Summit Rewind
Summit February 2024
Success Stories
Outcomes
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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.
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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.
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WISE Summit Insights
The WISE Summit of Qatar Foundation, presented key findings, establishing the Summit as a premier hub for global insights on AI.
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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.
Sponsors
Speakers
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Chris Anagnostopoulos
Partner, Director of Innovation for Life Sciences @ QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
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Sasha Rubel
Head of Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy, AWS EMEA
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Aleksandar Preradovic
Managing Director and Chairman, Dell Technologies, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.
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Andreas Stavropoulos
National AI Committee member, Partner @ Threshold. Harvard & HBS (Baker Scholar & 1st in class) & McKinsey alumnus
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Dimitris Papastergiou
Minister of Digital Governance
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Dr. Anthony S. Papadimitriou
President of the Onassis Foundation
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Eugenia Bozou
Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy Greece, Cyprus, Malta @ Google, Greece
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Niko Bonatsos
Managing Director @ General Catalyst, a VC with ~$5B raised and allocated to companies like Airbnb, Canva, Stripe, Discord, Snapchat. NTUA, Stanford & Fulbright alumnus
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Eleni Verteouri
Senior AI Product Manager, Director at UBS, Zurich
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Maria Borbonés García
IBM Client Engineering Manager and AI Architect
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Stavros N. Yiannouka
CEO of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), Qatar Foundation
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Elena Chatziathanasiadou
UC Berkeley | People @OpenAI
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Prof. Dr. Haris Lambropoulos
President of the Hellenic Development Bank of Investments SA (HDBI, ex TANEO-New Economy Fund); Member of the Board of Directors (alt.), European Investment Bank (EIB)
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Theodore Tzouros
Executive General Manager, Chief of Corporate and Investment Banking @ Piraeus Bank
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Konstantinos Kyranakis
Deputy Minister of Digital Governance of Greece
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Sandy Papadimitriou
UC Berkeley | Deployment Strategist @Palantir
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Stathis N. Kalyvas
Gladstone Professor of Government at the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations, Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)
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Dr. Dimitrios Alexandrou
Business Innovation Director @ AiLabs by UBITECH
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Vasilis Linardos
Head of A.I. Services @ Archeiothiki
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Vivi Charalaboyianni
Deputy Minister of the Interior
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Nikos Stathakis
Director of Data Analytics & AI @ Piraeus Bank
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Mara Pometti
Associate Director AI Strategy and Governance @ McKinsey, top voice for corporate GenAI adoption, Ex-AI strategist @IBM and a data journalist
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George Kourakos
Director of Innovation @ Kaizen Gaming
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Marios Tzitziras
General Manager Head of Operations @ Piraeus Bank
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Efthymios Prassoulas
Director, AI Center of Excellence, Netcompany-Intrasoft
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Nancy Zachariadou
Director | Group Cultural and Social Initiatives at Piraeus Bank
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Sotiris Karagiannis
Chief Innovation Officer @SPACE HELLAS
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Artemis Seaford
BA @ Oxford, JD/Ph.D. @Stanford, MPP @Harvard | ex-McKinsey, ex-Policy Manager @ Meta (Facebook), Product Policy Manager @ OpenAI
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Dr. Sokratis Kartakis
GenAIOps Leader, AWS EMEA
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Natasa Maraka
Head of Change Management | Workforce Transformation, PwC Greece
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Pavlos Konstas
Associate Partner & Enterprise Agility Leader UK & Ireland @ IBM
