated into globally relevant AI products. Its positioning also complements audio-first AI companies by handling the visual delivery side of synthetic media. That makes Colossyan a useful addition to the directory because it shows how CEE startups are not only building foundational models, but also creating workflow software that helps enterprises deploy AI in everyday business functions.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Commsignia is a Budapest-based V2X (vehicle-to-everything) communications company that builds the hardware, stacks, and testing tools that let cars, road infrastructure, and roadside units talk to each other using ITS-G5 and C-V2X standards — the technology layer that sits underneath cooperative driving, smart intersections, and safety-critical traffic use cases. The company sells DSRC/C-V2X OBUs and RSUs, a protocol stack used by automotive tier-ones, and a conformance-testing toolset that has become one of the most widely adopted quality-assurance environments for V2X implementations globally. Commsignia has partnered with major automotive players, smart-city deployments, and government road-safety programs in Europe and the US, and is one of the most internationally respected examples of a niche but strategically important European deep-tech company built entirely from Hungary. It pairs naturally with AImotive as the 'cars that see each other' half of the autonomy stack.
Budapest, Hungary · Event Two-day 5-in-1 conference at Eiffel Art Studios covering AI/ML, engineering leadership, product management, UX, and data engineering. Theme: 'From idea to impact: building successful products in the AI era.' Expected 1,300+ attendees.
Budapest, Hungary · Event A festival-style five-in-one tech conference organised by CraftHub, expecting 1,300+ attendees in central Budapest. Combines engineering leadership, AI, product, UX, and data tracks, and runs a dedicated startup programme — useful for founders building product and tech teams.
Budapest, Hungary · Event Budapest's flagship software craftsmanship conference held at the Railway Museum, attracting 1,500+ senior engineers and CTOs. Focuses on software architecture, engineering leadership, and emerging tech with speakers from major global companies. Tickets around EUR 500-800.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup EHS&S compliance software provider spun out of EY Denkstatt in 2021, offering a cloud platform for environment, health, safety, ESG and CSRD reporting used by 500+ companies across 30 countries.
Budapest, Hungary · Event For over two decades the most important annual gathering of Hungary's e-commerce sector, held just before the Q4 sales peak. The two-day programme at Europa Event Center features keynotes, panels, an expo, networking, and an evening awards dinner, with the 2026 guest country of honour being China and a strong international and cross-border focus.
Budapest, Hungary · Event Organisator Organiser of Hungary's long-running E-Commerce Conference (E-Kereskedelmi Konferencia), the country's most important annual gathering for the online retail sector. The two-day programme features keynotes, panels, an expo, networking, and an awards dinner, with a strong cross-border and international focus.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup EvoCRM is a Hungarian software company focused on CRM and business automation solutions built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. The company develops and implements customer relationship management tools for businesses across Hungary and Central Europe, helping organizations streamline sales and customer engagement processes. EvoCRM is an active participant in the Hungarian Microsoft partner ecosystem and a sponsor of community events including the Shift+Enter Summit.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup GetTech is a Hungarian technology company offering cloud architecture consulting and implementation services with a focus on Microsoft cloud technologies. The company specializes in Microsoft 365 deployments, Power Platform implementations, and cloud adoption strategies for enterprise clients. GetTech is a sponsor of the Shift+Enter Summit and an active contributor to Hungary's Microsoft technology practitioner community.
Budapest, Hungary · Person Engineering manager with a background spanning mathematics, software development and software testing, and a former community manager at Ministry of Testing. She leads engineering teams across the globe and is an announced keynote speaker at HUSTEF 2026 in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Venture Capital Hiventures is Hungary's largest state-backed venture capital firm, operating under the Hungarian Development Bank Group with approximately €258 million under management. Founded in 1999, it is the most active VC in Central and Eastern Europe by deal count, with over 420 investments made to date. The firm focuses exclusively on Hungarian startups and invests across all stages from pre-seed through growth, with a current thematic emphasis on AI, DeepTech, MedTech, and GreenTech. Its co-investment model and patient capital approach make it the primary first institutional money for Hungarian founders.
Budapest, Hungary · Event Organisator The Hungarian Testing Board (HSTQB) is the official ISTQB member body in Hungary and organiser of HUSTEF, the Hungarian Software Testing Forum. The conference draws hundreds of QA, automation, and software engineering professionals worldwide for tutorials and talks with a deliberately strong technical focus.
Budapest, Hungary · Event Organisator The Hungary Power Platform User Group is a volunteer-run community organization in Budapest dedicated to advancing Microsoft Power Platform knowledge among practitioners in Hungary. Led by Microsoft MVPs Máté Tóth and Dénes Halász, the group organizes the annual Shift+Enter Summit, a conference featuring international speakers on Power Platform, Microsoft 365, AI, and career development topics. The group aims to make professional development accessible by keeping events affordable through sponsorship and community support.
