2nd Regional Digital Summit
The accelerated digitalization of the economy and society has dramatically reshaped the competitiveness policy. Thanks to new elements, there are new challenges in the earlier successfully applied policies. Generally used concepts and categories of globalization are changing, such as international trade, productivity, or small and medium-sized enterprises, which are increasingly difficult to interpret at the time of 4.0 industrial technologies, giant digital businesses, new global value chains, and the ever-growing digital platforms and dynamic startups. The latter also make breakthrough changes in financial areas, from the expansion of smart payment and service systems to the conversion of banking operations through interpersonal transactions (fintech).
The European Commission intends to accelerate this process with its Digital Single Market Strategy program. Moreover, the present Estonian-Bulgarian-Austrian EU presidency trio defines itself as a digital presidency trio and advocates rapid progress in such key areas as digital economy, including industry 4.0, the data economy and the free flow of data; security issues related to digitization, above all cyber security. At the same time it is noteworthy that our V4 Presidency's priority is also related to digitization, highlighting its collaborative areas of the horizontally expanding and vertically deepening development of the digital economy.
Consequently, the goal of the conference is the future of the automotive industry with special regard to the new industry value chain processes led by software-driven, autonomous management technologies with the aim of broadening the global dimension of the theme. (There is a competition between Germany and the Silicon Valley for the control over the value chain in the field of driverless car). At the same time it is essential to have a solid position both at regional and Member State level on the European Digital Agenda which shall be discussed and promoted at the highest political level, thus engaging also the social and economic actors.
The other aim of the conference is to speed up the cooperation in the region at governmental, institutional, and entrepreneurial levels, which could bring Central Europe to a leading position in digitalization and make it possible for its players to get engaged in intelligent vehicle manufacturing and in European pilot projects in the fields of European and urban mobility. We also highlight the importance of cross-border cooperation, namely developing test environments, test corridors, smart corridors, samples in use-case testing, standardization, and development of 5G infrastructure. Moreover, we wish to focus on the startups’ ecosystem with the event's two main themes, namely the Industry 4.0 system and the blockchain philosophy-based economy. The latter is based on the financial services, the trend processes of the business, and entrepreneurial models of fintech.
Agenda
25 January 2018
9.30 Registration, coffee
10.00 – 10.20 Opening speech - Mihály Varga Minister for National Economy of Hungary
Digital economy and competitiveness ( e-government, electronic financial services and payment systems, smart industrial policies, digital training and education)
10.20 – 11.00 Featured lectures
Mariya Gabriel Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society
Towards the competitive and future - proof digital Europe
Dr. Yehoshua Gleitman, Chairman of GIBF (Guangzhuo Israel Biotech Fund), Senior advisor to the World Bank, former Chief Scientist of the State of Israel
National Policy of Innovation
11.00 – 12.20 Ministerial panel discussion – Digital economy
Participants:
Mariya Gabriel Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society
Mihály Varga Minister for National Economy of Hungary
Martina Dalić Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Craft, Croatia
Jim Schellinger Secretary of Commerce of Indiana, USA
Dana Meager Deputy Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic
Moderator: Szabolcs Takács Secretary of State
Challenges of digital platforms and sharing/ collaborating economy with special attention to taxation, competition and new business models
Regulatory framework (How to achieve opportunity - oriented innovation driven legislation?)
