Registration

Auditorium Stage

GenAI in the Public Sector - Human Capital & more

• Vivi Charalaboyianni, Deputy Minister of Interior

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

• Lucas Velidakis, Journalist @Kathimerini & @Athensvoice

Peristylion Stage

Firechat - Building National GenAI Agendas

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

• Yiorgos Nikoletakis, CEO @100Mentors & Host of the GenAI Summit

Networking Break

Auditorium Stage

A GenAI Adoption Framework. Preparing the nation for the next 10 years.

• Yannis Mastrogeorgiou, Special Secretary of Foresight Strategy at the Presidency of the Hellenic Government

• Charalampos Tsekeris, V.Chair & Interim Chair of the National Commission for Bioethics & Technoethics

• Natasa Maraka, Head of Change Management | Workforce Transformation, @PwC Greece

• Eugenia Bozou, Head of Government Affairs and Public Policy Google Greece, Cyprus and Malta

• Lucas Velidakis, Journalist @Kathimerini.gr & Athens Voice

Peristylion Stage

Impact, Ethics, and Trustworthiness with Generative AI for Government

• Sofia Argiti, Data & AI Solutions Specialist, @IBM Greece and Cyprus

Ballroom Stage

The Potential of GenAI in Autonomous Data Operations

• Vasileios Linardos, Head of A.I. Services @Archeiothiki

• Michael Sinoplis, A.I. Product Lead @Archeiothiki

Networking Break

Auditorium Stage

CEO Panel in Worktech

• Nikos Moraitakis, CEO @Workable

• Dr. Stavros Vassos, CEO @Helvia

• Alex Fourlis, ex-Managing Director @Kariera & @CareerBuilder, President @Broadbean Technology & GM @Veritone

• Pavlos Konstas, Partner - Strategy & AI Value | Enterprise Agility Leader UK & Ireland @IBM

Peristylion Stage

Future of Work

• Aleksandar Preradovic, Managing Director and Chairman, Dell Technologies, Greece, Cyprus and Malta

• Sotiris Karagiannis, Chief Innovation Officer @Space Hellas

• Stavros N. Yiannouka, CEO of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Qatar Foundation

• Angeliki Dedopoulou, Public Policy Manager. AI & Fintech @Meta

Ballroom Stage

Workshop: GenAI in Compliance

Eleni Verteouri, Lecturer for Foundations of AI Project Management at ZHAW Business School and for LLM workshops for finance @ETH, Senior AI Product Manager, Director @UBS, Zurich

Lunch Break

Peristylion Stage

Opening

Dimitris Papastergiou, Minister of Digital Governance

Peristylion Stage

mAIgov - From InfoBot to ActionBot

• Dimitris Papastergiou, Minister of Digital Governance

• Dr. Dimitris Alexandrou, Business Innovation Director @AiLabs by UBITECH

• Dr. Panagiotis Gouvas, Research & Development Director @AiLabs by UBITECH

Ballroom Stage

GenAI & Law: Regulation, Challenges and the Future of Legal Practice

• Spyridon Vlachopoulos, Professor and Member of University Senate @University of Athens

• Kostas C. Argyropoulos, General Counsel @SPACE HELLAS GROUΡ, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer

• Konstantinos P. Anagnostopoulos, Attorney at Law, European Legal Tech Association Ambassador for Greece, Director & Co-Founder @ Athens Legal Tech

• Christina Grigoriadou, Attorney at Law, Senior Associate @Moussas & Partners Law Firm

Networking Break

Auditorium Stage

GenAI in Finance, Investments, Banking

• Kostas Kontogiannis, CFO @Skroutz

• Vangelis Pastas, Quant Trader @Tower Research Capital | ex-Columbia U Researcher, ex-Morgan Stanley

• Theodore Tzouros, Chief, Corporate & Investment Banking @Piraeus Bank

• Eleni Verteouri, Lecturer for Foundations of AI Project Management at ZHAW Business School and for LLM workshops for finance @ETH, Senior AI Product Manager, Director @UBS, Zurich

Peristylion Stage

Keynote: The Responsible AI Framework: how to scale the use of GenAI responsibly in an shifting risk landscape

• Christoforos Anagnostopoulos, Partner | Director of Life Sciences Innovation, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey | Hon. Senior Lecturer, Imperial College | Ph.D., C.Stat

Ballroom Stage

Case on point: Embracing AI in legal practice

• Konstantinos P. Anagnostopoulos, Attorney at Law, European Legal Tech Association Ambassador for Greece, Director & Co-Founder @ Athens Legal Tech

• Christina Grigoriadou, Attorney at Law, Senior Associate @Moussas & Partners Law Firm

• Suzanna Kalendzhian, Co-Founder & CEO at Legal Advice Middle East

Networking Break

Auditorium Stage

GenAI & Large Language Models (LLMs) in Finance

• 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

• Nikolaos Stathakis, Director, Data Analytics & AI, @Piraeus Bank

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

Peristylion Stage

How GenAI Changes VCs and Startup Strategy

• 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

• Alexandros Eleftheriadis, Ph.D., Partner @Big Pi, ex-CTO @Vidyo, ex-Columbia Professor and alumnus

• 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).

