Budapest Business Journal Podcast

Around 40 high-level guests from Budapest’s business and diplomatic circles started their day on Tuesday morning at the CEO Boardroom Meeting, a networking and content event run by the Budapest Business Journal. Hosted by Matild Palace, A Luxury Collection Hotel Budapest, with Spago Budapest by Wolfgang Puck providing a uniquely tailored gastronomic breakfast experience, the event was marking its...

Forty guests attended the sixth Pharma CEO Breakfast organized by the Budapest Business Journal and our professional partners, PHOENIX group Hungary and BENU Magyarország Zrt., at the Kimpton BEM Budapest by IHG on Wednesday morning. This time, our theme was Drug Price Reductions in the United States and Their Impact on Europe. The morning featured a fascinating keynote presentation by Katalin Sza...

Around 40 guests drawn from the top levels of the business world, the diplomatic corps (including the newly arrived ambassadors to Hungary from Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom), and the international bilateral chambers of commerce, attended our latest CEO Boardroom Meeting, held at the Matild Palace Hotel.  The expert panelists for our roundtable discussion were Karoly Radnai, managing p...

Around 50 guests attended the fifth Pharma CEO Breakfast, organized by the Budapest Business Journal in partnership with Phoenix Pharma and Benu, at the Kimpton BEM Budapest Hotel on Tuesday, October 7. The event featured a keynote presentation by Dr. Ágnes Galgóczi, director of prevention and epidemiology at the National Public Health Center, entitled “The Introduction of Pharmacy-based Vaccinati...

This podcast is a recording of a roundtable discussion at our latest CEO Boardroom Meeting, held on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at the Matild Palace Hotel. The panel discussion is part of our ongoing series examining the critical factors driving the energy transition and the Hungarian economy in the months ahead. The themes covered this time included where Hungary is on its energy transition, the addi...

Around 50 guests joined us at the fourth Pharma CEO Breakfast, held this time at the Kimpton BEM Budapest, organized by the Budapest Business Journal and our professional partners, Phoenix Group and Benu Pharmacies. The keynote presentation by Dr. Bence Nagy of Healthware Consulting Ltd. and the roundtable discussion featuring Dr. Sàndor Lévai of Takeda Hungary, Colette Matz of Novartis Hungary, a...

This podcast is a recording of a roundtable discussion at our latest CEO Boardroom Meeting, held on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at the Matild Palace Hotel. The panel discussion is part of our ongoing series examining the critical factors driving the markets and the Hungarian economy in the months ahead. The themes covered this time include the potential impact of "Trump Tariffs" on globa...

Around 40 CEOs, diplomats and decision-makers joined the Budapest Business Journal for our latest CEO Boardroom Meeting in the Matild Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel. Our roundtable panelists were Róbert Ésik, a partner at EY dealing with Global Location Services & Incentives for the Europe, Middle East, India, and Africa markets and Karoly Radnai, the managing partner at Andersen Consulting...

Roundtable Panelists Engage with Pharmaceutical Challenges About 50 guests attended the third Pharma CEO Breakfast, organized by the Budapest Business Journal and its professional partners Pheonix Pharma and Benu at the Anantara New York Palace Hotel Budapest on October 8. 2024. The morning began with an informative keynote presentation by Sylvain Hanssen, group director for digital commerce at Ph...

The CEO Breakfast, hosted by the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DUIHK) in partnership with the Budapest Business Journal and Budapest Security Dialogue, focussed on the digital transformation of the defense industry, drone technology and how civilian innovations can be utilized for defense purposes and vice versa. The first panel, moderated by Antal Kerekes, a partner at PwC Te...

The CEO Breakfast, hosted by the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DUIHK) in partnership with the Budapest Business Journal and Budapest Security Dialogue, focussed on the digital transformation of the defense industry, drone technology and how civilian innovations can be utilized for defense purposes and vice versa. The first panel, moderated by Antal Kerekes, a partner at PwC Te...

BBJ Boardroom Meeting Recap: Engaging Dialogue at the Matild Palace Hotel. Fifty guests drawn from Budapest's CEO and diplomatic communities (including six ambassadors) started their day at the latest BBJ - Budapest Business Journal Boardroom Meeting at the Matild Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Budapest, on Tuesday morning. Our regular roundtable discussion featured H.E. Jeroen Vergeylen...