Budapest, Hungary · Event HUSTEF, the Hungarian Software Testing Forum, is a long-running, internationally respected conference dedicated to software testing, QA, and quality engineering, drawing more than 750 attendees worldwide. Day one offers full and half-day tutorials, while the main conference runs over the following two days with talks on test automation, DevOps, and quality engineering case studies.
Budapest, Hungary · Event Organisator IndaEvents is the event management brand operated by DN Network Zrt., a Budapest-based company specializing in business conferences, technology summits, and lifestyle events across Hungary. DN Network Zrt. is headquartered at Lajos utca 48-66, Budapest, and positions AI Summit Budapest 2026 as Central Europe's leading AI conference. The company manages a broad portfolio of events spanning real estate, automotive, media, and culture, and operates a proprietary ticketing platform alongside membership clubs such as Economx Klub and Femina Klub.
Budapest, Hungary · Event Hungary's leading independent cybersecurity conference and expo, spread across 5,300 m² at the Bálna National Defense Center. Covers AI risks, NIS2, OT, fraud, and cyber sovereignty.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup AI platform that maps, documents and modernises legacy enterprise software entirely on-premises, keeping source code and data inside the customer's environment. Built for regulated banking, insurance and energy; raised a $6.6M seed led by VentureFriends.
Budapest, Hungary · Person Swedish test developer and AI accountability advisor running the consultancy Northern Test Consulting, with more than a decade of experience across telecommunications, cloud and embedded systems. A long-time international conference speaker and former EuroSTAR programme chair, he is an announced keynote speaker at HUSTEF 2026 in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Venture Capital Lead Ventures is a Budapest-based independent VC firm founded in 2017, specialising in late-Seed and Series A investments in scale-ups across Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics. The firm closed its second fund at €100 million in 2024, deploying initial tickets of €2–5 million with follow-on capacity up to €10 million. It has backed over 20 companies and claims the largest VC exit in Hungarian history with its investment in AImotive, acquired by Stellantis. Beyond capital, the firm differentiates on access to an international network of industry operators and domain experts.
Budapest, Hungary · Person Chief Marketing Officer at Dedoles, a fast-growing Central European direct-to-consumer fashion and lifestyle brand, with expertise in marketing measurement and return on investment. He is an announced speaker at the XXII E-Commerce Conference 2026 in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Warehouse-native product analytics platform that runs directly on data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks, letting teams analyze funnels, retention and usage without moving data or writing SQL.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Netrisk Group is a Budapest-based digital insurance comparison and brokerage platform that helps consumers compare policies from multiple insurers and purchase coverage online. The company operates across Central and Eastern European markets and is the leading insurance aggregator in Hungary, covering auto, home, travel, and health insurance products. Netrisk simplifies a traditionally opaque buying process by providing transparent side-by-side comparisons and instant quotes. The group has expanded through acquisitions and organic growth to become one of the most significant insurtech players in the CEE region.
Budapest, Hungary · Person Senior developer advocate at Grafana Labs specialising in performance testing and observability, having joined through the k6 load-testing project. A long-standing voice in the testing community, she is an announced keynote speaker at HUSTEF 2026 in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Molecular diagnostics company developing next-generation sequencing assays and software for HLA typing in transplantation, including the Holotype HLA and NanoTYPE systems for clinical labs.
Budapest, Hungary · Venture Capital OXO Ventures is the venture capital arm of OXO Group, a Budapest-based multi-stage technology investment platform founded by former Hungarian Finance Minister Péter Oszkó. Established in 2017 with a €50 million EIF-backed fund, the firm takes a sector-agnostic approach to early and growth-stage tech investments across the CEE, DACH, Benelux, and Nordic regions. OXO Group combines an accelerator (OXO Labs), an angel network (OXO Angels), and the VC fund under one roof, enabling investment from the earliest stages. Notable portfolio exits include Commsignia, which raised a Series B from LG Electronics, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and Qualcomm Ventures.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Mobility app founded in 2016 that combines on-street and off-street parking, EV charging across 170,000+ stations and highway vignettes in one platform, with B2B offerings for office buildings and fleets.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup B2B Buy Now Pay Later fintech that lets merchants offer business buyers deferred payment terms of 15-90 days while the merchant is paid instantly, handling credit risk and collections.