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

Ballroom Stage

GenAI in Policy Making and the Public Discourse

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

• Yonah Welker, ex Curator Global AI Summit

• Niko Efstathiou, Journalist, Author & Communications Advisor

Registration

Auditorium Stage

GenAI in Sales and Customer Experience (EN)

• Efthimios Prassoulas, Director, AI Center of Excellence, Netcompany-Intrasoft

• Achilles Georginis, Vice Chair of AI - Hellenic Tech Network, Strategic Account Director @Snowflake

• Fotis Draganidis, Helping ISVs, Digital Natives, Startups innovate with Microsoft Cloud and AI, @ Central Eastern Europe, Microsoft EMEA

• Zissis Konstas, Senior Customer Engineer @Google Cloud

Ballroom Stage

Translation Augmented Generation - Breaking language barriers in RAG and LLM ecosystems (EN)

• Raghavan Muthuregunathan, co-chairs LinkedIn's AI organization’s REACH program, the leader of Search Artificial Intelligence organization @LinkedIn

Networking Break

Auditorium Stage

GenAI: From POC to Production (EN)

• Dr. Sokratis Kartakis, GenAIOps Leader, @AWS EMEA

Peristylion Stage

Putting AI to work

• Michail Kottas, AI Specialist, @IBM

• Stavros Stavrinoudakis, Analytics Business Unit Director @Performance

Ballroom Stage

Workshop: Create Your Custom GPT (EN)

• Dr. Marily Nika, AI Product Lead @Google | Founder @AI Product Academy

Networking Break

Auditorium Stage

Beyond Expectations: A Case Study on Revolutionizing Customer Experience with Generative AI (EN)

• George Kourakos, Director of Innovation @ Kaizen Gaming

Peristylion Stage

AI for Good: Responsible AI and the future of healthcare (EN)

• Sasha Rubel, Head of Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy, @AWS EMEA

Ballroom Stage

GenAI, from Zero to Hero AWS (EN)

• Dr. Sokratis Kartakis, GenAIOps Leader, @AWS EMEA

• Nikiforos Botis, Senior Solutions Architect @AWS

Lunch Break

Auditorium Stage

Enterprise GenAI Solutions (EN)

• Sandy Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley | Deployment Strategist @Palantir

• Dr. Lilian Balatsou, Conversational Intelligence Chapter Lead

• Dr. Stavros Vassos, CEO Helvia.ai

• Dr Vassilis Vassalos, Stanford PhD, Professor @AUEB, Director of AI @Aisera (raised $165m)

Peristylion Stage

Women in GenAI (EN)

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

• Elena Chatziathanasiadou, UC Berkeley | People @OpenAI

• Dr. Marily Nika, AI Product Lead @ Google | Founder @AI Product Academy

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

• Maria Nefeli Chatziioannidou, State Member of the Greek Parliament

Ballroom Stage

GenAI in Tourism/Hospitality & Food Services (EN)

• Antonis Tzarougian, Master roaster using GenAI for fast prototyping for coffee

• John Nousis, Co-Founder, Travelmyth

• Magnus Hessbo, Group NAO Senior Advisor and Programme Lead “AI Opener for Destinations”

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

Networking Break

Auditorium Stage

Building AI use cases from zero to one. (EN)

• 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

• Kyriaki (Sandy) Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley | ex-VP Equities Trading @Citi, Deployment Strategist @Palantir, New York

• Marios Tzitziras, General Manager - Head of Operations, @Piraeus Bank.

• Alexandros Papaspyridis, PhD, Managing Partner Nefos Consulting LLC, ex-Microsoft Worldwide Education Director for Azure Cloud Computing and Data & AI Solutions.

Peristylion Stage

AI in Policy Making/Strategy (GR)

• Konstantinos Kyranakis, Deputy Minister of Digital Governance

• Stelios Mantas, Consulting Partner, Deloitte Digital Leader

• Viktoria Kalfaki, Head of Public Sector GR,CY @ Google Cloud

• Virginia Kokiou, Chief of Staff and Legal Counsel to the Special Secretary of Foresight

Ballroom Stage

GenAI in Product, for Regulated Environments (EN)

• Kostas Vasilopoulos, Machine learning engineer @Pfizer

• Eleni Verteouri, Senior AI Product Manager, Director @UBS, Zurich

• Dr. Maria-Oraiozili Koutsoupia, Attorney at Law (Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences)

• Marietta Lazana, Digital Analyst @McKinsey & Company, Managing Director @Girls in Tech Greece

Networking Break

Auditorium Stage

Beyond the Walled Garden: Unveiling the Potential of Open-Source Language Models (EN)

