Ferenc Vágujhelyi

Government Commissioner, Commissioner for National Tax and Customs Administration

In 1994 he graduated as a physics teacher and in 1995 as a programmer mathematician at the Faculty of Science of Eötvös Loránd University.

 He started his professional career as a financial systems developer and information security expert. From 1999 to 2002 he was the Deputy Director General of the Central Administration of National Pension Insurance, and from 2003 to 2010 he was Chairman and CEO of Professzionál Private Ltd. From 2010 to 2013, he was Director for IT at the NTCA and until 2015 Vice-President responsible for IT at the NTCA.

Since 2015, Chairman of the National Council for Telecommunications and Information; since 2018, Head of the Blockchain Working Group of the Digital Welfare Program of the Government; since 2020, Chairman of the Hungarian Scientific Association for Infocommunications; since 8 July 2021, State Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Commissioner for the National Tax and Customs Administration; since 27 May 2022 Government Commissioner responsible for optimizing the data assets of the Hungarian State Treasury and the National Tax and Customs Administration; since 2022, Vice-Chairman of the Hungarian Association of Financial - Economic Auditors.

Author of several scientific publications, his main research interests are electronic identification and authentication, and blockchain technology in public administration. He holds several patents related to information technology.


Speakers

Kay Firth-ButterfieldCEO, Good Tech Advisory
George Tilesch Founder & President, PHI Institute for Augmented Intelligence
Adrián Gonzalez Sanchez Data & AI Lead for Public Sector and Health, Microsoft, Spain
Alessio PecorarioCybersecurity & New Tech Expert
Ansgar KoeneGlobal AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader, EY
Brando BenifeiMember of the European Parliament, EU AI Act Co-Rapporteur
Cécile AptelDeputy Director of Global Office of Research and Foresight, UNICEF Innocenti
Erik SlootenPartner, EY AI Confidence
Faisal Mohammed ALShimmariFounding Chairman, UAE Child Protection Association
Gábor ErdélyiDirector of Applied Data Science, University of Canterbury / Partner, Phi Institute
Gábor SzórádProduct director, SaferAI
Gianluca MisuracaFounder and Vice President on Technology Diplomacy, Inspiring Futures
Grégory HerréFounder and President, Ygdrazil Conseil
Gyula KovácsManaging Director, Co-Founder, Neuron Solutions
Imre PorkolábNational Security Office
Jakub Turowski Public Policy Director for CEE, META
John C. HavensDirector, Planet Positive 2030, Founding Executive Diretor of Global Initiative on AI Ethics, IEEE
László DrajkóFounder & Managing Partner, Cydrill Software Security
Levente SzabadosManaging Director, Co-Founder, Neuron Solutions
Maria Axente Senior research associate, University of Cambridge
Mario Hernandez RamosChair of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence, Council of Europe
Miguel Valle del OlmoDigital Transformation Attaché, Spanish Permanent Representation
Olívia ErdélyiProfessor, University of Bonn & Canterbury / Partner, Phi Institute
Szabolcs SzolnokiDeputy State Secretary for Technology, Ministry for National Economy
Theodore BooneOf Counsel/Faculty Member, Dentons/Corvinus University
Tuan TrinhRegional Director East, EIT Digital