Dimitris Papadopoulos is VP of AI and Product Innovation at Asteri AI, where he focuses on transforming how the life sciences industry operates through agentic AI, intelligent automation, and human-AI collaboration. His work centers on building autonomous AI agents and orchestrating complex workflows across clinical and regulatory operations, with governance, traceability, and human oversight at their core. Previously, he served as Chief AI Officer at EXUS and held senior AI research and engineering leadership roles at Causaly. With over a decade of experience spanning life sciences, fintech, and cybersecurity, he combines strategic leadership with a hands-on engineering mindset, turning AI research into production systems. Dimitris holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing from the Technical University of Crete. He is also the creator of LLMarena.gr, an independent AI benchmarking platform that puts the world's leading language models head-to-head in Greek, challenging their reasoning, knowledge, and linguistic capabilities while pushing for more transparent and rigorous LLM evaluation beyond English.