Szabolcs Szolnoki is currently Deputy State Secretary for Technology at the Ministry for National Economy of Hungary, where his primary mission is to design and implement programs fostering an improvement in technological maturity among Hungarian companies. He is also a researcher and a PhD candidate. Mr. Szolnoki previously worked as Chief Innovation Officer to the President, Deputy CEO for Valorisation at Express Innovation Agency, Deputy CEO for Innovation and Business Development at EAC Group, and Head of Startup Relations of the Hungarian Export Promotion Agency (HEPA), concept developer of Budapest’s municipal startup incubator and microfinance provider (BVK) and employment policy expert at the Ministry for Economy and within a parliamentary group. Between 2017 and 2021, he also served as the Hungarian diplomat focused on scientific and technological affairs in Tel-Aviv.