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Stavros Stavrinoudakis
Analytics Business Unit Director @ Performance
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Dr. Marily Nika
AI Product Lead @ Google | Founder @AI Product Academy
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Eve Psalti
Senior Director @ Microsoft Azure Artificial Intelligence, ex-Head of Strategic Platforms @ Google
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Clara Hawking
Head of Artificial Intelligence @ Globeducate
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Krishna Singh
Health Analytics & ML Leader @ AWS EMEA
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Pantelis Z. Lappas
Senior AI/ML Researcher, Netcompany-Intrasoft
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Dr. Panagiotis Gouvas
Research & Development Director @ AiLabs by UBITECH
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François Candelon
Senior Partner and Managing Director, BCG Global Director @Henderson Institute. Led the 1st GenAI scientific field experiment on knowledge worker productivity with HarvardBR, MIT, UPenn
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Sofia Argiti
Data & AI Solutions Specialist, IBM Greece and Cyprus
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Michael Sinoplis
A.I. Product Lead @ Archeiothiki
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Ekaterina Sirazitdinova
Senior Data Scientist at NVIDIA
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Stelios Mantas
Consulting Partner, Deloitte Digital Leader
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Yonah Welker
Ex -curator at Global AI Summit, Serial Technologist, Public Evaluator, Commission's Board, Voice For Algorithms
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Raghavan Muthuregunathan
Senior Engineering Leader - Search AI @LinkedIn
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Yannis Paniaras
Principal-level design leader at Microsoft | founding member of Microsoft Digital’s AI Center of Excellence (CoE)
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Kostas C. Argyropoulos
General Counsel SPACE HELLAS GROUΡ, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer
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Nikos Moraitakis
CEO of Workable
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Alex Fourlis
Senior Vice President @ Veritone
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Dr. Alex Eleftheriadis
Partner at Big Pi Ventures and angel investor. Co-founder of Vidyo. Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia. More than 150 patents, used in practically all digital video products.
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Christina Grigoriadou
Attorney at Law, Senior Associate @ Moussas & Partners Law Firm
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Angeliki Dedopoulou
Public Policy Manager for AI & Fintech @ Meta
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Zissis Konstas
Senior Customer Engineer at Google Cloud
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Achilles Georginis
Strategic Account Director @ Snowflake | Oxford University, Said Business School | Vice Chair of AI @ Hellenic Tech Network
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Nikiforos Botis
Public Sector Solutions Architect @ AWS Greece
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Kimonas Sotirchos
MLOps Engineering Manager @ Canonical | NTUA
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Kostas Kontogiannis
Chief Financial Officer at Skroutz.gr
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Dimitrios Georgiou
Strategy Senior Consultant @ Deloitte (Travel, Hospitality & Leisure) | BoD Member @ Onassis Scholars' Association
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Dr. Maria- Oraiozili Koutsoupia
AI legal expert, President @ Rythmisis
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Virginia Kokiou
Lawyer and the Chief of Staff and Legal Counsel to the Special Secretary of Foresight.
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Kostas Vasilopoulos
Machine learning engineer at Pfizer
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Stavros Vassos
CEO @helvia.ai
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Vasilis Vassalos
Director of AI @ AISERA
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Alexandros Papaspyridis
International Business Development Advisor @ Flywheel.io
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Suzanna Kalendzhian
Co-Founder & CEO at Legal Advice Middle East
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Michail Kottas
AI Specialist, IBM
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Aristodimos Komninos
AI & XR Product Manager @ Trimble SketchUp | ex-Urban Designer at SOM | SMArchS @ MIT
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Dr. Lilian Balatsou
Conversational Intelligence Chapter Lead
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Marianna Polykrati
Group Treasurer AVRAMAR, GBBC Ambassador in Greece, and an Honorary Board member for the Hellenic Association of Treasurers.
