Gergely Böszörményi-Nagy (born August 1, 1984) is an entrepreneur and former public servant who founded Brain Bar and the current chairman of the board of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.

His other projects include Design Terminal, a social enterprise based in Budapest, Hungary that helps startups to reach the global marketplace and Datapolis, an urban intelligence company co-founded by Böszörményi-Nagy and world-renowned network scientist Albert-László Barabási.

[8][9][10] In 2020 Böszörményi-Nagy was appointed as chairman of the board of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME), Hungary's major educational institution for the creative industries.

[15][16] In January 2025, students at MOME started a series of protests due to what they perceive as Böszörményi-Nagy exerting direct influence and bypassing the university's decision making mechanisms.

[21] The annual event revolves around a two-day concentration of interactive talks and debates on business, social, cultural, technological and political trends,[22] and attracts thousands of visitors per year with past speakers including PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell, Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson,[23][24] historian Niall Ferguson, three Michelin star restaurateur Massimo Bottura, WPP plc founder Sir Martin Sorrell, EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager, best-selling futurist Kevin Kelly, economists Mariana Mazzucato and Tim Harford, Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde, technology critic Evgeny Morozov, geopolitical analysts George Friedman and Bruno Maçães, controversial environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg, sociologist Philip Zimbardo, astronaut and former International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield, architect Sou Fujimoto, Sea Shepherd captain Peter Hammarstedt, supermodel Maye Musk[25] and the world's first humanoid robot citizen, Sophia.