Ákos Szőke

After graduating from college, he joined Multilogic Ltd. Between 2000 and 2004, he was the supplier-side professional manager of the implementation of Hungary's first electronic commercial marketplace (Electronic Public Procurement System) at Magyar Posta Zrt. In the meantime, he completed a degree in program design mathematics at the University of Szeged (correspondence department).

Between 2004 and 2010, he was the supplier-side development manager of the National Savings Bank (OTP) Integrated Risk Management System (IRIS) project and the professional manager of the system's introduction in Ukraine and Romania.
Meanwhile, since 2006, he has been a researcher and professional leader in numerous domestic and international R&D projects (EU Framework Program 7,8,9).

Since 2010, he has been a freelance expert and auditor regularly invited to provide methodological advice on software technology. Between 2011 and 2014, he was the professional leader of the Emerald framework-based expert system R&D project.

Since 2014, he has been the IT Director of Multilogic Consulting and Information Technology Ltd., and also the head of the intelligent systems business unit since 2016. He is one of the implementers of Emerald expert systems in public administration.

He is an internationally recognized researcher and expert in the fields of agile software technology and project management. He has published numerous papers at international conferences and in scientific journals. Between 2010 and 2014, he was an invited member of the review boards of Elsevier journals. Since 2010, he has been an invited lecturer at several university courses on software technology and project management at BME.

Memberships: In 2013, he was one of the founders of the Business Rules Hungary department of the National Institute of Statistics and Statistics; member of the W3C Open Annotation Community Group.

Awards: István Harsányi Award (Hungarian Innovation Association, 2014); Best Scientific Article and IBM Special Award (XP Conference, Madrid, 2011); Outstanding Scientific Article Award (Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE Conference, Milan, 2008/2009).