Panos Stravopodis is the Co-founder and CTO of Elyos AI, a London-based startup building AI voice agents that bring real human-like conversations to call centres. Before founding Elyos (a Y Combinator-backed company), he led large-scale engineering organisations as VP of Engineering, where he managed big engineering teams building B2B SaaS platforms in Climate Tech, FinTech and MarTech. With over 15 years of experience in distributed systems, MLOps, and product engineering, Panos is passionate about bringing together large language models and real-time voice synthesis to solve real customer service challenges. When he’s not scaling AI infrastructure, he’s usually sailing or experimenting with photography.