Dr. Szabolcs Hargittay
Chief Legal Officer, Everprove
Presentation title: The Compliance Issues with GDPR and Blockchain Technology
​Presenting at: Blockchain Legal Workshop

Szabolcs is a professional lawyer with experience in advising and launching new projects in the blockchain/startup world. He earned his doctorate degree at Pazmany Peter University and has been awarded three postgraduate degrees: EC Law, Environmental Law, and Public Procurement Law.

He has passionately been playing competitive chess for more than 30 years. Chess taught him how to think in a logical and straightforward manner as well as giving him the ability to see things from different perspectives. He has worked and lived in Bonn and London; he enjoys working in a challenging international atmosphere, where no borders exist. His law
firm (Hargittay and Toth Law Office) is engaged in business law, GDPR, and IP law. They are also deeply involved in the blockchain/crypto world. Their office is the founder of the Hungarian Blockchain Technology Foundation, where they thrive to educate people on blockchain-related fintech solutions and their regulatory environment.

They are currently advising multiple crypto startups and ICOs in Hungary. Recently, they have participated in developing a software (called Everprove) that will allows its users to draft contracts from templates and burn them onto the blockchain, thus certifying the parties, the content, and execution date in an immutable way.