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Dr. Matina Thomaidou
VP, Head of Data Science at Dataseat (Verve Group) | ex-Meta (Facebook Ad Auction) | PhD in Machine Learning | Co-Founder of Greek Women Do Tech
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Catherine Richards
Senior Global Content & Experience Strategist @VMware
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Yannis Mastrogeorgiou
Special Secretary of Foresight Strategy at the Presidency of the Hellenic Government
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Elena Pittarokoili
Education & Data Science @Stanford, Analytics Engineer @Age of Learning
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Fotis Draganidis
Helping ISVs, Digital Natives, Startups innovate with Microsoft Cloud and AI, at Central Eastern Europe, Microsoft EMEA
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Emmanouil Serrelis
Metropolitan College/IVT AKMI, Group CTO
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Michail Bletsas
Research Scientist and the Director of Computing @ MIT's Media Lab
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Charalampos Tsekeris
V.Chair & Interim Chair of the National Commission for Bioethics & Technoethics
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Marietta Lazana
Managing Director @ Girls in Tech Greece | Digital Analyst @ McKinsey & Company
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Georgios Chliveros
Metropolitan College, Associate Dean of Faculty, Head of Engineering Department
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Niko Efstathiou
Journalist, Author & Communications Advisor
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Selma Talha Jebril
Senior Manager, Research and Policy Development @Wise Education, Qatar Foundation
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Niamh Whelan
Program Lead @ WISE
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Kostas Karpouzis
Associate Professor @ Panteion University
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Magnus Hessbo
Group NAO Senior Advisor and Programme Lead “AI Opener for Destinations”
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John Nousis
Co-Founder, Travelmyth
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Costas Vavaroutas
HR Director @Cenergy Holdings & Sidenor Group
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Diomidis Spinellis
Professor of Software Engineering @ Athens University of Economics and Business, Professor of Software Analytics @ Delft Technical University, Editor-in-Chief emeritus of the IEEE Software magazine
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Konstantinos P. Anagnostopoulos
Attorney at Law, European Legal Tech Association Ambassador for Greece, Director & Co-Founder @ Athens Legal Tech
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Spyridon Vlachopoulos
Professor and Member of University Senate @University of Athens
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Sai Vijayendra Madiga
Head of Data Science @ VR Smart Guide, ex AVP @J.P. Morgan, 30 under 30 Data Scientists
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Constantine Moros, MBA, PhD
Director @ EY Global Consulting Products & Platforms | Global Business Product Leader | Global Consulting Platform
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Lucas Velidakis
Journalist @Kathimerini.gr & Athens Voice
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Amalia Konstantakopoulou
Co - founder & Director @NGO “The Tipping Point”
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Maria Gianniou, PhD
Certified Empowerment & Leadership Coach | Corporate Trainer
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Spyros Antoniou
Consumer insights leader 7days Europe, Economics Psychology
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Pepy Meli
Head of Learning Experience & Research @ 100mentors
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Ioanna Taouki, Ph.D.
PhD in Educational Neuroscience, Instructional Designer @100mentors
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Alexandra Zagora
Educational Consultant @ The Tipping Point
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Lina Filippaki
Economist & Highschool Teacher @ 4th General High School of Rhodes
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Theodora Lymperi
School director of the Junior High school of Moudros, Lemnos
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Sevastoula Tsirigoti
Philologist @ 3rd General High School of Nea Smirni, Athens
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Maria Matthaiou
Secondary School Director , Education Sciences-theory, practise and evaluation of teaching (Med-MA)
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Sophilenia Togia
Student of 1st grade at Model High School of Chalkida
Summit June 2023
Speakers
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Eve Psalti
Senior Engineering Director @ Microsoft Azure AI Artificial Intelligence
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Elena Chatziathanasiadou
UC Berkeley | People @OpenAI
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Donald H. Taylor
Chair of LTC & the Annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey (responses from 100 countries), Chair of the Workforce Development board of the VC Emerge Education
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Artemis Seaford
BA @ Oxford, JD/Ph.D. @Stanford, MPP @Harvard | ex-McKinsey, ex-Policy Manager @ Meta (Facebook), Product Policy Manager @ OpenAI
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Xenia Miscouridou
Assistant Professor in Stats & Machine Learning @ Imperial, Forbes 30U30 Europe and A. Professor @I-X, Imperial's flagship AI initiative
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Diomidis Spinellis
Professor of Software Engineering @ Athens University of Economics and Business, Professor of Software Analytics @ Delft Technical University, Editor-in-Chief emeritus of the IEEE Software magazine
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Adonis Georgiadis
ex-Minister of Growth and Development
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Kate Syuma
Head of Growth Design @ Miro
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Filippos Protogeridis
Head of Product Design @MANUAL. Previously ZOE, Transifex, efood. 12 years of experience leading Product Design for startups and scaleups in UK, US, EU.
