23-24 April 2026 / Budapest
23-24 April 2026 / Budapest
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. (registered office: 2600 Vác, Vám utca 13. hereinafter referred to as the provider, data controller) as the data controller, acknowledges the contents of this legal notice as binding. It undertakes to ensure that all processing of data related to its activities complies with the requirements set out in this Policy and in the applicable national legislation and European Union acts.
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. reserves the right to make changes to this information at any time. It will of course inform its audience of any changes in due time.
If you have any questions regarding this notice, please contact us and our staff will answer them.
Tideus Innovation, Development and Services Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. is committed to protecting the personal data of its customers and partners and attaches the utmost importance to respecting the right of customers to information self-determination. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. treats personal data confidentially and takes all security, technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of the data. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. describes its data management practices below.
If you wish to contact our Company, you can contact the data controller using the following contact details. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. will delete all e-mails received by it, together with the sender’s personal data, after a maximum of 2 years from the date of the communication.
Name: Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd.
Registered office: 2600 Vác, Vám utca 13.
Company registration number: 13-09-190838
Name of the court of registration: Company Court
Tax number: 26213240-2-13
Telephone number: +36 30 225 4000
E-mail: info@tideus.com
DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
Name: Zsolt Szalóczy
Phone number: +36 30 225 4000
The Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. processes the following data voluntarily provided by the data subject in relation to attending the World Adaptation Forum:
Name
E-mail address
Signature
The World Adaptation Forum event will be recorded on video and audio in accordance with the provisions of the Hungarian Civil Code on public appearances and public recordings (Civil Code, § 2:48 (2)). Participants were informed of this prior to registering for the event and when their registration was confirmed. The purpose of the recording is to record the event to verify that it has taken place. The footage may also be published on the event’s website and social media platforms.
If you do not wish to be included in the footage, please notify the person who recorded the footage or our Data Protection Officer.
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. selects and operates the IT tools used for the processing of personal data in the provision of the service in such a way that the processed data:
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. shall take appropriate measures to protect the data against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, disclosure, deletion, or destruction and against accidental destruction. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. shall ensure the security of data processing by implementing technical, and organisational measures to provide a level of protection appropriate to the risks associated with the processing. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. shall retain the following during the processing
The purpose of processing the data provided during registration is to determine the eligibility of participants to attend the event.
The purpose of the audio and video recording of the World Adaptation Forum event is to record the event for the purpose of verifying that the event has taken place. The recordings may also be published on the event’s website and social media platforms.
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd.’s data management is based on voluntary consent and legal authorization. In the case of processing based on voluntary consent, data subjects may withdraw their consent at any stage of the processing. In certain cases, the processing, storage, and transmission of some of the data provided is required by law and we will inform our customers separately. We would like to draw the attention of the data providers to the Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. to the fact that if they do not provide their own personal data, the data provider is obliged to obtain the consent of the data subject. Its data management principles comply with the applicable data protection legislation, in particular with the following:
Your personal data (i.e. data that can be associated with you personally) may be processed by us in the following ways: on the one hand, your participation in the event will be identified on the basis of the name and e-mail address provided by you during the online registration, whereby you will sign the attendance sheet, and on the other hand, by participating in the event, you agree to be included in the audio and video recording of the event.
Data related to the World Adaptation Forum event may be transferred to the event organisers.
The data subject may request information on the processing of his/her personal data, and may request the rectification, erasure, or withdrawal of his/her personal data, except for mandatory data processing, and may exercise his/her right to data portability and objection in the manner indicated when the data were collected, or by contacting the controller at the above contact details.
Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. shall take appropriate measures to provide data subjects with all the information referred to in Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR and all the information referred to in Articles 15 to 22 and 34 of the GDPR concerning the processing of personal data in a concise, transparent, intelligible, and easily accessible form, in a clear and plain language.
The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller feedback as to whether or not his or her personal data are being processed and, if such processing is ongoing, the right to access the personal data and the following information: the purposes of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; the recipients or categories of recipients to whom or with which the personal data have been or will be disclosed, including in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations; the envisaged period of storage of the personal data; the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing and the right to object; the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; information on the data sources; the fact of automated decision-making, including profiling, and clear information on the logic used and the significance of such processing and its likely consequences for the data subject. The controller shall provide the information within a maximum of one month from the date of the request.
