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The latest MILAB meetup, hosted by Noémi Friedman, HUN-REN SZTAKI, of the BUILDCHAIN project, was a resounding success, drawing a full house of industry professionals, researchers, and technology enthusiasts. The event featured groundbreaking presentations on AI, BIM, and sustainable construction technologies, reinforcing MILAB’s commitment to innovation in the built environment.  

The "2024 Call for Proposals of the Supported Research Groups Program" (TKCS-2024) by HUN-REN concluded successfully, attracting significant interest. Among the six winning proposals is the project submitted by Csaba Kerepesi, senior researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory’s BioAgeAI research group of HUN-REN SZTAKI.

The conference was held on November 8, 2024, at the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (HUN-REN RTD), and was presented by Csaba Kerepesi, group leader and Eszter Szatmári, researcher of the National Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence coordinated by HUN-REN SZTAKI.

Researchers from the Artificial Intelligence National Laboratory's (MILAB) research group on ageing research were joined by businessman Ernő Duda at the morning session of the all-day event "Can we live forever?" on 14 November 2024.

In the framework of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, TechWeek, a major Presidency event was held between 30 September and 1 October 2024 with the participation of the Ministry of National Economy of Hungary, focusing on the advanced and emerging technologies that define our virtual and non-virtual lives.

HUN-REN SZTAKI and its coordinated National Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence (MILAB) also participated in one of the biggest AI-themed business conferences of the autumn, the AI Summit.

The BVDA (Big Data Value Association) held its annual conference, the European Big Data Value Forum 2024, in Budapest, Hungary, from 2 to 4 October 2024. The EBDVF is the flagship event of the Big Data Value Association, bringing together the entire European data-driven AI research and innovation community to share knowledge, collaborate and celebrate achievements. The EBDVF 2024 is a collaboration between the European Commission and local partners including MILAB coordinator institute HUN-REN SZTAKI, Eötvös Loránd University, Ideal-ist and the Neumann Technology Platform.

The MILAB coordinator institute welcomed visitors with more than ten programmes, including a robot dog demonstration, self-flying drones and the 50th anniversary of the microprocessor revolution.

A delegation from the Chinese Institute of Science and Technology Information (ISTIC), a backbone institution of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, visited our Institute, organized by the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network and the Budapest office of Ningbo CEEC Innovation Center.