A new festival has arrived to Budapest

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It is eventful at the Erzsébet square: this week in the Design Terminal the region biggest 3D printing forum will be organized for the third time; in the beginning of June, the Brain Bar Budapest festival will be held for the first time where the relationship between a human and a machine will be discussed by inter-culturally famous commentators.

Could humans be replaced by machines? What means for a city to be successful? How the education, the medical science and the internet is changing due to the effect of technology? These are some of the questions which they will try to answer between 4th and 6th of June at the Brain Bar Budapest at Erzsébet square.
The event will be organized by the Design Terminál, the We Love Budapest and the Akvárium Club and its main sponsor is the Hungarian Telekom. The festival starts were the other technology theme festivals end: it examines what high tech meas to us, humans, how it effects our jobs, societies and our souls.

According to valasz.hu, such high-minded speakers will discuss the big questions in the theme of ethics, robotics, the big data and the urbanization, as Richard Florida (the author of The Rise of Creative Class which was a New York Times bestseller), Somlai-Fischer Ádám (a founder of the Prezi), Tina Saaby (the main architect in Copenhagen), Ken Goldberg (the most respectful professor of robotics) and Pia Mancini (the Argentinian activist, an electronic democracy advocate).

The Pallas Athéné Geopolitikai Alapítvány (PAGEO) will help hosting these highlighted intercultural speakers. The organizers thinks that it is important for secondary education students and high education students and for the lecturers to entrance for free to the event. For the Brain Bar Budapest, a 100 students and lecturers will get a free entrance by the help of the OTP Bank.

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