• Yannis Paniaras, Principal-level design leader @Microsoft | founding member of Microsoft Digital’s AI Center of Excellence (CoE)

• Pantelis Lappas, Senior AI/ML Researcher, @Netcompany-Intrasoft

• Aristodimos Komninos, AI & XR Product Manager @Trimble SketchUp | ex-Urban Designer @SOM | SMArchS @MIT

• Kimonas Sotirchos, Engineering Manager @Canonical

Peristylion Stage

Life Sciences & Healthcare GenAI trends & use cases. E.g. Drug Discovery & Repurposing (EN)

• Dr. Anthony S. Papadimitriou, President of the Onassis Foundation

• Krishna Singh, Health Analytics & ML Leader @ AWS EMEA

• Alexandros Papaspyridis, PhD, Managing Partner Nefos Consulting LLC, ex-Microsoft Worldwide Education Director for Azure Cloud Computing and Data & AI Solutions.

Ballroom Stage

Keynote: Go from observes to doers in the Era of GenAI in MKT (EN)

• Catherine Richards, Writer and Editor, The Strategist Blog and ‘Making GenAI Work for Work’, GenAI Creator, Senior Global Content & Experience Strategist @VMware, San Francisco

Keynote: Multimodal GenAI tools (EN)

• Ekaterina Sirazitdinova, Senior Data Scientist @NVIDIA

Registration

Auditorium Stage

Self reflection in GenAI Era (GR)

• Spyros Antoniou, Consumer insights leader 7days Europe, Economics Psychology

• Lymperi Theodora, Secondary School Director, Certified Microsoft Innovative Educator

• 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

• 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

Peristylion Stage

OpenAI: Attracting brilliant talent. Our Residency Program (EN)

• Elena Chatziathanasiadou, UC Berkeley | People @OpenAI

Networking Break

Auditorium Stage

AI deployment: How a human centered approach moves GenAI pilots to production (EN)

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

Peristylion Stage

WISE Education: 2024 Prize & key learnings, from the largest Educational Hub in the Middle East. (EN)

• Selma Talha-Jebril, Senior Manager, Research and Policy Development @Wise Education, Qatar Foundation

• Niamh Whelan, Associate, Innovation for Quality and Access @Wise Education, Qatar Foundation

Networking Break

Auditorium Stage

Preparing for the workforce (GR)

• Amalia Konstantakopoulou, Co - founder & Director @NGO “The Tipping Point”

• Costas Vavaroutas, HR Director @Cenergy Holdings & Sidenor Group

• Nancy Zachariadou, Director | Group Cultural and Social Initiatives @Piraeus Bank

• Dr. Maria Gianniou, Certified Empowerment & Leadership Coach | Corporate Trainer

Peristylion Stage

GenAI in Education. "Navigating Ethical Considerations in AI-Driven Education"? (EN)

• Stavros N. Yiannouka CEO of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), Qatar Foundation

• Sasha Rubel, Head of Artificial Intelligence, Public Policy, @AWS EMEA

• Clara Hawking, Head of AI @ Globe Educate

• 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

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

Lunch Break

Auditorium Stage

Empowering educators in the GenAI era: A National Case (GR)

• Pepy Meli, PhD in Science Education, Head of Learning Experience & Research @ 100mentors

• Kostas Karpouzis, Assistant professor @Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University

• Lina Filippaki, Economist & Highschool Teacher @ 4th General High School of Rhodes

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

• Ioanna Taouki, PhD in Educational Neuroscience, Instructional Designer @100mentors

Peristylion Stage

GenAI Empowered Educational Institutions (EN)

• Georgios Chliveros, Metropolitan College, Associate Dean of Faculty, Head of Engineering Department

• Alexandros Papaspyridis, PhD, Managing Partner Nefos Consulting LLC, ex-Microsoft Worldwide Education Director for Azure Cloud Computing and Data & AI Solutions.

• Clara Hawking, Head of AI @ Globe Educate

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

Networking Break

Auditorium Stage

All you need is your natural intelligence: Empowering valued professionals with GenAI (GR)

• Emmanouil Serrelis, Metropolitan College/IVT AKMI, Group CTO

Workshop: Creative Learning with GenAI (GR)

• Ioanna Taouki, PhD in Educational Neuroscience, Instructional Designer @100mentors

• Alexandra Zagora, Educational Consultant @ The Tipping Point

Peristylion Stage

Presentation of the report “Greece 2030” (GR)

Virginia Kokiou, Chief of Staff and Legal Counsel to the Special Secretary of Foresight

Networking Break

Peristylion Stage

Public discourse in the age of GenAI (EN)

• Stathis 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)

• Michail Bletsas, Director of Computing @MIT Media Lab

• Niko Efstathiou, Journalist, Author & Communications Advisor

• Yiorgos Nikoletakis, CEO @100mentors, host of the GenAI Summit (Closing Remarks)