Peter Arvai

Activist, Business leader, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Gay, Potential employer

Peter co-founded and lead Prezi during its first 12 years. Together with over 120M Prezi users, he created the world’s largest library of publicly available presentations, and with many billions of views, this makes Prezi one of the most widely spread brands to have originated from Hungary. Peter has also worked to encourage young Hungarians to have the confidence that entrepreneurship can provide an opportunity to compete globally. He co-founded and chaired Bridge Budapest, an organization that reaches half of Hungary’s population with entrepreneurial inspiration on a yearly basis. He has also co-founded and chaired WeAreOpen - a gathering of over 1,100 Central and Eastern European companies that work for diverse and inclusive work environments, representing over 100k employees. In 2015, he became the first openly gay CEO in Central and Eastern Europe. He’s been named Entrepreneur of the Year by the EU Commission, Alumni of the Year by Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology, and been included multiple times in Financial Times’ ranking of the world’s most influential LGBT executives.

Seeing through illusions and finding the effortless way of being.

Intergenerational Integration, Internet