The GenAI Summit journey
continues with exciting Demo Days.

18 NOVEMBER 2024

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

under the auspices of

with the support of

Demo Days

Join the GenAI Summit on November 18th, 2024, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, Greece. Across three dynamic stages—Stavros Niarchos Hall, Alternative Stage, and Book Castle—you’ll experience hands-on demos, case studies, exclusive workshops, and immersive discussions, all running in parallel.

The GenAI Summit is the largest conference solely focused on GenAI in the region, organized with the support of the European Investment Bank, the Liaison Office of the European Parliament in Greece, the Representation of the European Commission in Greece, the HDB, the HDBI and under the auspices of the Ministry of Digital Governance of Greece.

What to expect

Hands-on demos

GenAI Case Studies

Exclusive Workshops

Speakers

Our speakers share practical knowledge and product demos, showcasing how Generative AI is being applied across various sectors.

  • H.E. Kyriakos Mitsotakis

    Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic

  • Dimitris Papastergiou

    Minister of Digital Governance

  • Niki Kerameus

    Minister of Labour and Social Security of the Hellenic Republic

  • Dr. Dimitrios Alexandrou

    Business Innovation Director @ UBITECH

  • Ippokratis Pandis

    VP/Distinguished Engineer @ Amazon Web Services

  • Dr. Konstantina Palla

    Senior Research Scientist @ Spotify

  • Tey Bannerman

    Partner @ McKinsey & Company

  • Yanna Andronopoulou

    General Manager @ Microsoft Greece, Cyprus and Malta

  • George Georgopoulos

    Chief Human Resources and Group Change Officer @ Piraeus

  • Vincent C. Fung

    Partner, Education & Workforce @ IBIS Capital

  • François Candelon

    Partner @ Seven2 | ex Global Director of the BCG Henderson Institute

  • Aleksandar Preradovic

    Aleksandar Preradovic

    General Manager, Greece, Cyprus & Malta @ Dell Technologies

  • Vivi Charalampoyanni

    Deputy Minister of the Interior

  • George Nasoulis

    General Manager – Group CDO @ Piraeus Bank

  • Antonios Sagris

    Senior Director, Group Corporate Development & ESG  @ Piraeus Financial Holdings

  • Marianna Nathanail

    Head of the European Investment Bank Group (EIBG) Office in Greece

  • Andreas Stavropoulos

    Partner @ Threshold Ventures

  • Constantinos Tsoutsoplides

    Head of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Greece

  • Dr. Panagiotis Gouvas

    Research & Development Director @ UBITECH

  • Odysseas Christoforidis

    Chief Transformation Officer @ Teleperformance Greece

  • Christos Tarantilis

    Partner, Head of Government and Public Sector @ EY

  • Dr. Marily Nika

    AI Product Lead @ Google | Founder @ AI Product Academy

  • Mariza Fotiou

    VP Digital Product Management @ BP | Founder @ CuriousIQ (under private capacity)

  • Spyros Skiadopoulos

    Principal, Engineering, AI & Data, @ Deloitte

  • Dr. Andrew Sellers

    Head of Technology Strategy @ Confluent

  • Sofia Zacharaki

    Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Affairs

  • Andreas Papadakis

    Co-Founder, Vice President, and CEO, Archeiothiki SA.

  • Prof. Phoebe Koundouri

    Prof. School of Economics and Director ReSEES @ AUEB & DTU, Chair @ AE4RIA

  • Theo Varvadoukas

    Enterprise Lead @ Palantir

  • Olga Kefalogianni

    Minister of Tourism

  • Panagiotis Agis Oikonomou-Filandras

    Principal Data Scientist of the AI team @ Kaizen Gaming

  • Dr. Lazaros Polymenakos

    Partner, Consulting @ EY | EMEIA Consulting Artificial Intelligence Leader

  • Sandy Papadimitriou

    UC Berkeley | Deployment Strategist @ Palantir

  • Niko Bonatsos

    Managing Director @ General Catalyst

  • Ismini Papakirillou

    Chief Executive Officer @ Hellenic Development Bank

  • Dimitris Tasias

    Partner, Technology Consulting Government & Public Sector Leader @ EY

  • Aurélio Amaral

    Manager, Programs @
    WISE - Qatar Foundation

  • Stamatis Tsolakidis

    Data Center Sales Executive, Greece, Cyprus & Malta, Global Specialty Sales @ Dell Technologies

  • George Dritsanos

    Secure Power VP South-East Europe @ Schneider Electric

  • Natasa Maraka

    Head of Change Management | Workforce Transformation @ PwC Greece

  • Nancy Zachariadou

    Director, Corporate Responsibility Unit @ Piraeus

More speakers will be announced gradually. Stay tuned!

