Summit Rewind

Summit February 2024

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.

Sponsors

Speakers

  • Chris Anagnostopoulos

    Partner, Director of Innovation for Life Sciences @ QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey

  • Sasha Rubel

    Head of Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy, AWS EMEA

  • Aleksandar Preradovic

    Managing Director and Chairman, Dell Technologies, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.

  • Andreas Stavropoulos

    National AI Committee member, Partner @ Threshold. Harvard & HBS (Baker Scholar & 1st in class) & McKinsey alumnus

  • Dimitris Papastergiou

    Minister of Digital Governance

  • Dr. Anthony S. Papadimitriou

    President of the Onassis Foundation

  • Eugenia Bozou

    Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy Greece, Cyprus, Malta @ Google, Greece

  • 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

  • Eleni Verteouri

    Senior AI Product Manager, Director at UBS, Zurich

  • Maria Borbonés García

    IBM Client Engineering Manager and AI Architect

  • Stavros N. Yiannouka

    CEO of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), Qatar Foundation

  • Elena Chatziathanasiadou

    UC Berkeley | People @OpenAI

  • 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)

  • Theodore Tzouros

    Executive General Manager, Chief of Corporate and Investment Banking @ Piraeus Bank

  • Konstantinos Kyranakis

    Deputy Minister of Digital Governance of Greece

  • Sandy Papadimitriou

    UC Berkeley | Deployment Strategist @Palantir

  • 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)

  • Dr. Dimitrios Alexandrou

    Business Innovation Director @ AiLabs by UBITECH

  • Vasilis Linardos

    Head of A.I. Services @ Archeiothiki

  • Vivi Charalaboyianni

    Deputy Minister of the Interior

  • Nikos Stathakis

    Director of Data Analytics & AI @ Piraeus Bank

  • Mara Pometti

    Associate Director AI Strategy and Governance @ McKinsey, top voice for corporate GenAI adoption, Ex-AI strategist @IBM and a data journalist

  • George Kourakos

    Director of Innovation @ Kaizen Gaming

  • Marios Tzitziras

    General Manager Head of Operations @ Piraeus Bank

  • Efthymios Prassoulas

    Director, AI Center of Excellence, Netcompany-Intrasoft

  • Nancy Zachariadou

    Director | Group Cultural and Social Initiatives at Piraeus Bank

  • Sotiris Karagiannis

    Chief Innovation Officer @SPACE HELLAS

  • Artemis Seaford

    BA @ Oxford, JD/Ph.D. @Stanford, MPP @Harvard | ex-McKinsey, ex-Policy Manager @ Meta (Facebook), Product Policy Manager @ OpenAI

  • Dr. Sokratis Kartakis

    GenAIOps Leader, AWS EMEA

  • Natasa Maraka

    Head of Change Management | Workforce Transformation, PwC Greece

  • Pavlos Konstas

    Associate Partner & Enterprise Agility Leader UK & Ireland @ IBM

  • Stavros Stavrinoudakis

    Analytics Business Unit Director @ Performance

  • Dr. Marily Nika

    AI Product Lead @ Google | Founder @AI Product Academy

  • Eve Psalti

    Senior Director @ Microsoft Azure Artificial Intelligence, ex-Head of Strategic Platforms @ Google

  • Clara Hawking

    Head of Artificial Intelligence @ Globeducate

  • Krishna Singh

    Health Analytics & ML Leader @ AWS EMEA

  • Pantelis Z. Lappas

    Senior AI/ML Researcher, Netcompany-Intrasoft

  • Dr. Panagiotis Gouvas

    Research & Development Director @ AiLabs by UBITECH

  • 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

  • Sofia Argiti

    Data & AI Solutions Specialist, IBM Greece and Cyprus

  • Michael Sinoplis

    A.I. Product Lead @ Archeiothiki

  • Ekaterina Sirazitdinova

    Senior Data Scientist at NVIDIA

  • Stelios Mantas

    Consulting Partner, Deloitte Digital Leader

  • Yonah Welker

    Ex -curator at Global AI Summit, Serial Technologist, Public Evaluator, Commission's Board, Voice For Algorithms

