Program Overview
“(…) as scientists and researchers, we have a broad responsibility to ensure that our innovative solutions truly serve the interests of the people. To this end, two things are essential. One is mapping, which is familiar from geography but also essential in the ‘geography of innovation’. Mapping how scientific and technological progress interacts with other areas of life. The other is that we must remain ethical human beings, as participants in the scientific and technological progress.”
Quote from the welcome speech of Prof. László Péter Kollár, Secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The full speech is available here: LINK
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Program
Day 0
- 27/01/2026
Day 1
- 28/01/2026
Registration
Opening Ceremony
Plenary session #1
Beata Javorcik – EBRD & University of Oxford
Lars Coenen – HVL and University of Bergen
chair: Cesar Hidalgo
Coffee break
Parallel sessions #1
Lunch
Parallel sessions #2
Coffee break
Panel #1 – “EURADA-ULB Panel on Open Strategic Autonomy and Industrial Innovation”
Moderator: Bruno van Pottelsberghe (Corvinus)
Participants: Raquel Ortega-Argilés (University of Manchester), Cesar Hidalgo (TSE & Corvinus), Francesco Molica (EURADA & ULB), Alexandre Lembcke (OECD), Anabela Santos (ULB)
Parallel sessions #3
Welcome Reception
Welcome:
László Kollár – Secretary, HAS
Péter Ignácz, KPMG
Host: Veronika Hamar
Day 2
- 29/01/2026
Registration
Plenary session #2
Luisa Gagliardi – Bocconi University of Milan
Lee Fleming – University of California, Berkley
chair: Iris Wanzenböck
Exhibitors’ introduction
Coffee break
Parallel sessions #4
Lunch
Meet the Editors
Participants: Carolina Castaldi (EG & ICC), Camilla Lenzi (ARS), Dieter Kogler (Regional Studies), Iris Wanzenböck (RRR), Shiri Breznitz (PEG), Ugo Fratezi (SEA), Raquel Ortega-Arguiles (GCRS), Betsy Donald (CJRES), Andrea Morrison (I&I), Zoltán Elekes (REGION)
Parallel sessions #5
Coffee break
Panel #2 “AI in Innovation”
Moderator: Frank Neffke
Participants: Carolina Castaldi (Utrecht), Yufang Hua (IT:U and IBM Research), Péter Ignácz (KPMG), Johannes Wachs (Corvinus), Tommaso Ciarli (UNU-MERIT and SPRU), Vasco de Oliveira Janiero (EIT)
Parallel sessions #6
Gala Dinner (Hotel InterContinental Budapest)
Day 3
- 30/01/2026
Registration
Parallel sessions #7
Coffee break
Panel #3 – “The Dark Side of Innovation”
Moderator: Rune Dahl Fitjar
Participants: Arianna Martinelli (Sant’ Anna Pisa), Hillary Vipond (CSH), Jiri Blazek (Charles University), Johannes Glückler (LMU), Markus Grillitsch (Lund University)
Closing ceremony
Lunch – brown bag
Social events, and thematic walks