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AI Course & Certification

Kick off your AI Product Management journey with an exclusive, in-person workshop by Dr. Marily Nika, then continue learning through virtual sessions for 3 weeks.

WISE PRIZE FOR EDUCATION

Meet the Innovators Shaping the Future. The 6 Finalists Competing for the $1M WISE Prize for Education Are Present at the GenAI Summit!

Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Media Partners

More sponsors will be announced gradually. Stay tuned!

Want to become a sponsor?

Tracks

Explore tracks showcasing GenAI’s effect across different industries and roles.

  • GenAI in Product

  • GenAI in Finance and Investment

  • GenAI, Startups & VC Investment

  • GenAI in Marketing

  • GenAI in Healthcare

  • GenAI in Education

  • GenAI in Travel/Hospitality & Nutrition/Gastro

  • GenAI in Legal

  • GenAI in Public Policy

  • GenAI in HR/L&D

  • GenAI in Consulting

  • GenAI in Customer Experience

Participation

Be part of the hype

Organizing Team

  • Yiannis Stamatonikolos

    Curator @GenAI Summit | EU Climate Pact Ambassador | Global Shaper | SDSN Youth | UNICEF Global Youth Advisor

  • Antonis Kandylakis

    Head of Growth @ 100mentors

  • Elena Chatziathanasiadou

    UC Berkeley | People @OpenAI

  • Haris Ioannou

    NTUA, Columbia U. | Kleiner Perkins Product Fellow | AI Product Manager @Google

  • Christos Porios

    Public Interest Technologist, ex-Google, Harvard

  • Elena Pittarokoili

    Analytics Engineer @Age of Learning | Education Data Science @Stanford 

  • Tim Gianitsos

    ex-Amazon, AI - CompSci Lecturer & Researcher@ Stanford Mercola Lab

  • Menelaos Mazarakis

    UPenn | Partner & Head of Product @ChapterOne, ex-Google AI, ex-Facebook, ex-Instagram

  • Kostapanos Miliaresis

    AUEB, Fordham | ex-AbbVie & Clinton Foundation | ethelon co-Founder | Forbes U30 Lister | Ashoka Foundation Changemaker | RWI Nudge the Good Unit Director

  • Nikos Sarilakis

    ACT, GGU | Co-Founder of dopios.com (now WelcomePickups.com) | ex-Director of Product Marketing @ Salesforce| Worldwide Product Marketing @ Apple

  • Vangelis Pastas

    NTUA - Top 1%, Columbia Engineering - Top 1% (Summa Cum Laude) | Quantitative Trader @Tower Research Capital | ex-Jump Trading, ex-Morgan Stanley

  • Argyris Kriezis

    Stanford Aero/Astro PhD Student | OSSTP Group | SpectrumX Fellow

  • Orpheas Katsikis

    Aarhus U & CBS | Data & BI, ex-Genesis (DCG), ex-Amazon

  • Elena Pantazi

    INSEAD, UoCambridge | Partner for Talent @Northzone VC, ex-Director @Bain Capital

  • Yiorgos Nikoletakis

    AUEB, Columbia U, Fulbrighter | CoFounder @Tipping Point, CEO @100mentors

  • Niko Efstathiou

    Yale and Columbia U | Editorial Director - REBORRN

  • Dimitra Charalampopoulou

    AUEB, USC | ex-Deloitte, Managing Director at Girls In Tech | Strategic Ops @ Intel LA

  • Dionysis Zindros

    Blockchains and Cryptography @Common Prefix & @Stanford

  • Tina Marinaki

    Columbia U/ GenAI and/or Human generated surreal images of Athens @athens_surreal

