What I advise by day, I put under pressure on stage: accountability for AI systems and the EU digital rulebook as one operating layer.
Keynotes · workshops · live formatsEnglish · Hungarian
STAGE
Academy of European Law (ERA), Trier · AI workshopAI Summit 2025 · BudapestPortfolio AI in Business 2025"Kód vs. Kódex" · Wolters Kluwer LegalTech MeetupGDPR & AI Year-End (EN-Konferenciám) · joint talk with a developerAI Summit 2024 · Budapest
2026
5 NovFull-day, certificate-issuing AI training (tanúsítványt adó felnőttképzés, Enkonferenciám.hu), lead instructor. Unlike the October conference session, this is a complete training day: eight lessons in five units covering the whole organisational AI lifecycle, the AI Act system and roles; GDPR × AI in practice; deploying an AI system step by step; working AI governance (policies, registers, controls, shadow AI); case workshop and closing assessment. Participants receive a certificate, and the training with its documentation can serve as part of the organisation's AI-literacy measures under Article 4 of the AI Act (upcoming)Budapest
14–15 OctAdatvédelmi konferencia (data protection × employment law): "MI-rendszerek a szervezetben: az első ötlettől a jogszerű és kontrollált működésig". 90-minute session: from first idea to lawful, controlled operation; building AI Act and GDPR requirements into development so compliance supports rather than slows innovation; proportionate governance and controls that keep AI systems safe, transparent and able to grow (upcoming)Budapest
7 SepAI Summit Budapest 2026, speaker, Future Lab stage (Magyar Zene Háza): "A szabályokat el lehet halasztani. A felelősséget nem." The AI Act after the Omnibus: accountability, control and vendor dependency for companies already running AI. All fifteen slides, the speaker outline and the sources (in Hungarian); the recording (20:44) is on IndaplayBudapest
Jun · NovAcademy of European Law (ERA), Young European Lawyers Academy (EU Law and Digitalisation), invited trainer: interactive workshop on AI and legal technology in a lawyer's daily work; returns on 13 November with the same workshopTrier
JunGames Industry Law Summit, international participant: AI, data, platform regulation, online safety, monetisation, minors' protectionBerlin
MayIAPP KnowledgeNet Hungary: Health, Data & AI, organiser and moderator (healthcare AI, EHDS, health data, integrated regulatory governance)Budapest
MayDoing Business in Hungary, speaker on the Hungarian regulatory and business environment, international client webinaronline
Mar103rd Data Facto Workshop, roundtable participant: data subject rights and the GDPR × AI Act × DSA × DMA interplay in practiceBudapest
MarPortfolio Digital Compliance 2026, panel moderator: Data Act as operational pressure, AI Act implementation, Digital Omnibus, with senior in-house leadersBudapest
2025
DecGDPR & AI Year-End Conference (EN-Konferenciám), joint AI-governance talk with a developer co-speaker; roundtable with senior DPA representatives and in-house privacy leads (shadow AI, identifiability, compliance by design, EHDS, sandbox)Budapest
Sep–Károli Gáspár University, Faculty of Law, Department of Digital and Technology Law, visiting lecturer: "Introduction to the Application of Artificial Intelligence" (AI literacy for law students)Budapest
SepAI Summit Budapest 2025, speaker, Future Lab stage: "Global Data Protection in the Age of AI" (EU, US and China regulatory approaches)Budapest
May"Kód vs. Kódex", live developer-and-lawyer dialogue on regulated innovation, with a founder-developer co-speaker (Wolters Kluwer LegalTech Meetup)Budapest
Earlier
May 2024adatvedelmi.hu conference: "Beyond GDPR... the compliance revolution in the re-regulated digital world" (EU data strategy, DA, DGA, DMA, DSA, AIA, NIS2, digital compliance in corporate governance)Budapest
Oct 202118th Hungarian Labour Law Conference (Wolters Kluwer Hungary): speaker, whistleblowing and workplace data protectionBudapest
2025Budapest Bar Association, 150th anniversary, speaker to the next generation of lawyers on technology and practiceBudapest
2024AI Summit Budapest 2024, speakerBudapest
2023–IAPP KnowledgeNet Hungary, co-chair of the chapter: programme design, hosting and moderation of the event seriesBudapest
Publications & expert commentary
2026 Q2Cross-border life sciences newsletter (six European jurisdictions), contributing expert: EU AI Act, EHDS, MDR/IVDR, EU Pharma PackageEU
The agent economy's real question: not what AI can do, but who answers for what it does. Rules delayed, accountability not, and what the winners build. For business audiences; no statute recitals.
Live format
Code vs. Codex, live
A developer and a lawyer on one stage, a founder-developer at the keyboard, me on the legal consequences, narrated in real time: what an ungoverned AI workspace leaks and a governed one catches. Proven twice; travels well.
Workshop
One layer, not five programs
Working sessions for boards, legal, security and HR: GDPR, AI Act, NIS2 and DORA mapped onto your actual systems, vendors and decision rights, leaving with owners and next steps, not slides.
For programme directors: I take a small number of speaking and teaching engagements per year, in English or Hungarian, preferring formats with a live or working element over panel small talk. Write to janos.kopasz@drkj.hu with the date, audience and format, and you will get a quick, honest answer.