  • Raghavan Muthuregunathan

    Senior Engineering Leader - Search AI @LinkedIn

  • Yannis Paniaras

    Principal-level design leader at Microsoft | founding member of Microsoft Digital’s AI Center of Excellence (CoE)

  • Kostas C. Argyropoulos

    General Counsel SPACE HELLAS GROUΡ, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

  • Nikos Moraitakis

    CEO of Workable

  • Alex Fourlis

    Senior Vice President @ Veritone

  • 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.

  • Christina Grigoriadou

    Attorney at Law, Senior Associate @ Moussas & Partners Law Firm

  • Angeliki Dedopoulou

    Public Policy Manager for AI & Fintech @ Meta

  • Zissis Konstas

    Senior Customer Engineer at Google Cloud

  • Achilles Georginis

    Strategic Account Director @ Snowflake | Oxford University, Said Business School | Vice Chair of AI @ Hellenic Tech Network

  • Nikiforos Botis

    Public Sector Solutions Architect @ AWS Greece

  • Kimonas Sotirchos

    MLOps Engineering Manager @ Canonical | NTUA

  • Kostas Kontogiannis

    Chief Financial Officer at Skroutz.gr

  • Dimitrios Georgiou

    Strategy Senior Consultant @ Deloitte (Travel, Hospitality & Leisure) | BoD Member @ Onassis Scholars' Association

  • Dr. Maria- Oraiozili Koutsoupia

    AI legal expert, President @ Rythmisis

  • Virginia Kokiou

    Lawyer and the Chief of Staff and Legal Counsel to the Special Secretary of Foresight.

  • Kostas Vasilopoulos

    Machine learning engineer at Pfizer

  • Stavros Vassos

    CEO @helvia.ai

  • Vasilis Vassalos

    Director of AI @ AISERA

  • Alexandros Papaspyridis

    International Business Development Advisor @ Flywheel.io

  • Suzanna Kalendzhian

    Co-Founder & CEO at Legal Advice Middle East

  • Michail Kottas

    AI Specialist, IBM

  • Aristodimos Komninos

    AI & XR Product Manager @ Trimble SketchUp | ex-Urban Designer at SOM | SMArchS @ MIT

  • Dr. Lilian Balatsou

    Conversational Intelligence Chapter Lead

  • Marianna Polykrati

    Group Treasurer AVRAMAR, GBBC Ambassador in Greece, and an Honorary Board member for the Hellenic Association of Treasurers.

  • 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

  • Catherine Richards

    Senior Global Content & Experience Strategist @VMware

  • Yannis Mastrogeorgiou

    Special Secretary of Foresight Strategy at the Presidency of the Hellenic Government

  • Elena Pittarokoili

    Education & Data Science @Stanford, Analytics Engineer @Age of Learning

  • Fotis Draganidis

    Helping ISVs, Digital Natives, Startups innovate with Microsoft Cloud and AI, at Central Eastern Europe, Microsoft EMEA

  • Emmanouil Serrelis

    Metropolitan College/IVT AKMI, Group CTO

  • Michail Bletsas

    Research Scientist and the Director of Computing @ MIT's Media Lab

  • Charalampos Tsekeris

    V.Chair & Interim Chair of the National Commission for Bioethics & Technoethics

  • Marietta Lazana

    Managing Director @ Girls in Tech Greece | Digital Analyst @ McKinsey & Company

  • Georgios Chliveros

    Metropolitan College, Associate Dean of Faculty, Head of Engineering Department

  • Niko Efstathiou

    Journalist, Author & Communications Advisor

  • Selma Talha Jebril

    Senior Manager, Research and Policy Development @Wise Education, Qatar Foundation