Budapest, Hungary · Person Marketing and consumer-behaviour specialist at Diverzum, focusing on Generation Z shopping behaviour and how younger consumers engage with online retail brands. He is an announced speaker at the XXII E-Commerce Conference 2026 in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Venture Capital PortfoLion is the venture capital and growth equity arm of OTP Bank, Hungary's largest bank, managing approximately €440 million in AUM across three distinct funds targeting seed, growth, and turnaround stages. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Budapest, it is the most prominent institutional VC in the CEE region by assets under management, with 64 portfolio companies across Hungary and wider Central and Eastern Europe. Its seed fund deploys €500k–€3 million per ticket and the growth fund €5–30 million, with notable investments including SEON (which went on to raise $150 million from Creandum and IVP) and Tresorit (acquired by Swiss Post). The firm has a team of 33 professionals including five partners.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Prezi is a Budapest-founded visual communication and presentation platform that introduced a non-linear, zoomable canvas as an alternative to traditional slide-based presentations. The company has expanded beyond its original presentation product into Prezi Video, which overlays visual content alongside a speaker's live video feed for more engaging virtual presentations and meetings. With over 100 million users globally, Prezi is one of Hungary's most recognized consumer technology brands and an early example of a Central European startup building a globally adopted SaaS product. The company has raised over $70 million and continues to innovate in the visual storytelling and remote communication space.
Budapest, Hungary · Person Business development professional at Mergado, a product-data and feed-management platform serving online merchants across Central Europe, with a focus on AI-powered shopping experiences. He is an announced speaker at the XXII E-Commerce Conference 2026 in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Person British software tester, trainer and public speaker known as the Friendly Tester and co-creator of the Automation in Testing namespace, currently a senior architect in quality engineering at Slalom Build. He is an announced keynote speaker at HUSTEF 2026 in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup SEON is a Budapest-founded fraud prevention platform that helps online businesses detect and block fraudulent transactions, account takeovers, and synthetic identities using real-time digital footprint analysis and machine learning. The platform enriches transaction data with social media signals, device intelligence, and behavioral patterns to score risk without adding friction to legitimate users. SEON has raised over $100 million and serves customers across fintech, e-commerce, iGaming, and digital banking. It is one of Hungary's most prominent cybersecurity startups and demonstrates the country's strength in building globally competitive fraud and risk management technology.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Shapr3D is a Budapest-based developer of 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software, founded by István Csanády. The product began as an iPad-first 3D modeling app and pioneered professional CAD on the iPad Pro, later expanding to run natively on Windows, macOS, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. The software is built on the Siemens Parasolid geometric modeling kernel and offers sketching with constraints, 3D modeling, 2D drawings, physically based rendering, augmented reality and collaborative review features. It serves industrial design, product design, manufacturing, 3D printing and woodworking users, positioning itself as CAD simple enough for beginners yet powerful enough for engineers.
Budapest, Hungary · Event One-day community conference on Microsoft tech (Power Platform, Azure, Fabric, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Copilot) plus AI and career skills. Multi-track sessions in English at Mixát, Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Person Senior quality engineering manager at easyJet responsible for testing strategy and standards in the airline operations area, with over 28 years of testing experience across banking, trading and travel. An award-winning conference speaker, he is an announced keynote speaker at HUSTEF 2026 in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Tresorit is a Budapest-founded end-to-end encrypted cloud storage and file-collaboration company that positioned itself very early as the privacy-first European alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive for regulated industries: law firms, healthcare, financial services, and — notably — government and defense teams in Europe that cannot legally store sensitive files with US hyperscalers. Founded in 2011 by István Lám, Szilveszter Szebeni, and György Szilágyi, the product is built around zero-knowledge client-side encryption, so files are encrypted before they leave the user's device and Tresorit itself cannot read them even if compelled. The company famously ran a public one-million-dollar hacking challenge to demonstrate the robustness of its encryption, and has since been repeatedly cited by European regulators and data-protection authorities as a model for GDPR-aligned cloud collaboration. In 2021 Swiss Post acquired a majority stake in Tresorit as part of its digital sovereignty push — one of the most strategically significant Hungarian deep-tech exits.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Turbine is a Budapest-based biotech company using AI-powered simulated cell technology to accelerate drug discovery and identify novel cancer treatment combinations. The platform creates virtual cell models that simulate how cancer cells respond to different drug interventions, helping pharmaceutical companies identify promising candidates faster and with fewer costly wet-lab experiments. Turbine has partnered with major pharma companies and raised significant funding to expand its simulated biology platform. The company is a standout example of deep-tech life sciences innovation emerging from Hungary and one of the most technically ambitious AI-for-drug-discovery startups in Central Europe.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup VisualLabs is a Hungarian technology company founded by Balazs Horvath, specializing in Microsoft Power Platform, Business Intelligence, and data visualization solutions for enterprise clients. The company develops custom solutions leveraging Power BI, Power Automate, and AI-driven agent systems on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. VisualLabs is an active sponsor and contributor to the Hungarian Microsoft community and the Shift+Enter Summit in Budapest.
Budapest, Hungary · Startup Biopharma R&D company using AI-driven protein engineering and wet-lab directed evolution to design highly selective miniprotein therapeutics targeting disease mechanisms resistant to small molecules and antibodies.
Budapest, Hungary · Person Hungarian economist and university lecturer specialising in international political economy, European integration and the economic environment for business. He is an announced keynote speaker at the XXII E-Commerce Conference 2026 in Budapest, where he addresses the macroeconomic and political context shaping the online retail sector.