Who we are and why we’re building this
Not just an event. A trust infrastructure for GenAI adoption across the region.
Our manifesto
This Summit is produced from the inside, by people shaping GenAI in practice, not watching it from the sidelines. It is the space we needed: a room where trust forms through direct human contact, where GenAI journeys begin, and where partnerships close. Made by and for the companies making the real calls on AI adoption across this region.
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
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Elena Chatziathanasiadou
UC Berkeley | People @OpenAI
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Elena Pittarokoili
Education Data Science @ Stanford, Human Data @OpenAI
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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
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Tim Gianitsos
ex-Amazon, AI - CompSci Lecturer & Researcher@ Stanford Mercola Lab
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Menelaos Mazarakis
UPenn | Partner & Head of Product @ChapterOne, ex-Google AI, ex-Facebook, ex-Instagram
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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
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Vangelis Pastas
NTUA - Top 1%, Columbia Engineering - Top 1% (Summa Cum Laude) | Quantitative Trader @Tower Research Capital | ex-Jump Trading, ex-Morgan Stanley
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Argyris Kriezis
Stanford Aero/Astro PhD Student | OSSTP Group | SpectrumX Fellow
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Orpheas Katsikis
Aarhus U & CBS | Data & BI, ex-Genesis (DCG), ex-Amazon
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Dimitri Maltezakis Vathypetrou
Engineering Management at Duke | Developer Relations Manager @NVIDIA
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Elena Pantazi
INSEAD, UoCambridge | Partner for Talent @Northzone VC, ex-Director @Bain Capital
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Yiorgos Nikoletakis
AUEB, Columbia U, Fulbrighter | CoFounder @Tipping Point, CEO @100mentors
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Niko Efstathiou
Yale and Columbia U | Editorial Director
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Dimitra Charalampopoulou
AUEB, USC | ex-Deloitte, Managing Director at Girls In Tech | Strategic Ops @ Intel LA
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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
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Orestis Kaparounakis
NTUA, Cambridge U. | PhD Researcher @PhysCompLab, Cloud Engineer Lead @Signaloid
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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)
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Marilena Velonia Bellonia
Studying Technology and Policy at MIT. Ex-Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft Greece
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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
