Social Events
Official Social Events
Welcome Reception
Date & Time: Monday, August 25, 2025, 19.30-21.30
Venue: Hotel Kempinski Infinity Room (conference level)
Dress Code: Business casual
This is included in Member, Non-Member, and Accompany registrations. Additional tickets are available for purchase for students, residents, and non-registered partners, priced at 80 EUR/person.
Award Ceremony Dinner
Date & Time: Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 19.30-23.00
Venue: MOL Campus Tower Skydeck & Panorama Room
Dress Code: Formal
Meeting point for bus transfer: Hotel Kempinski lobby at 19.00
This is included in Member, Non-Member, and Accompany registrations. Additional tickets are available for students/residents and non-registered partners, priced at 200 EUR/person.
Trail Blazer, FIPP, and CIPS Awards Ceremony
Master of Ceremonies
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
Opening Remarks
Miles Day, MD, FIPP, WIP President
Agnes Stogicza, MD, PhD, FIPP, CIPS, Local Organizing Committee
In Memoriam Prof. Gabor B. Racz
Carl Noe, MD, FIPP
Miles Day, MD, FIPP
Douglas Beall, MD, FIPP
Presentation of the 2025 Trail Blazer Award
Lorand Eross, MD, PhD, FIPP, presented by Peter Staats, MD, MBA, FIPP (USA
Lorand Eross, MD, PhD, FIPP
Dr. Lorand Eross is the head of the Functional Neurosurgical Department and Center of Neuromodulation at the National Institute of Clinical Neurosciences in Budapest. He is the Director of Research and Innovation. He leads the Epilepsy Surgery Program at the institute. He got his PhD degree at Semmelweis University in 2010 in epilepsy surgery. His main interest is epilepsy surgery, movement disorder surgery, neurosurgical treatment of pain, spasticity and neuromodulation. He has an active reasearch group in the field of epilepsy, chronic pain. He developed new intraoperative localisation method for invasive recordings in epilepsy surgery. His activity includes research and development of in vitro and in vivo electrophysiological and optical investigation methods. He is a lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the Semmelweis University and at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Faculty of Information Technology in bionical sciences.
Recognition of FIPP and CIPS honorees from Budapest 2024, Istanbul 2024, Taipei 2025, and Orlando 2025
Monique Steegers, MD, PhD, FIPP, Kris Vissers, MD, PhD, FIPP, Jee Youn Moon, MD, PhD, FIPP, CIPS, and Javier De Andres Ares, MD, PhD, FIPP