DIGITAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SUMMIT (DPAS) V4 – Summer Workshop
PROGRAMME
10:00 – 10:05 prologue - Barnabás Málnay, business developer, Eötvös Loránd University
Welcoming speeches
10:05 - 10:15 Tamás Menczer state secretary for Information and International Representation of Hungary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
10:15 - 10:25 Dr. Károly Balázs Solymár deputy state secretary for digitalisation, Ministry for Innovation and Technology
10:25 - 10:35 László Jobbágy, managing director, Digital Success Nonprofit Ltd.
1st section
Involving public data in dataflow – Hungarian Data Asset Agency
10:35 – 10:55 Introductory speech
Gergő Kottra, counsellor - telecommunications and information society at Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU
10:55 – 11:55 Roundtable discussion
- Czech Republic - Jakub Malina, data policy officer, Ministry of the Interior
- Slovak Republic - Milan Andrejkovič, head of Data Office, Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic
- Poland - Aleksandra Chmielecka, expert, Data Management Department, Chancellery of the Prime Minister
- Hungary - Dr. Gábor Csiszér, acting head of Department of Infocommunicational Regulation and Organisation, Ministry for Innovation and Technology
11:55 – 12:10 Coffee break
2nd section
AI solutions in public administration – Digital Success Programme
12:10 – 12:30 Introductory speech
Barna Gaál, head of department, Department of E-Public Administration, Ministry of Interior
12:30 – 13:30 Roundtable discussion
- Czech Republic – Radim Burget associate professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication Technologies, Brno University of Technology
- Poland – Sylwia Stefaniak, expert, Department of Innovative Solutions, Chancellery of the Prime Minister
- Hungary – Dr. habil. Zsolt Ződi senior research fellow, University of Public Service, Research Institute of the Information Society
Closing speech
13:30 – 13:40 Dr. András Levente Gál head of Digital Success Programme
Speakers
Tamás Menczer (HU)
He was born on March 19, 1984 in Pécs. He graduated from the High School of Cultural Center of the Hungarian Germans in Baja in 2002, and then graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Trade of the Budapest College of Economics in 2006.
From 2006 to 2011 he was an editor-reporter and presenter at Duna Televízió Zrt., Then between 2011 and 2015 he was an employee of MTVA in the same position. From 2015 he was be the Press Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, from 2017 he as be the Deputy State Secretary for Communication and Parliamentary Coordination of the Ministry, and from 2018 he as been the State Secretary for Information and International Representation of Hungary.
Dr. Károly Balázs Solymár (HU)
Dr. Károly Balázs Solymár has been the Deputy State Secretary for Digitalisation of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology since July 2013. He completed his studies as a member of the Bibó István Vocational College as a law student at the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University. He obtained a “summa cum laude” law degree in 2003 and a legal exam in 2010. During his career, he has worked professionally at various levels of public administration to develop the infocommunications sector. He has previously worked in the Ministry of Informatics and Communications, the Ministry of Economy and Transport, and the Office of the Prime Minister, thanks to which he has gained more than a decade of experience in regulatory, economic and complex development tasks in the infocommunications sector. Under his professional management strategic documents such as the National Infocommunication Strategy (NIS) 2014-2020 have been born, and the National Digitization Strategy, the continuation of the NIS, is being developed. All of these served as the basis for Hungary's digital economy, information society and digital infrastructure development. Under his supervision, the Hungarian Artificial Intelligence Coalition (AIC), which can be considered the milestone of the Hungarian AI ecosystem development, and the Hungarian Artificial Intelligence Strategy were established.
László Jobbágy (HU)
Managing Director of Digital Success Nonprofit Ltd in Hungary. Originally an IT engineer, he has been working for the government of Hungary for more than ten years. László has managed projects, led the Department for Public Administration Development and Strategic Planning at the Prime Minister’s Office and has been an IT consultant for nearly all ministries and several public bodies, including the Directorate General for Audit of European Funds. He has been the IT security officer for the National Healthcare Services Center and the Prime Minister’s Government Office.
Digital Success Nonprofit Ltd is a state-owned company responsible for the Digital Success Programme, the most comprehensive digitisation strategy in Hungary. Its key areas of operation are the digitisation of education and child protection, elevating the competitiveness of Hungarian digital enterprises and the modernisation of public administration. The Digital Success Programme is also responsible for several sectoral strategies, in particular digital agriculture, sport and logistics as well as reacting to rapidly growing technology areas such as smart cities, 5G, AI and blockchain, channelling them to the government.
The main aspect of the Digital Success Programme is that digitisation is not only a matter of competitiveness but also a matter of sovereignty. We must utilise the benefits of technology so that we remain in charge of ourselves - our lives, our data, our culture. It is hard to assess all the effects of the rushing world around us and the state has a bigger responsibility than ever to keep their citizens safe. This can only be achieved by gaining public trust.
The above mentioned skills and experiences entitle him to be nominated as a Digital Champion of Hungary from 12 March 2019.
Gergő Kottra (HU)
Counsellor for Telecommunications and Information Society at the Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU. Started his career before the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of 2011, working constantly with the digital and telecom files, former Head of International Affairs Unit at the Hungarian National Regulatory Authority responsible for telecommunications. He deals with all matters relating to telecommunications and the information society within the Council, among others: Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance Act, Roaming, ePrivacy, eID and also participates in work related to the Digital Services Act.
