Dezső Farkas

is the co-founder of Okodo.io and an Aspen Institute Alumni. He is passionate about driving innovation and impactful positive change through building socially conscious business ventures. He is also a deep believer in life-long education and has a strong desire to give it back to the next generations. Dezső is a business development professional with a Summa Cum Laude MBA focused on Entrepreneurship from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. He presented two TEDxTalks, was a selected participant of the ’50 Young Hungarian Talents’ program, and represented Hungary at the ASEF Young Leaders Summit. He won the prestigious Wekerle Sándor Carpathian Basin Economic Junior Award by the Hungarian National Bank. He established an NGO whose mission is to find talented and aspiring young people and provide them with an environment in which they can get the best out of themselves.