Péter Kovács

On 21-22 April (Thursday-Friday) 2016, the whole Budapest startup ecosystem opened up as Startup Safary arrived to the city. With over 80 locations and 145 events, over 2.000 visitors had the chance to enter the offices of the whole startup scene in Budapest, participating breakfasts, office tours, workshops, mentoring sessions, hackathons, tech meetups, science shops and so on. The 2-day-long craziness was closed with a crazy “startup” party organized by International Geek-Together at the… Show more

On 21-22 April (Thursday-Friday) 2016, the whole Budapest startup ecosystem opened up as Startup Safary arrived to the city. With over 80 locations and 145 events, over 2.000 visitors had the chance to enter the offices of the whole startup scene in Budapest, participating breakfasts, office tours, workshops, mentoring sessions, hackathons, tech meetups, science shops and so on. The 2-day-long craziness was closed with a crazy “startup” party organized by International Geek-Together at the amazing venue of mosaik.space. We even had a special guest from the Silicon Valley, a veteran of the digital industry: Jeff Burton, co-founder of Electronic Arts. Show less

The event has been organized in cooperation with iEurope Capital, Axel Springer Plug n’ Play, IseeQ and Design Terminál.

International Geek-Together presented yet another flourishing startup community to the Budapest startup scene, this time participants were able to meet and learn about the startup scene of Portugal.

The Summer Entrepreneurship Training (SET) is a three weeks long training for students with an entrepreneurial mindset. It consists out of three different modules, each taking place in a different location, a different university, a different country.

I led an interactive session about professional networking at the Budapest round and has been mentoring one of the international teams.

As the CEO and Co-Founder of CESA 2014, I was responsible for the success of the whole concept created and executed by a cross-regional team.

The Office of the Year competition and Awards Ceremony, where the most recognized awards of the office market are given out, was launched by iroda.hu in 2010, and has become a unique event of the Hungarian property market.

I was fully responsible for the new category, the competition of coworking offices in Budapest.

I gave an interactive talk about building startup teams and also acted as a mentor during the workshop.

We supported the first Hungarian Innovation and High-Tech Investment Forum to be organised in London by inviting CxOs, founders and investors from the ICT industry of UK, throughout our international professional network.

International Geek-Together was invited by StartupCamp Praha to organize a joint event in the awesome city of Prague, Czech Republic. Thanks to our supporters we could provide the participants with a bus ride from and back to Budapest, accommodation and 300 beers, all for free.

Having constructive fun for a weekend with the startup ecosystem of Timisoara, Romania.

One of the achievements: http://get-you-employed.co :)

We launched a pilot project with the BSc students of International Business course at Corvinus University in Budapest, inviting 5 companies to provide challenging international tasks for a dedicated team of 5-6 students each, while supporting the course on a weekly level with practical knowledge-sharing and by organizing internal meetups for the students.

The geekest boat ride ever organized on river Danube in Budapest, with over 200 participants from all around the world.

First together organised outside of Hungary with a great success, with 70+ attendees from several countries of Europe and even beyond :)

'International geek-together | Special Edition' was organised as the official warm up party for Challenge24 competition (www.ch24.org) and unofficially for Lean Startup Machine, which happened to be at the same time in the city. We had 130+ participants from over 30 countries.

Go Youth Conference is a pioneer event about young entrepreneurship, youth talent, innovation and creativity, even featured amongst the best European startup conferences on Techcrunch, organised by some amazing young talents in Lisbon, Portugal. I have been proudly supporting the success of this outstanding event by making some noise in the CEE region.

We raised the bar and organized the Grand Finale of CESA in Vienna, Austria, with the contribution of the startup ecosystem in 10 countries of the CEE region: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria.

Startup Pirates is a one-week educational accelerator for entrepreneurs in the making, the concept itself originated from Portugal. Through a combination of trainings, mentoring and idea development, it helps participants structure and develop their ideas. In the end, it gives them the opportunity to pitch their ideas to investors and successful business leaders.

The event was organized by Timisoara Software Business Incubator with the support of:

Tritium Consulting
Romanian Association of Electronics and Software Industries - Timisoara Branch
Mots Agency
Net Interaction,
AIESEC Timisoara,
Multimedia Center of "Politehnica" University of Timișoara
West University of Timisoara.

We are Prezi.com and LogMeIn, outstanding internet startup success stories launched and technology-headquartered in Budapest, Hungary.
We are organizing our first event together outside of Hungary to introduce ourselves to you: the way we work, the values we have and certainly the visions that we are following.
Please join us and let's get to know each other in person at the very first Budapest Tech Meetup in Helsinki, Finland.

As a part of the preparation program for Startup Lithuania Roadshow in Tel Aviv, Berlin, Stockholm and London, (http://www.startuplithuania.lt/en/startup-roadshow) we gave a seminar about networking for the startup ecosystem of Vilnius with Alex Gibb.