  • Niamh Whelan

    Program Lead @ WISE

  • Kostas Karpouzis

    Associate Professor @ Panteion University

  • Magnus Hessbo

    Group NAO Senior Advisor and Programme Lead “AI Opener for Destinations”

  • John Nousis

    Co-Founder, Travelmyth

  • Costas Vavaroutas

    HR Director @Cenergy Holdings & Sidenor Group

  • 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

  • Konstantinos P. Anagnostopoulos

    Attorney at Law, European Legal Tech Association Ambassador for Greece, Director & Co-Founder @ Athens Legal Tech

  • Spyridon Vlachopoulos

    Professor and Member of University Senate @University of Athens

  • Sai Vijayendra Madiga

    Head of Data Science @ VR Smart Guide, ex AVP @J.P. Morgan, 30 under 30 Data Scientists

  • Constantine Moros, MBA, PhD

    Director @ EY Global Consulting Products & Platforms | Global Business Product Leader | Global Consulting Platform

  • Lucas Velidakis

    Journalist @Kathimerini.gr & Athens Voice

  • Amalia Konstantakopoulou

    Co - founder & Director @NGO “The Tipping Point”

  • Maria Gianniou, PhD

    Certified Empowerment & Leadership Coach | Corporate Trainer

  • Spyros Antoniou

    Consumer insights leader 7days Europe, Economics Psychology

  • Pepy Meli

    Head of Learning Experience & Research @ 100mentors

  • Ioanna Taouki, Ph.D.

    PhD in Educational Neuroscience, Instructional Designer @100mentors

  • Alexandra Zagora

    Educational Consultant @ The Tipping Point

  • Lina Filippaki

    Economist & Highschool Teacher @ 4th General High School of Rhodes

  • Theodora Lymperi

    School director of the Junior High school of Moudros, Lemnos

  • Sevastoula Tsirigoti

    Philologist @ 3rd General High School of Nea Smirni, Athens

  • Maria Matthaiou

    Secondary School Director , Education Sciences-theory, practise and evaluation of teaching (Med-MA)

  • Sophilenia Togia

    Student of 1st grade at Model High School of Chalkida

Summit June 2023

Speakers

  • Eve Psalti

    Senior Engineering Director @ Microsoft Azure AI Artificial Intelligence

  • Elena Chatziathanasiadou

    UC Berkeley | People @OpenAI

  • 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

  • Artemis Seaford

    BA @ Oxford, JD/Ph.D. @Stanford, MPP @Harvard | ex-McKinsey, ex-Policy Manager @ Meta (Facebook), Product Policy Manager @ OpenAI

  • Xenia Miscouridou

    Assistant Professor in Stats & Machine Learning @ Imperial, Forbes 30U30 Europe and A. Professor @I-X, Imperial's flagship AI initiative

  • 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

  • Adonis Georgiadis

    ex-Minister of Growth and Development

  • Kate Syuma

    Head of Growth Design @ Miro

  • 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.

  • Aris Konstantinidis

    Stanford MBA, Strategy & Biz Ops @ Cohere, ex-OpenAI

  • Fotis Draganidis

    Helping ISVs, Digital Natives, Startups innovate with Microsoft Cloud and AI, at Central Eastern Europe, Microsoft EMEA

  • Dimitrios Skaltsas

    Co-Founder & CEO of Intelligencia: De-risking drug development. Executive in Residence, AI at INSEAD

  • Nikos Moraitakis

    CEO of Workable

  • Kostas Xiradakis

    VP of Product and Growth at Viva Wallet

  • Tasos Zachos

    Editor in Chief of Fortune Greece

  • Vasilis Danias

    CEO @Bitloops, ex-Uber, ex-CEO @Beat

  • Orestis Omran

    Partner / Head of Country Group @ DLA Piper UK LLP

  • Evangelia Vagena

    Lawyer | Adjunct Professor of IP & IT Law | Data Protection Officer | Head of Compliance at Orfium