  • Orestis Kaparounakis

    NTUA, Cambridge U. | PhD Researcher @PhysCompLab, Cloud Engineer Lead @Signaloid

  • Sylvia Bouloutas

    Duke University | Investor @ Techstars

  • Sofia Kapsiani

    Ph.D. Student @ University of Cambridge (Molecular Neuroscience Group) & AstraZeneca | MSc Imperial College London (Bioinformatics)

  • Dimitri Maltezakis Vathypetrou

    Engineering Management at Duke | Developer Relations Manager @NVIDIA

  • Marilena Velonia Bellonia

    Studying Technology and Policy at MIT. Ex-Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft Greece

  • Emmanouil Koukoumidis

    Senior Eng. Manager - Google Cloud GenAI | ex-Meta, ex-Microsoft | MIT, Princeton U, NTUA

  • Dr Anastasia-Olga (Olnancy) Tzirides

    Visiting lecturer @ the University of Illinois Chicago, and an academic researcher @ the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Maria Paziotopoulou

    LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School

Highlights

Summit Rewind

Relive highlights from past GenAI Summits.

Sponsors

Success Stories

  • The setup was well organized and the audience was engaging which made the discussion more interesting and insightful.

    Big 4 Executive

  • The panel was excellently coordinated, allowing for a fruitful exchange of views on AI in HR, and collaboration between sectors on various significant topics.

    Hellenic Government

  • Enthusiastic and packed session with many follow-up questions. A colleague shared that it clarified the practical aspects of Amazon Bedrock, enhancing their customer discussions.

    AWS Representative

Outcomes

  • Regional AI Talent Hub

    Attracting top AI talents, GenAI Summit is a prime opportunity for companies to recruit skilled professionals, highlighting the Summit's role as a vital talent hub.

  • Cross sectoral AI Innovation

    The presentation of the transition from Infobot to ActionBot of mAIgov, the Greek AI assistant, showcased the successful collaboration between public and private sectors for AI.

  • WISE Summit Insights

    The WISE Summit of Qatar Foundation, presented key findings, establishing the Summit as a premier hub for global insights on AI.

  • Meet Global Awardees

    Microsoft & data.org global winners, the GenAI Education Frontier, showcased how Tipping Point and 100mentors empower educators in Greece with advanced GenAI skills.

About the Summit

Designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice, showcase innovation, drive cross-sectoral adoption.

Mission and Vision

Empower Europe/MENA's organizations, companies & public sector to responsibly & sustainably adopt GenAI in their everyday work and build an ecosystem of innovation in the region that will give birth to the next global GenAI leaders.

FAQs

  • The GenAI Summit will be held on November 18, 2024, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens.

  • You can register through the official summit website, where tickets are available with options for students, groups and standard tickets.

  • The summit will feature 47+ panels, workshops, and tracks covering key themes in generative AI applications across finance, legal, education, and more.

  • You can find a tentative agenda on our website.

  • The GenAI Summit welcomes industry professionals, students, researchers, and anyone interested in generative AI.

  • Yes, discounts are available for students, early registrants, and group bookings.

  • SNFCC is accessible by public transportation, with several bus routes stopping nearby. Bus lines 130, 217, 860, and the free SNFCC shuttle bus from Syntagma Square connect directly to the center. The closest metro station is "Syngrou-Fix" on Line 2 (Red Line), from which visitors can take bus 550 or B2 to reach SNFCC.

  • SNFCC is fully accessible to visitors with disabilities. The venue offers wheelchair-accessible entrances, elevators, restrooms, and designated parking spaces for disabled visitors.

  • Yes, SNFCC provides an underground parking area for visitors. However, spaces are limited, so early arrival is recommended.

  • The summit offers hands-on demos, exclusive workshops, and insightful case studies on Generative AI applications across various sectors, featuring top-tier speakers and innovators. It's a unique opportunity to stay ahead of AI trends and network with global leaders.

  • Volunteers gain unique access to the summit, providing networking opportunities and exposure to industry leaders and cutting-edge AI technologies. To volunteer at the GenAI Summit, simply reach out to us via email at info@genaisummitseeurope.com. Our team will provide all the details on how you can get involved and contribute to making the summit a success.

  • Yes, certification is available for two workshops at the GenAI Summit. One will be led by Dr. Marily Nika, and the other will be delivered by 100mentors. Both workshops offer participants the chance to earn certification upon completion.