The data subject may request the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her processed by Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. and the completion of incomplete data.
The data subject shall have the right to have personal data relating to him or her erased by Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. without undue delay upon request if one of the following grounds applies:
The erasure of data cannot be initiated if the processing is necessary:
Upon the data subject’s request, Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. will restrict the processing of data if one of the following conditions is met:
Where processing is restricted, personal data, except for storage, may be processed only with the consent of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or of an important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.
The data subject has the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her which he or she has provided to the controller in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and to transmit these data to another controller.
The data subject shall have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to processing of his or her personal data necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller, or necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, including profiling based on those provisions. In the event of an objection, the controller may no longer process the personal data, unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for doing so which override the interests, rights, and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims.
The data subject has the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or her.
The data subject has the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time.
The data subject may take legal action against the controller in the event of a breach of his or her rights. The court shall rule on the matter out of turn.
Complaints may be lodged with the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information:
1055 Budapest, Falk Miksa utca 9-11
Address for correspondence: 1363 Budapest, Pf. 9
Phone: +36 1 391 1400, +36 30 683 5969
Fax: +36 1 391 14 10
E-mail: ugyfelszolgalat@naih.hu
Website: https://www.naih.hu/
We inform our customers that the court, the prosecutor, the investigating authority, the law enforcement authority, the administrative authority, the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, the National Bank of Hungary, or other bodies authorised by law may request the data controller to provide information, to disclose or transfer data, or to provide documents. Tideus Innovation, Development and Service Provider Non-Profit Public Benefit Ltd. shall disclose personal data to the authorities only to the extent and to the extent strictly necessary for the purpose of the request, provided that the authorities have indicated the exact purpose and scope of the data.
Juan García Martínez – Research Manager at Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters
Juan Bartolomé García Martínez is a resilience researcher focused on global catastrophic food-system failure. Holding a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Twente (Netherlands), he serves as Research Manager at the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) and co-founded the Observatorio de Riesgos Catastróficos Globales (ORCG). Over more than five years he has led interventions to support societies under civilisation-scale shocks – especially abrupt sunlight-reduction events and cascading supply-chain failures. He has published over 20 scientific papers on resilient food systems and non-agricultural food production, and has advised policy initiatives including national playbooks for nuclear-winter preparedness.
Willem Naudé – Professor at the RWTH Aachen University
Wim Naudé is Professor of the Economics of Innovation, Trade and Development at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He has previously worked at Maastricht University, United Nations University and Oxford University. His research asks: Will Prometheus’ gift undo the world? The modern economic system, built on technological innovation and cheap fossil fuels, has transformed into a predatory global capitalism marked by inequality, conflict, and ecological overshoot. His latest books – The Economic Decline of the West: Guns, Oil and Oligarchs and Economic Growth and Societal Collapse – weave together his interests in innovation, trade, development and the habitability of a transforming planet.
Roberta Boscolo – Head of the Climate and Energy Unit at the WMO
Roberta Boscolo is a climate and energy scientist with over twenty years of global experience, specialising in the Water-Energy-Food nexus and the scaling of science-based adaptation and mitigation strategies in support of sustainable development. She holds a degree in Physics and an MSc in Physical Oceanography, and completed advanced climate and energy studies in international organisations and leading institutions. Prior to her current role, she served as Chief of the WMO Liaison Office in New York. Recognised among the Global 50 Women in Sustainability and a Top Voice for the Green Economy, she serves on the Expert Advisory Panel of the The Earthshot Prize category “Fix Our Climate” and is a nominee for the LUCE Award for Legacy Women in Energy.
Maya Frost – Adaptation Activist, and Founder of Collapse Forward
Maya Frost is a creative disruptor helping collapse-aware leaders turn dread into depth, discovery, daring, and doing. Inspired by her early experience of profound loss and her pandemic-era pro bono work, she created Doom to Bloom™, a 30-day process that has transformed the lives of those struggling with devastating grief in 20 countries. In the early 2000s, her playful, eyes-wide-open approach to mindfulness was featured in over 150 media outlets worldwide. In 2009, she took on traditional education in the U.S. in her book, The New Global Student. A happy grandmother of six who has lived in seven countries, Maya is deeply committed to facing profound systemic level collapse with rewilded imagination, enlivened engagement, and joyful collaboration.