Financial awareness, e-governmental services, paper-free administration
12.20 – 12.30 Signature of Memorandum of Understanding
on the development of regional urban mobility platform
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 – 14.30 Panel discussion 1 – Digitalization of Enterprises
Participants:
István Lepsényi, Secretary of State, Ministry for National Economy of Hungary
Irini Reljin, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Commerce,Tourism and Telecommunications, Serbia
Paweł Chorąży, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Ecomic Development
Srini Gopalan, Member of the Board, Deutsche Telekom
Annette Kroeber-Riel, Senior Director for Public Policy and Government Relations, DACH & CEE, Google
Moderator: László Dr. Monostori, Director, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Computer Science and Control
National digital / industrial 4.0 strategies – cooperation of national technological platforms, preparation of SMS’s for the 4.0 industrial strategy
Advanced manufacturing models - Industry 4.0 versus industrial internet (German model – industrial platforms, system architecture vs. American model, bottom - up use cases vs. top - down)
New types of global value chains (changing leading positions focused on the product digital experience (hardware vehicle, software and services)
Social dimension of robotisation and smart solution (education, training, digital literacy)
14.30 – 15.30 Panel discussion 2 – Digitalization of financial processes (fintech / fin. services)
Participants:
Dana Meager Deputy Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic
Marcus Dr. Pleyer, Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry of Finance of Germany
Péter Csányi Managing Director, Digital Sales and Development Directorate of OTP Bank
Ádám Balog, CEO of MKB Bank
Anikó Szombati, Director, MNB
Domen Bozeglav, Adviser for Digitalisation in the Minister’s Office, Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia
Moderator: Ágnes Hornung, Secretary of State, Ministry for National Economy of Hungary
Global blockchain/bitcoin concepts - applications the financial and banking sector, e-government
Banking-as-a-platform approach: digital fintech ecosystems, fintech start-ups as a peer-to-peer transactions
How to maximize the data-driven economy? – algorythms, big data, analysis
Regulatory issues, national and european initiatives: regulatory sandbox, use cases and artificial intelligence
National best practices- blockchain strategies, action plans, fintech labs and fintech forums
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 – 16.45 Panel discussion 3 – Urban mobility
Moderator: Benjamin Soffer, Director, Technion Technology Center, Israel
Participants:
Balázs Szeneczey, Deputy Mayor of Budapest
Laszlo Ludvig, Mobility Division Director, Siemens Zrt
Marie-Theres Thiell, CEO innogy Hungária – CEO ELMÜ-ÉMÁSZ
Ksenija Ostriz, Deputy Mayor, Koprivnica, Croatia
Mirka Jozic, Head of the City Office for Economy, Energetics and Environment protection, Zagreb
Management model of urban mobility (smart city) programs (digital ecosystems in smart mobility and energy systems, car rental and other business models of the automotive sector)
Smart city services; big and middle-sized cities’ services such as car-sharing
Smart city test environment, cross border corridors, digital infrastructure 5 G
26 January 2018
8.30 Registration, coffee
9.00 Welcome speech – István Lepsényi
State Secretary of the Ministry for National Economy of Hungary
9.15 – 10.45 Featured lectures
Electromobility, digitalisation, network-based automated systems
László Dr. Palkovics, Secretary of State, Ministry of Human Capacities, Governmental Commissioner of Autonomous Driving & ELI Science Park - Digital Transition in Road Transportation
Stefan Deix, Director of EUCAR, Belgium -Innovating mobility – key challenges for the automotive industry
Suresh Kannan, President & Chief Architect, digiBlitz Inc, United States - Harnessing the power of IOT & BlockChain for Smart Transport & Freight
Ulrich Grauvogel, Chief Marketing Officer, Data Ahead GmbH representing the Industrial Data Space Association (IDSA)-Democracy in raw data access - an extremely effective accelerator for digitization
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break
Starting-Lecture: Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser, Co-Founder and CTO, Urban Software Institute GmbH & Co, Germany
11.00 – 12.30 Panel discussion 1
Electromobility, digitalisation, network-based automated systems
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Lutz Heuser, Co-Founder and CTO, Urban Software Institute GmbH & Co, Germany
Participants:
Edin Kolic, Head Of Assembly Planning, Daimler AG
Paul Trompisch, Advisor, Platform Industry 4.0, Austria
Giles Shrimpton, CEO, NNG
Gergő Budai J., External Affairs Director, Vodafone
András Háry, CEO, Test Ground Zala Ltd
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 – 13.50 Featured lectures
Digital transformation in retail banking
László Juhász, Director, Boston Consulting Group
13.50 – 14.45 Panel discussion 2
Digital transformation in retail banking
Moderator: László Juhász, Director, Boston Consulting Group
Participants:
Larisa Tugui, Policy Expert of European Banking Authority
Mark Hetényi, Deputy CEO of MKB Bank
László Harmati, Deputy CEO of Erste Bank Hungary
János Anschau, Head of Global Banking Services, Unicredit Bank Hungary
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 – 15.20 Featured lecture
Blockchain
Péter Benedek, CEO, Blockchain Competence Center- Blockchain use cases in the financial services industry
15.20 – 16.00 Panel discussion 3
Blockchain as a tamper-proof distributed database
Moderator: Sebastian Tamás, Director of Innovations, Hungarian National Trading House
Participants:
Balázs Horváth, Fintech Expert, Bancard Consulting
András Pataricza, Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Ahmad Piraiee, CEO, ITKeyMedia
Gergely Gabler, Director, MNB