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Aris Konstantinidis
Stanford MBA, Strategy & Biz Ops @ Cohere, ex-OpenAI
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Fotis Draganidis
Helping ISVs, Digital Natives, Startups innovate with Microsoft Cloud and AI, at Central Eastern Europe, Microsoft EMEA
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Dimitrios Skaltsas
Co-Founder & CEO of Intelligencia: De-risking drug development. Executive in Residence, AI at INSEAD
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Nikos Moraitakis
CEO of Workable
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Kostas Xiradakis
VP of Product and Growth at Viva Wallet
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Tasos Zachos
Editor in Chief of Fortune Greece
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Vasilis Danias
CEO @Bitloops, ex-Uber, ex-CEO @Beat
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Orestis Omran
Partner / Head of Country Group @ DLA Piper UK LLP
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Evangelia Vagena
Lawyer | Adjunct Professor of IP & IT Law | Data Protection Officer | Head of Compliance at Orfium
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Tilemachos Moraitis
Government and Corporate Affairs Manager at Microsoft Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Baltics & Ukraine
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Isidoros Sideridis
CEO of Pobuca | CX & AI enthusiast | Microsoft awardee
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Stelios Ramphos
Author
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Nancy Zachariadou
Director | Group Cultural and Social Initiatives at Piraeus Bank
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George Palaigeorgiou
PhD, Co-founder and CPO in LearnWorlds, ex-Professor in Educational Technology
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George Gakas
Chief Insurance Officer @Hellas Direct
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Costas Vavaroutas
HR Director @Cenergy Holdings
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Leonidas Christopoulos
Secretary General of Digital Governance and Simplification of Procedures at the Ministry of Digital Governance
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Dr. Philippa Hardman
Creator of the DOMS™️ learning design engine | TEDX Speaker | Cambridge Uni Scholar | Former Ed-Tech Chief Academic Officer | Coach & Advisor
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Dimitrios Georgiou
MPhil @ University of Cambridge, ex-ECB, Researcher @ Toposophy
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Ioannis Iason Zertopoulis
IT Business Partner @ PwC Greece
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Ioannis T. Christou
Senior Research Data Scientist, Netcompany-Intrasoft and Associate Professor, The American College of Greece
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Maria Glypti
Philologist @ 1st High School of Markopoulo
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Amalia Konstantakopoulou
Co-Founder & Director @ NGO The Tipping Point
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George A. Pappas
Lead Product Designer @ 100mentors, ex-Epignosis
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Nick Papanotas
CEO @ Geekbot
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Charalampos Tsekeris
V.Chair of the National Commission for Bioethics & Technoethics
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Yiannis Kotsis Giannarakis
ex-GM @Hellenic Association of Mobile Application Companies (HAMAC), Digital Innovation Coordinator @GRNET - Greek Research & Technology Network
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Michalis Rikakis
SVP Product @ Workable
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Antonis Cassano
Business Development & Innovation Director, Uni Systems
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Michalis Stangos
CEO @ MSCOMM & Partner @ L-Stone Capital VC
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Kostas Karpouzis
Associate Professor @ Panteion University
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Giorgos Kastrinakis
Head of Data Science @Orfium
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Yannis Vlassopoulos
Ph.D. @Duke, Math of string theory, Adjunct researcher Athena RC, research on math structures learned by Large Language Models, 100 mentors collaborator
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Haris Papageorgiou
ATHENA Research Center, Research Director @Institute for Language & Speech Processing, Partner @ OPIX.ai
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Stefanos Doltsinis
Technology Manager Machine Learning @ Kaizen Gaming
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Panagiotis (Agis) Oikonomou Filandras
Principal Engineer I- Data & AI, @ Kaizen Gaming
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George Eleftheriou