This CEO Breakfast by the AHK Ungarn - DUIHK - Német-Magyar Ipari és Kereskedelmi Kamara - German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce - and the BBJ - Budapest Business Journal, hosted by the Anantara New York Palace Hotel, delved into the health of the Hungarian healthcare system. Our roundtable panel comprised Dr Judit Bidló, Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry of Interior, responsible...

This Pharma CEO Breakfast event was held on March 19. 2024  with the general theme “Where is the Money for Hungary’s Pharma Industry?” in the wonderful setting of the Anantara New York Palace Hotel and with the professional support of Phoenix Group and Benu Pharmacies.   Our keynote speaker was the health economist and consultant Dr. József Bodrogi, who spoke about “GDP, Healthcare, Financing and...

The BBJ CEO Boardroom Meeting took place February 22., over breakfast in the beautiful Matild Palace Hotel. We assemble a high-level panel at each boardroom meeting to discuss the economic themes shaping the Hungarian economy. Previous hot topics have included COVID, the general election, the war in Ukraine, high inflation, tight labor markets and the energy crisis. Given the expertise of our pane...

This CEO Business Breakfast, hosted by the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DUIHK) in partnership with the Budapest Business Journal and Budapest Security Dialogue, turns the spotlight on the defense industry in Hungary. The DUIHK assembled a business panel uniquely positioned to take us on a deep dive into the sector’s realities: Paul Walf, CEO of Rheinmetall Hungary; Joachim Hu...

The BBJ CEO Boardroom Meeting took place on November 7 in the Matild Palace Hotel. The panel discussion is part of an ongoing series examining the critical factors driving the markets and the Hungarian economy in the months ahead. The themes this time covered included the likely developments with inflation, GDP growth, the energy crisis, the possible effects of the war in Ukraine and Gaza here, li...

50 guests drawn from across the pharmaceutical sector attended the inaugural Pharma CEO Breakfast event at the Anantara New York Palace Budapest Hotel. Organized by the Budapest Business Journal with the professional support of Phoenix Group and Benu Pharmacies, the new platform started with two 15-minute keynote presentations.  Zsolt Bibity, CEO for Hungary at IQVIA, spoke about “Pharma Trends an...

The second BBJ CEO Boardroom Meeting of 2023 took place on June 15 at the Matild Palace Hotel.   The panel discussion is part of our ongoing series examining the critical factors driving the markets and the Hungarian economy in the months ahead. This time, we will also had a thought-provoking presentation on the challenges in and around the development of autonomous driving. The themes covered inc...

The first BBJ CEO Boardroom Meeting of 2023 took place on February 28 in the Matild Palace Hotel.  The panel discussion is part of our ongoing series examining the critical factors driving the markets and the Hungarian economy in the months ahead. The themes covered include the impact and likely developments with inflation, GDP growth, the energy crisis, the war in Ukraine, the labor market, and i...

Developments, Innovation, and Investment in Hungary’s Logistics Sector Agility key for Logistics Services Providers Agility is crucial: that was perhaps the key takeaway from the latest CEO Breakfast Briefing, organized by the German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its content partner, the Budapest Business Journal, at the Antara Hotel New York Palace on March 7.  Logistics was the...

The third CEO Boardroom Meeting in 2022 took place November 9., over breakfast in the beautiful Matild Palace Hotel. The Boardroom Meeting is an invitation-only event for some of the leading expat CEOs and Budapest-based diplomats. As usual, the event will feature an in-depth roundtable discussion, this time focusing on the economic prospects for Hungary for Q3-Q4 2022. The BBJ's latest Macro...

"Welcome to the second CEO Breakfast Briefing organized by the German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Budapest Business Journal, where the theme of our roundtable is “The Future of Energy.” Let’s introduce our first speaker, Attila Steiner, State Secretary for Energy and Climate Policy at the Ministry of Technology and Industry. The rest of our panel are Ákos Hegedűs, manag...

This Budapest Business Journal podcast was recorded at the BBJ’s CEO Boardroom Meeting, held at the Matilde Palace Hotel on June 16, 2022. The boardroom round table looks at the primary drivers influencing the Hungarian economy this summer. It features John Ford, managing director at GoTo Hungary, Rezső Rózsai,  CEO of KPMG Hungary and Erik Slooten, global leader of delivery quality and transforma...

This Budapest Business Journal podcast was recorded as a new series event, the CEO Breakfast Briefing, organised by the German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in partnership with the BBJ. This kick-off event was held in the Antara hotel New York Palace on May 24, 2022. The roundtable conversation you’re about to hear focused on the challenges facing businesses today: inflation, war, wor...