Welcome! I’m Anna Gát, Founder-CEO and Editor in Chief of Interintellect. This is my personal website. You can also follow me on X…

Every day, I strive to create a new public square worthy of the intelligence and benevolence of its participants.

I’m a writer and technologist originally from Budapest where I was a bookworm, a Girl Scout, a war history buff, a hobby theologian, and a competitive rhythmic gymnast. I spent part of my high school years in France. I hold two master’s degrees from ELTE in Budapest, and a third from Goldsmiths College in London. I am by training a philosopher of art, dramaturg, and linguist.

I’ve worked since I was a teenager: as a writer and journalist, editor and translator, screenwriter and playwright. My first volume of poetry was published when I was 19. I wrote lyrics for and then managed a couple of underground bands in Budapest. I was nominated for European awards for the movies I wrote or co-wrote, and in 2012 got into Berlin Film Festival’s selective Script Station. It was around this time that, working on a series of sci-fi projects, I realised I was more interested in the sci than the fi: in technology—building the future, not just using or describing it—and I decided to dedicate myself to this mission fully.

In 2013, I co-founded Hungary’s leading women’s rights platform for which I won a Glamour Woman of the Year award. I emigrated to London that same year on a scholarship from Goldsmiths.

I started the first incarnation of Interintellect in London in 2016; it became my main job in 2019. Since then the platform I built has brought together tens of thousands of attendees across thousands of our signature online and offline events — with zero incident despite the deep and difficult topics of discussion.

I’m an Emergent Ventures grant winner. Interintellect’s investors are based in Silicon Valley and worldwide. I’m currently based in New York City. My new personal podcast is called The Hope Axis.