ex-McKinsey | Co-founder & CEO @Feel Therapeutics
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Panos Bassios
Digital, Data & Analytics Director @ MSD | ex-Apple | MSc EE @ Stanford, MBA @ AUEB, Diploma EE @ NTUA
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Dr. Lazaros Polymenakos
Partner Consulting Services EY Greece, EMEIA Consulting AI Leader
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Georgios Karamanolis
Co-Founder & CTO/CIO at Crowdpolicy & FintelioX
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Vicky Flessa
Philologist of Classics; Journalist @ERT, TV Greek Parliament
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Anastasia Spanou
Educational Program Manager @ Tipping Point in Education, the largest (AI & Human) mentoring program in Greece
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Ioanna Taouki
PhD in Educational Neuroscience, Instructional Designer @ 100mentors
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George Yanakeas
CEO @ Maya Insights , ex-Growth @ Pollfish , @ Welcome Pickups @e-food @InstaShop
Organizing Team
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Elena Chatziathanasiadou
UC Berkeley | People @OpenAI
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Haris Ioannou
NTUA, Columbia U. | Kleiner Perkins Product Fellow | AI Product Manager @Google
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Christos Porios
Public Interest Technologist, ex-Google, Harvard
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Elena Pittarokoili
Analytics Engineer @Age of Learning | Education Data Science @Stanford
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Tim Gianitsos
ex-Amazon, AI - CompSci Lecturer & Researcher@ Stanford Mercola Lab
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Menelaos Mazarakis
UPenn | Partner & Head of Product @ChapterOne, ex-Google AI, ex-Facebook, ex-Instagram
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Kostapanos Miliaresis
AUEB, Fordham | ex-AbbVie & Clinton Foundation | ethelon co-Founder | Forbes U30 Lister | Ashoka Foundation Changemaker | RWI Nudge the Good Unit Director
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Nikos Sarilakis
ACT, GGU | Co-Founder of dopios.com (now WelcomePickups.com) | ex-Director of Product Marketing @ Salesforce| Worldwide Product Marketing @ Apple
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Vangelis Pastas
NTUA - Top 1%, Columbia Engineering - Top 1% (Summa Cum Laude) | Quantitative Trader @Tower Research Capital | ex-Jump Trading, ex-Morgan Stanley
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Argyris Kriezis
Stanford Aero/Astro PhD Student | OSSTP Group | SpectrumX Fellow
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Orpheas Katsikis
Aarhus U & CBS | Data & BI, ex-Genesis (DCG), ex-Amazon
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Elena Pantazi
INSEAD, UoCambridge | Partner for Talent @Northzone VC, ex-Director @Bain Capital
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Yiorgos Nikoletakis
AUEB, Columbia U, Fulbrighter | CoFounder @Tipping Point, CEO @100mentors
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Niko Efstathiou
Yale and Columbia U | Managing Editor @Lifo
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Dimitra Charalampopoulou
AUEB, USC | ex-Deloitte, Managing Director at Girls In Tech | Strategic Ops @ Intel LA
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Dionysis Zindros
Blockchains and Cryptography @Common Prefix & @Stanford
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Tina Marinaki
Columbia U/ GenAI and/or Human generated surreal images of Athens @athens_surreal
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Orestis Kaparounakis
NTUA, Cambridge U. | PhD Researcher @PhysCompLab, Cloud Engineer Lead @Signaloid
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Sylvia Bouloutas
Duke University | Investor @ Techstars
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Sofia Kapsiani
Ph.D. Student @ University of Cambridge (Molecular Neuroscience Group) & AstraZeneca | MSc Imperial College London (Bioinformatics)
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Dimitri Maltezakis Vathypetrou
Engineering Management at Duke | Developer Relations Manager @NVIDIA
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Marilena Velonia Bellonia
Studying Technology and Policy at MIT. Ex-Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft Greece
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Emmanouil Koukoumidis
Senior Eng. Manager - Google Cloud GenAI | ex-Meta, ex-Microsoft | MIT, Princeton U, NTUA
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Dr Anastasia-Olga (Olnancy) Tzirides
Visiting lecturer @ the University of Illinois Chicago, and an academic researcher @ the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Maria Paziotopoulou
LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School