George Tsakraklides – Scientist, Systems Thinker and Author on Civilisational Collapse
George Tsakraklides is a scientist and author whose work bridges biology, chemistry, and the social sciences to explore the systemic drivers behind civilisational collapse. Trained in molecular biology, chemistry, food science and earth sciences, his early career focused on consumer research and behavioural analysis for major corporations before turning to independent inquiry. His writing challenges long-standing dogmas across economics, science, anthropology and social studies, opening the way to new understandings of the past that can illuminate the future. He has published six books, including Beyond the Petri Dish, The Unhappiness Machine, and In the Grip of Necrocapitalism, exploring the human condition in times of systemic level crisis.
Florian Ulrich Jehn – Associate Researcher at Center for Critical Computational Studies
Florian Ulrich Jehn is an environmental scientist, systems thinker, and resilience researcher, specialising in food security, climate impacts, and complex civilisational risk. Trained in environmental science with a doctorate in hydrology from Justus-Liebig University Giessen, his work has since expanded to analysing extreme climate scenarios and developing innovative strategies for sustaining global food systems after catastrophic events. He leads research at the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) as well and authors an ongoing living literature review on societal collapse, bridging scientific research, policy, and public understanding of humanity’s most pressing systemic challenges and sustainable long-term planetary resilience.
David Jacome-Polit – Head of Resilient Development at ICLEI World Secretariat
David Jácome-Polit is an urban resilience strategist and systems thinker, specialising in inclusive and sustainable urban transformation across the Global South and beyond. Trained as an architect, he holds an MSc in Architectural Engineering and Technology in Sustainable Development from TU Delft. With over fifteen years of experience, he has led major resilience and community-driven initiatives that bridge local needs with global agendas. Formerly Metropolitan Director of Resilience and Chief Resilience Officer for Quito, he now serves as Head of Resilient Development at ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability organisation, advancing just and transformative urban futures grounded in equity, participation, and long-term profound systemic change.
David Betz – Professor at the King’s College London
David Betz is a war studies scholar and strategic analyst, specialising in insurgency, cyber-warfare and fortifications. He holds a BA and MA from Carleton University and a PhD from the University of Glasgow. For over twenty years he has been based at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where he is now Professor of War in the Modern World and leads the Insurgency Research Group. His research covers topics such as Russian military studies, future war, insurgency and counter-insurgency, propaganda and strategic communications, fortifications, and civil wars. He has advised a range of governments including the USA, UK, Canada and Israel, as well as international institutions such as NATO, the UN, and other global organisations.
Danilo Brozović – Associate Professor at the University of Skövde
Danilo Brozović is a business scholar and social scientist from Sweden, specialising in strategic flexibility, sustainability, and the future of complex socio-economic systems. Trained in business administration, his research examines how organisations adapt to disruption and systemic risk, and how narratives of societal collapse and renewal can inform resilient transformation. He bridges management science with futures studies and speculative science fiction, publishing widely in leading international journals, including Futures. His recent work seeks to expand the ethical and creative horizons of sustainability in the twenty-first century, integrating insights from complexity theory, and human imagination to explore pathways toward viable futures.
Gaya Herrington – Vice President of Sustainability Research at Schneider Electric
Gaya Herrington is an internationally known sustainability researcher and postgrowth economist. She believes that true sustainability will not be achieved without transforming our economicsystem away from an obsession with growth to one that centers around societal and ecological wellbeing. She’s a Club of Rome Member, and holds a Master’s degree in Econometrics (Amsterdam University), and another in Sustainability (Harvard University). Since her peer-reviewed article in Yale’s Journal of Industrial Ecology went viral in 2021, Gaya has been offering a vision for something society would want to do even if it was not faced with impending ecosystem breakdown: re-define the economic purpose to meeting all human needs within planetary boundaries by design.