Xpat Business Bites, Spoon Boat, 19 July

Last Thursday evening on Spoon, beside the Chain Bridge with beautiful views of the Royal Castle, VIP partners of XpatLoop.com and Info Guide magazine gathered for the first ‘Business Bites’ event in Budapest .

'Spoon The Boat Restaurant', a first-class venue on the Danube, served guests from a great range of professions with welcome bubbles, soft drinks, and delicious bites of fine-food served in their trademark spoons, plus a good few sparkling cocktails, before a lively presentation by a local GDPR expert.

‘The Actual Impact of GDPR In Hungary’ was the title of this valuable ten minute briefing by Dr. Veronika Francis-Hegedűs, of law firm BWSP Gobert & Partners, who has over seven years of legal expertise as a GDPR implementation attorney, as well as expat experience in the UK.

After her bullet-point presentation guests discussed the topic at hand, enjoyed some social networking, and further refreshments during the remaining part of this handy one hour 'bite-sized' event for busy professionals.

Feedback from guests was great, as was the calibre of those in attendance, such as respected heads of international schools, a charity president, senior diplomat, regional director, plus many company leaders and key representatives of top firms in town.

This new time-efficient business networking format was introduced by Stephen Linfitt, the publisher of XpatLoop - Hungary's leading media for the expat community, and was jointly organised by David Nemesdaróczi, Managing Director of premier tourist magazine Info Guide Hungary.

Words and photos by Russell Skidmore, big pics by Marcus Schirrmacher-Gavallér