  • Tilemachos Moraitis

    Government and Corporate Affairs Manager at Microsoft Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Baltics & Ukraine

  • Isidoros Sideridis

    CEO of Pobuca | CX & AI enthusiast | Microsoft awardee

  • Stelios Ramphos

    Author

  • Nancy Zachariadou

    Director | Group Cultural and Social Initiatives at Piraeus Bank

  • George Palaigeorgiou

    PhD, Co-founder and CPO in LearnWorlds, ex-Professor in Educational Technology

  • George Gakas

    Chief Insurance Officer @Hellas Direct

  • Costas Vavaroutas

    HR Director @Cenergy Holdings

  • Leonidas Christopoulos

    Secretary General of Digital Governance and Simplification of Procedures at the Ministry of Digital Governance

  • Dr. Philippa Hardman

    Creator of the DOMS™️ learning design engine | TEDX Speaker | Cambridge Uni Scholar | Former Ed-Tech Chief Academic Officer | Coach & Advisor

  • Dimitrios Georgiou

    MPhil @ University of Cambridge, ex-ECB, Researcher @ Toposophy

  • Ioannis Iason Zertopoulis

    IT Business Partner @ PwC Greece

  • Ioannis T. Christou

    Senior Research Data Scientist, Netcompany-Intrasoft and Associate Professor, The American College of Greece

  • Maria Glypti

    Philologist @ 1st High School of Markopoulo

  • Amalia Konstantakopoulou

    Co-Founder & Director @ NGO The Tipping Point

  • George A. Pappas

    Lead Product Designer @ 100mentors, ex-Epignosis

  • Nick Papanotas

    CEO @ Geekbot

  • Charalampos Tsekeris

    V.Chair of the National Commission for Bioethics & Technoethics

  • Yiannis Kotsis Giannarakis

    ex-GM @Hellenic Association of Mobile Application Companies (HAMAC), Digital Innovation Coordinator @GRNET - Greek Research & Technology Network

  • Michalis Rikakis

    SVP Product @ Workable

  • Antonis Cassano

    Business Development & Innovation Director, Uni Systems

  • Michalis Stangos

    CEO @ MSCOMM & Partner @ L-Stone Capital VC

  • Kostas Karpouzis

    Associate Professor @ Panteion University

  • Giorgos Kastrinakis

    Head of Data Science @Orfium

  • 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

  • Haris Papageorgiou

    ATHENA Research Center, Research Director @Institute for Language & Speech Processing, Partner @ OPIX.ai

  • Stefanos Doltsinis

    Technology Manager Machine Learning @ Kaizen Gaming

  • Panagiotis (Agis) Oikonomou Filandras

    Principal Engineer I- Data & AI, @ Kaizen Gaming

  • George Eleftheriou

    ex-McKinsey | Co-founder & CEO @Feel Therapeutics

  • Panos Bassios

    Digital, Data & Analytics Director @ MSD | ex-Apple | MSc EE @ Stanford, MBA @ AUEB, Diploma EE @ NTUA

  • Dr. Lazaros Polymenakos

    Partner Consulting Services EY Greece, EMEIA Consulting AI Leader

  • Georgios Karamanolis

    Co-Founder & CTO/CIO at Crowdpolicy & FintelioX

  • Vicky Flessa

    Philologist of Classics; Journalist @ERT, TV Greek Parliament

  • Anastasia Spanou

    Educational Program Manager @ Tipping Point in Education, the largest (AI & Human) mentoring program in Greece

  • Ioanna Taouki

    PhD in Educational Neuroscience, Instructional Designer @ 100mentors

  • George Yanakeas

    CEO @ Maya Insights , ex-Growth @ Pollfish , @ Welcome Pickups @e-food @InstaShop

Organizing Team

  • 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 | Managing Editor @Lifo

  • 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