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The OLGA application (olgaforall.gr), initiated and backed by Non-Profit “Act of Kindness”, is Greece’s first digital platform for female victims of violence.
It offers free, anonymous real-time chat and text messaging capabilities to connect women with trained psychologists or social workers.
John Papadimitriou, Kathimerini Journalist and Co-Founder of the C.Ioannina Cowork Community talks to Harris Antoniou, Founder and CEO of Neptune Maritime Leasing LTD, Treasurer-Member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Node: Networks of Global Hellenism, Nikos Kalogiannis, Partner, FS Leader, PwC Greece, Nikos Maniatis, General Manager, IBM Greece & Cyprus, and Christos Megalou, CEO of Piraeus Bank.
Ioannis Vougioukas, CEO of the Cooperative Bank of Epirus, breaks down financing small and medium enterprises for ecosystem growth.
Elsa Exarchou, Owner of Hotel Mikro Papigo 1700 and CEO of Branding Greece, on a one-to-one with Epaminondas Christofilopoulos, Head, UNESCO Chair on Futures Research, FORTH | President, MOMus.
Heracles Papatheodorou Digital & Innovation Coordinator, Onassis Foundation on a one-to-one with Amalia Zepou Project Manager, Athens Heritage Hub, Elliniki Etairia.
Litsa Panayotopoulos, Chair of the Education, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, in a firechat with Tassos Koutlas, Co-Founder of C.Ioannina & Deputy VP of Digital Solutions at FFW, on the proliferative changes artificial intelligence has brought to our lives.
Thanasis Navrozoglou, President & CEO of Natech S.A, moderates a panel discussion with banking industry experts on the digital future of banks and payments. Panelists include Mr. Ioannis Dianellou, Chief Executive Officer at Tora Wallet S.A, Mr. Ayhan Gunay, Foreign Units Portfolio Manager at Ziraat Teknoloji, Lampros Gkogkos, Partner, CESA CNS FS leader, Ernst & Young and Ms. Gabriella Kindert, Banking Executive.
Yannis Zavoleas, Dr, Associate Professor, Department of Architectural Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Ioannina / Honorary Member, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, on a one-to-one with Dimitris Papanikolaou, Assistant Professor, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) School of Architecture, Founder/Director, Urban Synergetics Lab.
Panel: Michalis Moraitis, Strategist and C-Level executive / CIO / Business & Digital Transformation Global Leader, moderates a panel discussion with enterprises on their digital transformation journey and the challenges they have yet to overcome. Panelists include: Andreas Dimitriou, President of Board, Agricultural Poultry Cooperative Pindos, Ioannis Kallias, Chief Executive Officer of TÜV AUSTRIA Hellas & Regional Manager Greece-Cyprus-Balkans, Executive Vice President Service Lines of TÜV AUSTRIA Group, Dimitris Kavvouris, Deputy CEO & Chief Strategy Officer of Syngelides Automotive Companies, and Nikos Petrakis, Country Manager Visa Greece.
Keynote: Michail Kottas, AI Engineer, IBM Greece, presents solutions that artificial intelligence can bring to our everyday lives and reveals applications in work, entrepreneurship and society.
Alexandros Melidis, Director, Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS), leads a discussion with experts on the Greek state’s digital transformation. Panelists include: Dimitris Papastergiou, Minister of Digital Governance, Stefanos Kollias, President of GRNET – National Infrastructures for Research and Technology, Lilian Mitrou, Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean and Cleo Sgouropoulou, Professor of Informatics & Computer Engineering, Board of Directors, Founder of UNIWA AI InnoHUB, University of West Attica.
Lessons learned during a fifteen-years-journey of transforming open data into useful decision tools for corporates and small businesses in Greece.
Michalis Moraitis, Strategist and C-Level executive / CIO / Business & Digital Transformation Global Leader speaks to Nikos Botinis, Chief Commercial Officer Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Cisco, Christos Drakos, Nikos Rogkotis, CIO & CDTO at Agricultural Poultry Cooperative PINDOS, Lampros Tenes, Portfolio & Tech Transformation Lead, PublicNEXT on how innovation transforms business sectors.
Philipp Deutscher, Executive-Tech Advisor- Speaker, on a one-to-one with Tassos Koutlas, Co-Founder of C.Ioannina & Deputy VP of Digital Solutions at FFW on the prerequisites for the establishment & growth of an ecosystem: the Ioannina example.
Litsa Panayotopoulos, Chair of the Education, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, moderates a discussion with start-up founders on the key lessons they learned when starting their companies. Panelists include John Kikidis, Global Ecosystem Lead, Renesas Electronics, Haris Kolios, Founder-CEO of Bio3dvet, George Sidiropoulos, Managing Director, Think Silicon an Applied Materials Company, Dimitris Zacharakis, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Terracom S.A., and Pantelis Zacharis, CFO at Tekmon.
John Papadimitriou, Kathimerini Journalist and Co-Founder of the C.Ioannina Cowork Community moderates a panel on the region of Epirus and its path to Economic Transformation.
Speakers include, Stefanos Papanikos, Principal | Strategy, Business Design and M&A, Vassilios Tsoukanelis, Executive Director at the Cooperative Bank of Epirus and Antigoni Vagena, Regional Cohesion Executive at skywalker.gr – Jobs in Greece
Abhiskek Chatterjee, Founder & CEO, Tookitaki presents AI in the global fight against fraud and money laundering.
Discussion with Kathimerini Journalist & Co-Founder of C.Ioannina John Papadimitriou and Q&A with audience.
Dimitris Fotiadis, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ioannina / Biomedical Research Institute – Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, moderates a conversation with health tech experts on how Ioannina can build on its momentum in this specific industry. Panelists include: Giuseppe Fico, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Technology at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Themis Exarchos, Associate Professor, Director of Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Laboratory, Dept of Informatics, Ionian University, George K. Matsopoulos, Professor Director of Biomedical Engineering Laboratory School of Electrical and Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens, Georgios Papagiannis, Assistant Professor – Director of Biomechanics Laboratory, Physiotherapy Department, University of the Peloponnese, and Stelios Tigkas, Assistant Professor of Endocrinology at the School of Health Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of Ioannina.
Futures Garden: a way of imagining a Europe enriched by a diverse tapestry of potential futures
We will explore different future artefacts, that will encourage us to reimagine everyday life and society.
What if we could explore new ways of inhabiting the perception of other intelligent beings?
Or how would the world look like if new practices and technologies enhance our ways of self-reflections and sharing emotions.
We will discuss these futures together to understand the opportunities and challenges it will bring for all of us.
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