Who we are, and why we build this

More than an event. A mission shaped by those building GenAI from the ground up.

Our manifesto

We’re not event organizers—we’re builders, researchers, and founders shaping GenAI in practice. This summit is the space we needed: for serious conversations, real adoption, and regional innovation. Built by and for people creating the future of AI—especially in Southern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

It’s not a stage. It’s a working session.

The builders behind the GenAI Summit

Researchers, founders, and technologists shaping AI from the ground up

Elena Chatziathanasiadou

UC Berkeley | People @OpenAI
Christos Porios

Public Interest Technologist, ex-Palantir, ex-Google, Harvard
Elena Pittarokoili

Education Data Science @ Stanford, Human Data @OpenAI
Emmanouil Koukoumidis

Founder/CEO @ Oumi, one of the largest Open Source GenAI communities worldwide, Senior Eng. Manager - Google Cloud GenAI | ex-Meta, ex-Microsoft | MIT, Princeton U, NTUA
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

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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
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
Dimitri Maltezakis Vathypetrou

Engineering Management at Duke | Developer Relations Manager @NVIDIA
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

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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

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Sofia Kapsiani

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

Studying Technology and Policy at MIT. Ex-Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft Greece
Dr Anastasia-Olga (Olnancy) Tzirides

User Researcher @ Google, Visiting lecturer and GenAI Researcher @ the University of Illinois Chicago

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Maria Paziotopoulou

LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School

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