Jakub Malina (CZ)
Mr. Jakub Malina is the Data Policy Officer at the Department of the eGovernment Chief Architect, Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic where he develops data policies and data legislation. He studied Law at Charles University in Prague and Business Information Systems at Prague University of Economics, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics. He is also experienced in public policy, worked for several law offices. His interests include interoperability, linked data and semantic web.
Milan Andrejkovič (SK)
Mr. Milan Andrejkovič is currenty working as a Chief Data Officer within the Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic. He is the head of Data Office Department, whose goal is to help the Slovak Republic become a modern data state. For this purpose, they first focus on data quality in public administration as a basic prerequisite for their further use. Subsequently, they are focusing on the development of the usability of data for the creation of public policies and individual decisions of public administration, including their preparation for sophisticated use for machine learning, respectively up to the introduction of elements of artificial intelligence. They are dealing with the data from the theoretical, legislative, as well as real implementation side.
Aleksandra Chmielecka (PL)
Ms. Aleksandra Chmielecka is the Chief Specialist of the Division of Regulating Data Use and Exchange in Data Management Department at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Poland. She earned her diploma at the University of Warsaw and SGH Warsaw School of Economics where she studied Political Science and European Studies. She has more than ten years of international and public administration experience and she is highly qualified in digital affairs. Her areas of interest include in particular personal data protection, open data and PSI.
Dr. Gábor Csiszér (HU)
Graduated in 2002 at the Debrecen University (faculty of law.) Since 2002 he works in the central governmental administration in Hungary, mainly in the field of infocommunication and digitalization. One of his main task is PSI-reuse and data policy – he contributed in drafting both legal and strategic document in this field.
Barna Gaál (HU)
Barna Gaál is the head of the E-Administration Unit of the Ministry of Interior of Hungary. He is involved in e-government strategic planning and implementation, legislative procedures and Government infocommunications development projects. As an international relations expert and a postgraduate e-government manager by degree, Mr. Gaál has been working in the Hungarian public administration and digital public services development for 10 years, and also actively participates in high level EU working groups and committees dealing with e-administration (eIDAS, ISA2, e-Government Action Plan 2016-2020 Steering Board).
Prof. Radim Burget (CZ)
Signal Processing Laboratory.
Department of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology
Radim Burget is an Assoc. Prof. at Brno University of Technology and is heading Signal processing program at SIX Research Centre. He has been involved in research of artificial intelligence for many years and in plenty of research projects which include projects funded on European level, national level or privately funded projects. Companies he is cooperating with include Honeywell, Konica-Minolta, Utillcell and many others.
Sylwia Stefaniak (PL)
Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Poland
IT specialist in the world of lawyers. In the Chancellery of the Prime Minister as an expert she deals with projects related to artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, data analytics. She also represents the office in the European Commission and UNESCO. She is carrying out an implementation doctorate in the field of artificial intelligence in a political and administrative discipline. The thing she focuses the most on is an ethical approach to data processing – especially in situations where we do not have law regulations, which is very common for new technologies and machine learning. For many years she is associated with the IT industry – she gained professional experience as a Project, Product and Operations Manager in IT companies, including Microsoft, dealing in cloud solutions, research projects and security tests throughout Europe nad the USA. Academic lecturer at the Warsaw School of Economics and the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of numerous publications on the security of data processing in information systems.
Dr. habil Zsolt Ződi (HU)
Zsolt Ződi was graduated as a lawyer in University of Miskolc, and became an assistant professor here in 1991. In 1996 he left the academia, and worked for international and Hungarian legal publishing companies (Wolters Kluwer and Opten) in different positions for 15 years. He returned to the academia in 2011, and earned a PhD degree in University of Pécs in legal informatics. In the past ten years he taught in University of Miskolc, Corvinus University, and Eötvös Loránd University legal theory and regulation of the information society. He earned his habilitation in the Faculty of Law, Eötvös Loránd University with his dissertation called "Platforms, Robots and the Law", which was published as a book in 2018. He is the author of more than 90 articles, and two books. Recently he is a senior research fellow in the University of Public Service, Research Institute of Information Society. Recently his main fields of research are regulatory problems of the information society, internet platforms, and artificial intelligence.
Dr. András Levente Gál (HU)
Dr. András Levente Gál graduated in law in 1994 from the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University, and also studied press law in Zurich and real estate registration in Vienna. In 1996, he studied political science in Tokyo. He founded the Law Office of Gál and Partners in 2002, and since 2012 he has been the chairman of the board of trustees of the Foundation of the Hungarian Public Administration and Organizational Development Research Institute. Until December 2011, he was the State Secretary for Administration of the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, and until September 1st 2012, the Government Commissioner responsible for coordinating the implementation of the Good State Development Concept. In 2013, he received the Zoltán Magyary Prize, the recognition of an honorary citizen of the National University of Public Service. From 2015, as a permanent expert of the Digital Success Programme, from 2018 as a professional leader, he contribute to the change of Hungary's digital era. From August 1, 2020, he is the managing director of Neumann János Nonprofit Ltd. He is a keynote speaker at several legal conferences. Speaks English and German and he is the author and editor of several books.
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